Section: TPM (USA)
Key Phrases Omitted
And there it is. I mentioned earlier today that as the first witness who was on the notorious July 25th Trump-Zelensky call, Alex Vindman could clear up whether there were any material omissions in the rough transcript of the call. It turns out there were. They don’t appear to be ones that dramatically change the content of the call. But...
CNN Anchor Blasts CNN Contributor Sean Duffy For His ‘Anti-Immigrant’ Bigotry
CNN anchor Brianna Keilar gave a scathing response on Tuesday to CNN contributor and ex-Rep. Sean Duffy’s (R-WI) attacks on the ethnic heritage of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a key House impeachment probe witness. After playing a clip of Fox News host Laura Ingraham and her hosts attempting cast doubt on Vindman’s loyalty for speaking...
GOP Rep. Clashes With CNN Reporter: ‘If You Want To Interview Yourself, Go Right Ahead’
A clash between Rep. Mark Amodei (R-NV) and CNN correspondent Manu Raju broke out Monday night in the hours leading up to the testimony of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a National Security Council official who said in his prepared remarks that the July phone call between President Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky prompted him to alert...
Vindman, Subject Of Xenophobic Attacks, Was Featured In Ken Burns’ ‘America’ In ’80s
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the NSC official who is giving impeachment inquiry testimony damning to President Donald Trump’s cause Tuesday, has become the target of xenophobic attacks from the right-wing echo chamber due to his childhood emigration from Ukraine. But in a film of Ken Burns’ 1985 “America” series, spotted by the...
Inside The Key Meeting In Trump’s Ukraine Conspiracy
Two weeks before President Donald Trump’s infamous phone call in which he pressured the Ukrainian president for political dirt, administration officials applied similar pressure in person to the Ukrainian government — at the White House. Trump’s now-infamous July 25 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, during which he...
Here’s The Eyebrow-Raising Result When You Google ‘White House Transcript’
Although the White House’s memorandum on President Trump’s now-infamous July call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky explicitly states that it’s “not a verbatim transcript of a discussion,” a Google search result of the memo says otherwise. A Google search inquiry for “White House transcript” produces, well, a result...
Cheney Rips ‘Shameful’ Attacks On ‘Patriotism’ Of Impeachment Probe Witnesses
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) called out conservatives who have been attacking Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman and other witnesses in the House impeachment investigation on Tuesday morning. After complaining about Democrats’ handling of the investigation during a House Republican leadership presser, Cheney switched tracks. “Now I also want to say a...
Fox News Attempts To Discredit Vindman Over His ‘Affinity To The Ukrainian People’
Fox News hosts were quick to raise suspicions about the prepared testimony of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who has served on the National Security Council since 2018, in the hours following its Monday night release. Vindman’s testimony is expected to recount how President Trump’s now-famous July call with Ukraine President Volodymyr...
READ: Prepared Testimony Of NSC Official Who Listened To Trump’s Ukraine Call
A White House official who listened to President Trump’s July 25 call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky will tell House investigators on Tuesday that he was so alarmed by the Ukraine pressure campaign that he twice alerted a top White House lawyer. Lt Col. Alexander Vindman, who has served on the National Security Council since...
You Asked For It, GOP: Full House Will Vote On The Process For Impeachment
On the heels of a court ruling affirming that the House does not need a floor vote to launch an impeachment inquiry, Democrats will do so anyway. A resolution on the impeachment process will be considered by the Rules Committee on Wednesday, the committee’s chairman, Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA), announced Monday. The text of the resolution has...
