Tom Steyer Takes Credit for Impeachment
Tom Steyer in Knoxville, IowaJack Kurtz/ZUMA With less than a week to go before the Iowa caucuses, four Democratic presidential contenders are stuck in the Senate chamber in Washington, DC, for Donald Trump’s trial. But there’s one candidate who’s free to traverse the Hawkeye State and brag about his role in impeachment. “Those eight-and-a-half million people pulled Washington,…
Is Bernie Sanders the Next George McGovern—or the Next Donald Trump?
John Locher/AP BerniePanic has set in. As the Iowa caucuses approach, Democratic establishmentarians and we-gotta-beat Trump pundits have begun to fret about the Sanders surge. They fear the prospect of the Vermont (small-d) democratic socialist triumphing in the Hawkeye State, winning in New Hampshire, and then becoming an unstoppable force in the remaining primaries. Is…
Trump Lawyer Says Bolton Bombshell, Even If True, Isn’t an Impeachable Offense
Trump attorney Alan Dershowitz speaks at the Senate impeachment trial.Senate Television via AP President Donald Trump’s lawyers spent most of Monday avoiding the topic of John Bolton’s leaked manuscript, which reportedly alleges Trump’s direct involvement in improperly holding up aid to Ukraine to pressure that country’s leaders into digging up dirt on Joe Biden. Alan…
Pick Which GOP Explanation for Why Bolton Shouldn’t Testify Is the Craziest
Donald Trump and John Bolton on August 20, 2019. Alex Wong /Getty Images President Donald Trump, GOP lawmakers, and White House lawyers presenting their case for Trump’s acquittal in the Senate spent Monday publicly workshopping a series of arguments for why the president’s ongoing impeachment trial should not include testimony from former national security adviser John…
Fox News Is Losing Its Mind Over John Bolton
For hours upon hours on Monday, Donald Trump’s lawyers presented their case against removing the president from office over the Ukraine scandal. In doing so, they have danced around a major new revelation—that, in a draft of a forthcoming book, former national security adviser John Bolton reportedly wrote that Trump told him he wanted to…
Trump’s Lawyer Just Made the Most Misleading Statement I Have Ever Heard
Jay SekulowSenate Television via AP During the Senate impeachment trial Monday, Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow made a bold claim. “Not a single witness,” he declared, “testified that the president himself said that there was any connection between any investigation and security assistance, a presidential meeting, or anything else.” While he talked, Trump’s legal team displayed…