Report: John Bolton’s Book Draft Says Trump Conditioned Ukraine Aid on Biden Investigations
John Bolton, then Trump’s national security advisor, speaks at an August press conference in Ukraine.Serg Glovny/ZUMA President Donald Trump told his former national security adviser John Bolton that he would maintain a freeze on military aid to Ukraine until the country took steps to open investigations into the Bidens, according to an unpublished manuscript by the…
The Guy Who’s Running Trump’s Fight to Hide Evidence Said Democrats “Hid Evidence”
White House counsel Pat Cipollone speaks during impeachment proceedings in the Senate on January 25, 2020.Senate Television via Getty Images Of all the whoppers President Donald Trump’s lawyers jammed into their relatively brief launch of his defense Saturday, White House Counsel Pat Cipollone may have made the most brazen claim. Cipollone, in his opening remarks,…
Trump Taunts Democrats: “We Have All the Material. They Don’t Have the Material.”
Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty President Donald Trump is thousands of miles away from Washington right now, but that hasn’t stopped him from chiming in on the historic impeachment trial currently underway in the Senate. “We’re doing very well,” he told reporters before leaving the World Economic Forum in Davos, later adding, “Honestly, we have all the material.…
Here Are Some of the Ukraine Documents Republicans Voted to Ignore
President Donald Trump meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.Evan Vucci/AP Late on Tuesday night, a watchdog group released a trove of documents from the White House Office of Management and Budget related to President Donald Trump’s hold on military aid to Ukraine. The disclosure of the material, obtained by the nonprofit American Oversight, came just…
The Price of America’s Inability to Track Child Deaths from Abuse and Neglect? Sometimes, More Lives.
Imgorthand/Getty This story was originally published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published. Experts have long suspected that the United States badly undercounts the number of children who die from abuse and neglect. The voluntary…
With Trump’s Impeachment, American Democracy Is on Trial
Chief Justice John Roberts swears in senators for Donald Trump’s impeachment trial.Senate Television via AP The start of the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump is a reminder that the American political system does include safeguards and norms that are meant to protect the citizenry from corruption and misdeeds in the highest offices of the…