2016 ELECTION/FBI/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “U.S. President Donald Trump’s longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen, secretly recorded a conversation with Trump before the 2016 presidential election in which they discussed payments to a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with Trump, the New York Times reported on Friday [7-20-18]. The newspaper, citing lawyers and […]
Category: 2016 Election
7/20/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/RUSSIA/SANCTIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Russian President Vladimir Putin’s request to U.S. President Donald Trump for a joint investigation of former U.S. officials sought by the Kremlin for ‘illegal activities,’ including a U.S. ambassador to Russia, is just the latest effort in a years-long campaign to undermine a U.S. law that imposes financial sanctions on Putin’s […]
7/20/2018
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/MIKE POMPEO/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday [7-19-18] he believes that Russia will try to undermine democracies around the world for the foreseeable future…Pompeo’s comments came just days after President Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin one-on-one in Helsinki. Trump provoked furor in Washington when, standing beside […]
7/19/2018
2016 ELECTION/CONGRESS/DEMS/GOP/RUSSIA/SANCTIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Republicans in Congress on Thursday [7-19-18] blocked a series of measures put forward by lawmakers — largely Democratic — desperate to isolate Republican leaders and publicly rebuke President Trump over his summit meeting with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia this week. In the Senate, Republicans objected to two nonbinding […]
7/19/2018
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump plans to invite President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to visit Washington in the fall, the White House said Thursday [7-19-18] — an invitation that stunned the nation’s top intelligence official, who said he was still groping for details of what the two leaders had discussed in their […]
7/19/2018
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump plans to invite Russian President Vladimir Putin to Washington this autumn, the White House said on Thursday [7-19-18], four days after a summit that led to an uproar in the United States over Trump’s failure to publicly confront Putin for Moscow’s meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. White […]
7/19/2018
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump has asked his national security adviser to invite Russian President Vladimir Putin to visit Washington this fall, the White House said Thursday [7-19-18]. In a tweet, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said that Mr. Trump had ‘agreed to ongoing working level dialogue between the two security council […]
7/19/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/GOP/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said on Thursday [7-19-18] he did not know what happened in the one-on-one meeting in Helsinki between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin that has raised concern among many U.S. lawmakers. Republicans and Democrats in Congress are seeking answers on what agreements […]
7/19/2018
2016 ELECTION/ELECTION/POLLS/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A majority of Americans disapprove of the way President Donald Trump handled the summit in Helsinki with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a new CBS News poll finds. Fifty-five percent of respondents said they disapproved of Trump’s handling of the summit, including 83% of Democrats and 53% of independents. Just 21% of […]
7/19/2018
2016 ELECTION/MEDIA/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump sowed even more confusion on Wednesday [7-18-19] over his recent meeting with President Vladimir V. Putin, insisting after a day of conflicting statements about Russia’s interference in the 2016 election that he had actually laid down the law with Mr. Putin. But that statement was almost completely at odds […]
7/18/2018
2016 ELECTION/ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “U.S. Representative Martha Roby, an Alabama Republican who spurned Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential race, has decisively won a runoff election against a former Democrat-turned-Trump supporter. With 65 of 67 counties reporting, the four-term incumbent in the House of Representatives got 68 percent of the vote compared with 32 percent for […]
7/18/2018
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/MEDIA/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House denied Wednesday [7-18-18] that President Donald Trump said he does not believe that Russia is targeting the United States, despite him directly answering a question about it earlier in the day. Speaking during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, Trump was asked by a reporter if Russia […]
7/18/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/NEW YORK/TRUMP BUSINESS: “New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday [7-18-18] opened the door to a possible criminal case against the Donald J. Trump Foundation with a statement from his counsel that Cuomo was prepared to provide a criminal referral if asked. ‘At Governor Cuomo’s direction, the state stands ready to provide the Attorney […]
7/18/2018
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House struggled on Wednesday [7-18-18] to contain the furor over President Donald Trump’s heavily criticized summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, denying Trump ever meant to say that Moscow was no longer targeting the United States. Trump, facing a political uproar over his failure to confront Putin during their […]
