Donald Trump’s desperate impeachment defense is failing because the facts are too damning and the witnesses are too credible.
These revelations are coming from Trump’s own people, not some so-called deep state Democratic operatives conspiring against him.
The damning whistleblower complaint is no longer even a factor as at least four officials, including Trump himself, have now admitted to a quid pro quo.
As the impeachment inquiry continues, Trump’s blind GOP support in the Senate doesn’t look as strong as it did at the outset. Cracks have emerged.
Trump’s call with Ukraine and the subsequent cover-up are one part of what appears to be an emerging counter-intelligence investigation into the president.Â
Cory Booker may have had difficulty getting speaking time early in the debate, but he made a splash on Tuesday night by standing up for Joe Biden.
On her program, Rachel Maddow ticked off the names of the five people Trump had apparently enlisted for his Ukraine extortion operation.
The more current and former Trump officials who cooperate with the House impeachment probe, the more laughable the president’s defense looks.
The president may have some protection from criminal charges and indictments while he’s in office, but sleazeball lawyers do not.
Trump is in for a rude awakening when even the conservative SCOTUS justices will have no choice but to remind him that there is still a Constitution.
There is no question Donald Trump understood that his joint efforts with bumbling lawyer Rudy Giuliani to extort Ukraine were crooked.
Both before and after Trump’s infamous call with Ukraine, people inside the administration were deeply disturbed by the president’s conduct.
The vice president is basically saying that, sure, Trump may have tried to extort a foreign power – but he had nothing to do with it.
Trump clearly isn’t happy about how this impeachment inquiry is playing out. Perhaps he should have thought of that before he betrayed his country.Â
A wave of pro-impeachment support has swept the country, with strong majorities of Americans now supporting the Democrats’ inquiry.
The polling shows that public opinion is with the Democrats as they continue to ramp up their inquiry, not with Trump-defending Republicans.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has not yet come into compliance with a subpoena for documents in the U.S. House of Representatives impeachment probe, a top Democrat helping to lead the inquiry said.
The treatment of U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch – disparaged by President Donald Trump and abruptly recalled from Ukraine – exemplifies what current and former U.S. officials describe as a campaign by Trump against career diplomats.
The interviews could yield more fodder for Democrats’ impeachment drive over a whistleblower’s allegations that Trump leveraged $400 million in aid to secure a promise from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate political rival Joe Biden, and his son Hunter, who sat on the board of a Ukrainian energy company.
Lawyer Mark Zaid said the person, also an intelligence official, has direct knowledge of some of the allegations involving the initial whistleblower complaint, which triggered impeachment proceedings against the Republican president.
Trump went on a Sunday Twitter rampage after Democrats make it clear that they are determined to get his phone calls with Putin.
Trump-Putin phone calls in U.S. Democrats’ sights: Schiff WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The chairman of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee said on Sunday Congress is determined to get access to President Donald Trump’s calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin and other world leaders, citing concerns he may have jeopardized national security. “I think the paramount need…
“The core facts of this are known,” said Ross Garber, who teaches impeachment law at Tulane Law School. “The piece we don’t know yet, which is critical, is the why.”
Trump’s Ambassador to Ukraine Kurt Volker handed his resignation in to Sec. of State Mike Pompeo on Friday night.
House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) revealed that he either doesn’t know anything about anything that’s going on with the whistleblower complaint or he is blatantly lying in a desperate bid to spin the facts.
More than 300 former officials from U.S. security and foreign policy agencies, including a former director of the National Counterterrorism Center and a one-time deputy secretary of state, on Friday endorsed the congressional impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump.
House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday accused U.S. Attorney General William Barr of going “rogue” in the Justice Department’s handling of a whistleblower report that President Donald Trump solicited a political favor from Ukraine’s president that could help him get re-elected.
Here is a timeline of events in the controversy based on the whistleblower’s complaint and public reports.
The report said Trump acted to advance his personal political interests, risking national security, and that White House officials intervened to shift evidence to a separate electronic system.
“This is a cover-up,” Pelosi said. “The president has been engaged in a cover-up all along.”
Longtime Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill said on Thursday that “in a land of ironies this reigns king.”
CNN’s faithful truth seeker Jim Acosta reported minutes ago that a person who spoke with President Trump in the last 24 hours says he sounded more distracted, but not appreciating the legal peril his administration faces.
House Intel Chair Adam Schiff said that Trump’s release of the Ukraine phone call had provided Democrats with confirmation of the whistleblower complaint.
Acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Joseph Maguire testified Thursday that he was unsure if it was illegal to solicit or accept anything of value from a foreign national in connection with an election. It is with great side eye that we report Maquire did this during a hearing about a whistleblower complaint surrounding the…
A whistleblower report released on Thursday said President Donald Trump not only abused his office in attempting to solicit Ukraine’s interference in the 2020 U.S. election for his own political benefit, but that the White House also tried to “lock down” evidence about that conduct.
Zelenskiy, a former comedian and political novice who was only elected in April, was blindsided on Wednesday when the White House released a memo summarizing his July 25 call with Trump during which the U.S. leader asked him to investigate Joe Biden and his son.