by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, September 28.
- ‘The New Berlin Wall’: Why Ukraine Is Central to the Scandal
- Johnson could face no-confidence vote next week to halt no-deal Brexit
- Afghans go to the polls to choose a new president, amid threats of violence (“The vote is seen by the government as a key step toward peace talks with the Taliban insurgents.”)
- China’s repressive reach is growing
- Kurt Volker, Trump’s Envoy for Ukraine, Resigns
- Trump says he raised Hunter Biden allegations with his intermediary on China trade talks (“Trump’s comments could attract interest in light of the impeachment inquiry underway by House Democrats.”)
- Trump told Russian officials in 2017 he wasn’t concerned about Moscow’s interference in election (Treasonous.)
- White House restricted access to Trump’s calls with Putin and Saudi crown prince
- Republicans can’t defend the indefensible
- Democrats prepare to move quickly to build case for Trump’s impeachment (“Democrats are working against an unofficial deadline of the end of the year to complete impeachment proceedings that currently focus on President Trump’s request for ‘a favor’ during a call with the Ukrainian president.”)
- What you missed while not watching Day 4 of Trump’s impeachment drama (“Trump argued he did nothing wrong in his ‘very nice call’ with the Ukrainian president. Nancy Pelosi said Trump’s behavior ‘gave us no choice.'”)
- White House Classified Computer System Is Used to Hold Transcripts of Sensitive Calls
- Giuliani cancels paid appearance next week at Kremlin-backed conference
- Rudy Giuliani’s former DOJ colleagues believe he committed crimes
- Pelosi on Barr’s handling of whistleblower complaint: ‘He’s gone rogue’
- Trump, caught off guard, struggles to fight impeachment storm
- Analysis: If the House impeaches Trump, McConnell’s Senate can simply ignore it (Right, we’ve known all along that there’s basically zero chance Senate Republicans would put patriotism over party loyalty.)
- How Trump’s Response to the Ukraine Scandal Helped Russia (“Intentionally or not, Trump gave Putin plenty of ammo for Moscow’s disinformation war.”)
- The Ukraine Scandal Is a Fitting Symbol of Trump’s Presidency. It May Finally Be His Downfall.
- How Mitch McConnell could give impeachment the Merrick Garland treatment (“The House is empowered to impeach a president and the Senate is empowered to conduct a trial. But clarity from America’s founders stops there.”)
- Public opinion polls show shift toward impeaching Trump
- The Ukraine Timeline Shows Trump Is Lying (“The phone call and the whistleblower complaint are just the beginning of the evidence.”)
- 25 people you should know in Trump’s Ukraine scandal (“The fast-moving scandal involves a lot more people than just the President and his Ukrainian counterpart”)
- Impeachment takeaways: Where we stand and what comes next
- Rudy Giuliani Has a Long, Shady History With Ukraine
- Think impeachment will help Trump? He’s sure not acting like it (“If you believe impeachment will backfire to Trump’s benefit, then why is he behaving like a cornered rat?”)
- Vladimir Putin May Have Just Sent a Signal About Trump’s Secret Server (“This is just getting started.”)
- The Trumpists Have Begun to Turn on Each Other Now. The Cannibal Feast Has Begun. (“Mike Pompeo is the latest to get dragged into the Ukraine fiasco.”)
- N.R.A.’s LaPierre Asks Trump to ‘Stop the Games’ Over Gun Legislation in Discussion About Its Support
- NRA acted as “foreign asset” for Russia ahead of 2016 election, Senate report claims (“Senate Democrats say pro-gun group sought to trade access to U.S. officials for business opportunities in Russia”)
- President Trump needs to step down
- Democrats Have Trump on the Ropes. They Must Act on Impeachment Now.
