CNN’s John Avlon: Susan Collins Must Admit Trump Never “Learned His Lesson” When She Voted Not to Impeach
NN’s John Avlon says Senator Susan Collins (D-Maine) must admit that former President Donald Trump never “learned his lesson.”
NN’s John Avlon says Senator Susan Collins (D-Maine) must admit that former President Donald Trump never “learned his lesson.”
Alexander Vindman, the former lieutenant colonel and Director for European Affairs for the United States National Security Council (NSC) as well as a star witness during President Donald Trump’s impeachment proceedings this year, said Trump is Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s “useful idiot” in an interview with The Atlantic. “President Trump should be considered to be a useful idiot…
Donald Trump doesn’t give a damn about corruption; he never has. His spree of pardons on Tuesday just confirms that fact.
Donald Trump said that he did, in fact, personally send Rudy Giuliani to Ukraine to dig up dirt on his political opponents.
It’s starting to look like Rudy Giuliani and William Barr are joining forces to dig up dirt on Donald Trump’s election year political opponents.
Trump’s presidency would likely have been over – and may not have even existed in the first place – if not for the propaganda Fox News pushes.
Your repeated ripping – don’t miss this, folks – let us know that you were not having it; this House is not accepting a shoe-in dictator from a variety-reality show/rally. Your calm, deliberate hands, here in the last few seconds of this game, will become an iconic image of discipline, restraint, civility, and yes, diplomacy. Historic. Heroic. Classic. Classroom stuff.
Sec. of State Mike Pompeo dropped F-bombs and shouted at NPR All Things Considered host Mary Louise Kelly for asking about Ukraine.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is going to Ukraine next week in a move seen by some as done to keep the Ukrainians quiet during the impeachment trial. Buzzfeed News reported: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will travel to Ukraine next week, just as the Senate’s impeachment trial of Donald Trump on charges he…
The NSA and CIA are giving in to pressure from Trump and refusing to turn over documents related to the Ukraine scandal to Congress.
Michael Steele unloaded on GOP senators on Thursday, saying they should ashamed of themselves for taking an oath they don’t plan to keep.
This political pressure created by Nancy Pelosi has moved the needle just enough to force a handful of Republican senators supporting a fair trial.
Ultimately, if the reporting is true and there are, indeed, enough Republican votes to call witnesses, then Nancy Pelosi’s strategy was success.
Trump escalated a conflict with Iran because the president needed something to brag about and the Secretary of State was feeling morose because he couldn’t get an assassination the last time he asked the president for one. We are living in chilling times as we continue the descent into the dystopian hell that Trump promised…
It’s clear that the vice president was a key player in Trump’s plot to extort a foreign power into handing over dirt on a political opponent.
When asked what he thinks about John Bolton testifying in a potential Senate impeachment trial, Utah Sen. Mitt Romney said he’d be in favor of the idea.
Donald Trump is currently withholding dozens of emails that likely prove his guilt surrounding the freezing of military aid for Ukraine.
McConnell wouldn’t be going on Fox News to spout off if he was so sure that his Senate caucus was fully onboard with a phony trial.
This process has been a partisan sham because the GOP has sold its soul to a man whose entire presidency is built on a publicity stunt gone wrong.
Trump said Pelosi is hesitating because Democrats, not Republicans, are afraid of having witnesses testify during a potential Senate trial.
Biden tore into Republicans for smearing his family in order to distract from Donald Trump’s high crimes and misdemeanors.
Donald Trump and Republicans claim the House-led impeachment inquiry was driven by politics, not facts, but the American people disagree.
No matter what happens now, Trump will always be the third president in American history to be impeached – a constitutional criminal.
Mitch McConnell is still scrambling to get to 51 votes in the Senate to prevent a humiliating, bipartisan vote in favor of removal.
Images from major cities all across the country show that there is no shortage of enthusiasm for Donald Trump’s impeachment.
The number of House lawmakers voting in favor of impeachment articles against Trump crossed the majority mark Tuesday evening.
It’s imperative that the motion on impeachment be tabled. Otherwise, that power will be delegitimized by the McConnell/Graham rigged circus.
Trump is the least popular president in modern American history, so it’s no surprise that he feels the need to regularly invent good poll numbers.
Ever since Mitch McConnell admitted to Sean Hannity that he essentially wants a show trial In the Senate, he has faced bipartisan pushback.
There is no other way to accurately describe Republicans members of Congress: They are spineless cowards putting party before country.
Bill Barr is bending over backward to protect Donald Trump, and in the process, he’s burning the Justice Department to the ground.
