Section: TPM (USA)
Reports: Federal Giuliani Probe Involves Counterintelligence Concerns
Federal investigators looking into Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani’s foreign financial entanglements are also looking into counterintelligence issues that may have grown out of those business ventures, USA Today was first to report. New York attorney Kenneth McCallion told USA Today and CNN Wednesday that he was approached by federal...
Trump Baselessly Pins Deep State Conspiracy Theory On Obama
President Donald Trump couldn’t keep his predecessor’s name out of his mouth on Wednesday. Speaking to reporters at the beginning of a meeting with Italian President Sergio Mattarella, Trump fielded questions about Rudy Giuliani’s attempts to dig up dirt abroad on Trump’s political enemies. Trump first claimed, as per...
House Asks Current Top Diplomat In Ukraine To Testify Next Week
House Democrats this week asked Bill Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, to testify as part of the impeachment inquiry. In a letter to Taylor, Democratic committee chairs leading the inquiry asked him to attend a deposition on Oct. 22. Previously, they wrote, they’d asked him to attend an Oct. 15 deposition. The chairs of the House...
Trump Bearhugs Rudy, But Suggests Ukraine Scheme Was Giuliani’s Idea
As Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani comes under increased legal scrutiny by federal prosecutors, as well Congress, for his shadow campaign in Ukraine, President Trump embraced his lawyer on Wednesday. The President praised Giuliani as the “best mayor in the history of New York” and a “great prosecutor.” But Trump also notably attempted to wash his...
Ex-Pompeo Adviser To Testify That Trump Admin. Politicized The State Department
Former senior adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Michael McKinley, is expected to detail his concern over the politicization of the State Department during his testimony on Wednesday. An unnamed source told the Washington Post that McKinley, who resigned last week, will lay out his unease over the removal of Marie Yovanovitch from her...
George Kent Was Directed To ‘Lay Low’ And Leave Ukraine Dealings To ‘Three Amigos’
A top State Department official told House impeachment investigators on Tuesday that he was instructed to “lay low” after he criticized the White House’s utilization of Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani to interact with Ukraine, the Washington Post reported. George Kent, the deputy assistant secretary of state responsible for Ukraine, was...
WH Launches Its Own Inquiry Into Why Ukraine Call Was Placed In Top-Secret Vault
The White House has launched its own fact-finding inquiry into the handling of the infamous July 25 call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, The New York Times reported. Many White House aides believe the probe is more of an effort to find a scapegoat for the scandal that’s erupted around the call, which has...
How Each Candidate Stood Out In The October Democratic Debate
Another twelve person debate didn’t afford any one candidate much time to shine. But here is some of what stood out to us about each one. Joe Biden seemed to get off to a weirdly shaky start when asked about Trump’s Ukraine and China-related attacks against his son, Hunter — especially given that he is innocent and that the question...
Takeaways From This Campaign’s Biggest Democratic Debate
October’s debate stage saw the biggest crowd of presidential hopefuls yet, 12 candidates shoulder-to-shoulder to address impeachment for the first time since House Democrats formally announced their inquiry against President Trump. The candidates also sparred over health care and wealth inequality, along with foreign policy as Turkey...
House Will Not Hold Full Vote On Impeachment Inquiry
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Tuesday there will not be a full House vote on the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. “There’s no requirement that we have a vote, and so at this time we will not be having a vote,” Pelosi said at a press conference Tuesday evening alongside House Intel Committee Chair Adam Schiff...
