2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The indictment Monday [10-30-17] of Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, and his associate, Rick Gates, begins a new phase in special counsel Robert Mueller’s sprawling investigation whose ultimate outcome remains unknown but that will consume the White House for months to come. True, Mueller’s 12-count indictment of Paul Manafort […]
Category: 2016 Election
10/30/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/FBI/LEGAL/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Rick Gates followed Paul Manafort to Eastern Europe, Africa, the Trump presidential campaign, and now a federal building where he surrendered on Monday to the F.B.I. Mr. Gates, 45, is a former business associate of Mr. Manafort, the ousted chairman of Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign who also turned himself in to the […]
10/30/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The indictments of two former Trump campaign officials and emergence of a third ex-Trump adviser who appears to be cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election could throw a wrench into Congress’ parallel Russia probes. That’s in part because neither of Congress’ intelligence committees […]
10/30/2017
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA: “Special counsel Robert Mueller unveiled the first charges Monday [10-30-17] connected to his probe into Moscow’s influence in the 2016 election, accusing two Trump campaign officials of not paying taxes on millions earned working for Ukrainian politicians and obtaining a guilty plea from a third who admitted lying about his contacts with […]
10/28/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump is confident that neither his former campaign chairman nor his former national security adviser has damaging information about him to offer prosecutors, a White House lawyer told The New York Times. ‘The president has no concerns in terms of any impact, as to what happens to them, on his […]
10/27/2017
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA: “It is now commonly agreed, after many months of COSTLY looking, that there was NO collusion between Russia and Trump. Was collusion with HC!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 27, 2017 08:33am […]
10/27/2017
2016 ELECTION/GOP/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Republican lawmakers say they’re approaching the end of their investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election even though the most politically explosive issue — whether associates of President Donald Trump colluded with the Kremlin — remains unresolved. That will present Democrats who have spent a year amplifying suspicions about […]
10/26/2017
2016 ELECTION/FBI/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Federal Bureau of Investigation is expected to hand over to Congress documents related to a controversial and unverified dossier on President Donald Trump by next week, ending a long-running impasse between lawmakers and federal law enforcement. Speaking to reporters, House Speaker Paul Ryan said that the FBI had agreed to […]
10/25/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The chief executive of a data-analytics firm that worked for President Donald Trump’s campaign reached out to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to offer help organizing the Hillary Clinton -related emails the website was releasing, according to a person familiar with the effort. The outreach by the CEO of the firm, which […]
10/25/2017
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/POLITICS/RUSSIA: “The Senate Judiciary Committee’s GOP chairman and top Democrat are splitting off in different directions when it comes to investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election, risking a collapse of their once bipartisan probe… Feinstein is working with Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) on the foreign-influence bill, a spokesman said. The legislation gives Feinstein, […]
10/25/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/HILLARY CLINTON/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA: “Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee were among those who paid a firm for research that led to a dossier of unverified allegations about President Donald Trump’s activities and connections in Russia, according to a person familiar with the matter. Marc Elias, a partner at law firm Perkins Coie […]
10/22/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s campaign digital director, Brad Parscale, will be interviewed Tuesday [10-24-17] by the House Intelligence Committee, his first appearance before any of the panels examining the issue of Russian interference in the 2016 election. Mr. Parscale confirmed his scheduled appearance. The Senate committees also probing interference haven’t scheduled time […]
10/22/2017
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/JARED KUSHNER: “In a secured room in the basement of the Capitol in July, Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, fielded question after question from members of the House Intelligence Committee. Though the allotted time for the grilling had expired, he offered to stick around as long as they wanted. But […]
10/21/2017
2016 ELECTION/HILLARY CLINTON: “Crooked Hillary Clinton spent hundreds of millions of dollars more on Presidential Election than I did. Facebook was on her side, not mine!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 21, 2017 04:21pm […]
10/19/2017
