Fox News Is Losing Its Mind Over John Bolton
For hours upon hours on Monday, Donald Trump’s lawyers presented their case against removing the president from office over the Ukraine scandal. In doing so, they have danced around a major new revelation—that, in a draft of a forthcoming book, former national security adviser John Bolton reportedly wrote that Trump told him he wanted to…
Trump’s Lawyer Just Made the Most Misleading Statement I Have Ever Heard
Jay SekulowSenate Television via AP During the Senate impeachment trial Monday, Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow made a bold claim. “Not a single witness,” he declared, “testified that the president himself said that there was any connection between any investigation and security assistance, a presidential meeting, or anything else.” While he talked, Trump’s legal team displayed…
House Dems Now Considering Whether to Call Bolton to Testify in House
John BoltonPablo Martinez Monsivais/AP In the aftermath of the John Bolton bombshell—the news that a draft of his upcoming book recounts the president telling Bolton he was withholding military aid from Ukraine to force that country to launch political investigations to benefit him—some House Democrats are considering demanding Bolton appear before a House committee, perhaps…
Bolton: Yeah, Trump Tried to Extort Ukraine
The big news from last night is that someone leaked an important bit from John Bolton’s upcoming book. Here is the New York Times: President Trump told his national security adviser in August that he wanted to continue freezing $391 million in security assistance to Ukraine until officials there helped with investigations into Democrats including…
Trump Fumes Over Bolton Bombshell
Stefani Reynolds/ZUMA President Donald Trump lashed out at John Bolton in the wake of an explosive New York Times report late Sunday that his former national security adviser’s forthcoming book will accuse the president of telling Bolton that he wanted to continue withholding security assistance to Ukraine until the country moved forward with investigations into…
Who’s Afraid of the IRS? Not Facebook.
The Facebook pavilion at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.Pierre Teyssot/ZUMA Press This story was originally published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published. In March 2008, as Facebook was speeding…