2016 ELECTION/MEDIA/RUSSIA: ” ‘Charges Deal Don A Big Win,’ written by Michael Goodwin of the @nypost, succinctly states that ‘the Russians had no impact on the election results.’ There was no Collusion with the Trump Campaign. ‘She lost the old-fashioned way, by being a terrible candidate. Case closed.’ “ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 17, 2018 […]
Category: 2016 Election
2/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/CYBERWAR/FBI/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA: “Three Russian companies and 13 Russian nationals were indicted Friday [2-16-18] on charges of engaging in a widespread effort to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, providing the most comprehensive official account to date of a sweeping, multimillion-dollar effort by Moscow to upend U.S. politics and set Americans against each other. The […]
2/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/RUSSIA: “Russia started their anti-US campaign in 2014, long before I announced that I would run for President. The results of the election were not impacted. The Trump campaign did nothing wrong – no collusion!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 16, 2018 03:18pm […]
2/15/2018
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/LEGAL/STEVE BANNON: “Former White House adviser Steve Bannon drew bipartisan ire on Capitol Hill Thursday [2-15-18] by refusing to answer a range of questions from the House Intelligence Committee, with lawmakers vowing to take more drastic steps to compel his testimony. Mr. Bannon, a onetime confidant of President Donald Trump who has since become […]
2/15/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Michael Cohen, personal lawyer to President Donald Trump, says that a month before the 2016 presidential election he paid $130,000 of his own money to porn star Stormy Daniels, who has in the past alleged she had a sexual encounter with Trump. There is already a pending complaint filed before […]
2/8/2018
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/VOTING: “The Senate Intelligence Committee is drafting a report on vulnerabilities in the U.S. election system that is expected to be released in the coming weeks, according to lawmakers and aides, in what will be the first product of a yearlong investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. The leaders of the Senate […]
2/8/2018
2016 ELECTION/BUSH [W.]/CYBERWAR/RUSSIA: “Former President George W. Bush said Thursday [2-8-18] that there is ‘pretty clear evidence that the Russians meddled’ in the 2016 presidential election, a seeming rebuke of President Donald Trump, who has at times questioned the intelligence community’s assessment that the Kremlin is to blame. ‘Whether (Russia) affected the outcome is another […]
2/7/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/OBAMA/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A text message between two FBI employees from September 2016 released by a Republican senator Wednesday [2-7-18] says that then-President Barack Obama ‘wants to know everything we’re doing.’ What exactly the text refers to isn’t specified in the exchange. Associates of the FBI employees said it refers to preparation to brief […]
2/7/2018
2016 ELECTION/CYBERWAR/REX TILLERSON/RUSSIA/STATE: “Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned that any Russian interference in November’s midterm elections would ‘invite consequences,’ but suggested the United States is still vulnerable to such meddling… Tillerson said the Trump administration is seeing signs of meddling in European elections, as well as elsewhere in the Western Hemisphere, and suggested they […]
2/5/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Lawyers for President Trump have advised him against sitting down for a wide-ranging interview with the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, according to four people briefed on the matter, raising the specter of a monthslong court battle over whether the president must answer questions under oath. His lawyers are […]
2/5/2018
2016 ELECTION/CATER PAGE/DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE: “The House Intelligence Committee on Monday [2-5-18] voted unanimously to release a classified Democratic memo that defends the federal investigation into a Trump campaign associate, a move that gives the White House five days to allow or reject its disclosure. Democrats wrote the 10-page memo as a response to a […]
2/3/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: ” ‘The four page memo released Friday reports the disturbing fact about how the FBI and FISA appear to have been used to influence the 2016 election and its aftermath….The FBI failed to inform the FISA court that the Clinton campaign had funded the dossier….the FBI became… a tool of anti-Trump […]
2/3/2018
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “This memo totally vindicates ‘Trump’ in probe. But the Russian Witch Hunt goes on and on. Their was no Collusion and there was no Obstruction (the word now used because, after one year of looking endlessly and finding NOTHING, collusion is dead). This is an American disgrace!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. […]
2/1/2018
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/CATER PAGE/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA: “Carter Page, who served as a foreign-policy adviser to Donald Trump’s campaign, was known to U.S. counterintelligence officials for years before he became a prominent figure in a dossier of unverified research about the future president’s ties to Russia. The White House is expected to release as early as this week a […]
