2016 ELECTION/ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The forgotten voters of the 2016 Election are now doing great. The Steel Industry is rebuilding and expanding at a pace that it hasn’t seen in decades. Our Country has one of the best Economies in many years, perhaps ever. Unemployment numbers best in 51 years. Wow!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April […]
Category: 2016 Election
4/13/2019
2016 ELECTION/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….When I won the Election in 2016, the @nytimes had to beg their fleeing subscribers for forgiveness in that they covered the Election (and me) so badly. They didn’t have a clue, it was pathetic. They even apologized to me. But now they are even worse, really corrupt reporting!” –Donald Trump, […]
4/12/2019
2016 ELECTION/SPYGATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @trish_regan: .@CLewandowski_ says he is POSITIVE orders to spy on the #Trump campaign during 2016 came from the HIGHEST levels – perhap…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 12, 2019 5:38 pm […]
4/11/2019
2016 ELECTION/ATTORNEY GENERAL/ROBERT MUELLER/SPYGATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Thursday [4-11-19] told reporters ‘there was absolutely spying into my campaign’ in 2016, feeding partisan tensions about the anticipated release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s final report and the origins of the Russia investigation. The president’s declaration comes a day after Attorney General William Barr […]
4/3/2019
2016 ELECTION/CONGRESS/DEMS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. congressional Democrats on Wednesday [4-3-19] authorized a powerful committee chairman to subpoena Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s full report on Russia’s role in the 2016 election, moving closer to a legal clash with President Donald Trump’s administration. The Democratic-led House of Representatives Judiciary Committee voted to enable its chairman, […]
3/28/2019
2016 ELECTION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The still-secret report on Russian interference in the 2016 election submitted last week by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, was more than 300 pages long, the Justice Department acknowledged on Thursday [3-28-19]. Mr. Barr wrote to Congress on Sunday offering what he called the ‘principal conclusions’ […]
3/26/2019
2016 ELECTION/LAWSUIT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A Soviet-born convicted felon who worked on real estate deals with President Donald Trump was accused in a lawsuit Monday [3-25-19] of plotting to use Trump-branded skyscrapers to launder money allegedly stolen from a Kazakhstan bank. BTA Bank and the city of Almaty, Kazakhstan, allege Felix Sater conspired with the […]
3/25/2019
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special Counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence of collusion between U.S. President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia in the 2016 election, but left unresolved the issue of whether Trump obstructed justice by undermining the investigations that have dogged his presidency. Even though Mueller’s findings on obstruction of justice were […]
3/25/2019
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. Attorney General William Barr’s conclusion that President Donald Trump did not obstruct justice, revealed publicly on Sunday in a letter to lawmakers, reflects inherent difficulties in proving such an obstruction case, legal experts said. Barr sent a four-page letter to congressional leaders summarizing a report by U.S. Special […]
3/25/2019
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘No matter your ideologies or your loyalties, this is a good day for America. No American conspired to cooperate with Russia in its efforts to interfere with the 2016 election, according to Robert Mueller, and that is good.’ @BretBaier @FoxNews” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 25, 2019 5:10 am […]
3/20/2019
2016 ELECTION/ELECTORAL COLLEGE/ROBERT MUELLER: “I just won an election with 63 million votes or so. Sixty-three million. I had 206 to 223 in the Electoral College — 306 to 223. And I’m saying to myself, wait a minute, I just won one of the greatest elections of all time in the history of this country […]
3/14/2019
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Aleksej Gubarev is a Russian technology entrepreneur who runs companies in Europe and the United States that provide cut-rate internet service. But he is best known for his appearance in 2016 in a dossier that purported to detail Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election — and the Trump campaign’s complicity. […]
3/13/2019
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION: “There’s no collusion. There’s no collusion. And there hasn’t been collusion. And it was all a big hoax, and you know it. It was done and stated by the Democrats because they lost an election that they should have won because the Electoral College is a big advantage for Democrats, not for […]
3/10/2019
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @paulsperry_: BREAKING: Even Mueller’s case against Russia itself, for interfering in the 2016 election, is breaking down” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 10, 2019 8:44 pm […]
3/8/2019
2016 ELECTION/COURTS/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump on Friday [3-8-19] seized on a portion of a federal judge’s remarks during the sentencing of his former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, in a financial crimes case to again criticize the Russia investigation and falsely declare a finding of ‘no collusion.’ Speaking to reporters before he left […]
