Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Trump denies calling US war dead 'losers,' 'suckers'

Trump lawyers argue Democrats just want to overturn election

7:29 pm January 26, 2020

Washington: President Donald Trump’s lawyers plunged into his impeachment trial defense Saturday by accusing Democrats of striving to overturn the 2016 election, arguing that investigations of Trump’s dealings with Ukraine have not been a fact-finding mission but a politically motivated effort to drive him from the White House. They’re here to perpetrate the most massive […]

Impeachment arguments as seen by Democrats, Trump team

3:02 pm January 21, 2020

Washington: Legal filings to the Senate have laid out the arguments that will be made in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, where he faces two distinct allegations of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. A look at the main points Democrats are making as they argue for Trump’s removal from office, and Trump’s response […]

Ousted ambassador felt ‘big threat;’ Trump assails her anew

11:28 pm November 15, 2019

Washington: Former US Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch provided chilling detail in Trump impeachment hearings Friday of the big threat she felt upon suddenly being ousted from her post and learning President Donald Trump had denounced her in his July phone call with Ukraine’s president. In that call, Trump assailed her as bad news and said she was […]

Will Trump's mishandling of records leave a hole in history?

Memo: Trump prodded Ukraine leader on Biden claims

8:55 pm September 25, 2019

Washington : President Donald Trump repeatedly prodded Ukraine’s new leader to work with Rudy Giuliani and the U.S. attorney general to investigate Democratic political rival Joe Biden, according to a rough transcript summarizing the call released Wednesday. In the call, Trump raised unsubstantiated allegations that Biden sought to interfere with a Ukrainian prosecutor’s investigation of […]