The corrupt president has used the Department of Justice as his political weapon, and William Barr has been happy to cooperate from day one.
The president and party that claims to represent law and order are now on the record committing and burying criminal behavior.
Republicans have also amped up their reckless rhetoric directed toward the whistleblower, even calling for the individual to be exposed.
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.
Political spin from Trump and his allies is going to mean increasingly less as the damning facts continue to pour out of the impeachment inquiry.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Both before and after Trump’s infamous call with Ukraine, people inside the administration were deeply disturbed by the president’s conduct.
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.
The polling shows that public opinion is with the Democrats as they continue to ramp up their inquiry, not with Trump-defending Republicans.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
“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.”
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…
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.”
Trump’s promise to rid Washington of corruption and special interest influence was just one of the many lies he told his supporters to get elected.
The Mueller report revealed Lewandowski knew what he was doing was wrong regarding helping Trump obstruct justice.‬
The FBI only interviewed nine of the ten witnesses they were allowed, and they didn’t bother with witnesses who confirmed other accusations against Kavanaugh. The FBI also didn’t use the entire week.
A U.S. House panel on Wednesday opened an investigation into U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross’ potential role in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s decision to rebuke an Alabama weather service office for dismissing a warning on Twitter from President Donald Trump about Hurricane Dorian.
The Democratic lawmaker said the committee he sits on will take Mueller’s testimony as an opportunity to expose the president’s crimes.
The U.S. House Judiciary Committee said on Tuesday it would draw up a resolution this week authorizing subpoenas to compel testimony from a dozen current and former Trump administration officials, including the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway told reporters Tuesday morning that Trump’s labor secretary Alex Acosta is doing a great job in the wake of the new Jeffrey Epstein child sex trafficking indictment.
U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet is “appalled” at the conditions in which the United States is keeping detained migrants and refugees, including children, her office said in a statement on Monday.
With U.S. military armored vehicles parked nearby, workers set up a red-carpeted stage on Wednesday for President Donald Trump’s planned July Fourth speech, as critics accused him of hijacking a nonpartisan celebration of America’s Independence Day.
If you’re wondering why the Senate majority leader has sold his soul to protect this corrupt and unfit president, look no further.
Former White House Communications Director Hope Hicks, once a close aide to President Donald Trump, has agreed to turn over documents related to his 2016 election campaign to congressional investigators, a top Democratic lawmaker said on Tuesday.
Republican and Democratic U.S. senators said on Wednesday they would introduce 22 separate joint resolutions seeking to block President Donald Trump’s plan to sidestep congressional review and complete more than $8 billion in military sales to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan.
The White House has told Hope Hicks, a former close aide to President Donald Trump, not to turn over documents to the House Judiciary Committee related to her time in the administration, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Politically appointed U.S. environmental officials last year overruled concerns of career scientists about air pollution in a Wisconsin county where U.S. President Donald Trump has pushed for a factory to be built by Foxconn Technology Co, newly released internal emails show.
Three out of four chairmen and ranking Republicans wouldn’t even respond when asked how they reviewed the report.
As the U.S. government prepares to defend the 2020 presidential election from cyber threats, the federal agency charged with helping administer elections, the Election Assistance Commission, says it is “strained to the breaking point,†according to Chairwoman Christy McCormick.
President Trump is costing the U.S. taxpayer $102 million plus for his golf outings, and because he refused to divest himself of his business interests like all other presidents have done, he is making money off of his outrageous expenditures.
The president is stonewalling multiple congressional investigations by ignoring subpoenas, refusing to allow current and former advisers to testify, and not handing over documents, steps that have aggravated a confrontation with Congress.
Robert Mueller seems to have succumbed to his party’s attacks on truth, which is truly unfortunate for this nation and a black mark on the Republican’s resume.
Mueller’s team has expressed reticence to him testifying publicly because they do not want him to appear “political.”
U.S. farmers, who helped carry Trump to his surprise 2016 election win, have been among the hardest hit as China has imposed tariffs on imports of U.S. agricultural products including soybeans, pork and grain sorghum in response to U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods.
Now, increasing frustrations over the prolonged dispute are prompting some rural residents in Iowa, home of the first presidential nominating contest in February, to consider candidates other than President Donald Trump in the 2020 election.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Friday that he would not meet a congressional demand for six years of President Donald Trump’s tax returns, all but guaranteeing a federal court battle with Congress over the records.
It would be a lie to tell you that I don’t think this president deserves to be impeached, or that I don’t agree that the rule of law is imperiled if he is not impeached by the House and convicted by the Senate. Intellectually, impeachment is the only answer to the immoral, unlawful attacks on democracy that are Donald Trump’s presidency.
Trump the Taxer: Not only are Trump’s tariffs one of the largest tax hikes in decades, but they also amount to more than the tax increases from the first three years of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act.
Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) said that Democrats should consider using the doctrine of inherent contempt to arrest and jail Trump administration officials.
House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) subpoenaed Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig for six years of Trump’s tax returns.
The New York State Senate is going to pass a bill that would allow Congress to see Donald Trump’s state tax returns as part of their investigations.
The White House has decided to tell former White House counsel Don McGahn not to comply with a congressional subpoena for documents relating to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, ABC News reported on Tuesday, citing an interview with White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders.