3/7/2019
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer of U.S. President Donald Trump, on Thursday [3-7-19] sued the Trump Organization, saying it reneged on its obligation to reimburse him for millions of dollars of legal fees and costs related to his work. In a complaint filed in the New York state supreme […]
3/5/2019
2016 ELECTION/GOP/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump may have committed crimes over a scheme to pay off women alleging extramarital affairs — but Senate Republicans say they have no reason to look into it. GOP leaders and key committee chairmen are making clear that they believe there is no reason to probe whether the President […]
3/1/2019
2016 ELECTION/CONGRESS/DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In addition to Special Counsel Robert Mueller and other federal prosecutors, several U.S. congressional committees are pursuing investigations focusing on President Donald Trump, looking at questions regarding Russia’s role in the 2016 presidential election as well as the Republican president’s finances. Democrats took control of the House of Representatives in […]
2/27/2019
2016 ELECTION/HILLARY CLINTON/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen accused him of breaking the law while in office and said for the first time that Trump knew in advance about a WikiLeaks dump of stolen emails that hurt his 2016 election rival Hillary Clinton. In a dramatic televised hearing […]
2/27/2019
2016 ELECTION/CONGRESS/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “In the high-stakes battle between President Donald Trump and Michael Cohen, some of the people in their immediate orbit are ending up as collateral hits. Trump’s former personal attorney and fixer dropped several names of people in Trump’s inner circle Wednesday during his nationally televised testimony before the […]
2/27/2019
2016 ELECTION/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen said under oath Wednesday [2-27-19] that he had never traveled to Prague to collude with Russian officials in 2016, denying a key claim of the infamous ‘dossier’ that alleged a conspiracy between Trump and the Kremlin. His comments during a […]
2/27/2019
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Testimony by Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former lawyer and ‘fixer,’ to a U.S. congressional committee on Wednesday [2-27-19] highlighted several legal risks Trump may face. Among his claims, Cohen said the Republican president directed ‘hush money’ payments ahead of the 2016 U.S. presidential election and that Trump knew in […]
2/27/2019
2016 ELECTION/CONGRESS/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Trump’s former lawyer told Congress on Wednesday [2-27-19] that Mr. Trump remained deeply involved in the arrangement to pay hush money to a pornographic film actress, even while in the White House, telling him just a year ago to lie to a journalist about the president’s involvement. Testifying before […]
2/27/2019
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN FINANCE/CONGRESS/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The dramatic public testimony to Congress on Wednesday [2-27-19] morning by President Trump’s former lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, could intensify the legal issues facing the president in the criminal and civil investigations that are swirling around him, legal experts said. Mr. Cohen’s testimony before the House Oversight and Reform […]
2/25/2019
2016 ELECTION/SEX ABUSE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A woman who worked on Donald J. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign sued him in federal court on Monday [2-25-19], alleging that he forcibly kissed her at a campaign event in Florida months before the election. In the lawsuit, the woman, Alva Johnson, who is black, also accused the president’s campaign […]
2/22/2019
2016 ELECTION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special counsel Robert Mueller is not expected to deliver his report on the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election next week, a Justice Department official briefed on the plans told CNN. As CNN has previously reported, the precise timing of the announcement has been a moving […]
2/21/2019
2016 ELECTION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A former campaign worker for President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit on Wednesday [2-20-19] seeking to invalidate all of the non-disclosure and non-disparagement agreements that campaign workers were required to sign before joining the president’s 2016 election campaign. If the suit is successful, more campaign workers could feel free to speak publicly […]
2/20/2019
2016 ELECTION/LAWSUIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A former campaign worker for President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit on Wednesday [2-20-19] seeking to invalidate all of the non-disclosure and non-disparagement agreements that campaign workers were required to sign before joining the president’s 2016 election campaign. If the suit is successful, more campaign workers could feel free to […]
2/19/2019
2016 ELECTION/ANDREW MCCABE/FBI/JAMES COMEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congressional leaders did not object when they were informed two years ago that the FBI had opened a counterintelligence investigation into President Donald Trump’s ties to Russia, Andrew McCabe, the bureau’s former acting director, said Tuesday [2-19-19]. In an interview on NBC’s ‘Today’ show, McCabe said the secret briefing […]