1/31/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/HILLARY CLINTON: “Top FBI officials were aware for at least a month before alerting Congress that emails potentially related to an investigation of Hillary Clinton had emerged during a key stretch of the 2016 presidential campaign, according to text messages reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe had learned about […]
1/31/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special Counsel Robert Mueller is seeking to interview the former spokesman of President Donald Trump’s legal team as part of an investigation into potential collusion between Russia and Trump’s campaign to sway the 2016 U.S. presidential election, according to a source with knowledge of the matter. Mark Corallo had represented […]
1/30/2018
2016 ELECTION/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/PAUL RYAN: “House Speaker Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) defended Tuesday [1-30-18] the GOP decision to make public a classified Republican-authored memo that alleges surveillance abuses against an associate of President Donald Trump dating to the 2016 campaign… The GOP-led House Intelligence Committee voted Monday night to release the memo, which was drawn […]
1/29/2018
2016 ELECTION/GOP/INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A congressional panel voted on Monday [1-29-18] to make public a classified Republican-authored memo that alleges surveillance abuses against an associate of President Donald Trump dating back to the 2016 campaign. The GOP-led House Intelligence Committee invoked an obscure rule in its effort to release the memo that was drawn from […]
1/29/2018
2016 ELECTION/CARTER PAGE/FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT: “Former Donald Trump campaign adviser Carter Page said Monday [1-29-18] that he wanted more information from the Justice Department before weighing in on a report that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein approved an application to extend a secret surveillance warrant against him early last year. In text messages, Page said he’s […]
1/28/2018
2016 ELECTION/GOP/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT: “A secret, highly contentious Republican memo reveals that Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein approved an application to extend surveillance of a former Trump campaign associate shortly after taking office last spring, according to three people familiar with it. The renewal shows that the Justice Department under President Trump saw reason to […]
1/24/2018
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said Wednesday [1-24-18] he was willing to testify under oath in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, the latest twist in a probe that he has repeatedly denounced as a ‘witch hunt.’ Mr. Trump’s statement was more emphatic than his answer […]
1/23/2018
2016 ELECTION/JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions was questioned for several hours last week by the special counsel’s office as part of the investigation into Russia’s meddling in the election and whether the president obstructed justice since taking office, according to a Justice Department spokeswoman. The meeting marked the first time that investigators […]
1/22/2018
2016 ELECTION/ETHICS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A government-watchdog group filed complaints Monday with the Federal Election Commission and the Justice Department asking the agencies to investigate a $130,000 payment arranged by President Donald Trump’s lawyer to a former adult-film star before the 2016 presidential election. Common Cause, based in Washington, D.C., said the payment, revealed in […]
1/19/2018
2016 ELECTION/HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/POLITICAL FIGURES: “House conservatives are demanding the public release of a memo spearheaded by Rep. Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, detailing allegations of FBI missteps during the 2016 election — a move that Democrats say is an effort to torpedo special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the Trump […]
1/19/2018
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Just signed 702 Bill to reauthorize foreign intelligence collection. This is NOT the same FISA law that was so wrongly abused during the election. I will always do the right thing for our country and put the safety of the American people first!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 19, 2018 03:53pm […]
1/19/2018
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congress is probing the Obama administration’s decision to use research by an ex-British spy to justify, in part, surveillance of an associate of Donald Trump, as Republican scrutiny rises of law-enforcement actions during 2016 presidential campaign. In the final days of the campaign, the Justice Department used information from Christopher […]
1/18/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/NRA/RUSSIA: “The FBI’s Russia investigation has new targets in its sights, a Moscow banker and his friends at the NRA, according to a report. Investigators are looking into whether Alexander Torshin, a deputy at Russia’s central bank, illegally sent money to the National Rifle Association to support the election of President Trump, McClatchy reported […]
1/17/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/STEVE BANNON: “Federal agents have issued a subpoena to former presidential adviser Steve Bannon, who plans to fully cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, a person close to Mr. Bannon said. FBI agents arrived last week at Mr. Bannon’s home in Washington, D.C.’s Capitol Hill […]
