House Dems Demand that Trump Turn Over Ukraine Documents by Thursday
Representative Elijah Cummings (D-M.D.) speaks at a press conference on Capitol Hill in July. Stefani Reynolds/CNP via ZUMA Three top congressional Democrats announced Tuesday that they are giving the White House two days to turn over documents related to President Donald Trump’s reported efforts to coerce the president of Ukraine into helping him dig up…
Pelosi Is Considering a New Committee for Trump’s Ukraine Scandal. Progressives Are Suspicious.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) meets with reporters just after the House Judiciary Committee approved guidelines for impeachment hearings on President Donald Trump, at the Capitol in Washington on Sept. 12, 2019.J. Scott Applewhite/AP House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has so far resisted Democratic calls for impeachment, is considering setting up a select…
How the Democrats Blew the Biggest Political Scandal in US History
Evan Vucci/AP When the Democrats were clobbered in the 2016 election, they were handed both a political gift and a grave responsibility. That presidential campaign had included the most significant scandal in the history of the United States. A foreign adversary had covertly interfered to boost the chances of the underdog candidate who won—and that…
John Lewis Just Delivered a Rousing Call for Impeachment
Michael Brochstein/Zuma Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) delivered a call action for the House of Representatives on Tuesday to impeach President Donald Trump over the Ukraine scandal. “We cannot delay. We must not wait. Now is the time to act,” the longtime civil rights leader said on the floor of the House. “We will never find…
Trump Admits to Holding Up Ukraine Aid
And now, Phase 6: President Trump said Tuesday that he held up American aid to Ukraine that has become the subject of furious controversy because European countries have not paid their fair share to support the country, and pointed to the fact that the money was eventually released as evidence that he had done nothing…
Trump Having Trouble Concluding Tiny Trade Deal With Japan
Smityuk Yuri/TASS via ZUMA Japan has kept a very low profile vis-a-vis Donald Trump, in hopes that they could escape his wrath and maybe even cut a small trade deal. And they have! But there’s a hitch from President Deals: For more than a year, Trump has threatened to slap tariffs on automobiles imported to…