Audible gasps are said to have rippled across the room as Bill Taylor, the United States’ top diplomat in Ukraine, delivered a 15-page opening statement to House impeachment investigators on Tuesday. Taylor described in detail, with the help of contemporaneous notes, extensive efforts to leverage hundreds of millions of dollars …
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WASHINGTON — President Trump and his army of far-right supporters wasted little time coalescing around a theory to try to discredit the intelligence officer who blew the whistle on Trump’s efforts to get Ukraine to interfere in the 2020 election. Promoted by House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), Sen. Lindsey …
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President Trump has claimed repeatedly that his July 25th call with Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky was totally innocuous. “The conversation, by the way, was absolutely perfect,” he told reporters on Sunday.“It was a beautiful, warm, nice conversation.” A written record of the conversation allegedly at the center of a whistleblower …
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If the emerging details are accurate, Donald Trump‘s efforts to get Ukraine to interfere in the 2020 election are not just a repeat of his overtures toward Russia in 2016 — they’re worse. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that, on a late-July call with Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump …
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