The New York Times on Thursday covered U.S. Army Lt. Col. Jim Hickman’s explosive allegations against Democrat “star witness” Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman by casting aspersions on Hickman’s character.
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Impeachment Witness Undercut Steele Dossier in Bombshell Testimony
A former White House official who Democrats consider a key witness in their impeachment inquiry told lawmakers in October that she believed Russians likely planted disinformation about President Donald Trump with dossier author Christopher Steele.
Read MoreHouse Democrats Release Transcripts of Kurt Volker and Gordon Sondland Depositions
House Democrats on Tuesday released transcripts of closed-door depositions with two key witnesses in the Trump impeachment push, former Ukrainian special envoy Kurt Volker and EU ambassador Gordon Sondland.
Read MoreSteve Bannon Tells Fox News That Joe and Hunter Biden Are Like a Hand Grenade That Will ‘Blow Back’ on Democrats in Impeachment Process
Steve Bannon appeared on Fox News Channel’s Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo to discuss House Democrats’ vote on rules to start an impeachment inquiry.
Read MoreWH Official Testifies He Was ‘Not Concerned That Anything Illegal Was Discussed’ on Ukraine Call
The White House’s top official for European affairs told Congress on Thursday that he was not concerned that “anything illegal” was discussed during the July 25 phone call between President Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart that is at the center of Democrats’ impeachment inquiry.
Read MoreBolton Called to Testify in Trump Impeachment Inquiry
House investigators called on former National Security Adviser John Bolton to testify in the presidential impeachment inquiry, The Associated Press reported Wednesday.
Read MoreEven Before Ukraine Uproar, 10 of 13 Democrats on Intel Panel Backed Trump Impeachment Probe
In July, Rep. Andre Carson, a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, voted for the then-most recent resolution calling for the ouster of President Donald Trump from office.
“I think it represents a larger, more important conversation that we need to have about … what we’re willing to tolerate as a citizenry from our commander in chief,” Politico quoted the Indiana Democrat as saying, “What responsibility the commander in chief has to the electorate in terms of not fanning the flames of Islamophobia, xenophobia, and outright hatred.”
Read MoreRepublicans Call Out Schiff for Flip-Flopping on Whistleblower Testimony
The top Republicans on three congressional committees leading an impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump called out Rep. Adam Schiff Wednesday for reversing course on calling a CIA whistleblower to testify before Congress, according to a letter the Daily Caller News Foundation obtained.
Read MoreUS Diplomat Testifies He Was Told Ukraine Aid Was ‘Dependent’ on Burisma Investigation
The top U.S. diplomat to Ukraine said Tuesday that he was told military aid to Ukraine was contingent on Ukrainian officials publicly announcing investigations related to Joe Biden and his son, as well as into whether the Ukrainian government interfered in the 2016 U.S. election.
Read MoreWhite House Aide Mulvaney Reiterates, No Ukraine Money Link to Political Investigations
Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney on Sunday defended his claim that President Donald Trump did not withhold nearly $400 million in military aid to Ukraine in order to get Kyiv to undertake investigations of Democratic rivals and the 2016 election.
Read MoreDFL Cheers on Franken at Private Fundraiser After Ninth Sexual Misconduct Allegation
Disgraced former Sen. Al Franken was invited to speak at a DFL fundraiser in Hibbing Saturday less than two weeks after he was accused of sexual harassment by a ninth woman. DFL Chairman Ken Martin was in attendance and praised Franken when addressing the crowd of supporters.
Read MoreHunter Biden to Step Down From Board of Chinese Firm
Hunter Biden, son of former Vice President Joe Biden, announced his will resign from the board of a Chinese private equity firm that has been a target of President Donald Trump’s criticism in a Sunday statement from his lawyer.
Read MoreBiden Support Among Independents Collapsing in Wake of Ukraine
Former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign, struggling in the weeks since allegations emerged of corruption and abuse of power regarding his son Hunter Biden’s shady business dealings in Ukraine, now finds support among independents evaporating according to a new Investor’s Business Daily/TIPP poll.
Read MoreNunes: Former Ambassador to Ukraine Made ‘Strange’ and Irregular’ Requests to Monitor U.S. Journalists
The former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch made a number of “strange” and “irregular” requests to monitor the communications of American journalists, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) claimed on Fox News Wednesday night.
Read MoreReport: Giuliani Associates Who Worked on Biden-Ukraine Probe Have Been Arrested
Two associates of Rudy Giuliani who helped the Trump lawyer investigate former Vice President Joe Biden’s activities in Ukraine were arrested late Wednesday on campaign finance-related charges, according to an indictment issued on Thursday.
Read MoreCommentary: Removed U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Wanted the Same Prosecutor Who was Investigating Burisma-Bidengate Fired, Too
Former Vice President Joe Biden was not the only U.S. official getting prosecutors fired in Ukraine.
