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 […]
Category: Campaign
1/30/2018
CAMPAIGN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s campaign website is offering this chance for a few seconds of fame to supporters who donate to his re-election effort. It can happen for as little as $1. The campaign’s original pitch was $35, but a subsequent email from the Trump campaign provided a link for donors to contribute […]
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 […]
1/3/2018
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 […]
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/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 […]
12/17/2017
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
CAMPAIGN/FBI/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump escalated his criticism of the F.B.I. on Friday [12-15-17] over its investigation of possible links between Russia and his campaign, calling the inquiry a ‘very sad thing to watch.’ ‘It’s a shame what’s happened with the F.B.I.,’ the president told reporters before departing for an event at the F.B.I. […]
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 […]
12/8/2017
CAMPAIGN/ISRAEL/PALESTINE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I fulfilled my campaign promise – others didn’t! https://t.co/bYdaOHmPVJ” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Dec. 8, 2017 12:41am […]
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 […]
11/29/2017
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 […]
11/22/2017
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 […]
11/15/2017
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/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 […]
11/13/2017
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, […]
11/7/2017
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, […]
11/6/2017
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 […]
11/2/2017
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 […]
11/1/2017
CAMPAIGN/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA: “Paul Manafort, former campaign manager for President Donald Trump, had three U.S. passports, millions in assets and ties to Russian oligarchs, according to federal court documents after his indictment on tax fraud and money laundering charges… Manafort, 68, and Gates, who also worked on Trump’s campaign, pleaded not guilty on Monday in a […]
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
CAMPAIGN/INTELLIGENCE/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [10-31-17] described a former campaign adviser who pleaded guilty in connection with an investigation into Russian activity in the 2016 election as a young, little-known, low-level volunteer and proven liar. The adviser, George Papadopoulos, pleaded guilty earlier this month to lying to the Federal Bureau of […]
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
CAMPAIGN/FAKE NEWS/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA: “The Fake News is working overtime. As Paul Manaforts lawyer said, there was ‘no collusion’ and events mentioned took place long before he… came to the campaign. Few people knew the young, low level volunteer named George, who has already proven to be a liar. Check the DEMS!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October […]
10/30/2017
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 […]
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
CAMPAIGN/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT: “….Also, there is NO COLLUSION!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 30, 2017 09:28am […]
10/30/2017
CAMPAIGN/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT: “Sorry, but this is years ago, before Paul Manafort was part of the Trump campaign. But why aren’t Crooked Hillary & the Dems the focus?????” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 30, 2017 09:25am […]
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 […]
10/25/2017
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/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 […]
10/20/2017
CAMPAIGN/INTELLIGENCE/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Senate Intelligence Committee has indefinitely postponed a public hearing planned for next week with Michael Cohen, the longtime Trump attorney and 2016 campaign surrogate… Cohen had been slated to appear in a private session last month but the committee called it off abruptly after Cohen arrived, citing his decision to release […]
10/15/2017
CAMPAIGN/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign raised more than $10.1 million in the third quarter of 2017 and spent $4 million, including $1.1 million on legal fees. Trump’s campaign paid $237,924 to lawyer Alan Futerfas, who is representing Donald Trump Jr. in matters related to the campaign’s involvement with Russian interference in the […]
10/7/2017
CAMPAIGN/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Can’t believe I finally got a good story in the @washingtonpost. It discusses the enthusiasm of ‘Trump’ voters through campaign… contributions. The RNC is taking in far more $’s than the Dems, and much of it by my wonderful small donors. I am working hard for them!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 7, […]
9/17/2017
CAMPAIGN/ETHICS/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Some White House and Trump campaign officials caught up in investigations of Russia’s electoral meddling are struggling to pay their legal bills, prompting them to create legal defense funds, liquidate personal accounts and explore other sources of financing. Washington is one of the nation’s costliest legal jurisdictions, with many lawyers charging upward of […]
8/30/2017