7/18/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/ELECTION/FBI/JAMES COMEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former FBI Director James Comey, a longtime Republican who has clashed with President Donald Trump over the federal Russia probe, urged Americans to vote for Democrats in November congressional elections…Comey was fired in May 2017 over what the Justice Department said was his handling of the FBI investigation into 2016 […]
7/18/2018
2016 ELECTION/JOBS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “3.4 million jobs created since our great Election Victory – far greater than ever anticipated, and only getting better as new and greatly improved Trade Deals start coming to fruition!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 18, 2018 6:33 am […]
7/17/2018
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump said on Tuesday [7-17-18] that he had misspoken a day earlier in Helsinki, Finland, when he appeared to take the word of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia over the conclusion of his own intelligence agencies on Russian election meddling in 2016. On Tuesday, Mr. Trump said he ‘accepts’ […]
7/17/2018
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A day after questioning the U.S. intelligence community’s findings that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election, President Donald Trump reversed course on Tuesday [7-17-18], saying he accepted its conclusion. Mr. Trump, whose comments at his news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki prompted a backlash in Congress and […]
7/17/2018
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump, facing an onslaught of bipartisan fury over his glowing remarks about Vladimir Putin, said more than 24 hours afterward that he had misspoken during his news conference with the autocratic Russian leader. In one of the only times of his presidency he’s admitted to a mistake, Trump said […]
7/17/2018
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It was possible that Vladimir Putin would be the man in a tough spot after his summit meeting Monday [7-16-18] with President Donald Trump. Instead, most of the squirming is being done not by the Russian leader, but by Republicans in Congress, by the American intelligence community and by overseas allies. […]
7/17/2018
2016 ELECTION/JAMES MATTIS/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is open to the possibility of the first talks since 2015 between the defense chiefs of the United States and Russia, a move that would deepen communication between Washington and Moscow, U.S. officials said. The possibility of talks surfaced after Monday’s [7-16-18] controversial summit in […]
7/17/2018
2016 ELECTION/MEDIA/NATO/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [7-17-18] claimed he had a great meeting with Vladimir Putin and lashed out at the media coverage that captured the widespread dismay at his news conference with the Russian president…Trump met with Putin on Monday [7-16-18] for a one-on-one meeting, followed by a remarkable news conference […]
7/17/2018
2016 ELECTION/CONGRESS/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump faced outrage on Tuesday [7-17-18] for his failure to hold Russia accountable for meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, and some U.S. lawmakers threatened action in Congress to punish Moscow and show support for U.S. intelligence agencies. At a joint news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin […]
7/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/FBI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump made one thing clear after his meeting with President Vladimir V. Putin on Monday [7-16-18]: He is willing to take Mr. Putin’s word over those of his own intelligence agencies about whether the Russians tried to fix the 2016 election. Such an admission by a president sworn to be […]
7/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/FBI/GOP/RUSSIA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump stood next to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Monday [7-16-18] and publicly challenged the conclusion of his own intelligence agencies that Moscow interfered in the 2016 presidential election, wrapping up what he called a ‘deeply productive’ summit meeting with an extraordinary show of trust for a […]
7/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/GOP/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Republicans across the ideological spectrum delivered pointed rebukes to President Trump after Monday’s [7-16-18] extraordinary news conference with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, with Speaker Paul D. Ryan admonishing Mr. Trump and declaring, ‘There is no moral equivalence between the United States and Russia.’ Mr. Ryan was joined […]
7/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump, standing beside Russian leader Vladimir Putin, questioned the U.S. intelligence conclusion that Moscow meddled in the 2016 election, a move lawmakers of both parties said was a stunning alignment with an adversary. Mr. Trump said he and the Russian president ‘spent a great deal of time’ discussing the […]
7/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/ELECTORAL COLLEGE/RUSSIA: “The whole concept of that [Russian interference in the 2016 election] came up perhaps a little bit before, but it came out as a reason why the Democrats lost an election — which, frankly, they should have been able to win, because the Electoral College is much more advantageous for Democrats, as […]
7/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Standing side by side with Vladimir Putin, U.S. President Donald Trump refused on Monday {7-16-18] to blame the Russian leader for meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, casting doubt on the findings of his own intelligence agencies and sparking a storm of criticism at home. On a day when he […]