1/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/AMBASSADOR/RUSSIA: “A U.S. report detailing new sanctions against Russia will be published on Jan. 29, the TASS news agency cited U.S. Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman as saying on Tuesday [1-16-18]. Washington is expected to impose fresh penalties against Russia for its alleged meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential vote, an allegation Russia has […]
1/11/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Close advisers and friends of President Donald Trump are warning him not to sit for an interview with special counsel Robert Mueller, with some expressing skepticism that there would be any circumstance in which it makes sense to voluntarily submit to an interview, according to multiple sources familiar with the […]
1/11/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/RUSSIA: “Disproven and paid for by Democrats ‘Dossier used to spy on Trump Campaign. Did FBI use Intel tool to influence the Election?’ @foxandfriends Did Dems or Clinton also pay Russians? Where are hidden and smashed DNC servers? Where are Crooked Hillary Emails? What a mess!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 11, 2018 06:33am […]
1/10/2018
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election fits into a nearly two-decade pattern of meddling with governments around the world, and the United States’ response to its brazen attack is being hindered by President Trump, a new report prepared by Senate Democrats concludes. The report, which is to be released on […]
1/10/2018
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA: “The single greatest Witch Hunt in American history continues. There was no collusion, everybody including the Dems knows there was no collusion, & yet on and on it goes. Russia & the world is laughing at the stupidity they are witnessing. Republicans should finally take control!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 10, 2018 10:14am […]
1/9/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s longtime lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, filed a defamation lawsuit on Tuesday [1-9-18] in federal court against Fusion GPS, the firm behind a salacious and largely unsubstantiated dossier that purported to lay out how Russia had aided the Trump campaign. The dossier portrayed Mr. Cohen as a central figure in […]
1/9/2018
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In congressional testimony released Tuesday, a founder of a research firm behind a controversial dossier about Donald Trump provided a detailed account of how the investigation began and how that information ended up in the hands of federal law-enforcement agencies during the 2016 presidential campaign. The 35-page dossier, which contained salacious […]
1/9/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/GOP/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Broadening their political counterattack in defense of the White House, President Donald Trump’s allies in Congress are placing new scrutiny on contacts between top Justice Department officials and reporters covering the Trump-Russia investigation. In recent weeks, GOP congressional investigators have publicly and privately questioned senior Justice Department and FBI leaders […]
1/8/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Anticipating that special counsel Robert Mueller will ask to interview President Donald Trump, the president’s legal team is discussing a range of potential options for the format, including written responses to questions in lieu of a formal sit-down, according to three people familiar with the matter. Lawyers for Trump have […]
1/8/2018
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A former adviser to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign said Monday [1-8-18] that the decision to give White House access to the author of a bombshell book about the Trump administration was a mistake. Michael Caputo told CNN’s ‘New Day’ that Michael Wolff’s book, ‘Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White […]
1/6/2018
2016 ELECTION/DONALD ON DONALD/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump again insisted on Saturday [1-7-18] that he was not under investigation by Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel investigating Russian influence on the 2016 election, adding that ‘there’s been no collusion, there’s been no crime.’ ‘Everything I’ve done is 100 percent proper,’ Mr. Trump said […]
1/4/2018
2016 ELECTION/JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump gave firm instructions in March to the White House’s top lawyer: stop the attorney general, Jeff Sessions, from recusing himself in the Justice Department’s investigation into whether Mr. Trump’s associates had helped a Russian campaign to disrupt the 2016 election. Public pressure was building for Mr. Sessions, […]
1/4/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/VOTER FRAUD: “Many mostly Democrat States refused to hand over data from the 2016 Election to the Commission On Voter Fraud. They fought hard that the Commission not see their records or methods because they know that many people are voting illegally. System is rigged, must go to Voter I.D.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. […]
1/3/2018
2016 ELECTION/MIKE PENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VOTER FRAUD: “President Donald Trump dissolved the commission he created just eight months ago to investigate his unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud in the 2016 election, bringing an end to a panel that had faced resistance from state election officials. Mr. Trump formed the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity in […]
1/3/2018