CAMPAIGN/RUSSIA/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman confirmed on Wednesday [8-30-17] he had received an email in January last year from an adviser to Donald Trump about a Moscow real estate project, but said he had neither replied nor discussed it with Putin. The Washington Post reported this week that Michael Cohen, one of Trump’s […]
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 […]
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 […]
7/17/2017
CAMPAIGN/POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR: “He ran on a promise to end politics as usual. But on Monday [7-17-17] morning, President Trump posted a defense on Twitter of his son’s meeting with a Russian lawyer promising sensitive government information that could be damaging to Hillary Clinton by saying that it was simply politics as usual. […]
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 […]
7/15/2017
CAMPAIGN/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR: “Donald Trump’s campaign paid $50,000 to the law office now representing Donald Trump Jr. a little more than a week before news surfaced of an unreported meeting with a Russian attorney that has prompted new accusations of collusion. The payment to the Law Offices of Alan S. Futerfas, dated June 27, was […]
7/14/2017
CAMPAIGN/NANCY PELOSI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Friday [7-14-17] that she thinks President Trump and his family members may have violated campaign finance law, and potentially laws prohibiting cybercrime and espionage as well, through their meetings with Russian operatives during the 2016 presidential campaign. ‘On the strength of what they have now […]
7/13/2017
CAMPAIGN/GOP: “Congressional leaders, shaken by last month’s shooting at a Republican congressional baseball practice and a spike in threats to their members, want to be able to use campaign funds to tighten lawmakers’ home security. The Federal Election Commission, after some debate, said on Thursday that given the threats, it would approve that use, so […]
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 […]
6/23/2017
CAMPAIGN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VETS: “President Donald Trump made good on a campaign promise Friday [6-23-17], signing into law legislation that gives leadership at the Department of Veterans Affairs more power to fire failed employees and protect those who uncover wrongdoing at the agency. ‘For many years, the government failed to keep its promises to our veterans. […]
6/22/2017
CAMPAIGN/CRIME: “As promised, our campaign against the MS-13 gang continues. “@ICEgov Busts 39 MS-13 Members in New York Operation” https://t.co/ki41GXeCMy” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 22, 2017 04:49pm […]
5/25/2017
CAMPAIGN/JOBS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Carrier, the company President Trump pledged to keep on American soil, informed the state of Indiana this week that it will soon begin cutting 632 workers from an Indianapolis factory. The manufacturing jobs will move to Monterrey, Mexico, where the minimum wage is $3.90. That was not supposed to happen, according to […]
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
CAMPAIGN/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said Thursday [5-18-17] that an investigation of his campaign’s possible ties to Russia is a ‘witch hunt’ and should be quickly brought to a close, but the appointment of a special counsel and recent grand jury subpoenas suggest a federal criminal probe is expanding to include other suspicious activity […]
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 […]
5/1/2017
CAMPAIGN/ECONOMY/JOBS: “President Donald Trump championed himself as a savior of the American worker during his campaign. But he largely has been silent on the biggest crisis facing these workers: the collapse of the retail industry. According to government data, general-merchandise stores like Macy’s and Sears have bled about 89,000 jobs since October — more than […]
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
CAMPAIGN/LEGAL/SUPPORTERS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “During his campaign, Donald Trump promised to pay the legal bills of supporters who beat up protestors at his rallies, but a POLITICO analysis found that Trump’s campaign hasn’t always paid its own legal bills in a timely or transparent fashion. The analysis of court and campaign filings found that Trump’s campaign […]
04/16/2017
CAMPAIGN/LEGAL/PROTESTS/SUPPORTERS: “Donald Trump supporter Alvin Bamberger is accused of assaulting a protester at a 2016 campaign rally in Kentucky. But if the 75-year-old veteran lost his cool at the Louisville rally, he did so at the ‘urging and inspiration’ of his President, Bamberger alleges in a lawsuit against Trump. ‘Trump and/or the Trump campaign urged […]
04/14/2017
CAMPAIGN/SUPPORTERS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As some on the right howled about a series of reversals by President Trump on a number of his campaign promises — conned, betrayed, sold out, they said — Rush Limbaugh asked his listeners on Thursday [4-13-17] whether any of that flip-flopping really mattered. ‘See what Jeff Sessions is doing?’ Mr. Limbaugh […]
04/14/2017
CAMPAIGN/INTELLIGENCE/POLITICS/RUSSIA/UK: “British and other European intelligence agencies intercepted communications between associates of Donald Trump and Russian officials and other Russian individuals during the campaign and passed on those communications to their US counterparts, US congressional and law enforcement and US and European intelligence sources tell CNN. The communications were captured during routine surveillance of Russian […]
04/13/2017
