Democrats Ask Mulvaney to Testify on Quid Pro Quo Allegations
Chris Kleponis/Zuma Impeachment investigators have asked acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney to submit to a deposition later this week, suggesting that he may have been “directly involved” in the alleged quid pro quos that led to the impeachment investigation against President Donald Trump. In a letter asking Mulvaney to appear before House…
Read the Transcripts of Gordon Sondland and Kurt Volker’s Testimonies
Tom Williams/ZUMA House impeachment investigators released two additional transcripts on Tuesday, this time from Gordon Sondland, the US ambassador to the European Union, and Kurt Volker, the former special envoy to Ukraine. You can read those below:
“Read the Transcript,” Trump Berates Reporter Who Is Quoting Transcript
Oliver Contreras/Zuma After casually encouraging the media to release the name of the whistleblower who spurred the impeachment investigation against him, President Donald Trump engaged in a bizarre back-and-forth with a reporter Sunday. Trump repeatedly told the reporter to “read the transcript” of Trump’s July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky—even as the reporter…
House Impeachment Probe Releases Marie Yovanovitch’s Closed-Door Testimony
Bill Clark/ZUMA The public phase of the House’s impeachment inquiry is officially underway with Monday’s release of Marie Yovanovitch’s closed-door testimony. The whistleblower at the center of the Ukraine scandal cited Yovanovitch’s abrupt dismissal as US ambassador to Ukraine back in May as one of the troubling episodes leading up to President Donald Trump’s July…
Republicans Keep Saying They Want to Question the Whistleblower. Now May Be Their Chance.
adrian825/Getty On Sunday morning, the lawyer for the whistleblower whose complaint is at the center of the impeachment inquiry into President Trump said he has offered Republicans the chance to submit written questions directly to his client: WBer NEWS ALERT: 1/Our legal team offered GOP direct opportunity to ask written questions of #whistleblower. Recent GOP…
It Turns Out Team Trump Has Spent Years Falsely Claiming Ukraine—Not Russia—Was Behind DNC Hack
Michael Brochstein//ZUMA Wire On the famous July phone call with President Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump pressed the Ukrainian president to look into the 2016 hack of the Democratic National Committee. The belief that Ukraine, not Russia, was actually behind the hack is a pretty confusing but persistent conspiracy theory on the right, despite being thoroughly debunked. And…