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Hunter Biden’s conviction means Trump is lying

Hunter Biden was found guilty Tuesday of three felony charges in connection with lying on a federal gun-permit application. But even if there's doubt about whether Biden might have had something to do with Trump’s New York trial, Hunter Biden’s conviction should dispel it. Trump says he’s a victim of one set of rules being applied to Biden’s friends while …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

Informant who claimed Biden was guilty of bribery arrested by FBI for 'false statements'

Raw Story

An informant who made derogatory claims about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter has been arrested by the FBI after a grand jury charged him with false statements and obstruction, reported Politico's Kyle Cheney on Thursday. Alexander Smirnov, who was identified as a confidential human source in the investigation, was arrested at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Editorial: No evidence for Biden impeachment inquiry? No problem. The House GOP doesn’t seem to care

LA Times

Rep. Jim Jordan speaks during a House Oversight Committee hearing in September about an impeachment of President Biden. Deposed Speaker Kevin McCarthy launched the Biden impeachment inquiry in September without securing a floor vote, thus avoiding a scenario in which saner members of his fragile majority — including Republicans elected in districts where Biden is popular — might rebel. Republicans …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Trump's allegations at heart of Biden impeachment push

Raw Story

Donald Trump was impeached by Congress in late 2019 for extorting Ukraine in an unsuccessful effort to get up dirt on his reelection rival Joe Biden. Four years later, Republicans are moving to impeach now-President Biden, claiming they have the dirt Trump sought: that while vice president, Biden personally benefitted from his son Hunter's business dealings. - Hunter's lucrative jobs …

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1 year, 6 months ago

GOP had evidence disproving Biden bribery claims in 2019, top Democrat says

The Independent

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In a letter to House Oversight Committee chair James Comer, Maryland Representative Jamie Raskin …

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4 years, 2 months ago

Fact-checking Trump’s massively dishonest weekend: The President made at least 66 separate false or misleading claims in three days

CNN

Washington CNN — President Donald Trump’s dishonesty is getting worse. Facts First: It’s just not true that Trump’s events the day prior – one in Georgia and two in Florida – were “largely” masked, as Trump claimed. Biden’s descriptions of rioters Trump claimed in Wisconsin that Biden was not only silent on “anarchists, arsonists and vandals” rampaged through cities but …

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4 years, 5 months ago

Russian Allies Helping Trump Win Reelection Have A Partner In Wisconsin Republican

Huff Post

President Donald Trump and Sen. Ron Johnson leave Air Force One upon arrival in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on April 27, 2019, before a Trump campaign rally. SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images WASHINGTON ― Allies of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin hoping to give President Donald Trump a second term in office appear to have a new partner: Republican Ron Johnson, who …

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4 years, 11 months ago

Transcript: NPR's Full Interview With Trump Lawyer Rudy Giuliani

NPR

Transcript: NPR's Full Interview With Trump Lawyer Rudy Giuliani Enlarge this image toggle caption Saul Martinez/Getty Images Saul Martinez/Getty Images In a wide-ranging interview Tuesday in New York with Morning Edition's Steve Inskeep and NPR Justice Correspondent Ryan Lucas, President Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, talks about investigating Joe Biden, his work in Ukraine and whether Trump's actions regarding Ukraine were …

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4 years, 11 months ago

Giuliani Says Trump Should '100%' Investigate Biden After Expected Senate Acquittal

NPR

Giuliani Says Trump Should '100%' Investigate Biden After Expected Senate Acquittal Enlarge this image toggle caption Steve Inskeep/NPR Steve Inskeep/NPR Rudy Giuliani, President Trump's personal attorney, says the president should not back away from investigating Joe Biden even after Trump's expected acquittal Wednesday by the U.S. Senate. Sponsor Message Politics Biden Probe Should Follow Trump's Expected Senate Acquittal, Giuliani Says …

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5 years, 1 month ago

Joe Biden calls Iowa voter who pressed him on Ukraine a "liar," challenges him to a push-up contest