2016 ELECTION/CYBERWAR/NIKKI HALEY/RUSSIA/UN: “U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said Thursday that interference in U.S. elections by another nation ‘is warfare,’ telling an audience in New York that such meddling has become Russia’s go-to tactic… While President Donald Trump has questioned at times whether or not the Russian government was behind a campaign […]
10/18/2017
2016 ELECTION/JEFF SESSIONS/RUSSIA: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions is set to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday [10-18-17] morning, where he will likely face questions on contentious issues such as immigration, civil rights and his recusal from the investigation into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election. Democrats said they plan to push Mr. Sessions […]
10/13/2017
2016 ELECTION/CYBERWAR/RUSSIA: “Twitter has deleted tweets and other user data of potentially irreplaceable value to investigators probing Russia’s suspected manipulation of the social media platform during the 2016 election, according to current and former government cybersecurity officials. Federal investigators now believe Twitter was one of Russia’s most potent weapons in its efforts to promote Donald […]
10/12/2017
2016 ELECTION/CYBERWAR/RUSSIA: “Facebook Inc. will publicly disclose the types of people targeted by Russian-backed ads during and after the 2016 presidential election, operating chief Sheryl Sandberg said. In an interview Thursday [10-12-17]with Axios, Ms. Sandberg acknowledged Facebook’s platform was manipulated in a way it shouldn’t have been during the election. She said the company was […]
10/4/2017
2016 ELECTION/CYBERWAR/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA: “The leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday [10-4-17] warned political candidates to expect Russian operatives to try to sow chaos and manipulate upcoming elections in November and in 2018. At a news conference, Senators Richard Burr, the committee’s chairman, and Mark Warner, its vice chairman, broadly endorsed the conclusions of American […]
10/4/2017
2016 ELECTION/CYBERWAR/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr said Wednesday [10-4-17] the committee is continuing to investigate potential collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian agents meddling in the U.S. election. Despite the president’s dismissal of possible collusion between his campaign and Russian officials as ‘a hoax,’ Burr, R-N.C., and Vice Chairman Mark Warner, […]
9/28/2017
2016 ELECTION/CYBERWAR/RUSSIA: “Twitter Inc. on Thursday [9-28-17] offered its first public information on Russian use of its platform during the U.S. presidential election, but its limited disclosure only fueled criticism from lawmakers who are pushing for greater transparency from internet companies over how their platforms are manipulated. In presentations to congressional investigators and a post […]
9/26/2017
2016 ELECTION/CYBERWAR/FAKE NEWS/MEDIA/RUSSIA: “Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein was the beneficiary of at least one of the Russian-bought political ads on Facebook that federal government officials suspect were intended to influence the 2016 election. Other advertisements paid for by shadowy Russian buyers criticized Hillary Clinton and promoted Donald Trump. Some backed Bernie Sanders and […]
9/11/2017
2016 ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A few weeks after Donald Trump won the presidential election last year, the Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll asked Trump voters why they went for the man who had just shocked the world. Four in 10 Trump voters said one of the primary reasons was that he would change business as […]
9/1/2017
2016 ELECTION/CYBERWAR/VOTING: “The calls started flooding in from hundreds of irate North Carolina voters just after 7 a.m. on Election Day last November. Dozens were told they were ineligible to vote and were turned away at the polls, even when they displayed current registration cards. Others were sent from one polling place to another, only […]
8/18/2017
2016 ELECTION/BUDGET/VOTING: “Federal money set aside to help states upgrade their voting equipment is running out, at a time when many states are seeking to replace aging machines and further fortify against cyberattacks. While federal funding has gradually diminished, the 2016 fiscal year marked a new low. As of September 2016, states had collectively spent […]
8/10/2017
2016 ELECTION/CYBERWAR/DHS: “The Department of Homeland Security is clearing the way for state election officials to apply for security clearances so they can review classified information about cyberthreats to their election systems, federal and state authorities said in interviews this week. The move comes after many state officials criticized the federal agency for, in their […]
8/7/2017
2016 ELECTION/FAKE NEWS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The failing @nytimes, which has made every wrong prediction about me including my big election win (apologized), is totally inept!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 7, 2017 05:38am […]
8/2/2017
2016 ELECTION/CYBERWAR/DHS/VOTER FRAUD: “More than five dozen state and local election offices requested help from the Department of Homeland Security to protect their election systems from cyberattacks, according to DHS documents obtained by CNN. Before the 2016 US election, 33 states and 36 local governments requested an assessment of their election systems to help prevent […]
