Yes it’s finally here, impeachment week number one. The House starts public hearings and will bring the case against the criminal president to the American people. Let’s get it on! Be here on Wednesday where LNC will have all the IMPEACHMENT LIVE COVERAGE.
Democrats took full control of the Virginia legislature for the first time in more than two decades while the race for governor in deeply Republican Kentucky was too close to call despite a last-minute boost from President Donald Trump. In Kentucky, Democratic challenger Andy Beshear held a narrow lead and declared victory in the governor’s…
Key diplomat changes testimony and admits quid pro quo with Ukraine Trump’s impeachment defense is being stripped away plank by plank by some of the administration officials caught up in his scheme to pressure Ukraine for political favors. A dramatic reversal by Republican donor turned diplomat Gordon Sondland, who now says that a quid pro…
President Donald Trumpās tax returns can be turned over to state criminal investigators by his personal accountant, a federal appeals court in New York ruled Monday. The ruling by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is certain to be further appealed; lawyers for the president promised to do so and the three-judge appeals panel…
New report claims more whistleblowers have come forward to Democrat-led House of Representatives with claims of wrongdoing by Trump officials. Report says one whistleblower is alleging that Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, approved Saudi plans to arrest Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. According to Spectator, Turkey intercepted call between Kushner and Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman,…
About half of Americans now want Congress to impeach President Donald Trump and remove him from office, up slightly from a month ago, a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows. In the survey, 49% back Trumpās impeachment and removal while 46% oppose it. In the NBC/WSJ poll a month ago, a 49% plurality opposed…
For only the fourth time in its history, the House voted on Oct. 31, 2019 to initiate impeachment against a president of the United States. The resolution passed 232 to 196, with votes largely along party lines, opening a new and public phase of the investigation.
House Intel Committee subpoenaed the national security official appearing today. The House Intelligence Committee subpoenaed National Security Council official Tim Morrison to compel his testimony today, “in light of an attempt by the White House to direct Timothy Morrison not to appear for his scheduled deposition,” an official told CNN. Here’s the statement from the…
President Trump announces the death of the Islamic Stateās leader in the most Trump way possible.
The top US diplomat in Ukraine, Bill Taylor, testified Tuesday that he had been told President Donald Trump would withhold military aid to the country until it publicly declared investigations would be launched that could help his reelection chances ā including into former Vice President Joe Biden. Taylor said he was told that “everything” Ukraine…
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are examining Rudy Giulianiās business dealings in Ukraine, including his finances, meetings and work for a city mayor there, according to people familiar with the matter. Investigators also have examined Mr. Giulianiās bank records, according to the people. Witnesses have been questioned about Mr. Giuliani since at least August by investigators,…
Criticism of US president comes as he gives green light to Turkish takeover of Kurd’s home. Donald Trump drew condemnation from the highest levels of his Republican party after he appeared to give Turkey the green light to launch a military incursion into Syria againstĀ US-backed Kurdish militias that have spearheaded the battle against Isis. Mitch…
Trumpās former top Russia adviser is testifying before House committees on Monday as part of the impeachment inquiry examining the president, his administration and his alliesā dealings with Ukraine. Fiona Hill, who served on the National Security Council, left the administration in August. She is set to be asked about her knowledge of efforts by…
The U.S. withdrawal has forced Kurdish fighters into an alliance with the Russia-backed Syrian government, and American troops could be trapped between two advancing armies. verything Donald Trumpās critics warned would happen when he capitulated to Recep Tayyip Erdogan and cleared the way for the Turkish incursion in Syria is bearing out, with the Kurdish…
Turkish forces began crossing the Syrian border on Wednesday, launching an operation in Kurdish-dominated areas of the country’s north, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced. The Turkish offensive jeopardizes Kurdish-led forces who have been a key U.S. ally in the bloody fight against ISIS. Turkey says those same forces are linked to militant groups who stage…
