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In the days following the announcement of the Democrat-led impeachment inquiry, the Trump campaign raised $15 million in small-dollar donations and gained tens of thousands of new donors. “UPDATE: We have now raised almost $15 million in small dollar donations (including 50,000 NEW donors) since @SpeakerPelosi started this impeachment charade 72 hrs ago!

“Joe Biden is a predator; the media is covering it up,” a man waving a #MeToo sign interrupted Biden as he spoke at the East Las Vegas Community Center. The disruption quickly drew “boos” from the vice president’s supporters, some who began to confront the heckler. Biden, himself, attempted to diffuse the tension by warning his supporters to leave the man alone. “No, no, let him go, let him go,” the former vice president told those in attendance, as one supporter, in particular, began shouting and sticking his finger in the heckler’s face.

The report by The Federalist’s Sean Davis raises questions about the intelligence community’s role amid a whistleblower complaint submitted against President Trump in August 2019, alleging he acted improperly when asking the president of Ukraine to assist in investigations into the origins of the Russia collusion allegations and alleged wrongdoing by Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden. Davis’s report said a new whistleblower complaint form did not require potential wh

A momentous week Washington, D.C., is wrapping up Friday after the Ukraine scandal exploded into a formal impeachment inquiry, a decision by House Democrats that marks only the fourth time in US history that a president has faced impeachment. President Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, his political rival, in a phone call July 25.

WASHINGTON — House Democrats pushed ahead Friday with a rapidly unfurling impeachment inquiry into President Trump, planning subpoenas and plotting out a witness list for a proceeding that could yield its first hearing as early as next week. “Everything is real time,” said Representative Mike Quigley, D-Ill., a member of the Intelligence Committee.

WASHINGTON — House Democrats, kick-starting their impeachment inquiry into President Trump, subpoenaed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday, demanding he produce a tranche of documents related to the president’s dealings with Ukraine. Separately, they instructed him to make five State Department officials available for depositions in the coming two weeks. A failure to do so, the leaders of three House committees wrote jointly, would be construed as “evidence of obstruction of the House’s inquiry.” House Democrats set a deadline of Oct.

WASHINGTON — White House counselor Kellyanne Conway told reporters on Friday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi agreed to open an impeachment inquiry after “men around her” pressured her into it. Conway, one of President Trump’s most aggressive spokespeople, insisted that “there were no high crimes and misdemeanors” in Trump’s July 25 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Conway said that Pelosi “finally capitulated to her angry mob” and then accused her of succumbing to pressure from male Democrats. “At 1 p.m.

WASHINGTON — The White House put some reconstructed transcripts of delicate calls between President Trump and foreign officials, including President Vladimir Putin and the Saudi royal family, into a highly classified computer system after embarrassing leaks of his conversations, according to current and former officials. The handling of Trump’s calls with world leaders has come under scrutiny after questions over whether a transcript of a July 25 call with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy of Ukraine was improperly placed into this computer system. The latest revela

A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to implement regulations that would allow immigration officials to indefinitely detain migrant children and their parents. Judge Dolly Gee in Los Angeles ruled that the administration will not be allowed to enforce new rules that would end the Flores Agreement, a decades-old court settlement that says migrant children cannot be held more than 20 days. Gee, who was appointed by former President Obama, said the administration’s rule would violate the very agreement it is attempting to overturn. “The Fl