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, sued the special counsel on Wednesday [1-3-17] and asked a federal court to narrow his authority, escalating Republican efforts to discredit an investigation that has stretched longer than the White House expected. The unusual move comes as Mr. Trump tries to portray the […]
1/3/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/RUSSIA/STEVE BANNON/TRUMP FAMILY/JARED KUSHNER: “In a new book detailing the wild first year of Donald Trump’s presidency, former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is quoted blasting top operatives in the 2016 campaign for their naivete and idiocy in their dealings with the Russians… Of the July 2016 meeting between Donald Trump Jr., Trump […]
1/2/2018
2016 ELECTION/HILLARY CLINTON/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [1-2-18] suggested that Hillary Clinton’s longtime aide, Huma Abedin, should be jailed after the State Department’s release last week of classified emails found on the laptop of Abedin’s estranged husband, Anthony Weiner… The emails to which Trump referred, released last week in response to a […]
12/26/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “WOW, @foxandfrlends ‘Dossier is bogus. Clinton Campaign, DNC funded Dossier. FBI CANNOT (after all of this time) VERIFY CLAIMS IN DOSSIER OF RUSSIA/TRUMP COLLUSION. FBI TAINTED.’ And they used this Crooked Hillary pile of garbage as the basis for going after the Trump Campaign!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Dec. 26, 2017 […]
12/24/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/FBI/HILLARY CLINTON: “.@FoxNews-FBI’s Andrew McCabe, ‘in addition to his wife getting all of this money from M (Clinton Puppet), he was using, allegedly, his FBI Official Email Account to promote her campaign. You obviously cannot do this. These were the people who were investigating Hillary Clinton.’ “ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Dec. 24, 2017 07:25am […]
12/20/2017
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/STEVEN MNUCHIN/TREASURY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Inspector General said late Wednesday [12-20-17] it won’t pursue a request to probe whether Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin should recuse himself from federal investigations into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Democratic lawmakers, public-interest groups and left-leaning nonprofits have questioned in recent […]
12/20/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR: “President Donald Trump’s eldest son suggested Tuesday that the investigation around his father’s campaign has been fueled by government higher-ups who have conspired to block the President’s agenda. ‘There is, and there are, people at the highest levels of government that don’t want to let America be America,’ Donald Trump […]
12/19/2017
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA: “Members of Congress have not made life easy for the leaders of the Justice Department this month, and FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe is next in line for some special attention on Tuesday [12-19-17]. McCabe is set to testify behind closed doors before the House Intelligence Committee as part of its […]
12/18/2017
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/POLITICAL FIGURES/POLITICS/RUSSIA: “The top congressional committee investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election has set its sights on the Green Party and its nominee, Jill Stein. Dennis Trainor Jr., who worked for the Stein campaign from January to August of 2015, says Stein contacted him on Friday saying the Senate Intelligence Committee had […]
12/18/2017
2016 ELECTION/FBI/INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “An FBI agent’s reference to ‘an insurance policy’ in a much-debated text message was meant to convey that the bureau needed to aggressively investigate allegations of collusion between Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia, according to people familiar with his account. The agent didn’t intend to suggest a secret plan to harm […]
12/17/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A lawyer for the Trump transition team said Robert Mueller’s investigators improperly reviewed some emails from transition officials, an allegation that comes amid charges of bias by the special counsel’s probe. The lawyer told Congress in a letter dated Saturday that the government agency that held emails from the transition […]
12/15/2017
2016 ELECTION/FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MICHAEL FLYNN/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “On his way to Quantico, Va., to speak at the FBI’s National Academy, President Trump stopped to tell reporters, ‘It’s a shame what’s happened with the FBI,’ and ‘you have a lot of very angry people that are seeing it.’ Trump asserted that ‘we’re going to rebuild the FBI’ […]
12/14/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special Counsel Robert Mueller has requested that Cambridge Analytica, a data firm that worked for President Donald Trump’s campaign, turn over documents as part of its investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election, according to people familiar with the matter. Mr. Mueller asked the firm in the fall […]
12/12/2017
2016 ELECTION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA: “A career Justice Department lawyer who has specialized in organized-crime issues was recently transferred from the deputy attorney general’s office to another division because he failed to inform officials of a September 2016 meeting with the author of a controversial dossier on then-candidate Donald Trump, people familiar with the matter said. Bruce […]
