2016 ELECTION/DONALD JR/RUSSIA/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump Jr. struck an unapologetic tone during hours of congressional questioning last year, saying he didn’t think there was anything wrong with meeting a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower ahead of the 2016 presidential election or that the get-together might have been part of a Russian government effort to […]
Category: 2016 Election
5/11/2018
2016 ELECTION/JAMES COMEY/RUSSIA/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former FBI Director James Comey is skipping a closed-door Senate hearing next week to discuss the intelligence community’s findings about Russian interference in the 2016 elections…Comey was among four former intelligence community leaders invited to attend the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing. The other three, former National Intelligence Director James Clapper, […]
5/4/2018
2016 ELECTION: “We ran a great campaign. We won easily. We won that easily: 306 [electoral votes] to — I think, it was 223. We won it easily. That was a great victory. That was a great day for this country.” -Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump Before Marine One Departure,” whitehouse.gov, May 4, 2018 […]
5/2/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Ty Cobb, the top White House lawyer representing President Donald Trump in the Russia investigation, is leaving his role at the end of the month, the White House said Wednesday [5-2-18]. Mr. Cobb will be replaced on the legal team by Emmet Flood, according to a person familiar with the […]
5/1/2018
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump on Tuesday [5-1-18] said it was ‘disgraceful’ that questions the special counsel would like to ask him were publicly disclosed, and he incorrectly noted that there were no questions about collusion. The president also said collusion was a ‘phony’ crime. While Mr. Trump is right that the word […]
4/27/2018
2016 ELECTION/HOUSE OF REPS/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee found no evidence during a monthslong investigation that the Trump campaign aided Russia’s election meddling, the lawmakers concluded in a 250-page report released on Friday [4-27-18] that assails President Trump’s political rivals and criticizes the F.B.I. and the intelligence community for their responses […]
4/27/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has lost his lawsuit claiming that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and special counsel Robert Mueller exceeded their authority in charging him with alleged crimes that he says have nothing to do with the 2016 campaign. A judge said Friday [4-27-18] that Manafort […]
4/27/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign manager indicted on tax and lobbying charges, lost his bid Friday [4-27-18] to restrict special counsel Robert Mueller through a civil lawsuit. The order dismissed a civil case Mr. Manafort had brought alleging that the Justice Department had exceeded its authority in establishing […]
4/27/2018
2016 ELECTIONS/CONGRESS/GOP/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Russia ran an information warfare campaign to disrupt the 2016 U.S. presidential election, but there is no evidence that President Donald Trump’s campaign colluded with Moscow, Republicans on a congressional panel said in a report released on Friday [4-27-18]. The findings of majority Republicans on the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence […]
4/25/2018
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A former Donald Trump campaign aide with connections to Moscow is getting help to pay what he says are mounting legal fees tied to the Russia investigations. Associates of Michael Caputo have set up a new fund to help cover some of Caputo’s $125,000 in estimated costs connected to being a witness […]
4/24/2018
2016 ELECTION/JEFF SESSIONS/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Justice Department reiterated on Tuesday [4-24-18] that Attorney General Jeff Sessions was not overseeing any investigations related to the 2016 presidential election, following a report that Sessions has not recused himself from the inquiry into Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s longtime personal attorney…Sessions had declined to recuse himself from […]
4/20/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/LAWSUIT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Democratic National Committee sued the Russian government, the Trump campaign and the antisecrecy group WikiLeaks on Friday [4-20-18], accusing them of conspiring to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. The lawsuit alleges a wide-ranging conspiracy ahead of the election to hack into the DNC’s computer network and strategically leak the […]
4/20/2018
2016 ELECTION/LAWSUIT/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A federal judge in California said Friday [4-20-18] that he needed to hear from President Donald Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen directly before deciding whether to issue a stay in a civil lawsuit involving porn star Stormy Daniels. Daniels wants to void a contract she signed days before the 2016 general […]
4/19/2018
2016 ELECTION/HILLARY CLINTON/JAMES COMEY/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT: “A long-awaited U.S. Justice Department internal watchdog report on former FBI chief James Comey’s public disclosures on Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary of state and whether FBI employees leaked information to try to hurt her 2016 presidential bid is expected to be issued next month. […]
