Trump Thinks He Can Talk Democrats Out Of Impeaching Him
President Donald Trump believes that he can get Democrats to vote against impeachment, and stop Speaker Pelosi from having the votes to impeach him.
President Donald Trump believes that he can get Democrats to vote against impeachment, and stop Speaker Pelosi from having the votes to impeach him.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) said that Trump was kidding when he asked China to investigate Joe Biden on national television earlier this week.
Trump is trying to pin all the blame for the Ukraine call that touched off the whistleblower complaint that resulted in the impeachment probe on Rick Perry.
All 53 Republican Senators were asked to respond to Trump’s demand that China investigates Joe Biden, not a single on or their staffs replied to requests for comment.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) warned that Trump could be the last Republican president ever because he is dragging the whole party down.
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 top Republican in the House, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) humiliated himself by trying to push a debunked Trump conspiracy about Adam Schiff.
Here is the President of Finland, Sauli Niinistö, looking like he wants to run out of the room as Trump blows up over impeachment.
Speaker Pelosi and Chairman Schiff’s joint Wednesday press conference triggered an impeachment meltdown by President Donald Trump.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) warned Trump that Democrats aren’t fooling around on impeachment.
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.
The woman targeted in 137 Republican ads – Speaker Pelosi – got a hero’s welcome in her home district on Tuesday morning as the intensity of the impeachment inquiry against President Trump grows.
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.
A new Quinnipiac University Poll reveals that the Ukraine scandal has erased the majority opposition to removing Trump from office.
A pattern of behavior is emerging, as Trump tried to pressure the Prime Minister of Australia for dirt he could use to discredit the origins of the Mueller report.
Trump told his allies that he would get worried if support for impeachment hit 50%, which it did over the weekend. MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell reported, “Our White House correspondents Kristen Welker and Geoff Bennett are both reporting that the president told allies days ago he would start worrying about losing Republican support if national polls…
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he has no choice and will hold a trial if the House impeaches Trump.
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.”
A new ABC News/Ipsos poll found that 64% of Americans believe that Trump tried to pressure Ukraine for dirt on Biden and the vast majority aren’t surprised.
Some moderate Democratic lawmakers who a week ago had little interest in talking about an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump say they are now optimistic they can sell it to voters at home during a recess of the U.S. Congress over the next two weeks.
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.
The Connecticut Post became the first newspaper in the United States to call on President Donald Trump to resign from office.
Historian Jon Meacham has some bad news for Trump: The next seven days of his presidency could be even worse than the last.
Rudy Giuliani’s broadcasting and tweeting of his texts with the State Department have resulted in Mike Pompeo being subpoenaed.
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.
Adam Schiff is taking the lead on impeachment, and House Democratic leadership want Trump impeached by Thanksgiving.
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.
Impeachment hasn’t backfired on Democrats. According to a new Politico/Morning Consult poll, there has been a 13 point swing in favor of impeachment.
During a press conference, Trump said that if he is going to be investigated, Vice President Pence’s phone calls with Ukraine should also be investigated.
A majority of the House of Representatives now supports the impeachment of President Donald J. Trump for high crimes against his country.
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.
Republican strategist Mike Murphy said that he was told by a Republican Senator that 30 Republican Senators would vote to convict Trump on impeachment if the vote was secret.
This is an open-and-shut case for Democrats. What Donald Trump has already admitted to doing regarding Ukraine is impeachable.
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.
The White House put out a statement on Democrats beginning an impeachment inquiry into Trump that managed to be both weak and pathetic.
If Sen. Kennedy’s performance was an early glimpse of how Republicans will handle the coming impeachment battle, they’re in big trouble.
In a bipartisan move, the Senate now wants to speak to the intelligence staffer whistleblower about the report Donald Trump tried to hide during which he reportedly extorted Ukraine to help him in 2020.
Buzz is growing around Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announcing a formal impeachment investigation into Donald Trump this afternoon.
Civil rights icon, Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) powerfully called on the House to protect democracy by beginning impeachment proceedings against Trump.
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…
As the Ukraine scandal grows, House Democrats are considering a big aggressive step of creating a select committee on Trump impeachment.
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
Richard Painter says it’s time for Democrats in the House to hold an immediate impeachment vote, regardless of what the Senate GOP does.
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.
Not only are Dems on the verge of holding Lewandowski in contempt, but he gave the committee fresh ammunition in their ongoing impeachment investigation.
Corey Lewandowski’s behavior during a congressional impeachment hearing on Tuesday crossed the line into obstruction of justice.
Trump sang the praises of Corey Lewandowski who shamelessly sucked up to the president while trying to obstruct a House impeachment investigation.
Corey Lewandowski and House Republicans are engaging in a variety of stall tactics and trying to adjourn the Trump impeachment investigation hearing to cover-up potential presidential crimes.
House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) said that Trump should be impeached even if Mitch McConnell won’t allow a vote in the Senate.
Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) is calling on House Democrats to immediately take up impeachment proceedings against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
When it comes to impeachment, Democrats have a slew of Trump offenses to choose from if they pursue a formal inquiry in the coming weeks and months.
