The Ukraine extortion scheme and subsequent cover-up have confirmed that Donald Trump is, to put it mildly, a very unintelligent man.
It’s no surprise that Donald Trump’s campaign isn’t thrilled that it will become just a little bit more difficult to spew their lies.
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman told impeachment investigators in his 10-hour testimony that he sought to restore the White House changes, but he failed.
Time and again, the Republican Party jumps at the opportunity to smear a war hero in order to boost its political fortunes.
The fact that the GOP-friendly map is now shifting toward the Democrats shows just how badly impeachment is crushing them.
A national security official who was on Trump’s Ukraine call will testify that he alerted superiors multiple times about the president’s extortion scheme.
Trump may occupy the Oval Office, but he has sucked the life out of the GOP. They’d rather run for the hills than serve under his failed leadership.
White House Deputy Press Sec. Hogan Gidley is trying to clean up the mess by D.C. is a liberal town and some people were cheering for Trump after all.
Charlie Sykes had some advice for Republicans on Saturday: Get off the Trump train now, because it’s going to derail in the near future.
Thursday’s reporting sealed the deal that the DOJ is officially dead and won’t be coming back as long as this president is in the White House.
While it’s unlikely that two-thirds of senators will vote to remove Trump, it’s increasingly plausible that a majority of members could support such a move.
The impeachment probe was unaffected by Graham’s cheap stunt. What he did make clear, though, is that he is irredeemable.
Instead of denying criminal wrongdoing on the part of the president, Trump and his defenders are attacking and obstructing the process.
The very public decline of Donald Trump continued on Wednesday as the president bragged about building a wall in the non-border state of Colorado.
After days of anticipation, Ambassador Bill Taylor gave testimony that decimated Donald Trump’s claim that there was no quid pro quo when he shook down the president of Ukraine. Taylor, a career civil servant, served America for fifty years in multiple posts Stateside and abroad. He came back from retirement to serve as ambassador to…
Donald Trump’s desperate impeachment defense is failing because the facts are too damning and the witnesses are too credible.
These revelations are coming from Trump’s own people, not some so-called deep state Democratic operatives conspiring against him.
The damning whistleblower complaint is no longer even a factor as at least four officials, including Trump himself, have now admitted to a quid pro quo.
Rachel Maddow urged the media on Monday not allow a repeat of 2016 when they took Donald Trump’s bait on Hillary Clinton’s emails.
As the impeachment inquiry continues, Trump’s blind GOP support in the Senate doesn’t look as strong as it did at the outset. Cracks have emerged.
Ex-Bush ethics official Richard Painter trashed Donald Trump on Monday for calling the Emoluments Clause phony during a tantrum.
Trump’s call with Ukraine and the subsequent cover-up are one part of what appears to be an emerging counter-intelligence investigation into the president.Â
The timing of Joe Biden’s speech about Donald Trump’s shortcomings as commander-in-chief couldn’t have come at a better time.
Cory Booker may have had difficulty getting speaking time early in the debate, but he made a splash on Tuesday night by standing up for Joe Biden.
By taking it directly to Trump on Tuesday night, Joe Biden is trying to remind voters that he is still arguably the most electable Democrat in the field.Â
Donald Trump likes to present himself as the world’s great winner, but over the past several weeks he can’t seem to stop losing.
On her program, Rachel Maddow ticked off the names of the five people Trump had apparently enlisted for his Ukraine extortion operation.
The more current and former Trump officials who cooperate with the House impeachment probe, the more laughable the president’s defense looks.
The president may have some protection from criminal charges and indictments while he’s in office, but sleazeball lawyers do not.
Trump is in for a rude awakening when even the conservative SCOTUS justices will have no choice but to remind him that there is still a Constitution.
There is no question Donald Trump understood that his joint efforts with bumbling lawyer Rudy Giuliani to extort Ukraine were crooked.
While the rally was officially a 2020 campaign event, it appeared to be more of a profanity-laced self-therapy session for Trump to vent all of his frustrations.
Trump tried to save his crumbling presidency by riling up the MAGA mob at a rally in Minnesota, but he was greeted by rows of empty seats.
Both before and after Trump’s infamous call with Ukraine, people inside the administration were deeply disturbed by the president’s conduct.
The two MSNBC hosts had a difficult time controlling their laughter on Wednesday night over Donald Trump’s sheer stupidity.
Any Trump-defending Republican in Congress who isn’t panicking right now about surging impeachment support simply isn’t paying attention.
The vice president is basically saying that, sure, Trump may have tried to extort a foreign power – but he had nothing to do with it.
Trump clearly isn’t happy about how this impeachment inquiry is playing out. Perhaps he should have thought of that before he betrayed his country.Â
A wave of pro-impeachment support has swept the country, with strong majorities of Americans now supporting the Democrats’ inquiry.
