2016 ELECTION/DEMS/ROBERT MUELLER/ROGER STONE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team is combing through Roger Stone’s track record as a self-proclaimed ‘dirty trickster’ amid its investigation into whether Stone was involved in Russian efforts to steal and disseminate damaging information about Democrats ahead of the 2016 election. The questions about Stone’s past reveal how […]
Category: 2016 Election
10/2/2018
2016 ELECTION/BRETT KAVANAUGH/HILLARY CLINTON/SEX ABUSE/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Hillary Clinton on Tuesday [10-2-18] balked at Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s claim that the allegations of sexual misconduct against him are being carried out as part of ‘revenge on behalf of the Clintons,’ saying such a declaration ‘deserves a lot of laughter.’ During a nine-hour hearing last […]
9/28/2018
2016 ELECTION/HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A U.S. House of Representatives committee voted on Friday [9-28-18] to release dozens of transcripts of interviews from its investigation of Russia meddling in the 2016 U.S. elections, including conversations with senior associates of President Donald Trump. The House Intelligence Committee voted unanimously to send transcripts of […]
9/28/2018
2016 ELECTION/HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A U.S. House of Representatives committee voted on Friday [9-28-18] to release dozens of transcripts of interviews from its investigation of Russia meddling in the 2016 U.S. elections, including conversations with senior associates of President Donald Trump. The House Intelligence Committee voted unanimously to send transcripts of […]
9/27/2018
2016 ELECTION/HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A U.S. House of Representatives committee will vote on Friday [9-28-18] on whether to release dozens of transcripts of interviews from its investigation of Russia and the 2016 U.S. election, including conversations with senior associates of President Donald Trump. The House Intelligence Committee is expected to agree […]
9/19/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday [9-19-18] he is not worried about what his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who is cooperating with the U.S. special counsel’s probe into Russian election meddling, will tell prosecutors, as long as he is truthful. ‘No, I’m not,’ Trump told reporters at […]
9/19/18
2016 ELECTION/ECONOMY/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’The recovery got started on Election Day 2016. It took Trump’s Tax Cuts and Regulation Cuts to get the economy booming. Before that it was the worst and slowest economic recovery since the Great Depression. It took just 6 months for Trump to get to 3%, even though they said…..” –Donald […]
9/12/2018
2016 ELECTION/NSA/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The former Director of the National Security Agency, retired Admiral Mike Rogers, said Tuesday [9-11-18] that he thought President Donald Trump should have taken the opportunity to confront Russian President Vladimir Putin publicly in Helsinki, Finland over Russia’s election meddling…In July, Trump met one-on-one with Putin, a meeting he did not […]
9/12/2018
2016 ELECTION/ELECTION/RUSSIA/SANCTIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Under fire over his handling of Russian election meddling, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday [9-12-18] meant to strengthen election security by slapping sanctions on foreign countries or people who try to interfere in the U.S. political process. The order, coming only eight weeks before congressional elections […]
9/12/2018
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/NATIONAL SECURITY/RUSSIA/SANCTIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order authorising sanctions against any countries or individuals found interfering in US elections. The order instructs the intelligence community to monitor and report on attempts to disrupt election infrastructure as well as propaganda. The directive itself is not a sanction, but imposes […]
9/12/2018
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/SANCTIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Under fire over his handling of Russian election meddling, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday [9-12-18] meant to make U.S. elections more secure by slapping sanctions on any foreigners trying to interfere in the political process. The order, signed by Trump only eight weeks before congressional elections […]
9/10/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/ECONOMY/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “If the Democrats had won the Election in 2016, GDP, which was about 1% and going down, would have been minus 4% instead of up 4.2%. I opened up our beautiful economic engine with Regulation and Tax Cuts. Our system was choking and would have been made worse. Still plenty to […]
9/8/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Dems have tried every trick in the playbook-call me everything under the sun. But if I’m all of those terrible things, how come I beat them so badly, 306-223? Maybe they’re just not very good! The fact is they are going CRAZY only because they know they can’t beat me […]
9/7/2018
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special Counsel Robert Mueller wants President Donald Trump to commit to a follow-up interview to written answers to questions in his probe of any coordination between Trump campaign members and Russia in the 2016 U.S. election, Rudy Giuliani, who is representing the president, said on Thursday [9-6-18]…Peter Carr, […]
