A Nevada Democrat County Commissioner is accused of deleting text messages after orchestrating an alleged “quid pro quo” with Gov. Steve Sisolak (D) to delay a developer’s projects, resulting in its bankruptcy, according to a recent court filing.
New Mexico Democrat Rep. Xochitl Torres Small (D-NM) admitted in October 2019 that President Donald Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky that Democrats impeached him over was “not an explicit quid pro quo.”
President Donald Trump suggested Monday at the White House that former Vice President Joe Biden likely made a deal with failed presidential candidates Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Amy Klobuchar. “That’s called ‘quid pro quo,’ right? Quid pro quo,” he said.
Fact check – CLAIM: Trump told Sondland that “Zelensky has to announce these investigations.” FALSE. Adam Schiff relied on third-hand testimony contradicted by Sondland himself.
Fact check – CLAIM: Alan Dershowitz and the White House lawyers believe that any action a president claims is in the public interest is unimpeachable. VERDICT: FALSE. Dershowitz specifically said crime-like actions are impeachable.
Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz told the Senate impeachment trial Monday evening that even if allegations attributed to former National Security Advisor John Bolton were true, they would not be impeachable conduct.
On Sirius XM’s “The Dan Abrams Show,” Fox News correspondent Geraldo Rivera said there was “probably” a quid pro quo between President Donald Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Never in the history of public schooling has a regiment of substitute teachers been so disappointed in their rowdy new pupils as the impeachment professors were Wednesday.
The House Democrats’ impeachment report confirmed that the investigation was a fishing expedition seeking to see what sticks.
U.S. Acting Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Philip Reeker repeatedly dismissed efforts by Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the top impeachment inquisitor, to get the official to admit that Trump’s interactions with Ukraine constitute a quid pro quo.
The “whistleblower” reached out to the intelligence community inspector general to justify contacting House Intelligence Community Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA), claiming “nothing substantial was discussed.”
There is no evidence to support Democrats’ charges, some of which would be unimpeachable anyway. And the process violated constitutional rights.
President Trump does not want me to be the 2020 Democrat presidential nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday during the Democrat debate.
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.
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.
WASHINGTON, DC — Devin Nunes (R-CA) on Wednesday lambasted the “partisan extremist” Democrats for weaponizing the powerful House Intelligence Committee to oust President Donald Trump, adding they helped “cook up” the “whistleblower” complaint to advance their impeachment agenda.
Gordon Sondland: “I never heard from President Trump that aid was conditioned on an announcement of [investigations].”
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) recalled that President Donald Trump had rejected a quid pro quo out of hand, and said Ukraine felt no pressure.
U.S. diplomat Bill Taylor admitted in the impeachment inquiry that “he has no reason to doubt” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s repeated denials that there was pressure, conditions, or blackmail.
Ukraine was unaware of the American military hold on aid, suggesting a quid pro quo at the center of the probe against Trump would have been impossible at the time.
WASHINGTON, DC — Top State Department official George Kent told the House impeachment investigators Wednesday that some U.S. officials, including himself, pushed for reopening a “scuttled investigation” into the owner of Ukrainian company Burisma Holdings, which hired then-Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter in 2014.
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) on Friday went on a frenzied rant in a series of tweets, praising House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) and encouraging President Trump to “pack up his tanning bed & leave.”
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.
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.
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.
Former U.S. Special Envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker, during his impeachment inquiry deposition last month, highlighted some inaccuracies in the “whistleblower’s” complaint that sparked the probe, according to transcripts released Tuesday.
Former U.S. special envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker repeatedly denied that quid pro quo took place during the July 25 call between U.S. President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, transcripts released on Tuesday show.
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan told Senators Wednesday that he “was not aware” of any effort to pressure Ukraine to investigate former vice president Joe Biden and his son in exchange for military aid.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Tuesday touted the rocky basis for her party’s impeachment inquiry, implying that President Donald Trump actively participated in a quid pro quo and asked “for bogus investigations to smear” his “political opponents.”
The left-wing mainstream media is taking a cue from its Democrat allies pursuing the impeachment inquiry and moving away from the July 25 phone call that triggered the probe, saying the alleged quid pro quo offer “evolved over time.”
U.S. Acting Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Philip Reeker reportedly told House impeachment investigators over the weekend that he was unaware of the alleged quid pro quo offer at the center of the probe.
According to Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL), elements of quid pro quo when it comes to dealing with foreign governments that receive aid from the United States should be the rule and not the exception nor considered untoward.
When the Democrats admit that they have committed “quid pro quo” a dozen times in trying to entrap President Trump, then, and only then, will American voters consider their impeachment inquiry anything other than a witch hunt.
The New York Times unwittingly confirmed the veracity of the GOP argument that there could be no quid pro quo because Ukraine did not know the United States had delayed the release of aid for the Eastern European country at the time of the July 25 call.
Democrats are heavily relying on an impeachment probe witness, Ambassador Bill Taylor, who did not use the infamous July 25 call to back his claim that President Donald Trump attempted to pressure Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden and his son in exchange for aid.
A top U.S. diplomat gave a private deposition Tuesday in the impeachment probe after House Democrats subpoenaed him following State Department efforts to block him from testifying.
The Democrat-run House passed a bill denying funds to Russia pending proof of no election interference, what they now call a “quid pro quo.”
CNN claimed Thursday that the White House “admits to quid pro quo with Ukraine.” That was the opposite of what happened during a press conference with acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) indicated over the weekend that the Democrats’ impeachment efforts are not contingent upon evidence of a Ukraine-linked quid pro quo offer.