Donald Trump’s White House threw a tantrum about the ongoing impeachment inquiry, but no amount of presidential whining will alter the damning facts.
As more damning information comes to light about this president’s misconduct, Donald Trump is only going to get more unstable.
The polling shows that public opinion is with the Democrats as they continue to ramp up their inquiry, not with Trump-defending Republicans.
The MSNBC host quickly put onscreen the law Trump violated when he tried to extort Ukraine into handing over dirt on former vice president Joe Biden.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has not yet come into compliance with a subpoena for documents in the U.S. House of Representatives impeachment probe, a top Democrat helping to lead the inquiry said.
The treatment of U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch – disparaged by President Donald Trump and abruptly recalled from Ukraine – exemplifies what current and former U.S. officials describe as a campaign by Trump against career diplomats.
The interviews could yield more fodder for Democrats’ impeachment drive over a whistleblower’s allegations that Trump leveraged $400 million in aid to secure a promise from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate political rival Joe Biden, and his son Hunter, who sat on the board of a Ukrainian energy company.
Lawyer Mark Zaid said the person, also an intelligence official, has direct knowledge of some of the allegations involving the initial whistleblower complaint, which triggered impeachment proceedings against the Republican president.
Donald Trump was not alone in his effort to abuse his office to extort a foreign power into getting dirt on a political opponent.
The backbone of Trump’s 2016 Electoral College victory was the midwest, but a new poll shows that it could be his undoing in 2020.
Mike Pompeo – caught in a fresh lie about his involvement in Trump’s Ukraine extortion scheme – is doing his best to obstruct the impeachment inquiry.
Tump believes there is nothing wrong with extorting a foreign country. Like a broken record, he keeps calling his interactions with Ukraine “perfect.”
If public opinion continues to shift this rapidly in favor of impeachment, Republicans in Congress may be forced to reconsider their blind loyalty.
Better talking points on cable news won’t save Trump or Republicans from a damning set of facts and swift, unified action from House Democrats.
Charlie Sykes said Monday that Donald Trump and his defenders in the administration are running “one of the least effective cover-ups in history.”
Attorney General William Barr and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo are at the center of Donald Trump’s growing pile of criminal behavior.
Trump went on a Sunday Twitter rampage after Democrats make it clear that they are determined to get his phone calls with Putin.
Trump-Putin phone calls in U.S. Democrats’ sights: Schiff WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The chairman of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee said on Sunday Congress is determined to get access to President Donald Trump’s calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin and other world leaders, citing concerns he may have jeopardized national security. “I think the paramount need…
“The core facts of this are known,” said Ross Garber, who teaches impeachment law at Tulane Law School. “The piece we don’t know yet, which is critical, is the why.”
Historian Jon Meacham has some bad news for Trump: The next seven days of his presidency could be even worse than the last.
As Democrats go full-speed ahead on impeachment, the president’s freak-outs are becoming increasingly laughable and somewhat pathetic.
Trump’s Ambassador to Ukraine Kurt Volker handed his resignation in to Sec. of State Mike Pompeo on Friday night.
House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) revealed that he either doesn’t know anything about anything that’s going on with the whistleblower complaint or he is blatantly lying in a desperate bid to spin the facts.
More than 300 former officials from U.S. security and foreign policy agencies, including a former director of the National Counterterrorism Center and a one-time deputy secretary of state, on Friday endorsed the congressional impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump.
House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday accused U.S. Attorney General William Barr of going “rogue” in the Justice Department’s handling of a whistleblower report that President Donald Trump solicited a political favor from Ukraine’s president that could help him get re-elected.
Here is a timeline of events in the controversy based on the whistleblower’s complaint and public reports.
Joe Biden didn’t mince words on Thursday as the Ukraine extortion and cover-up scandal continues to engulf the Trump presidency.
The report said Trump acted to advance his personal political interests, risking national security, and that White House officials intervened to shift evidence to a separate electronic system.
“This is a cover-up,” Pelosi said. “The president has been engaged in a cover-up all along.”
Longtime Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill said on Thursday that “in a land of ironies this reigns king.”
CNN’s faithful truth seeker Jim Acosta reported minutes ago that a person who spoke with President Trump in the last 24 hours says he sounded more distracted, but not appreciating the legal peril his administration faces.
House Intel Chair Adam Schiff said that Trump’s release of the Ukraine phone call had provided Democrats with confirmation of the whistleblower complaint.
Acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Joseph Maguire testified Thursday that he was unsure if it was illegal to solicit or accept anything of value from a foreign national in connection with an election. It is with great side eye that we report Maquire did this during a hearing about a whistleblower complaint surrounding the…
A whistleblower report released on Thursday said President Donald Trump not only abused his office in attempting to solicit Ukraine’s interference in the 2020 U.S. election for his own political benefit, but that the White House also tried to “lock down” evidence about that conduct.