President Trump’s announcement to withdraw all U.S. forces from northern Syria came as a bombshell for the Syrian Democratic Forces who sacrificed many of their ranks on the bloody battlefields of northeast Syria, to defeat fanatical ISIS combatants prepared to fight to the last man and woman. The top Kurdish commander of U.S.-backed SDF forces,…
Mark Zaid, the attorney representing the whistleblower who sounded the alarm on President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine and triggered an impeachment inquiry, tells ABC News that he is now representing a second whistleblower who has spoken with the inspector general. Zaid tells ABC News’ Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos that the second person — also…
Messages between a pair of U.S. diplomats show just how deeply officials were engaged in Rudy Giulianiās efforts to get Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden. Encrypted text messages released by House Democrats late Thursday night reveal that a plan to get Ukraineās newly elected president to investigate President Donald Trumpās political rivals was hatched with…
President Trump called on China on Thursday to investigate former vice president Joe Biden and his son Hunter in relation to the younger Bidenās business dealings during the tenure of the former vice president. Trumpās comments came as Democrats accelerated an impeachment inquiry that was sparked by a whistleblowerās complaint that Trump had pressed Ukrainian…
āAre you talking to me?ā Jaw thrust forward and ready to rumble, President Donald Trump plowed his way through a day of questions Wednesday about his controversial phone call with Ukraineās leader, his private anger about the House impeachment effort bursting into full public view. āDid you hear me? Did you hear me? Ask him…
In a panel moderated by NBC News correspondent Keir Simmons, Russia’s president joked about whether Moscow would interfere in America’s 2020 election.
President Trump claimed he was a victim of a coup dāetat on Tuesday night, continuing his dramatic rhetoric that has drawn fierce pushback from legal scholars and Democrats since the House impeachment inquiry began last week. āAs I learn more and more each day,ā he wrote on Twitter, āI am coming to the conclusion that…
The State Departmentās inspector general is expected to give an “urgent” briefing to staffers from several House and Senate committees on Wednesday afternoon about documents obtained from the departmentās Office of the Legal Adviser related to the State Department and Ukraine, sources familiar with the planned briefing told ABC News. Details of the briefing, requested…
Attorney General Bill Barr has been personally urging foreign governments to cooperate with an investigation into the origins of the FBIās Russia probe during trips abroad ā and President Donald Trump himself asked the prime minister of Australia to help Barr out, several news outlets reported Monday. Though this is being breathlessly mentioned in the…
The report comes following a whistleblowerās claims the White House routinely hid Trumpās conversations with foreign leaders. In 2017, President Donald Trump told Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak he believed Russiaās interference in the 2016 presidential to be unimportant, according to a report from the Washington Post ā and access…
After escalating revelations about President Donald Trump’s interactions with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky, the whistle-blower complaint at the heart of them has finally been released. And while parts have been redacted, the nine-page document details not only what took place in a controversial July 25 conversation between the two heads of state, but how the…
More potential crimes by the president. This time for possibly accepting help for policy favors. President Donald Trump met with National Rifle Association chief Wayne LaPierre on Friday and discussed how the NRA could help Trump fight impeachment and also asked him to back off gun reform, according to The New York Times. The Times…
Stephen Miller struggles on Fox News, and other lowlights from the Sunday morning efforts to defend the president. Following a week in which an abuse of power scandal about President Donald Trumpās Ukraine dealings pushed Democrats toward impeachment, Trump loyalists joined the Sunday morning news talk shows to try and defend the president. Their efforts…
Firstly keep in mind this “transcript” or notes on Trump’s call to Ukrainian Prime Minister reads out to 10 – 15 minutes max. The call is suppose to be 30. There are 3 places were ellipses are used in key places where there are redactions. WTF? Trump asked Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky to ālook intoā…
In his latest Fox News, appearance, Giuliani spun conspiracy theories about billionaire philanthropist and activist George Soros, attacked the FBI and called Biden āintellectually challenged.ā Later in the show, he engaged in a shouting match with Democratic commentator Chris Hahn, who accused Giuliani of making things up. Giuliani threatened to sue Hahn for libel, then…
