Trump’s Legal Team Opened Their Impeachment Defense With a Blizzard of Lies
President Donald Trump speaks as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky looks on during a meeting in New York on September 25, 2019.Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images President Donald Trump’s lawyers launched their defense Saturday morning with a blizzard of false claims. It started with the president’s critical July 25th call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. White…
Trump Is Coming After California’s Abortion Protections
People rally in support of abortion rights at the California state Capitol.Rich Pedroncelli/AP While Trump addressed crowds of people on the National Mall at the annual anti-abortion March for Life Rally on Friday—a major symbolic gesture—his administration announced a far more tangible attack on abortion rights in America. The Department of Health and Human Services…
An Impeachment Smoking Gun: The Damning Letter Trump Can’t Cover Up
Donald Trump with Rudy Giuliani in 2016Carolyn Kaster/AP Smoking guns ain’t what they used to be. Last week, one such smoking gun emerged that should have been a turning point in the Ukraine episode, for this was proof—confirmation—that Donald Trump pressured Ukraine not for any official policy aims, but for his own personal benefit. Yet…
Van Jones Isn’t Ready to Give Up on Finding Common Ground With Trump
Mark Wilson/Getty As the Senate impeachment trail gets underway, lawmakers are sticking closely to the marching orders for their chosen tribe. Partisanship hangs over the nation, heavier than ever. But Van Jones says he hasn’t give up on meaningful bi-partisan cooperation. The CNN star worked in the Obama White House as the “Green Jobs Czar”,…
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…