For those of you who feel dazed and confused by the right-wing fever swamp conspiracy theories that Rep. Devin Midnight Run Nunes (R-CA) keeps talking about ad nauseam during the impeachment hearings for video clips to air on FOX News aka Trump TV, Business Insider has put together a helpful breakdown of the conspiracy theories … Read more
I want to expand upon a point I raised the other day: Republicans are actually making the insane assertion that attempted crimes that are unsuccessful are not actually crimes. It only counts if one is successful. Oh-kay. Tell that to all the prisoners serving time in prison for attempted crimes that were unsuccessful like, oh … Read more
I will reiterate what I said in an earlier post: Donald Trump is pushing the conspiracy theories of his pal Vladimir Putin. Democrats Say Trump’s Ukraine Conspiracy Theories Parallel Putin’s. During Friday’s questioning of Marie Yovanovitch, the former US ambassador to Ukraine, Daniel Goldman, a top Democratic aide on the House Intelligence Committee, cited a … Read more
Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee would have you believe the Ukraine scandal was just one phone call on July 25, the call that prompted the whistleblower complaint, and despite the inspector general of the intelligence community finding that complaint an “urgent matter of concern,” Republicans do not find anything in the call readout to … Read more
Ambassador William Taylor’s testimony added one “bombshell” detail not previously discussed in his earlier deposition, because he only recently learned of it. Impeachment hearings begin with new evidence of phone call implicating Trump in Ukraine controversy: The call, overheard by one of Taylor’s aides, puts the president more squarely in the middle of the swirling … Read more