Yesterday, the publishing company Simon & Schuster announced that former national security adviser John Bolton's book, "In the Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir," would be released on June 23. The Trump administration is still trying to stop the book's release because Bolton was privy to the events leading up to Donald Trump's impeachment. According to a leaked draft of the book, Bolton will acknowledge that Trump's impeachment defense was a lie and that the Presid

The key element in Donald Trump's impeachment defense was that he was withholding US aid to Ukraine in order to force them to investigate Hunter Biden and his supposedly improper acts while he served on the board of the Ukrainian energy firm Burisma. It was always a pretext, a lie, and Trump's attempt to extort Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky into announcing the investigation of former Vice President Joe Biden's son led to the President's impeachment by the House of Re

President Trump has fired Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson who first raised concerns about the President's attempt to pressure Ukraine to announce an investigation of Hunter Biden in order to harm Joe Biden's campaign for President. The charges eventually led to the Trump's impeachment by the House of Representatives. The move appears to be motivated solely by the President's desire for revenge and Trump's termination letter doesn't allege any wrongdo

Obviously, I'm joking about Nixon, but there is little doubt that this craven group of Republicans would have given him a pass too had his impeachment gotten that far. Nixon's crimes pale in comparison to Trump's bribery scheme, and even "Tricky Dick" wouldn't have imagined inviting a foreign power to interfere in a US election. We took such things very seriously back in those days. Today, however, Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul, and Lindsey Graham apparently view it as just anot

Nancy Pelosi nailed it yesterday when she said on CSPAN, “he will not be acquitted. You cannot be acquitted if you don’t have a trial. You don’t have a trial if you don’t have witnesses and documentation and all of that.” Donald Trump will claim vindication, of course, but the nation, the world, will view the whole enterprise as a preposterous sham orchestrated by corrupt lapdogs. Our claim to "American exceptionalism" will be replaced with unending shame, Madison and Jeffers

Former national security adviser John Bolton's new book will say that President Trump withheld $400 million in US security aid to force Ukrainian officials to dig up dirt on Joe and Hunter Biden. And, unlike other administration officials who have testified, Bolton heard it directly from the President, shattering Trump's last line of defense. Bolton also states in his book, according to numerous sources, that Trump illegally withheld the aid despite his objections and those o