7/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Without consulting the White House, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats decided to reassert the intelligence community’s assessment that Moscow interfered in the 2016 election Monday [7-16-18], publicly breaking with President Donald Trump, who earlier had expressed doubts about that finding over Russian President Vladimir Putin’s denial. Coats faced ‘a choice’ […]
7/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/GOP/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “After President Donald Trump’s stunning news conference Monday [7-16-18] next to Russian President Vladimir Putin, members of Congress — including some powerful Republicans — were quick to rebuke Trump’s performance on the world stage and Trump’s refusal to call Putin out for interfering in the US election. House Speaker Paul Ryan […]
7/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “US President Donald Trump, in a stunning rebuke of the US intelligence community, declined on Monday [7-16-18] to endorse the US government’s assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election, saying he doesn’t ‘see any reason why’ Russia would be responsible. Instead, Trump — standing alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin […]
7/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/GOP/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Top congressional Republicans sharply criticized President Donald Trump Monday [7-16-18] after he cast doubt on Russian interference in the 2016 election during a press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin…Standing next to Mr. Putin, Mr. Trump said he trusted the Russian president’s denial that Moscow had interfered in the 2016 presidential […]
7/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/NATO/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Helsinki summit allowed Russia’s President Putin to stand on an ‘even footing’ with US counterpart Donald Trump, Finnish President Sauli Niinistö told CNN Monday [7-16-18] . In an exclusive interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, Niinistö, who held separate meetings with both men in the Finnish capital, welcomed the dialogue between […]
7/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Monday [7-16-18] publicly questioned the U.S. intelligence conclusion that Moscow interfered in the 2016 presidential election as he stood beside Russian leader Vladimir Putin, after the leaders met for four hours on issues including arms control and the future of Syria. U.S. lawmakers and former administration officials […]
7/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/NATO/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump’s week-long adventure on the world stage in Europe came to a raucous conclusion in Helsinki on Monday [7-16-18], with American allies fuming and confused and Russian President Vladimir Putin literally smiling at his good fortune. Trump’s trip to Belgium, Britain and Finland was marked by his frequent […]
7/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Asked whether he believes his own intelligence agencies, which say that Russia interfered in the 2016 United States election, or Mr. Putin, who denies it, Mr. Trump refused to say, but he expressed doubt about whether Russia was to blame. Mr. Trump raised the matter of Russian electoral meddling, the two […]
7/13/2018
2016 ELECTION/HILLARY CLINTON/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It was one of the more outlandish statements in a campaign replete with them: In a news conference in July 2016, Donald J. Trump made a direct appeal to Russia to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails and make them public…As it turns out, that same day, the Russians — […]
7/13/2018
2016 ELECTION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Justice Department announced indictments against 12 Russian nationals as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, accusing them of engaging in a ‘sustained effort’ to hack Democrats’ emails and computer networks. All 12 defendants are members of the GRU, a […]
7/13/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election indicted 12 Russian intelligence officers on Friday [7-13-18] for hacking the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton presidential campaign. The indictment came just three days before President Trump is planning to meet with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia […]
7/13/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/HILLARY CLINTON/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal grand jury on Friday [7-13-18] charged 12 Russian intelligence officers with hacking Democratic computer networks in 2016, in the most detailed U.S. accusation yet that Moscow meddled in the presidential election to help Republican Donald Trump. The indictment, which alleges a wide-ranging conspiracy involving sophisticated hacking […]
7/12/2018
2016 ELECTION/CONGRESS/FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “An FBI agent whose anti-Trump text messages prompted sharp criticism over his handling of two politically charged investigations, told Congress he never permitted his views to affect his official actions, a claim GOP lawmakers derided. Peter Strzok’s testimony at a joint House committee hearing repeatedly devolved into partisan discord, with […]
7/9/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Michael Cohen, the President’s former fixer and ultimate loyalist, is sending a clear signal to President Donald Trump and his attorney, Rudy Giuliani, that ‘the truth is not you(r) or your client’s friend,’ according to sources with knowledge of Cohen’s thinking. Two sources familiar with Cohen’s thinking say he […]
