The Impeachment Spin Battle: A Visit to the Two Warring Universes

It turns out impeachment, as Clare Malone writes at 538.com, is really a public relation operation about politicians trying to sell the public on their version of events that can be interpreted in more than one way. The founders set it up that way, leaving “high crimes and misdemeanors” intentionally…

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Ousted Ambassador Yovanovitch Testifies, Defying Trump, Pompeo: Read Her Opening Statement

Ousted career diplomat Ambassador Marie L. Yovanovitch is testiying to Congress in apparent defiance of both President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Yovanovitch told impeachment investigators that a top State Department official informed her that President Trump had pushed for her removal for months prior to her…

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Fact Check: Did US Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch give Ukrainian Prosecutor General a “Do not prosecute” list?

Anyone following the Ukraine situation is familiar with the charge that then US Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch allegedly gave Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko a “do not prosecute” list of names during her first meeting with Lutsenko. The charge came out in an article in The Hill by controversial investigative reporter John…

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