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Trump's Syria Envoy Points to Alleged 'War Crimes'

James Jeffrey talks to Capitol Hill lawmakers

(Newser) - President Trump hailed a "big success" in Syria and lifted sanctions against Turkey on Wednesday as his Syria envoy said war crimes had likely been committed there, USA Today reports. "We haven't seen widespread evidence of ethnic cleansing," said the Syria representative, James Jeffrey, per Reuters...

Lawyer: Nothing Can Be Done if Trump Shoots Someone

Lawyer argues he has immunity from state criminal law, but only while in office

(Newser) - "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and wouldn’t lose any voters, okay?" then-candidate Donald Trump said . As president, he could do that without being arrested, at least while he remained in office, his lawyers argued in front of the US Second Circuit...

Trump's Name Scrubbed From NYC Ice Rinks

Wollman Rink, Lasker Rink have been run by his organization since 1980s

(Newser) - For years, skaters at a pair of ice rinks in Manhattan's Central Park have been surrounded by the Trump name. Now, no longer. The official names of the New York rinks are Wollman Rink and Lasker Rink, but Donald Trump started running them in the 1980s, at which point...

Trump Orders All Sanctions on Turkey Lifted

Says the ceasefire is permanent

(Newser) - The Turkish ceasefire in Syria that was agreed upon last Thursday is a permanent one, said President Trump Wednesday, and so sanctions against Turkey will be lifted—although he allowed that "you will also define permanent in that part of the world as somewhat questionable," reports CNBC . CNN...

NYT Says Ukraine Timeline Isn't What We Thought

Paper says documents, sources show Ukraine knew about aid freeze in early August

(Newser) - Diplomat William Taylor's Tuesday testimony to House impeachment investigators drew "sighs and gasps" —and a "pfft!" from President Trump, who dismissively tweeted on Wednesday morning, "Neither he (Taylor) or any other witness has provided testimony that the Ukrainians were aware that military aid was...

Biden: My &#39;Lynching&#39; Comment Wasn&#39;t Same as Trump&#39;s


Biden: My 'Lynching'
Comment Wasn't
Same as Trump's
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Oct 23, 2019 9:50 AM CDT

Biden: My 'Lynching' Comment Wasn't Same as Trump's

He used the words 'partisan lynching' when discussing Bill Clinton's impeachment

(Newser) - On Tuesday, Joe Biden took President Trump to task for describing the impeachment inquiry against him as a lynching . Also on Tuesday: Biden apologized for doing essentially the same thing in 1998. The series of events:
  • First came Biden's tweet , in which he chided the president: "Impeachment is
...

He 'Bundled' for Obama, Hillary. Then He Gave $900K to Trump

Prolific political fundraiser Imaad Zuberi to plead guilty to tax evasion, hiding work as foreign agent

(Newser) - A prolific political fundraiser who raised millions of dollars for Democrats before donating large sums to President Trump's inaugural committee has agreed to plead guilty to multiple federal charges, including tax evasion and concealing his work as a foreign agent as he lobbied high-level US government officials, the Justice...

Trump, McConnell at Odds on This Point
Is This the
'Sea Change' on
Impeachment?
THE RUNDOWN
Oct 23, 2019 6:33 AM CDT

Is This the 'Sea Change' on Impeachment?

Trump, McConnell at odds on one point as testimony continues

(Newser) - The deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia will testify in the House impeachment inquiry Wednesday about the withholding of military aid from Ukraine, following up the stunning testimony of the top US diplomat in Ukraine. This as President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell appear...

Unnamed Official Behind Trump 'Resistance' Op-Ed Wrote Book

'A Warning' will be released next month

(Newser) - The anonymous Trump official who made waves with an infamous New York Times op-ed last year revealing the "quiet resistance" within the administration is about to make more waves: He or she has a book coming out. A Warning, bylined simply "Anonymous," will be released November 19,...

McConnell Introduces Resolution Opposing Syria Withdrawal

But stops short of suggesting sanctions on Turkey

(Newser) - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell introduced legislation Tuesday denouncing Turkey's invasion of northern Syria and gently prodding President Trump to halt his withdrawal of US troops from the embattled country, the AP reports. But McConnell said lawmakers should refrain from imposing sanctions on Turkey for now, saying, "We...