7/9/2018
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Based on meetings he and other senators just held with Russian leaders in Moscow, Sen. Jerry Moran has a few words of caution for President Donald Trump as he prepares to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin…Moreover, Sen. Moran suggests the president might want to think twice about his plan to […]
7/8/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s attorney, Rudy Giuliani, said Sunday [7-8-18] that he isn’t concerned about Michael Cohen potentially cooperating with federal prosecutors…Giuliani also said that if Cohen tells the truth, ‘we’re home free.’ The comments follow an interview Cohen had with ABC News last week in which he suggested […]
7/5/2018
2016 ELECTION/EU/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump plans to raise the issue of Russia’s ‘malign activity’ in Europe, its efforts to meddle in the 2016 U.S. election and allegations that Moscow possesses banned missile technology in a one-on-one meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin later this month, a senior administration official said Thursday [7-5-18]. […]
7/5/2018
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump and his US delegation intend to raise the issues of arms control, Ukraine, Syria and election meddling during their meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a senior administration told reporters Thursday [7-5-18]. The senior administration official stressed that while US officials have ‘repeatedly’ raised election meddling in meetings […]
7/3/2018
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Breaking with their House Republican counterparts, the Senate Intelligence Committee said Tuesday [7-3-18] that the intelligence community properly concluded in January of last year that Russian President Vladimir Putin was trying to help Donald Trump when Moscow meddled in the 2016 election. The Senate panel released a summary Tuesday of its […]
6/28/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/JAMES COMEY/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Russia continues to say they had nothing to do with Meddling in our Election! Where is the DNC Server, and why didn’t Shady James Comey and the now disgraced FBI agents take and closely examine it? Why isn’t Hillary/Russia being looked at? So many questions, so much corruption!” […]
6/27/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Embattled FBI agent Peter Strzok told lawmakers Thursday in a marathon, closed-door interview that the anti-Trump text messages he exchanged with an FBI lawyer were part of an ‘intimate’ conversation and he did not intend to act on any of the missives, according to Democrats in the meeting. But Republicans […]
6/26/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday [6-26-18] approved a resolution that demands the Justice Department produce the outstanding documents Congress has subpoenaed related to the FBI’s actions during the 2016 election campaign. The resolution, which was spearheaded by House Freedom Caucus leaders Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan, is the latest […]
6/25/2018
2016 ELECTION/BUSINESS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A Russian company accused of helping fund a propaganda operation to sway the 2016 presidential election in Donald Trump’s favor asked a federal judge on Monday [6-25-18] to dismiss charges brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, saying Mueller was unlawfully appointed and lacks prosecutorial authority. Concord Management and Consulting LLC, […]
6/25/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Michael Caputo was facing $130,000 in legal bills with no clear way to pay on the May morning that special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators interviewed him about Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election. Mr. Caputo planned to liquidate his retirement savings and children’s college accounts, and said the size […]
6/15/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump said on Friday [6-15-18] that a new internal Justice Department report proved there had been F.B.I. bias against him ahead of the 2016 presidential election, citing ‘vicious’ texts between investigators and findings that he said illustrated ‘criminal’ behavior by the bureau’s former director. In a wide-ranging interview on […]
6/14/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/JAMES COMEY/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The former F.B.I. director James B. Comey was ‘insubordinate’ in his handling of the investigation of Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential election, a critical Justice Department report has concluded, according to officials and others who saw or were briefed on it. But the report, by the department’s inspector […]
6/14/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/JAMES COMEY/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Justice Department’s internal watchdog found that former FBI Director James Comey’s actions in the Hillary Clinton email investigation were ‘extraordinary and insubordinate’ and flouted the department’s norms but that Comey was not motivated by political bias. The inspector general released a sweeping report Thursday detailing a series […]
6/14/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/JAMES COMEY/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The report that had much of Washington buzzing on Thursday [6-14-18] required 500 pages to outline its findings, but to President Trump, three words mattered most — ‘we’ll stop it.’ Those were the words that a senior F.B.I. agent texted in August 2016 to a colleague who was […]