8/2/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I campaigned on creating a merit-based immigration system that protects U.S. workers & taxpayers. Watch: https://t.co/lv3ScSKnF6 #RAISEAct https://t.co/zCFK5OfYnB” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 2, 2017 01:29pm […]
8/1/2017
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/JARED KUSHNER: “White House senior adviser Jared Kushner offered an explanation to congressional interns earlier this week as to why it was not possible for the Trump campaign to collude with Russia during the election: It was too disorganized for such a conspiracy. Speaking at an off-the-record hourlong meeting at the Capitol Visitor […]
7/29/2017
2016 ELECTION/FAKE NEWS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I love reading about all of the ‘geniuses’ who were so instrumental in my election success. Problem is, most don’t exist. #Fake News! MAGA” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 29, 2017 06:15pm […]
7/29/2017
2016 ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In other words, Russia was against Trump in the 2016 Election – and why not, I want strong military & low oil prices. Witch Hunt! https://t.co/mMSxj4Su5z” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 29, 2017 06:07am […]
7/24/2017
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House on Sunday [7-23-17] indicated President Donald Trump was likely to support legislation that would punish Russia for interfering in the 2016 election, after months of questioning assertions about Moscow’s involvement. The Trump administration’s response to the sanctions bill is being closely watched, because a failure to sign it […]
7/19/2017
2016 ELECTION/CYBERWAR/DHS/TRUMP PEOPLE/JOHN KELLY: “Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said Wednesday [7-19-17] that states that aren’t asking Washington for help in protecting their election systems from hackers are ‘nuts.’ But while Kelly said he supported the Obama administration’s decision to designate U.S. election systems ‘critical infrastructure,’ given threats from Russia and other entities, he also […]
7/19/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR/JARED KUSHNER/TRUMP PEOPLE/PAUL MANAFORT: “President Donald Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr., son-in-law Jared Kushner and former campaign manager Paul Manafort have been asked to appear before U.S. Senate committees next week to answer questions about the campaign’s alleged connections to Russia, officials said on Wednesday [7-19-17]. The three men are the closest […]
7/15/2017
2016 ELECTION/ECONOMY/SPORTS: “Just got to the #USWomensOpen in Bedminster, New Jersey. People are really happy with record high stock market – up over 17% since election!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 15, 2017 03:29pm […]
7/16/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/RUSSIA: “Thank you to former campaign adviser Michael Caputo for saying so powerfully that there was no Russian collusion in our winning campaign.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 16, 2017 06:04am […]
7/12/2017
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR: “U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday [7-12-17] he did not fault his son Donald Trump Jr. for meeting with a Russian lawyer during the 2016 presidential election campaign and that he was unaware of the meeting until a few days ago. Asked if he knew that his son […]
7/12/2017
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “An attorney representing President Donald Trump insisted Wednesday [7-12-17] that the President was unaware of his oldest son’s attempts to obtain information purportedly from Russia during the 2016 election. ‘Let’s focus on what the President was aware of: nothing,’ Jay Sekulow said on CNN’s ‘New Day.’ Sekulow said he wanted to […]
7/12/2017
2016 ELECTION/HILLARY CLINTON/RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR: “The Kremlin said Wednesday [7-12-17] the release of an email chain by Donald Trump Jr. was part of a ‘long-running TV drama,’ dismissing an alleged Russian government offer to pass on information to damage Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. ‘There is nothing to investigate,’ said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, according […]
7/12/2017
2016 ELECTION/HILLARY CLINTON/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR: “The White House has been thrust into chaos after days of ever-worsening revelations about a meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a lawyer characterized as representing the Russian government, as the president fumes against his enemies and senior aides circle one another with suspicion, according to top White House officials […]
7/11/2017
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR: “If President Trump emerged from his meeting with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia last week hoping he had begun to ‘move forward’ from the controversy over the Kremlin’s election meddling, as advisers put it, his flight home the next day made clear just how overly optimistic that was. […]
7/11/2017
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR: “For months, the hope in President Donald Trump’s world—sometimes realistic, sometimes strained—was that the story of Russia’s role in the 2016 presidential election would quickly shrivel up and blow away. That dream died on Tuesday [7-11-17]. Whatever else the stunning email chain released by Donald Trump Jr. did or didn’t show, […]
