Section: TPM (USA)
The 3 Big Reveals In Taylor’s Bombshell Testimony On Trump’s Ukraine Scheme
A pivotal witness in the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry described several conversations among top administration officials this summer in which President Trump’s Ukraine quid pro quo was explicitly discussed. Within the prepared remarks of career diplomat Bill Taylor, three conversations in particular stood out. They confirmed an...
Trump Said McConnell Told Him Ukraine Call Was ‘Innocent.’ Senator Now ‘Doesn’t Recall.’
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) wants to wash his hands clean of President Trump’s claim earlier this month that they had spoken to each other about the President’s infamous July call with Ukrainian president Volodymr Zelensky. According to a CBS News report Tuesday, McConnell denied speaking with Trump about the July...
Top US Diplomat In Kyiv Never Got A Readout Of Trump’s Notorious Call With Zelensky
The acting ambassador to Ukraine did not receive a readout of the now-infamous July 25 phone call between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Bill Taylor made the astonishing claim on Tuesday in written testimony to the House committees conducting the impeachment inquiry. “Strangely, even though I was Chief of...
Taylor: Sondland And Volker Separately Compared Trump’s Ukraine Aid Holdup To A Biz Deal
Chief of the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv Bill Taylor testified on Tuesday that U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland and former Special Envoy for Ukraine Kurt Volker had claimed President Donald Trump’s Ukraine scheme was kosher because he was a “businessman.” In his opening statement, Taylor described to Congress the events that...
Report: Trump Tested Idea Of Mulvaney Replacement Before Disastrous Presser
President Trump supposedly began testing the idea of replacing his acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney well before his aide’s messy attempt to clean up his quid pro quo admission of withholding aid to Ukraine last week. According to a Bloomberg report Tuesday, Trump has been quietly mulling a Mulvaney replacement in the weeks leading up to...
READ: Taylor’s Damning Testimony On Ukraine Pressure Campaign
Chief of the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv William Taylor told Congress that Washington’s relationship with Ukraine had been undermined for “domestic political reasons,” according to an opening statement made public on Tuesday. Taylor made the statement during a deposition before the House, as it undertakes an impeachment inquiry into President...
Dems: Diplomat Brought ‘Disturbing’ Detail To Trump-Ukraine Allegations
House Democrats emerged from a morning of closed-door testimony from a key witness in their impeachment probe stressing the “disturbing” details the witness, career diplomat Bill Taylor put forward. Taylor — a State Department official in the Kyiv Embassy who expressed real-time alarm to the Ukraine pressure campaign— backed up the allegations...
Oligarch Shopping
I want to make sure you don’t miss this piece. As Josh Kovensky explains, we now have several overlapping pieces of information that strongly suggest that Rudy Giuliani and his two now-indicted associates were oligarch shopping in their plan to bring down the Bidens. Dmitry Firtash, the indicted oligarch fighting extradition to the US,...
Are House GOPers Going All In On Crowdstrike Conspiracy Nonsense?
As the House of Representatives’ impeachment inquiry barrels on, some Republicans in the chamber are boosting a fundamentally nonsensical conspiracy theory about the 2016 elections, one that the President brought up in his call with Ukraine President Zelensky. On Tuesday, a Justice Department lawyer swatted away a question from a Republican...
Which Of Giuliani’s Indicted Buddies Was The Brains Of The Operation?
Longtime Rudy Giuliani pals Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman lived a life of luxury while participating in one of the most audacious political extortion campaigns imaginable. The pair are set to be arraigned on criminal campaign finance charges in Manhattan federal court on Wednesday, as federal prosecutors continue to examine the district’s...