Zelenskiy, a former comedian and political novice who was only elected in April, was blindsided on Wednesday when the White House released a memo summarizing his July 25 call with Trump during which the U.S. leader asked him to investigate Joe Biden and his son.
Here is a snapshot of highlights from the whistleblower report.
Top U.S. spy official says whistleblower who accused Trump acted in ‘good faith’ By Patricia Zengerle, David Morgan and Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The top U.S. intelligence official said on Thursday that a whistleblower who filed a complaint concerning President Donald Trump has “acted in good faith,” testifying after a House panel released the…
A whistleblower report released by a congressional panel on Thursday said President Donald Trump used his office to solicit Ukraine’s interference in the 2020 election to advance his personal political interests, risking U.S. national security.
In the memo, Trump asks Zelenskiy directly to investigate his political rival, Democratic challenger Joe Biden, Biden’s son’s business dealings, and a Ukraine prosecutor.
The memo is more damning than anticipated, said Adam Schiff, the Democrat who heads the House Intelligence Committee. He called it a “mafia-like shakedown” of a foreign leader.
Senator Ben Sasse, who has been critical of fellow Republican Trump, said there were “real troubling things here.”
“Republicans ought not just circle the wagons” to protect Trump, he said after leaving a secure room where senators read the complaint.
The intelligence community’s inspector general alerted in a new, previously undisclosed warning that President Trump’s July 25 call with the then newly elected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy potentially exposed him to “serious national security and counter-intelligence risks.”
“It is not part of his job to use taxpayer money to shake down other countries for the benefit of his campaign,” Pelosi said of Trump after his White House released a redacted version of the promised full transcript of his Ukraine call.
Russia state TV not only directed Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden for loser Donald Trump, who can’t win an election without cheating, but also bragged with 100% confidence that Senate Republican will never impeach the man “whom we elected.”
Donald Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in a July telephone call to investigate whether former Vice President Joe Biden shut down an investigation into a company that employed his son, a summary of the call released by the Trump administration on Wednesday showed.
This is an open-and-shut case for Democrats. What Donald Trump has already admitted to doing regarding Ukraine is impeachable.
Mitch McConnell blew a gasket on after Nancy Pelosi announced that the House will move forward on a formal impeachment inquiry.
If Sen. Kennedy’s performance was an early glimpse of how Republicans will handle the coming impeachment battle, they’re in big trouble.
“There is no requirement that there be a quid pro quo in the conversation. If the president brings up, he wants them to investigate something, his political opponent, that is self-evident that it is not right. We don’t ask foreign governments to help us in our elections.”
The Washington Post op-ed is just the latest indication that House Democrats could be approaching a tipping point when it comes to impeachment.Â
Former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade said on Monday that the Ukraine controversy is pretty clear-cut: Donald Trump broke the law.
Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy didn’t need much time to lay out just how ridiculous Donald Trump’s claims about Joe Biden are.
A federal judge has rejected the Trump administration’s bid to dismiss a lawsuit by animal rights groups seeking to dissolve a wildlife advisory board they said was stacked with politically connected donors and pro-hunting enthusiasts.
There is too much at stake for the public to be clinging to impeachment unicorns. It’s clear that impeachment will do nothing to Donald Trump. Sure, it should still happen because it’s the right legal process, but it won’t save this country.
Trump says he discussed Biden in call with Ukrainian president By Nandita Bose and Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he discussed Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden and his son in a call with Ukraine’s president. Trump’s statement to reporters about his July 25 call with Ukrainian President…
Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats who have been reluctant to go there with impeachment will have to think long and hard about what steps to take next.
Emboldened by congressional inaction and fearful of Joe Biden’s candidacy, Donald Trump is committing more crimes to win another presidential election.
Whistleblower Gate just blew up right into Trump’s soft spot: Bribery.
A president cannot bribe or accept bribes. He cannot order others to do so on his behalf.
Yes, that’s right. In addition to the constitutional standard that lists bribery as a cause for impeachment, President Trump’s Ukraine whistleblower problem just got a lot worse.
“Mr. Barr and the Department of Justice’s job in their mind is to protect the president,” he told reporters. “And it doesn’t matter if that violates the laws.”
That type of arrangement – particularly if Trump spoke about it over the phone with the Ukrainian president – would be enough to set off alarm bells.
Donald Trump hasn’t even been in the White House for three years, but a new poll shows that America is already tired of his presidency.
Anybody who’s been paying attention for the past three years knows Trump is dumb enough to say something inappropriate to a foreign leader.
Rachel Maddow said that former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski revealed himself to be a criminal liar during his House testimony.
