Section: TPM (USA)
Biden Apologizes For Calling Clinton Impeachment A ‘Partisan Lynching’
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden apologized on Tuesday night for referring to the impeachment proceedings against former President Bill Clinton as “partisan lynching” in 1998. “This wasn’t the right word to use and I’m sorry about that,” Biden tweeted. “Trump on the other hand chose his words deliberately today in his use...
Pence Says State Dept. Officials’ Testimony Shows Trump Must ‘Drain The Swamp’
In the wake of the explosive Tuesday testimony from career diplomat Bill Taylor, the White House continued to rail against House’s impeachment inquiry. Although Vice President Mike Pence has yet to directly comment on Taylor’s bombshell 15-page written statement to Congress — which discussed texts, phone calls, and meetings laying out...
Watch Fox News Personalities Attempt To Explain Away Bill Taylor’s Testimony
It seems Bill O’Reilly took the “No Spin Zone” with him when he departed Fox News. After the bombshell news that emerged from U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor’s testimony, the network’s hosts and personalities took their spin to a new level, peddling absurd conspiracies about the diplomat and declaring reports on his...
Firtash Lawyers diGenova and Toensing Scored A Rare Face-To-Face Meeting With Barr
Two Rudy Giuliani associates scored a rare meeting with Attorney General Bill Barr earlier this year after joining the legal team of a Ukrainian oligarch facing extradition to the United States. The Washington Post reported Tuesday on Victoria Toensing and Joe diGenova’s unusual meeting with the attorney general, citing three unnamed people...
Senate Dems Submit FOIA Request To DOJ To Get Info On Ukraine, Efforts To Probe Biden
A handful of Senate Democrats used a public records request law to try to compel the Justice Department to give Congress information about its interactions with Ukraine and the White House’s efforts to probe President Trump’s political rival, the Hill was first to report. Sens. Kamala Harris (D-CA), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and...
Whitaker Used To Be Acting AG. He Just Declared Abuse Of Power Is ‘Not A Crime’
Former Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker made an unnerving claim during an interview with Fox News on Tuesday evening. While discussing Democrats’ impeachment efforts with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham, Whitaker criticized Democrats for collecting “secret testimony and “selective leaking to preferred outlets.” He warned that a possible...
White House Aides, GOP Lawmakers Having Calls On Impeachment Strategy
In lieu of any impeachment war room, President Donald Trump has given his blessing to regular calls between White House aides and some House Republicans to hammer out a response strategy. According to the Wall Street Journal, the communication was catalyzed by members of the House Freedom Caucus who were deeply perturbed at the lack of White...
Trump’s Ukraine Scheme Was Too Crazy Even For John Bolton
This was too much, even for John Bolton. Trump’s former national security adviser makes multiple cameos in Ambassador William Taylor’s bombshell House testimony Tuesday. And at nearly every point, the notorious hawk comes out swinging against President Trump’s scheme to withhold military aid to Ukraine unless until Kyiv became...
White House Attacks ‘Radical Unelected Bureaucrats’ After Explosive Taylor Testimony
The White House attacked acting ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor on Tuesday after he gave a shocking testimony detailing President Donald Trump’s Ukraine scheme. “President Trump has done nothing wrong — this is a coordinated smear campaign from far-left lawmakers and radical unelected bureaucrats waging war on the Constitution,” White...
Huh? GOP Rep. Gohmert Introduces New Conspiracy Into Congressional Record
What do a Ukrainian steel magnate, Puerto Rico and the Le Pain Quotidien a block from the White House all have in common? They were all a part of the latest fringe conspiracy theory to make it into the congressional record on Tuesday. Puerto Rico is only marginally involved: Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) brought up the conspiracy during a hearing on...