4/18/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Trump, confronting legal threats on multiple sides, sought on Wednesday [4-18-18] to discredit a pornographic actress alleging a sexual encounter with him and investigators examining whether his campaign worked with Russia to sway the 2016 election, saying both were dealing in fake allegations. Mr. Trump turned to Twitter early Wednesday […]
4/18/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “The tabloid news company American Media Inc. agreed to let a former Playboy model out of a contract that had kept her from talking freely about an alleged affair with Donald J. Trump. The settlement agreement, reached on Wednesday [4-18-18], ends a lawsuit brought by the model, Karen McDougal, and […]
4/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/JAMES COMEY/MEDIA/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former FBI Director James Comey said he believes ‘it’s possible’ that Russia has compromising information on President Donald Trump…Comey was fired by the President last year in the midst of the FBI’s investigation into whether Trump’s campaign associates colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 election. When he was still […]
4/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/GOP/JAMES COMEY/MEDIA/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump, his White House staff and the Republican National Committee escalated their attacks on Monday [4-16-18] against the former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation who called Trump a ‘morally unfit’ leader in an interview. James Comey, who was fired by Trump last year amid an […]
4/15/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Another white collar lawyer has turned down the opportunity to represent President Donald Trump, citing an unidentified conflict, as the President struggles to add to the legal team representing him in the special counsel investigation. People close to Trump contacted New York attorney Steven Molo, a former prosecutor who specializes […]
4/12/2018
2016 ELECTION/JEFF SESSIONS/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former federal prosecutor Joseph diGenova, who was set to join President Donald Trump’s legal team, on Wednesday [4-11-18] night called for the firing of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, telling Fox News that Attorney General Jeff Sessions has an obligation to dismiss his second in command. DiGenova joins a […]
4/12/2018
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly slammed a federal probe into possible collusion between Moscow and his presidential election campaign as a ‘witch hunt,’ said on Thursday [4-12-18] he backed a ‘cooperative’ approach to the investigation…Mueller has been tasked with looking into allegations of Russian meddling in the 2016 […]
4/11/2018
2016 ELECTION/CONGRESS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A bipartisan group of senators will introduce legislation on Wednesday [4-11-18] to protect the office of the special counsel, one day after the White House said U.S. President Donald Trump had the authority to fire a special prosecutor investigating Russia and the 2016 election. Robert Mueller, the special counsel, is […]
4/10/2018
2016 ELECTION/JEFF SESSIONS/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump ‘believes he has the power to’ fire special counsel Robert Mueller, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Tuesday [4-10-18]… She did not suggest Trump would be moving to fire Mueller. Under the special counsel regulations, Mueller may be ‘disciplined or removed from office only by […]
4/9/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “The F.B.I. on Monday [4-9-18] raided the office of President Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, seizing records related to several topics including payments to a pornographic-film actress. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan obtained the search warrant after receiving a referral from the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, […]
4/9/2018
2016 ELECTION/JEFF SESSIONS/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions has become famous for his ability to weather blistering critiques from the White House like the one President Trump delivered Monday [4-9-18] when he told reporters he wished he had ‘a different attorney general.’ In response to repeated attacks from the president over his decision to […]
4/9/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Thousands of pages of internal FBI documents related to bureau’s decisions emanating from the 2016 election were delivered to congressional investigators Monday [4-9-18], officials said — the latest document handover in a six-month-old probe that has proved frustrating for Republicans up to President Donald Trump. The delivery comes amid a […]
4/6/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The man sat at a restaurant table, grasping a glass of white wine. His sandy hair was close cropped, he wore a cardigan sweater and in the afternoon bustle he looked like just another office worker at lunch…Yet in Washington these days, the man, Konstantin V. Kilimnik, has turned up in […]
4/6/2018
2016 ELECTION/CONGRESS/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration imposed new sanctions on seven of Russia’s richest men and 17 top government officials on Friday [4-6-18] in the latest effort to punish President Vladimir V. Putin’s inner circle for interference in the 2016 election and other Russian aggressions. The sanctions are designed to penalize some of Russia’s […]
4/5/2018
