2/10/2020

ATTORNEY GENERAL/INVESTIGATIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUDY GUILIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Attorney General William P. Barr said on Monday [2-10-20] that the Justice Department would consider information from Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Trump’s personal lawyer, about Ukraine. That could include assertions about former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his son Hunter. The Justice Department ‘has the obligation to […]

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2/9/2020

FBI/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “FBI Director Christopher Wray just admitted that the FISA Warrants and Survailence of my campaign were illegal. So was the Fake Dossier. THEREFORE, THE WHOLE SCAM INVESTIGATION, THE MUELLER REPORT AND EVERYTHING ELSE FOR THREE YEARS, WAS A FIXED HOAX. WHO PAYS THE PRICE?….” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, February 9, 2020 2:52 pm […]

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1/2/2020

INVESTIGATIONS/SPYGATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UKRAINE: “A lot of very good people were taken down by a small group of Dirty (Filthy) Cops, politicians, government officials, and an investigation that was illegally started & that SPIED on my campaign. The Witch Hunt is sputtering badly, but still going on (Ukraine Hoax!). If this….” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 2, […]

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1/2/2020

INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….it’s alienating independents. This President is being persecuted over three years with one investigation after another, and that really plays to his base.” @FoxNews @cvpayne Their partisan Witch Hunt is hurting our Country do badly, & only bringing more division than ever!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 2, 2020 8:42 am […]

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12/16/2019

GOP/INVESTIGATIONS/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Twenty former Republican lawmakers, officials and legal experts are urging a federal appeals court to reject President Donald Trump’s claim that his former White House counsel, Don McGahn, can ignore a House subpoena. The slate of prominent GOP figures is arguing that the country’s founders did not intend for presidents and […]

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12/15/2019

FBI/INVESTIGATIONS/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As bad as the I.G. Report is for the FBI and others, and it is really bad, remember that I.G. Horowitz was appointed by Obama. There was tremendous bias and guilt exposed, so obvious, but Horowitz couldn’t get himself to say it. Big credibility loss. Obama knew everything!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December […]

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12/15/2019

DEVIN NUNES/INVESTIGATIONS/MEDIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Schiff’s correcting the record memo has turned out to be totally wrong (based on the I.G. Report)! A very big lie. @MariaBartiromo And @DevinNunes has turned out to be completely right. Congratulations to Devin. The Fake News Media should apologize to all!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 15, 2019 12:12 pm […]

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12/13/2019

CONGRESS/FBI/INVESTIGATIONS/SPYGATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In his report on the origins of the F.B.I.’s Russia investigation, and in testimony before Congress on Wednesday [12-11-19], the inspector general of the Department of Justice, Michael Horowitz, demolished President Trump’s most sensational allegations about the Russia inquiry: He concluded that the opening of the investigation was lawful and legitimate, that […]

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12/12/2019

INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “@replouiegohmert ‘This is so surreal. For three years, this President has been harassed. He’s been electronically surveilled, spied upon, allegations have never ceased, they continue, and their continuing today. At some point you would think you would look at the abuse….” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 12, 2019 9:57 pm […]

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12/9/2019

ATTORNEY GENERAL/INVESTIGATIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When the Mueller report was made public this spring, Attorney General William P. Barr seemed to try to blunt its findings, playing them down in an early summary and defending President Trump at a news conference just before its release. On Monday [12-9-19], when the Justice Department’s inspector general, Michael […]

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12/9/2019

FBI/INVESTIGATIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump and his allies spent months promising that a report on the origins of the F.B.I.’s Russia investigation would be a kind of Rosetta Stone for Trump-era conspiracy enthusiasts — the key to unlocking the secrets of a government plot to keep Mr. Trump from being elected in 2016. […]

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12/9/2019

FBI/INVESTIGATIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A highly anticipated review of the origins of the FBI’s investigation into potential collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia is set for release Monday [12-9-19], following last-minute signaling from President Donald Trump and his allies that the report may not much offer much in the way of blockbuster revelations that […]

