CLAIM: Ukrainian soldiers died fighting Russian invasion because President Donald Trump held up “security assistance” temporarily. VERDICT: FALSE. The hold did not affect current funding or essential weapons. House impeachment manager Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), a U.S. Army veteran, suggested Wednesday in the Senate impeachment trial that President Trump’s hold on U.S. aid was responsible…
Tuesday during an appearance on Fox News, former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a candidate for U.S. Senate in Alabama, dismissed the idea of prolonging the Senate impeachment trial. Sessions told network host Tucker Carlson he saw impeachment as a taxpayer-funded political attack ad, where Democrats are insisting the Senate go on a “fishing expedition.”…
Democrats unexpectedly offered a series of hopeless amendments to the resolution that would formally commence the U.S. Senate impeachment trial on Tuesday, keeping U.S. Senators and U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts in the Congress’s upper chamber to endlessly debate and vote on them all night. Nearing midnight, Democrats were in the middle of…
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) denied telling Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) that a woman cannot win the White House during Tuesday evening’s Debate debate in Iowa. “Well, as a matter of fact, I didn’t say it, and I don’t want to waste a whole lot of time on this because this is what Donald Trump…would want,”…
A small group of Senate Democrats have broken with party leadership by calling for the upper chamber’s impeachment trial against President Donald Trump to begin without an agreement on witnesses. As of Tuesday, three Democrat senators and an independent — Doug Jones (AL), Christoper Murphy (CT), Joe Manchin (WV), and Angus King (ME) — have…
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) is complaining about President Donald Trump’s attack Thursday on Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in Iraq — just two days after complaining that Trump was “impotent” to respond to Iranian attacks. Murphy, who serves on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, tweeted on Tuesday: “The attack on our embassy in Baghdad is horrifying…
Connecticut Attorney General (AG) William Tong has joined the call of 22 other Democrat attorneys general for the continuation of free birth control under Obamacare – even in the case of religious employers. The attorneys general have joined together in filing a court brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to…
Democrat governors representing red states such as Kentucky, North Carolina, Montana, and Kansas have approved more refugee resettlement in 2020 for their states. For Fiscal Year 2020, President Donald Trump will continue cutting refugee admissions by reducing former President Barack Obama’s refugee inflow by at least 80 percent. This reduction would mean a maximum of 18,000 refugees…
Multiple Democrats sparred over the use of closed-door, high-dollar “wine cave” fundraisers to make money at the sixth Democrat debate in Los Angeles, California, at Loyola Marymount University Thursday night. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) slammed South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg for his recent “wine cave” fundraiser in Napa Valley, California, to get money from…
Swing district Democrat Rep. Kendra Horn (D-OK) said Tuesday that she will vote for both articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to protect “our democracy.” Rep. Horn said Tuesday that the president’s phone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky threatened our “national security.” She explained in a statement Tuesday: It is with a heavy…
