The Ukraine Scandal Is Bigger Than We Realized, Democrats’ Report Suggests
President Volodymyr Zelensky looks on during a meeting in New York on September 25 on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.Saul Loeb AFP via Getty Images A 300-page impeachment report released on Tuesday by House Democrats describes how President Donald Trump used “the powers of his office to solicit foreign interference on his…
How the Republicans Are Trying to Gaslight America With Their Impeachment Report
Anna Moneymaker/AP This just in: House Republicans are not being honest. In a slapdash fashion, staffers for Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, who has been implicated himself in the Trump-Ukraine scandal, and two other Republican ranking members—Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio and Michael McCaul of Texas—have cobbled together…
Judges Orders Trump’s Former White House Counsel to Testify Before Congress
Melina Mara/ZUMA A federal judge has ordered Don McGahn, President Donald Trump’s former White House counsel, to comply with a subpoena issued last April by the House Judiciary Committee, dealing a blow to the White House’s ongoing efforts to prevent current and former officials from testifying before Congress. McGahn “is not immune from compelled congressional…
GOP Senator Says Trump’s Deranged Crowdstrike Conspiracy Theory Might Be Correct
Donald Trump with then-Senate candidate John Kennedy (R-La.) in December 2016Andrew Harnik/AP An influential Republican senator on Sunday leant credence to President Donald Trump’s deranged “Crowdsrike” conspiracy theory—the debunked notion that the Democratic National Committee, with help from Ukraine, fabricated the 2016 Russian hacking operation. Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) claimed during a Fox News Sunday…
Trump Keeps Pushing His Ridiculous “CrowdStrike” Theory. Not Even Fox Is Buying It.
Alex Brandon/AP At the start of Thursday’s impeachment hearing, former Trump national security official Fiona Hill took a thinly veiled shot at Republicans. “Based on questions and statements I have heard, some of you on this committee appear to believe that Russia and its security services did not conduct a campaign against our country—and that…
An Impeachment Witness Shows How Republicans Are Helping Putin
Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP It’s all about Russia. Or mostly. The fifth day of the House impeachment hearings on Thursday brought two consummate policy professionals to the witness stand. Each had a clear tale, from different perspectives, of the Trump-Giuliani operation to circumvent normal national security channels to muscle Ukraine into announcing the launch of investigations…