Section: TPM (USA)
Big Trump/Ukraine Document Dump, Annotated
Chairs Schiff, Engel and Cummings did a major document dump tonight based on texts exchanged between various Trump Department officials, Rudy Giuliani and a top advisor to President Zelensky. The upshot is documentation of months of efforts by the Trump officials to get Ukraine to publicly announce investigations of the Bidens and 2016 election...
CNN: Trump Mentioned Biden, Warren During Call With Chinese President In June
President Donald Trump reportedly brought up Democratic rivals Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) during a phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping in June. CNN reported on Thursday night that Trump had mentioned Biden and Warren’s “political prospects” (in CNN’s words) when he called Jinping on June 18. Trump, currently...
Trump Ousted Ambassador After Giuliani Claimed She Was Blocking Biden Probe
President Trump removed the ambassador to Ukraine from her role after complaints from Rudy Giuliani that she was was obstructing his efforts to convince the country to open a probe into the Bidens, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Giuliani admitted to the Journal that he advocated for the removal of Ambassador Maria Yovanovitch from her...
Ernst Stands United With Fellow Iowan Grassley In Defending Whistleblowers
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) agrees with Senate Finance Committee chair and fellow Iowa Republican Chuck Grassley: whistleblowers should be protected. During a town hall Thursday in Templeton, Iowa, Ernst was asked by an attendee whether President Donald Trump should be threatening whistleblowers or encouraging other countries to investigate his...
Pentagon Says None Of Its Officials Were On Trump’s Ukraine Call
The Department of Defense said on Thursday that its officials, including Defense Secretary Mark Esper, were not present during President Donald Trump’s call with the Ukrainian president. “To my knowledge, no one from the Department of Defense was on that call,” Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman told reporters, per the Hill. “I...
Biden Called For Changes At Ukraine’s Prosecutor Office … And So Did 3 GOP Senators
Oops! The Ukrainian prosecutor at the heart of President Donald Trump’s baseless Joe Biden conspiracy theory was seen as corrupt by Trump’s own Republican colleagues. Sens. Ron Johnson (R-WI), Rob Portman (R-OH) and former Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL), along with five of their Democratic colleagues, sent a letter to then-Ukrainian President...
Man In The Middle: Pence Is At The Heart Of The Ukraine Scandal Too
Vice President Mike Pence castigated former Vice President Joe Biden Thursday with an attack that would make even the most casual observer of President Donald Trump’s hijinks roll their eyes. “The American people have a right to know if the vice president of the United States, or his family, profited from his position,” Pence told reporters...
Inside The Counternarratives Fueling Trump’s Global Pressure Campaign
President Trump and his associates are trying to substantiate a litany of conspiracy theories with the might of U.S. foreign policy state at their back. But what exactly are they alleging? Here we take apart each of the key conspiracy theories that appear to be the focus of Trump’s interest. Each appears intended to discredit an aspect of...
Fox Analyst Napolitano Keeps On Hammering President Trump
Fox analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano has cemented his role as a critic of President Trump. In a Fox News op-ed Thursday, Napolitano railed against Trump for his infamous July call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, writing that the scandal is “much more grave” than Robert Mueller’s findings in the Russia probe. “The criminal behavior...
Schiff Blasts Trump For Calling On China To Investigate The Bidens
House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) called on Republicans to condemn the comments President Trump made Thursday urging China to investigate Joe Biden. “The President of the United States encouraging a foreign nation to interfere again to help his campaign by investigating a rival is a fundamental breach of the President’s oath of...