Read MoreCommentary: Trump Is Winning the Great Game of American Political Football
What appears to be emerging from the Ukraine controversy is an epochal contest for the political soul and future of America.
Read More58 Percent of Country Supports Impeachment Inquiry, WaPo Poll Shows
Fifty-eight percent of U.S. adults support House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, according to an October Washington Post-Schar School poll.
Read MoreCommentary: It Was the Ukraine That Reopened the Burisma-Biden Probe in 2018 and Asked the United States for Mutual Legal Assistance
Former U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations Ambassador Kurt Volker testified to the House Armed Services, Intelligence and Oversight committees on Oct. 3 that there was not one, but two former Ukrainian Prosecutors General that have been sounding the alarm on Joe Biden-Hunter Biden-Burisma Holdings corruption.
Read MoreTrump Calls Romney A ‘Pompous’ ‘A**’ Over Condemnation of Ukraine Call
President Donald Trump went after Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney on Twitter Saturday morning after Romney condemned the president’s call with Ukraine’s president.
Read MoreVolker Said It Was ‘Plausible’ Ukrainians Meddled In 2016, But Doubted Allegations Against Biden
Kurt Volker, the former envoy to Ukraine, told Congress on Thursday that he believed it was “plausible” that individual Ukrainians had meddled in the 2016 U.S. election, bolstering one of the concerns that President Donald Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani have floated publicly about Ukraine.
Read MoreDiplomats’ Texts Show Trump Wanted to Leverage Ukraine’s President to Open Biden-Linked Investigation
Ambassadors in the Trump administration dangled a potential face-to-face meeting with the president in an effort to compel Ukraine’s president to investigate a Ukrainian gas company linked to Joe Biden’s son, according to text messages that House Democrats released Thursday night.
Read MoreKlobuchar Continues to Claim Trump Is ‘Basically Threatening Execution’ of Whistleblower
Sen. Amy Klobuchar has claimed in multiple interviews that President Donald Trump is “basically threatening execution” of the White House whistleblower.
Read MoreSchiff Acted Like He Didn’t Know What Was in Whistleblower Complaint; a NYT Report Suggests He Did
In the days leading up to last week’s release of a whistleblower complaint against President Donald Trump, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff implied that he was unaware of the substance of the allegations in the document, which centered on Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukraine’s president.
Read MorePompeo Confirms He Was on Phone Call With Trump and Ukraine
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo confirmed Wednesday that he was on the July 25 phone call between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Read MoreCommentary: Obama-Biden Supported the Coup of Ukraine in 2014 in Order to Pass a Trade Deal
With all of the trade deals underway between the United States under the leadership of President Donald Trump, it is hard to believe that the civil war in Ukraine that began in 2014 actually started out as a policy disagreement over a pair of competing trade agreements with the European Union and Russia.
Read MoreRevealed: Key Whistleblower Requirement Was Removed, Allowing IC Complaints Based on Hearsay
Akey requirement for whistleblowers to lodge a “Disclosure of Urgent Concern” complaint was secretly eliminated at some point in the past year to allow submissions of second-hand material, it has been revealed. This allowed the August submission of an error-ridden whistleblower complaint against President Donald Trump to proceed, as the whistleblower—who is believed to be a member of the intelligence committee assigned to the National Security Counsel—has admitted to having no direct knowledge of wrongdoing on the part of the president.
Read MoreStar Tribune Editorial Board Says Impeachment Inquiry ‘Desperately Needed,’ Claims Trump Went ‘Too Far’
The editorial board of The Star Tribune believes that an impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump “is desperately needed,” saying his phone call with the president of Ukraine “crosses every ethical boundary an American president should have.”
Read MoreCommentary: The Ukraine ‘Whistleblower’ Isn’t a Whistleblower
Nobody is above the law, not even the former vice president. Not even a deep state leaker who is using his access to confidential diplomatic information to sway the 2020 election.
Read MoreReport: State Department Official at Center of Whistleblower Complaint Resigns
Kurt Volker, the U.S. special representative to Ukraine, resigned on Friday amid fallout from a whistleblower complaint against President Donald Trump regarding a phone call in July with Ukraine’s president.
Read MoreHouse Democrats Subpoena Mike Pompeo, Threaten Obstruction Charges
The Democratic chairmen of three House committees on Friday subpoenaed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and demanded depositions with five State Department officials as part of an impeachment investigation involving a whistleblower complaint against President Donald Trump.
Read MoreCommentary: Did the CIA Try to Overthrow President Trump to Hide the Origins of Russiagate in Ukraine on Biden’s Behalf?
In 2017, President Donald Trump’s conversations with foreign heads of state in Mexico and Australia — which are classified information — were leaked to news outlets with the purpose of undermining U.S. policies on immigration, the southern border wall and refugees.