9/7/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “An associate of Roger Stone, a longtime ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, was questioned in front of a grand jury in the special counsel’s Russia probe on Friday [9-7-18] about his years-long relationship with Stone and about Wikileaks, the associate’s lawyer told Reuters. Randy Credico, a comedian and […]
9/6/2018
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump will not answer federal investigators’ questions, in writing or in person, about whether he tried to block the probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election, one of the president’s attorneys told The Associated Press on Thursday [9-6-18]. Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani said questions about […]
9/5/2018
2016 ELECTION/FOREIGN POLICY/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “After months of hugging dictators and dissing democrats, Donald Trump is now seen around the world as a deranged toddler—symbolized by the Trump ‘blimp baby’ that flew over Britain this summer and is now embarking on its own world tour. But beneath all the crazy talk that comes out of […]
9/4/2018
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller will accept written answers from President Donald Trump on whether his campaign conspired with Russia to interfere in the 2016 U.S. election, but Mueller is not ruling out a follow-up interview on that issue, a person familiar with the matter said on Tuesday [9-4-18]. […]
8/31/2018
2016 ELECTION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A Justice Department lawyer whose ties to the infamous dossier about President Donald Trump and Russia has drawn the ire of Republicans told House lawmakers that he was told Russian intelligence thought they had the then-candidate ‘over a barrel’ during the 2016 campaign, a source with knowledge of the testimony […]
8/30/2018
2016 ELECTION/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Federal investigators have provided ample evidence that President Trump was involved in deals to pay two women to keep them from speaking publicly before the 2016 election about affairs that they said they had with him. But it turns out that Mr. Trump wanted to go even further. He and […]
8/28/2018
2016 ELECTION/CHINA/HILLARY CLINTON/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump said on Twitter early on Wednesday [8-29-18] China hacked the emails of 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton but did not offer any evidence or further information…Trump said in an earlier tweet on Tuesday [8-28-18] night: ‘China hacked Hillary Clinton’s private Email Server. Are […]
8/28/2018
2016 ELECTION/JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The rift between President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions goes ‘deeper’ than than Sessions’ decision to recuse himself from a federal investigation into the 2016 election, Sen. Lindsey Graham said on Tuesday…Graham declined to say what else is at the root of Trump’s frustration with the […]
8/24/2018
2016 ELECTION/CIA/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In 2016, American intelligence agencies delivered urgent and explicit warnings about Russia’s intentions to try to tip the American presidential election — and a detailed assessment of the operation afterward — thanks in large part to informants close to President Vladimir V. Putin and in the Kremlin who provided crucial […]
8/23/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Federal prosecutors reached an immunity deal with the tabloid executive David J. Pecker, a key witness in their monthslong investigation into payments during the 2016 campaign to two women who said they had affairs with Donald J. Trump, according to two people familiar with the investigation. Mr. Pecker is the chairman […]
8/22/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “For 16 or so hours after Tuesday’s [8-21-18] double-barreled bombshell news, President Trump couldn’t even publicly say Michael Cohen’s name. That was the first signal he had been wounded by his former fixer’s guilty plea. He said he felt badly for Paul Manafort, his former campaign manager who had […]
8/22/2018
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/MICHAEL COHEN/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “White House press secretary Sarah Sanders maintained Wednesday [8-22-18] that President Donald Trump ‘did nothing wrong’ relating to the hush money payments made to women who claimed affairs with him during the 2016 campaign…Sanders declined to answer additional questions about what the President knew about the payments and […]
8/22/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “The White House pushed back forcefully on Wednesday [8-22-18] against suggestions that a plea deal struck by President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen implicated Trump in a crime…Cohen on Tuesday [8-21-18] pleaded guilty to eight criminal charges of tax evasion, bank fraud and campaign finance violations. He told a […]
8/22/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/PARDONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “U.S. President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen would not accept a presidential pardon, his attorney said on Wednesday [8-22-18], a day after Cohen pleaded guilty to eight criminal charges and said he acted at the direction of Trump. In a round of television interviews, Cohen’s attorney, Lanny Davis, said […]
