Days after a decorated Army lieutenant
colonel offered damaging testimony about President Trump’s conduct on a
July phone call with Ukraine’s leader, Mr. Trump stood on the South Lawn
and issued a vague but ominous warning.“You’ll be seeing very soon what comes out,” Mr. Trump said on Saturday, referring to the officer, Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman.
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Trump Had Ukraine Envoy Removed on ‘False Claims,’ She Tells House Inquiry
Marie L. Yovanovitch, who was recalled as
the American ambassador to Ukraine in May, testified to impeachment
investigators on Friday that a top State Department official told her
that President Trump had pushed for her removal for months even though
the department believed she had “done nothing wrong.”
Trump attacks Marie Yovanovitch as she calls his conduct 'intimidating'
Former
U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch told lawmakers Friday that
when she read how President Trump had talked about her to his Ukrainian
counterpart in a July phone call — saying ominously that “she’s going
to go through some things” — the color drained from her face.“It sounded like a threat,” she said.Even
as Yovanovitch testified, the president continued to go after her,
writing on Twitter, “Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad.”
Trump fires Gordon Sondland, the second impeachment witness to be removed from his post Friday
President Trump fired two of the most prominent witnesses in the
impeachment inquiry within hours of each other Friday evening, moves
that amounted to retribution against those he holds responsible for his
attempted removal.
Alexander Vindman Fired and Escorted From the White House
The decision to move Colonel Vindman out of the White House complex, reported previously by Bloomberg News and The Washington Post,
came as Mr. Trump and his allies have made clear that they will seek to
exact payback against those he blames for triggering his impeachment
and trial.
Trump announces cutoff of new funding for the World Health Organization over pandemic response
President
Trump announced Tuesday that he will suspend payments to the World
Health Organization in response to the United Nations agency’s handling
of the coronavirus
pandemic, as the organization is in the midst of combating a global
outbreak that has killed thousands and crippled world economies. Trump’s
announcement was expected, as he seeks to deflect blame for his early
dismissal of the virus as a threat to Americans and the U.S. economy.
Trump removes Inspector General Glenn Fine, who was tasked to oversee coronavirus stimulus spending
President
Trump has removed the chairman of the federal panel Congress created to
oversee his administration's management of the $2 trillion stimulus
package passed last month. Glenn
Fine, who had been the acting Pentagon inspector general, was informed
Monday that he was being replaced by Sean W. O’Donnell, currently the
inspector general at the Environmental Protection Agency.
Trump to Fire Intelligence Watchdog Who Had Key Role in Ukraine Complaint
President Trump is firing the intelligence community inspector general
whose insistence on telling lawmakers about a whistle-blower complaint
about his dealings with Ukraine triggered impeachment proceedings last
fall, the president told lawmakers in a letter late Friday.
Navy Dismisses Captain Who Sounded The Alarm on Coronavirus, Signaling A Willingness to Stifle Dissent
The dismissal of a senior officer for raising concerns about the
well-being of his crew is highly unusual, and signals that the Trump
administration is willing to take extraordinary steps to silence
internal dissent about its handling of the global pandemic.
Top HHS watchdog being replaced by Trump says inspectors general must work free from political intrusion
The chief watchdog for the Department of Health and Human Services,
being replaced as part of President Trump’s purge of inspectors general,
told lawmakers on Tuesday that freedom from political intrusion is “a
key safeguard for the programs we oversee.”