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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...

Polling Shifts on Impeachment
Mood Shifts on Impeachment
Sep 29, 2019 2:15 PM CDT

Mood Shifts on Impeachment

Now a majority favors the House probe, CBS News poll finds

(Newser) - Looks like Americans are shifting on impeachment—at least according to a new poll of 2,059 US residents conducted on Thursday and Friday, CBS News reports. Much in the YouGov poll breaks down predictably between Democrats and Republicans, but a slim majority now approve the impeachment inquiry into President...

Communications Chief at Mar-a-Lago Convicted in Child Porn Case

Soldier handled calls for the president

(Newser) - A staff sergeant who ran White House communications for the Army at Mar-a-Lago has been sentenced in a child pornography investigation. Richard Ciccarella, 34, had admitted he uploaded photos of an underage girl, who is a relative of his, to a Russian website, the Miami Herald reports, though his conviction...

SNL Is Gleefully Back
SNL Is Gleefully Back 
Sep 29, 2019 7:13 AM CDT

SNL Is Gleefully Back

Show goes to town on impeachment inquiry, election

(Newser) - If you thought Saturday Night Live would politely ignore President Trump's impeachment inquiry in the premiere of its 45th season, well ... you'd be out of your ever-loving mind, sparky. Alec Baldwin returned Saturday night as the commander in chief in question, NBC reports, frantically manning the phones to...

NYT: NRA Chief Told Trump to 'Stop the Games' on Gun Laws

NRA confirms meeting took place, denies Wayne LaPierre offered 'special arrangements' to Trump

(Newser) - A scathing Senate report claiming the National Rifle Association acted as a "foreign asset" for Russia wasn't the only headline the gun lobby group ended up in this week. The New York Times reports that NRA chief Wayne LaPierre met with President Trump on Friday at the White...

Trump's Envoy to Ukraine Quits Amid Whistleblower Hubbub

Kurt Volker steps down after Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani says they were in frequent contact

(Newser) - Kurt Volker, a former US ambassador to NATO caught in the middle of a whistleblower complaint over President Trump's dealings with Ukraine, resigned Friday from his post as special envoy to the Eastern European nation, according to a US official. The official said Volker told Secretary of State Mike...

Nancy Pelosi: &#39;I Pray for the President&#39;
Trump Wants Schiff to Resign
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Sep 27, 2019 11:49 AM CDT

Trump Wants Schiff to Resign

Nancy Pelosi again sees 'cover-up' and says she prays for Trump

(Newser) - The impeachment fallout continues, with President Trump and his supporters castigating Democrats for launching the inquiry while the president's critics dig in. Here's a look at coverage:
  • Trump: He's been tweeting, a lot, on Friday in defense of what he insists was a "perfect conversation" with
...

Kremlin: Hey, Don't Release Transcripts of Our Calls

Moscow doesn't want to see Trump-Putin conversations made public

(Newser) - The Kremlin is weighing in on the Trump-Ukraine phone controversy, though not about whether President Trump did or did not act appropriately. Instead, Russia has a narrower focus in mind: It doesn't want the US to release transcripts of Trump-Putin calls, reports Bloomberg . "We would like to hope...

Impeachment Inquiry Gives Some Democrats, Voters Pause

GOP says Trump raised $13M in the first 24 hours

(Newser) - Once the dust settled after the release of a whistleblower's report and the testimony of the director of national intelligence on Thursday, more developments surfaced. They included:
  • The nation is divided on the House impeachment inquiry, a new poll shows, with 49% supporting it and 46% opposed. "Democrats
...

Trump Unloads on Whistleblower
Trump Unloads
on Whistleblower
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Sep 26, 2019 1:55 PM CDT

Trump Unloads on Whistleblower

Person is 'almost a spy' and 'you know what we used to do in the old days,' says president

(Newser) - It's another day of non-stop developments on the impeachment front—including the release of the whistleblower report and the testimony of the director of national intelligence—and President Trump made some related headlines of his own. Speaking at a breakfast Thursday morning, the president likened the still-unidentified person who...

Intel Chief Backs Whistleblower's Actions

Joseph Maguire testifies before Congress

(Newser) - President Trump has questioned the patriotism of the intelligence official who filed a whistleblower complaint against him, but the acting director of national intelligence feels otherwise. "I think the whistleblower did the right thing," Joseph Maguire said Thursday during testimony before the House Intelligence Committee, per Reuters . "...

Whistleblower Report Out: It Alleges a Cover-Up

Complaint says White House attorneys tried to 'lock down' records of the call

(Newser) - Wednesday brought the release of a rough transcript of President Trump's call with Ukraine's leader. Thursday brings the release of the nine-page whistleblower report that followed. Read it for yourself here . It makes two central allegations: that President Trump asked a foreign leader to interfere in the 2020...

Joe Biden: Looks Like 'Impeachable Offense' to Me

Rival goes on Jimmy Kimmel, sees 'blatant abuse of power' by Trump in phone call

(Newser) - Joe Biden went on Jimmy Kimmel Wednesday night to talk impeachment, and he thinks Democrats have a case. "Based on the material that they acknowledged today, it seems to me it's awful hard to avoid the conclusion that it is an impeachable offense," said Biden. (Watch it...

Trump: Pelosi Is No Longer Speaker of the House

Rather, she's been 'taken over by the radical left,' president claims at press conference

(Newser) - President Trump addressed the ongoing Ukraine phone call controversy during a press conference Wednesday in New York after he'd spent the day at the UN General Assembly. The news conference—his first since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that an impeachment inquiry would be launched following a whistleblower's...

Oops: White House Sends Ukraine Stategy to Dems

And Democrats put it up on Twitter

(Newser) - "Unsend," anyone? The White House mistakenly emailed its talking points on the Ukraine scandal to House Democrats on Wednesday, the Hill reports. The offices of Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Don Beyer were among those who confirmed receiving the 11:22am email, which the White House tried to recall...

Sources Say Acting DNI Threatened to Resign

But Joseph Maguire denies the story

(Newser) - Joseph Maguire was just named the acting Director of National Intelligence last month, and multiple sources tell the Washington Post he threatened to step down from the position if he's not allowed to speak freely when he testifies before Congress on Thursday regarding the whistleblower complaint made against...

They've Read the Transcript: 5 Takes on Quid Pro Quo

Takeaways from Trump's call with Zelensky

(Newser) - The 5-page memo detailing President Trump's late July call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is out , and much of the ensuing discussion has swirled around the phrase "quid pro quo." Six takes:
  • At the Washington Examiner , Philip Klein calls the transcript "bad news" for Trump. The
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The 5-Page Summary of Trump&#39;s Call Is Out
Here's What Trump Said
to Ukraine's President
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Sep 25, 2019 10:28 AM CDT

Here's What Trump Said to Ukraine's President

White House has released a 5-page memo summarizing the call

(Newser) - The White House on Wednesday released a five-page memo summarizing the July 25 call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The AP shies away from using the word "transcript," and the Washington Post explains that what was released "is a memorandum of a telephone conversation...

With Impeachment Inquiry Underway, Trump Reacts

'The Democrats are frozen with hatred and fear'

(Newser) - After House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the formal launch of the impeachment process , President Trump was back on Twitter Wednesday morning, per USA Today . "There has been no President in the history of our Country who has been treated so badly as I have," he posted . "The...

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