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Climber Builds Replica Wall Over Trump Claim

Climbers can try to scale a replica border wall in Kentucky

(Newser) - Impossible to climb? Rick Weber doesn't the think so. The climber and engineer has built a replica border wall to see if professional climbers can get over it, the Hill reports. Weber, 75, says he constructed the wall in response to President Trump's boast that even "20...

Critics: New Trump Rule on Visas a 'Catch-22'

Immigrants will need to prove they can pay for own health care

(Newser) - Immigrants hoping to find a place to the US will need to have an additional source of funding now if they want to get their visa. The Los Angeles Times and Wall Street Journal report that a proclamation was signed Friday by President Trump mandating that, starting Nov. 3, immigrants...

Trump&#39;s Ace in the Hole: A &#39;Red Wall&#39; in Senate
White House Will Dare
Pelosi to Hold Vote
the rundown
Oct 4, 2019 12:36 PM CDT

White House Will Dare Pelosi to Hold Vote

President acknowledges House has enough votes to impeach him

(Newser) - President Trump defended himself on Twitter and in person to reporters on Friday, insisting that his appeals to China and Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden were all about corruption, not politics. "Everything, to me, is about corruption," Trump said, per CNN . "I don’t care about Biden’...

Texts Suggest Ukraine Had to Launch Probe to Get Meeting
Texts Show
Pressure Put
on Ukraine to
Launch Probe
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Oct 4, 2019 9:30 AM CDT

Texts Show Pressure Put on Ukraine to Launch Probe

House Democrats released a series of text messages provided by Kurt Volker

(Newser) - Text messages provided to the House Intelligence Committee by former US Special Envoy for Ukraine Kurt Volker were released by Democrats late Thursday night—and NBC News sees them as "explicitly linking" a potential White House meeting between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with a Ukraine probe...

Ex-Ukraine Envoy Answers Lawmakers in All-Day Session

Kurt Volker voluntarily answers questions

(Newser) - The former special envoy to Ukraine met behind closed doors with congressional investigators Tuesday looking into whether President Trump leaned on Ukrainian officials to investigate Joe Biden. Kurt Volker resigned last week after being cited in a whistleblower complaint that prompted the House to begin its impeachment inquiry. He came...

CNN Rejects 2 of Trump's Campaign Ads

But the network does accept one

(Newser) - CNN says it has rejected two advertisements submitted by President Trump's re-election campaign because they weren't factual, but will run a third ad that was submitted on Thursday, the AP reports. Trump's campaign likened CNN to a public relations firm for Democrats after rejection of its first...

Nickelback, A-ha Enter the Trump Fray

Things are getting strange

(Newser) - It was easy to miss in Wednesday's volatile day of politics , but at some point in there, President Trump tweeted a Nickelback meme. The video has since been removed by Twitter, reports the Guardian , though you can currently watch it on YouTube. The strange chain of events began when...

Pence Is Drawn Into Ukraine Controversy

VP skipped leader's inauguration amid Trump pressure

(Newser) - As President Trump's anger over the Ukraine story grows, his second-in-command is being drawn into the controversy as well. The Washington Post reports that Trump used Mike Pence to ratchet up pressure on Ukraine leader Volodymyr Zelensky in a few different ways. For starters, Trump ordered Pence to skip...

There&#39;s Another Whistleblower
There's Another Whistleblower
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Oct 2, 2019 5:45 PM CDT

There's Another Whistleblower

And this one has made an accusation about Trump's tax returns

(Newser) - Tired of reading about the President Trump whistleblower complaint? Well there's another complaint involving Trump that kind of flew under the media radar, Business Insider reports. Turns out a federal worker presented "an unsolicited communication" on July 29 summarizing allegations of "inappropriate efforts to influence" the compulsory...

Trump Rails Against Democrats&#39; &#39;BULLSHIT&#39;
Trump Cries
'BULLSHIT' in Tweet
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Oct 2, 2019 12:36 PM CDT

Trump Cries 'BULLSHIT' in Tweet

He addresses the morning's news

(Newser) - President Trump took to Twitter late Wednesday morning to address all the big news of the day: a New York Times report that claimed he asked about shooting migrants in the legs at the border, the markets, the impeachment inquiry, and a press conference attended by Nancy Pelosi and Adam...

