Nancy Pelosi Rips Up Trump’s State Of The Union Speech
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripped up her printed copy of President Donald Trump’s speech at the conclusion of his State of the Union address on Tuesday. The dramatic moment showed her tear and then toss the pages behind Trump’s back as he embraced a standing ovation at the conclusion of his address. “It was the courteous […]
Results for Iowa caucuses delayed as state Democratic Party finds ‘inconsistencies’
The Iowa presidential caucuses were thrown into chaos late Monday after the state Democratic Party said it found “inconsistencies,” delaying results and causing widespread confusion across the state. The Iowa Democratic Party said early Tuesday that it would release the results of the Iowa caucuses later Tuesday after “manually verifying all precinct results.” Party […]
6 things to look for in tonight’s Iowa caucuses
Voters here are set to settle what for months has been a tight four-person contest as Iowa becomes the first state to vote in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary. In seven of the last nine competitive Democratic primaries, the candidate who placed first in the Iowa caucuses went on to become the party’s presidential nominee. See the […]
Republicans Block Impeachment Witnesses, Clearing Path for Trump Acquittal
The Senate brought President Trump to the brink of acquittal on Friday of charges that he abused his power and obstructed Congress, as Republicans voted to block consideration of new witnesses and documents in his impeachment trial and shut down a final push by Democrats to bolster their case for the president’s removal. In a […]
GOP Sen. Lamar Alexander, a key impeachment swing vote, says he will vote against witnesses
Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., a key impeachment swing vote, announced Thursday that he will not join Democrats in voting to call witnesses in President Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial, suggesting that there may not be enough GOP votes for the trial to advance to that next stage. “I worked with other senators to make sure […]
Republicans Move to Block Impeachment Witnesses, Driving Toward Acquittal
The White House and Senate Republicans worked aggressively on Wednesday to discount damaging revelations from John R. Bolton and line up the votes to block new witnesses from testifying in President Trump’s impeachment trial, in a push to bring the proceeding to a swift close. As the Senate opened a two-day, 16-hour period of questioning […]
Poll: 75% of voters want witnesses for Senate impeachment trial
Three-quarters of registered voters think witnesses should be allowed to testify in the Senate impeachment trial, which has reached a crucial inflection point, a new national poll from Quinnipiac University finds. This includes 49% of Republicans who think witnesses should be allowed to testify, 75% of independents and 95% of Democrats. Read the rest of the […]
Trump’s impeachment defense wraps up
President Donald Trump’s legal team wrapped up its case in the Senate impeachment trial on Tuesday, including with a veiled appeal to senators to not consider John Bolton’s latest claims as they decide whether to call witnesses. The Trump lawyers’ two-hour appearance offered them the last uninterrupted chance to persuade senators to summarily reject the House’s […]
Obsessions with The Bidens and Burisma as Bolton Looms Over The Impeachment Trial
President Donald Trump’s lawyers insisted at his Senate impeachment trial Monday that there was nothing improper about his dealings with Ukraine’s government — and they even offered an impassioned defense of his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani. The president’s defense largely avoided direct mention of a bombshell report involving John Bolton, Trump’s former national security adviser […]
Democrats demand Bolton testify after report his book says Trump tied Ukraine aid to Biden probe
Democrats stepped up their calls Sunday night for former national security adviser John Bolton to testify at President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial after an explosive report alleged that in his unpublished book, he said Trump personally tied aid for Ukraine to an investigation of the Bidens — an account that conflicts with the president’s. “John Bolton […]
Senate impeachment trial: Trump’s defense team aims to poke holes in Democratic case
The President’s legal team had their first opportunity to take control of the Senate floor to deliver their side of the story, detailing the defense of President Donald Trump against the two articles of impeachment, after three days of listening to arguments from the House impeachment managers. The defense counsel’s presentation Saturday sought to poke holes in […]
Trump’s Senate impeachment trial: What happened on Day Three
Democrats on Thursday homed in on their charge that President Donald Trump abused his power, turning to past statements from some of the president’s top allies to help make their case on the third day of his Senate impeachment trial. House prosecutors used old comments from Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Attorney General William Barr and […]
Trump’s Senate impeachment trial: What happened on Day Two
Opening arguments began in President Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial on Wednesday, with Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., telling senators they need to remove Trump from office because he’s shown he’s ready and willing to cheat in the 2020 election. “The president’s misconduct cannot be decided at the ballot box because we cannot be assured the […]
Senate passes McConnell impeachment rules after nearly 13 hours of debate
The Senate passed Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s resolution laying out a blueprint for President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial along party lines early Wednesday after a day of back and forth between House prosecutors and attorneys for the White House. The Republican majority had voted down several amendments proposed by Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to subpoena documents and call […]
Trump impeachment trial: The rules and everything else you need to know
The Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump — only the third in U.S. history — is scheduled to get fully underway Tuesday, with Democrats and Republicans potentially clashing over whether to call witnesses. The proposed rules for the trial, which Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., released Monday evening, are similar but not identical to the format of […]
McConnell’s impeachment resolution shortens trial’s opening arguments to two days per side
The impeachment organizing resolution text from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell gives House impeachment managers and the President’s legal team 24 hours each to make their opening arguments over two days. The resolution raises the prospect that the trial will have 12-hour days and go late into the night, according to a copy of the resolution obtained by CNN. […]
Trump’s Defense Team Calls Impeachment Charges ‘Brazen’ as Democrats Make Legal Case
President Trump’s legal defense team strenuously denied on Saturday that he had committed impeachable acts, denouncing the charges against him as a “brazen and unlawful” attempt to cost him re-election as House Democrats laid out in meticulous detail their case that he should be removed from office. In the first legal filings for the Senate […]
Trump impeachment trial begins as Chief Justice Roberts, senators sworn in
The Senate formally accepted the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump shortly after noon on Thursday, officially triggering only the third trial of a president in U.S. history. House managers, who will act as prosecutors, arrived on the Senate floor after walking silently across the Capitol to present the articles, with House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff […]
Lev Parnas Says Trump Knew Everything In Ukraine Scandal
Lev Parnas, an associate of Rudy Giuliani at the center of the Ukraine scandal that led to President Donald Trump’s impeachment, said both men were fully aware “of all my movements” and that the president knew “exactly what was going on” as he waged a pressure campaign to dig up dirt on a presidential campaign […]
Pelosi appoints impeachment managers for Trump’s Senate trial
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has appointed a team of seven House Democrats to serve as prosecutors in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial. She named Reps. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), Jason Crow (D-Colo.), Val Demings (D-Fla.) and Sylvia Garcia (D-Texas) as managers. Read the rest of the story at […]
What we learned about the Democratic field from Tuesday’s debate
This was not the debate anyone expected, but it was perhaps the debate that voters needed. Democratic voters, especially those who don’t have the time to pay close attention to politics, in polls and interviews have consistently been bewildered by the size of the field and turned off by petty fights between candidates that do […]
Russians Hacked Ukrainian Gas Company at Center of Impeachment In November
With President Trump facing an impeachment trial over his efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his son Hunter Biden, Russian military hackers have been boring into the Ukrainian gas company at the center of the affair, according to security experts. The hacking attempts against Burisma, the Ukrainian […]
DefSec Mark Esper: Iran ‘Probably’ Planned to Attack U.S. Embassies, but I ‘Didn’t See’ Evidence of Threats to Four
Secretary of Defense Mark Esper says he “didn’t see” any evidence to back up President Donald Trump’s claim that Iran was planning an “imminent” attack on multiple U.S. embassies. During an interview on Sunday with CBS’ Margaret Brennan, Esper stood by Trump’s assessment that there “could’ve been” attacks against America’s embassies, which is why he dispatched U.S. forces to the Middle East […]
House passes measure seeking to limit Trump’s military actions against Iran
The House adopted a war powers resolution Thursday with the aim of limiting President Donald Trump’s military actions against Iran. The adoption of the measure on a largely party-line vote of 224-194 came amid heightened tension between the two countries after the United States killed Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani and Iran retaliated with a ballistic missile […]
Pence says sharing intel with Congress on assassination incident could ‘compromise’ sources
Vice President Mike Pence responded Thursday to lawmakers, including Republicans, who criticized the lack of information shared by the Trump administration during classified congressional briefings on the killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, saying the intelligence was too sensitive to share. Read the rest of the story at NBC News.