CAMPAIGN/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE/CARTER PAGE: “Carter Page, an early foreign-policy adviser to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, on Thursday [4-13-17] said he ‘can’t definitively say’ the issue of US sanctions on Russia ‘was never raised by anyone’ while he was in Moscow last July. Page’s conversations with Russian officials last summer have come under scrutiny since an unverified […]
04/12/2017
CAMPAIGN/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE/WIRTAPPING/CARTER PAGE: “The Justice Department obtained a secret court-approved wiretap last summer on Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser to Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign, based on evidence that he was operating as a Russian agent, a government official said Wednesday [4-12-17]. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court issued the warrant, the official said, after […]
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 […]
04/12/2017
CAMPAIGN/FBI/TRUMP PEOPLE/CATER PAGE: “The FBI obtained a warrant to monitor President Donald Trump’s former campaign adviser, Carter Page, last summer on suspicions he knowingly engaged in clandestine intelligence activities on behalf of Moscow, The Washington Post is reporting. The FBI and Justice Department obtained a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant to monitor the communications 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 […]
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. […]
3/28/2017
CAMPAIGN/JOBS: “Donald J. Trump can be brilliant. On the campaign trail, his diagnosis of the raw anger and disillusionment among white working-class Americans bested the most sophisticated analyses from the professional political class. His description of ‘American carnage’ in his Inaugural Address — complete with ‘rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape,’ impoverished mothers and […]
3/22/2017
CAMPAIGN/FBI/INTELLIGENCE/LEGAL/POLITICS/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The public confirmation this week that federal investigators are probing links between the Russian government and associates of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign prompted Democrats to renew their call for an independent investigation into the matter. Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey, in an unusual disclosure, acknowledged the investigation during testimony on […]
3/21/2017
CAMPAIGN/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE/UKRAINE/PAUL MANAFORT: “US President Donald Trump’s ex-campaign chair Paul Manafort is facing fresh allegations over his links to former pro-Russian Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. Ukrainian lawmaker Sergii Leshchenko claims a document found in a safe in Kiev may be evidence that Manafort tried to mask payments to him from Yanukovych’s party. The claim comes […]
3/20/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/FBI/OBAMA/RUSSIA: “Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey said publicly for the first time Monday [3-20-17] that the agency is investigating whether members of Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign collaborated with the Russian government to influence the presidential election. The Capitol Hill announcement by Mr. Comey divulged an active FBI investigation, a rare step by the […]
3/20/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/FBI/INTELLIGENCE/LEGAL/RUSSIA: “FBI Chief James Comey said publicly for the first time Monday that his agency is investigating alleged links between Russia and the Trump campaign and whether any crimes may have been committed during last year’s election campaign. ‘That includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and […]
3/20/2017
CAMPAIGN/FBI/HILLARY/RUSSIA: “What about all of the contact with the Clinton campaign and the Russians? Also, is it true that the DNC would not let the FBI in to look?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 20, 2017 08:14am […]
3/19/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/DONALD ON DONALD: “During a campaign rally a little less than a year before he entered the White House, Donald Trump boasted that his supporters’ loyalty was such that he ‘could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody’ with political impunity. The rhetorical flourish struck a nerve, in part because it […]
3/15/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/FBI/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA: “The top two senators on a key Senate Judiciary subcommittee are at odds over whether FBI Director James Comey privately assured them that he would confirm by Wednesday [3-15-17] whether there’s a criminal investigation into Trump campaign ties to Russia. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse said Comey privately told him and Sen. Lindsey Graham that […]
3/13/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/POLITICS/ PAUL RYAN: “On a never-before-released private October conference call with House Republican members, House Speaker Paul Ryan told his members in the U.S. House of Representatives he was abandoning then-GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump forever and would never defend him ever again. In the Oct. 10, 2016 call, from right after the Access […]
2/24/2017
CAMPAIGN/HILLARY: “President Donald Trump’s mere mention of Hillary Clinton’s now infamous ‘deplorables’ remark from the 2016 campaign sent the crowd at CPAC into a frenzy on Friday morning. Chants of ‘lock her up’ filled the auditorium at the Gaylord Convention Center after the president again defended his voters as ‘great Americans’ against Clinton who during […]
1/25/2017
SUPREME COURT: "I will be making my Supreme Court pick on Thursday of next week.Thank you!" – Twitter.com, Jan. 25, 2017, Donald Trump, 1/25/2017 […]