6/14/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/JAMES COMEY/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT: “A long-awaited watchdog report sharply criticized top officials at the Justice Department and FBI, particularly former FBI Director James Comey, over how they handled the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server, but found no evidence that the probe’s conclusions were affected by bias or other political […]
6/7/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/JAMES COMEY/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT: “Former FBI Director James Comey is about to get dinged in an internal Justice Department review of the agency’s Clinton email probe, and President Donald Trump says he can’t wait. The Justice Department informed the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday the report will be released on June 14. How both […]
5/30/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/GOP/JEFF SESSIONS/RUSSIA/SPYGATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A senior Republican congressman disputed President Donald Trump’s claim that ‘spies’ infiltrated his 2016 campaign, saying that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was conducting a legitimate probe of Russian election meddling. Rep. Trey Gowdy (R., S.C.), who heads the House oversight committee, also said he understood Mr. Trump’s frustration with […]
5/30/2018
2016 ELECTION/CONGRESS/FBI/GOP/JEFF SESSIONS/RUSSIA/SPYGATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A senior Republican congressman disputed President Donald Trump’s claim that ‘spies’ infiltrated his 2016 campaign, saying that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was conducting a legitimate probe of Russian interference in the election. Rep. Trey Gowdy (R., S.C.), who heads the House oversight committee, also said he understood Mr. Trump’s […]
5/30/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A lawyer for U.S. President Donald Trump’s longtime personal attorney, Michael Cohen, on Wednesday [5-30-18] accused adult film actress Stormy Daniels’ lawyer of leaking Cohen’s bank records to the press, calling it a ‘drive-by shooting of my client’s rights.’ The comments by Cohen lawyer Stephen Ryan regarding Daniels’ lawyer, […]
5/29/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “hen it comes to President Trump’s legal health and welfare, few recent events have borne as much potential risk as the extraordinary raids that federal agents conducted last month on Michael D. Cohen, his longtime lawyer and fixer. Seizing boxes of documents and about a dozen cellphones, iPads and computers, […]
5/29/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Republican President Donald Trump broadened his condemnation of the Russia probe with a tweet Tuesday [5-29-18] accusing it of being a partisan exercise that could unfairly tip the midterm elections in favor of Democratic congressional candidates. The ‘angry Democrats’ who are ‘working on the rigged Russia Witch Hunt, will be […]
5/29/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/DONALD JR/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley on Tuesday [5-29-18] pushed back against a Democrat who has accused Donald Trump Jr. of potentially lying in his testimony to the committee, and suggested a different witness may have lied to the panel instead. Grassley, an Iowa Republican, sent a letter to Sen. Chris Coons […]
5/29/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump alleged Tuesday [5-29-18]— without providing any evidence — that special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation will meddle in the midterm elections to benefit Democrats. Trump’s claim is his latest attack on the credibility of the Russia investigation as being politically motivated, though it’s a significant new step in […]
5/25/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Over the last 72 hours, the President of the United States has leaned into a conspiracy theory that goes like this: During the 2016 presidential race, President Barack Obama — via the FBI — placed a ‘spy’ within Trump’s campaign for purely political reasons…There’s a tendency to write this latest Trump […]
5/25/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump suggested Friday [5-25-18] that an FBI informant who made contact with his campaign during the 2016 election was ‘paid a fortune,’ boosting the unsubstantiated allegation a ‘spy’ was implanted in his campaign for political purposes…Trump over the past week has hammered officials in the Department of Justice […]
5/25/2018
2016 ELECTION/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘Everyone knows there was a Spy, and in fact the people who were involved in the Spying are admitting that there was a Spy…Widespread Spying involving multiple people.’ Mollie Hemingway, The Federalist Senior Editor But the corrupt Mainstream Media hates this monster story!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 25, 2018 7:04 am […]
5/25/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Democrats are now alluding to the the concept that having an Informant placed in an opposing party’s campaign is different than having a Spy, as illegal as that may be. But what about an ‘Informant’ who is paid a fortune and who ‘sets up’ way earlier than the Russian Hoax?” […]
5/25/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Can anyone even imagine having Spies placed in a competing campaign, by the people and party in absolute power, for the sole purpose of political advantage and gain? And to think that the party in question, even with the expenditure of far more money, LOST!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 25, 2018 […]