8/21/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Lanny Davis, the attorney representing President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen, said Tuesday [8-21-18] his client has information on Trump that would interest special counsel Robert Mueller in his investigation…Cohen pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court Tuesday to eight criminal counts and admitted he acted to keep […]
8/21/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump briefly slammed the investigation into Russian interference during the 2016 campaign during his rally in West Virginia on Tuesday [8-21-18], hours after his campaign chairman Paul Manafort was convicted on charges stemming from that investigation…Trump largely avoided the topic of the investigation during the first […]
8/21/2018
2016 ELECTION/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “U.S. President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen testified on Tuesday [8-21-18] that Trump had directed him to commit a crime by arranging payments ahead of the 2016 presidential election to silence two women who said they had affairs with Trump. Cohen’s voice cracked several times as he pleaded […]
8/20/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The jury in the bank and tax fraud trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort ended its third day of deliberations on Monday [8-20-18] without reaching a verdict. The judge said the jury would reconvene on Tuesday [8-218-18] morning. The case is the first to go to […]
8/17/2018
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Federal authorities had cornered the man they suspected could be part of Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election — and they might have been more successful in their investigation in early 2017 if it had not been for George Papadopoulos, the special counsel alleged on Friday [8-17-18]. Special counsel prosecutors […]
8/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/ELECTION/GOP/TARIFFS/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Warren Bachman, a 72-year-old Iowa soybean farmer, is one of many who turned Clarke County into Donald Trump country, as the Republican president took 61 percent of the votes in 2016 in a county that went for Democrat Barack Obama four years earlier. But Bachman’s loyalty to Trump is wavering […]
8/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s decision to declassify competing congressional memos about the validity of the so-called Steele dossier means the FBI has lost its authority to rebuff Freedom of Information Act requests about the bureau’s efforts to verify the report’s intelligence linking Trump to Russia during the 2016 campaign, a federal judge […]
8/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’….An incredibly corrupt FBI & DOJ trying to steer the outcome of a Presidential Election. Brennan has gone off the deep end, he’s disgraced and discredited himself. His conduct has been outrageous.’ Chris Farrell, Judicial Watch.” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 16, 2018 8:49 pm […]
8/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The jury in the bank and tax fraud trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort ended its first day of deliberations on Thursday [8-16-18] without reaching a verdict but with several questions, including how to define ‘reasonable doubt.’ The six men and six women considered the charges against […]
8/15/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The evidence against Paul Manafort is ‘overwhelming,’ a prosecutor told jurors during closing arguments in his fraud trial on Wednesday, saying that he hid more than $16 million in income and fraudulently obtained $20 million in bank loans even though, as a trained lawyer, ‘Mr. Manafort knew the law.’ […]
8/15/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Paul Manafort had ‘a huge dumpster of hidden money’ abroad, a prosecutor said on Wednesday [8-15-18], urging a jury to convict U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chief on financial fraud charges based more on a paper trail of evidence than on the testimony of a former protege. […]
8/14/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump and his administration are cranking up the pressure on special counsel Robert Mueller to end his Russia investigation after FBI agent Peter Strzok, who shared anti-Trump text messages, was booted from the bureau. The president has long called Mueller’s probe into whether the Russian government colluded […]
8/13/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The FBI has fired Peter Strzok, an agent who was removed from the Russia probe last year for sending text messages disparaging President Donald Trump, Strzok’s lawyer said Monday [8-13-18]. Aitan Goelman, Strzok’s attorney, said FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich ordered the agent’s termination on Friday. Goelman said that the […]
8/13/2018
2016 ELECTION/JEFF SESSIONS/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A U.S. judge on Monday [8-13-18] backed Special Counsel Robert Mueller in the federal Russia investigation, allowing a case to proceed against a Russian company accused of helping fund a propaganda operation to sway the 2016 presidential election in Donald Trump’s favor. Judge Dabney Friedrich, in an opinion […]
