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
With all of the craziness happening today, this bit of craziness also happened. Kerry Eleveld at Daily Kos reports: In an effort to seize the narrative [today], the White House released a transcript Friday morning of Donald Trump’s first phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on April 21, immediately following Zelensky’s election to office. … Read more
Former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch testified to lawmakers on Friday that when she read how President Trump had talked about her to his Ukrainian counterpart in a July phone call — saying ominously that “she’s going to go through some things” — the color drained from her face. “It sounded like a threat,” she … Read more