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12/5/2019

COURTS/INVESTIGATIONS/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Speaker Nancy Pelosi talked about the ongoing fight over Trump’s financial documents that the House has subpoenaed as part of its investigation. She said the President’s actions of ‘bumping them up in court’ — or continuing to appeal to a higher court — ‘is an obstruction of justice.’ She added that the House is […]

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12/2/2019

FBI/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Lisa Page, the former F.B.I. lawyer who became a frequent target of President Trump after criticizing him in text messages during his candidacy in 2016, ended nearly two years of public silence in an interview with The Daily Beast published on Sunday [12-1-19]. Since her text messages were made public in 2017, […]

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11/27/2019

2016 ELECTION/FBI/INVESTIGATIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Justice Department’s inspector general found no evidence that the F.B.I. attempted to place undercover agents or informants inside Donald J. Trump’s campaign in 2016 as agents investigated whether his associates conspired with Russia’s election interference operation, people familiar with a draft of the inspector general’s report said. The determination […]

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11/21/2019

ELECTION/INVESTIGATIONS/LAWSUIT/TRUMP TAXES: “President Donald Trump, facing lawsuits and political demands to release his U.S. tax returns and other financial information, said on Thursday [11-21-19] he will release a statement on his finances before the presidential election, and asserted that it was his call on providing the information…Trump also said Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s two-year investigation […]

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11/15/2019

INVESTIGATIONS/LEGAL/ROGER STONE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “For decades, Roger J. Stone Jr. played politics as a kind of performance art, starring himself as a professional lord of mischief, as a friend once called him. He tossed bombs and spun tales from the political periphery with no real reckoning, burnishing a reputation as a dirty trickster. On Friday [11-15-19] […]

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11/14/2019

AMBASSADOR/EU/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UKRAINE: “A second U.S. embassy staffer in Kyiv overheard a key cellphone call between President Donald Trump and his ambassador to the European Union discussing the need for Ukrainian officials to pursue ‘investigations,’ The Associated Press has learned. The July 26 call between Trump and Gordon Sondland was first described during testimony Wednesday […]

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11/9/2019

DONALD JR/INVESTIGATIONS: “RT @DonaldJTrumpJr: ‘The person who planted fake evidence shouldn’t be the one ruling on the admissibility of fake evidence,’ Ratcliffe sai…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 9, 2019 7:15 pm […]

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11/9/2019

INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “But the Witch Hunt continues. After 3 years of relentless attacks against the Republican Party & me, the Do Nothing Dems are losers for America! https://t.co/met2y8VoPe”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 9, 2019 11:15 am […]

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11/9/2019

INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “RT @RepLeeZeldin: Here’s Rush Limbaugh weighing in on some of my deposition exchanges with Bill Taylor from Taylor’s transcript just releas…”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 9, 2019 6:53 am […]

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11/4/2019

INVESTIGATIONS/MIKE POMPEO/RUSSIA/STATE/TRUMP PEOPLE/UKRAINE: “As President Trump’s first C.I.A. director, Mike Pompeo was briefed by agency officials on the extensive evidence — including American intercepts of conversations between participants — showing that Russian hackers working for the government of Vladimir V. Putin had interfered in the 2016 American presidential campaign. In May 2017, Mr. Pompeo testified […]

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10/28/2019

ATTORNEY GENERAL/INVESTIGATIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Attorney General William P. Barr pushed back on Monday [10-28-19] on criticism that the Justice Department is investigating the origins of the Russia inquiry to help President Trump settle personal legal and political scores, insisting that he does not serve as the president’s personal lawyer…Mr. Barr also sought to […]

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10/26/2019

INVESTIGATIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “..the President when Flynn had been cleared of everything long before that. The DOJ is withholding a lot of evidence & information, as are Clapper & Brennan & all of the people who participated in the complete setup of Michael Flynn.”(Terrible!) Sidney Powell. This is a disgrace!”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October […]

