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Hunted Biden, President-elect Joe Biden’s son, did not disclose $400,000 in income from the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, according to an email obtained by NBC News. The email, dated Jan. 16, 2017, was sent by Eric Schwerin, then-president of Rosemont Seneca Partners. “In 2014 you joined the Burisma board and we still need to amend […]

A Saturday report from Reuters claimed that Ukraine officials were offered $5 million in bribes to stop a probe into Mykola Zlochevsky, the founder of natural gas company Burisma. The company has been a point of attack on Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, whose son, Hunter Biden, previously worked on the company’s board. According to […]

Wildfires that have been burning in Ukraine for the past several days are now closing in on Chernobyl, the site of the worst accidental nuclear disaster in world history, BBC News reports. For the past several days, forest fires have been burning in the woods in northern Ukraine, as firefighters have tried to get the […]

The intelligence community inspector general fired by Donald Trump is pushing back, saying that he was removed from his position after fulfilling legal obligations to bring forward a complaint that led to the president’s impeachment. Michael Atkinson was fired by Trump on Friday, months after he forwarded a complaint to Congress regarding the president’s actions […]

Donald Trump is coming under fire after announcing that he plans to fire the intelligence community inspector general who brought forward a whistleblower’s complaint regarding his actions toward Ukraine, ultimately leading to the president’s impeachment. Trump notified Congress late on Friday that he was planning to remove Michael Atkinson, who alerted lawmakers to the whistleblower […]

Just one day after Joe Biden won the South Carolina primary, an investigation over his son Hunter’s ties to Ukrainian energy company Burisma has been opened by Republican lawmakers. Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson issued a letter to the Senate Homeland Security Committee — of which he is the chair — asking to schedule a meeting […]

As the impeachment proceedings against him were unfolding, Donald Trump strongly denied that he had personally directed his lawyer Rudy Giuliani to Ukraine in an effort to dig up political dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden — who at the time appeared to be Trump’s most likely Democratic opponent in the 2020 presidential election. […]

John Kelly, who served as Donald Trump’s chief of staff for 18 months before being fired, has not authored a book since leaving the administration. Nor did he testify in the president’s impeachment trial. But on Wednesday, the retired four-star general delivered a paid speech in which he confirmed the central allegation at the heart […]

Lev Parnas, the now-indicted former associate of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, released on Friday a new trove of photographs that appear to document their close relationship. Donald Trump‘s lawyer has publicly admitted that he pressured the government of Ukraine to stage an investigation of former United States Vice President Joe Biden — […]

As Fox News covered the fast-moving impeachment inquiry and trial of Donald Trump, the network was accused of hosting contributors who actively spread disinformation regarding Ukraine — and it was the cable network’s own internal research team that reportedly blew the whistle. A new report from The Daily Beast claims that internal researchers were concerned […]

Even as the Republican-controlled Senate voted almost entirely along party lines to acquit Donald Trump in his impeachment trial on Wednesday, new evidence emerged that Trump’s pressure campaign against the government of Ukraine was more extensive and began months earlier than has been previously revealed. At the heart of the impeachment charges was Trump’s holdup […]

On Tuesday morning, Republican Senator Susan Collins, who had been widely considered a possible “swing” vote in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump, announced that she would cast her vote on Wednesday in favor of an acquittal. In an interview with CBS News, Collins said that she believed that Trump had learned a “pretty big […]

On Monday, impeachment leader Adam Schiff made his closing arguments to the Senate, calling on lawmakers to convict the president or they will all but ensure Donald Trump will cheat in the next election. Schiff also asserted that an unchecked president could do whatever he wanted, including selling Alaska to Russia if he so desired. […]

On January 8, a civilian Ukrainian passenger plane was hit by a missile, killing all 176 on board. At the time, Iran denied for days knowing anything about the shocking event, but eventually, the Islamic Republic admitted that it was one of their missiles that destroyed the plane. Now, new leaked audio allegedly reveals that […]

The impeachment case against President Donald Trump is centered on his attempts to get the Ukrainian government to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden. Although it is all but certain that the GOP-controlled Senate will acquit Trump, the partisan impeachment battle appears to have galvanized members of both parties. In […]

Just hours after the United States Senate voted largely along party lines to prohibit any further evidence from being introduced at the impeachment trial of Donald Trump, the White House admitted in a court filing that it had been hiding 24 internal emails that would reveal Trump’s “decision-making” process in his holdup of military aid […]

Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed to be unacquainted with Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, the two Rudy Giuliani associates who were charged last October with allegedly funneling hundreds of thousands in Russian cash into a pro-Trump super PAC. However, new evidence continues to emerge that his relationship with the two Ukrainian-born businessmen was far more […]

Former Donald Trump administration National Security Advisor John Bolton was at the center of Wednesday’s question session at the senate impeachment trial, as Democratic House managers argued that based on reported allegations on his upcoming book, Bolton must be called as a witness in the trial. But also on Wednesday, Trump took to Twitter to […]

On Tuesday, the first day on the impeachment trial of Donald Trump, all 53 Senate Republicans voted to quash a move by Democrats to subpoena John Bolton, the former national security adviser who had publicly stated that he was willing to testify if the Senate called him. Now, less than a week after the 53-47 […]

Donald Trump wondered in April 2018, how long Ukraine could survive its ongoing war with Russia. He was told that without the United States aid, Ukraine would not last “very long.” About 14 months later — after a months-long, unsuccessful attempt to pressure Ukraine into announcing a bogus investigation of Democrat Joe Biden — Trump […]

In the same secretly recorded dinner conversation in which Donald Trump tells an aide to “take out” United States Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman can be heard telling Trump that according to Jewish mystical numerology, he is the messiah, who has come to “save the whole world.” The recording — […]

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reportedly blew up at an NPR reporter who pressed him on the removal of former U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, challenging her to find Ukraine on a map and growing angry when she did. The blow-up came during an interview on All Things Considered, where host Mary Louise Kelly grilled Pompeo […]

On Friday morning, ABC News reported that its journalists had listened to an audio recording of “an intimate April 30, 2018, dinner” at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. As ABC News reported, the event was attended by Donald Trump and other guests, including both Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman — the two indicted […]

Donald Trump made a shocking statement on Wednesday while speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, when he appeared to brag that his team was holding back evidence from his impeachment trial. Democratic Representative Val Demings of Florida tweeted on Wednesday that the second article of impeachment against the president was for obstruction […]

Donald Trump‘s impeachment trial in the Senate kicks into high gear this week. On Monday, his legal team indicated its intention to argue that the entire proceeding is an illegitimate attempt to remove the president from office and should be quickly ended with an acquittal. According to a report from The New York Times, Trump’s […]

Since he took office, The Washington Post has been tracking the number of false or misleading claims Donald Trump has made. This year’s report reveals that the president has made 8,155 such statements in 2019 — a massive increase over the first two years of his presidency. In 2017, Trump made 1,999 statements that The […]

Alabama Senator Richard Shelby spoke to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on Sunday, and when asked what he thought about Donald Trump’s reported attempts to solicit foreign interference in the coming 2020 election, the Republican dismissed any wrongdoing by saying that the president is just “human” and will “make mistakes.” Trump’s legal team argued that even if […]

Anthony de Caluwe, a Belgian national and ardent Donald Trump supporter whose text messages appear to show that he was somehow stalking United States Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, is also listed as the director of The Leeward Space Foundation, which is dedicated to turning the human race into an “interstellar civilization.” The connection was […]

Earlier this week, Democrats in the House of Representatives, led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, released the two articles of impeachment against Donald Trump. The articles are now in the Republican-controlled Senate, where lawmakers will decide whether to convict or acquit the president. Several issues have already arisen. According to a new report from The Hill. […]

Indicted Ukraine scandal figure Lev Parnas said only four months ago in an interview with The New Yorker that Donald Trump was “one of the greatest, if not the greatest, presidents ever.” But in an interview aired on MSNBC Thursday night, he backtracked, saying that the U.S. president is “like a cult leader.” “It was […]

On Wednesday, MSNBC aired an explosive interview with Lev Parnas, the indicted associate of Donald Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani. In that interview, Parnas placed Trump directly in the center of the Ukraine scandal that has led to his impeachment and Senate trial, which opens on Tuesday. Parnas took part in carrying out the reported pressure […]

The Trump administration committed an illegal act by refusing to send military aid to Ukraine that had already been approved by Congress, says the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) in a new report published on Thursday morning and posted online by The Washington Post. The delay in releasing the aid is a key element of […]

Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, was accused in November of meeting with Rudy Giuliani‘s associate Lev Parnas to discuss the alleged plan to dig up dirt on Donald Trump‘s Democratic rival, Joe Biden. Although the House Intelligence Committee released call logs involving the trio, Nunes said at that time that […]

Lev Parnas, the indicted Rudy Giuliani associate at the heart of the scheme to pressure Ukraine into announcing an investigation into Democrat Joe Biden, gave an unexpected interview to MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on Wednesday — the day after hundreds of documents and text messages provided by Parnas were released by the House Intelligence Committee. […]

