Section: TPM (USA)
Trump Re-Ups Widely Debunked DNC Server Conspiracy In Hannity Interview
President Trump is still espousing a conspiracy theory about the DNC servers hacked by Russians in 2016. During a Monday night interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, Trump re-upped a widely debunked DNC server conspiracy that he referenced in his now-infamous July call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. The conspiracy theory accuses...
Watch This Closely: New Details On How Giuliani Pal Met Ukrainian Oligarch
One of the most potentially explosive connections in the metastasizing Trump/Giuliani/Ukraine scandal is that of Dmitry Firtash. A middleman in the gas trade between Ukraine and Russia who federal prosecutors describe as an “upper-echelon” member of the Russian mafia, Firtash appears to be using debunked allegations that Giuliani has made against...
Today’s Agenda: Trump Calls Impeachment Inquiry A ‘Lynching’
Happy Tuesday, October 22. A day after President Donald Trump’s off-the-rails Cabinet meeting press conference, he took to Twitter to call the impeachment inquiry a “lynching.” Here’s more on that and the other stories we’re watching. What The Investigations Team Is Watching Bill Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, is...
Pompeo To Make Third Trip To Kansas This Year
Despite his protestations, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is headed to Kansas for the third time this year, possibly readying a U.S. Senate parachute should the Ukraine scandal get worse for him. According to the Wall Street Journal, Republicans are very concerned about retiring Sen. Pat Roberts’ (R-KS) seat, and would much prefer Pompeo to...
Trump’s Hostility To Ukraine Sparked By Hungary’s Prime Minister Orban
President Donald Trump met with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on May 13, a conversation that primed Trump to be hostile to and suspicious of Ukraine. John Bolton, former national security adviser, and Fiona Hill, former NSC director for Eurasian and Russian affairs, urged Trump not to take the meeting, but were shouted down by acting...
Pompeo Argues Trump-Ukraine Call Is Merely ‘The Nature Of Politics, Of Power’
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo downplayed President Donald Trump’s attempt to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky into investigating his political rivals as business as usual on Monday. CNBC’s “Closing Bell” host Wilfred Frost pressed Pompeo on the infamous call between Trump and Zelensky, during which the President pushed...
Report: Dems Plan To Center Impeachment On Trump’s ‘Abuse Of Power’
House Democrats plan to frame their case for impeaching President Donald Trump as a check on his “abuse of power,” according to an NBC News report Monday. According to NBC’s report, Democrats’ strategy for winning the public’s approval on impeachment is to present their case in simple terms as House investigators probe...
White House Staffers Applaud Mulvaney After His ‘Tough Week’ Of Clean-Up Attempts
Although acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney probably won’t get a pat on the back from President Trump, his White House colleagues are showing their support. Two senior White House officials told CNN that Mulvaney’s colleagues applauded him at a senior staff meeting early Monday after he admitted to having a “tough week”...
6 Bonkers Moments From Trump’s Cabinet Meeting
Happy Monday! President Donald Trump held a press availability during a Cabinet meeting on Monday, during which he went on a number of tangents and rants. Here are six of the wildest moments: Schiff Is The Whistleblower’s Informant Trump predictably went on a rant about the whistleblower at the heart of the House impeachment probe into...
5 Points On The DOJ’s Fishing Expedition For Russia Probe Conspiracy Theories
Attorney General Bill Barr’s effort to chase down conspiracy theories about the 2016 Russian election meddling probe are attracting new scrutiny as evidence mounts that the White House saw it as part of a quid pro quo with Ukraine. Barr’s review of the Russia investigation — for which he has appointed the leadership of U.S. Attorney...
