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Euroviews. Trump rages about the impeachment process. But the GOP created those rules ǀ View

If Trump is unhappy with how the impeachment process is unfolding, he has mostly Republicans to blame. After all, they are the ones who have written the rules that impeachment investigations follow.

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Euroviews. Trump staffers have a choice: Loyalty and maybe prison, or betrayal and derision ǀ View

The emerging strategy of House Republicans to argue that WH advisers went rogue — without the authorization of Donald Trump — to press Ukraine to provide dirt on a political opponent puts Mick Mulvaney, John Eisenberg, Rudy Giuliani and others in a precarious and even life-changing dilemma.

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Euroviews. Why White House lawyers might not be covering for Trump after all ǀ View

As events surrounding the impeachment inquiry unfold quickly — and occasionally too quickly to digest fully — there is a tendency to assume things we do not yet know and to color things we think we know.

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Ousted Ukraine ambassador: I was told to tweet praise of Trump

The three House committees leading the Trump impeachment inquiry released Monday two transcripts of the behind-closed-doors interviews they have so far conducted.

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'Rattled' - Trump's Twitter bluster a cover says academic

“The louder he shouts, the more you can see he realises he may have... deliberately embarked on an alternative foreign policy without authorisation from Congress," said Professor Scott Lucas.

USA

Democrats take major step forward in impeachment effort against Trump

Democrats take major step forward in impeachment effort against Trump

USA

Security official to testify he alerted lawyers to Trump-Ukraine call

Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman will reportedly say that "I did not think it was proper to demand that a foreign government investigate a U.S. citizen."

USA

Trump showered with boos, chants of 'lock him up' at baseball

The president, who was there with first lady Melania Trump, stood smiling and clapping throughout.

USA

US Republicans storm impeachment hearing room

US House of Representatives impeachment inquiry devolved into chaos on Wednesday as Republican lawmakers stormed into a high-security hearing room and delayed testimony by a witness.

USA

6 highlights from Ukraine envoy Bill Taylor's 'explosive' testimony

Taylor's testimony raised serious concerns about Trump's denials of a quid pro quo.

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Euroviews. Mitt Romney's Trump criticism and House's Syria rebuke show growing cracks in the GOP ǀ View

It’s long been an open secret in Washington that many of the career Republicans who fawn over President Donald Trump in public have nothing good to say about him in private.

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Euroviews. Trump's Nancy Pelosi 'meltdown' tweet was the perfect self-own. Here's why ǀ View

Thanks to Donald Trump, American women have a fresh, iconic photo of Speaker Nancy Pelosi at the White House on Wednesday. There she is, the only woman at a table of two dozen men, standing up to object to what lawmakers confirm was Trump’s verbal abuse.

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Euroviews. We shouldn't have been giving money and weapons to Ukraine in the first place ǀ View

Arming Ukraine will almost always result in a stronger Russian response. Rather than end the conflict, military assistance risks prolonging it.

USA

White House refuses to cooperate with impeachment inquiry

The move comes hours after the administration blocked the testimony of U.S. ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland.

USA

Second whistleblower comes forward in Trump-Ukraine scandal

The first whistleblower complaint about President Donald Trump's phone call with the Ukrainian president led to Democrats' impeachment inquiry.

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Intelligence community watchdog testifies behind closed doors in impeachment inquiry

The inspector general, Michael Atkinson, had deemed the whistleblower complaint at the center of the impeachment inquiry an "urgent concern."

Ukraine

Ukraine to review cases linked to firm that employed Biden's son

It is the first concrete sign of how Ukraine plans to handle investigations that are being closely watched in Washington amid possible impeachment of Donald Trump.

USA

Texts reveal US diplomats pushed for Ukranian investigation

The US House Intelligence Committee released text messages between a Zelensky aide and US diplomats

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Euroviews. Trump's two faces on foreign policy exposed by call with Ukraine president ǀ View

Something important was missing from the phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy: any sign of what we think of as Trumpian nationalism.

USA

President Donald Trump gears up attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

President Donald Trump geared up his attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the two clashed over threats to impose tariffs on Mexico over migrants