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.”
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.
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.
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.
Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) told Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) to “shut up” during Lieutenant Colonel and National Security Council official Alexander Vindman’s closed-door testimony as part of the House Democrats’ partisan impeachment investigation against President Donald Trump.
The Obama administration allowed former Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter to continue working for Ukrainian company Burisma, even after learning that the firm and its owner were corrupt.
Yovanovitch said she knew she served at President Trump’s pleasure but still expressed anger and disbelief when he fired her.
Left-wing late-night host Stephen Colbert hosted actors Dame Helen Mirren and Sir Ian McKellen as guests on Wednesday’s edition of Late Show, where he declared that Americans are trying to get President Donald Trump to “exit the Oval Office.”
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.
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.
CLAIM: Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland confirmed, contrary to earlier testimony, that there had been a “quid pro quo” between President Donald Trump and the Ukrainian government: military aid for “dirt.” VERDICT: FALSE. Sondland said that he “presumed” there
Supporters of President Donald Trump on Monday debuted new t-shirts at a campaign rally in Kentucky. “You see what has happened with the Democrats, they have gone crazy,” Trump said during his rally.
Only one-third of adults in the United States, or 33 percent, believe the partisan impeachment inquiry should be a top priority for Congress, a recent poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research reveals.
About six out of every ten U.S. adults, or 59 percent, believe President Donald Trump’s interactions with Ukraine that triggered the impeachment probe amount to something “unethical but not illegal” or “nothing wrong” at all, according to a recent poll.
Rush Limbaugh said on Friday that the Ukraine phone call “whistleblower” leaked fake news about Putin telling Trump to fire James Comey.
Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman told the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky not to get entangled in U.S. domestic politics.
Appearing Thursday on CBS’s “The Late Show” with host Stephen Colbert, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said she “prayed” for the United States after learning of President Donald Trump’s telephone conversation with the leader of Ukraine.
President Donald Trump says he is considering reading the transcript of his summer telephone call with the president of Ukraine on live television to illustrate directly to the American people that no wrongdoing was discussed between the two world leaders.
Former senior White House official Tim Morrison has reportedly testified to congressional investigators that he was not concerned any illegal activities occurred during President Donald Trump’s phone call with the leader of Ukraine.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House,” anchor Nicolle Wallace said President Donald Trump discussing the Bidens with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky was “gross.” Wallace said, “I think it’s also the difference of the Mueller probe felt like it
For some reason, we keep hearing about Col. Vindman’s valor and patriotism. I don’t doubt that he’s a super swell guy. But unless I missed it in the newspapers at the time, I don’t believe he was elected president in 2016. In fact, there’s a specific constitutional provision that prevents Col. Vindman from ever being president: He wasn’t born here.
New testimony in the ongoing House “impeachment inquiry” points to policy disagreements on Russia and Ukraine — not evidence of wrongdoing.
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 White House is reportedly debating whether to let Democrats “pick apart” the transcript of Vice President Mike Pence’s telephone call with the leader of Ukraine as an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump enters a new phase.
Alexander Vindman’s concern for the “consensus views of the interagency” on Ukraine informed his approach to the president’s call with Zelensky.
On Monday’s broadcast of PBS’s “NewsHour,” anchor Judy Woodruff pressed Vice President Mike Pence on President Donald Trump’s phone call with the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that launched the House impeachment inquiry. Partial transcript as follows: WOODRUFF: Let me turn to
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.”
As controversy over President Donald Trump’s call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy continues, Wikipedia editors likewise continue their efforts to slant related articles in favor of Democrat talking points. This has included falsely labeling allegations of Ukrainian meddling in the 2016 election in favor of the Democrats as “conspiracy theories” and claiming as fact that Trump used military aid as part of a “quid pro quo” with Ukraine.
House Democrats believe there is sufficient evidence to advance their closed-door impeachment inquiry against Trump without seeking testimony from the so-called “whistleblower,” whose complaint initially prompted the probe.
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.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) introduced a resolution Thursday to condemn House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) and Democrats’ secret impeachment inquiry.
A newly-released poll shows support for the House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump has hit a new high.
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.
Democrats are hailing testimony from State Department official Bill Taylor on Tuesday as a “smoking gun,” but Republicans say it’s hearsay.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — More than two months before the phone call that launched the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, Ukraine’s newly elected leader was already worried about pressure from the U.S. president to investigate his Democratic rival Joe Biden.
A top diplomat told impeachment investigators that the Trump administration “conditioned” U.S. aid to Ukraine on the president of the Eastern European country publicly announcing an investigation into Joe Biden.
President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil attended the formal enthronement of Japanese Emperor Naruhito on Tuesday as the only head of state representing North or South America.
Democrats tabled a resolution Monday sponsored by nearly the entire House Republican conference to condemn House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff for deliberately fabricating a conversation between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Monday released a four-page “fact sheet” outlining why Democrats believe President Trump abused his power, betrayed his oath of office, and should, therefore, be impeached.