5/24/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Stormy Daniels’ lawyer has renewed efforts to depose President Donald Trump in the porn actress’ legal fight to invalidate a confidentiality agreement she signed days before the 2016 presidential election, according to court documents filed Thursday [5-24-18]. Attorney Michael Avenatti argues that U.S. District Judge S. James Otero should reconsider […]
5/24/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/DEVIN NUNES/FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Senior Justice Department and FBI officials are set to brief lawmakers Thursday [5-24-18] afternoon about a confidential informant used in the early stages of an investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, scrambling to accommodate Democrats who had complained that the briefing would be a GOP-only affair. Late Wednesday […]
5/24/2018
2016 ELECTION/JAMES CLAPPER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Clapper has now admitted that there was Spying in my campaign. Large dollars were paid to the Spy, far beyond normal. Starting to look like one of the biggest political scandals in U.S. history. SPYGATE – a terrible thing!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 24, 2018 7:21 am […]
5/24/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/FBI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Senior U.S. lawmakers attended classified briefings on Thursday [5-24-18] on the FBI’s probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election after President Donald Trump made unsubstantiated claims about a ‘spy’ being used against his campaign, and a top Democrat said afterward he heard nothing to support Trump’s allegation. The briefings […]
5/23/2018
2016 ELECTION/CONGRESS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump accused federal investigators of using a spy inside his campaign, repeating unconfirmed claims and saying it could be one of the ‘biggest political scandals in history!’ The president also gave the scandal a name: ‘SPYGATE.’ But hours later, Mr. Trump slightly backed off the accusations, telling reporters, ‘I […]
5/23/2018
2016 ELECTION/MEDIA/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special counsel Robert Mueller is fighting a drive by media organizations to unseal secret court filings relating to searches and surveillance efforts undertaken as part of the investigation into possible coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia in the 2016 election. While lawyers for President Donald Trump have suggested in […]
5/22/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee is pointing to a recent agreement between Justice Department officials and the White House to investigate the use of a confidential source sent to speak with Trump campaign aides as an attack on the department’s independence…After a meeting at the […]
5/22/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A significant business partner of Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s personal lawyer, has quietly agreed to cooperate with the government as a potential witness, a development that could be used as leverage to pressure Mr. Cohen to work with the special counsel examining Russian interference in the 2016 presidential […]
5/22/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/FBI/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Two Republican lawmakers, and no Democrats, are expected to attend a meeting scheduled for Thursday [5-24-18] to review classified information relating to U.S. President Donald Trump’s suggestion the FBI might have used an informant to gather information on his 2016 election campaign, the White House said on Tuesday [5-22-18]. Trump’s closest […]
5/21/2018
2016 ELECTION/CIA/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump hailed Gina Haspel on Monday [5-21-18] as he swore her in to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, honoring the ‘most elite intelligence professionals on the planet’ even as he accuses the C.I.A. of having orchestrated a conspiracy against him during the 2016 presidential campaign…Mr. Trump’s brief remarks were strikingly different […]
5/21/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEVIN NUNES/FBI/GOP/ROBERT MULLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House brokered an agreement on Monday [5-21-18] with intelligence and law enforcement officials that will allow Republican congressional leaders to view some of the most highly classified information related to the Russia investigation, administration officials said. For months, a small group of lawmakers close to Mr. Trump […]
5/21/2018
2016 ELECTION/DONALD JR/MIDDLE EAST/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Donald Trump Jr., the U.S. president’s eldest son, met in August 2016 with an envoy representing the crown princes of United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. The meeting was first reported by the New York Times on Saturday and confirmed by an attorney representing Trump Jr. The meeting was a […]
5/21/2018
2016 ELECTION/HILLARY CLINTON/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump isn’t over the 2016 election, and Hillary Clinton isn’t either. That’s what she said in a commencement address at Yale. ‘No, I’m not over it,’ she said. ‘I still think about the 2016 election. I still regret the mistakes I made.’ But while Trump continues to goad […]
5/21/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/OBAMA ADMIN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump has wrenched the United States back to the brink of a constitutional showdown after a weekend of rage culminated in his demand for an investigation into claims that the Obama administration inserted a spy in his 2016 campaign. Trump’s power play injected fresh intensity into […]
5/20/2018
2016 ELECTION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Justice Department asked its internal watchdog to examine if there was any impropriety in the counterintelligence investigation of President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, after the president demanded Sunday [5-20-18] that the department investigate the motives behind the inquiry. Earlier Sunday, in one of a series of tweets targeting […]