8/13/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Peter Strzok, the F.B.I. senior counterintelligence agent who disparaged President Trump in inflammatory text messages and helped oversee the Hillary Clinton email and Russia investigations, has been fired for violating bureau policies, Mr. Strzok’s lawyer said Monday [8-13-18]. Mr. Trump and his allies seized on the text messages — […]
8/12/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A week before the Trump presidential campaign announced that it had hired Paul Manafort, a Yankees ticket specialist alerted him that his annual season tickets would soon be arriving at his 43rd-floor apartment at Trump Tower in New York. ‘Will you and Kathy be attending opening day?’ the specialist […]
8/9/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Jenna Ellis ‘FBI thought they wouldn’t get caught because they thought that Hillary was going to win. There is overt bias and that depends on whether you are Democrat or Republican – a double standard that needs to stop.’” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 9, 2018 5:50 pm […]
8/9/2018
2016 ELECTION/CALIFORNIA/LEGAL/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A New York federal judge has ordered Stormy Daniels’ defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump be transferred to a California federal court. Daniels, an adult film actress whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, offered her consent on Wednesday [8-8-18] to transfer the lawsuit despite having previously opposed the move by […]
8/9/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/HILLARY CLINTON/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘There has been no evidence whatsoever that Donald Trump or the campaign was involved in any kind of collusion to fix the 2016 election. In fact the evidence is the opposite, that Hillary Clinton & the Democrats colluded with the Russians to fix the 2016 election.’ @GrahamLedger” –Donald Trump, […]
8/8/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump says that the criminal trial of his former campaign aide, Paul Manafort, has nothing to do with him. But jurors in a Virginia courtroom heard his name repeatedly on Tuesday [8-7-18]. Trump’s name, his 2016 campaign and his inauguration came up several times during the trial’s […]
8/7/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/NEW YORK/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Throughout President Trump’s term, it has sometimes seemed as if the world chronicled in the tabloids has invaded the corridors of power in Washington. Mr. Trump’s alleged affairs with a pornographic film star and a former Playboy bunny have become national news, joined by figures from publications typically more […]
8/7/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Prosecutors in the Paul Manafort trial are evoking a world of swaggering fraud, concealed millions and personal betrayal that allegedly festered in the lives of two big-time political operatives at President Donald Trump’s side for crucial moments of his 2016 general election campaign. In potentially the key moment of Manafort’s […]
8/7/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Rick Gates was just an intern when he first crossed paths with Paul Manafort. Years later Mr. Gates went to work for him, rising to become right hand man to Mr. Manafort, once a powerful force in Republican politics who more recently had turned his sights to lucrative opportunities abroad. […]
8/7/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Kevin Downing, the lead defense lawyer, began cross-examination Tuesday [8-7-18] by hammering at Mr. Gates’s credibility, demanding an exact accounting of when he lied to the government and pleaded guilty to the charge of doing so. Mr. Gates seemed to struggle to articulate that timeline, prompting Judge T. S. Ellis […]
8/7/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/NEW YORK/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Federal prosecutors in New York are examining whether U.S. President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, committed tax fraud in relation to his taxi-medallion business, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. Cohen, who was Trump’s personal lawyer, has not been charged with any crime. The Federal Bureau […]
8/7/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “The star witness in the trial against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort faced tough questioning on cross-examination on Tuesday [8-7-18] about a ‘secret life’ that included an extramarital affair and stealing funds from his former boss. Rick Gates, who served as a right-hand man to Manafort in his political […]
8/6/2018
2016 ELECTION/DONALD JR/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TWITTER: “President Donald Trump has been urged to stop tweeting about the 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Trump’s top advisers and several Russians, a source familiar with discussions tells CNN. The President was advised that his tweeting only gives oxygen to the topic, even if those around Trump do not […]
8/5/2018
2016 ELECTION/DONALD JR/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump said on Sunday [8-5-18] that a Trump Tower meeting between top campaign aides and a Kremlin-connected lawyer was designed to ‘get information on an opponent’ — the starkest acknowledgment yet that a statement he dictated last year about the encounter was misleading. Mr. Trump made the comment in […]
8/5/2018
2016 ELECTION/DONALD JR/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump acknowledged Sunday [8-5-18] that a meeting his son held with a Russian government lawyer in June 2016 was an attempt ‘to get information on’ Democrat Hillary Clinton but defended the encounter as ‘totally legal.’ Mr. Trump and his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr. , have repeatedly denied […]