7/11/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/HILLARY CLINTON/RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR/JARED KUSHNER: “The president’s eldest son and senior campaign aides attended a meeting last year to discuss allegedly incriminating information about Hillary Clinton they were told was being offered by the Russian government in support of Donald Trump’s candidacy, according to emails Donald Trump Jr. released Tuesday [7-11-17]. The release of […]
7/10/2017
2016 ELECTION/ETHICS/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR: “U.S. President Donald Trump’s eldest son on Monday [7-10-17] offered to talk to a Senate committee investigating alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, after he acknowledged meeting a Russian lawyer during the campaign. ‘Happy to work with the committee to pass on what I know,’ Donald Trump Jr. wrote […]
7/10/2017
2016 ELECTION/ETHICS/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR: “Donald Trump Jr. is in a legal danger zone following his acknowledgment that he met during the heat of the 2016 presidential campaign with a Russian lawyer with Kremlin ties who offered to deliver damaging information about Hillary Clinton. Democratic and Republican lawyers and political operatives alike say explanations about the […]
7/10/2017
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA: “The two congressional committees investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election have committed to a goal that has eluded almost every major probe on Capitol Hill in recent years: bipartisanship. The Senate and House intelligence committees are broadly examining Russian meddling in the election, including whether members of President Donald Trump’s campaign colluded […]
7/9/2017
2016 ELECTION/CYBERWAR/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump tried without success on Sunday [7-9-17] to put the matter of Russia’s election meddling behind him, insisting that he had ‘strongly pressed’ President Vladimir V. Putin on the matter twice in a private meeting last week and declaring that it was ‘time to move forward.’ But if Mr. Trump […]
7/9/2017
2016 ELECTION/CYBERWAR/FOREIGN POLICY/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I strongly pressed President Putin twice about Russian meddling in our election. He vehemently denied it. I’ve already given my opinion…We negotiated a ceasefire in parts of Syria which will save lives. Now it is time to move forward in working constructively with Russia!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 9, 2017 […]
7/6/2017
2016 ELECTION/CYBERWAR/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump took his criticism of the U.S. intelligence community abroad on Thursday [7-6-17], calling its acumen into question before an international audience in Poland. While the president conceded that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. election, he said other countries could have interfered as well, an assessment that contradicts […]
7/6/2017
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said Thursday that he thinks Russia was behind 2016 election meddling, but added that he feels ‘it could have been other people in other countries’ and that ‘nobody really knows for sure.’ ‘I think it very well could be Russia but I think it could very well have […]
6/29/2017
2016 ELECTION/VOTER FRAUD: “The chair of President Trump’s Election Integrity Commission has penned a letter to all 50 states requesting their full voter-roll data, including the name, address, date of birth, party affiliation, last four Social Security number digits and voting history back to 2006 of potentially every voter in the state. In the letter, […]
6/29/2017
2016 ELECTION/HILLARY CLINTON/MICHAEL FLYNN/RUSSIA: “Before the 2016 presidential election, a longtime Republican opposition researcher mounted an independent campaign to obtain emails he believed were stolen from Hillary Clinton’s private server, likely by Russian hackers. In conversations with members of his circle and with others he tried to recruit to help him, the GOP operative, Peter […]
6/28/2017
2016 ELECTION/OBAMA/RUSSIA/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former US Ambassador to NATO and Bush administration State Department official Nicholas Burns accused President Donald Trump of a ‘dereliction of the basic duty to defend the country’ for his apparent disinterest in Russia’s meddling in the 2016 US election. Testifying before the Senate intelligence committee Wednesday, Burns criticized both the […]
6/26/2017
2016 ELECTION/OBAMA/RUSSIA: “The reason that President Obama did NOTHING about Russia after being notified by the CIA of meddling is that he expected Clinton would win …and did not want to ‘rock the boat.’ He didn’t ‘choke,’ he colluded or obstructed, and it did the Dems and Crooked Hillary no good.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June […]
6/24/2017
2016 ELECTION/OBAMA/RUSSIA: “Obama Administration official said they ‘choked’ when it came to acting on Russian meddling of election. They didn’t want to hurt Hillary?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 24, 2017 03:44pm […]
6/24/2017
2016 ELECTION/OBAMA/RUSSIA: “Since the Obama Administration was told way before the 2016 Election that the Russians were meddling, why no action? Focus on them, not T!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 24, 2017 03:28pm […]
6/23/2017
2016 ELECTION/OBAMA/RUSSIA: “Just out: The Obama Administration knew far in advance of November 8th about election meddling by Russia. Did nothing about it. WHY?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 23, 2017 07:43pm […]
6/23/2017
