Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, January 31, 2020 Republican fence-sitters Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Lamar Alexander have indicated they will vote against allowing witnesses in the Senate impeachment trial. The announcements by Murkowski and Alexander all but assured the Senate will move to quickly end the proceedings with a likely acquittal of President Donald Trump in […]
Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, January 30, 2020 When President Donald Trump on Jan. 23 tweeted a Photoshopped picture showing former President Barack Obama perched outside Trump Tower with binoculars and a listening device, the reaction was intense. Many on the Left regurgitated the false narrative that there is no evidence the Obama administration spied on […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 30, 2020 Gen. Michael Flynn on Wednesday withdrew his guilty plea and called on the court to dismiss his case for “egregious government misconduct.” Federal prosecutors now say they will offer Flynn probation when just days ago they demanded he serve time in prison. Flynn’s sentencing is currently set for Feb. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 30, 2020 The Ukrainian prosecutor who Joe Biden boasted about getting fired has filed an official criminal complaint against the former vice president, a report said. Viktor Shokin on Tuesday filed the complaint with Ukraine’s interim director of the National Bureau of Investigation against Biden for interference in Ukraine’s legal proceedings, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 30, 2020 Democrats who in the past said John Bolton has no credibility now say his testimony is essential to the “search for truth” in the Senate impeachment trial. Fox News uncovered video of Rep. Adam Schiff, the Democrats’ lead House impeachment manager, saying Bolton had a distinct “lack of credibility” […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Amid deepening political and economic ties between Burma and China, the Southeast Asian state is being fully integrated into Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative, emerging as a transportation hub and military asset. Yet at the same time, while Beijing’s leader Xi Jinping made a high […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 29, 2020 President Donald Trump on Tuesday aimed at reviving a Middle East peace process which went comatose under President Barack Obama. In issuing his “Deal of the Century” plan, Trump also took a decidedly different approach than his predecessor, James S. Robbins noted in a Jan. 28 analysis for USA […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 28, 2020 U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled his long-awaited Middle East peace plan on Tuesday which called for the creation of a Palestinian Arab state with a capital in eastern Jerusalem. The so-called “Deal of the Century”, billed as the most-detailed such Mideast peace plan ever, would eventually double the Palestinians’ […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 28, 2020 In what some say was essentially a promotional press release for John Bolton’s book, The New York Times reported on Sunday that the former national security adviser will claim that President Donald Trump tied aid to Ukraine to an alleged promise by the country’s leaders to investigate the Bidens. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 24, 2020 The Department of Justice has admitted in a letter that two of the four FISA warrants obtained to spy on Trump campaign associate Carter Page were “not lawful.” The DOJ said it also is not defending the legality of the other two warrants. In a December letter to the […]