Trump says Iran ‘appears to be standing down,’ vows new sanctions
President Donald Trump seemed to seek a de-escalation Wednesday in the rising military conflict with Iran, saying Tehran “appears to be standing down” after its missile attack on U.S. targets in Iraq. In a 10-minute White House speech, Trump vowed to keep up the pressure on Iran with “punishing” new sanctions on top of the […]
U.S. base in Iraq comes under attack from missiles, Iran claims credit
A U.S. military air base in Iraq’s Al Anbar province was hit by more than a dozen ballistic missiles from Iran on Wednesday local time, according to the Department of Defense. “It is clear that these missiles were launched from Iran and targeted at least two Iraqi military bases hosting U.S. military and coalition personnel […]
Bolton willing to testify in Senate impeachment trial if subpoenaed
John Bolton, the former national security adviser to President Donald Trump, said Monday he is willing to testify in the Senate impeachment trial if subpoenaed. In a statement posted Monday, Bolton wrote, “I have concluded that, if the Senate issues a subpoena for my testimony, I am prepared to testify.” Read the rest of the story […]
Iran pulling out of nuclear deal commitment after U.S. strike that killed Soleimani
Iran said Sunday that it was ending its commitment to limit enrichment of uranium as part of its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, more fallout from the U.S. strike that killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani. President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from the deal in May 2018, renewing tensions that reached new heights after Friday’s air strike. […]
Pompeo backs Trump’s threats to Iran as US braces for possible retaliation
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday backed President Donald Trump’s strong threats to Iran as the US braces for potential retaliatory actions by the country following an attack last week by US forces that killed Iran’s top military leader. “The American people should know that we will not waver. We will be bold in protecting American interests […]
Pentagon Confirms Leading Iran Gen. Soleimani Was Killed at Trump’s Direction
The Pentagon has confirmed that leading Iranian general Qassem Soleimani has been killed as part of an airstrike in Baghdad, which was directed by President Donald Trump. In a statement, the Pentagon confirmed U.S. involvement in the strikes, as directed by Trump. Read the statement and the rest of the story at Mediaite.
GOP Sen. Murkowski ‘disturbed’ by McConnell comments about impeachment trial
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, said Tuesday she was “disturbed” that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell would engage in “total coordination” with the White House regarding the upcoming Senate trial of President Donald Trump. In an interview with Anchorage’s local NBC affiliate KTUU broadcast Tuesday, Murkowski — who earlier in the year refused to defend Trump from the Democrats’ […]
Trump is impeached by the House, creating an indelible mark on his presidency
The House of Representatives voted late Wednesday to impeach President Trump on charges that he abused his office and obstructed Congress, with Democrats declaring him a threat to the nation and branding an indelible mark on the most turbulent presidency of modern times. After 11 hours of fierce argument on the House floor between Democrats […]
Trump Decries Impeachment in Unhinged Letter to Nancy Pelosi
President Donald Trump sent House Speaker Nancy Pelosi a fiery letter on Tuesday railing against the impeachment process ahead of an expected vote this week, calling it “an unprecedented and unconstitutional abuse of power” by Democrats. “You have cheapened the importance of the very ugly word, impeachment!” Trump declared, accusing Democrats with “violating your oaths of office” with their […]
House inches closer to historic impeachment vote with Rules Committee hearing
As the House prepares to bring impeachment articles to the floor against the president for just the third time in American history, more than half of the Democrats from districts won by President Donald Trump in 2016 are planning to back impeachment. At least 17 Trump-district House Democrats have announced plans to vote for articles of impeachment charging Trump with abuse of power […]
Schumer proposes that Bolton and Mulvaney testify in Senate impeachment trial
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer proposed calling former national security adviser John Bolton and acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney as witnesses at an impeachment trial for President Donald Trump in a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Sunday. The offer is intended as a signal that Democrats are seeking an evidentiary trial, not intending to simply […]
House Judiciary Committee Approves Articles of Impeachment Against Trump
By votes of 23-17, the House Judiciary Committee approved two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. The vote came immediately after Friday morning’s proceeding was gaveled into session by committee chair Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY). The vote came after a marathon session Thursday evening was adjourned prior to the vote by Nadler — over Republican opposition. Read […]
In a surprise move infuriating Republicans, Judiciary Committee delays impeachment vote until Friday
After a grueling 14-hour meeting, Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee suddenly announced that the panel would not vote as planned late Thursday night on two articles of impeachment, angering Republicans. Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., said shortly after 11 p.m. that the committee would instead vote on the impeachment of President Donald Trump on Friday at 10:00 a.m. […]
Democrats, Republicans offer stark contrasts as House Judiciary Committee debates articles of impeachment
House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerry Nadler gaveled in a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, kicking off the committee’s marathon session to approve two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump for debate and approval, holding a “markup” — a public meeting where members can debate and offer amendments to the charges — ahead […]
Read the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., on Tuesday announced the introduction of two articles of impeachment — one for abuse of power, the other for obstruction of Congress — against President Donald Trump. Read the full text of the articles here:
House Democrats Unveil Two Articles Of Impeachment Against Donald Trump
Top House Democrats unveiled two articles of impeachment against Donald Trump on Tuesday, laying the foundation for a vote that could see the president become just the third American leader in history to be impeached. The articles of impeachment relate to two actions by Trump: One is abuse of power linked to his demand that […]
Democrats Signal Abuse of Power and Obstruction of Congress Charges Against Trump Today
House Democrats signaled that they would unveil articles of impeachment on Tuesday morning that charge President Trump with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress for conduct they called a “clear and present danger” to the 2020 election and national security. The House Judiciary Committee was expected to work through the night on Monday readying […]
Democrats start impeachment homestretch with rising stakes on Capitol Hill today
Democrats are heading into a momentous impeachment finale as they set the pace and scope of their charges against President Donald Trump — prompting Republicans to escalate their effort to swamp the historic process in disinformation and partisanship. Majority members of the House Judiciary Committee spent the weekend mapping out a critical hearing Monday at which […]
House impeachment report looks at abuse, bribery, corruption
Previewing potential articles of impeachment, the House Democrats on Saturday issued a lengthy report drawing on history and the Founding Fathers to lay out the legal argument over the case against President Donald Trump’s actions toward Ukraine. The findings from the House Judiciary Committee do not spell out the formal charges against the president, which […]
Supreme Court puts temporary hold on House subpoenas to banks for Trump’s financial documents
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday put a temporary hold on House subpoenas requesting President Donald Trump’s financial documents from two banks. In a brief order, Ginsburg said a lower court opinion that allowed the subpoenas to proceed would go on hold until December 13. Earlier in the day, Trump had asked the justices to freeze […]
Pelosi announces full speed ahead with articles of impeachment against Trump
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., announced Thursday that she was asking the House Judiciary Committee and chairmen of other committees to proceed with drafting articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, saying “the president leaves us no choice but to act.” “Sadly, but with confidence and humility, with allegiance to our founders and our heart full of […]
Legal scholars: Conduct like Trump’s is the reason Congress has impeachment power
There’s no question that President Donald Trump violated the Constitution’s limits on his power or that the House should respond by impeaching him, three legal scholars told the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. That’s exactly what majority Democrats were hoping to hear, and it’s the testimony they will cite as the House moves toward drafting articles of impeachment against […]
Trump impeachment case enters historic next phase today in House Judiciary Committee
