Roger Stone Found Guilty on All Counts
Roger Stone gets into a vehicle as he leaves court on November 8, 2019 .(Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images A federal jury has convicted Roger Stone, a longtime adviser to President Donald Trump, of making false statements to Congress, obstruction of justice, and witness tampering. The false statement and obstruction of justice charges have maximum…
Yovanovitch Was “Appalled” When She Saw What Trump Thought of Her
Caroline Brehman/Congressional Quarterly via ZUMA Marie Yovanovitch, our former ambassador to Ukraine, describes her reaction when she saw how Donald talked about her in private: “It was a terrible moment,” she told the House Intelligence Committee on the second day of public impeachment hearings….In the July 25 phone call, according to a rough transcript released…
Mike Pompeo Took Over a Crumbling State Department. Marie Yovanovitch’s Testimony Shows How He Made It Worse.
Former US ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch addresses lawmakers as part of the second public impeachment hearing conducted by the House Intelligence Committee.Win McNamee/Getty When Mike Pompeo took over as secretary of state last year, he inherited a slimmed-down workforce still reeling from the impact of a 16-month hiring freeze. In his first address to…
New Trump-Ukraine Call Transcript Raises More Questions
Evan Vucci/AP Minutes before the start of the House’s second public impeachment hearing, the White House released the rough transcript of President Donald Trump’s April phone call with Volodymyr Zelensky, the newly elected president of Ukraine. The release of that conversation—which took place three months before the now infamous July 25 phone call in which…
As Former Ambassador Testifies to Feeling Threatened by Trump, He Smears Her in Real Time
Alex Brandon/AP Marie Yovanovitch, the former US ambassador to Ukraine, testified on Friday to feeling threatened after learning that President Donald Trump had told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that she would be “going through some things” during a July 25 phone call. But as she detailed her trauma to lawmakers, Trump was on Twitter smearing her again, in a…
Even States With Green Activist Governors Won’t Settle Youth Climate Cases. What Gives?
Demonstrators during the Right to a Livable Future rally, supporting the lawsuit brought by Kelsey Juliana v United States at the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.Diego Diaz/Getty This piece originally appeared in High Country News and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. In 2011, 15-year-old Kelsey Juliana and 11-year-old Ollie Chernaik filed a…