12/6/2017
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR: “President Donald Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., returned to Congress on Wednesday [12-6-17] to face questions from lawmakers about alleged Russian efforts to influence the 2016 U.S. election and possible collusion with Moscow by his father’s presidential campaign. Trump arrived shortly before 10 a.m. EST (1500 GMT) for what was […]
12/4/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, and an associate with ties to Russian intelligence drafted an op-ed article last week about Mr. Manafort’s work for Russia-aligned interests in Ukraine, according to a court document filed Monday [12-4-17] by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III. The filing seeks tougher […]
12/3/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A conservative operative trumpeting his close ties to the National Rifle Association and Russia told a Trump campaign adviser last year that he could arrange a back-channel meeting between Donald J. Trump and Vladimir V. Putin, the Russian president, according to an email sent to the Trump campaign. A May 2016 […]
11/30/2017
2016 ELECTION/GOP/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump over the summer repeatedly urged senior Senate Republicans, including the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, to end the panel’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, according to a half dozen lawmakers and aides. Mr. Trump’s requests were a highly unusual intervention from a president into a […]
11/30/2017
2016 ELECTION/HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/JEFF SESSIONS/LEGAL/RUSSIA: “U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions met behind closed doors on Thursday [11-30-17] with members of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee as it investigates possible Russian efforts to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election. He was expected to spend at least two hours in the interview. The panel is among […]
11/29/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/FOREIGN POLICY/RUSSIA: “The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee has asked four foreign policy advisers to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign for documents about their contacts with Russians and discussions about Russia. Senator Dianne Feinstein on Tuesday sent letters to former Trump campaign advisers Carter Page, Sam Clovis, J.D. Gordon, and Walid Phares […]
11/26/2017
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Since the first day I took office, all you hear is the phony Democrat excuse for losing the election, Russia, Russia,Russia. Despite this I have the economy booming and have possibly done more than any 10 month President. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 26, 2017 04:29pm […]
11/22/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Here is a look, by the numbers, at all the known contacts between Trump associates and Russians. From meetings to emails, to text messages and Skype sessions, these lists have been growing throughout the year as more details drip out in the investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 US […]
11/16/2017
2016 ELECTION/CARTER PAGE/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA: “Former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page on Thursday [11-16-17] delivered subpoenaed documents he described as ‘irrelevant and unnecessary’ to two congressional committees investigating alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Page, an oil industry consultant with numerous contacts in Russia, told Reuters in a text message that he delivered the documents […]
11/16/2017
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team is preparing to interview the woman who’s seen it all: Hope Hicks. She’s been part of Donald Trump’s inner circle for years, first at Trump Tower and then as an omnipresent gatekeeper and fixer who could get emails or other communications directly to the boss during […]
11/15/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee rejected Republican efforts to discredit a raw-intelligence document compiled on Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign, saying that its allegations that Russia sought to help elect Mr. Trump ‘turned out to be true.’ In a Wall Street Journal interview Wednesday [11-15-17], Rep. Adam […]
11/14/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/JEFF SESSIONS/LEGAL/RUSSIA: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Tuesday [11-14-17] that he now recalls a 2016 meeting with a Trump campaign adviser at which the aide spoke about contacts with Russians, after earlier saying he knew of no such contacts. Mr. Sessions’ comments, in an appearance before the House Judiciary Committee, highlighted the challenges facing […]
11/14/2017
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR: “Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.) said Tuesday [11-14-17] that he is still deciding whether to hold a public hearing with Donald Trump Jr. as part of the panel’s probe into whether any associates of the president colluded with Russians in the 2016 election… Hearing from President Donald Trump’s eldest […]
11/14/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/JEFF SESSIONS/LEGAL/RUSSIA: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions faced a fresh round of lawmaker questions on Tuesday [11-14-17] about the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russian officials, as well as about Republican lawmakers’ earlier inquiries about Hillary Clinton. The morning oversight hearing of the Justice Department by the House Judiciary Committee touched on several topics including questions […]