The investigation into President Donald Trump enters a historic next phase on Wednesday as the House Judiciary Committee holds a hearing on the constitutional grounds for drafting articles of impeachment. The process of drawing up any articles, now becoming increasingly likely, could begin shortly after members question legal and constitutional experts about what the Constitution requires. Read the rest of the story […]
Democrats’ impeachment report cites Trump obstruction and withholding aid, warns of ‘grave harm’
The Democratic-led House Intelligence Committee released a report Tuesday containing a summary of the evidence it has collected in the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. The 300-page report cited two instances of improper conduct: obstruction of the House inquiry and withholding an official White House meeting and military aid from Ukraine on the condition of investigating […]
House report due today will outline evidence for Trump impeachment
The House is poised to release a landmark impeachment report outlining evidence of what it calls Donald Trump’s wrongdoing toward Ukraine, findings that will push Congress toward a debate over whether the 45th president should be removed from office. Democrats on the Intelligence Committee are making the case that Trump engaged in behavior violating his […]
Trump’s Lawyers Won’t Participate in Impeachment Hearing on Wednesday
Lawyers for President Trump said on Sunday that they would not participate in the House Judiciary Committee’s first public impeachment hearing on Wednesday, airing a long list of complaints that they said prevented “any semblance of a fair process.” Representative Jerrold Nadler, Democrat of New York and the chairman of the committee, had given the White […]
House Judiciary Panel Asks Trump if He Will Present Impeachment Defense
The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee asked President Trump on Friday whether he intends to mount a defense during the committee’s consideration of impeachment articles, setting a deadline of next Friday for Mr. Trump and his lawyers to decide if they will present evidence or call witnesses. In a letter to the president, Representative […]
House Judiciary Committee announces first impeachment hearing, invites Trump to attend
The House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday announced it will hold its first public impeachment hearing next week, and invited President Donald Trump and his lawyers “to participate.” “I am hopeful that you and your counsel will opt to participate in the Committee’s hearing, consistent with the rules of decorum and with the solemn nature before us,” Judiciary […]
Former White House counsel Donald McGahn must comply with House subpoena, judge rules
Former Trump White House counsel Donald McGahn must comply with a House subpoena, a federal court ruled Monday, finding that top presidential advisers cannot ignore congressional demands for information and raising the possibility that McGahn could be forced to testify as part of the impeachment inquiry. U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of Washington, found […]
Devin Nunes Dodges Questions About Whether He Met With Ukrainians For Dirt On Biden
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) dodged questions on Sunday from a Fox News host asking whether he met with a former Ukrainian official in 2018 to acquire dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden. The lawyer for Lev Parnas, an indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump, told CNN that Parnas is prepared to tell Congress […]
Giuliani Crony Can Detail Nunes’ Meeting With Ex-Ukraine Official To Get Biden Dirt: Report
Rudy Giuliani’s indicted associate Lev Parnas is prepared to tell Congress that Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) met with a former Ukrainian prosecutor who was ousted over corruption concerns in a bid to get dirt on Joe Biden, CNN reported Friday. A lawyer for Parnas, a Soviet-born American who has been indicted on federal campaign finance […]
6 things we learned from Vindman’s and Williams’ impeachment testimony
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman and Jennifer Williams — who both listened in on the July 25 call between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskiy at the center of the House’s impeachment inquiry — spent more than four hours testifying before the House Intelligence Committee Tuesday. Read the story at NBC News.
Impeachment inquiry enters most crucial stage with top witnesses on deck
Democrats who want to oust President Donald Trump and Republicans battling to save him are braced for the most momentous phase yet in the battle of impeachment that is rocking Washington. The showdown that could result in Trump becoming only the third US president to suffer such a fate will resume in the House Intelligence Committee at 9 […]
Trump says he will ‘strongly consider’ testifying in House impeachment probe
President Donald Trump said Monday that he is “strongly” considering testifying before the impeachment probe in light of recent comments from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., who said he is more than welcome to present his case personally before the House Intelligence Committee. Read the rest of the story at NBC News.
Who is Marie Yovanovitch? Ambassador testifying at today’s impeachment hearing
Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch — who is testifying in the House impeachment inquiry on Friday — was derided by President Donald Trump as “bad news” in a phone call with his Ukrainian counterpart. “She’s going to go through some things,” Trump told President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in a phone conversation that’s at the […]
7 Key Takeaways From The First Public Impeachment Hearing
The House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday held the first televised hearing of its impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. Democrats are investigating his attempt to withhold U.S. military aid to Ukraine until the country’s President Volodymyr Zelensky agreed to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, who is running for the Democratic presidential nomination. Bill Taylor, the acting […]
A combative Trump and his White House brace for first public impeachment hearings
President Donald Trump has long criticized Democrats for conducting the impeachment inquiry behind closed doors. This week, he and his advisers are bracing for impact as those doors are thrown open and the cameras roll on the first public presidential impeachment hearings in over 20 years. As the hearings on Wednesday have approached, Trump’s mood has veered between relishing […]
Senior White House adviser Stephen Miller pushed white nationalism in a series of leaked emails
Senior White House adviser Stephen Miller in a series of leaked emails pushed white nationalism, bemoaned opposition to Confederate symbols following a mass shooting at a Black church in South Carolina and embraced immigration policies once lauded by Adolf Hitler. On Tuesday, the Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit civil rights advocacy group, published an […]
Pentagon official testifies Trump directed freeze on aid to Ukraine
Laura Cooper, the top Pentagon official overseeing U.S. policy regarding Ukraine, told House impeachment investigators last month that President Donald Trump directed the relevant agencies to freeze aid to Ukraine over the summer, according to a transcript of her testimony released Monday. Cooper, during Oct. 23 testimony before the three House committees leading the impeachment inquiry into Trump’s Ukraine dealings, […]
Trump Met With ‘Lock Him Up’ Chants, ‘Impeach’ Signs At NYC Veterans Day Parade
President Donald Trump may have been a lifelong New Yorker until recently, but the city he once called home didn’t quite welcome him with open arms on Monday. For the first few minutes of Trump’s speech in Manhattan’s Madison Square Park ahead of the 100th annual Veterans Day Parade, attendees could hear protesters outside the ceremony chanting “lock him […]
Trump Wants Republicans to Stop Using the ‘Bad But Not Impeachable’ Defense: The Call Was ‘PERFECT’
Some Republicans have started defending President Donald Trump on the impeachment issue by gravitating towards the “bad but not impeachable” argument. A GOP congressman said this morning, for example, his call with the president of Ukraine was “inappropriate” but not impeachable. But the president is clearly frustrated and would like Republicans to stop criticizing his […]
John Bolton Knows Of ‘Many Relevant’ Conversations About Ukraine, Lawyer Says
President Donald Trump’s former National Security Adviser John Bolton knows about “many relevant meetings and conversations” surrounding Trump’s communications with Ukraine, Bolton’s lawyer told lawmakers Friday. Bolton has information that House impeachment investigators do not know about yet, his lawyer Charles Cooper said in a letter to the chief House lawyer, which was first reported by The New […]
Book by ‘Anonymous’ describes Trump as cruel, inept and a danger to the nation
Senior Trump administration officials considered resigning en masse last year in a “midnight self-massacre” to sound a public alarm about President Trump’s conduct, but rejected the idea because they believed it would further destabilize an already teetering government, according to a new book by an unnamed author. In “A Warning” by Anonymous, obtained by The […]
State Dept. official believed Trump-Ukraine conduct was ‘injurious to the rule of law,’ transcripts show
State Department official George Kent, a key witness in the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, told House investigators last month he created contemporaneous memos of specific conversations he’d witnessed related to the White House’s attempted quid pro quo that he said were “injurious to the rule of law, both in Ukraine and the U.S,” according to a […]