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE/KELLYANNE CONWAY: “White House counselor Kellyanne Conway dismissed the idea that Russia influenced the 2016 presidential election after The Washington Post reported Friday [6-23-17] that Russian President Vladimir Putin was directly involved in a cyber campaign to affect the outcome. ‘I think it’s very important to show no nexus has been proven between […]
6/22/2017
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/DHS/OBAMA/RUSSIA: “By the way, if Russia was working so hard on the 2016 Election, it all took place during the Obama Admin. Why didn’t they stop them?…Why did Democratic National Committee turn down the DHS offer to protect against hacks (long prior to election). It’s all a big Dem HOAX!…Why did the DNC REFUSE […]
6/21/2017
2016 ELECTION/CYBERWAR/DHS/FBI/RUSSIA: “Russian government-linked hackers potentially targeted as many as 21 states’ election systems last year, a Homeland Security official warned Congress on Wednesday [6-21-7]. None of those systems were involved in vote counting, however. DHS’ acting Director of Cyber Division of the department’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis, Samuel Liles, said that by late […]
6/21/2017
2016 ELECTION/CYBERWAR/DHS/RUSSIA: “A senior Department of Homeland Security official told Congress on Wednesday [6-21-17] that federal investigators had evidence that the Russian government targeted election systems in nearly two dozen states during the 2016 elections. ‘As of right now, we have evidence of election-related systems in 21 states that were targeted,’ said Jeanette Manfra, the […]
6/21/2017
2016 ELECTION/CYBERWAR/DHS/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA: “House investigators are examining Wednesday [6-21-17] Russia’s attempts to hack into state elections systems with former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson before the House intelligence committee. ‘In 2016 the Russian government, at the direction of (Russian President) Vladimir Putin himself, orchestrated cyberattacks on our nation for the purpose of influencing our […]
6/16/2017
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s longtime attorney and adviser Michael Cohen has hired a lawyer to represent him in the investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, Cohen told CNN on Friday [6-16-17]. Cohen, who serves as Trump’s personal attorney, hired Stephen Ryan, a partner at the DC-based law firm McDermott, Will and […]
6/16/2017
2016 ELECTION/DONALD ON DONALD/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump confirmed Friday [6-16-17] he was under investigation and appeared to take aim at a senior Justice Department official, in a tweet that seemed to encapsulate his frustration with the ongoing focus on Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election. ‘I am being investigated for firing the FBI […]
6/14/2017
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA: “Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel examining Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election, has requested interviews with three high-ranking current or former intelligence officials, the latest indication that he will investigate whether President Trump obstructed justice, a person briefed on the investigation said on Wednesday[6-14-17]. Mr. Mueller wants to question Dan […]
6/13/2017
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “One of President Donald Trump’s friends said he believes the President is considering dismissing special counsel Robert Mueller, who was appointed to lead the FBI investigation into Russia’s potential ties to the 2016 election. ‘I think it is a consideration the President has had because Mueller is illegitimate as special counsel,’ […]
6/6/2017
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE/REX TILLERSON: “President Donald Trump asked Secretary of State Rex Tillerson not to let the ongoing political saga back home stand in the way of improving ties with Moscow, the top US diplomat said Tuesday [6-6-17]. Tillerson wouldn’t comment on the ongoing US probes of Russian meddling in the 2016 election ‘because I […]
6/5/2017
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/LEAKS/RUSSIA: “An intelligence contractor was charged with sending a classified report about Russia’s interference in the 2016 election to the news media, the Justice Department announced Monday, the first criminal leak case under President Trump. The case showed the department’s willingness to crack down on leaks, as Mr. Trump has called for in complaining […]
6/1/2017
2016 ELECTION/CYBERWAR/RUSSIA: “Shifting from his previous blanket denials, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said on Thursday [6-1-17] that ‘patriotically minded’ private Russian hackers could have been involved in cyberattacks last year to help the presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump. While Mr. Putin continued to deny any state role, his comments to reporters in […]
6/1/2017
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/UK: “Nigel Farage, the former leader of the U.K. Independence Party, ridiculed on Thursday [6-1-17] a published report that suggests United States investigators think he may be able to shed light on any possible collusion between Russia and Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign. Mr. Farage was responding to an article in The Guardian newspaper […]
5/30/2017
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA: “Russian government officials discussed having potentially ‘derogatory’ information about then-presidential candidate Donald Trump and some of his top aides in conversations intercepted by US intelligence during the 2016 election, according to two former intelligence officials and a congressional source. One source described the information as financial in nature and said the discussion centered […]
