Despite Trump’s claim that impeachment is a partisan hoax, it’s increasingly clear that it was the people inside the White House who spurred the inquiry.
The revelation further confirms that those inside the White House understood – in real time – that Trump was abusing his power.
Richard J. Danzig and Sean O’Keefe, who were Navy secretaries under Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush, warned of President Trump, “His values are not those of our military. It will do grievous damage to our armed services if they become so.â€
A GOP leader using Russian footage might be surprising in the Republican Party of yesteryear. In 2019, though, it’s completely on-brand.
In light of the explosive new reporting, the Republican lawmaker shouldn’t be part of conducting the impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump.
President Trump has now convinced himself that impeachment is all a giant dirty trick created by Democrats to help Joe Biden.
Not only was Giuliani acting at the direction of the president, but he seems to have been acting with the support of Mike Pompeo’s State Department.
Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) unloaded on GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham, who has completely sold what’s left of his soul to protect Donald Trump from impeachment.
Stop pretending the GOP can be convinced to do the right thing and start treating them as what they are: accomplices in Trump’s extortion scheme.
The President illegally asked a foreign country to help him in a U.S. election. Again. Yes, Donald Trump is guilty and he did it.
Rachel Maddow highlighted a moment during Fiona Hill’s testimony that the GOP counsel accidentally asked a question that elicited a damning response.
Lindsey Graham’s shameless efforts to protect a criminal president won’t do anything to change the trajectory of the House impeachment probe.
Mulvaney’s defense would have a little more credibility if he crawled out from behind his lawyer and delivered it under oath.
Lev Parnas, one of several indicted associates of Trump’s personal lawyer and shadow State Department Rudy Giuliani, helped arrange meetings and calls in Europe for Republican Representative Devin Nunes in 2018.
Rep. Adam Schiff delivered a fiery takedown of Republicans on Tuesday at the conclusion of the day’s public impeachment hearings.
Two witnesses hand-picked by Republicans flopped in a big way on Tuesday, and it may have sealed Donald Trump’s impeachment.
It’s not just Democrats who believe Donald Trump is guilty. The president’s own behavior demonstrates that even he knows it.
The new CNN report shows not only that he knew them, but he had tasked them with pressuring Ukraine to dig up dirt on the Biden family.
Crimes and impeachable offenses aside, this behavior alone makes Donald Trump unfit to be president of the United States.
As his weapon, Trump used the same creepy sexual domination he used to stalk Hillary Clinton during a televised debate to which he had invited women with whom her husband had had sexual relationships.
It took former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner all of 30 seconds to dismantle the Republican Party’s latest impeachment talking point.
Trump knows that if he weren’t in the White House, none of these events would be taking place at his properties, so he’s milking it as much as he can.
Even before the damning testimony starts Wednesday, the House has announced eight more witnesses who plan to testify next week.
Donald Trump wants to terminate the national security official who first reported the Ukraine whistleblower complaint to Congress.
A simple way of determining who is losing the impeachment fight is to look at which side has changed its argument the most.
New testimony confirms what Hillary Clinton said during the 2016 presidential campaign: Donald Trump is a puppet of Vladimir Putin.
The president and party that claims to represent law and order are now on the record committing and burying criminal behavior.
It’s a terrifying reality that the president of the United States is seen as an unfit man-child by those who work closest to him.
Trump freaked out on Thursday hours after it was reported that he has to pay $2 million in damages for using his so-called charity as a personal slush fund.
It’s possible that former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani will face criminal charges, and if he does, he could bring down the president with him.
Graham openly admitted on Tuesday that he plans to bury his head in the sand and not read witness transcripts that incriminate Donald Trump.
Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky is a walking version of just how far the Republican Party has fallen in the Donald Trump era of American politics
Like most of Donald Trump’s cheap and desperate reality TV stunts, this one crashed and burned within a single news cycle.
The former GOP leader said that what Republicans don’t understand is that they, too, will go down when Trump’s house of cards ultimately collapses.
Things are so bad for Donald Trump that it appears the Republican Party is making up an “internal” poll to make him feel better.
Testimony from John Bolton – a fixture of Republican politics for decades – could completely obliterate whatever is left of the GOP’s impeachment defense.
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.
The fact that the GOP-friendly map is now shifting toward the Democrats shows just how badly impeachment is crushing them.
Trump lacks the temperament to set aside impeachment. Constantly throwing tantrums about the process only reminds the American people that it’s happening.
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.
While Trump spends his Saturday on the golf course, Democrats are working through the weekend on their ongoing impeachment investigation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We woke up to the tragic news that Elijah Cummings died. He was a great warrior for justice, for civil rights, for fairness. What can you say about a great man who dedicated his life to making things better for the people of Baltimore, of Maryland and of America? He may be resting in power…
Trump’s call with Ukraine and the subsequent cover-up are one part of what appears to be an emerging counter-intelligence investigation into the president.Â
Cory Booker may have had difficulty getting speaking time early in the debate, but he made a splash on Tuesday night by standing up for Joe Biden.
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.
There is no question Donald Trump understood that his joint efforts with bumbling lawyer Rudy Giuliani to extort Ukraine were crooked.
Both before and after Trump’s infamous call with Ukraine, people inside the administration were deeply disturbed by the president’s conduct.
As more information comes to light surrounding the Ukraine scandal, it is becoming more difficult for the GOP to act like Trump’s behavior is acceptable.
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.
Trump’s immunity claim was “repugnant to the nation’s governmental structure and constitutional values,” Marrero wrote. “The court cannot square a vision of presidential immunity that would place the President above the law.”
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.”
Donald Trump showed us why whistleblowers need protection. He all but ordered a hit on the whistleblower who exposed his shakedown of the Ukraine and more when it became all too clear that his presidency is cooked. His defenders will continue to insist that Trump ust does things differently. But here’s the reality: every president’s…
For an administration that lacks direction in just about every area, it’s increasingly clear that extortion is a staple of their foreign policy.
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.
There is no question that Donald Trump’s phone call with the president of Ukraine was damning, but his scheme stretches far beyond one conversation.
Until these shameless Republicans in Congress jump off this soon-to-derail Trump train, they should be called what they are: cowards.
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.
Joe Biden didn’t mince words on Thursday as the Ukraine extortion and cover-up scandal continues to engulf the Trump presidency.
Rachel Maddow said Donald Trump’s extortion scheme with Ukraine makes him an active counterintelligence threat to the United States of America.
The impeachment tide has rapidly shifted since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a formal inquiry earlier in the week.
The MSNBC host got Trump’s 2020 communications director to admit that it’s a crime to work with a foreign government to influence an election.
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.
Trump was unable to offer a credible defense as to why he pressured a foreign leader to interfere in an American election, so he played his greatest hits instead.
“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.”
The Democratic lawmaker said Trump is trying to shape the narrative surrounding his Ukraine extortion scheme, but the cake is already baked.
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.
The story of Ukraine proves that process is more powerful than a magic wand. Indeed in the days since the first reporting about Donald Trump’s alleged attempt to extort dirt on Joe Biden from Ukraine in exchange for previously promised military aid, the momentum for impeachment has built unlike at any time during the Trump…
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.
Richard Painter says it’s time for Democrats in the House to hold an immediate impeachment vote, regardless of what the Senate GOP does.
Biden also told the media to keep its eye on the ball and not get sucked into Trump’s conspiracy theories, which have already been debunked.