5/20/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump demanded Sunday [5-20-18] that his Justice Department look into whether it or the FBI spied on his presidential campaign for political reasons…The tweet comes after it was reported that the FBI dispatched a confidential source to speak with some aides to Trump’s presidential campaign about its possible […]
5/19/2018
2016 ELECTION/DONALD JR/MIDDLE EAST/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Three months before the 2016 election, a small group gathered at Trump Tower to meet with Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son. One was an Israeli specialist in social media manipulation. Another was an emissary for two wealthy Arab princes. The third was a Republican donor with a […]
5/18/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/OBAMA ADMIN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump and his supporters are circulating an explosive theory: The FBI, they say, may have planted a mole, or ‘spy,’ inside the 2016 campaign to bring him down. The unverified allegation has lit up conservative media and earned space on Trump’s Twitter feed just as special […]
5/18/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/MEDIA/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Reports are there was indeed at least one FBI representative implanted, for political purposes, into my campaign for president. It took place very early on, and long before the phony Russia Hoax became a ‘hot’ Fake News story. If true – all time biggest political scandal!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 18, […]
5/18/2018
2016 ELECTION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: ‘”Apparently the DOJ put a Spy in the Trump Campaign. This has never been done before and by any means necessary, they are out to frame Donald Trump for crimes he didn’t commit.’ David Asman @LouDobbs @GreggJarrett Really bad stuff!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 18, 2018 5:24 am […]
5/17/2018
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump asserted on Thursday [5-17-17] that federal investigators attempted to infiltrate his 2016 campaign with a confidential informant — a scandalous overreach, he said, that would be ‘bigger than Watergate!’ In some sense, many analysts have said, he is right: Efforts by a hostile foreign power to influence an […]
5/17/2018
2016 ELECTION/LAWSUIT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A lawyer for U.S. President Donald Trump’s campaign on Thursday [5-17-18] rejected as ‘wild speculation’ allegations by three Americans that it conspired with Russians to disseminate their private information from hacked emails to deter them from supporting Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election. A hearing in U.S. District Court for […]
5/17/2018
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TWITTER: “President Donald Trump sarcastically congratulated America Thursday [5-17-18] on the one-year anniversary of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, maintaining that there was no collusion between his campaign and the Russians. ‘Congratulations America, we are now into the second year of the greatest Witch […]
5/17/2018
2016 ELECTION/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office notified a federal court in Virginia on Thursday [5-17-18] it had filed under seal an unredacted memorandum that is expected to shed light on the scope of his wide-ranging probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. The filing, made as part of […]
5/17/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congratulations America, we are now into the second year of the greatest Witch Hunt in American History…and there is still No Collusion and No Obstruction. The only Collusion was that done by Democrats who were unable to win an Election despite the spending of far more money!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May […]
5/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/GOP/RUSSIA/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Republican at the helm of the Senate’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election backed on Wednesday the assessment by American intelligence agencies that Moscow favored Donald J. Trump in the race, contradicting both the president and fellow Republicans in the House. Senator Richard M. Burr of North […]
5/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Within hours of opening an investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia in the summer of 2016, the F.B.I. dispatched a pair of agents to London on a mission so secretive that all but a handful of officials were kept in the dark. Their assignment, which has not been previously […]
5/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/GOP/ROBERT MUELLER/SENATE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A GOP-led Senate committee backed U.S. intelligence agencies’ finding that Moscow tried to boost Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign by hacking and spreading misinformation, a bipartisan conclusion that breaks with a House panel’s position and the president’s rejection of the notion that Russia wanted him to win. The Senate Intelligence […]
5/15/2018
2016 ELECTION/CIA/RAND PAUL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Rand Paul has one last question for CIA director nominee Gina Haspel: Was she at all involved with any surveillance of President Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign? The Kentucky senator sent Haspel a letter on Tuesday [5-15-18] laying out his suspicions. The missive amounts to a last-minute effort […]