New Figure Enters Ukraine Controversy
New Figure Enters
Ukraine Controversy
the rundown
Oct 22, 2019 11:47 AM CDT

New Figure Enters Ukraine Controversy

Hungarian leader Viktor Orban reportedly bad-mouthed Ukraine before call

(Newser) - New reports out Tuesday add more context to President Trump's view of Ukraine before he made his famous call to that nation's leader in July. The upshot is that Vladimir Putin and Hungary's Viktor Orban each bad-mouthed Ukraine as a corrupt nation to Trump, reinforcing what he...

Pentagon Trying to Plan for Trump's Next Sudden Move

If president suddenly decides to pull troops out of Afghanistan, DOD officials want to be ready

(Newser) - There's no current instruction from the White House to yank troops out of Afghanistan. But amid recent developments in Syria , the Pentagon is taking no chances and has been setting up a contingency plan in anticipation of any surprise directives from President Trump on Afghanistan. Current and former Defense...

Trump Uses Controversial New Word on Impeachment

This is a 'lynching,' he says, and black lawmakers are not pleased

(Newser) - President Trump doesn't think the impeachment investigation is merely a "witch hunt." In a tweet Tuesday, he called it a "lynching," and black lawmakers are not pleased. "So some day, if a Democrat becomes President and the Republicans win the House, even by a...

GOP Ready to Make Its Move Against Schiff
GOP Ready
to Make Its
Move Against
Schiff
the rundown
Oct 21, 2019 2:41 PM CDT

GOP Ready to Make Its Move Against Schiff

But push to censure expected to fail in the House Monday evening

(Newser) - Republicans want the House to censure Democrat Adam Schiff over his handling of the Trump impeachment hearings, and NBC News reports that they'll push for a vote Monday evening. The move is widely expected to become a symbolic one, however, because Democrats will be able to easily block the...

Trump Swings at 'Phony' Constitutional Clause

He speaks with reporters for 71 minutes on Monday

(Newser) - The emoluments clause has dogged President Trump since, quite literally, his first full weekday in office , and proved the undoing of his now-reversed decision to hold the 2020 G7 summit at his Doral resort in Miami. That hasn't left him a big fan of the Constitutional clause, which forbids...

As US Troops Depart, Residents Pelt Them

'Like rats, America is running away,' says one man in Kurdish-dominated city

(Newser) - Angry over the US withdrawal, residents of a Kurdish-dominated Syrian city hurled potatoes at departing American military vehicles as they drove by on Monday, the AP reports. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said a small residual US military force will stay in eastern Syria to protect Kurdish-held oil fields for at...

GOP Blowback Forced Trump U-Turn on Hosting G7 at Resort

'It clearly was an unforced political error'

(Newser) - President Trump blamed "Media & Democrat Crazed and Irrational Hostility" when he tweeted Saturday that he had abandoned his plan to host the G7 summit at his own resort in Miami—but insiders say it was pushback from Republicans that led to the U-turn. Sources tell the Washington Post...

Clinton Tweets Parody of Trump's Turkey Letter

Get your missiles out of Cuba. Everybody will say, 'Yay, Khrushchev! You're the best!'

(Newser) - In a move President Trump is likely to have a few things to say about, Hillary Clinton poked fun at his heavily criticized letter to his Turkish counterpart in a tweet Sunday. Writing "From the archives," she shared a letter that parodied Trump's tone in the letter...

'Error-Ridden' Trump Tweet Draws Derision

For one thing, he called the defense secretary 'Mark Esperanto'

(Newser) - President Trump wrote an "error-ridden" tweet Sunday that inspired reporters to take it apart pretty much word by word, Newsweek reports. Now deleted—after thousands of shares—the tweet referred to Secretary of Defense Mark Esper as "Mark Esperanto" and made claims that raised a few eyebrows: "...

Mulvaney: Trump Was &#39;Honestly Surprised&#39;
Mulvaney: Trump
Was 'Honestly Surprised'
sunday talk shows
Oct 20, 2019 1:30 PM CDT

Mulvaney: Trump Was 'Honestly Surprised'

The acting chief of staff talks to Chris Wallace on 'Fox News Sunday'

(Newser) - Mick Mulvaney hit the small screen Sunday and talked about a pair of recent issues—including President Trump's about-face on hosting next year's G-7 conference at Trump National Doral Miami resort, Politico reports. "The president isn't one for holding back his feelings and his emotions about...

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