How the president’s reckless fixation on migration threatened to shatter democracy. By Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig ‘I alone can fix it.” On 21 July 2016, as he accepted the Republican presidential nomination in Cleveland, Ohio, Donald John Trump spoke more than 4,000 words, but these five would soon become …
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Home countries will not profit from pursuing a reckless Brexit while hitching ourselves to Donald Trump’s Iranian misadventure A British prime minister flies back from a Caribbean holiday where “hes been”, courtesy of millionaire friends, sunning himself on yachts while the Middle East is in flames and Britain in the …
Read More »Impeachment debate drama: six hours distilled into three minutes – video
Members of the House of Representatives debate the two articles of impeachment against Donald Trump, with both parties accusing each other variously of protecting the indefensible, tearing families apart and even being nastier to the chairman than Pontius Pilate was to Jesus. After a day-long debate, Trump became the third …
Read More »‘Historic rebuke’: what the US papers say about Trump’s impeachment
One word summarizes it up for many front pages, but pro-Trump papers insist the Senate trial will be a’ funeral’ for the Democrats There was not much debate on the top story in the US on Thursday morning, with the two elections to impeach Donald Trump getting near universal coverage. …
Read More »Afghanistan papers detail US dysfunction: ‘We did not know what we were doing’
A key theme of the trove of documents wrote this week was the lack of coherence in Washington’s approach to Afghanistan from the outset In the midst of Barack Obama’s much-vaunted military surge against the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2010, Hayam Mohammed, an elder from Panjwai near the Pakistani border …
Read More »Why is the president of the United States cyberbullying a 16-year-old girl? | Nancy Jo Sales
What it says to girls is: no matter what you do , no matter how much you achieve, powerful mortals will try to cut you down The morning after election day 2016, I got a call from a girls’ school in New York where I was scheduled to speak. “We …
Read More »Who’s Really Behind a $1 Million Donation to Trump’s Inauguration?
The Justice Department on Tuesday announced it had accused eight humen for conspiring to illegally funnel $3.5 million to political committees supporting Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential entreat. Prosecutors say the money came from George Nader–a businessman who was was recently charged with trafficking a child for sexual purposes. Nader was …
Read More »Trump impeachment: Republicans dig in as hopes of bipartisan support dashed
Schiff readies report and White House prepares for trialAnalysis: Republicans’ top six impeachment misrepresentationsOpinion: Impeachment evidences US officials at the most appropriate Congressional Republicans dug deep in defense of Donald Trump over the weekend, frustrating Democratic hopes that the impeachment investigation would build bipartisan corroborate following weeks of testament laying …
Read More »Trump impeachment inquiry: powerful testimony on final day of public hearings – video
The fifth period of public hearings in the impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump checked powerful testimony from Fiona Hill, a former National Security Council official and former top Russia expert in the White House, and David Holmes, a state department aide in Kyiv. Both spoke of Gordon Sondland, the diplomat …
Read More »Impeachment testimony takeaways: Fiona Hill says Ukraine scheme ‘very clear’
The former National Security Council official provided some of the most explosive testimony yet The fifth, and perhaps final, period of public hearings in the impeachment investigation into Donald Trump was one of the most explosive. Here are five key takeaways 😛 TAGEND Continue reading … Read more: theguardian.com
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