2/19/2019
2016 ELECTION/MEDIA/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump has called the Russia investigation a hoax, a witch hunt and fake news. But since he has been in office, Mr. Trump has tried to end the inquiry into his campaign’s possible coordination with Russia during the 2016 presidential election, opening himself up to questions about whether […]
2/19/2019
2016 ELECTION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As federal prosecutors in Manhattan gathered evidence late last year about President Trump’s role in silencing women with hush payments during the 2016 campaign, Mr. Trump called Matthew G. Whitaker, his newly installed attorney general, with a question. He asked whether Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States attorney for […]
2/19/2019
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump has publicly criticized dozens of people and groups related to federal inquiries into contacts between his campaign and Russia, according to a New York Times analysis of nearly every public statement or Twitter post that he has made while in office. The attacks, which number nearly 1,200, are […]
2/8/2019
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Democrats on Friday [2-8-19] previewed how they plan to use their newly minted House majority to investigate the Trump administration as they grilled acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker on special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe — and even fired off a subpoena threat. During a highly contentious hearing before […]
2/7/2019
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr said Thursday [2-7-19] that his committee’s Russia investigation has yet to find evidence of collusion between President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and the Kremlin but will soon release a report on the Obama administration’s response to Russian interference in the last presidential election. In […]
2/6/2019
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “One week after Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, Imaad Zuberi, an American venture capitalist and longtime Democratic donor, began piling tens of thousands of dollars into Republican coffers. It was a dramatic shift for Zuberi, who embraced Democrats as his entrée into Washington, serving as a major donor on […]
2/4/2019
2016 ELECTION/LGEAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee confirmed Monday [2-4-19] that it had received a subpoena from federal prosecutors in New York as part of an investigation into the group’s fundraising activities. ‘While we are still reviewing the subpoena, it is our intention to cooperate with the inquiry,’ the committee said in […]
2/4/2019
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Federal prosecutors issued a subpoena on Monday [2-4-19] to President Donald Trump’s inauguration committee in another sign of the broadening swath of investigations circling around events tied to the 2016 presidential election and its aftermath. A spokesman for the inauguration confirmed news of the subpoena from the Southern District of New […]
2/4/2019
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign manager Paul Manafort will be sentenced for the first time on March 13, a federal judge in Washington who approved his guilty plea said Monday [2-4-19]. The court date sets up one of the most anticipated bookends of Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation into […]
1/30/2019
2016 ELECTION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump said on Wednesday [1-30-19] that he would not intervene with the Justice Department’s decision-making process about whether to release the report by the special counsel investigating possible collusion with Russian officials in the 2016 campaign…He insisted that he had not spoken with Matthew G. Whitaker, the acting […]
1/30/2019
2016 ELECTION/FOREIGN POLICY/INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump lit into the U.S. intelligence community on Wednesday [1-30-19], telling his intel chiefs to ‘go back to school’ just one day after they publicly contradicted him on several of his foreign policy priorities…Trump’s tweets were a direct rebuttal of the public testimony his top intelligence chiefs gave […]
1/26/2019
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “During the 2016 presidential campaign and transition, Donald J. Trump and at least 17 campaign officials and advisers had contacts with Russian nationals and WikiLeaks, or their intermediaries, a New York Times analysis has found. At least 10 other associates were told about interactions but did not have any themselves. Knowledge […]
1/25/2019
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/ROGER STONE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, revealed on Friday [1-25-19] the most direct link yet between parallel efforts by the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks to damage Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election using Democratic Party material stolen by Russians. A top Trump campaign official dispatched Roger J. Stone […]
1/25/2019
2016 ELECTION/FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/ROBERT MUELLER/ROGER STONE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Roger Stone, an informal political adviser to President Donald Trump, downplayed his Friday [1-25-19] indictment by a grand jury on charges brought by special counsel Robert Mueller as based on a ‘process crime’ that doesn’t show collusion with WikiLeaks or the Russian government…Stone denied ever speaking to the […]
1/24/2019
