Section: TPM (USA)
The Ukrainian President Wants Nothing To Do With Trump’s Political Mess
The president of Ukraine has no interest in being dragged deeper into the political mess dogging President Trump. During a press conference on Tuesday, President Volodymyr Zelensky told reporters that he has never once had contact with Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani, who has been hard at work drumming up bogus allegations against former...
DNC Blasts Facebook For Allowing Trump Ad Blitz To Spread False Claims
The Democratic National Committee’s CEO criticized Facebook on Tuesday for its refusal to fact check posts from politicians, including those of President Donald Trump as the President goes on an anti-impeachment crusade on the social giant’s platform. DNC CEO Seema Nanda told CNN that the organization was “deeply disappointed” in...
Intelligence IG Slaps Down Trump World’s False Claims About Whistleblower
The Office of the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community on Monday rejected an attempt by President Donald Trump and his allies to discredit the whistleblower who raised concerns about Trump’s July call with the Ukrainian president. Ever since a whistleblower exposed Trump’s attempt to pressure the Ukrainian president to dig...
Your Road Map To Understanding The House Probe of Giuliani’s Ukraine Gambit
Rudy Giuliani’s loose lips have caught up with him. For months, the former New York mayor and current personal attorney to President Trump hasn’t been exactly hiding his globe-trotting effort to dig up dirt on the President’s personal political enemies. That gambit — thanks to Trump’s own appeal to Ukraine President...
Kennedy To File Legislation That Is A Thinly Veiled Jab At The Bidens
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) plans to file legislation when Congress reconvenes to ban immediate family members of senior U.S. officials from profiting off Ukraine — a thinly veiled jab at Joe and Hunter Biden. “Specifically, his bill will ban an immediate family member of a member of the Senate, the House, the president’s Cabinet, the vice...
Pompeo: Congress Can’t Interview State Dept. Officials About Trump-Ukraine
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo promised to prevent State Department officials with knowledge of the President’s pressure campaign against Ukraine from testifying before the House, according to a Tuesday letter from the secretary. Pompeo branded the attempt from the House Foreign Affairs, Intelligence, and Oversight Committees to depose five...
Grassley Defends Whistleblower Against Trump’s Attacks
Senate Finance Committee chair Chuck Grassley (R-IA) defended the whistleblower at the center of President Donald Trump’s Ukraine scandal on Tuesday. Without explicitly mentioning Trump, Grassley pushed back against the President’s demands to “find out” the identity of the whistleblower who revealed Trump’s attempt to pressure...
Top Republicans Defend Barr’s Global Effort To Discredit Mueller Probe
Nothing to see here. That’s what at least two top Republicans are saying amid news that Attorney General Bill Barr has been looking around the world to discredit special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. Both Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) have defended Barr’s moves in the past 24 hours, arguing...
House Lawyers Think Redactions In Mueller Report Reveal That Trump Lied
Lawyers for the House of Representative revealed in a Monday filing that they have reason to believe that grand jury redactions from the Mueller report lay out that President Donald Trump lied about his ignorance of his campaign’s interactions with WikiLeaks. According to Politico, the lawyers are trying to get their hands on the grand jury...
Giuliani Is ‘Weighing’ Whether To Appear For Testimony, Says He Has ‘Tapes’ To Share
President Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani is still deciding whether he will comply with House Democrats’ subpoena to appear for testimony, and claimed he had “video tapes” and other “evidence” he wants to share with Congress. “I’m weighing my alternatives,” Giuliani told Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Monday evening. “I’ll...
