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by Hunter
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on Wed Sep 25, 2019 at 04:50 PM PDT
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After members of the House Intelligence Committee viewed the whistleblower complaint, committee chair Adam Schiff called the complaint "urgent" and said it was a "travesty" that it had been withheld from Congress. "The idea that the Department of...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Wed Sep 25, 2019 at 02:47 PM PDT
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Donald Trump was due to appear for a 4 PM ET press conference. Instead, Trump shuffled out about 40 minutes late to stumble through a rambling list of items in a tone that would have to go up several notches to reach “sepulchral.” And in the process,...
by Mark Sumner
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on Wed Sep 25, 2019 at 02:15 PM PDT
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Donald Trump held a press conference of sorts in New York City. He did what he does, saying everyone else should be impeached, not him. After gaslighting away a bit about how Joe and Hunter Biden are the people who should be investigated concerning the...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Sep 25, 2019 at 02:15 PM PDT
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The director of national intelligence will reportedly be transmitting the Trump-related whistleblower complaint to the House and Senate intelligence committees Wednesday at 4:00 PM ET. The development was announced on the House floor by the ranking...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Wed Sep 25, 2019 at 12:34 PM PDT
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, The Washington Post reports, wants to "keep the impeachment investigation narrowly focused on President Trump and his dealings with the president of Ukraine." She urged her fellow Democratic leaders to do so in a private...
by Joan McCarter
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on Wed Sep 25, 2019 at 12:08 PM PDT
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In what has to be one of the most uncomfortable political moments ever caught on camera, Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky did a brief joint appearance on Wednesday afternoon followed by a session of questions and answers. During...
by Mark Sumner
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on Wed Sep 25, 2019 at 12:06 PM PDT
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Republican lawmakers backing Trump even after White House itself provides evidence of his corruption Even this. Even after the White House released a "transcript" of Donald Trump's call with the Ukrainian president that clearly confirms he personally asked Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate a potential 2020 political rival, Republican lawmakers...
by Hunter
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on Wed Sep 25, 2019 at 11:43 AM PDT
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Confirmed: Attorney General William Barr has turned the Department of Justice into the chief enforcement arm of Donald Trump's criminal enterprise. Within the past week, the question continually arose: How did the Justice Department and the White House...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Wed Sep 25, 2019 at 11:17 AM PDT
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Sen. Susan Collins doesn't want to talk about the impeachment inquiry—at least not with the Maine media. But when it comes to the big media folks in D.C., it's a different story. She sent a statement to the Bangor Daily News saying, "I will not be...
by Joan McCarter
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on Wed Sep 25, 2019 at 11:01 AM PDT
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A tale of two Lindseys: 1999 video reminds us how the South Carolina senator once viewed impeachment Oh, Lindsey Graham. While the rest of the nation continues to be baffled that the senator still has a job, South Carolina voters duly reelect him. Let’s take a trip to 1999, when Graham, then a 43-year-old member of the House with just six years’...
by Jessica Sutherland
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on Wed Sep 25, 2019 at 11:49 AM PDT
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Campaign Action House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced she’s opening a formal impeachment inquiry into Trump less than 24 hours ago. It’s been a wild ride since then! The White House released a document described as a transcript of Trump’s call with...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Wed Sep 25, 2019 at 02:51 PM PDT
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In a blistering new joint statement, House committee chairmen Adam Schiff, Jerrold Nadler, Elijah Cummings, and Eliot Engle are calling Donald Trump's July call with the Ukrainian president an "unambiguous, damning, and shocking abuse of the Office of...
by Hunter
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on Wed Sep 25, 2019 at 10:38 AM PDT
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The “transcript” of a phone conversation between Donald Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky released by the White House on Wednesday confirms that Trump asked the president of Ukraine to cooperate with Rudy Giuliani and Bill Barr in manufacturing...
by Mark Sumner
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on Wed Sep 25, 2019 at 11:11 AM PDT
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Campaign Action The Trump campaign made a strong case on Tuesday afternoon that there’s no level Donald Trump could sink to that his campaign advisers would look at and think “we can’t try to fundraise off of that,” when it sent out an email trying to...
by Laura Clawson
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on Wed Sep 25, 2019 at 10:40 AM PDT
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On the morning when Donald Trump released a “transcript” absolutely riddled with attempts to extort an ally into doing political favors from manufacturing dirt on a political opponent to fleshing out a Pizzagate-related conspiracy theory, the White...
by Mark Sumner
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on Wed Sep 25, 2019 at 09:41 AM PDT
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Attorney General William Barr's Justice Department was well aware of Donald Trump's phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his request for a "favor," and it decided that it would just pass on investigating Trump for a potential...
by Joan McCarter
105 comments
on Wed Sep 25, 2019 at 08:48 AM PDT
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Attorney General Bill Barr has entered dangerous new territory as the White House released a memo detailing the call between Donald Trump and Ukraine’s President-elect Volodymyr Zelensky. A quick point of clarification here, because the traditional...
by Jen Hayden
208 comments
on Wed Sep 25, 2019 at 08:43 AM PDT
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Donald Trump has long been convinced that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue without losing the support of his followers. Now the question is: Can he threaten an entire nation, repeatedly, without losing the support of Republicans in the Senate?...
by Mark Sumner
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on Wed Sep 25, 2019 at 08:23 AM PDT
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If Donald Trump believes the version of his call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky now being released as a transcript is somehow exculpatory, then Trump’s mental state is much, much worse than anyone knew. To what extent this document has been...
by Mark Sumner
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on Wed Sep 25, 2019 at 07:30 AM PDT
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