2016 ELECTION/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A great new book just out, ‘Game of Thorns,’ by Doug Wead, Presidential Historian and best selling author. The book covers the campaign of 2016, and what could be more exciting than that?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 24, 2019 6:35 am […]
1/21/2019
2016 ELECTION/MICHAEL COHEN/ RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Rudy Giuliani on Monday [1-21-19] walked back statements he made this weekend concerning potential conversations between then-candidate Donald Trump and Michael Cohen about plans to construct a Trump Tower in Moscow ahead of the 2016 presidential election. Giuliani, the former New York mayor and current attorney for the […]
1/20/2019
2016 ELECTION/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump was involved in discussions to build a skyscraper in Moscow throughout the entire 2016 presidential campaign, his personal lawyer said on Sunday [1-20-19], a longer and more significant role for Mr. Trump than he had previously acknowledged. The comments by his lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani indicated that Mr. […]
1/19/2019
2016 ELECTION/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Michael Cohen’s checkered history and many lies have always meant investigators would need documentation to back up his statements. BuzzFeed’s dramatic report Thursday [1-17-19] night, based on two unidentified federal law enforcement sources involved in the investigation, suggested prosecutors might have what they need to prove President Donald Trump […]
1/18/2019
2016 ELECTION/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In a rare public statement, special counsel Robert Mueller’s office on Friday [1-18-19] disputed a blockbuster report from BuzzFeed News that alleged President Donald Trump directed his former attorney, Michael Cohen, to lie in his testimony before Congress. Despite worldwide coverage and intense interest, Mueller’s office has stayed mostly […]
1/18/2019
2016 ELECTION/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “For much of the past 20 months, President Donald Trump and his administration have insisted that, for all of the smoke surrounding his 2016 campaign, there was no fire. A lot of people in Trump’s orbit engaging in conversations and relationships with Russian officials, but no evidence of collusion […]
1/18/2019
2016 ELECTION/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election disputed on Friday [1-18-19] a report that said President Trump had directed Michael D. Cohen, his longtime lawyer and fixer, to lie to Congress about his role in negotiations to build a skyscraper in Moscow. The rare public statement […]
1/17/2019
2016 ELECTION/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “In a stunning interview on CNN Wednesday [1-16-19] evening, President Donald Trump’s attorney, Rudy Giuliani, said there may have been ‘collusion’ between members of the Trump campaign and Russia – but the president wasn’t involved. ‘I never said there was no collusion between the campaign. Or between people in […]
1/17/2019
2016 ELECTION/MICHAEL COHEN/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Michael D. Cohen, the former personal lawyer and fixer for President Trump, acknowledged on Thursday [1-17-19] that he had paid the owner of a technology services company to help doctor results of an online poll to help Mr. Trump as he considered a run for president. In a post on […]
1/16/2019
2016 ELECTION/HOUSE OF REPS/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The House Judiciary Committee chairman said Wednesday [1-16-19] that his panel would subpoena special counsel Robert Mueller’s final report if William Barr, President Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general, does not release it to the public…Mueller is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 campaign and possible collusion between […]
1/16/2019
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Rudy Giuliani said Wednesday [1-16-19] that he never denied President Donald Trump’s campaign colluded with the Russian government during the 2016 campaign, only that the President himself was not involved in collusion. In an interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo on ‘Cuomo Prime Time,’ Giuliani, a former New York mayor […]
1/16/2019
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The swirl of speculation surrounding the Russia investigation often assumes that the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, will release a report of his findings that will serve as the definitive explanation of how Russia interfered in the 2016 election and whether President Trump or his associates coordinated with […]
1/17/2019
2016 ELECTION/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “If you know anything about the White House’s reaction to the ongoing special counsel probe into Russia interference in the 2016 election, it’s these two words: ‘No collusion.’ Trump, as well as his top aides — everyone from senior counselor Kellyanne Conway to White House press secretary Sarah Sanders […]
1/14/2019
2016 ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Private donors put up $107 million to usher Donald J. Trump into office in style two years ago, and it is now clear just how enthusiastically his inaugural committee went to town with it. There was $10,000 for makeup for 20 aides at an evening inaugural event. There was another $30,000 […]
1/10/2019
