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Trump attacks impeachment witness on Twitter, Democrats see intimidation

Reuters
Posted at Nov 16 11:42 AM

President Donald Trump launched a Twitter attack on a former US ambassador to Ukraine on Friday while she was testifying to an impeachment hearing in Congress, in an extraordinary moment that Democrats said amounted to witness intimidation. Read more »

Invoking Constitution, Pelosi points to possible bribery charge against Trump

Nicholas Fandos, The New York Times
Posted at Nov 15 03:40 AM

The speaker’s explicit allegation of bribery, a misdeed identified in the Constitution as an impeachable offense, was significant.  Read more »

Impeachment Testimony: 'Trump cares more about the investigation of Biden'

Michael D. Shear, The New York Times
Updated as of Nov 14 09:35 AM

WASHINGTON — A crucial witness offered dramatic new testimony Wednesday about President Donald Trump’s preoccupation with having Ukraine investigate his political rivals, as Democrats opened impeachment hearings designed to persuade a bitterly divided nation that the president tried to coerce a foreign power to help him win reelection.   Read more »

5 key moments in Trump impeachment hearing, day 1

Michael Mathes, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 14 08:00 AM

American viewers finally heard firsthand from key figures in the Ukraine scandal, beginning with Washington's top envoy to Kiev William Taylor, and deputy assistant secretary of state George Kent.   Read more »

Democrats release new batch of testimony from Trump impeachment inquiry

Patricia Zengerle and Susan Cornwell, Reuters
Posted at Nov 12 09:59 AM

Testimony by Laura Cooper, deputy assistant secretary of defense, was the latest to be made public that showed the internal machinations of the administration as Trump insisted that nearly $400 million in aid slated for Ukraine be withheld until its president publicly launch an investigation into one of Trump's top political rivals.   Read more »

Vindman should not fear retaliation over Ukraine testimony -Pentagon's Esper

Phil Stewart, Reuters
Posted at Nov 12 07:56 AM

NEW YORK - U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman should not fear retaliation over his testimony to the U.S. Congress in its impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Monday. Read more »

How Trump's impeachment will unroll

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 11 10:37 AM

Trump is under threat of becoming only the third president in US history to be impeached -- formally charged with violating his duties as president or committing crimes, and placed on trial in the Senate.   Read more »

Public hearings in Trump impeachment probe start next week

Michael Mathes, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 07 09:10 AM

The first open impeachment hearings into US President Donald Trump will begin next week, the congressman leading the probe said Wednesday, as the investigation heads into a highly anticipated public phase. Read more »

'Quid pro quo isn't impeachable': Republicans try different response to Ukraine call

Katie Rogers and Catie Edmondson, The New York Times
Posted at Nov 05 09:47 AM

WASHINGTON — Since the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump began, most Republicans in Congress have made the argument that the president’s decision to withhold military aid to Ukraine in exchange for investigating a political opponent was not a quid pro quo or an abuse of power. Read more »

First impeachment transcripts go public as White House stonewalls

Michael Mathes, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 05 08:07 AM

Witness transcripts in the impeachment probe into Donald Trump were made public for the first time Monday, with the former US ambassador to Kiev telling investigators she felt threatened by the president in his call to Ukraine's leader. Read more »

Whistleblower offers Republicans testimony as Trump pushes to unmask

Doina Chiacu and Andrea Shalal, Reuters
Posted at Nov 04 08:12 AM

The US official whose whistleblower complaint led to the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump offered to communicate directly with Republicans on the intelligence committee leading the inquiry, his lawyers said on Sunday. Read more »

Trump skipping ASEAN Summit as he is 'trying to survive,' says Panelo

Vivienne Gulla, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 04 01:34 AM

“We all know for a fact that Mr. Trump is trying to survive there, there is an impeachment going on – process. So, maybe that’s the reason why he did not come," Panelo said. Read more »

US energy chief Perry refuses to testify in Trump impeachment inquiry

Mark Hosenball and Timothy Gardner, Reuters
Posted at Nov 02 09:59 AM

WASHINGTON - US Energy Secretary Rick Perry, a member of President Donald Trump's Cabinet who has played a pivotal role in the Ukraine controversy, will refuse to testify as requested next week in the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry against Trump, an Energy Department spokeswoman said on Friday.  Read more »

US House lawmakers secure enough votes to pass Trump impeachment rules

Patricia Zengerle and Richard Cowan, Reuters
Updated as of Nov 01 12:18 AM

Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives secured enough votes on Thursday to pass legislation setting up next steps in the fast-moving impeachment process involving Trump. Read more »

House impeachment inquiry summons John Bolton, seeking central figure in Ukraine drama

Nicholas Fandos and Adam Goldman, The New York Times
Posted at Oct 31 12:23 PM

House impeachment investigators on Wednesday summoned John Bolton, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, to testify next week about a shadowy effort to pressure Ukraine to investigate the president’s domestic political rivals, closing in on a critical witness as they deepen their inquiry. Read more »

Meet Alexander Vindman, the colonel testifying on Trump's phone call

Sheryl Gay Stolberg, The New York Times
Posted at Oct 30 08:47 AM

WASHINGTON — Alexander S. Vindman and his twin brother, Yevgeny, were 3 years old when they fled Ukraine with their father and grandmother, Jewish refugees with only their suitcases and $750, hoping for a better life in the United States. Read more »

New impeachment witness rocks White House

Paul Handley, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 30 07:40 AM

WASHINGTON - A decorated Iraq War veteran rocked the White House Tuesday with devastating testimony on Donald Trump's alleged extortion of Ukraine as Democrats laid out plans for the public phase of the impeachment inquiry threatening his presidency. Read more »

Concerned White House official told gov't lawyer of Trump's push for Ukraine to probe Bidens

Karen Freifeld, Reuters
Posted at Oct 29 03:18 PM

WASHINGTON - A high-ranking White House national security official will tell congressional impeachment investigators on Tuesday that he was so alarmed about a call in which U.S. President Donald Trump pushed Ukraine's leader to investigate former vice president Joe Biden that he reported it to a top government lawyer. Read more »

Impeachment horror plunges US into early Halloween

Sebastian Smith, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 26 02:51 AM

The calendar says Halloween is still a week away, but impeachment is delivering the horror show early to Washington. Read more »

Republicans fight Trump's impeachment by attacking the process

Michael D. Shear, Maggie Haberman and Nicholas Fandos, The New York Times
Posted at Oct 25 11:09 AM

WASHINGTON — Republicans in Congress struggled for a second consecutive day Thursday to defend President Donald Trump against Democrats’ impeachment inquiry amid a steady stream of damaging revelations about his conduct, leveling another symbolic objection to a process they said was fundamentally unfair. Read more »