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Sondland Pressed Ukraine to Smear Biden at Trump's Direction, Diplomat Says
Testimony from David Holmes, a State Department official, strongly suggests that Gordon Sondland lied to Congress on Wednesday.
Robert Mackey
Robert Mackey wrote about national and international news through the prism of social media for The Intercept. Before joining as a Senior Writer, he was a reporter and columnist for the New York Times, where he anchored the newspaper’s breaking news blog, The Lede, for five years, and wrote a news analysis column, Open Source, from 2014 to 2016. His work is focused on making sense of events through the close reading of firsthand accounts, photographs, and video posted on social networks by witnesses and participants.
His writing has also appeared in the New York Times Magazine, GQ, Slate, and The Guardian.
As a television producer, he has looked at the role played by soccer hooligans in the war between Serbia and Croatia for Britain’s Channel 4, and spent a year and a half making a series of video letters from refugees for a United Nations-sponsored program broadcast in Sarajevo, Zagreb, and Belgrade during the wars in the former Yugoslavia.
His writing has also appeared in the New York Times Magazine, GQ, Slate, and The Guardian.
As a television producer, he has looked at the role played by soccer hooligans in the war between Serbia and Croatia for Britain’s Channel 4, and spent a year and a half making a series of video letters from refugees for a United Nations-sponsored program broadcast in Sarajevo, Zagreb, and Belgrade during the wars in the former Yugoslavia.
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Republicans Urge Americans to Follow Them Through the Fox News Looking Glass on Ukraine
To defend Donald Trump, Republicans in the House are trying to discredit Sergii Leshchenko, who helped expose Paul Manafort’s corruption in Ukraine.
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Trump Directed Diplomat to Ask Ukraine to Probe Biden in Overheard Cellphone Call
Trump told a U.S. diplomat who called him from a restaurant in Kyiv that he wanted Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden, according to a State Department witness.
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Republicans Accuse Colonel Vindman, a Jew Who Fled Soviet Persecution, of Dual Loyalty
To attack Vindman, Republicans resorted to an old smear tactic: questioning the loyalty of a citizen who fled Soviet persecution of Jews as a child.
Trump Pressed Ukraine's President to Act Out a Fake News Script, Live on CNN
Donald Trump extorted a promise from his Ukrainian counterpart to appear on American television and act out a script prepared for him by Trump’s aides.
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Is a Ukrainian Oligarch Helping Trump Smear Biden to Evade U.S. Corruption Charges?
Why did Ukrainian billionaire Dmytro Firtash, who is facing U.S. extradition on corruption charges, get involved in Trump’s effort to smear Joe Biden?
Fox News in Disarray as Hosts Struggle to Digest Trump's Betrayal of the Syrian Kurds
Donald Trump’s betrayal of the Syrian Kurds prompted a rare outburst of dissent on the president’s favorite television network.
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Echoing Trump, Russian TV Casts Joe Biden and Kurt Volker as Villains of Ukraine Saga
Russian television coverage of the unfolding scandal over Ukraine, which has focused on promoting smears against Joe Biden, has been fervently pro-Trump.
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How Trump Pushed Ukraine's President to Probe Conspiracy Theories About Democrats
Donald Trump pressed Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, to help legitimize conspiracy theories about his Democratic rivals by opening investigations.
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Reporters Should Stop Helping Donald Trump Spread Lies About Joe Biden and Ukraine
By reporting on a conspiracy theory promoted by the president as a political story, with two sides, journalists are helping to weaponize disinformation.