Public Impeachment Hearings Will Begin Next Week, House Says
The House Intelligence Committee will hold the first of a series of public impeachment hearings next week, Democrats announced on Wednesday, calling three senior State Department officials to testify as they begin laying out their case against President Trump. In the debut of the sessions expected to be televised live from Capitol Hill, lawmakers plan […]
House Releases First Depositions From Trump Impeachment Probe
House investigators on Monday released transcripts from the closed-door interviews with two former State Department officials as part of their impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. These are the first depositions the Democrat-controlled House has made public as they investigate Trump pressuring Ukrainian officials to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter […]
All four White House officials scheduled for House inquiry depositions today won’t testify
All four White House officials who are scheduled to give depositions on Monday during the House’s impeachment inquiry won’t show up, as a source with knowledge of the situation tells CNN that National Security Council lawyers John Eisenberg and Michael Ellis will not testify. The two officials will join Robert Blair, assistant to the President and senior adviser […]
House takes huge impeachment step with vote on Trump probe
The House on Thursday took a historic vote to set ground rules for its fast-moving impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump — a move that essentially starts the clock for an eventual decision on whether to oust the president. Thursday’s vote — roughly along party lines — was partly intended to neutralize a frequent GOP […]
House set to vote on Trump impeachment procedures today
The House is set to vote Thursday morning on how to proceed with its impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump — a move that will put lawmakers on record about where they stand and that Republicans are decrying as a sham. Debate on the procedures — which include beginning public hearings and the release of some of the […]
White House Ukraine Expert Sought to Correct Transcript of Trump Call
Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman, the top Ukraine expert on the National Security Council, told House impeachment investigators on Tuesday that the White House transcript of a July call between President Trump and Ukraine’s president omitted crucial words and phrases, and that his attempts to include them failed, according to three people familiar with the testimony. Read the […]
House Democrats release resolution detailing next steps in impeachment inquiry
House Democrats released on Tuesday text of the resolution that will detail their procedures as they move forward with the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. The full House is expected to vote Thursday on the resolution after the House Rules Committee debates and marks it up on Wednesday. Read the rest of the story at NBC News.
House to vote on resolution laying out next steps in impeachment inquiry
The House is expected to vote Thursday on a Democratic resolution that will lay out the next steps in the impeachment inquiry, according to a senior congressional source. The language of the resolution has not been released, but it is expected to detail procedures going forward in the investigation, not formalize it. Read the rest of […]
The Democratic field responds to ISIS leader’s killing by U.S. forces
The 2020 Democrat presidential candidates are praising U.S. Special Forces and the intelligence community after news that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in a raid on Sunday morning. South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who served in Afghanistan, said at a campaign stop in South Carolina that everyone involved deserves credit for the success of […]
Justice Dept. Is Said to Open Criminal Inquiry Into Its Own Russia Investigation
WASHINGTON — For more than two years, President Trump has repeatedly attacked the Russia investigation, portraying it as a hoax and illegal even months after the special counsel closed it. Now, Mr. Trump’s own Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into how it all began. Justice Department officials have shifted an administrative review of […]
Republicans Grind Impeachment Inquiry to Halt as Picture Darkens for Trump
WASHINGTON — House Republicans ground the impeachment inquiry to a halt for hours on Wednesday, staging an attention-grabbing protest at the Capitol that sowed chaos and delayed a crucial deposition as they sought to insulate President Trump against mounting evidence of misconduct. The day after the most damning testimony yet about Mr. Trump’s pressure campaign […]
Judge tells State Dept. to begin producing Ukraine records
WASHINGTON — A judge on Wednesday ordered the State Department to begin producing within 30 days documents related to the Trump administration’s dealings with Ukraine, saying the records were of obvious public interest. The documents were sought under a Freedom of Information Act request by American Oversight, an ethics watchdog that investigates the administration. Any […]
‘Alarming circumstances’: A distressed diplomat tells a tale of venal intrigue
Ambassador William B. Taylor Jr. looked out over the front lines of Ukraine’s long war with Russian-backed separatists last July, taking in a damaged bridge and then farther in the distance, an “armed and hostile” enemy. Taylor had taken the job of acting U.S. ambassador to Ukraine reluctantly, he said in congressional testimony Tuesday. His […]
Putin and Hungary’s Orban helped sour Trump on Ukraine
President Trump’s effort to pressure Ukraine for information he could use against political rivals came as he was being urged to adopt a hostile view of that country by its regional adversaries, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, current and former U.S. officials said.
Trump says his Florida Doral resort will no longer host G-7 summit
Following widespread bipartisan criticism, President Donald Trump said Saturday his Doral resort in Florida would not host next year’s Group of Seven summit of world leaders after all. “Based on both Media & Democrat Crazed and Irrational Hostility, we will no longer consider Trump National Doral, Miami, as the Host Site for the G-7 in […]
Shifting Explanation For Withholding Ukraine Aid Begins Drawing GOP Alarm
The shifting White House explanation for President Donald Trump‘s decision to withhold military aid from Ukraine drew alarm Friday from Republicans as the impeachment inquiry brought a new test of their alliance. Trump, in remarks at the White House, stood by his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, whose earlier comments undermined the administration’s defense […]
Mick Mulvaney Walks Back Admission Of Quid Pro Quo In Trump’s Ukraine Call
Hours after saying Thursday that President Donald Trump withheld foreign aid in order to get Ukraine’s help in the U.S. election, acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney walked back his remarks. He released a lengthy statement wrongly blaming the press for putting a spin on his comments. “Once again, the media has decided to misconstrue my comments to […]
Trump Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney Admits Quid Pro Quo: ‘We Do That All the Time’
White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney admitted to a quid pro quo between President Donald Trump and Ukraine to force an investigation into the Democratic National Committee, telling ABC News’ Jon Karl “We do that all the time.” Mulvaney took questions at a rare White House press briefing Thursday, where Karl asked Mulvaney “You were directly involved in a decision […]
U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) has passed away at 68
U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings, a Baltimore Democrat, has died from complications of longstanding health problems early Thursday morning, his office said. He was 68 years old. The Democrat, known for his devotion to Baltimore and civil rights, and for blunt and passionate speechmaking, died at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Read the rest of the story at […]
House Votes to Overwhelmingly Condemn Trump’s Syria Withdrawal — Including Over 100 Republicans
A large majority in the House of Representatives voted to condemn President Donald Trump for pulling troops out of northern Syria to allow for Turkey’s invasion. The vote was a rare bipartisan retort to Trump since 354 members approved the resolution against withdrawal, while 60 voted to oppose it. Trump’s decision has drawn significant fire from his […]
Who won the October Democratic debate?
The Democratic presidential contenders faced off for their fourth debate on Tuesday night, and the divide between the moderates and progressives sharpened over the course of the evening. The biggest rift between the 12 candidates on stage in Ohio was once again over health care and the cost of their various proposals and whether it’s proper to eliminate private health […]
12 Democrats face high stakes on biggest primary debate stage ever tonight
Twelve Democrats will line up in swing state Ohio on Tuesday for a crucial debate in their White House battle, which will unfold as their party gears up to consider impeachment — the ultimate political sanction — against President Donald Trump. Candidates will take the most crowded debate stage in the history of US presidential primaries as their race […]
Pelosi Preps Joint Resolution With Graham to ‘Overturn’ Trump’s Syria Decision ‘Immediately’
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA on Monday announced that she and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) agreed to “a bipartisan, bicameral joint resolution to overturn the President’s dangerous decision in Syria immediately.” Read the rest of the story at Mediaite.
