Trump-Ukraine Whistle-Blower Complaint and Impeachment Inquiry
The Sunday Read: ‘This Was Trump Pulling a Putin’
Is there a connection between former President Donald J. Trump’s pressure campaign on Ukraine, the Russian invasion and the events of Jan. 6, 2021? The journalist Robert Draper talked to Fiona Hill, John Bolton and other former Trump advisers to gauge the extent to which the ex-president’s actions had a ripple effect. There are a […]
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Trump and Ukraine: Former Advisers Revisit What Happened
Trump’s ignorance of world affairs would have been a liability under any circumstance. But it put him at a pronounced disadvantage when it came to dealing with those strongmen for whom he felt a natural affinity, like President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey. Once, while Trump was discussing Syria with Erdogan, Hill recalled: “Erdogan goes […]
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Republicans Once Silent on Russia Ratchet Up Attacks on Biden
Democrats argue that such criticism shows how single-minded the Republican Party has become about tearing down its opponents. “Republicans have defaulted to attacking Joe Biden in a moment of national crisis,” said Senator Christopher S. Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut. “There’s this infection in the Republican Party right now, in which power matters more than anything […]
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Republicans, Once Harsh Ukraine Critics, Pivot to Strong Support
Mr. Trump’s first impeachment grew out of his effort to withhold military support from Ukraine until Mr. Zelensky agreed to investigate Mr. Biden and his son, Hunter, and their involvement in a Ukrainian energy company, Burisma. After every Senate Republican except Mitt Romney of Utah voted to acquit Mr. Trump, Senators Ron Johnson, Republican of […]
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Barr Rebukes Trump as ‘Off the Rails’ in New Memoir
WASHINGTON — Former Attorney General William P. Barr writes in a new memoir that former President Donald J. Trump’s “self-indulgence and lack of self-control” cost him the 2020 election and says “the absurd lengths to which he took his ‘stolen election’ claim led to the rioting on Capitol Hill.” In the book, “One Damn Thing […]
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