8/5/2018
2016 ELECTION/DONALD JR/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump acknowledged on Sunday [8-5-18] that his son met with Russians in 2016 at Trump Tower to get information on his election opponent Hillary Clinton, saying it was ‘totally legal’ and ‘done all the time in politics.’ The Republican president had previously said the meeting […]
8/3/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Paul Manafort’s accountants testified against the former Trump campaign chairman on Friday [8-3-18], telling jurors that loan amounts were fudged to help him on his taxes and that he did not disclose his financial stake in foreign companies. Testimony from the financial professionals who worked for Manafort are making up […]
8/2/2018
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Special counsel Robert Mueller continues to press for an interview with the Russian oligarch and his pop star son who encouraged Donald Trump Jr. to meet in June 2016 with a Russian lawyer promising dirt on Hillary Clinton. The conversations between the attorney for Aras Agalarov and his […]
8/2/2018
2016 ELECTION/ELECTION/FBI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said Thursday [8-2-18] that Russia’s efforts to disrupt the 2018 U.S. elections were ‘pervasive’ but have so far fallen short of Moscow’s campaign to interfere in the 2016 vote. Speaking at a White House briefing at a time when the administration is facing criticism for […]
8/1/2018
2016 ELECTION/JEFF SESSIONS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump appealed to Attorney General Jeff Sessions to end an investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 election, drawing a rebuke from his fellow Republicans in Congress who said the probe must go on. It was Trump’s most direct call for his top U.S. law […]
8/1/2018
2016 ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “No one knows better than President Donald Trump what worked for him in 2016, and now he’s going back to the well — trusting no one but himself — to stave off the threat of a Democratic rout in November that could cripple his presidency. At a rowdy rally in Tampa, […]
7/31/2018
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [7-31-18] embraced a line of defense offered by his attorney, Rudy Giuliani, that ‘collusion is not a crime,’ even though he continued to deny any alleged ties between his campaign and Moscow during the 2016 election…For months, Trump has insisted that there was ‘no […]
7/31/2018
2016 ELECTION/CYBERWAR/DHS/MIKE PENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Vice President Mike Pence directly criticized Russia for the Kremlin’s interference in the 2016 US elections during a speech Tuesday [7-31-18] in New York City…The vice president added that Russia’s goal was to sow discord and division and weaken the American people’s faith in democracy. Pence was the keynote speaker at […]
7/31/2018
2016 ELECTION/CYBERWAR/DHS/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Federal security officials have created a new level of defense aimed at protecting banks, energy companies and other structures from massive cyberhacking attempts, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen announced Tuesday [7-31-18] in New York. The announcement of the National Risk Management Center, a physical space that was created inside DHS, […]
7/31/2018
2016 ELECTION/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump again attacked Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russia and the 2016 U.S. election on Tuesday [7-31-18], reiterating that his campaign did not collude with Moscow and saying collusion is not a crime anyway. Trump commented hours before his former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, was […]
7/30/2018
2016 ELECTION/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In the days after the 2016 presidential election, Donald J. Trump’s advisers had an unequivocal message about contacts between Russians and members of the campaign team: There were none. In the ensuing months, as numerous such communications were revealed, the message changed: There was no collusion with Russia’s effort […]
7/30/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Paul Manafort on Tuesday [7-31-18] will become the first of President Donald Trump’s former aides to go on trial, accused of bank and tax fraud by federal investigators probing Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Despite a focus on financial crimes, the trial could yield politically damaging headlines […]
7/29/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump’s allies sought to discredit his former attorney, Michael Cohen, after a week of escalating clashes that raised the question of how much Mr. Cohen may be prepared to divulge about his former boss. Rudy Giuliani, Mr. Trump’s lawyer, called Mr. Cohen a ‘pathological manipulator’ and ‘a liar’ […]
7/29/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Paul Manafort, the veteran Republican political operative and lobbyist who helped run President Trump’s 2016 campaign, is scheduled to go to trial on financial fraud charges starting on Tuesday [7-31-18] in United States District Court in Alexandria, Va. The main points to be aware of: It is the first trial stemming […]
7/27/2018