Macabre Video of Fake Trump Shooting Media and Critics Is Shown at His Resort
A video depicting a macabre scene of a fake President Trump shooting, stabbing and brutally assaulting members of the news media and his political opponents was shown at a conference for his supporters at his Miami resort last week, according to footage obtained by The New York Times. Read the rest of the story at […]
U.S. troops to withdraw from northern Syria as ISIS supporters escape amid alleged Turkish atrocities
U.S. troops were preparing to withdraw from northern Syria Sunday as Turkish forces continued their advance. Hundreds of Islamic State group supporters escaped from a displacement camp in the area and there were reports of alleged atrocities amid growing international alarm. About 1,000 troops will leave the area “as safely and quickly as possible,” Defense […]
Trump’s losses mount in stunning day of setbacks
Five federal courts dealt blows to President Donald Trump on Friday just as the limits of his legal strategy to block an impeachment inquiry became clear. It amounted to a challenging end of a challenging week for Trump, who remains consumed by an impeachment crisis that is clouding his presidency. Within moments of each other, a […]
Rudy Giuliani Planned Vienna Trip 1 Day After Arrested Associates Were Headed There: Report
Rudy Giuliani was reportedly planning to leave Thursday for Vienna, Austria, a day after two business associates who helped him with his dealings with Ukraine officials were arrested as they were headed to the same destination. The Atlantic’s Elaina Plott reported that Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, told her he would not be able […]
Two Florida businessmen who helped Giuliani in Ukraine arrested on campaign finance charges
Two foreign-born associates of Rudy Giuliani who gave money to a political action committee supporting President Donald Trump were arrested Wednesday night on criminal charges tied to an alleged effort to influence U.S. politics with illegal campaign contributions. Igor Fruman and Lev Parnas — who are also both witnesses in the impeachment inquiry being undertaken by House Democrats — […]
Trump calling GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell three times a day to warn about disloyal Republicans
Even as the White House appears to settle on the legal tactics to stave off Democrats’ impeachment demands, uncertainty and unease over Trump’s messaging approach remains high among his Republican allies, who see the ever-growing inquiry consuming the White House. Trump has offered scant indication he is turning his focus to governing, despite his lawyers writing in […]
Pelosi Fires Back at WH Over Letter: Efforts to Hide the Truth ‘Will Be Regarded as Further Evidence of Obstruction’
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has fired back at the White House over the letter to Congress refusing to cooperate with the House’s impeachment inquiry. The Trump administration is calling the inquiry “constitutionally illegitimate” and accusing the Democrats of sham proceedings. Tonight Pelosi says, “For a while, the President has tried to normalize lawlessness. Now, he is trying to […]
Democrats to subpoena Gordon Sondland after Trump intervenes
House Democrats are preparing to subpoena a central witness in the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump after he bowed to a State Department order to skip a deposition on Tuesday. Gordon Sondland, Trump’s ambassador to the European Union, had been expected to testify Tuesday morning as part of an expanding impeachment probe by three […]
Trump administration orders ambassador at center of Ukraine scandal not to appear before Congress
Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, has been directed not to appear Tuesday for a scheduled interview with House committees leading the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. Sondland, a Trump political appointee, has emerged as a central player in Trump’s bid to persuade Ukraine’s new government to commit publicly to investigate corruption and the president’s […]
Seeking Ukraine Aid Records, House Subpoenas White House Budget Office and Pentagon
The House on Monday expanded its sprawling impeachment inquiry, issuing subpoenas to the Defense Department and the Office of Management and Budget for documents that could solve lingering mysteries about whether President Trump’s decision to withhold security aid for Ukraine was tied to his efforts to pressure the government there to investigate his political rivals. […]
Newsweek: Official Who Heard Call Says Trump Got ‘Rolled’ By Turkey and ‘Has No Spine’
Donald Trump got “rolled” by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a National Security Council source with direct knowledge of the discussions told Newsweek. In a scheduled phone call on Sunday afternoon between President Trump and President Erdogan, Trump said he would withdraw U.S. forces from northern Syria. The phone call was scheduled after Turkey announced it […]
2nd whistleblower comes forward after speaking with Inspector General
Mark Zaid, the attorney representing the whistleblower who sounded the alarm on President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine and triggered an impeachment inquiry, tells ABC News that he is now representing a second whistleblower who has spoken with the inspector general. Zaid tells ABC News’ Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos that the second person — also described as an intelligence official — […]
New York Times: 2nd intelligence official might submit whistleblower complaint
A second intelligence official with concerns and more direct knowledge regarding President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine is considering filing a whistleblower complaint, The New York Times reported Friday. The Times’ report, citing two people briefed on the matter, comes as House Democrats ratchet up their impeachment inquiry centered on Trump’s July phone call with Ukrainian President […]
U.S. ambassadors pushed Ukraine to investigate as condition for White House visit, texts show
Text messages given to Congress show U.S. ambassadors working to persuade Ukraine to publicly commit to investigating President Donald Trump’s political opponents and explicitly linking the inquiry to whether Ukraine’s president would be granted an official White House visit. The two ambassadors, both Trump picks, went so far as to draft language for what Ukrainian […]
Trump calls for China to investigate Bidens as impeachment investigation looms
Ensnarled in an impeachment investigation over his request for Ukraine to investigate a chief political rival, President Donald Trump on Thursday called on another nation to probe former Vice President Joe Biden: China. “China should start an investigation into the Bidens,” Trump said in remarks to reporters outside the White House. Trump said he hadn’t […]
Trump’s Ukraine mess leads to anxiety in Pence world
Vice President Mike Pence’s last-minute September meeting with the Ukrainian President has pulled him into a mess he has worked hard to avoid: a crisis involving his boss, President Donald Trump. Rather than traveling to Warsaw, Poland, last month to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump decided to stay home to track the damage from […]
Trump’s day of rage: Profanity, false accusations and a press spat
President Donald Trump’s growing frustration with Democrats’ amped up impeachment efforts was on stark public display Wednesday as he spent the day openly raging against the media and his political rivals. In the stretch of a few hours, Trump called Democratic impeachment efforts “BULLSHIT,” got into a verbal altercation with a reporter during a press conference, and delivered unfounded […]
State Department inspector general requests ‘urgent’ Ukraine briefing on Capitol Hill today
The State Department’s inspector general is expected to give an “urgent” briefing to staffers from several House and Senate committees on Wednesday afternoon about documents obtained from the department’s Office of the Legal Adviser related to the State Department and Ukraine, sources familiar with the planned briefing told ABC News. Details of the briefing, requested by […]
House Democrats warn Pompeo to stop ‘intimidating’ witnesses
House Democrats issued a stark warning to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Tuesday after the top US diplomat accused lawmakers of “intimidating and bullying” State Department officials by calling them for depositions related to the Ukraine inquiry. In a letter sent Tuesday afternoon, the chairmen of the House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs and Oversight committees told […]
CNN Poll: Support for impeaching Trump rises among independents and Republicans
Americans are about evenly split over impeaching President Donald Trump and removing him from office, as support for that move has risen among independents and Republicans, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS after the announcement of a formal impeachment inquiry by House Democrats last week. About half, 47%, support impeaching the President and removing him from […]
Trump Raises Threat Of National Violence If He Is Removed From Office
President Donald Trump ominously raised the possibility of national violence Sunday if he is removed from office, quoting an evangelical pastor who warned on Fox News of a “Civil War-like” fracture. Illinois Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger, an Air Force veteran of Iraq, quickly slammed Trump’s tweet as “beyond repugnant,” adding: “I have never imagined such […]
Nancy Pelosi Says Public Opinion Shifting In Support Of Impeachment Inquiry
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Saturday that public opinion is now on the side of an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump following the release of new information about his conversations with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Pelosi this week announced her support for an investigation after the surfacing of a whistleblower complaint that […]
WaPo: Trump Told Russians in 2017 Oval Office Meeting He Wasn’t Concerned About Russian Interference
Another stunning report dropped tonight, this one concerning President Donald Trump’s infamous 2017 conversation with Russian officials in the Oval Office. Per the Washington Post, Trump said he was “unconcerned” about Russian election interference because “the United States did the same in other countries” Read the rest of the story at Mediaite.
