WASHINGTON – Former U.S. President Barack Obama endorsed his former second in command, Joe Biden, for president Tuesday, calling Biden a clear choice to replace President Donald Trump in November’s national election. “Our country’s future hangs on this election,” Obama said. He added that it would not be easy to defeat Trump, […]
An associate of U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer says the president was aware of a campaign to pressure the Ukrainian government to carry out investigations that would help Trump politically. Trump “knew exactly what was going on,” Lev Parnas told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow in an interview broadcast Wednesday night. The New York Times quoted […]
U.S. President Donald Trump berated Democratic lawmakers over his impeachment Tuesday as a legislative standoff continues over a Senate impeachment trial. “They treated us very unfairly and now they want to be treated fairly in the Senate,” Trump told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. Trump also took aim specifically at House Speaker Nancy […]
WASHINGTON – When President Donald Trump picked Gordon Sondland as his ambassador to the European Union in March 2018, the nomination was seen as improbable. The self-made millionaire hotel magnate and longtime Republican donor had disavowed Trump’s candidacy during the 2016 campaign because of his anti-immigrant rhetoric. But after Trump won the election, Sondland gave $1 million to the […]