5/29/2017
2016 ELECTION/FBI/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA: “Robert Mueller quickly got to work as special counsel overseeing the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election: building a team, designing a budget and forcing the Federal Bureau of Investigation to withhold from Congress documents he may be interested in—all in his first full week on the job… Deputy Attorney General […]
5/24/2017
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “American spies collected information last summer revealing that senior Russian intelligence and political officials were discussing how to exert influence over Donald J. Trump through his advisers, according to three current and former American officials familiar with the intelligence. The conversations focused on Paul Manafort, the Trump campaign chairman at the time, […]
5/24/2017
2016 ELECTION/CLIMATE CHANGE/ETHICS/INTELLIGENCE/POLITICS/RUSSIA: “Senate Democrats are accusing the White House of purposely ignoring requests for information on issues ranging from the ongoing investigation into Russian meddling in U.S. elections, to ethics waivers given to top officials and changes in environmental rules. At issue are the routine requests that members of Congress make to federal agencies […]
5/23/2017
2016 ELECTION/CIA/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA: “Former CIA director John Brennan testified Tuesday [5-23-17] that U.S. intelligence agencies grew concerned after they received information that Trump campaign associates were in contact with Russian officials, shedding new light on the basis for the FBI investigation that has overshadowed the opening months of President Donald Trump’s administration. In testimony before the […]
5/19/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The investigation into potential ties between Russia and President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign is now looking into a possible cover-up, according to McClatchy. Citing unnamed members of Congress who attended a briefing with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, McClatchy reported that a probe into a potential cover-up began after assertions by former […]
5/18/2017
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Justice Department appointed a special counsel Wednesday [5-17-17] to investigate possible coordination between President Trump’s associates and Russian officials — a clear signal to the White House that federal investigators will aggressively pursue the matter despite the president’s insistence that there was no ‘collusion’ with the Kremlin. Robert S. Mueller III, […]
5/18/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE/MICHAEL FLYNN: “Michael Flynn and other advisers to Donald Trump’s campaign were in contact with Russian officials and others with Kremlin ties in at least 18 calls and emails during the last seven months of the 2016 presidential race, current and former U.S. officials familiar with the exchanges told Reuters. The previously undisclosed […]
5/17/2017
2016 ELECTION/POLITICS/RUSSIA: “Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives said on Wednesday [5-17-17] they would try to force a vote on an independent commission to investigate Russia and the 2016 U.S. election, and whether there was collusion between President Donald Trump’s associates and Moscow. They said two Republicans, Representatives Walter Jones and Justin Amash, […]
5/12/2017
2016 ELECTION/POLITICS/RUSSIA: “Again, the story that there was collusion between the Russians & Trump campaign was fabricated by Dems as an excuse for losing the election.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 12, 2017 04:51am […]
5/12/2017
2016 ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VOTER FRAUD: “The man Donald Trump appointed Thursday [5-11-17] to be vice chair of a commission to investigate voter fraud repeatedly backed Trump’s unfounded charge that millions voted illegally in the 2016 election. President Trump signed an executive order creating the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity and named Kansas Secretary of […]
5/11/2017
2016 ELECTION/FBI/JAMES COMEY/RUSSIA: “Russia must be laughing up their sleeves watching as the U.S. tears itself apart over a Democrat EXCUSE for losing the election.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 11, 2017 03:34pm […]
5/11/2017
2016 ELECTION/DAN COATS/INTELLIGENCE/LEAKS/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The highest-ranking intelligence official in Donald Trump’s administration disagrees with him: There’s no doubt that Russia was behind the series of hacks and leaks against Democrats that helped get Trump elected, he said. In the first annual report to the Senate Intelligence Committee, Trump-appointed Dan Coats, the new Director of […]
5/11/2017
2016 ELECTION/FBI/INTELLIGENCE/JAMES COMEY: “The man who took over from ousted FBI Director James Comey declined to say on Thursday whether he ever heard Comey tell Donald Trump that the president was not a target of an investigation into possible collusion between Russia and Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. In testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, acting […]
5/11/2017