2016 ELECTION/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said Thursday [1-10-19] he knew nothing about his former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, sharing poll data with a Russian before the 2016 election…Manafort’s lawyers inadvertently revealed the accusation from Justice Department special prosecutor Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election, that Manafort […]
1/10/2019
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Hours after he was sworn in as America’s 45th president, Donald J. Trump and his wife, Melania, swayed together to a rendition of the Frank Sinatra classic ‘My Way,’ as hundreds of their wealthiest and most influential supporters held aloft smartphones to capture the Trumps’ first dance following the inauguration. […]
1/8/2019
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Natalia V. Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer who in 2016 met with Trump campaign officials in Trump Tower, was charged on Tuesday [1-8-19] in a separate case that showed her close ties to the Kremlin. Ms. Veselnitskaya, a pivotal figure in the investigation into Russian interference in the presidential election, was charged […]
1/8/2019
2016 ELECTION/DONALD JR/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “The Russian lawyer who attended a 2016 meeting at Trump Tower with members of the Trump campaign was charged by federal prosecutors in New York with obstruction of justice in connection with a money-laundering case, according to an indictment unsealed Tuesday that highlighted her ties to the Russian government. […]
1/8/2019
2016 ELECTION/HILLARY CLINTON/LEGAL/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A Russian lawyer who promised damaging information on Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign was charged with obstruction in an unrelated money laundering investigation, federal prosecutors said Tuesday [1-8-19]. The criminal case against Natalya Veselnitskaya, who met at Trump Tower in 2016 with Donald Trump Jr., Trump presidential campaign […]
12/21/2018
2016 ELECTION/CONGRESS/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump has at least twice in the past few weeks vented to his acting attorney general, angered by federal prosecutors who referenced the President’s actions in crimes his former lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. Trump was frustrated, the sources […]
12/19/2018
2016 ELECTION/AFRICAN AMERICANS/CYBERWAR/RUSSIA/SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When Vladimir Putin focused on black voter depression and sowing racial divisions in the 2016 election to help propel Donald Trump into the White House, he engaged in what is, unfortunately, a longstanding and time-tested American practice. Two reports commissioned by the Senate Intelligence Committee found that a Russian […]
12/19/2018
2016 ELECTION/LAWSUIT/RUSSIA/TECHNOLOGY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal judge ruled in favor of BuzzFeed on Wednesday [12-19-18], bringing to a close a defamation lawsuit filed by a Russian technology executive over the website’s publication of a dossier containing unverified reports of connections between Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign and the Russian government. In her ruling, Judge Ursula […]
12/17/2018
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Russia’s disinformation campaign during and after the 2016 presidential election touched nearly every top social media platform as it sought to sway U.S. voters, according to a pair of reports prepared for the Senate Intelligence Committee that offer the most detailed look yet at the Kremlin’s interference effort. The reports, […]
12/17/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A special counsel investigation into possible collusion between Russia and the 2016 presidential campaign of Donald Trump has already secured more than 30 indictments and guilty pleas and has spawned at least four federal probes. But that is not all that Trump needs to worry about. With less than […]
12/14/2018
2016 ELECTION/IVANKA/LAWSUIT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee spent funds on hotel rooms and meals at the Trump International Hotel in Washington DC and also rented space there at rates negotiated partly by Trump’s daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump, WNYC and ProPublica reported Friday [12-14-18]. Federal prosecutors in New York are investigating the committee for […]
12/14/2018
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN FINANCE/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is denying that President Donald Trump had any knowledge of possible malfeasance by his inaugural committee, which is reportedly under investigation for misusing funds…The response comes after The Wall Street Journal reported earlier on Thursday [12-13-18] that federal prosecutors in Manhattan were investigating […]
12/14/2018
2016 ELECTION/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Donald Trump’s longtime attorney Michael Cohen said the president directed him to orchestrate hush money payments during his 2016 presidential campaign to women alleging affairs because he was concerned that those allegations might damage his electoral changes. Cohen, a longtime loyalist and fixer for Trump who flipped on the president […]
12/13/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MIDDLE EAST/PAC/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Federal prosecutors are examining whether foreigners illegally funneled donations to President Trump’s inaugural committee and a pro-Trump super PAC in hopes of buying influence over American policy, according to people familiar with the inquiry. The inquiry focuses on whether people from Middle Eastern nations — including Qatar, Saudi […]
