John Kasich Calls for Impeachment
Yesterday, White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney admitted on national TV that Donald Trump had attempted to use vital military aide to extort Ukraine into investigating Democrats. Mulvaney made a valiant attempt to un-admit that in a statement issued hours later, but the damage was already done. For some Republicans on Capitol Hill, Mulvaney’s…
“Heels On, Gloves Off!” Women March Against Trump’s Impeachment in Washington. But Really Not Many.
Pro-Trump marchers assemble in Washington to march on the Capitol.Stephanie Mencimer/Mother Jones On Thursday, impeachment foes converged on Washington for the first big pro-Trump rally in the city since shortly after Donald Trump was elected president. According to its website, the “March for Trump: Stop Impeachment Now!” event was initiated by people who “want our…
Trump’s Evangelical Base Is Cracking Over Syria. Now He’s Scrambling to Keep His “Mandate of Heaven.”
Evan Vucci/AP When President Donald Trump appeared on Saturday night at the Values Voters Summit in Washington, DC, he was speaking to an audience of his most loyal supporters. But for the first time in his administration, he had done something that had awakened the long slumbering consciences of prominent evangelical leaders and their flocks.…
How an Indicted Oligarch Became a Key Player in Trump’s Ukraine Scandal
Dmytro Firtash at a public hearing at the supreme court in Vienna on June 25, 2019Herbert Neubauer/Getty On September 29, Rudy Giuliani appeared on ABC News, waving a fistful of papers. The document in his hand was an affidavit from Viktor Shokin, a former top Ukrainian prosecutor who was fired in 2016 under international pressure…
Mick Mulvaney Issues Furious Denial of Mick Mulvaney’s “Quid Pro Quo” Allegations
Evan Vucci/AP Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney on Thursday night sent out a statement to reporters moonwalking back an admission he’d made during a White House press briefing earlier in the day: that the Trump administration withheld military aid from Ukraine as a ploy to get Ukraine to investigate a baseless theory…
The Justice Department Hired the Son of a Vocal Trump Defender
Attorney General William Barr and President Donald TrumpAlex Brandon/AP The son of one of President Donald Trump’s most vocal defenders has a new gig in Trump’s Justice Department. Brady Toensing—whose mother Victoria Toensing and and step-father Joe diGenova are key players in the rapidly growing Ukraine scandal—joined the DOJ in June as a senior counsel…