2016 ELECTIONS/CONGRESS/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Corey Lewandowski had a blunt message for Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee: He wasn’t going to answer their ‘fucking’ questions. Lewandowski, President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, was the final witness in the yearlong House investigation that descended into vitriol and back-biting — ultimately resulting in two separate partisan […]
5/5/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel investigating Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, transformed this week what has appeared to be a weakness — his relative lack of independence — into a strength. Since he was appointed in May by Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, the […]
4/4/2018
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/SANCTIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s administration is expected to sanction ‘several’ Russian oligarchs with ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin over 2016 election interference, according to two senior administration officials. The officials said the sanctions will likely come later this week. The planned sanctions would be the latest public step the US has […]
4/4/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s legal team has been told in recent weeks that special counsel Robert Mueller does not consider Trump a target in his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, but he’s more than a witness, sources familiar with the matter tell CNN. The issue came up in […]
4/3/2018
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special counsel Robert Mueller’s office netted its first prison sentence on Tuesday [4-3-18] and disclosed a memo showing it had been explicitly authorized to look beyond the presidential election, bringing into sharper focus its wide-ranging probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 election. A lawyer who admitted to lying to […]
4/3/2018
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A lawyer who pleaded guilty to lying to federal investigators probing alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election was sentenced Tuesday [4-4-18] to 30 days in prison and a $20,000 fine. Alex van der Zwaan admitted in February he had misled investigators about his last contact with former Trump campaign aide […]
4/3/2018
2016 ELECTION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Robert Mueller, the U.S. Justice Department’s special counsel, is specifically authorized to investigate allegations that Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, colluded with Russia to interfere with the 2016 presidential election, a court filing showed late on Monday [4-2-18]. The court documents also show that Mueller […]
3/30/2018
2016 ELECTION/BUSINESS/ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Two days after Donald J. Trump won the 2016 election, executives at Google consoled their employees in an all-staff meeting broadcast around the world…Sixteen months later, Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has most likely saved billions of dollars in taxes on its overseas cash under a new tax law signed by Mr. […]
3/30/2019
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “An American academic who supports U.S. President Donald Trump and is a strong advocate of Britain’s exit from the European Union will testify next month before the federal grand jury considering evidence in the investigation into possible collusion between Trump’s 2016 election campaign and Russia.Theodore Malloch, the author of […]
3/29/2018
2016 ELECTION/BUSINESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “In July, David J. Pecker, the chairman of the company that owns The National Enquirer, visited his old friend President Trump at the White House. The tabloid publisher took along a special guest, Kacy Grine, a French businessman who advises one of Saudi Arabia’s richest men and sometimes acts as […]
3/29/2018
2016 ELECTION/GOP/JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Justice Department’s inspector general, facing increasing political pressure from Republicans in Congress and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, said on Wednesday [3-28-18] that his office would investigate the surveillance of a former Trump campaign official. The announcement came amid a stream of attacks in recent months from the White […]
3/29/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEVIN NUNEZ/GOP/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Devin Nunes had recently graduated from the tiny College of the Sequoias when he won his first election, defeating a popular incumbent on the college’s board of trustees. That election marked the start of a political rise by the young Republican from dairy farmer to chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, […]
3/28/2018
2016 ELECTION/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “An attorney for Stormy Daniels filed a motion Wednesday [3-28-18] seeking to question President Donald Trump and his attorney under oath about a pre-election payment to the porn actress aimed at keeping her quiet about an alleged tryst with Trump. If successful, it would be the first deposition of a […]
3/28/2018
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A top Trump campaign official had repeated communications during the final weeks of the 2016 presidential race with a business associate tied to Russian intelligence, according to a document released on Tuesday 3-27-18] by the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the election. The campaign official, Rick Gates, had […]
3/28/2018
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A Trump campaign adviser was in touch in the fall of 2016 with a person he said was a Russian former spy, special counsel Robert Mueller’s office said in a court filing that links cases against top former Trump aides with the wider probe into Moscow’s election meddling. Richard Gates, […]