‘Total panic’ as ‘shell-shocked’ White House struggles to find impeachment footing
White House officials were scrambling Thursday to figure out how to counter the House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry, with one source familiar with the situation describing a sense of “total panic” over the past week at the lack of a plan to address the new reality. There appears to be rising “anxiety, unease, and concern” — […]
GOP Insider Drops a Bomb on MSNBC: In a Secret Vote, 30 Republican Senators Would Impeach Trump
A longtime GOP insider is claiming that if a majority of Republican senators could cast their ballot in secret, they would vote President Donald Trump out of office. Appearing on Andrea Mitchell Reports Wednesday, Mike Murphy — a former senior adviser to Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) and John McCain — claimed that the politics of the Ukraine controversy scare the GOP. Murphy contended that an […]
Nancy Pelosi announces formal impeachment inquiry of Trump
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who for months resisted efforts to launch impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, announced a formal inquiry on Tuesday, saying that the president’s growing Ukraine scandal marked a “breach of his Constitutional responsibilities.” “This week the president has admitted to asking the president of Ukraine to take actions which would benefit him […]
Trump whistleblower complaint fuels impeachment pressure among Democrats
As House Speaker Nancy Pelosi warns that continued efforts by the Trump administration to block Congress from learning more about a national security whistleblower complaint would take Congress “into a whole new stage of investigation,” congressional Democrats are facing renewed pressure to supporting impeaching President Donald Trump. Read the rest of the story at ABC News.
Trump admits to discussing Biden in scrutinized talk with Ukrainian leader
President Donald Trump on Sunday acknowledged that he discussed former Vice President Joe Biden during a July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, but denied accusations that he is using the power of his office to hurt a major political rival. “No quid pro quo, there was nothing,” Trump told reporters on the White […]
Feinstein Demands Barr Hand Over Whistleblower Report: This Is ‘Unacceptable’
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) is demanding that Attorney General William Barr release a whistleblower report that reportedly sounded the alarm on President Donald Trump’s requests for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s help in securing the 2020 election. “If media reports are correct that President Trump delayed military aid appropriated by Congress in order to get Ukraine […]
Whistleblower complaint about Trump involves Ukraine, report says
Ukraine is at the center of a complaint made by a whistleblowing intelligence officer who filed the report after learning of a promise President Donald Trump made to a foreign leader, The Washington Post reported Thursday evening. The newspaper cited two people familiar with the matter whom it did not name. The Trump administration has withheld the […]
Whistleblower Complaint Reportedly Involved Trump’s Shocking Pledge To A Foreign Leader
The secret whistleblower complaint that the acting director of national intelligence has refused to hand over to Congress involves President Donald Trump’s “communications with a foreign leader,” The Washington Post reported Wednesday, citing two former U.S. officials familiar with the complaint. The officials said Trump’s interaction with the foreign leader, whose identity was not disclosed, included a […]
Corey Lewandowski Refuses To Answer Questions At House Hearing
Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski refused to answer basic questions at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday. Democrats on the committee asked Lewandowski simple questions about his interactions with President Donald Trump as part of their probe into the possible impeachment of the president. Read the rest of the story at HuffPost.
Trump flip-flops, urges patience after ‘locked and loaded’ threat following attack on Saudis
President Donald Trump on Monday offered markedly more restrained language about possible retaliation for a weekend attack on a Saudi oil facility — compared to his Sunday tweets that the U.S. was “locked and loaded depending on verification” if and when the U.S. publicly announces Iran’s culpability. A senior administration official told ABC News that there […]
8 Years of Trump Tax Returns Are Subpoenaed by Manhattan D.A.
State prosecutors in Manhattan have subpoenaed President Trump’s accounting firm to demand eight years of his personal and corporate tax returns, according to several people with knowledge of the matter. The subpoena opens a new front in a wide-ranging effort to obtain copies of the president’s tax returns, which Mr. Trump initially said he would make public during […]
Democrats call for Kavanaugh impeachment over new sexual misconduct claims
A slew of prominent Democrats called on Congress to impeach Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh after allegations of sexual misconduct that had once threatened to torpedo his nomination to the bench resurfaced, even as President Donald Trump continued to defend him. “I sat through those hearings,” Sen. Kamala Harris, a member of the Senate Judiciary Commitee […]
4 Takeaways From The Third 2020 Democratic Debate
The 2020 Democratic presidential primary is in the middle of a slog, and Thursday night’s debate reflected that. The campaign is mature enough that multiple candidates have dropped out of the race but still young enough for the top-polling candidates to bring risk-averse approaches to the debate, limiting the possibilities for fireworks. It was late […]
Democrats gear up for ABC News debate in Houston, with front-runners set to face off on one stage, one night
The winnowing presidential primary field is five months out from the first ballots being cast – but Democrats all vying for the top of the ticket are still carving out their own paths to defeat President Donald Trump. Those differing routes are never more apparent than when standing shoulder-to-shoulder on a debate stage. “You know, we have a president, […]
CNN Poll: Biden leads as Warren and Sanders battle for second on eve of debate
Joe Biden leads the Democratic presidential primary but a tight race for second place has formed behind him as Sen. Elizabeth Warren leads Sen. Bernie Sanders by one point, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. The former vice president is at 24%, Warren at 18% and Sanders at 17% are once again the […]
Alarm bells should be ringing at Trump HQ after N.C. House scare
Republican Rep.-elect Dan Bishop’s narrow victory in a North Carolina special election had drawn a half-dozen excited tweets from President Donald Trump by early Wednesday morning. “Dan Bishop was down 17 points 3 weeks ago. He then asked me for help, we changed his strategy together, and he ran a great race,” Trump tweeted. “Big Rally last […]
Trump ousts Bolton after anger over Afghan news coverage
President Donald Trump ousted national security adviser John Bolton on Tuesday, saying he and the hawkish aide had “disagreed strongly” on many issues and suggesting that Bolton had collided with other Trump advisers, too. The decision came after widespread reports that Bolton tried to stop Trump from inviting leaders of the Afghan Taliban to Camp […]
Trump rallies supporters in North Carolina ahead of today’s special election
President Trump took the stage in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District on Monday ahead of a special election to throw his support behind Republican candidates Dan Bishop and Greg Murphy, who’s running in the state’s 3rd District. Bishop will face Democrat Dan McCready on Tuesday in the high-profile special election, which was ordered after widespread absentee […]
House Democrats unveil impeachment probe parameters
President Donald Trump’s attorneys would be permitted to review some of Congress’s impeachment-related evidence under a set of procedures unveiled Monday by the House Judiciary Committee, part of a plan to spell out the panel’s authorities as it intensifies its consideration of articles of impeachment. The measure, obtained by POLITICO, would also allow smaller groups of […]
How Trump’s Plan to Secretly Meet With the Taliban Came Together, and Disastrously Fell Apart
On the Friday before Labor Day, President Trump gathered top advisers in the Situation Room to consider what could be among the profound decisions of his presidency — a peace plan with the Taliban after 18 years of grinding, bloody war in Afghanistan. The meeting brought to a head a bristling conflict dividing his foreign […]
Trump says he’s called off secret meeting at Camp David with Taliban leaders
In a series of tweets Saturday night, President Trump wrote that he called off a secret meeting at Camp David with the Taliban and canceled peace talks. The president wrote that the Taliban “admitted” to an attack in Kabul that “killed one of our great great soldiers” and 11 others. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo […]
NOAA Bends To White House Pressure, Throws Federal Forecasters Under The Bus, Says Alabama Was Threatened By Dorian
The head of the union that represents federal weather workers said Friday that his members are “shocked, stunned and irate” that the federal agency whose workers they represent put out a statement siding with President Trump in the increasingly bizarre dispute over whether Hurricane Dorian was on track to hit Alabama. Read the rest of […]
‘It Was Trump’: WH Official Tells The Washington Post Trump Himself Doctored ‘Sharpiegate’ Map
President Donald Trump was the person who doctored a NOAA projection map of Hurricane Dorian to include parts of Alabama, according to an anonymous White House official: “It was Trump.” According to a new Washington Post report, “Sharpiegate,” as it’s now known, was the direct result of Trump using a marker to draw in an extra bump on a […]
Twitter Astonished as Trump Fires Off His Ninth Tweet in 102 Hours About the Hurricane Hitting Alabama (Don’t Panic, It’s Not)
Dude. Just take the L. That sums up much of the reaction to President Donald Trump’s latest tweets — in which he, astonishingly, continues to defend his tweet from last Sunday claiming Alabama would be hit by Hurricane Dorian. “Just as I said, Alabama was originally projected to be hit,” Trump wrote on Thursday afternoon. “The Fake News denies […]
Trump flails when a reporter presses him on the bogus weather map he shared: ‘I don’t know, I don’t know’
As with many stories about President Donald Trump, this one may toss you into a familiar cycle: first you laugh, then you cry, and then you fantasize about November 2020. The president’s latest round of nonsense began on Sunday when he announced on Twitter that, among other southern states, Alabama “will most likely be hit […]
Did Trump Doctor a Hurricane Map With Sharpie to Prove His False Prediction That Dorian Could Hit Alabama?