House Democrats: We're Subpoenaing the White House

Will request 13 separate batches of documents related to Trump's Ukraine phone call

(Newser) - House Democrats pursuing an impeachment inquiry of President Trump say they'll subpoena the White House on Friday for documents related to his dealings with Ukraine, citing "flagrant disregard" of their previous requests for information. House Oversight and Reform Chairman Elijah Cummings wrote in a memo to committee members...

Trump Claims a Coup Is Underway
Trump Claims a
Coup Is Underway
Oct 2, 2019 6:46 AM CDT

Trump Claims a Coup Is Underway

President echoes trade adviser's comments to Fox

(Newser) - Not for the first time, President Trump is falsely claiming a coup against him. "As I learn more and more each day, I am coming to the conclusion that what is taking place is not an impeachment, it is a COUP," the president tweeted late Tuesday. Trump's...

Report: Trump Suggested Shooting Migrants in Legs

He wanted alligators in border trench, sources say

(Newser) - President Trump aired some disturbing ideas during a "frenzied" week in March when his frustration with border security reached a boiling point, reports the New York Times , which cites "more than a dozen White House and administration officials." According to the sources, during one meeting in March...

Trump Breaks His Own Record for Most Tweets
Trump Sets New
Twitter Record
Oct 2, 2019 12:21 AM CDT

Trump Sets New Twitter Record

He tweeted almost 800 times in September

(Newser) - It's a record that may never be broken—not by another president, at least. President Trump broke his own record for most presidential tweets in a month in September, when he tweeted or retweeted 790 times, CNN reports. He set the previous record in May with 695 tweets. He...

After Longtime Stalemate, New US-N. Korea Talks Set

Nuclear negotiations are scheduled to resume Saturday

(Newser) - North Korea and the US have agreed to resume nuclear negotiations on Saturday following a monthslong stalemate over withdrawal of sanctions in exchange for disarmament, a senior North Korean diplomat said Tuesday. Choe Son Hui, North Korea's first vice minister of foreign affairs, said the two nations will have...

Pompeo Was Listening to Trump's Ukraine Call

State Department confirms secretary heard the conversation

(Newser) - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was one of the people listening in on President Trump's call to Ukraine's president in July—the call that prompted the House to begin an impeachment inquiry. A senior State Department official confirmed Pompeo's involvement on Monday, the Wall Street Journal reports....

Trump Pushed a PM to Help Mueller Probe

Italy, other nations are being asked to assist with Barr's inquiry

(Newser) - In May, Attorney General William Barr asked a US attorney to run an inquiry into the roots of the Russia election interference investigation. Sometime later, NBC reports, Barr decided other countries might be able to help, and he suggested that President Trump call Australia, US officials say. So the president...

Trump on Rep. Schiff: 'Arrest for Treason?'

President starts his Monday with tweets about the whistleblower, too

(Newser) - On Sunday, President Trump tweeted that Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff should be "questioned at the highest level for Fraud & Treason" after Schiff last week paraphrased Trump's statements to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky when opening a House hearing on the whistleblower complaint. The president didn't wake with...

Trump Says He 'Deserves' to Meet Whistleblower

'I deserve to meet my accuser,' he says

(Newser) - President Trump has called the Ukraine whistleblower "almost a spy" who should be handled like we "used to do in the old days when we were smart." Now he says he wants to meet him or her. "Like every American, I deserve to meet my accuser,...

De Niro Unloads on Trump —Even Worse Than Before

The actor surprises a Sunday morning host

(Newser) - Robert De Niro isn't exactly holding a torch for President Trump. Between remarks he made Friday at the premiere of his new movie The Irishman, and what he said Sunday on CNN, the actor is in full anti-Trump mode and ready to toss in a couple of f-bombs. Want...

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