Tag: Fox’s Shep Smith Explains Ukraine Controversy

Whistleblower Complaint Alleges Massive White House Cover-Up

 

Whistleblower alleges White House coverup

Seeking to interfere in the 2020 election, and what’s more – attempting to cover it up.

As Common Dreams reported, the scandal stems from a July phone call between Trump and Zelensky in which Trump asked the Ukrainian president for a “favor” — to investigate Biden’s son Hunter’s employment by Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings from 2014 to 2019. A memorandum of a condensed version of the conversation was released Wednesday.

 

Fox’s Shep Smith Explains Ukraine Controversy

Smith points out that Trump was wrong to try to turn the controversy onto Joe Biden by repeatedly claiming that he thinks Biden’s son Hunter did something wrong.

“There is no known evidence that Joe Biden did anything wrong,” Smith said. “The whole thing involved corruption in the Ukraine. A corrupt prosecutor who much of the world was pressuring the Ukraine to remove. Earlier this year the Ukrainian officials said there was no evidence of any wrongdoing by Joe Biden or his son, Hunter.”

 

Napolitano: Trumps admitted contact with Ukraine is a crime

 

Napolitano: Trump’s brazen acts of corruption

Judge Napolitano’s Chambers: Judge Andrew Napolitano explains how President Trump asking a foreign government or any foreign national to get dirt on a political rival is an impeachable offense

 

Trump Corruption Mars U.S. Relationship With Ukraine

This video explains how Russia invaded the Ukraine and the response of sanctions against Russia, kicking Russia out of the G8 and Trump doing Russia’s bidding by trying to lift sanctions against Russia. Change to the 2016 GOP Party Platform on Ukraine Support is also discussed.

Michael McFaul, former U.S. ambassador to Russia, talks with Joy Reid about how yet another Donald Trump scandal has roots in his connections with Russia, and the disappointing abdication of U.S. leadership in modelling a government that is not distorted by the personal corruption of its leaders.

 

Trump Whistle-blower Complaint Centers On Ukraine

As the Trump administration tries to keep a whistle-blower’s report under wraps, Democrats in Congress are threatening legal action to get their hands on it.

 

Trump slammed by his own staff for whistleblower complaint

President Trump and the Department of Justice of are under fire for attempting to hide information from Congress regarding the whistleblower complaint. Trump’s own Inspector General says he “respectfully disagrees” with the DNI’s decision not to report the complaint to Congress, arguing it surrounds the DNI’s “most significant and important” responsibilities. John Flannery, former federal prosecutor, argues the DNI had “absolutely no discretion to withhold this information from the House or the Senate.”

 

‘Criminal Behavior’: Fmr Russia Ambassador Says Trump Whistleblower Complaint Points To Crime

The Washington Post reported a U.S. intelligence official filed a complaint citing ‘urgent concern’ about a promise Trump made to a foreign leader. Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul argues the complaint must have come from a “very senior” official who had access to Trump’s phone calls. McFaul adds the complaint either points to “criminal behavior” or some “threat to a key asset to the intelligence community.”

 

Facing impeachment, Donald Trump goes on Twitter tirade

Trump spent the weekend attacking the whistleblower, Democrats, the impeachment process, and quoting a supporter who says impeachment will cause a “Civil-war like fracture.”

 

Trump Under Fire For 2020 Collusion

The Wall Street Journal details new reports about the “urgent” whistleblower complaint, that President Trump asked the Ukrainian President ‘eight times’ to go after Biden, and assigned Rudy Giuliani to execute the plot. Rep. Greg Meeks argues, Trump is making ‘a joke of our institutions,’ adding Republicans need to ‘stop making excuses for Trump.’

 

Giuliani Tweets Out Incriminating Evidence Proving Whistleblower Correct

 

Whistleblower process breaks down against covering for Trump

Matt Miller, former Justice Department spokesman, talks with Joy Reid about the extremely perilous position the intelligence community whistleblower is in, and the limited options Democrats face in how to confront Donald Trump’s unbridled corruption.

 

More than 300 ex-officials say Trump’s Ukraine actions are ‘profound national security concern’

More than 300 former national security and foreign policy officials signed a letter released Friday labeling President Donald Trump’s growing Ukraine scandal a “profound national security concern” and praising congressional Democrats for formally launching an impeachment inquiry. “President Trump appears to have leveraged the authority and resources of the highest office in the land to invite additional foreign interference into our democratic processes.

More than 300 former national security and foreign policy officials signed a letter released Friday labeling President Donald Trump’s growing Ukraine scandal a “profound national security concern” and praising congressional Democrats for formally launching an impeachment inquiry.