11/14/201
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “One year after helping President Donald Trump win the election and earning more than $15 million from a dozen political candidates and committees, the data firm Cambridge Analytica doesn’t have any U.S. political clients, according to an analysis of Federal Election Commission records. Research firms that work with winning campaigns usually […]
11/13/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR: “Donald Trump Jr. was in communication during the 2016 campaign with WikiLeaks, the online operation that last year published a trove of damaging Democratic emails that the U.S. intelligence community concluded were stolen by Russian hackers, according to an email obtained by The Wall Street Journal. On Sept. 20, […]
11/12/2017
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A day after he called three former heads of U.S. intelligence agencies ‘political hacks,’ President Donald Trump said he had full confidence in the agencies and indicated he believed their report that concluded Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election. But the president’s shift in tone failed to mollify the targets […]
11/10/2017
2016 ELECTION/SEAN SPICER: “When former White House press secretary Sean Spicer bragged in an election-night retrospective this week about his central role at Trump Tower that night, some of his former colleagues did something very Spicer-like: They flipped out. In the oral history published Tuesday by GQ Magazine, Spicer recalled of the historic day: ‘A […]
11/7/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A former Trump campaign adviser told Congress he had a private conversation with a Russian deputy prime minister during the 2016 presidential campaign and that at least two members of the president’s team were aware, providing more details to what is publicly known about Moscow’s access to President Trump’s circle, […]
11/7/2017
2016 ELECTION/ATTORNEY GENERAL/JEFF SESSIONS/RUSSIA: “U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions will testify before the House Judiciary Committee about issues facing the Justice Department on Nov. 14, the committee confirmed on Tuesday [11-6-17]. The hearing will take place at 10 a.m. (1500 GMT), it said in a statement. Reuters reported on Monday that the committee would hold […]
11/7/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/CARTER PAGE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s campaign team was briefed before and after foreign-policy adviser Carter Page’s trip to Moscow last year, with Mr. Page saying upon his return that he had gotten ‘incredible insights and outreach’ from senior members of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s administration, newly released testimony reveals. Mr. Page, […]
11/6/2017
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR: “The Russian lawyer who met last year with senior members of the Trump campaign said Donald Trump Jr. told her at the meeting that a Trump administration would be willing to review a 2012 sanctions law. Natalia Veselnitskaya, the lawyer who attended the meeting, made her comments from Moscow in an […]
11/6/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A U.S. District judge again declined to ease bail conditions for President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort and his business associate Richard Gates on Monday [11-6-17], saying they still needed to provide more financial information. Judge Amy Berman Jackson said she was concerned about some of the $12 million […]
11/6/2017
2016 ELECTION/CYBERWAR/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Kremlin-backed support for Donald Trump’s candidacy over social media began much earlier than previously known, a new analysis of Twitter data shows. Russian Twitter accounts posing as Americans began lavishing praise on Mr. Trump and attacking his rivals within weeks after he announced his bid for the presidency in June 2015, […]
11/5/2017
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/HILLARY CLINTON: “Donna Brazile, the former Democratic National Committee interim leader, stood by her assertions in a new book that she considered replacing Hillary Clinton as the party’s nominee late in the 2016 presidential race, continuing an intraparty feud that some of her colleagues have deemed an unhelpful distraction… Democratic leaders and members of […]
11/3/2017
2016 ELECTION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump pressed the Justice Department again on Friday [11-3-17] to investigate his political opponents, lashing out at Democrats as he argued that they were the ones who acted corruptly during last year’s election and not his own campaign, which actually is under investigation. Shortly before leaving Washington for an […]
11/3/2017
2016 ELECTION/DEMS: “The rigged Dem Primary, one of the biggest political stories in years, got ZERO coverage on Fake News Network TV last night. Disgraceful!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 3, 2017 11:09am […]
11/3/2017
2016 ELECTION/DEMS: “I always felt I would be running and winning against Bernie Sanders, not Crooked H, without cheating, I was right.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 3, 2017 09:29am […]
11/3/2017
2016 ELECTION/DEMS: “Bernie Sanders supporters have every right to be apoplectic of the complete theft of the Dem primary by Crooked Hillary!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 3, 2017 09:28am […]
11/3/2017
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT: “Pocahontas just stated that the Democrats, lead by the legendary Crooked Hillary Clinton, rigged the Primaries! Lets go FBI & Justice Dept.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 3, 2017 06:55am […]