While warning of Hurricane Dorian, President Donald Trump today displayed a NOAA map that appeared to be doctored to line up with his proclamation that Hurricane Dorian could hit Alabama. Read the rest of the story at Mediaite.
Jeanine Pirro Caught Complaining About Fox News, Confirms She Was Suspended
Fox News host Jeanine Pirro slammed her employers and complained about the network suspending her during a Tuesday appearance on former White House aide Seb Gorka’s show. While talking over a commercial break that was broadcasted on Gorka’s YouTube livestream, Pirro told the host that she may not be able to appear on his Salem Radio program in-person […]
Walmart to halt sales of some ammunition, asks shoppers not to openly carry weapons
Walmart said Tuesday that it would discontinue the sale of ammunition used in high-capacity magazines and military-style weapons and also asked its customers not to openly carry firearms in stores even in states where it is permitted. The news follows mass shootings across the country, including 22 people who were killed last month in a Walmart […]
Odessa gunman had been on a long downward spiral before killing 7 people, FBI said
A west Texas man, on a “downward spiral,” made “rambling” calls to police and the FBI before embarking on a shooting spree that took the lives of seven innocent bystanders, authorities said Monday. The killer, 36-year-old Seth Ator, had been fired by his employer, Journey Oil Field Services, on Saturday before he went on his bloody rampage […]
West Texas Shooting Spree Leaves 7 Dead, Scores Injured; Gunman Killed
Seven people were killed and scores more were wounded—including three police officers and a 17-month-old child shot in the face—when a man armed with a rifle carried out a terrifying rampage in west Texas on Saturday afternoon. After opening fire on state troopers during a traffic stop on Interstate 20 between Odessa and Midland, the suspect went […]
Hurricane Dorian is days away from striking Florida, and could be a monster storm by landfall
Hurricane Dorian is days away from crashing ashore in Florida, and forecasters are warning it’s getting stronger and could grow into a monster storm by landfall. Dorian was moving over the Atlantic as a Category 2 storm early Friday with sustained winds of 105 mph. By evening, it is forecast to strengthen to a Category […]
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell Admits to ‘Error in Judgment’ on Thinly-Sourced Trump Story: ‘I Shouldn’t Have Reported It’
Last night on MSNBC, Lawrence O’Donnell shared a report that Russian oligarchs co-signed loans President Donald Trump obtained. It was very thinly sourced and even as he broke the report O’Donnell himself placed an “if true” on it. O’Donnell and MSNBC have since been roundly criticized on how this made it to air in the […]
Lawrence O’Donnell Reports Russian Oligarchs Co-Signed Trump’s Deutsche Bank Loan
MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell reported news Tuesday night that, if it proves to be true, could have a significant impact on current presidency of Donald Trump and Congressional investigations into Trump’s finances and his possibly compromised relationship with Russia. Read the rest of the story at Mediaite.
Deutsche Bank discloses it has tax returns tied to Trump sought by House committees
Deutsche Bank said Tuesday that it possesses tax returns tied to President Donald Trump — the latest development in the effort by House Democrats to obtain the president’s financial information. In a court filing related to subpoenas from two House committees, Deutsche Bank said it possessed tax returns — which may be related to Trump, […]
Trump claims China asked for renewed trade talks, China says they didn’t
President Donald Trump claimed on Monday that Chinese officials are prepared to return to the negotiating table, signaling there may be a path to a potential détente in his tit-for-tat trade war with Beijing. Read the rest of the story at Politico.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders To Join Fox News As A Contributor
Former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders will join Fox News as a contributor, the company disclosed on Thursday. She’ll make her first appearance on the Sept. 6 airing of “Fox & Friends,” a show that President Donald Trump favors and to whom he has given a rare interview from time to time. Read […]
Trump is either trolling everyone or thinks he’s like a god
There’s been a change in President Donald Trump. He used to say he had accomplished more than any other President, a debatable claim. But now he’s using messianic language about himself. “I’m the chosen one,” he said Wednesday about what he claims is a singular, and still only hoped-for, trade deal with China. Read the rest of […]
Trump: Jewish people who vote Democratic show ‘great disloyalty’
President Donald Trump on Tuesday told reporters that “any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat” are either uninformed or show “great disloyalty.” Trump made the comments after he was asked about Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar’s suggestion that the U.S. might want to reconsider how much it pays Israel in aid after she and Rep. Rashida […]
Hillary Clinton zings Trump over new voter conspiracy theory involving Google
Hillary Clinton swatted back at President Donald Trump’s attempts to spread another conspiracy related to her popular-vote victory in the 2016 presidential election, this time claiming it was due to a search engine manipulation. Read the rest of the story at Politico.
