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State Department official Catherine Croft told House impeachment investigators that at least one unnamed official raised concerns and was “annoyed” about former Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter doing business with corruption-linked Ukrainian company Burisma Holdings, transcripts released on Monday show.

Schiff on Monday hailed the State Department officials who will testify this week in the impeachment inquiry as courageous and patriotic.

Silicon Valley, true to form, is following the lead of the mainstream media — it’s prohibiting users from talking about the alleged Ukraine whistleblower, Eric Ciaramella.

Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley defended President Donald Trump amid the House Democrats’ push for impeachment in a Tuesday appearance on NBC’s “Today.” Haley argued that when looking at the accusations against Trump of a quid pro

President Donald Trump announced Monday that he would release the transcript of the first conversation he had with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

The law does not explicitly prevent anyone other than the intelligence community inspector general (ICIG) who received the complaint from outing the identity of the so-called “whistleblower.”

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) insisted on Sunday that the impeachment inquiry would be “invalid” and “a complete joke” without testimony from the anonymous “whistleblower” who triggered the probe and from Hunter Biden, whose work in Ukraine is at the center of the investigation.

House Intelligence Committee chair Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) has yet to release the transcript of the closed-door testimony of former National Security Council senior director for European and Russian affairs Tim Morrison.

The 2020 Democrat presidential field is about to get locked by filing deadlines and that is making a lot of Democrats nervous.

Ambassador Gordon Sondland never had any firsthand knowledge of any “quid pro quo” involving U.S. military aid for Ukraine in exchange for Ukraine conducting investigations, according to his recently released closed-door testimony as part of the impeachment inquiry.

Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley claims that former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly had tried to circumvent President Donald Trump and make their own policy decisions.

As reports circulated identifying Eric Ciaramella as the alleged “whistleblower” driving efforts to impeach President Donald Trump, Wikipedia editors attempted to mention him in articles on the site. However, Wikipedia admins used their advanced privileges to delete records of his name, block creation of pages on Ciaramella, and even banned his name completely. 

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) issued a statement response to a letter from ranking member Devin Nunes (R-CA), stating that he would not run a “sham” investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden as part of the impeachment effort against President Donald Trump.

As Democrats ride onto a political battlefield—The Battle of Impeachment—perhaps they are now wishing they had started their mission with more situational awareness.

On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the week’s developments in the impeachment probe show “New and improved guilt” and that there was a quid pro quo which was “a concerted campaign.” Brooks said, “New and improved

Nunes sent a letter to Schiff requesting that the House Intelligence Committee chairman testify as part of the impeachment inquiry.

Google-owned video platform YouTube has followed Facebook in saying it will also ban mentions of the name of the alleged Ukraine whistleblower, Eric Ciaramella.

Appearing on “CBS News Sunday Morning,” former United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley expressed opposition to the House Democrats’ partisan impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump. 

House impeachment probe witness and the White House’s top Ukraine expert, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, with the help of Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), was evasive in answering questions from Republicans during the colonel’s closed-door deposition late last month.

Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, who was fired by President Donald Trump in May, misled lawmakers in her testimony she gave as part of House Democrats’ impeachment probe, according to a report.

In a Friday interview with Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) issued a stark warning for the House Democrats’ impeachment process over the alleged quid pro quo demand during a phone call between President Donald Trump and

Social media companies including Facebook have launched a crackdown against accounts that publish the name of the alleged Ukraine whistleblower, Eric Ciaramella.

Yovanovitch said she knew she served at President Trump’s pleasure but still expressed anger and disbelief when he fired her.

The third-highest official at the U.S. State Department told House impeachment investigators Wednesday that there is no link between the U.S. freezing aid to Ukraine and President Donald Trump’s requests for investigations, Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) declared.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of “CNN Tonight,” Representative Denny Heck (D-WA) stated that there is “more evidence” that the president engaged in a “shakedown” of Ukraine than there is to support the idea that the sun will rise in the east

Mark S. Zaid, the attorney representing the so-called “whistleblower” in the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, tweeted in 2017 that the “coup has started,” adding that “impeachment will follow ultimately.”

U.S. diplomat Bill Taylor, during his deposition last month, identified the New York Times as the sole source of his claim that President Donald Trump wanted Ukraine to help him get dirt on Joe Biden.

U.S. diplomat Bill Taylor told impeachment investigators last month that Ukraine did not know the U.S. had temporarily frozen aid at the time of the July 25 phone call, making quid pro quo impossible.

Ukrainian company Burisma Holdings hired a consulting firm that attempted to capitalize on the business’s relationship with former Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter to secure meetings with the U.S. State Department, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, citing emails.

House Democrats on Wednesday afternoon released the transcripts of its interviews with William Taylor, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, as part of their partisan impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump.

While speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) stated that President Trump’s policy towards Ukraine “was incoherent. … They seem to be incapable of forming a quid pro quo.” Graham said, “I’m not going to read these transcripts.

Republican lawmakers are quietly discussing whether to call Joe and Hunter Biden as witnesses in the event of an impeachment trial in the Senate, the Washington Post reports.

Eric Ciaramella, whom Real Clear Investigations suggests is the likely so-called whistleblower, was part of an Obama administration email chain celebrating the eventual signing of a $1 billion U.S. loan guarantee to Ukraine.

Paul said he will probably disclose the name of the whistleblower whose complaint prompted House Democrats to open an impeachment inquiry.

The former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine said she did not know if her staff monitored Trump, Jr. and other conservative figures on social media.

CLAIM: Sondland revised his statement to admit a quid pro quo. VERDICT: False. He “presumed” there was one — after media reported one that did not exist.