Over the Cliff Notes. (Sandy has been Deputy Associate Director for National Security Programs at the OMB since 2013, and Navy Reserve for 21 years.) Spoiler: First Trump broke the law. When he was about to get caught, he looked for an excuse for having done it. June 19: Trump saw a media report and …
Spoiler: It’s all about race (and gender, and religion). The GOP-Russia love affair has been evident for some time. Last summer Tucker Carlson said the U.S. should “rethink America’s alliances.” And remember when Sen. Rand Paul went to Moscow to “open the lines of communication”? Guiliani attended a pro-Russia conference last year. He was about …
On Wednesday the Daily Beast reported that indicted Giuliani associate Lev Parnas helped arrange meetings and calls in Europe for Devin Nunes to help with his “investigations.” Then on Thurs. came that dramatic moment in Fiona Hill’s testimony when Rep. Swalwell read parts of the Daily Beast article into the record and said Nunes may …
I went out last night for several hours—and I came back to find a release of documents linking Pompeo, Giuliani, and the White House. This was after Giuliani openly admitted that his agenda was to look out for the personal interests of his client, Donald Trump. PLUS Giuliani’s associate is willing to tell Congress Nunes …
On Fox News, Trump said this about Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch: “She wouldn’t hang my picture in the embassy. She is in charge of the embassy. She wouldn’t hang it. It look a year-and-a-half, two years to get the picture up. She said bad things about me … This was not an angel this woman, okay?” …
[Click here to read on the NBC News website] Did President Donald Trump abuse his power when he pressured Ukraine into announcing investigations that would benefit him personally? This, in a nutshell, is the question at the heart of the impeachment inquiry. Democrats say Trump wanted Ukraine to announce an investigationinto the company Burisma, which would allegedly implicate political …
Sondland started Wednesday’s impeachment hearing by dropping a few bombshells. It got more interesting from there. There was much speculation ahead of today’s hearing. What would Sondland do after the testimony he gave in his deposition had been contradicted by so many other sworn witnesses. Would Sondland lie to protect Trump? Would he try to …
In April of 2019, after 14 years in foreign service in the State Dept, Williams was detailed to the Office of the Vice President as a special advisor on the foreign policy team. Williams closely followed events in Ukraine and kept Pence up to date on developments. April 21: Trump congratulated Zelensky on his victory …
It’s easy to see why the GOP wanted Morrison as a witness. He said things that support some of the GOP defenses. He also offered testimony that contradicted those same defenses. Fiona Hill was replaced by Tim Morrison, who’d never heard of the black ledger, was unaware of Giuliani’s statements about Ukraine, and never looked …
We learn today that American democratic institutions are alive and well—and that Donald Trump is running out of defenses. In fact, each time the GOP tries out a defense, along comes some new evidence that obliterates that defense. For example, a GOP defense has been to dismiss all the evidence as hearsay. Aside: in fact, …