A trove of documents handed over by indicted Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas and released on Tuesday by the House Intelligence Committee contains a letter from Giuliani that appears to place Donald Trump at the heart of the pressure campaign against Ukraine that has led to his impeachment. In the letter to Ukraine’s newly-elected President […]

In his July 25 phone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, Donald Trump attacked the fired United States ambassador to that country, Marie Yovanovitch, calling her “bad news” and stating that the 33-year-veteran of the U.S. diplomatic core was “going to go through some things.” On Tuesday, the House Intelligence Committee released a trove of […]

Lev Parnas, the Soviet Union-born businessman who, along with business partner Igor Fruman, was a close associate of Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani. Now, reportedly, he is cooperating with a House Intelligence Committee investigation into Trump and Giuliani’s alleged pressure campaign against Ukraine. According to a CNN report on Monday, Parnas has now turned over […]

Donald Trump’s alleged request that Ukraine investigate Democratic 2020 front-runner Joe Biden over his son’s link to a Ukrainian energy firm is at the heart of the impeachment case against him. But a few weeks after Trump made that purported request, Russian hackers working for the country’s military intelligence agency reportedly began a cyberattack against […]

Though protestors in Iran might have exhibited demonstrations of solidarity after the killing of Major General Qassem Soleimani earlier this month, the mood has changed after receiving news that the Iranian government lied about the crash of Ukrainian Airlines Flight 752 (via The New York Times). Though the government previously claimed that the cause of […]

U.S. officials on Thursday said that a Ukrainian Airlines plane with 176 people on board that crashed in Tehran, Iran on Wednesday was, in fact, shot down by an Iranian anti-aircraft missile. The allegation was initially made by unnamed sources, and it quickly went public when Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau revealed the information in […]

United States officials and intelligence agencies now believe that Iran shot down a commercial airliner, Ukrainian International Airlines Flight 752, as it took off from Tehran early Wednesday morning. The crash killed all 167 passengers and nine crew members aboard the Boeing 737-800. As The Inquisitr previously reported, the evidence appeared to indicate that an […]

While President Donald Trump and his administration await an impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate, Americans who were surveyed in the wake of the vote to impeach the president say that they disapproved of his initial dealings with Ukraine. According to The Hill, the Hill-HarrisX poll revealed that 58 percent of Americans believe Trump acted […]

On the same early morning that Iran fired a barrage of ballistic missiles at United States troops in Iraq, a Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737 crashed shortly after takeoff from Imam Khomeini Airport in Tehran, Iran, killing all 167 passengers and nine crew members on board. Iranian officials quickly declared that the Flight 752 disaster […]

A Ukraine International Airlines plane crashed shortly after takeoff from Tehran’s main airport on Wednesday morning, leaving all 176 people on board dead, according to a report by the CBC. Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister Vadym Prystaiko said that 82 Iranians, 63 Canadians, 11 Ukrainians, 10 Swedish, four Afghan, three German and three British nationals were […]

Under a court order last month, the Donald Trump administration released a set of heavily redacted emails that contained the stunning revelation that White House officials informed the Defense Department of a then-unexplained hold on military aid to Ukraine. The emails came just 91 minutes after Trump’s fateful phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. […]

Attending a New Year’s Eve party at Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, Rudy Giuliani was asked if he would testify at the impeachment trial of his client, Donald Trump. But though Giuliani said that he would testify in the Senate trial, his answer created more confusion than it cleared up, as the former New York City […]

When a group of his top cabinet officials met with Donald Trump in August and tried to persuade him to lift an illegal hold on military aid to Ukraine, they received a cold shoulder. In fact, Trump told them, the United States was “p*ssing away our money” by sending aid to the county which is […]

The author of the whistleblower complaint against Donald Trump that set off what has now become his impeachment has been subject to a torrent of threats that sometimes “spike” so heavily, the individual receives an armed security escort on his commute to work at CIA headquarters, according to a report published on Wednesday by The […]

Donald Trump has been publicly praising Russian President Vladimir Putin since at least 2013, when he wondered if Putin would become “my new best friend” during the Miss Universe Pageant in Moscow. The latest example came on Thursday, when Trump took to Twitter citing Putin for support of his claim that the impeachment vote against […]

A senior editor of the National Review wrote a damning opinion piece for the news site on Friday calling for Donald Trump to be removed from office, making it the second major conservative outlet to do so. Earlier this week, Christianity Today, a leading evangelical publication, shocked many when it announced that it believed the […]