Section: Voice of America (USA)
US House Speaker Denies Hating Trump, Declares ‘Don’t Mess With Me’
U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday said she does not hate President Donald Trump, but called him a coward and cruel on certain policies and asserted “don’t mess with me” during a testy news conference as she moved ahead with an impeachment process that could remove him from office.At the close of the...
Key Witness Testimony at Heart Of Democrats’ Drive to Impeach Trump
Senior U.S. diplomats and national security experts have testified before Congress about behind-the-scenes maneuvering by President Donald Trump or aides to pressure Ukraine to investigate his political rivals.With Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives moving toward possibly impeaching Trump, who urged Ukraine’s president in a July...
Ukraine Lawmaker Met Giuliani to Discuss Misuse of US Taxpayer Money in Ukraine
An independent Ukrainian lawmaker said on Thursday he had met U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer in Kyiv to discuss the alleged misuse of U.S. taxpayer money by Ukrainian state bodies.In a statement on Facebook accompanied by photos of the meeting, Andriy Derkach said the two had discussed the creation of an interparliamentary...
US House Speaker Pelosi to Make Statement About Impeachment Inquiry Status
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will address reporters Thursday on the status of the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump. Pelosi’s televised statement comes a day after three U.S. constitutional scholars told Congress that Trump committed impeachable offenses by pushing Ukraine to open investigations to benefit him...
Trump Dismisses Giuliani Calls With White House, OMB
President Donald Trump on Wednesday dismissed the significance of repeated contacts between his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and phone numbers linked to the White House and its budget office — contacts that were revealed in the House intelligence committee’s impeachment report.“So somebody said he made a phone call into the White House....
US Constitutional Scholars Testify at Trump Impeachment Hearing
The next step by congressional Democrats pushing the impeachment of U.S. President Donald Trump is unfolding Wednesday, with four constitutional scholars testifying on what they believe the country’s founding fathers intended when they decided how a president could be impeached and removed from office.The Democratic majority on the House...
House Democrats Launch New Phase in Impeachment Inquiry
House Democrats launch a new phase of the impeachment inquiry into U.S. President Donald Trump Wednesday, as the investigation moves to the House Judiciary Committee. The Democratic-majority House of Representatives is expected to hold a vote by year’s end on whether to impeach the president for allegedly leveraging almost $4 million in...
Nunes, Top Intelligence Panel Republican, had Frequent Contact with Giuliani, Call Records Show
U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, often spoke to Representative Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, as Giuliani peddled unproven allegations at the heart of the Trump impeachment inquiry, a congressional report said on Tuesday.Previously undisclosed telephone records appended to a...
House Democrats Lay Out Lengthy Case for Impeachment
Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives laid out their strongest case for impeaching U.S. President Donald Trump in a highly anticipated report on Tuesday.The 300-page report accused Trump of “misconduct” in seeking Ukrainian political interference in the 2020 presidential election and then relentlessly trying to “obstruct” Congress as it...
Trump Looks Beyond DOJ Watchdog’s Russia Report
President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he expected an upcoming watchdog report to be “devastating” on the origins of the Russia investigation that dogged his presidency for nearly two years, but also suggested Americans should really be more interested in the findings of a federal prosecutor appointed to do a similar probe.FILE – This 2018...