- Garry Kasparov: The dam is breaking: Trump’s true character is revealed, more fully than ever
- House Democrats Issue First Subpoena in Impeachment Inquiry
- The 4 possible crimes in the Trump-Ukraine whistleblower scandal, explained
- Trump’s Ukraine call sparks new questions over intelligence chief’s firing (“The president removed Dan Coats days after his conversation with Zelenskiy and insisted that Coats’s deputy not get the job”)
- ‘We Are Not To Let Momentum Drop’: Despite Recess, Impeachment Inquiry Persists
- Democrats subpoena Pompeo as part of impeachment inquiry
- Politics of Impeachment Now Favor Democrats
- Americans spent decades discussing rule of law. Why would anyone believe us now?
- A Special Counsel Must Investigate Rudy Giuliani and Bill Barr
- Joseph Wilson, Who Challenged Iraq War Narrative, Dies at 69
- Kamala Harris Calls For Formal Impeachment Inquiry Into Brett Kavanaugh
- Trump can do more damage than Nixon. His impeachment is imperative
- Chris Wallace Clashes With Fox News Colleague Over Trump Defenders’ ‘Deeply Misleading’ Spin on Ukraine
- Trump has nearly destroyed US refugee program, experts say (And “The Cooch” is involved, of course.)
- Republican group to run online ads targeting Reps. Spanberger and Luria over impeachment (All the more reason to make sure we reelect Spanberger and Luria.)
- New UMW Poll: Leading Dem 2020 Candidates Would CRUSH Trump in Virginia (Biden 55%-Trump 37%; Warren 53%-Trump 38%, etc.)
- DLCC President Jessica Post Joins Senator Cory Booker at Hala Ayala Canvass Launch this Saturday
- Here Are the Virginia Republicans Who Took $$$ from the “‘Foreign Asset’ to Russia” NRA
- Flip-A-District Friday: Delegates Vivian Watts (D-HD39), Kathy Tran (D-HD42), Dawn Adams (D-HD62), Schuyler VanValkenburg (D-HD72)
- Video: HD57 Dem Nominee Sally Hudson Brilliantly Explains the Need to Professionalize the Virginia General Assembly
- There’s simply no reason to vote for John Gray in Prince William County (“… the Republican nominee to chair the local governing body in Virginia’s second-largest locality, Prince William County, reveals himself in his tweets as a garden-variety bigot with the comic sensibility of a not-terribly-clever eighth grader…[Gray] seems to abhor people different from himself. Additionally, he seems to have given little thought to the array of issues and challenges facing the county, which includes urban, suburban and rural areas. “)
- PFAW: Latest Amanda Chase Controversy Proves Again She Is Out of Step (“Amanda Chase’s attempts to blame the appalling language in her Facebook ad on her advertising agency show she is more concerned about her own electoral prospects than the safety of her fellow Virginians. Chase’s problem is clear: she is a radical who is out of step with the growing majority of Virginians who favor common-sense gun safety measures.”)
- Chesterfield sheriff says Sen. Amanda Chase falsely claimed he supports ‘sanctuary cities’ (Note: Brandon Jarvis has been on top of this story.)
- Virginia forestry officials seek acorn donations
- Fairfax NAACP’s Full Statement On the Racist Bullying Incident at Immanuel Christian School in Springfield
- Virginia Beach schools leader claims 2 board members created a “hostile work environment.” They say they are being targeted.
- Plans for pipeline work area atop Poor Mountain draw objections from Roanoke County
- She led Richmond’s negotiations on the $1.5 billion Navy Hill plan. Her nephew works for the developer. (“Before a nepotism scandal prompted her firing, Richmond’s chief administrative officer, Selena Cuffee-Glenn, led Mayor Levar Stoney’s administration through 18 months of negotiations over the $1.5 billion plan to redevelop downtown around a new Coliseum.”)
- Feeling like August rather than late September today, and more heat is to come (The weather continues to be completely f’ed up, and of course it’s HOTTER than normal, also in a super-unusual drought. Gee, can’t imagine why that might be…other than the overwhelming evidence of a man-made climate crisis, of course.)
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