Salon

Joe Biden on Thursday called an Iowa voter a "damn liar" and challenged him to a push-up contest after the man questioned the former vice president's age and his son's business dealings in Ukraine. The man said the presidential hopeful was "too old" to be president and likened Biden's diplomatic dealings with Ukraine to President Donald Trump's. Biden also appeared …

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5 years, 1 month ago

Rudy Giuliani pursued business interests in Ukraine while pushing for inquiries on Donald Trump's behalf

Firstpost

As Rudy Giuliani waged a public campaign this year to unearth damaging information in Ukraine about President Donald Trump’s political rivals, he privately pursued hundreds of thousands of dollars in business from Ukrainian government officials, documents reviewed by The New York Times show As Rudy Giuliani waged a public campaign this year to unearth damaging information in Ukraine about President …

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5 years, 2 months ago

Trump, Ukraine And The Path To The Impeachment Inquiry: A Timeline

NPR

Trump, Ukraine And The Path To The Impeachment Inquiry: A Timeline Enlarge this image toggle caption AFP/Getty Images and Getty Images AFP/Getty Images and Getty Images Updated Oct. 25, 2019 When President Trump spoke to Volodymyr Zelenskiy on July 25, Trump held the keys to two things the new Ukrainian president needed in order to demonstrate he had full U.S. …

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5 years, 2 months ago

A Lot Of Trump's Ukraine Conspiracy Theories Come From One Right-Wing Columnist

Huff Post

John Solomon in 2008, when he was executive editor of the conservative Washington Times. Gerald Martineau/The Washington Post via Getty Images Many of the allegations and fuzzy “facts” that President Donald Trump and his allies have cited to defend pressuring Ukraine to investigate Democratic rival Joe Biden gained traction in the press thanks to one journalist: John Solomon, whose stories …

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5 years, 3 months ago

Viktor Shokin: The inside story on Ukraine’s ‘very good’ prosecutor at centre of Trump scandal

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Shokin’s year atop the prosecutor’s …

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5 years, 3 months ago

For first time, Biden declares that Trump must be impeached

Al Jazeera

US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said on Wednesday for the first time that President Donald Trump must be impeached for abusing the powers of his office to help his own reelection. “This is a president who has decided this nation doesn’t have the tools, the power, the political will” to punish bad behaviour, Biden said, cataloguing a litany of …

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5 years, 3 months ago

Ukraine will review probes into owner of gas company linked to Biden’s son

CNN

CNN — Ukraine will review previous investigations into the owner of an energy company linked to the son of former US Vice President Joe Biden, the country’s prosecutor general announced Friday. Ruslan Riaboshapka said his office was reviewing a number of cases opened by previous prosecutors, including probes into the owner of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian natural gas company that …

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5 years, 3 months ago

Punching back at Trump, Biden defends his Ukraine role

Associated Press

RENO, Nev. — Joe Biden is intensifying his counterattacks on President Donald Trump and more explicitly defending his record, with top aides saying the former vice president won’t ignore or sidestep Trump’s attempts to smear him. Contrary to Trump’s unfounded assertions that Biden and his son Hunter were part of widespread corruption in Ukraine, the Democratic presidential contender told hundreds …

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5 years, 3 months ago

How a wild conspiracy theory and Ukraine anti-corruption drive led to Trump impeachment proceedings

The Independent

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5 years, 3 months ago

Here are the key players of the Donald Trump-Ukraine controversy

Deccan Chronicle

Washington: Since May 2019, US President Donald Trump and his attorney Rudy Giuliani has repeatedly pressed the Ukraine government to investigate business dealings of Joe Biden, a Democratic candidate for the 2020 US presidential election, and his son Hunter Biden. Here are the key players of this controversy: Donald Trump : The Democrats announced an official impeachment enquiry into Trump …