Fretful Trump goes on attack as economy fears cloud 2020 hopes
President Donald Trump is not waiting for the economy to go south amid growing fears of a recession to wage what could be the defining fight of the 2020 election. Trump is becoming increasingly nervous that the end of an 11-year expansion could scupper his hopes of a second term and is going on the attack as […]
Top White House economic adviser says Trump still ‘looking at’ buying Greenland
Greenland has said it’s not for sale, but that didn’t stop top White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow from adding fuel to the idea that the Trump administration wants to purchase the world’s largest island from Denmark. Speaking with “Fox News Sunday,” Kudlow, the director of the National Economic Council, said the administration is “looking […]
Poll: Warren jumps over Sanders for second place behind Biden
Sen. Elizabeth Warren has leapfrogged Sen. Bernie Sanders for second place nationally in the Democratic presidential primary, according to a new poll out Thursday. The new Fox News poll of registered voters who say they plan to participate in the Democratic primary or caucus in their state shows that although Warren still trails former Vice President […]
Report: Epstein autopsy finds broken bones in his neck
An autopsy performed on Jeffrey Epstein showed he “sustained multiple breaks in his neck bones,” the Washington Post reported Wednesday. People familiar with the autopsy report told the newspaper the bones broken in Epstein’s neck included the hyoid bone, which is near the Adam’s apple. This sort of break can happen when a person hangs themselves or dies […]
Cuccinelli rewrites Statue of Liberty poem to make case for limiting immigration
The acting director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services in a new interview revised the iconic poem on the Statue of Liberty’s pedestal to suggest that only immigrants who can “stand on their own two feet” are welcome in the United States. Ken Cuccinelli tweaked the famous poem from Emma Lazarus — whose words, “Give me […]
Trump Defends Retweet Of Baseless Conspiracy Theory Implicating Clintons In Epstein’s Death
President Donald Trump is defending his retweets of baseless conspiracy theories attempting to link Jeffrey Epstein’s apparent suicide with former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Speaking with reporters in Morristown, New Jersey, on Tuesday, Trump said he thought it was “fine” to retweet the conspiracy because it came from “a […]
Trump administration to make it harder for low-income immigrants to stay
The Trump administration introduced a new rule Monday making it harder for low-income, legal immigrants who receive food stamps or other forms of taxpayer-funded assistance to stay in the country legally. The rule would require immigrants applying for a change in immigration status (like a green card) or those seeking to come here to prove […]
After autopsy, cause of Jeffrey Epstein’s death awaits ‘further information’
The New York City medical examiner’s office said Sunday that it had completed an autopsy of the financier and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein but that it needed more information before determining the cause of death. Multiple people briefed on the investigation told NBC News that suicide remains the presumed cause of death and that no […]
Epstein death brings birth of mainstream conspiracy theories
Jeffrey Epstein — his perversions, and the perversions of justice swirling around his case — has lived for years on the margins of politics because of his association with two presidents, Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, among others in a long roster of people with respectable titles who spent time in his disreputable orbit. Epstein’s […]
Bad Week: The US is reeling from mass shootings and the government is rounding up undocumented immigrants in a way that leaves kids crying in parking lots
This has been an objectively awful week. Far from a sleepy end to the summer, the country is reeling from mass shootings that claimed 31 lives in Texas and Ohio, not paying enough attention to an extremely deadly summer of violence in Chicago, having painful and not particularly productive conversations about gun control and about racism, and […]
Maggie Haberman: White House Staffers Privately Admit Trump’s El Paso, Dayton Visits Were a ‘Debacle’
New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman is quite sure the White House thinks President Donald Trump behaved disastrously on Wednesday while he was supposed to be consoling the victims of the El Paso and Dayton shootings. Haberman spoke to CNN’s John Berman on Thursday to discuss how Trump lashed out at his political enemies while traveling to see the shooting […]
In visit to Dayton, Trump finds a victim — himself
President Donald Trump emerged from a Dayton hospital on Wednesday grieving — for himself. After visiting with survivors of this weekend’s shooting massacre in the mid-size western Ohio city, Trump took to Twitter to rage at Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley. He was furious about a press conference in which Brown […]
Fox News Says White Supremacy is a ‘Hoax’: ‘It’s Actually Not a Real Problem in America’
Following the El Paso shooting and the growing concern about domestic terrorism in the United States, Fox News host Tucker Carlson mocked the media concern and called white supremacy a “hoax” being used to divide the country. Carlson mockingly showed how the media wanted Trump to “denounce this supposedly existential threat to our nation” before showing […]
Some El Paso residents outraged by Trump’s speech that ‘failed to mention Latinos’
President Donald Trump condemned white supremacy from the White House Monday, but left Hispanics and Latinos out of his speech. It’s a significant omission and a stark difference from the document that has been linked to the 21-year-old man accused of opening fire on weekend shoppers Saturday at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas. The document mentions […]
Obama calls on Americans to reject leaders who feed ‘climate of fear and hatred’
Former President Obama on Monday called for action in response to back-to-back mass shootings over the weekend and urged Americans to “soundly reject” leaders who feed “a climate of fear and hatred.” Read the rest of the story at The Hill.
Democrats pressure Mitch McConnell to cancel Senate recess for gun control vote
A growing number of Democrats are calling on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to cancel the chamber’s August recess so that they can take up gun control legislation in the wake of two mass shootings this weekend. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called on the Republican leader to end the chamber’s break to vote […]
After Gilroy, El Paso and now Dayton, Public Figures Express Anger, Disbelief Over Third Mass Shooting In A Single Week
A food festival in Gilroy, California. A busy Walmart in El Paso, Texas. A popular entertainment district in Dayton, Ohio. All three were sites of deadly mass shootings in the past week. At least 32 innocent people are dead. Two shooters were killed and one is in custody. The carnage never seems to end and […]
Liz Cheney Calls Bernie Sanders a ‘Commie’ with ‘Daddy Issues’
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, called 2020 contender Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) a “commie” during a Twitter spat Friday. “No surprise commie Bernie Sanders, who honeymooned in Soviet Union, is ok with U.S. getting attacked first,” Cheney wrote to Sanders after he came to the defense of Sen. Elizabeth […]
Only black Republican in the House now sixth GOP retirement in little over a week
The only black Republican in the House of Representatives announced he would not be seeking re-election Thursday evening, the sixth such announcement in little over a week. Texas Rep. Will Hurd, who was first elected in 2015, said that he would be leaving Congress to work on issues “at the nexus between technology and national security.” […]
It Was Everybody vs. Joe Biden At Last Night’s Democratic Debate
Two senators, a governor, the mayor of the nation’s largest city and even a member of the same presidential administration Biden served in took turns squabbling and sparring with Biden, the leading candidate in the polls. Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey and former Housing Secretary Julián Castro both landed solid hits against the onetime […]
Night One Of Dem Debate Two Is Over… Night Two Is Tonight
CNN’s first Democratic debate went down in Detroit on Tuesday night, to much fanfare. The network wheeled out all the stops to make the event a showstopper from the moment it kicked off at 8 p.m.: a sleek stage in an ornate theater, a minutes-long opening sequence mimicking an early-2000s action movie, an absolutely electric […]
Tonight Is The First Night Of The Second Round Of Democratic Debates
CNN is hosting the second set of Democratic presidential debates Tuesday and Wednesday, taking place in Detroit. Find out who’s debating and how to watch by going to CNN.
Three dead, suspect killed in shooting at Gilroy Garlic Festival in Northern California
At least three people were killed and 15 other people injured in a shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Northern California, authorities said Sunday night. A suspect was also shot and killed. Read the rest of the story at NBC News.
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Trump tells four liberal congresswomen to ‘go back’ to their countries, prompting Pelosi to defend them
President Trump said Sunday that four minority, liberal congresswomen who have been critical of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came,” prompting other Democrats — including Pelosi — to leap to their defense. Read the rest of the story at […]
British Ambassador Charged That Trump Killed Iran Deal Because It Was Obama’s
Britain’s now former ambassador to the U.S. was convinced last year that President Donald Trump scrapped the Iran nuclear pact in part simply because it was forged by Barack Obama, according to another leaked diplomatic memo. Read the rest of the story at Huffpost.
Ocasio-Cortez: Detained migrants being told to ‘drink out of toilets’
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Monday described the abysmal conditions she and other members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and other House Democrats saw after visiting two immigration detention facilities in Texas, and said she’d learned that Customs and Border Patrol officers told detained women to “drink out of the toilets.” Read the story at NBC […]