Corruption

Peter Schweizer explained how his latest book was titled, Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive Elite.

Former Florida attorney general Pam Bondi made the White House’s case to the Senate on Monday afternoon that President Donald Trump had good reason to ask Ukraine to investigate the conflict of interest involving former Vice President Joe Biden; his son Hunter Biden; and the corrupt Ukraine gas company, Burisma.

Fact check – CLAIM: President Donald Trump withheld a White House meeting, and military aid, from Ukraine until it agreed to announce investigations. VERDICT: False. There is no direct evidence of that in the entire House record.

Peter Schweizer told Mark Levin that this latest book is about whether Joe Biden and the Biden family are “above the law.”

Joe Biden’s family’s businesses include dealings in China, Costa Rica, Iraq, Russia, and Ukaine, explained Peter Schweizer to Breitbart News.

Fact check – CLAIM: Trump never raised the issue of corruption in Ukraine in 2017 or 2018. VERDICT: False. We know he did, from Schiff’s own inquiry.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) apologized to Joe Biden after one of Sanders’ surrogates accused the former vice president of having a “big corruption problem.”

Protests in Lebanon turned violent again over the weekend, with over 400 injuries reported. There were several claims of security forces using live ammunition against protesters in addition to water cannons and tear gas.

By Democrats’ and journalists’ standards, President Barack Obama ought to have been impeached for the seven times the GAO found his administration violated federal law.

Lev Parnas suggested that the reason for an announcement by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was that no one “trusted” Ukraine to conduct an investigation

Elizabeth Warren said her best chance of beating Donald Trump in 2020 is with an anti-corruption platform.

Iraqi President Barham Salih on Thursday threatened to resign rather than appoint Asaad al-Edani, currently the governor of Basra, as prime minister. Salih said Edani, who is supported by Iran’s allies in the Iraqi parliament, would be unacceptable to the huge numbers of Iraqis protesting Tehran’s influence in Baghdad.

A criminal complaint has been filed after it was revealed that Germany’s Defence Ministry wiped data from the phone of its former boss and new European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen — echoing similar incidents involving Hillary Clinton in the United States.

Michigan’s Democrat Party chairwoman says to claim that the city of Detroit registers dead people to vote is a “direct attack on people of color.”

Lawmakers supporting Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro filed charges Thursday against President Juan Guaidó for what they called a “looting campaign” of corruption by opposition leaders, apparently a first step to imprisoning the president.

Croft testified that Trump had raised the issue of corruption in Ukraine before, even holding up aid and lecturing the previous Ukrainian president about it.

The White House’s top impeachment communicator made clear in no uncertain terms on Sunday evening that if impeachment reaches a Senate trial, President Donald Trump expects House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA); former Vice President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden; and the so-called “whistleblower” to be called as fact witnesses in the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Pope Francis insisted Monday that corruption is a “cancer” that makes people look for easy money and ends up making everyone poorer.

Venezuelan President Juan Guaidó announced an investigation Tuesday into claims of corruption in his ranks, an unfortunate blow to his image given he has yet to actually wield political power.

The City Council of Harare, Zimbabwe, blew tens of thousands of dollars on iPads for councilors and selected managers, local media noted Tuesday, days after a United Nations report found the nation on the brink of “man-made starvation.”

The Obama administration was fully aware of the conflict of interest posed by Vice President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, taking a board position with Ukrainian gas firm Burisma — and consistently ducked questions about it.

Security forces killed 13 protesters on Sunday in one of the bloodiest days of the Iraqi protest movement, now in progress for almost two months.

A group of men supporting the Iran-backed Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah attacked a group of anti-corruption protesters Sunday night in Lebanon.

Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch admitted Friday under questioning from Republican counsel that she had been briefed about the fact that Hunter Biden was on Burisma’s board, but did nothing about it.

Former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman bizarrely claimed impeachment does not “center on” whether a president has taken illegal actions, sparring Thursday afternoon in a debate with Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Joel Pollak.

Venice is flooded – again – and the mayor Luigi Brugnaro is blaming climate change.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) hammered “star witness” Ambassador Bill Taylor for having only hearsay to condemn Trump’s dealings with Ukraine.

Ambassador Gordon Sondland never had any firsthand knowledge of any “quid pro quo” involving U.S. military aid for Ukraine in exchange for Ukraine conducting investigations, according to his recently released closed-door testimony as part of the impeachment inquiry.

Thousands of demonstrators poured into Islamabad from across the country on Friday, including massive marches organized in the cities of Lahore and Karachi earlier this week. The protesters are largely hardline Islamists who want Prime Minister Imran Khan and his government to resign, ostensibly because they believe his 2018 election was illegitimate.

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s turbulent tenure apparently came to an end on Tuesday with his second resignation. His first was delivered, and then retracted, during a memorable episode in November 2017 when he was more-or-less kidnapped by the Saudi Arabian monarchy and forced out of office. This time Hariri resigned to thunderous cheers on the streets of Lebanon, so it looks like he is gone for good.