Obama Democracy 39at stake right now39 Before Harris39 nomination in what are perhaps the most scathing public remarks by a former president about his successor Obama gave a noholdsbarred speech in which he said President Donald Trump is a threat to American democracy.
Former President Barack Obama39s administration was to blame for the shortage of protective equipment like N95 respirator masks in the early months of the 2020 COVID19 pandemic.
The economy is growing at about the same pace as it did in Obamas last years and unemployment while lower under Trump has continued a trend that began in 2011. Support our journalism ...
For more than a year Trump privately and publicly attacked Marie Yovanovitch who was the US ambassador to Ukraine until he recalled her in spring 2019. One of Russia39s goals is to weaken the US ...
Mr Obama eventually signed off on 46m in nonlethal security assistance providing equipment such as body armour blankets and nightvision goggles but not the Javelins Ukraine wanted.
Defence Secretary Trump Signs a waiver to allow General James Mattis to serve as defence secretary. Military strength Trump makes an executive order to provide new resources and equipment to strengthen the U.S. military. The order instructs new Defence Secretary James Mattis to assess the country39s military and nuclear capabilities.
Still the United States spends more money on the military than the next seven countries combined do. Mr. Trump and White House officials have pointed to a smaller Navy to bolster their claims of ...
Ukraine39s leaders have indeed downplayed allegations of Trump wrongdoing Ukraine39s foreign minister has said Trump didn39t pressure Ukraine in the July call but they haven39t cleared him either.
One irony is that the Trump administration was going further with its aid than the Obama administration by deciding to provide Ukraine with lethal weapons. In 2017 Trump announced his intent to ...
Why the Trump administration delayed nearly 400 millions of dollars in security aid to Ukraine is the question at the heart of the impeachment inquiry into President Trump.
Between the rise of the Islamic State Russias proxy war in Ukraine and tensions in the South China Sea national security and military spending is shaping up to be a key issue in the 2016 ...
By June 2014 the Ukrainian military said that Russia had massed more than 40000 troops on Ukraines border and deployed about 7000 to 10000 Russian soldiers inside Ukraine.
President Donald Trump has falsely claimed his administration invested quot2.5 trillion in all of the greatest equipment in the worldquot for the military. That39s approximately the total for defense ...
Around the same time Trump was withholding military aid from Ukraine seeking leverage with President Volodymyr Zelenskys government with the promise of weapons equipment and other supplies ...
Basic pay for the military did increase by 2.4 percent on Jan. 1 2018 the largest in eight years. But pay increases are determined by a statutory formula and Trump in fact requested an ...
He has shown himself to exercise military power in a way that Obama did not he adds pointing to the way that Trump authorised USled strikes against President Bashar alAssad and his chemical ...
News article with the headline Trumps First 3 Years Created 1.5 Million Fewer Jobs Than Obamas Last 3 adding FACT New figures from Trumps own Department of Labor show that 6.6 ...
Even if Trump explicitly offered 250 million in military aid to Ukraine in exchange for an investigation of Bidens son that wouldnt fit the federal bribery statute which prohibits public ...
Joe Biden has said that by holding up vital military aid to Ukraine President Trump used the power and resources of the United States to pressure a sovereign nation a partner that is still ...
The element of truth in Gaetz39s statement is the Obama administration did not provide lethal military aid that Ukraine asked for in 2014. However it did provide other military equipment and training.
A November Military Times/IVMF poll conducted in the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump39s election victory showed that more than 60 percent of activeduty service members felt improving troops ...
President Trump has made more than 20000 false or misleading claims ... Former president Barack Obama did not want to give surplus military equipment to police. Obama scaled back the ...
The Trump administration providing Ukraine with antitank missiles has been universally praised by witnesses. In her testimony Thursday however former White House Russia advisor Fiona Hill ...
Cabinet Room 615 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT Well thank you very much everybody. This is a group gathering of very talented people. And somebody was sayin
The United States provides around 90 of Ukraine39s military aid and has committed more than 1.5 billion in help to Ukraine since 2014 when Russia invaded eastern Ukraine and annexed Crimea.
The military aid scandal that spawned the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump has a very different significance for Ukraine where years of U.S. assistance have just begun to turn a ...
At the Republican convention a false headline in the Washington Post quotTrump campaign guts GOP39s antiRussia stance on Ukrainequot gave birth to a false narrative that candidate Trump desperate to ...
President Donald Trump fired back today at the Obamas after reporters brought up a passage in a new book written by Michelle Obama that said she would never forgive Trump for his birther comments.
Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize for reducing the war in Iraq. Despite this peaceful reputation and actions Obama spent more on defense than any other president preceding him. In FY 2010 his first budget he spent 531 billion on the DoD and 693 billion on total military spending.
President Trump claims his administration has been tougher on Russia than his predecessor39s arguing that former President Obama allowed Russia to annex Ukraine and only offered them quotpillows and ...
Read We now know just how confusing Trumps Ukraine policy was. That point of view has decidedly shifted. When the Trump administration inexplicably held up security assistance from midJuly to ...