Read MoreReport: Hundreds of Docs Suggest Biden’s Been Lying About Firing Ukrainian Prosecutor
Media reports based on a deep state “whistleblower” promised us that an obvious “quid pro quo” would be evident in the transcript of a telephone call between President Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, but that was not to be. The transcript shows a cordial conversation in which the president mentioned Biden and his son once late in the call, and at no point promised financial assistance to prompt an investigation into corruption related to Hunter Biden’s lucrative position on the board of a Ukrainian energy business.
Read MoreRead the Trump Whistleblower Complaint
A whistleblower in the Trump administration accused President Donald Trump of seeking the help of Ukraine’s president in the 2020 election, according to a complaint that the House Intelligence Community released Thursday.
Read MoreCommentary: Pelosi’s Call for Impeaching Trump on Ukraine Risks War, Ignores Obama-Biden Fueled Corruption
“This week, the president has admitted to asking the president of Ukraine to take actions which would benefit him politically. Therefore, today, I’m announcing the House of Representatives is moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry. I’m directing our six committees to proceed with their investigations under that umbrella.”
Read MoreUS Politics Threaten to Derail Ukraine’s Peace Talks With Russia
KYIV, Ukraine—Ukraine is at a crossroads. After more than five years of war against Russian forces in its eastern Donbas region, the former Soviet republic is finally inching toward a peace deal with Moscow.
Read MoreRNC Calls on Biden To Release Transcripts of Discussions He Had With Ukraine While Vice President
Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel is calling on former Vice President Joe Biden to release transcripts of conversations he had with Chinese and Ukrainian officials while he served in the Obama White House.
Read MoreHouse, Senate Leaders React Along Party Lines to Impeachment Inquiry
House and Senate leaders are reacting along party lines to Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s announcement of a Trump impeachment inquiry.
Read MoreSen. Tina Smith Supports Impeachment, Leaving Just One Minnesota Democrat Against Probe
Sen. Tina Smith, who’s up for reelection in 2020, released her first statement in support of an impeachment inquiry Tuesday morning, leaving just one Minnesota Democrat against an impeachment probe.
Read MoreWhite House Releases Unredacted Transcript of Ukraine Call: ‘If You Can Look Into It’
The White House released a full, unredacted transcript Wednesday morning of President Donald Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Read MoreTrump Says He Withheld Aid to Ukraine Because European Countries Failed to Pay Fair Share
President Donald Trump acknowledged Tuesday that he withheld military aid from Ukraine, but said he did so because other European nations had not paid their fair share.
Read MoreTrump Dismisses Impeachment Talk
U.S. President Donald Trump has dismissed any talk about impeachment by some Democrats over reports that he tried to pressure Ukraine’s president to investigate leading Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
Read MoreCraig and Phillips Call for Immediate Action on Impeachment Following Ukraine Allegations
Reps. Angie Craig (D-MN-02) and Dean Phillips (D-MN-03), representing suburban swing districts, both released statements Monday in support of pursuing impeachment.
Read MoreCommentary: Another Week, Another Pseudo-Scandal
Spin the magic wheel: click, click, click, click, click—click—click: Ukraine! We’re all going to Ukraine!
Read MoreReport: Trump Pressed Ukraine President To Investigate Biden’s Son, But Didn’t Propose Quid Pro Quo
President Donald Trump reportedly pressed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at least eight times to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden’s son in a phone call central to a mysterious whistleblower complaint.
Read MoreCommentary: Attorney General Barr’s Intelligence Review Should Include the DNC Servers
by Robert Romano The Hill’s John Solomon made big news on June 6 when he reported that Ukrainian businessman Konstantin Kilimnik, said in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report to be a Russian agent, was an intelligence source for the U.S. State Department. “In a key finding of the Mueller report, Ukrainian businessman…
Read MoreBiden Faces Renewed Scrutiny Over Son’s Relationship To Ukrainian Gas Company
by Molly Prince A Ukrainian gas company gave a seat on its board to the son of former Vice President Joe Biden in an attempt to secure relationships with Democrats while it was under multiple investigations, according to a recent New York Times report. Biden largely took credit for pressuring…
Read MoreDr. Mark Green Commentary: It’s Time for NATO to Draw a Line in the Sand in Ukraine
by Dr. Mark Green, Tennessee State Senator and Candidate for Congress Today starts the annual NATO Summit with President Trump in attendance. Founded in 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has been one of the most effective alliances in history, from standing against the Soviet Union to cooperating fully…
Read MoreUkraine Computer Involved in Tennessee Elections Attack
Investigators found evidence of a “malicious intrusion” into a Tennessee county’s elections website from a computer in Ukraine during a concerted cyberattack, which most likely caused the site to crash just as it was reporting vote totals in this month’s primary. The firm, hired by Knox County to analyze the…
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