Section: TPM (USA)
Trump Adviser Says China Gave Him Biden Dirt, Then Takes It Back Less Than 24 Hours Later
Michael Pillsbury, President Donald Trump’s informal adviser on China, can’t seem to decide whether China gave him dirt on 2020 candidate Joe Biden’s son or not. On Wednesday night, Pillsbury told Fox News Business host Lou Dobbs that he had brought up Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, to his Chinese associates during a trip to...
Gardner Refuses To Say It’s A Bad Thing For Trump To Ask Foreign Gov’t To Meddle
Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) refused to say yes or no. When pressed on whether he believes it’s appropriate for the President of the United States to ask a foreign leader to investigate a political rival — referring to President Donald Trump’s now-infamous July call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky showing efforts to pressure...
What Do We Know About Parnas And Fruman’s Two Business Partners?
In addition to Rudy Giuliani associates Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, two other men were indicted Thursday morning for violations related to various campaign donations — David Correia and Andrey Kukushkin. And while Parnas and Fruman’s connections to Rudy’s search for Trump-friendly political dirt is well known, their alleged business...
Schumer Says Giuliani Has An ‘Obligation’ To Testify After His Associates’ Arrest
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Thursday declared that Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani must testify in front of Congress after two associates involved in his Ukraine-Joe Biden scheme were arrested. During a press conference in New York, Schumer addressed the “very troubling” criminal indictment of Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, who were...
SDNY: Investigation Into Giuliani Pals’ Campaign Finance Violations Is Ongoing
The Southern District of New York’s investigation into the actions of associates of Rudy Giuliani who violated campaign finance laws is ongoing, SDNY U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman said Thursday, following the arrest of the two Giuliani allies the night before. That means the probe could possibly sprawl beyond the charges already brought...
Report: State Dept Officials’ Anger At Pompeo Is Escalating Amid Ukraine Scandal
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is overseeing employees who are reportedly growing more fed up with him by the day as he becomes further enmeshed in the scandal over President Donald Trump’s attempt to pressure Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden. Six current and former State Department officials told ABC News on Thursday that career staffers...
What The Parnas-Fruman Indictment Reveals About The Trump-Ukraine Pressure Scheme
The indictment of two Soviet-born clients of Rudy Giuliani’s reveals intriguing ties between the campaign finance scheme that the duo was allegedly running and President Trump’s scheme to pressure the Ukrainian government into becoming a factory for political dirt. Prosecutors detail how, in one instance, Lev Parnas laundered Igor...
House Subpoenas Indicted Giuliani Pals Fruman And Parnas
House Democrats subpoenaed two Rudy Giuliani associates tied to the Ukraine pressure campaign Thursday, shortly after news broke that they were arrested on campaign finance charges a day earlier. According to the letter Thursday addressed to lawyer John Dowd, the subpoenas for documents from Giuliani associates Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman are...
Where Does Pete Sessions Fit Into The Indictment Of Rudy’s Cronies?
Former Rep. Pete Sessions’ (R-TX) hopes for returning to the House just got a little more complicated Thursday. Sessions, who lost his suburban Dallas seat in 2018, was mentioned – though not by name – multiple times in the four-count indictment of two associates of Rudy Giuliani for allegedly violating campaign finance laws. The indictment...
Fox News: Giuliani Thinks Associates’ Arrests Tied To His Ukraine Scheme
Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani suggested on Thursday that the criminal indictment of his two associates connected to President Donald Trump’s Ukraine pressure campaign is some kind of conspiracy, according to Fox News. Fox News reporter Catherine Herridge said on air that she had spoken to Giuliani after the two associates, Lev Parnas and Igor...