When Trump sees Reid’s response to his juvenile tantrum – and it’s almost certain that he will – it’s likely to send him into another fit of rage.Â
Trump’s DOJ is arguing in court that the impeachment investigation isn’t real, so they don’t have to comply with House Judiciary subpoenas.
House Republicans are so scared of the criminal liability surrounding Trump that they tried to block lawyers from questioning impeachment witnesses.
The House Judiciary Committee announced that Trump impeachment investigation hearings will begin next week, and go beyond the Mueller report.
The House Judiciary Committee will meet on Thursday to consider options for procedures going forward on hearings on impeaching Donald Trump.
Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon said the House Judiciary Committee could be moving toward a vote on articles of impeachment by the end of this year.
A new poll finds that while Democrats want impeachment, the rest of the country has little stomach or interest in removing Trump from office.
Rep. Brad Schneider (D-IL) became the 134th House Democrat to call for a formal impeachment investigation into Donald Trump.
House Judiciary Democrats argued in court that the need former White House counsel Don McGahn’s testimony as part of their impeachment investigation.
House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) said that his committee would be voting on Trump impeachment by the end of the year.
Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-CA) became the 118 House Democrat to support opening an impeachment investigation into Donald Trump.
Sen. Lindsey Graham warns that there would be collateral damage if the House tries to impeach Donald Trump.
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Despite the narrative that Mueller’s hearing will doom any impeachment efforts, Maddow pointed out that just the opposite seems to be true a day later.
Democrats in the House aren’t afraid to launch impeachment proceedings in an election year if that’s where the facts lead them.
Before House Democrats can convince the rest of the country to impeach Trump, they need to convince their 31 members in districts that Trump carried.
At the national convention in Detroit, the NAACP unanimously supported a resolution calling for the impeachment of Trump.
The House will vote on Wednesday afternoon on articles of impeachment that were filed by Rep. Al Green (D-TX) related to Trump’s fitness for office. Rep. Green announced that he would be filing his articles of impeachment against Trump in a statement provided to PoliticusUSA on Tuesday, “I will read articles of impeachment on the…
A handful of Republicans and the House’s only independent, Rep. Justin Amash, joined with Democrats to condemn Trump’s bigotry.
Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich referred to Trump as a mad king who is laying the predicate for his own impeachment.
A new Gallup poll has found that support for impeaching Donald Trump is now higher than at any point before Richard Nixon resigned.
Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-MA) is roughly the 80th House Democrat to call for impeachment proceedings to begin against Donald Trump.
Trump is going to block former top aide Annie Donaldson from testifying before the House Judiciary Committee with a bogus claim of absolute immunity.
House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff warned Trump that if he defies a court order compelling him to turn over witnesses and documents, he will call for impeachment.
Tom Steyer is making sure that Trump sees his new impeachment ad by airing it on Fox and Friends. Tom Steyer is airing impeachment ad on Fox and Friends Politico described the ad as, “The ad features Trump saying he’s “fighting all the subpoenas†and also shows the bit from the president’s interview with ABC’s…
A new poll shows that among Democrats, the drumbeat for impeachment proceedings is getting louder and more intense. At 27%, overall support for impeachment is up 10% from last month. Another 24% of those polled support continuing the investigation. The effect of these numbers, in isolation of any other consideration, is bad news for Donald…
Speaker Pelosi said on Wednesday morning that if Democrats have the goods, they must impeach Donald Trump.
Republican supporters of Trump now think it’s okay for the president to be a criminal if the economy is growing and the jobless rate is falling.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) called Trump’s bluff on impeachment after the president tried to twist her words into a Trump reelection quote. Trump twists AOC’s words on impeachment AOC Tweeted: Mr. President, you’re from Queens. You may fool the rest of the country, but I’ll call your bluff any day of the week. Opening an…
Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters said she believes Donald Trump should be impeached because he is unworthy to be president of the United States.
Within the first few minutes of his opening statement, John Dean showed us he was ready and able to wipe out the Republican Kiddie Caucus.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders appeared on Fox and Friends to denounce John Dean’s testimony because Dean’s comparison of Trump to Nixon clearly hurt the White House.
Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) left Fox News with no response after he called out Trump’s birtherism against Barack Obama. Rep. Cicilline said on Fox News Sunday, “I don’t have any difficulty with those words It’s kind of rich to have the president complain about this when he began a campaign with ‘lock her up’ as…
If the Democrats move forward on impeachment, they should leave Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans completely out of the process.
House Oversight Committee chairman Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) has moved on the contempt vote for Wilbur Ross and William Barr after they refused to turn over census citizenship question documents.
Impeachment of a U.S. president does not mean an immediate ouster from office, or as House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi put it on Wednesday, a “bye, bye birdie.”
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said that House Democrats are having a discussion, but they are united in stopping Trump’s lawlessness and obstruction.
The House Judiciary Committee has announced that they will hold a series of hearings on the Mueller report, which is another step toward opening an impeachment investigation.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said the House isn’t there yet on impeachment, but if Trump keeps stonewalling investigations, they may impeach even if it fails in the Senate.
Trump doesn’t want to be impeached because he thinks that impeachment would be bad, not for the country, but for his personal brand.
Franklin Graham warned that millions of Trump supporters would start a civil war if Trump is brought down for any reason.