Watch Nancy Pelosi Open the House’s Final Impeachment Debate
House Television/AP Clearing the final procedural hurdles in the House of Representatives’ impeachment process, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Wednesday announced the opening of the last stretch of debate before the chamber’s historic vote on whether to impeach President Donald Trump. “We gather today under the dome of this temple of democracy to exercise one…
Indicted Ukrainian Oligarch Paid $1 Million to Giuliani Pal, Prosecutors Say
Lev Parnas arrives at Federal Court on December 17, 2019 in New York City.Stephanie Keith/Getty Images Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash paid $1 million to Lev Parnas, an indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani, federal prosecutors said in a court hearing Tuesday in Manhattan. Firtash, a natural gas mogul with Kremlin connections, lives in Vienna and is…
Trump Just Wrote a Last-Minute Letter to Pelosi Demanding She Drop Impeachment. It’s Wild.
Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Getty On the eve of a full House vote on impeachment, President Donald Trump sent a letter on Tuesday to Speaker Nancy Pelosi urging the top Democrat to “immediately cease this impeachment fantasy,” accusing Democrats of violating their oaths of office by continuing with the process. “You are violating your oaths of…
The Nunes Crew Is Neck-Deep in the Ukraine Scandal
J. Scott Applewhite/AP During the House Intelligence Committee’s impeachment hearings last month, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the panel’s ranking member, angrily decried the process. He called the proceedings a “drug deal” concocted by the Democrats for TV ratings and claimed Donald Trump had done nothing wrong in his attempt to get Ukraine to launch investigations…
Trump Lashed Out at Fox News for Reporting on the Reality of Impeachment—Again
Matt Rourke/AP This morning, Mother Jones made the wrong prediction in a headline. We thought Trump would stick his fingers in his ears about a new Fox News poll showing most Americans supported impeachment, and agreed with the articles of impeachment about to hit the House on Wednesday. Our headline: Here’s a Fox News Poll…
The Growing List of Damning Newspaper Editorials Demanding Trump’s Impeachment
Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP On Saturday, the New York Times Editorial Board came to a concise conclusion: “Impeach.” It joined a growing chorus of leading newspapers calling for the president’s impeachment, with tones ranging from restrained (the Los Angeles Times calls itself a “a reluctant convert”) to resolute (USA Today: “The current board has made no…