2016 ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VOTER FRAUD: “President Trump planned to order a voter fraud investigation Thursday [5-11-17], thrusting back into the spotlight an issue that few other Republican leaders want to tackle as he tries to divert attention from the controversy over his firing of FBI Director James Comey. A White House official said Trump would […]
5/9/2017
2016 ELECTION/FBI/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA: “The White House responded to hours of Senate testimony Monday [5-8-17] by saying there was still no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee that he was not aware of any evidence demonstrating collusion, but also said he […]
5/4/2017
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/POLITICS/RUSSIA: “The leaders of a House of Representatives probe of possible Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election said they had a ‘successful’ hearing on Thursday [5-4-17], projecting unity after a partisan division had threatened to derail their investigation. Representatives Mike Conaway, the new Republican leader of the House Intelligence Committee probe, and Adam […]
5/2/2017
2016 ELECTION/FBI/JAMES COMEY: “FBI Director Comey was the best thing that ever happened to Hillary Clinton in that he gave her a free pass for many bad deeds! The phony…Trump/Russia story was an excuse used by the Democrats as justification for losing the election. Perhaps Trump just ran a great campaign?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May […]
4/21/2017
2016 ELECTION/DOJ/FBI/INTELLIGENCE/POLITICS/MARY MCCORD/RUSSIA: “One of the top officials at the Justice Department overseeing the FBI’s probe of potential coordination between the Trump campaign and Russian meddling in the presidential election will leave the department next month. Mary McCord — a career prosecutor for over 20 years — has been serving as acting assistant attorney general […]
4/20/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A highly unusual and racially charged episode from the 2016 campaign suddenly resurfaced this week when a federal judge whom President Donald Trump repeatedly criticized last year was assigned to hear the case of a man who claims he was unfairly deported. Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who was born in the US […]
4/20/2017
2016 ELECTION/CYBERWAR/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President-elect Donald Trump was very clear: ‘I will appoint a team to give me a plan within 90 days of taking office,’ he said in January, after getting a U.S. intelligence assessment of Russian interference in last year’s elections and promising to address cybersecurity. Thursday [4-20-17], Trump hits his 90-day mark. […]
4/16/2017
2016 ELECTION/DONALD ON DONALD/TRUMP TAXES: “I did what was an almost an impossible thing to do for a Republican-easily won the Electoral College! Now Tax Returns are brought up again?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 16, 2017 08:07am […]
04/12/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/RUSSIA: “Two stories dealing with Russia’s meddling in the election broke Tuesday [4-11-17] night. And both were full of bad news for President Donald Trump. The first, an exclusive to CNN, revealed that a number of Democratic and Republican lawmakers on the House and Senate intelligence committees who have seen classified documents see no […]
04/06/2017
2016 ELECTION/CIA/FBI/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA: “The C.I.A. told senior lawmakers in classified briefings last summer that it had information indicating that Russia was working to help elect Donald J. Trump president, a finding that did not emerge publicly until after Mr. Trump’s victory months later, former government officials say. The briefings indicate that intelligence officials had evidence of […]
04/05/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump, amid questions about his campaign’s ties to Russia during the 2016 election, met Tuesday with Dana Rohrabacher, a California congressman so well-known for his pro-Russia views that he has been referred to as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ‘favorite congressman.’ Ken Grubbs, a spokesman for Rohrabacher, declined to disclose […]
4/4/2017
2016 ELECTION/ELECTORAL COLLEGE: “I don’t know if you saw, but if you watch the Democrats now, the anger — the anger and hatred, and they’re trying to figure out where did all these people came that voted for Donald Trump? Remember they said — because the Electoral College is a very, very hard, they say, […]
4/4/2017
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/ELECTORAL COLLEGE: “I don’t know if you saw, but if you watch the Democrats now, the anger — the anger and hatred, and they’re trying to figure out where did all these people came that voted for Donald Trump? Remember they said — because the Electoral College is a very, very hard, they say, […]
04/02/20107
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/LEGAL: “A federal judge has rejected President Donald Trump’s free speech defense against a lawsuit accusing him of inciting violence against protesters at a campaign rally. Trump’s lawyers sought to dismiss the lawsuit by three protesters who say they were roughed up by his supporters at a March 1, 2016 rally in Louisville, Kentucky. […]
3/30/2017
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/WIRETAPPING: “The White House said Thursday [3-30-17] that members of its staff had uncovered materials regarding surveillance in the 2016 election, raising questions about whether President Donald Trump’s own aides had shared classified information with the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee in an attempt to bolster Trump’s claims he was wiretapped. In […]