Trump Impeachment Liveblog, Day 3: Trump All but Threatens the Whistleblower
Mother Jones illustration The whistleblower’s complaint at the heart of Trump’s Ukraine scandal is officially out. The release kicks off another chaotic day on Capitol Hill, with Joseph Maguire, the acting director of national intelligence, set to testify before lawmakers. Later, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will give a press conference on the latest developments. Follow…
Read The Whistleblower Complaint at the Center of Trump’s Ukraine Scandal
Li Muzi/ZUMA The whistleblower complaint at the heart of allegations that President Donald Trump pressured Ukraine’s president to investigate Joe Biden was released Thursday morning, the latest development in the exploding scandal that led House Speaker Nancy Pelosi this week to launch formal impeachment proceedings. The public release comes one day after lawmakers on the…
Trump Asking for Dirt on Biden Was Almost Certainly Illegal. Why Did DOJ Decline to Investigate It?
President Donald Trump at the United Nations 74th General Assembly in New York on September 24, 2019. Utrecht/Action Press via ZUMA As we all now know, the July 25 phone call between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky helped push a member of the intelligence community to file a whistleblower complaint, which…
Trump Impeachment Liveblog Day 2: White House Releases Ukraine Phone Call Memo
Mother Jones illustration; Chris Kleponis/Zuma; Getty Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday announced a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. What will today bring? Here are the latest developments in the impeachapalooza. 2:22 p.m. ET: Still confused about what’s going on and how we go here? Listen to a special, breaking news edition of the Mother…
White House Releases Memo on Trump’s Phone Call With Ukrainian President
Ting Shen/ZUMA President Donald Trump pushed the leader of Ukraine to open an investigation into Joe Biden, according to a memo released by the White House on Wednesday recounting the July 25 telephone call between the two heads of state. Trump repeatedly urged Volodymyr Zelensky, the newly elected Ukrainian president, to discuss the matter with…
A Formal Impeachment Investigation Is Underway. Now What?
AP Photo/Evan Vucci It’s happening: On Tuesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the launch of a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump following reports last week that Trump attempted to bully Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky into investigating former vice president and Democratic presidential frontrunner Joe Biden’s son. But the process for impeaching a president…