Billionaire Oil Magnate Funded Travel by Lev Parnas
Lev Parnas arrives at federal court in New York on December 2, 2019.Scott Heins/Getty Images A billionaire Republican donor helped to bankroll travel by Lev Parnas, the indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani, as Parnas maneuvered to press the Ukrainian government to announce investigations that would help President Donald Trump politically. House Democrats on Wednesday released…
Ukraine Wants the FBI to Help Investigate Russian Hacking of Burisma
Jeff Malet/Newscom via ZUMA Press On the day the US Senate formally began the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, the government of Ukraine said it had asked the FBI for help getting to the bottom of an alleged email phishing campaign targeting Burisma Holdings. The impeachment inquiry is deeply tied to earlier requests from…
Congress’s Nonpartisan Watchdog Finds That Trump’s Ukraine Policy Broke the Law
Mark Wilson/Getty The Trump administration broke the law by improperly withholding security assistance from Ukraine, according to a legal decision published Thursday by the Government Accountability Office, an independent congressional watchdog. While the White House Office of Management and Budget had told the GAO that it wanted to ensure the funding would not be spent…
Lev Parnas Says Trump “Knew Exactly What Was Going on”
Lev Parnas arrives at court in New York on December 2, 2019.AP Photo/Seth Wenig Lev Parnas, an indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani, leveled a series of sensational allegations in an appearance Wednesday night on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show, implicating President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, and Attorney General William Barr, among others, in the…
Why Didn’t Trump Tell Congress There Was Evidence Russia Hacked Burisma?
Caroline Brehman/CQ via Zuma In the wake of a report by a computer security firm claiming Russian hackers recently waged a “successful” phishing attack against Burisma, the gas company U.S. officials pressed Ukraine to investigate—requests that helped lead to Donald Trump’s impeachment—Democrats on Capitol Hill are raising questions about why they only found out about…
This Jaw-Dropping Interview Shows How the Media Still Struggles With Trump’s Lies
George Stephanopoulos interviews Trump national security adviser Robert C. O’Brien.ABC News/YouTube Every once in a while, a moment comes that crystallizes what is so wrong with the political-media universe in the era of Donald Trump. And one such moment occurred on Sunday morning. It was not flashy or headline-generating. This moment lasted only seconds. Its…