12/13/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Trump said on Thursday [12-13-18] that if there was anything illegal about the hush payments made to two women claiming to have had affairs with him, it was the fault of his former lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, part of a newly improvised attempt to combat the legal exposure the […]
12/12/2018
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN FINANCE/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison on Wednesday [12-12-18] for crimes including orchestrating hush payments to women in violation of campaign laws before the 2016 election, and he promised to keep cooperating with the U.S. government against his former boss. […]
12/12/2018
2016 ELECTION/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The National Enquirer’s parent company has agreed to tell prosecutors everything it knows about Donald Trump — and it might know a lot. In a court document released Wednesday [12-12-18], the tabloid publisher, American Media Inc., admitted to coordinating a hush-money payment with Trump’s 2016 campaign, reversing two years of […]
12/12/2018
2016 ELECTION/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Moments before learning his fate, Michael Cohen made a final plea. He admitted in open federal court all his wrongdoings, which he said resulted from being weak and a “blind loyalty to Donald Trump,” his former boss. In his more than 1,000-word statement on Wednesday [12-12-18] ahead of […]
12/10/2018
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN FINANCE/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Trump defended himself on Monday against prosecutors’ accusation that he directed illegal payments ahead of the 2016 election to two women to stay silent about alleged extramarital affairs with him, insisting that the payments were ‘a simple private transaction’ — not election-related spending subject to campaign-finance laws. In […]
12/10/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democratic Sen. Chris Coons said if President Donald Trump directed Michael Cohen to make illegal hush payments during the 2016 election then he could be indicted after he leaves office…In a sentencing memo on Friday [12-7-18], prosecutors from the Manhattan US attorney’s office said Cohen acted at the direction of […]
12/7/2018
2016 ELECTION/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special counsel Robert Mueller said Friday [12-7-18] that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort lied about five major issues after agreeing to cooperate with prosecutors, including his ‘contact with administration officials.’ In a heavily redacted document, Mueller also said Manafort lied about his interactions with Konstantin Kilimnik. Mueller […]
12/3/2018
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Throughout his investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, special counsel Robert Mueller has imposed on his team an ironclad rule: nobody leaks and nobody speaks — out of court, that is. But when it comes to official court filings — indictments, plea agreements, sentencing memos — […]
12/3/2018
2016/ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump called for a ‘full and complete’ sentence for his former lawyer Michael Cohen on Monday [12-3-18], weighing in on a judicial proceeding with accusations Cohen lied about dealings with Russia during his 2016 presidential campaign. Cohen is scheduled to be sentenced on Dec. 12 after pleading […]
11/29/2018
2016 ELECTION/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump lashed out on Thursday [11-29-18] at his former personal attorney Michael Cohen after Cohen’s guilty plea to a new criminal charge in the Southern District of New York. While Trump might want to practice his poker face a bit when facing adversity, it is easy […]
11/29/2018
2016 ELECTION/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “When Donald J. Trump took a run at building a tower in Moscow in the middle of his 2016 presidential campaign, it was the high point of a decades-long effort to plant the ‘Trump’ flag there. The role his former lawyer Michael D. Cohen played in the endeavor entered […]
11/28/2018
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. President Donald Trump told the special counsel investigating possible collusion between his campaign and Russia that he was not aware ahead of time of a meeting in June 2016 between campaign officials and Russians, Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani said on Wednesday [11-26-18]. Trump’s response, in written […]
11/28/2018
2016 ELECTION/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday [11-28-18] he had not ruled out granting a pardon to his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who has pleaded guilty to a range of federal charges from money laundering to unregistered lobbying…Prosecutors for the special counsel investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 […]
11/28/2018
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Although special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation appears to be drawing closer to proving that associates of President Donald Trump ‘colluded’ with foreigners to influence the 2016 election, extraordinary steps by Trump’s allies to undermine special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation appear to have slowed down the prosecutor. But it […]
11/26/2018
2016 ELECTION/JAMES COMEY/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump complained Monday [11-26-18] that Robert Mueller has thus far ignored Trump 2016 campaign staff who the president said want to be interviewed for the special counsel’s Russia investigation, renewing his attacks on Mueller’s probe into allegations of collusion between Trump’s campaign and the Russian […]
