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Post by Admin on Nov 4, 2019 6:55:09 GMT
Donald Trump on Sunday appeared to threaten to expose information on Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the decorated veteran who reportedly testified that the president omitted certain key words and phrases from the White House’s memo of the Ukraine phone call at the center of an impeachment inquiry.
While speaking to reporters outside the White House, Trump repeated unfounded claims that Vindman is a “Never Trumper,” a label he also bestowed on former Ukraine Ambassador William Taylor after his impeachment inquiry testimony outlined how Trump officials made demands of the Ukrainian government in exchange for investigations into the Bidens.
Vindman, a decorated Iraq War veteran and National Security Council official, reportedly testified that he was instructed by White House counsel John Eisenberg to keep quiet about the call after voicing his concerns. “It’s a whole scam... it’s between the Democrats and the fake news media,” Trump said of the inquiry. When asked what evidence he had that Vindman is a “Never Trumper,” the president responded: “We’ll be showing that to you real soon.”
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Post by Admin on Nov 11, 2019 6:55:49 GMT
Current and former state department officials will testify on camera this week, relaying their firsthand accounts claiming President Trump withheld military aid to get Ukraine to investigate the Bidens.
Trump on Twitter warned his party that they should not “be led into the fools trap of saying it was not perfect, but is not impeachable.”
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Post by Admin on Nov 11, 2019 23:57:14 GMT
President Donald Trump has boasted, bullied, bragged, charmed and even lied his way through his first three years as America’s first Twitter president.
He prefers to issue major announcements himself over social media, whether policy moves or staff firings. He killed the daily White House briefing, preferring the messy practice of fielding reporters’ shouted questions from the Oval Office or before his presidential helicopter. As Year Three of his presidency closes out, Trump has built his style of communicating around the pillars of political grievances, conspiracy theories and targeting perceived enemies. Most of all, he prefers to dictate and dominate the news cycle.
Now Trump faces the toughest test of his presidency, relying on himself as his own best messenger and strategist against a barrage of threatening evidence as lawmakers weigh throwing him out of office.
With public impeachment hearings launching this week, Trump is expected to move into communications overdrive with an approach fundamentally at odds with what traditional presidential aides would advise. By choice, he is confronting the existential threats to his presidency largely alone and relying heavily on his own instincts and skills to guide the White House — all while feeling frustrated by White House aides’ lack of aggressiveness in defending him.
“Whether it is cutting taxes or regulations, or skating through the Mueller probe, he has propelled through each time doing it his own way,” said Sean Spicer, the former White House press secretary and communications director. “He has done it his own way for three years, and it has worked.”
But Trump’s tactics of speaking directly to supporters, branding catchphrases and casting critical information as fake might not work as well on impeachment as Democrats gather testimony and evidence from top officials not beholden to the Trump orbit. Even Trump himself is not sure he can beat impeachment, said a person close to the White House.
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Post by Admin on Nov 23, 2019 18:35:29 GMT
President Trump predicted Saturday that Rep. Adam Schiff will be forced to testify in the Senate impeachment trial he is pushing Republicans to launch. “Adam Schiff will be compelled to testify should the Democrats decide, despite the fact that my presidential conversations were totally appropriate (perfect), to go forward with the Impeachment Hoax,” Trump tweeted Saturday. He also pointed to several recent polls that, he said, “have now turned very strongly against Impeachment!” Trump said Friday that a trial in the Senate will clear him of accusations that he tried to force Ukraine to investigate Joe and Hunter Biden for his own political benefit. “I want a trial,” he said on the Fox News Channel’s “Fox and Friends.”
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Post by Admin on Dec 1, 2019 18:19:40 GMT
With House Judiciary Committee hearings scheduled to begin this week, a look at the politics of impeachment.
Presidential candidate Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) talk impeachment and the 2020 race. Plus, former Sec. of State John Kerry and former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-Calif.) joined Chuck for an exclusive interview after launching their new climate coalition, World War Zero.
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