Democrats slammed the push from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., for a trial with no witnesses after a cache of internal administration documents directly implicated President Donald Trump in ordering a freeze on aid to Ukraine, which administration officials worried was illegal. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said in a statement that the emails "exposed" the need for …
Those carrying out Donald Trump’s orders on the Ukraine aid were for the most part operating in different lanes from those seeking the investigations, including Rudy Giuliani and a number of senior diplomats, including Gordon D Sondland, the ambassador to the European Union, and Kurt D Volker, the State Department’s special envoy for Ukraine and Russia Washington: Deep into a …
Democrats renewed their calls for the Senate to call new witnesses at President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial after emails obtained by the Center for Public Integrity showed that the White House directed a freeze on military aid to Ukraine about 90 minutes after Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Emails obtained by the government watchdog group …
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