11/3/2017
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/HILLARY CLINTON: “The real story on Collusion is in Donna B’s new book. Crooked Hillary bought the DNC & then stole the Democratic Primary from Crazy Bernie!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 3, 2017 06:48am […]
11/2/2017
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donna Brazile just stated the DNC RIGGED the system to illegally steal the Primary from Bernie Sanders. Bought and paid for by Crooked H… This is real collusion and dishonesty. Major violation of Campaign Finance Laws and Money Laundering – where is our Justice Department?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 2, 2017 […]
11/2/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, may go to trial as early as April on money-laundering and conspiracy charges stemming from accusations that he and an associate failed to pay taxes on millions of dollars they earned overseas. During a brief hearing Thursday [11-2-17] at U.S. District Court […]
11/2/2017
2016 ELECTION/CYBERWAR/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/RUSSIA: “The Justice Department has identified more than six members of the Russian government involved in hacking the Democratic National Committee’s computers and swiping sensitive information that became public during the 2016 presidential election, according to people familiar with the investigation. Prosecutors and agents have assembled evidence to charge the Russian officials and […]
11/2/2017
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/RUSSIA: “A longtime associate of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort has hired a new team of lawyers to defend himself against charges brought in a probe looking at alleged Russian interference in the U.S. election, a spokesman said on Thursday [11-2-17]. Richard Gates and Manafort were charged with money laundering, conspiracy against the […]
11/1/2017
2016 ELECTION/CYBERWAR/RUSSIA: “Russian operatives targeted users on Facebook Inc. by race, religion and interests such as gun ownership, the Confederate flag and Ivanka Trump’s jewelry line, according to advertising data released by lawmakers Wednesday as part of congressional investigations into Russian manipulation on social media around the U.S. election. The ads targeted groups on opposite […]
11/1/2017
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s options are limited for ending the Russia probe he so wants to see over… Despite Trump’s desire to cut the Russia investigations short — and pressure from some allies to do so — the president and his advisers are quickly coming to the realization there isn’t much […]
10/31/2017
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER: “The target was a New York City titan — plain-spoken but Teflon, irresistible to the tabloids and insistent upon loyalty from his associates. The defendant, Vincent ‘the Chin’ Gigante, had accumulated power as the head of the Genovese crime family, feigning insanity to conceal his guilt. A prosecutor in Brooklyn was at […]
10/31/2017
2016 ELECTION/CYBERWAR/POLITICS/RUSSIA: “Senators pressed representatives from three technology giants to explain why they didn’t recognize Russia-linked accounts earlier, as the officials struck a contrite tone about the role their services played in stoking political tensions during the 2016 campaign… The officials also faced questions about voter-suppression efforts and whether Silicon Valley can or should police […]
10/31/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR: “Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, who met with Donald Trump Jr. during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, wants permission to return to the United States to defend a claim by prosecutors that her client’s company has failed to pay a $6 million settlement in an international money laundering case. Veselnitskaya represented Prevezon […]
10/31/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The White House on Tuesday [10-31-17] sought to take credit for the arrest of a former Trump campaign aide who had repeated contacts with Russia-linked officials offering ‘dirt’ on Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton — marking the latest damage control move as the Russia probe intensifies. President Donald Trump and other […]
10/31/2017
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A former senior adviser on President Donald Trump’s campaign team, Sam Clovis, sought to distance himself on Tuesday [10-31-17] from George Papadopoulos, an ex-campaign aide who has pleaded guilty in the probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. Papadopoulos pleaded guilty earlier this month to lying to Federal […]
10/31/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/LOBBYING/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “An industry group for lobbyists on Tuesday [10-31-17] called on Congress to overhaul the transparency laws that govern their activity in the wake of indictments of two lobbyists, including Paul Manafort, a former campaign manager for U.S. President Donald Trump. Charges filed by Justice Department Special Counsel Robert Mueller alleged Manafort […]
10/31/2017
2016 ELECTION/CYBERWAR/POLITICS: “A bipartisan pair of U.S. senators plans to introduce legislation on Tuesday [10-31-17] seeking to boost the cyber defenses of state election systems, after warnings from senior U.S. officials that future elections may be vulnerable to foreign interference. The Securing America’s Voting Equipment, or SAVE, Act is the latest attempt by lawmakers to […]