3/28/2018
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A Trump campaign adviser was in touch in the weeks before the 2016 election with a person he said was a Russian former spy, a lawyer who worked with both men told special counsel Robert Mueller’s office. Richard Gates, the campaign adviser, told London-based lawyer Alex van der Zwaan […]
3/27/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/GOP/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A Republican senator behind a bill to protect Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s job joined his Democratic co-author on Tuesday [3-27-18] in a bipartisan call for President Donald Trump to let Mueller’s investigation proceed ‘without impediment.’ Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) aligned with Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) after weeks of downplaying […]
3/27/2018
2016 ELECTION/CYBERWAR/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A Cambridge Analytica whistleblower said on Tuesday [3-27-2018] that Canadian company AggregateIQ worked on software called Ripon which was used to identify Republican voters ahead of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. AggregateIQ did not immediately respond to request for comment on the remarks by Christopher Wylie, a whistleblower formerly of British […]
3/26/2018
2016 ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A fierce internal rivalry is unfolding at the White House over the communications director job, with some aides warning they will quit depending on whom President Donald Trump chooses to fill the post. No senior position in the White House has seen as much volatility as communications director. Four people […]
3/25/2018
2016 ELECTION/WOMEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former adult-movie star Stephanie Clifford said she accepted $130,000 in 2016 to keep silent about an alleged sexual encounter with now-President Donald Trump because she feared for her family’s safety. In a televised interview on ’60 Minutes’ that aired Sunday [3-25-18], Ms. Clifford said she was threatened by a man in […]
3/23/2018
2016 ELECTION/CYBERWAR/DEMS/GOP/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Friday [3-23-2018] promoted the House Intelligence Committee’s findings on Russian meddling in the 2016 election as a way to vindicate himself from the investigation into potential collusion between his campaign and Russia…The committee voted along party lines Thursday [3-22-18] to release the Republican report on Russian meddling, […]
3/22/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. House Intelligence Committee voted on Thursday [3-22-18] to release a Republican report on the panel’s Russia probe, the leader of the investigation said, a decision that formally ends its examination of Russia and the 2016 U.S. election.The Republican report found no evidence of collusion between President Donald […]
3/21/2018
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The U.S. has made significant strides in better protecting the election system after a Russian campaign of hacking and misinformation during the 2016 election, the Trump administration’s Homeland Security chief Congress on Wednesday [3-21-18]. Kirstjen Nielsen, the secretary of Homeland Security, testified to the Senate Intelligence Committee that information sharing […]
3/21/2018
2016 ELECTION/CYBERWAR/DHS/NATIONAL SECURITY: “The Trump administration’s Homeland Security chief told Congress on Wednesday [3-21-18] that the U.S. government has made significant strides in better protecting the election system after a Russian campaign of hacking and misinformation during the 2016 election. Kirstjen Nielsen, the secretary of Homeland Security, testified to the Senate Intelligence Committee that information […]
3/20/2018
2016 ELECTION/GOP/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Republican congressional leaders said Tuesday [3-20-18] that special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into meddling by Russia in the U.S. election should be allowed to continue unimpeded, after stepped-up attacks from President Donald Trump raised concerns he would move to end the probe. ‘The special counsel should be free to follow […]
3/19/2018
2016 ELECTION/GOP/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT:“President Trump on Sunday [3-18-18] abandoned a strategy of showing deference to the special counsel examining Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election, lashing out at what he characterized as a partisan investigation and alarming Republicans who feared he might seek to shut it down. Mr. Trump has long suggested that […]
3/19/2018
2016 ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A total WITCH HUNT with massive conflicts of interest!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Mar. 19, 2018 08:07am […]
3/17/2018
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/ROBERT MULLER/RUSSIA: “The Mueller probe should never have been started in that there was no collusion and there was no crime. It was based on fraudulent activities and a Fake Dossier paid for by Crooked Hillary and the DNC, and improperly used in FISA COURT for surveillance of my campaign. WITCH HUNT!” -Donald Trump, […]
3/15/2018
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP BUSINESS/UAE: “The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, has subpoenaed the Trump Organization in recent weeks to turn over documents, including some related to Russia, according to two people briefed on the matter. The order is the first known instance of the special counsel demanding records directly related to President Trump’s businesses, […]
