Section: TPM (USA)
Report: McConnell Urged Trump To Release The Ukraine Call Memo
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) reportedly advised President Donald Trump to release the memo this week on his phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. According to the Washington Post, McConnell had urged the White House to do so in order to prove Trump’s repeated claims that the call was “perfect” and above...
Trump Rants About ‘Democrat Savages’ Amid Impeachment Inquiry
President Donald Trump began his Saturday by firing off angry tweets about the Democrats leading the House’s impeachment inquiry against him. “Can you imagine if these Do Nothing Democrat Savages, people like Nadler, Schiff, AOC Plus 3, and many more, had a Republican Party who would have done to Obama what the Do Nothings are doing to me,”...
CNN: White House Also Concealed Transcripts Of Trump’s Calls With Russia, Saudi Arabia
The White House reportedly restricted access to transcripts of President Donald Trump’s calls with Russia and Saudi Arabia. CNN reported on Friday night that the transcripts of Trump’s calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman were not circulated among administration officials, as they...
US Envoy To Ukraine Resigns Amid Trump’s Ukrainian Scandal
U.S. Special Envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker stepped down on Friday night. Volker is one of the central figures of the scandal that’s been rocking the White House in recent weeks. The ambassador connected Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s top aide amid Trump and...
Things Are Moving Fast
Kurt Volker, the special envoy on Ukraine, has resigned. Meanwhile, the first House Republican, Rep. Mark Amodei (R-NV) has come out in support of an impeachment inquiry, albeit in a somewhat mealy-mouthed way. “Let’s put it through the process and see what happens.” Amodei would not say whether he believes the President committed an...
Giuliani To Appear With Putin In Reprisal Of Role At Pro-Russian Conference
As the House prepares to consider whether to impeach President Trump over an unprecedented plot to turn Ukraine into an opposition research factory, his personal attorney and associate Rudy Giuliani has decided to keep busy: he is scheduled to attend a pro-Russian conference in Armenia next month with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The...
House Ramps Up Impeachment Probe With Ukraine Doc Subpoena, Deposition Plans
The House impeachment inquiry focusing on the Trump administration’s Ukraine conduct is ramping up: House committees have scheduled depositions for several key State Department officials and issued a subpoena for related records. It is unclear whether the State Department will allow the officials to sit for the depositions and whether it...
READ: House Panels Demand Docs Over $400 Mil Ukraine Aid Delay
The House Budget and Appropriations Committees sent a demand to the White House’s Office of Management and Budget on Friday for reams of documents related to the Trump administration’s delay in disbursing $400 million in aid to Ukraine. The document demand comes as House Democrats enter into an impeachment inquiry against President...
Chris Wallace Calls Trumpworld’s Spin On Whistleblower ‘Astonishing’
Fox News host Chris Wallace didn’t hold back on airing his thoughts Friday after the release of the whistleblower complaint by the House Intelligence Committee. When asked during a Fox News segment Friday if his thoughts had changed in response to the whistleblower complaint release Thursday, Wallace said that “it’s changed quite a...
Gabbard Now Supports Impeachment To Avoid US Becoming ‘Banana Republic’
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) has changed her position on impeachment, falling in step with most of her 2020 hopeful peers and saying Friday that it would set a “dangerous precedent” to let President Donald Trump go unpunished. “Up to this point, I have been opposed to pursuing impeachment because it will further divide our already badly divided...