The GOP gave up on arguing against the substance of the two impeachment articles and instead auditioned for spots in the president’s next campaign ad.
Rep. Jerry Nadler tore into Republicans as they attempted to invalidate the second article of impeachment – obstruction of Congress – against Donald Trump.
The way we answer the call for Donald Trump’s impeachment will reveal whether we want America to continue as an exceptional democracy or to become an ordinary dictatorship. The House Judiciary Committee is debating two articles of impeachment, namely obstruction of Congress and abuse of power. If, as expected, the articles of impeachment pass the…
Before Christmas, Donald Trump will likely become the first president in United States history to be impeached by the House of Representatives.
The L.A. Times dropped an editorial bomb on Donald Trump on Saturday, calling for the president’s impeachment and urging Republicans to join in the effort.
A handful of GOP senators are concerned that voting to clear Trump of any wrongdoing will come back to haunt them in 2020 and beyond.
Even setting aside Trump’s Ukraine shakedown, it should be disturbing to all Americans that he continues to allow foreign surveillance of his calls.
If Mitch McConnell follows Donald Trump’s lead on impeachment, the Republicans could lose their Senate majority next year.
Donald Trump had a devastating day during Wednesday’s impeachment hearings. Even his own constitutional expert, Jonathan Turley, conceded that swapping military aid for labelling a political opponent a criminal is an impeachable offense. This followed quibbling about procedure and a supposed need for more evidence. If the professor’s performance at Wednesday’s impeachment hearing was any…
With the nation’s attention fixed on the Ukraine scandal, it’s easy to forget that Bill Barr is running similar pressure campaigns all around the globe.
A growing body of evidence indicates that Nunes was a key player in Trump’s scheme to bribe Ukraine into handing over political dirt on the Bidens.
If you’re an immigrant, you have known blistering rhetoric and tweets for three years. You’ve lived with anti-immigrant policies that are so cruel and extreme that if anything in this world was made for a string of expletives, it’s the Miller-Trump anti-immigrant program. If you’re the Whistleblower whose complaint opened up the Ukraine investigation, Donald…
The Republican Party’s response to Donald Trump’s Ukraine crimes has confirmed once and for all that the GOP is dead and buried.
Not only isn’t there a war on Christmas, but Democrats will be celebrating the holiday this year by formally voting to impeach Donald Trump.
Donald Trump has had historically low support since taking office in 2017, but impeachment is likely to send those numbers plummeting into the cellar.
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.
During a rally in Florida on Tuesday, Donald Trump appeared to invent a war that is supposedly being waged by liberals on Thanksgiving.
The New York Times reported on Tuesday that the president was briefed on the whistleblower complaint before he unfroze the money.
The revelation further confirms that those inside the White House understood – in real time – that Trump was abusing his power.
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.
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.
Fiona Hill testified in Thursday’s impeachment hearings, “It became very clear that the White House meeting itself was being predicated on other issues, namely investigations and questions about interference in 2016.”
Former White House official Fiona Hill is testifying Thursday in the House impeachment inquiry, and her opening statement is a doozy for those who live in a Republican Bubble.
Hill says not only was Russia the country that “interfered” in our 2016 election, but they were successful.
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.
“This is the final word from the president of the United States. I want nothing,” President Trump told reporters on the White House lawn Wednesday, after making sure their cameras were rolling.
It’s not just Trump who’s in deep trouble after bombshell testimony on Wednesday. Rudy Giuliani, AG Bill Barr, and Secretary Pompeo are going down as well.
An Ohio farmer who left the Republican Party after getting destroyed by Donald Trump’s trade war is planning to challenge Rep. Jim Jordan
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.
Vindman testified that Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland raised all three elements of Biden, Burisma, and 2016 in the July 10th meeting with Ukrainians and that it was “explicit what he was calling for.”
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.
Trump is creating cracks at his favorite network as his behavior becomes increasingly unhinged during the ongoing impeachment inquiry.
Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani is being probed for Ukraine corruption related to his energy projects and push to investigate Joe Biden.
The event was supposed to rally support for the GOP’s candidate for governor in Louisiana. He quickly turned it into an impeachment therapy session.
It took former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner all of 30 seconds to dismantle the Republican Party’s latest impeachment talking point.
The first two witnesses set to testify on Wednesday mark only the beginning of a public impeachment process that will likely move very fast.
Even before the damning testimony starts Wednesday, the House has announced eight more witnesses who plan to testify next week.
As the eyes of America turn to the public impeachment hearings, Republicans are admitting that they plan to bury their heads in the sand.
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 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.
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.