Section: TPM (USA)
Top Mulvaney Aide Who Was On Trump-Ukraine Call Refuses To Testify In Impeachment Probe
Robert Blair, senior adviser to White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, will not testify in the House impeachment investigation, Blair’s lawyer said on Saturday. Lawyer Whit Ellerman told CNN his client, who was on the call in which President Donald Trump asked the Ukrainian president to investigate Joe Biden, will follow the White...
Conway: ‘I Don’t Know’ If There Was Quid Pro Quo Between Trump And Ukraine
On Sunday morning, White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway struggled to respond to the shocking revelations of President Donald Trump’s Ukraine scheme that have emerged in the impeachment investigation. Marking the first time a White House official has shown up to a State of the Union interview in over a month, Conway dodged CNN anchor...
It Was Manafort All Along
I am going to work my way through the docs, which are pretty voluminous. But they show what we’ve been saying for months and really years. The Trump/Ukraine and Trump/Russia story are the same story. And the “the real collusion was Ukraine and the DNC” storyline goes back to Paul Manafort (and his Russian intelligence associates) who has...
Newly Released Mueller Probe Docs Show Manafort Blamed Ukraine For Dem Hacks
BuzzFeed News on Saturday saw the first fruit of its ongoing legal battle to obtain public records from former special counsel Robert Mueller’s office. The records are already making news. The first cache of court-ordered documents released from the office consists of 500 pages of 302s — summaries of FBI interviews — and other materials....
WaPo: WH Record Of Trump-Zelensky Call Put Words In Ukrainian Prez’s Mouth, Official Testified
The White House’s memorandum of the July 25 call between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky put words in the Ukrainian president’s mouth that he never said, a White House official testified this week. The Washington Post reported Friday on the closed-door testimony of National Security Council’s...
Report: Key WH Lawyer Told NSC Ukraine Expert Not To Discuss Trump’s Zelensky Call
A lawyer who played a crucial role in the White House’s handling of President Trump’s Ukraine call told the National Security Council’s Ukraine expert not to discuss the call with others, according to a Politico report on the expert’s congressional testimony. The claim is likely to raise more questions about whether the...
This Week: House Makes Impeachment Process Official
Notes from the impeachment proceedings House makes it official: In a nearly party-line vote in the House on Thursday, the process for the impeachment inquiry was formalized with a 232-196 floor vote. The move will allow Democrats to bring their evidence surrounding Trump’s efforts to pressure Ukraine public with open-door hearings. The move...
Pelosi Anticipates Public Impeachment Hearings To Begin This Month
A day after the House voted to formally outline the impeachment inquiry process, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) says she expects public hearings related to the impeachment inquiry to begin this month. Speaking to Bloomberg TV Friday, Pelosi said that although she “assume[s] there would be public hearings in November,” any impeachment case...
Pelosi Laments Impeachment Process But ‘Could Not Ignore’ Trump Actions
Although the House has voted to formally outline the impeachment inquiry process, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) still isn’t exactly advertising herself as the strongest advocate of the effort — but she indicated Trump’s actions toward Ukraine “could not be ignored.” During a Thursday night interview on “The Late Show With Stephen...
Vindman’s Twin May Testify About Call Memo And Classified Server
Army Lt. Col. Yevgeny Vindman, an NSC lawyer specializing in ethics, may be asked to testify in the wake of his twin brother’s, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman’s, bombshell hearing this week. According to the Wall Street Journal, Yevgeny Vindman witnessed the decision to move the call memo of President Donald Trump’s conversation...