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5 years, 3 months ago

Fact-checking all things Ukraine, Trump and the Bidens

CNN

Washington CNN — President Donald Trump has made a blizzard of claims about Ukraine, China and the impeachment inquiry. Joe Biden’s pressure on Ukraine Trump has also claimed that Biden pressured Ukraine to take chief prosecutor Viktor Shokin “off the case.” Biden pressured Ukrainian leaders to fire Shokin – the Obama administration, US allies and Ukrainian anti-corruption activists saw Shokin …

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5 years, 3 months ago

In Ukraine, Rudy Giuliani's Story Does Not Hold Up

NPR

In Ukraine, Rudy Giuliani's Story Does Not Hold Up President Trump has said that former Vice President Joe Biden acted inappropriately by pressuring Ukraine to fire a prosecutor investigating the Ukrainian oil company that hired his son, Hunter Biden. NOEL KING, HOST: President Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, has been relentlessly promoting a theory that former Vice President Joe Biden …

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5 years, 3 months ago

How Ukraine got caught up in Donald Trump’s impeachment battle

Live Mint

Ukraine is the unwitting participant in a political battle in Washington between President Donald Trump and the Democrats ahead of the 2020 election. According to Trump, Biden had Shokin fired because he was investigating the activities of Biden's son Hunter, who was working for a Ukrainian gas company called Burisma. Trump's personal attorney Rudolph Giuliani also alleges some officials in …

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5 years, 3 months ago

Republicans On Trump-Ukraine Call: This Is Fine

Huff Post

WASHINGTON ― It is one of the most stunning revelations about the Donald Trump presidency: Trump asked a foreign leader to investigate a political rival, and he even seemed to suggest that the reward for doing so would be $400 million in military assistance. “I think it’s within his scope of responsibility as the chief executive in the fiduciary to …

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5 years, 3 months ago

Fact check: What Trump has been getting wrong on Biden and Ukraine

CNN

Washington CNN — President Donald Trump is facing intense criticism over a July phone call during which, according to a person familiar with the matter, he pressed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate the son of former Vice President Joe Biden, a leading candidate to face him in the 2020 presidential election. Shokin has been criticized for failing to bring …

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Hunter Biden’s conviction means Trump is lying

Informant who claimed Biden was guilty of bribery arrested by FBI for 'false statements'

Editorial: No evidence for Biden impeachment inquiry? No problem. The House GOP doesn’t seem to care

Trump's allegations at heart of Biden impeachment push

GOP had evidence disproving Biden bribery claims in 2019, top Democrat says

Fact-checking Trump’s massively dishonest weekend: The President made at least 66 separate false or misleading claims in three days

Russian Allies Helping Trump Win Reelection Have A Partner In Wisconsin Republican

Transcript: NPR's Full Interview With Trump Lawyer Rudy Giuliani

Giuliani Says Trump Should '100%' Investigate Biden After Expected Senate Acquittal

Joe Biden calls Iowa voter who pressed him on Ukraine a "liar," challenges him to a push-up contest

Rudy Giuliani pursued business interests in Ukraine while pushing for inquiries on Donald Trump's behalf

Trump, Ukraine And The Path To The Impeachment Inquiry: A Timeline

A Lot Of Trump's Ukraine Conspiracy Theories Come From One Right-Wing Columnist

Viktor Shokin: The inside story on Ukraine’s ‘very good’ prosecutor at centre of Trump scandal

For first time, Biden declares that Trump must be impeached

Ukraine will review probes into owner of gas company linked to Biden’s son

Punching back at Trump, Biden defends his Ukraine role

How a wild conspiracy theory and Ukraine anti-corruption drive led to Trump impeachment proceedings

Here are the key players of the Donald Trump-Ukraine controversy

Fact-checking all things Ukraine, Trump and the Bidens

In Ukraine, Rudy Giuliani's Story Does Not Hold Up

How Ukraine got caught up in Donald Trump’s impeachment battle

Republicans On Trump-Ukraine Call: This Is Fine

Fact check: What Trump has been getting wrong on Biden and Ukraine