2016 ELECTION/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, claims that then-candidate Trump knew in advance about the June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower in which Russians were expected to offer his campaign dirt on Hillary Clinton, sources with knowledge tell CNN. Cohen is willing to make that assertion to […]
7/27/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Michael Avenatti, the attorney representing porn actress Stormy Daniels in her lawsuits against President Donald Trump, now also represents three other women who claim to have had affairs with Trump who say they were paid to stay silent about. The Associated Press reported Thursday that Avenatti announced his new clients […]
7/27/2018
2016 ELECTION/DONALD JR/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday [7-27-18] denied knowing about the 2016 meeting his son Donald Trump Jr. and other campaign staff held at Trump Tower with a group of Russians who offered damaging information about Democratic rival Hillary Clinton…CNN, citing unidentified sources with knowledge of the matter, said Cohen […]
7/26/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “About a month before Michael Cohen released his recording of a sensitive conversation he had with Donald Trump, the President’s longtime attorney and adviser was agonizing over the silent treatment he was getting from his former boss…Federal prosecutors were bearing down on him over his business dealings, some involving […]
7/25/2018
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Trump on Russian Interference in the 2016 election, July 22, 2018: ‘So President Obama knew about Russia before the election. Why didn’t he do something about it? Why didn’t he tell our campaign? Because it is all a big hoax, that’s why, and he thought Crooked Hillary was going to win!!!’ […]
7/25/2018
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Trump on Russian Interference in the 2016 election, July 17, 2018: ‘I have the strongest respect for our intelligence agencies, headed by my people. We’re doing everything in our power to prevent Russian interference in 2018.’ -Speaking to reporters pressing about his stance on Russian meddling.” –Melissa Etehad, “In His own […]
7/25/2018
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Trump on Russian Interference in the 2016 election, July 17, 2018: ‘I actually went out and reviewed a clip of an answer that I gave, and I realized that there is a need for some clarification. It should’ve been obvious, but I would like to clarify just in case it wasn’t. […]
7/25/2018
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Trump on Russian Interference in the 2016 election, July 16, 2018: ‘I have great confidence in my intelligence people, but I will tell you that President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today. My people came to me- [Director of National Intelligence] Dan Coats came to me and […]
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Trump on Russian Interference in the 2016 election, July 16, 2018: ‘There was no collusion at all. Everybody knows it.’” -In remarks after meeting with Putin in Helsinki, Finland, with only their translators present.” -Melissa Etehad, “In His own Conflicting Words,” The Los Angeles Times, July 25, 2018 […]
7/25/2018
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Trump on Russian Interference in the 2016 election, Nov. 11, 2017: ‘He said he didn’t meddle. He said he didn’t meddle. I asked him again. You can only ask so many times. But I just asked him again and he said he absolutely did not meddle in our election. He did […]
7/25/2018
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Trump on Russian Interference in the 2016 election, Sept. 26, 2016: ‘It could be Russia, but it could also be China. It could also be lots of other people. It could also be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds.’ -In a presidential debate with Clinton, speculating about the […]
7/25/2018
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Trump on Russian Interference in the 2016 election: July 27, 2017- ‘No, that’s not what I said, and I was having fun. We were all having fun.’- In an interview with the Detroit News, saying he was joking earlier in the day when he asked Russia to find Clinton’s emails.” –Melissa […]
7/25/2018
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Trump on Russian Interference in the 2016 election: ‘Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 33,000 emails taht are missing. I think you’ll probably be rewarded mightily by our press.’ -At a news conference in Doral, Fla.” -Melissa Etehad, “In His own Conflicting Words,” The Los Angeles […]
7/25/2018
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Trump on Russian Interference in the 2016 election: June 15, 2016-‘We believe it was the DNC that did the ‘hacking’ as a way to distract from the many issues facing their deeply flawed candidate and failed party leader. Too bad the DNC doesn’t hack Crooked Hillary’s 33,000 missing emails.’ -In a […]
7/25/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “President Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, escalated his dispute with the president on Tuesday [7-24-18] by releasing a secret recording of a conversation in which Mr. Trump appears to have knowledge about hush money payments to a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with […]
7/24/2018
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Early one morning in October, Rick Gates, a Washington lobbyist who had been a top official in the Trump campaign, emailed family and friends warning them that he was about to be indicted by the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election. He declared himself innocent of ‘collusion with […]