3/15/2018
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Special Counsel Robert Mueller has subpoenaed the Trump Organization for documents related to his investigation into whether Donald Trump’s associates colluded with Russia’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, according to a person familiar with the matter. The Trump Organization has been voluntarily producing documents to the special counsel […]
3/15/2018
2016 ELECTION/CYBERWAR/RUSSIA/TREASURY: “The Trump administration on Thursday [3-15-18] issued for the first time sanctions against Russia for meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential elections and for cyberattacks, targeting the Kremlin’s intelligence agencies and individuals indicted by special counsel Robert Mueller for their role in election interference. In sanctioning five entities and 19 individuals, the U.S. […]
3/15/2018
2016 ELECTION/CYBERWAR/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/STEVE MNUCHIN/TREASURY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UK: “The Trump administration on Thursday [3-15-18] issued for the first time sanctions against Russia for meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and for cyberattacks, targeting the Kremlin’s intelligence agencies and individuals indicted by special counsel Robert Mueller for their role in election interference. In sanctioning five entities […]
3/13/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA: “Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee said Tuesday [3-13-18] that they are drafting their own report on Russian interference in the 2016 election, ending any chance of reaching a bipartisan conclusion with Republicans on the panel. Democrats released a memo on Tuesday evening arguing that the Republican-led investigation is being prematurely […]
3/12/2018
2016 ELECTION/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Republican lawmakers on the House Intelligence Committee have drafted a report saying the panel’s yearlong probe into Russian election interference found no evidence that Moscow colluded with Donald Trump’s campaign or that the Kremlin favored Mr. Trump in the 2016 race. The panel found ‘bad judgment’ and some ‘inappropriate […]
3/12/2018
2016 ELECTION/HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “THE HOUSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE HAS, AFTER A 14 MONTH LONG IN-DEPTH INVESTIGATION, FOUND NO EVIDENCE OF COLLUSION OR COORDINATION BETWEEN THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN AND RUSSIA TO INFLUENCE THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Mar. 12, 2018 07:49pm […]
3/9/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s lawyers are seeking to negotiate a deal with special counsel Robert Mueller that uses an interview with the president as leverage to spur a conclusion to the Russia investigation, according to a person familiar with the discussions. The president’s legal team is considering telling Mr. Mueller that Mr. […]
3/9/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE/SAM NUNBERG: “Former Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg, who threatened earlier this week to defy a subpoena from special counsel Robert Mueller, showed up Friday [3-9-18] morning at the federal courthouse in Washington, where he appeared set to answer prosecutors’ questions in the ongoing probe of alleged collusion between Trump aides and […]
3/9/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEAKS/MEDIA/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA: “Special counsel Robert Mueller and his prosecutors aren’t talking to the media, but still the leaks keep coming. In the past two weeks, anonymously sourced news reports have said the top federal Russia investigator is preparing to indict Russians for hacking Democratic emails in 2016; focusing on why one of President Donald […]
3/8/2018
2016 ELECTION/JOHN KELLY/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA: “White House chief of staff John Kelly has warned President Donald Trump to be careful about talking to witnesses in the Russia investigation, a White House official told CNN on Thursday [3-8-18]… This official described the President’s discussion with Priebus as appropriate… But this official made it clear that the President’s […]
3/7/2018
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “One appointee went from ‘battleground states’ director for the Trump presidential campaign to a role at the State Department that sent him to South Africa to meet with health officials… And another, who spent four months on the campaign in New York after graduating from college, landed a job as […]
3/7/2018
2016 ELECTION/CYBERWAR/RUSSIA: “All the Facebook account Black4Black asked for was some personal information about Ajah Hales and other Cleveland-area small-business owners. In exchange, she was told her cosmetics company, and her fellow African-American entrepreneurs, would receive free promotion on social media and in a new and influential directory of black-owned businesses… The fake directory is […]
3/6/2018
2016 ELECTION/CYBERWAR/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said Tuesday [3-6-18] that Russia had ‘no impact on our votes’ in the 2016 presidential contest but vowed to combat any attempts to meddle in the 2018 midterms. It was Trump’s most forceful attempt to date at dissuading Russia from continuing its election interference efforts, though he again […]
3/6/2018
