The Trump Impeachment Inquiry Is a “Tectonic Shift” for Democrats. How Did We Get Here?
Jim Loscalzo/Zuma In a special, breaking-news edition of the Mother Jones podcast taped on Tuesday, our Washington, DC, bureau chief David Corn walks host Jamilah King through the series of events that led to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s historic decision Tuesday to launch a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. The move, Corn says,…
Quid Pro No: How Trump and the GOP Are Trying to Gaslight the Nation on the Ukraine Scandal
Evan Vucci/AP Here we go again. The memo released by the White House recounting the July 25 call between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is a bombshell. But Trump and his defenders in the GOP, FoxWorld, and conservative circles are trying to repeat the move he staged in the Russia scandal and…
Here’s an Abridged Version of the Trump-Zelensky Readout
The readout of the Trump-Zelensky phone call is fairly short, but I suppose it’s still possible to miss its full import. So just to make things clear, here’s an abridged version of the call. Please note that this is not a joke. It sounds like it, but it’s a legitimate, honest-to-god abridgement: TRUMP: Congratulations. ZELENSKY:…
“The United States Has Been Very Good to Ukraine”
Well, we have the readout of President Trump’s call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. “The United States has been very good to Ukraine,” Donald Trump tells him. Then there’s this: Trump not only asked Zelensky to look into Hunter Biden, but also into the bizarre conspiracy theory that Ukrainians were behind the DNC server hack.…
Trump Impeachment Liveblog Day 2: White House Releases Ukraine Phone Call Memo
Mother Jones illustration; Chris Kleponis/Zuma; Getty Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday announced a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. What will today bring? Here are the latest developments in the impeachapalooza. 2:22 p.m. ET: Still confused about what’s going on and how we go here? Listen to a special, breaking news edition of the Mother…
White House Releases Memo on Trump’s Phone Call With Ukrainian President
Ting Shen/ZUMA President Donald Trump pushed the leader of Ukraine to open an investigation into Joe Biden, according to a memo released by the White House on Wednesday recounting the July 25 telephone call between the two heads of state. Trump repeatedly urged Volodymyr Zelensky, the newly elected Ukrainian president, to discuss the matter with…