7/24/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEVIN NUNES/INTELLIGENCE/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/SENATE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr told CNN Tuesday [7-24-18] he believed there were ‘sound reasons’ for judges to approve the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant on former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page, in yet another break between the Republican leaders of the House and Senate intelligence committees…Burr’s […]
7/24/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/ELECTION/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump, a week after downplaying Russian interference in US elections, said Tuesday [7-24-18] he is ‘very concerned’ that Russia will look to impact the 2018 midterm elections and said he believes Moscow will look to boost Democrats this time. Trump offered no evidence for his claim that Russia would […]
7/23/2018
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s legal team has submitted a counteroffer to special counsel Robert Mueller on a possible interview with the president that could allow for questions about collusion with Russia but curtail inquiries related to obstruction of justice. As negotiations for such a sit-down are set to enter their […]
7/23/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A U.S. judge on Monday [7-23-18] delayed the criminal trial of President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort until next week, and made public the identity of five witnesses granted immunity to testify. U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III also said the office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller […]
7/23/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Twelve audio recordings seized from U.S. President Donald Trump’s onetime personal attorney, Michael Cohen, were turned over to federal prosecutors on Friday [7-20-18], according to a filing in federal court in Manhattan on Monday [7-23-18]. They include a recording of a conversation between Cohen and Trump two months before the […]
7/23/2018
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House on Monday 7-23-18] threatened to strip six former U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials, including Obama-era CIA director John Brennan, of their security clearances as President Donald Trump considers striking back at critics of his summit meeting last week with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The threat against Brennan […]
7/23/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump renewed his complaints Monday [7-23-18] about the Russia investigation overseen by special counsel Robert Mueller, and came even closer to instructing law enforcement officials to shut it down. Trump began his venting by writing online that the probe was triggered by a now-infamous dossier of salacious […]
7/22/2018
2016 ELECTION/HILLARY CLINTON/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “So President Obama knew about Russia before the Election. Why didn’t he do something about it? Why didn’t he tell our campaign? Because it is all a big hoax, that’s why, and he thought Crooked Hillary was going to win!!!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 22, 2018 5:23 pm […]
7/22/2018
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “South Carolina Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy on Sunday [7-22-18] called on President Donald Trump to affirm wholeheartedly the intelligence community’s conclusion that Russia attempted to influence the 2016 presidential election. ‘The evidence is overwhelming,’ Gowdy said. ‘It can be proven beyond any evidentiary burden that Russia is not our friend and […]
7/22/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/RUSSIA/SPYGATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday [7-22-18] that documents released by the FBI relating to a former adviser’s ties to Russia showed that his campaign for the 2016 presidential election had been illegally spied upon by U.S. law enforcement, but offered no evidence to support his assertion. In a series […]
7/21/2018
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Rigged Witch Hunt, headed by the 13 Angry Democrats (and now 4 more have been added, one who worked directly for Obama W.H.), seems intent on damaging the Republican Party’s chances in the November Election. This Democrat excuse for losing the ‘16 Election never ends!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July […]
7/21/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/GOP/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Trump administration disclosed on Saturday [7-21-18] a previously top-secret set of documents related to the wiretapping of Carter Page, the onetime Trump campaign adviser who was at the center of highly contentious accusations by Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee that the F.B.I. had abused its surveillance powers. Democrats in […]
7/20/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI//LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Trump’s longtime lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, secretly recorded a conversation with Mr. Trump two months before the presidential election in which they discussed payments to a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with Mr. Trump, according to lawyers and others familiar with the recording. The F.B.I. […]