The Guy Who’s Running Trump’s Fight to Hide Evidence Said Democrats “Hid Evidence”
White House counsel Pat Cipollone speaks during impeachment proceedings in the Senate on January 25, 2020.Senate Television via Getty Images Of all the whoppers President Donald Trump’s lawyers jammed into their relatively brief launch of his defense Saturday, White House Counsel Pat Cipollone may have made the most brazen claim. Cipollone, in his opening remarks,…
An Impeachment Smoking Gun: The Damning Letter Trump Can’t Cover Up
Donald Trump with Rudy Giuliani in 2016Carolyn Kaster/AP Smoking guns ain’t what they used to be. Last week, one such smoking gun emerged that should have been a turning point in the Ukraine episode, for this was proof—confirmation—that Donald Trump pressured Ukraine not for any official policy aims, but for his own personal benefit. Yet…
Trump Taunts Democrats: “We Have All the Material. They Don’t Have the Material.”
Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty President Donald Trump is thousands of miles away from Washington right now, but that hasn’t stopped him from chiming in on the historic impeachment trial currently underway in the Senate. “We’re doing very well,” he told reporters before leaving the World Economic Forum in Davos, later adding, “Honestly, we have all the material.…
Here Are Some of the Ukraine Documents Republicans Voted to Ignore
President Donald Trump meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.Evan Vucci/AP Late on Tuesday night, a watchdog group released a trove of documents from the White House Office of Management and Budget related to President Donald Trump’s hold on military aid to Ukraine. The disclosure of the material, obtained by the nonprofit American Oversight, came just…
House Impeachment Managers Started the Day by Slamming Trump’s White House Counsel
Bill Clark/AP Three hours before the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump was set to begin in the Senate, the House impeachment managers sent a letter to Trump’s lawyer, Pat Cipollone, accusing him of being a “material witness” in the case and demanding that he disclose any first-hand knowledge of evidence that he will present…
With Trump’s Impeachment, American Democracy Is on Trial
Chief Justice John Roberts swears in senators for Donald Trump’s impeachment trial.Senate Television via AP The start of the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump is a reminder that the American political system does include safeguards and norms that are meant to protect the citizenry from corruption and misdeeds in the highest offices of the…