2016 ELECTION/CYBERWAR/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The top U.S. intelligence official said on Tuesday [3-6-18] President Donald Trump’s administration is ‘actively engaged’ in efforts to prevent Russian efforts to influence the November midterm elections, even as he warned of Moscow’s continuing ‘malign activities.’… Coats and other U.S. intelligence officials have warned repeatedly that Russia is already trying […]
3/5/2018
2016 ELECTION/BEN CARSON/HUD: “Before Ben Carson accepted President Trump’s offer to become secretary of housing and urban development, a friend implored him to turn down the job to preserve the reputation he had earned as a brilliant neurosurgeon and lost, in part, as a politician. The confidant, Logan Delany Jr., who was the treasurer of […]
3/5/2018
2016 ELECTION/CYBERWAR/OBAMA ADMIN/RUSSIA: “Why did the Obama Administration start an investigation into the Trump Campaign (with zero proof of wrongdoing) long before the Election in November? Wanted to discredit so Crooked H would win. Unprecedented. Bigger than Watergate! Plus, Obama did NOTHING about Russian meddling.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Mar. 5, 2018 08:22am […]
3/1/2018
2016 ELECTION/GOP/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A top Republican fundraiser close to President Donald Trump was in negotiations to earn tens of millions of dollars if the U.S. Justice Department dropped its investigation into a multibillion-dollar graft scandal involving a Malaysian state investment fund, according to emails reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. In emails dated […]
3/1/2018
2016 ELECTION/CYBERWAR/ENERGY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A Russian-backed propaganda group used social media in an attempt to disrupt the U.S. energy industry and influence energy policy, according to a new congressional staff report reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. Unlike other Russian campaigns to stir political unrest in the U.S., this effort by the tech-savvy Internet Research […]
2/28/2018
2016 ELECTION/INTERIOR/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A political appointee at the Department of Interior resigned Wednesday after CNN’s KFile flagged inflammatory comments she made on Facebook and Twitter. Christine Bauserman, a former Republican activist in Arizona who also worked for President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, served as a special assistant to Secretary Ryan Zinke, providing him operational […]
2/27/2018
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “White House Communications Director Hope Hicks, testifying before a House committee investigating Russia’s role in the 2016 election, discussed the presidential campaign but declined to answer questions about her work as one of President Donald Trump’s most trusted advisers, lawmakers said. After hearing her refusal, Democrats on the House Intelligence […]
2/27/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Tuesday [2-27-18] that the Justice Department’s internal watchdog will investigate how the FBI and federal prosecutors obtained warrants from the nation’s secret spy court to surveil a former Trump campaign adviser. His statement came in response to a question at a press conference about whether […]
2/27/2018
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former Donald Trump campaign deputy Rick Gates is quickly discovering that cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller has its advantages. The lead Russia investigator asked a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia Tuesday [2-27-18] to dismiss a series of criminal charges against Gates, including tax and bank fraud, in exchange for his […]
2/27/2018
2016 ELECTION/CYBERWAR/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump has chosen the digital director of his 2016 campaign to lead his 2020 re-election effort, further advancing an unusually early campaign process. The campaign on Tuesday [2-27-18] said Brad Parscale was taking control ‘as the advanced planning for the 2020 race begins.’ Mr. Trump formally filed to run […]
2/27/2018
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Top White House aide Hope Hicks will appear before House investigators Tuesday [2-27-18], and lawmakers say they haven’t been told to expect any restrictions on her testimony in the intelligence panel’s probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Rep. Mike Conaway of Texas, the Republican leading the investigation, said that […]
2/26/2018
2016 ELECTION/REX TILLERSON/RUSSIA/STATE: “The State Department will get $40 million in new funding to fight disinformation from foreign countries, the agency said Monday [2-26-18] in a long-awaited announcement that avoided mentioning Russia by name. The funding for the State Department’s Global Engagement Center had been a source of tension between Secretary of State Rex Tillerson […]
2/25/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A feud flared over the weekend between President Donald Trump and the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee over the release of a Democratic memo defending federal investigators’ handling of surveillance of a former Trump campaign adviser. Rep. Adam Schiff of California accused the White House of delaying the memo’s […]
2/25/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s lawyers are considering ways for him to testify before special counsel Robert Mueller, provided the questions he faces are limited in scope and don’t test his recollections in ways they say could unfairly trap him into perjuring himself, a person familiar with his legal team’s thinking said. […]
2/24/2018
2016 ELECTION/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/ROBERT/UKRAINE: “Former European leaders who tried to bring Ukraine closer to Europe before a 2014 uprising there reacted with shock on Saturday [2-24-18] after a federal indictment accused Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, of secretly paying former European officials some two million euros in 2012 and 2013 to lobby on […]
