Whistleblower Says Ukraine Scandal Goes Far Beyond Biden Dirt
President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shake hands during a meeting in New York on September 25, 2019.Saul Loeb AFP/Getty Images Over the last few days, President Donald Trump’s defenders have tried to frame the growing Ukraine scandal as a simple question of whether Trump pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with an explicit…
Not Just Ukraine: Whistleblower Says the White House Is Hiding Other Damaging Documents
Li Muzi/Xinhua via ZUMA Wire The whistleblower complaint that spurred fresh calls for impeachment was released Thursday morning, revealing yet another bombshell allegation: White House officials abused a classified information system to hide the transcript of President Donald Trump’s incriminating July phone call with the Ukrainian president. Worse, the whistleblower says he was told this…
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…
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…
John Lewis Just Delivered a Rousing Call for Impeachment
Michael Brochstein/Zuma Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) delivered a call action for the House of Representatives on Tuesday to impeach President Donald Trump over the Ukraine scandal. “We cannot delay. We must not wait. Now is the time to act,” the longtime civil rights leader said on the floor of the House. “We will never find…