GOP tries to block 2020 Democrats from impeachment in latest stunt
Much of the GOP’s response to Trump’s Ukraine scandal has been to try to divert attention.
By Josh Israel - December 05, 2019Much of the GOP’s response to Trump’s Ukraine scandal has been to try to divert attention.
By Josh Israel - December 05, 2019Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, is still chasing conspiracy theories in Ukraine even as the House impeachment investigation moves forward.
By Dan Desai Martin - December 05, 2019Trump is now saying his demand that Ukraine investigate the former vice president was for the good of the American people, not himself.
By Emily Singer - December 05, 2019Republican Rep. Doug Collins accused witnesseses of not knowing the facts of the impeachment case against Trump. Law professor Pamela Karlan took offense.
By Emily Singer - December 04, 2019Phone records show Nunes was communicating with Rudy Giuliani during the Ukraine scandal.
By Emily Singer - December 03, 2019Ukraine’s former deputy foreign minister says she knew about the withheld military aid as Donald Trump asked for investigations into his own political rivals.
By Dan Desai Martin - December 03, 2019The 300-page report details Trump’s efforts to ‘subvert’ American foreign policy and to obstruct justice in the impeachment inquiry.
By Emily Singer - December 03, 2019Trump kicked off the NATO summit by insulting French President Emmanuel Macron, one of few world leaders with whom he’s gotten along in the past.
By Associated Press - December 03, 2019Trump lashed out at Democrats on his latest trip abroad, suggesting the House impeachment inquiry ‘wasn’t supposed to be used that way.’
By Dan Desai Martin - December 03, 2019Republicans know they’re lying when they pin the 2016 election meddling on Ukraine, but think it’s the only way to help Trump survive impeachment.
By Emily Singer - December 03, 2019The GOP rebuttal ignores key facts, and makes up others, in an effort to defend Trump from impeachment.
By Emily Singer - December 03, 2019Sen. John Kennedy appeared on ‘Meet the Press’ and pushed a discredited conspiracy theory about Ukraine.
By Emily Singer - December 02, 2019Trump has repeatedly claimed the impeachment process is ‘unfair’ and somehow violates his due process rights.
By Associated Press - December 02, 2019Volodomyr Zelenskiy said Trump’s blocking of aid to his country was not fair and that Trump’s bashing of Ukraine as ‘corrupt’ is unhelpful to ending its war with Russia.
By Emily Singer - December 02, 2019More than 1 in 5 Americans watched the public impeachment hearings on television, and millions more watched online.
By Dan Desai Martin - November 27, 2019Giuliani, for his part, has said he has an ‘insurance’ policy in case Trump turns on him.
By Emily Singer - November 27, 2019The timing suggests the whistleblower complaint helped push Trump to release the military aid to Ukraine.
By Emily Singer - November 27, 2019The committee will have its first impeachment hearing on Dec. 4.
By Emily Singer - November 26, 2019Trump has ordered all current and former officials not to testify to Congress, but he claims he’s only trying to protect other presidents, not himself.
By Josh Israel - November 26, 2019Secretary of State Mike Pompeo suggests Ukraine should be investigated for a widely debunked conspiracy theory at the center of Trump’s impeachment.
By Emily Singer - November 26, 2019Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) says he only pushed Russian propaganda because he misheard a Fox News host’s question.
By Emily Singer - November 26, 2019A federal judge ruled that former White House counsel Don McGahn has to follow a subpoena from House impeachment investigators.
By Emily Singer - November 26, 2019House Intelligence Committee chair Adam Schiff says the committee still welcomes testimony from those who ‘decide to obey their duty to the country over fealty to the President.’
By Dan Desai Martin - November 25, 2019Trump’s official portrait for display in federal facilities was not released by the White House until October 2017.
By Associated Press - November 25, 2019Nunes refused to deny a CNN report that he met with the former Ukrainian prosecutor general to seek dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden.
By Emily Singer - November 25, 2019House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff described several of this week’s impeachment inquiry witnesses, many of whom are immigrants, as “the best of this country.”
By Associated Press - November 23, 2019Tennessee’s Marsha Blackburn, a member of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, criticized Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman this week, after he testified in a public impeachment hearing.
By Dan Desai Martin - November 22, 2019Multiple administration officials say Trump engaged in a quid pro quo with Ukraine to get dirt on political rivals. Graham wants to investigate a conspiracy theory instead.
By Dan Desai Martin - November 22, 2019Trump also attacked witnesses who testified in the impeachment hearings.
By Emily Singer - November 22, 2019Despite being presented with a mountain of evidence that Trump abused his office, Republicans plan to stick by him.
By Emily Singer - November 22, 2019