2/24/2018
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: ” ‘Russians had no compromising information on Donald Trump’ @FoxNews Of course not, because there is none, and never was. This whole Witch Hunt is an illegal disgrace…and Obama did nothing about Russia!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 24, 2018 06:44pm […]
2/24/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA: “After weeks of rumors, it became official Friday afternoon: Rick Gates pleaded guilty to two criminal charges and agreed to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller’s ongoing probe into Russia’s attempted meddling in the 2016 election. Gates, who served as Trump’s deputy campaign chairman for a time in 2016, became the third […]
2/21/2018
2016 ELECTION/POLITICAL FIGURES/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA: “Bernie Sanders on Wednesday [2-21-18] blamed Hillary Clinton for not doing more to stop the Russian attack on the last presidential election. Then his 2016 campaign manager, in an interview with POLITICO, said he’s seen no evidence to support special counsel Robert Mueller’s assertion in an indictment last week that the […]
2/21/2018
2016 ELECTION/OBAMA ADMIN/RUSSIA: “Question: If all of the Russian meddling took place during the Obama Administration, right up to January 20th, why aren’t they the subject of the investigation? Why didn’t Obama do something about the meddling? Why aren’t Dem crimes under investigation? Ask Jeff Sessions!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 21, 2018 09:40am […]
2/21/2018
2016 ELECTION/OBAMA ADMIN/RUSSIA: “Question: If all of the Russian meddling took place during the Obama Administration, right up to January 20th, why aren’t they the subject of the investigation? Why didn’t Obama do something about the meddling? Why aren’t Dem crimes under investigation? Ask Jeff Session!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 21, 2018 09:03am […]
2/20/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA: “An attorney who is the son-in-law of one of Russia’s richest men pleaded guilty Tuesday [2-20-18] to lying to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators as Mr. Mueller’s team continued to aggressively pursue its wide-ranging probe into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election. Alex van der Zwaan, a Dutch national and a former […]
2/20/2018
2016 ELECTION/OBAMA/VOTING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: ” ‘There is no serious person out there who would suggest somehow that you could even rig America’s elections, there’s no evidence that that has happened in the past or that it will happen this time, and so I’d invite Mr. Trump to stop whining and make his case to get […]
2/19/2018
2016 ELECTION/OBAMA/RUSSIA: “Obama was President up to, and beyond, the 2016 Election. So why didn’t he do something about Russian meddling?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 19, 2018 02:55pm […]
2/18/2018
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA: “Thank you to KenStarr, former Independent Counsel, Whitewater, for your insight and powerful words on FISA abuse, Russian meddling etc. Really great interview with @MariaBartiromo” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 18, 2018 12:10pm […]
2/18/2018
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA: “If it was the GOAL of Russia to create discord, disruption and chaos within the U.S. then, with all of the Committee Hearings, Investigations and Party hatred, they have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. They are laughing their asses off in Moscow. Get smart America!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 18, 2018 08:11am […]
2/18/2018
2016 ELECTION/CHINA/RUSSIA: “I never said Russia did not meddle in the election, I said ‘it may be Russia, or China or another country or group, or it may be a 400 pound genius sitting in bed and playing with his computer.’ The Russian ‘hoax’ was that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia – it never […]
2/18/2018
2016 ELECTION/OBAMA ADMIN/RUSSIA: “Finally, Liddle’ Adam Schiff, the leakin’ monster of no control, is now blaming the Obama Administration for Russian meddling in the 2016 Election. He is finally right about something. Obama was President, knew of the threat, and did nothing. Thank you Adam!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 18, 2018 07:22am […]
2/17/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/MCMASTER/RUSSIA: “General McMaster forgot to say that the results of the 2016 election were not impacted or changed by the Russians and that the only Collusion was between Russia and Crooked H, the DNC and the Dems. Remember the Dirty Dossier, Uranium, Speeches, Emails and the Podesta Company!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 17, 2018 […]
2/17/2018
2016 ELECTION/MEDIA/RUSSIA: ” ‘I have seen all of the Russian ads and I can say very definitively that swaying the election was *NOT* the main goal.’ Rob Goldman Vice President of Facebook Ads https://t.co/A5ft7cGJkE” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 17, 2018 03:16pm […]
2/17/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/RUSSIA: “Deputy A.G. Rod Rosenstein stated at the News Conference: ‘There is no allegation in the indictment that any American was a knowing participant in this illegal activity. There is no allegation in the indictment that the charged conduct altered the outcome of the 2016 election.’ “ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 17, 2018 02:36pm […]