The Associated Press on Wednesday deleted a grossly inaccurate tweet, which claimed that President Trump contradicted Ambassador Gordon Sondland, after readers and viewers on social media pointed out that it was actually a direct quote from the ambassador’s testimony.
Laura Cooper amended her testimony to note that her staff had received queries about the aid to Ukraine on July 25 — the same day as the call.
Gordon Sondland testified that “every meeting at the White House has conditions,” pushing back against questions by Eric Swalwell.
The GOP is standing firm in the wake of Ambassador Gordon Sondland’s Wednesday testimony, particularly highlighting his admission that he never heard President Trump tell him that aid to Ukraine was contingent on an investigation into the Bidens.
Yahoo! News reported Wednesday that the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has been seeking to interview the whistleblower who triggered the ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.
U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland testified during Wednesday’s hearing before the House Intelligence Committee that at the time, “no one shared any concerns” with him regarding President Trump’s July 25 call with Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Gordon Sondland told the impeachment inquiry: “I don’t recall President Trump ever talking to me about any security assistance, ever.”
House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes (R-CA) blasted Democrats in his opening statement Wednesday morning, pointing to their history of fabricating scandals as part of their desperate attempts to corner President Trump. “No conspiracy theory is too outlandish” for them, he said.
Rep. Devin Nunes said at the House impeachment hearing on Wednesday that Democrats have a history of making false claims against President Donald Trump.
U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland planned to testify at the House Intelligence Committee’s fifth public hearing in the impeachment inquiry on Wednesday morning that there was, in fact, a “quid pro quo” in President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine.
Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, will testify before the House Intelligence Committee Wednesday as part of the House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.
Far from condemning Trump, David Hale offered several new pieces of evidence that support the president’s defense against impeachment.
Gordon Sondland has testified that President Trump told him directly that he wanted “nothing” from Ukraine and “no quid pro quo.”
Kurt Volker maintained he never “took part” in what Democrats have characterized as President Donald Trump’s efforts to investigate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, in exchange for aid.
Former senior National Security Council (NSC) official Tim Morrison confirmed Tuesday afternoon that he did not think President Donald Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in July was illegal.
Congressional Democrats’ impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump backfired again on Tuesday when one of the star witnesses, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, admitted Hunter Biden seemed unqualified to hold an $83,000-per-month job with Burisma Holdings.
Adam Schiff falsely claimed Vindman was worried Trump had broken the law. In fact, Vindman admitted his concerns were moral, ethical, and policy-based — not legal.
Support for the Democrats’ partisan impeachment inquiry is dropping and opposition is growing among independent voters, a Politico-Morning Consult poll released Tuesday revealed.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) used a portion of his time during Tuesday’s public impeachment hearing before the House Intelligence Committee to remind the American people that Democrats have been hellbent on impeaching President Trump since the day he took office and slammed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for calling the duly elected president an “impostor.”
Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX) called out the Democrats at an impeachment hearing on Tuesday for continually changing the charges against President Donald Trump, with the latest being bribery, even though the more than 3,500 pages of transcripts so far have generated only one reference to it relating to former Vice President Joe Biden.
The Democrats’ star impeachment witness Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman refused to characterize former Vice President Joe Biden’s (D) threat — to withhold aid from Ukraine unless it fired a prosecutor investigating Burisma Holdings — as “wrong,” admitting that he viewed the video showing Biden bragging about his threat but refraining from condemning it.
Kurt Volker’s October 3 closed-door testimony has been the most beneficial to Trump’s defense in the impeachment inquiry.
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman testified that he gave the transcript to someone in the “intelligence community,” but would not say which agency.
Democrats accidentally undermined their own case against President Donald Trump on Tuesday morning when one of their star witnesses, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, confirmed Ukraine felt no pressure from the administration.
Democrats will hold the third public hearing of their impeachment inquiry with Ms. Jennifer Williams and Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman.
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman resented that Trump conducted his own foreign policy, independent of the bureaucrats and the “interagency consensus.”
Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale testified to the House Intelligence Committee earlier this month that aid to Lebanon had been withheld at the same time, and in the same way, as aid to Ukraine.
Williams has no relevant first-hand knowledge, and was never asked to brief Vice President Pence about investigations, nor did Zelensky bring them up.
David Holmes, the political officer at the U.S. embassy in Ukraine who has emerged as the Democrats’ new star witness in the “impeachment inquiry,” admitted he had been drinking at the time he claimed to overhear the president on the phone.
Democrats omitted that Tim Morrison did not have concerns that President Trump had done anything illegal, as well as other exculpatory evidence.
State Department staffer David Holmes, the aide who claims to have overheard President Donald Trump talking to U.S. Ambassador to the E.U. Gordon Sondland the day after his July 25 conversations with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, testified in a closed-door impeachment inquiry hearing at the House Intelligence Committee Friday afternoon that he overheard Sondland telling President Trump that President Zelensky “loves your ass.”
Former Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch testified the Ukrainian government had an open probe into Burisma Holdings when Joe Biden demanded the firing of the country’s top prosecutor.
House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Devin Nunes (R-CA) used his closing remarks on Friday to blast the “embarrassment” of the impeachment hearing and told the American people that he and his colleagues are now on their way to attend another secret impeachment hearing in the Capitol basement.
Donald Trump Jr. responded to George Conway’s direct critique during Friday’s public impeachment hearing, calling him out for “routinely” embarrassing his wife for personal gain and slamming him as a “disgrace.”
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) brought House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff’s (D-CA) past remarks on the so-called “whistleblower” to the forefront during Friday’s public impeachment hearing, reading excerpts of reports of his previous comments aloud in order to demonstrate the “duplicity and just the abuse of power of that we are continuing to see.”
Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine who is testifying before the House Intelligence Committee, threw a wrench in Chairman Adam Schiff’s (D-CA) previous claims that President Trump engaged in “witness intimidation” after dismissing Minister Avakov’s attacks on then-candidate Trump by noting, “Sometimes that happens on social media.”
Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch admitted Friday under questioning from Republican counsel that she had been briefed about the fact that Hunter Biden was on Burisma’s board, but did nothing about it.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) said President Donald Trump engaged in “witness intimidation in real-time” during Friday’s public impeachment hearing — by posting tweets critical of former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, which Schiff printed out and read to the diplomat.
Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) observed Friday that Democrats are withholding transcripts from closed-door hearings in the impeachment inquiry that ought to be used to question witnesses in the public hearings.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) asked Friday’s witness, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, to respond to President Trump’s recent tweets during Friday’s public impeachment hearing, ultimately baiting her to describe the president’s purported tactics as “intimidating.”
