Fact check – CLAIM: President Donald Trump withheld a White House meeting, and military aid, from Ukraine until it agreed to announce investigations. VERDICT: False. There is no direct evidence of that in the entire House record.
Lead House impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) led his opening argument in the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump on Wednesday by citing allegations of “Russia collusion” that have been debunked.
Von Spakovsky: “Virtually the only difference between the Clinton resolution and the McConnell resolution was one change that was actually necessitated by the Democrats.”
Chief Justice John Roberts rebuked House impeachment managers and White House counsel early Wednesday morning after House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler accused the president’s lawyers of lying.
Cipollone to Nadler: “Mr. Nadler, you owe an apology to the President of the United States and his family. You owe an apology to the Senate. But most of all, you owe an apology to the American people.”
Fact check – CLAIM: The House impeachment inquiry was fair, inclusive, and obeyed precedent from previous impeachments. VERDICT: False.
Adam Schiff told the Senate that Trump asked Zelensky, “I have a favor to ask.” Trump actually said: “I would like you to do us a favor.”
House impeachment manager Rep. Val Demings (D-FL) used controversial phone records that were likely obtained unlawfully by the House Intelligence Committee to argue the Senate should subpoena State Department documents.
Fact check – CLAIM: Trump never raised the issue of corruption in Ukraine in 2017 or 2018. VERDICT: False. We know he did, from Schiff’s own inquiry.
Fact check – CLAIM: President Donald Trump believes that he has absolute power under Article II of the U.S. Constitution and must therefore be impeached. VERDICT: False. Trump was talking specifically about the power to fire Robert Mueller.
White House Counsel Pat Cipollone to the Senate: “They’re not here to steal one election; they’re here to steal two elections.”
House impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) tried to dismiss Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz as not a “reputable constitutional law expert.”
Jay Sekulow, one of the lawyers leading President Donald Trump’s defense in the Senate impeachment trial, attacked the arguments Tuesday by Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) against executive privilege — by quoting his own words at him.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA), the lead House manager for the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, played the same deceptively edited clip Democrats used in the House Judiciary Committee last month, misquoting the president as having claimed, several times, that the Constitution gave him absolute power.
Senate Democrats and the House impeachment managers complained Tuesday about the procedures proposed by the Senate Republican majority for the trial of President Donald Trump — after running an absurdly unfair House process.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) warned his colleagues Tuesday in a speech on the Senate floor that calling witnesses in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump would prolong the process.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and the other House impeachment managers sent a letter Tuesday to White House Counsel Pat Cipollone seeking to disqualify him from representing President Donald Trump at the Senate trial.
The White House released its “trial memorandum” in response to impeachment on Monday, and it is a tour de force.
Former South Bend, Indiana, mayor Pete Buttigieg told an audience of minority voters in Iowa on Monday that racism is “woven into the American story itself.”
The White House filed its official brief in response to the House of Representatives’ articles of impeachment on Monday, arguing that it had been entirely “appropriate” for President Donald Trump to raise questions in a phone conversation last July with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky about former Vice President Joe Biden’s conflict of interest regarding his son, Hunter Biden, who was on the board of a the Ukrainian energy company, Burisma.
Without the presence of Breitbart News’ live stream, the Second Amendment rally might have been portrayed by hostile media as the next Charlottesville.
King: “We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom.”
The New York Times smeared a Trump supporter from Queens, New York, as a “white nativist” in the course of its endorsement of Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) in the 2020 Democrat presidential primary on Sunday evening.
Former Vice President Joe Biden linked President Donald Trump to the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in a sermon on Sunday in a black church in South Carolina on the eve of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
The New York Times announced Sunday evening that it had endorsed Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) in a rare dual endorsement for the Democratic Party 2020 presidential nomination.
It was Alex Marlow’s unique foresight on that fateful Friday evening in late May 2011 that made Weinergate a story at all. Marlow saw it as a cybersecurity story, not a sex scandal.
The mainstream media are using claims by Lev Parnas, facing criminal indictment on federal campaign finance charges, to further a years-long Democrat effort to attack House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Devin Nunes (R-CA).
A vote for Bernie Sanders is a vote for authenticity and an expression of despair — but it is also a chance to send the party establishment a message,
Conservatives will not forgive Senate Republicans if they buckle and bow to an illegitimate House impeachment or Democrats’ outrageous demands.
Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats tried this week to re-enact the assassination of Julius Caesar — but this version will end in hilarity.
By Democrats’ and journalists’ standards, President Barack Obama ought to have been impeached for the seven times the GAO found his administration violated federal law.
Lev Parnas suggested that the reason for an announcement by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was that no one “trusted” Ukraine to conduct an investigation
There are serious questions about Lev Parnas’s credibility, and many of his claims about Trump are dubious or contradicted by other evidence.
Homelessness is the number one issue for California voters heading into the 2020 presidential primary in March, according to a new poll by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC), as reported by the Sacramento Bee.
A Delta Airlines jet flying from Los Angeles to Shanghai on Tuesday was forced to make an emergency landing at LAX — and dumped jet fuel on the city, including on children playing outside at Park Avenue Elementary School in Cudahy.
The Republican-controlled Senate gave out commemorative pens during President Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial in 1999.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) declared herself “sad” as she used more than a dozen commemorative pens to sign the two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on Wednesday evening.
DES MOINES, Iowa — Billionaire left-wing donor-turned-candidate Tom Steyer told Breitbart News in the spin room after Tuesday evening’s Democrat debate that he would not use tariffs on China to force it to adopt climate change policies.
Pete Buttigieg told a town hall meeting that President Donald Trump had used “chest-thumping militarism” instead of sound foreign policy in the Middle East.
Sanders camp: “The framing of the question was definitely one-sided. … The question should have been asked, ‘Senator, did you say this,’ and let him answer.”
