Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is in very hot water, and actions he apparently took to help benefit the reelection campaign of his boss, Donald Trump, have wound up getting him subpoenaed. Politico reports that House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel (D-NY) issued a subpoena recently and accused the secretary of using State Department resources […]
You may recall that Donald Trump was so upset with former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch that he tried on multiple occasions to have her removed from her post and some of his henchmen in Kyiv to stalk her and report back when and where she was going every day when she would leave […]
Over the three years that Donald Trump has been president, his so-called “personal attorney” Rudy Giuliani has served as an unofficial Secretary of State even though he was never confirmed by the Senate to that post, probably because a confirmation hearing would have exposed all the unsavory characters the former New York City mayor has […]
Ever since the Ukraine scandal first broke late last year, Vice President Mike Pence has kept a very low profile, with few public appearances or interviews. It’s almost like he’s hoping we’ll forget that he too played a role in the Ukraine bribery plot which has led to Donald Trump becoming only the third president […]
Each day seems to bring a new development in the unfolding Ukraine scandal which has Donald Trump on the verge being just the third president to ever face articles of impeachment. A couple months ago, Rudy Giuliani’s two henchmen, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, were arraigned in a Manhattan federal court, where they both pleaded […]
Even though the impeachment inquiry announced Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has as its main subject President Donald Trump, the investigation has begun to expand to other members of the administration, including Attorney General William Barr and Vice President Mike Pence, both of whom are now in serious jeopardy and may also wind […]
On Wednesday in a Manhattan federal courthouse, two “associates” of Rudy Giuliani — Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman — pleaded not guilty to four counts of election fraud. Specifically, as The Daily Beast notes: “A four-count indictment that accused them of funneling money through straw donors into U.S. elections in an effort to gain influence. […]
President Donald Trump has repeatedly said that his phone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was a “perfect” call and denied that he ever engaged in a quid pro quo in which he held up military aid to Ukraine until they agreed to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter. In other […]
Now that the dam has broken and former Trump administration staffers are agreeing to testify before the House impeachment committee, it has become clear that more than just President Donald Trump is at significant risk when it comes to the Ukraine scandal. As Joan Walsh writes in The Nation: “If (I can’t honestly say ‘when’) […]
Earlier this week, White House counsel Pat Cipollone sent an eight-page letter to the House impeachment committee on behalf of President Donald Trump in which he stated that the investigation which may well lead to articles of impeachment being filed against Trump is “invalid.” The letter also had these lines in it: “You seek to […]