1/24/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/DONALD ON DONALD: “Donald Trump boasted Saturday [1-23-17] that support for his presidential campaign would not decline even if he shot someone in the middle of a crowded street. ‘I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters,’ Trump said at a campaign rally here. After […]
11/21/2016
BUSINESS/CAMPAIGN/DONALD ON DONALD/MEDIA: “Prior to the election it was well known that I have interests in properties all over the world.Only the crooked media makes this a big deal!” – 11/21/2016, Donald Trump, Twitter.com, 11/21/2016 […]
11/5/2016
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/VOTING/VOTE BY MAIL: “In three days we are going to win the great state of Colorado. And we are going to win back the White House. It’s going to happen. So important, if you haven’t mailed in your ballot, don’t do that. Bring it, bring it! Take it to the drop box in your […]
10/13/2016
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/VOTING/VOTE BY MAIL: “Make sure you request your absentee ballot to vote by mail. And remind your friends and family to do the same. We are now 26 days away from the most important election of our lifetimes. And we’ve only begun to fight.” -Donald Trump as quoted by Factbase, “Speech: Donald Trump in […]
10/13/2016
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/VOTING/VOTE BY MAIL: “Make sure you request your absentee ballot to vote by mail. And remind your friends and family to do the same. We are now 26 days away from the most important election of our lifetimes. And we’ve only begun to fight. If we win, we will create a booming and thriving […]
10/11/2016
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/HILLARY CLINTON/VOTING/VOTE BY MAIL: “If you’ve already registered, request an absentee ballot today and vote really early. We’ve got to win. The Hillary Clinton documents released today by WikiLeaks make more clear than ever just how much is at stake in this election, so much corruption. This election will determine whether we remain a […]
10/5/2016
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/HILLARY CLINTON/VOTING/VOTE BY MAIL: “Hillary Clinton is the ringleader of a criminal enterprise and the only way to deliver justice is to mail in your ballots. Go out there get them done. November 8th, get in. We’re going to end this, folks. We’re going to end it. We can’t let this happen. We’re like […]
10/3/2016
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/HILLARY CLINTON/VOTING/VOTE BY MAIL: “Hillary can’t discuss the issues because she’s one of the ones who helped create the problems in the first place… And she’ll do everything she can to distract from the issues and her enormous corruption and criminal conduct; the campaign of distraction funded by Wall Street investors and hedge fund […]
10/3/2016
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/VOTING/VOTE BY MAIL: “And remember, Colorado, mail in your ballots by Election Day. Mail in your ballots by election day, or a lot sooner than that if you can, but get those ballots in because there’s only one way this is going to be taken away; that’s if we’re foolish or if we let […]
8/17/2016
CAMPAIGN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “August [17] 2016. Donald Trump appointed Bannon as his campaign CEO.” – “The Age of Bannon,” Time Magazine, Feb. 13, 2017, Abigall Abrams, 8/17/2016 […]
8/14/2016
CAMPAIGN/DONALD ON DONALD/MEDIA: “My rallies are not covered properly by the media. They never discuss the real message and never show crowd size or enthusiasm.” – 8/14/2016, Donald Trump, Twitter.com, 8/14/2016 […]
3/23/2016
CAMPAIGN/DONALD ON DONALD: “While I believe I will clinch before Cleveland and get more than 1237 delegates, it is unfair in that there have been so many in the race!” – 3/23/2016, Donald Trump, Twitter.com, 3/23/2016 […]
3/22/2016
CAMPAIGN/DONALD ON DONALD/TERRORISM: “I have proven to be far more correct about terrorism than anybody- and it’s not even close. Hopefully AZ and UT will be voting for me today!” – 3/22/2016, Donald Trump, Twitter.com, 3/22/2016 […]
3/12/2016
CAMPAIGN/CANDIDATE: “Word is-early voting in FL is very dishonest. Little Marco, his State Chairman, & their minions are working overtime-trying to rig the vote.” – 3/12/2016, Donald Trump, Twitter.com, 3/12/2016 […]
3/8/2016
CAMPAIGN/DONALD ON DONALD: “Remember, I am the only one who is self-funding my campaign. All of the other candidates are bought and paid for by special interests!” – 3/8/2016, Donald Trump, Twitter.com, 3/8/2016 […]
3/7/2016
CAMPAIGN/CANDIDATE/IMMIGRATION: “Ted Cruz Was For Welcoming Syrian Refugees Before He Was Against It https://t.co/zw4o1DJgfB” – 3/7/2016, Donald Trump, Twitter.com, 3/7/2016 […]
3/7/2016
CAMPAIGN/CANDIDATE/DONALD ON DONALD/TWITTER: “I will be using Facebook and Twitter to expose dishonest lightweight Senator Marco Rubio. A record no-show in Senate, he is scamming Florida” – 3/7/2016, Donald Trump, Twitter.com, 3/7/2016 […]
3/7/2016
CAMPAIGN/DONALD ON DONALD/JOBS: “It was great being in Michigan. Remember, I am the only presidential candidate who will bring jobs back to the U.S.and protect car industry!” – 3/7/2016, Donald Trump, Twitter.com, 3/7/2016 […]
3/5/2016
CAMPAIGN/DONALD ON DONALD: “For all of today’s voters please remember that I am the only candidate that is self funding my campaign, I am not bought and paid for!” – 3/5/2016, Donald Trump, Twitter.com, 3/5/2016 […]
2/28/2016
CAMPAIGN/DONALD ON DONALD: “As I stated at the press conference on Friday regarding David Duke- I disavow. https://t.co/OIXFKPUlz2” – 2/28/2016, Donald Trump, Twitter.com, 2/28/2016 […]
2/28/2016
CANDIDATE/CAMPAIGN: “While I hear the Koch brothers are in big financial trouble (oil), word is they have chosen little Marco Rubio, the lightweight from Florida” – 2/28/2016, Donald Trump, Twitter.com, 2/28/2016 […]