GOP slams John Kerry for discussing climate ramifications of Russian invasion
Republican lawmakers are outraged that the special presidential envoy for climate said war is harmful to people and to the planet.
By Josh Israel - February 24, 2022Republican lawmakers are outraged that the special presidential envoy for climate said war is harmful to people and to the planet.
By Josh Israel - February 24, 2022Meanwhile, Donald Trump has repeatedly lauded Vladimir Putin’s ‘smart’ attack.
By Josh Israel - February 24, 2022Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman’s lawsuit accuses Donald Trump Jr., Rudy Giuliani, and others of a participating in a ‘coordinated campaign’ of retaliation against him.
By Associated Press - February 05, 2022The South Carolina senator voted twice against impeaching Donald Trump.
By Emily Singer - August 20, 2021The Government Accountability Office already rejected Republicans’ argument that delaying the border wall was illegal.
By Josh Israel - June 24, 2021The same senators also defended former President Donald Trump over his illegal blocking of funding for aid to Ukraine.
By Josh Israel - June 15, 2021Former ambassador Marie Yovanovitch detailed a smear campaign by Giuliani and other Trump allies that preceded her 2019 removal from the job.
By Associated Press - April 30, 2021‘He just loves this country,’ Donald Trump told Fox News.
By Emily Singer - April 29, 2021Giuliani was central to Donald Trump’s efforts to dig up dirt against Democratic rival Joe Biden and to press Ukraine for an investigation into Biden and his son.
By Associated Press - April 28, 2021Sens. Ron Johnson and Chuck Grassley tried to do what Trump pressured the Ukrainian president to do. It did not go well.
By Josh Israel - September 23, 2020U.S. intelligence officials had flagged the audio Trump retweeted as the product of a concerted Russian effort.
By Associated Press - August 17, 2020Sen. Ron Johnson’s preoccupation with Joe and Hunter Biden has dismayed Democrats on the Homeland Security Committee who view it as a politically motivated distraction.
By Associated Press - August 13, 2020Trump has, in some cases, suggested his critics, political opponents, and media he doesn’t like be jailed or even executed for ‘treason.’
By Dan Desai Martin - June 23, 2020Trump’s former national security adviser refused to say any of this publicly during the impeachment investigation, opting instead to profit off of it with his soon-to-be-released book.
By Emily Singer - June 18, 2020A civil liberties lawyer says the suit is ‘doomed to fail.’
By Associated Press - June 17, 2020Trump said Bolton would have a ‘criminal problem’ if he goes through with publishing his book.
By Associated Press - June 16, 2020Bolton is opening up to ABC News — but he threatened to fight any legally binding congressional subpoena during the impeachment trial.
By Emily Singer - June 15, 2020‘It is hard not to think that the president’s loss of confidence in me derives from my having faithfully discharged my legal obligations as an independent and impartial inspector general,’ Michael Atkinson said.
By Associated Press - April 06, 2020The Utah Republican could join with Democrats to block committee subpoenas relating to the Bidens and a Ukrainian energy company.
By Josh Israel - March 05, 2020A new questionnaire will force the administration’s political appointees to name a Trump campaign message that ‘most appealed’ to them.
By Emily Singer - March 03, 2020‘Elaine McCusker is another casualty of the Trump administration’s efforts to purge public servants who put country before fealty to the president,’ Democratic Sen. Jack Reed said.
By Associated Press - March 03, 2020Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson announced new action in an investigation into Biden less than 24 hours after the former vice president’s decisive primary victory.
By Emily Singer - March 02, 2020John Rood raised concerns about Trump’s hold on military assistance to Ukraine.
By Emily Singer - February 19, 2020Trump has claimed he withheld critical aid to the country over corruption issues, despite his own administration certifying that Ukraine was addressing the issue already.
By Oliver Willis - February 17, 2020Trump says he’d allow New York to be part of trusted traveler programs again under certain conditions — a play similar to the one he made with Ukraine.
By Emily Singer - February 13, 2020Meanwhile, Giuliani is under federal investigation for acting as an unregistered foreign agent.
By Emily Singer - February 10, 2020A lawyer for Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the National Security Council’s top Ukraine expert, said Vindman was ‘asked to leave for telling the truth’ and because he ‘frightened the powerful.’
By Associated Press - February 07, 2020The National Prayer Breakfast has traditionally been a bipartisan faith event.
By Oliver Willis - February 06, 2020Former national security adviser John Bolton alleges in his forthcoming book that White House counsel Pat Cipollone was fully aware of Trump’s attempts to pressure Ukraine to investigate his rivals.
By Emily Singer - January 31, 2020Senate Republicans believe Trump’s conduct with Ukraine was wrong, but they plan to acquit him anyway.
By Emily Singer - January 31, 2020