11/20/2018
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump has provided the special counsel with written answers to questions about his knowledge of Russian interference in the 2016 election, his lawyers said Tuesday [11-20-18], avoiding at least for now a potentially risky sit-down with prosecutors. It’s the first time he has directly cooperated with the […]
11/20/2018
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump laid out for the special counsel his defense in the investigation into possible ties between his associates and Russia’s election interference, the president’s lawyers said in a statement on Tuesday [11-10-18]. The details of Mr. Trump’s responses were not immediately clear, but his lawyers said that now […]
11/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/HILLARY CLINTON: “The fact is, I was a much better candidate than Hillary Clinton. I went to the right states; she went to the wrong states. She was not a good campaigner. Obviously, I campaigned very well. And I easily won the election and the Electoral College — 306 — I guess it was […]
11/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos is asking to delay a looming prison stint by citing an appeal that challenges the legality of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s appointment. Papadopoulos elected not to mount such a challenge in his own case last year when Mueller’s office charged him with […]
11/13/2018
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump is expected to provide written answers to questions from the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election as soon as this week, a person familiar with the matter said on Tuesday [11-13-18]. The questions from Special Counsel Robert Mueller that Trump […]
11/12/2018
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “An associate of Roger Stone, a longtime ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, expects to be indicted by the U.S. special counsel probing Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, he said on Monday [11-12-18]. Jerome Corsi, a right-wing commentator, said in a livestream posted to YouTube he expected to […]
11/9/2018
2016 ELECTION/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VOTER FRAUD: “In the 2016 Election I was winning by so much in Florida that Broward County, which was very late with vote tabulation and probably getting ready to do a ‘number,’ couldn’t do it because not enough people live in Broward for them to falsify a victory!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November […]
11/1/2018
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/ROGER STONE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “When the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, appeared on a video link from Europe a month before the 2016 presidential election and vaguely promised to release a flood of purloined documents related to the race, the head of Donald J. Trump’s campaign, Stephen K. Bannon, was interested…The email exchange, not previously […]
10/31/2018
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/INTELLIGENCE/SENATE/STEVE BANNON/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee is pursuing a wide-ranging examination of former White House adviser Steve Bannon’s activities during the 2016 presidential campaign, three sources familiar with the inquiry told Reuters. The committee is looking into what Bannon might know about any contacts during the campaign between Moscow and two advisers […]
10/23/2018
2016 ELECTION/PAUL MANAFORT/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Under an unusual arrangement, Paul Manafort’s attorney has kept Donald Trump informed about the former campaign chairman’s meetings with prosecutors investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election and, according to Trump’s lawyer, Manafort has not said anything damaging about the president. Rudy Giuliani, who represents Trump […]
10/19/2018
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump, asked about the Russian national charged with attempting to interfere in the 2018 midterm elections Friday [10-19-18], was quick to defend himself and repeat that there was ‘no collusion’ with his campaign…Federal prosecutors charged 44-year-old Elena Alekseevna Khusyaynova, of St. Petersburg, Russia, with conspiracy to defraud the […]
10/19/2018
2016 ELECTION/GOP/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Republican lawmakers will next week question Rod Rosenstein, the U.S. Justice Department official who oversees a special counsel’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and links between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Moscow, committee chairmen said on Thursday [10-18-18]. The Republican chairmen of two U.S. House […]
10/11/2018
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special counsel Robert Mueller has delivered written questions to President Donald Trump and his lawyers about a potential Russian conspiracy with the Republican’s 2016 campaign to influence the election, according to a source familiar with the matter. The submitted questions bypass — for now — a high-stakes legal fight over […]
10/11/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s lawyers are preparing answers to questions for the U.S. special counsel probing Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday [10-11-18]. President Donald Trump’s lawyers are preparing answers to questions for the U.S. special counsel probing Russian […]