Like a grotesque buddy comedy, the story of Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump’s pressure campaign to extract beneficial political information from Ukraine is equal parts absurd and horrifying.

As acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire testifies about his handling of the whistleblower complaint, we’ve had time to go through and pick apart the complaint itself.

The White House is heralding the release of a record of the July 25 phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky as a full accounting of what happened and, dubiously, fully exonerating.

But there may be something missing.

The White House’s record of a July 25 phone call shows Trump demanding Ukraine “do us a favor” after the country’s president Volodymyr Zelensky raised the prospect of further military aid from the U.S. 

In an explosive revelation Wednesday, the White House released call records showing President Trump pressing Ukraine’s president to dig up dirt on Joe Biden and to help in discrediting special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe.

Despite claims by Trump in advance of the release that the call was “perfect” and would be helpful to him, the record of the call showed Trump pressuring Ukraine on both fronts of the smear campaign being spearheaded by Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani.

Like a zombie shuddering out of a crypt, Paul Manafort is back in the news.

As President Trump and his attorney Rudy Giuliani mounted a pressure campaign on Ukraine to manufacture dirt on Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden, they may have received help along the way.

The House and Senate intelligence committees announced on Tuesday that the whistleblower behind a mysterious and explosive complaint reportedly about a pressure campaign to get Ukraine to manufacture dirt on Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden wants to dish to Congress.

The panels have sent letters to the whistleblower’s lawyer in a bid to schedule it, but there may be a problem.

We know about the more than $250 million in security assistance that President Trump withheld from Ukraine, allegedly as part of a pressure campaign to force Ukraine to manufacture damaging information about Joe Biden. But there could be more.

Three House panels investigating Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani’s attempts to push the Ukrainian government to fabricate damaging information about Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden threatened to subpoena the State Department if it refused to comply with an earlier request for information, a Monday letter shows.