In One Hearing, Fiona Hill Knocked Down Republican Smears and Workplace Sexism
Tom Williams/ZUMA Fiona Hill had been detailing her frustration with US ambassador Gordon Sondland’s alarming efforts to sidestep interagency protocols during Thursday’s final day of impeachment hearings when her testimony suddenly struck an unrelated chord. “To be honest, I was angry with him,” the former top White House adviser on Russia told members of the…
Trump Keeps Pushing His Ridiculous “CrowdStrike” Theory. Not Even Fox Is Buying It.
Alex Brandon/AP At the start of Thursday’s impeachment hearing, former Trump national security official Fiona Hill took a thinly veiled shot at Republicans. “Based on questions and statements I have heard, some of you on this committee appear to believe that Russia and its security services did not conduct a campaign against our country—and that…
In Another Break From Norms, Trump Is Using the White House as a Campaign Backdrop
Mother Jones illustration; Getty On a Friday evening in early October, more than 200 young African American conservatives in dark suits and red MAGA hats marched across Lafayette Square chanting, “USA! USA!” Their destination: The White House, where President Donald Trump was the featured guest at a reception for the pro-Trump student group Turning Point…
The George Soros Conspiracy Theory at the Heart of the Ukraine Scandal
DOBBS: John Solomon reported back in March and I want to get this right that [former US embassy official] George Kent had pressured Ukrainian prosecutors to back off an investigation into AntAC, the anti-corruption action center that George Soros group sponsored. This is a complicated deal here. And it seems that he wanted to keep…
An Impeachment Witness Shows How Republicans Are Helping Putin
Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP It’s all about Russia. Or mostly. The fifth day of the House impeachment hearings on Thursday brought two consummate policy professionals to the witness stand. Each had a clear tale, from different perspectives, of the Trump-Giuliani operation to circumvent normal national security channels to muscle Ukraine into announcing the launch of investigations…
Fiona Hill Took Over Thursday’s Impeachment Hearing. That Was Bad for Trump.
Fiona Hill, the National Security Council’s former senior director for Europe and Russia testifies before the House Intelligence Committee in the Longworth House Office Building on November 21, 2019.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Fiona Hill, the National Security Council’s former top Russia expert, admitted on Thursday afternoon that she had been unfair to Gordon Sondland, the ambassador…