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10/25/2019

INVESTIGATIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Friday [10-25-19] vigorously defended his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, who is facing an expanding criminal probe and whose Ukraine activities are central to House Democrats’ impeachment investigation. Asked whether he was concerned about authorities’ growing scrutiny of the former New York mayor, Trump brushed off the […]

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10/25/2019

ATTORNEY GENERAL/DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. Attorney General William Barr faced growing criticism from Democrats on Friday [10-25-19] after the Justice Department said it had intensified its politically charged review of the origins of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. A person familiar with the matter late on Thursday confirmed that the […]

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10/24/2019

ATTORNEY GENERAL/INVESTIGATIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “For more than two years, President Trump has repeatedly attacked the Russia investigation, portraying it as a hoax and illegal even months after the special counsel closed it. Now, Mr. Trump’s own Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into how it all began. Justice Department officials have shifted […]

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10/22/2019

FOREIGN AID/INVESTIGATIONS/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UKRAINE: “The top U.S. envoy to Ukraine told House impeachment investigators on Tuesday [10-22-19] that President Donald Trump sought to withhold critical military aid to Ukraine and refuse a White House meeting with the country’s president unless he pursued politically motivated investigations into Trump’s rivals. The diplomat, William Taylor, painted a damaging […]

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10/22/2019

DEMS/GOP/INVESTIGATIONS/SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Many congressional Republicans are done trying to defend President Donald Trump after he said he was the victim of a lynching on Tuesday [10-22-19] — but that doesn’t mean they’re trying to rein him in, either. Trump’s tweet comparing the impeachment process to a ‘lynching’ set off a firestorm of Democratic […]

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10/18/2019

AMBASSADOR/DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Corrupt Congressman Adam Schiff is angry that Ambassadors that he thought would be good for his fraudulent Witch Hunt, are turning out to be good for me – some really good! He’s got all meetings locked down, no transparency, only his illegal leaks. A very dishonest sleazebag!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 18, […]

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10/18/2019

DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), chairman of the House committee that oversees federal buildings, threatened today to subpoena the General Services Administration if the agency does not hand over documents related to the Trump Hotel by next week. DeFazio’s committee, the House Transportation Committee, has been investigating the federal government’s lease of […]

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10/17/2019

AMBASSADOR/EU/HOUSE OF REPS/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/UKRAINE: “Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, bolstered Democrats’ impeachment inquiry Thursday [10-17-19] as he broke sharply from President Donald Trump in testimony before House investigators. During nearly nine hours of testimony, Sondland said he reluctantly indulged what he described as the president’s efforts to run Ukraine […]

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10/17/2019

CONGRESS/CORRUPTION/G7/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Openly rebuffing congressional investigators and dismissing political optics, President Donald Trump will hold the G-7 summit of world leaders at one of his family’s resorts in the middle of an election year — shrugging off a House impeachment inquiry into whether he is illegally making money off the presidency. Trump’s decision […]

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10/16/2019

DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I’m fighting for the American people, but the Democrats’ sole focus is fighting against ME with their fraudulent Witch Hunt. Go to https://t.co/Dt42WogFxM and tell Democrats in Congress that Enough is Enough!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 16, 2019 5:19 pm […]

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10/16/2019

INVESTIGATIONS/MIKE POMPEO/STATE/TRUMP PEOPLE : “Michael McKinley told investigators he resigned last week as a top aide to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo out of frustration with an increasingly politicized State Department — particularly the way the Trump administration wrestled Ukraine policy away from career diplomats. He warned that efforts to pressure Ukraine ‘to procure negative […]

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10/15/2019

DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UKRAINE: “Tuesday [10-15-19] night’s Democratic debate will play out with some unusual background noise coming from Washington: whistles being blown by multiple people. Former ambassadors, top foreign policy aides and once-loyal campaign donors are disregarding orders from the White House to ignore congressional subpoenas, trudging up to Capitol Hill for marathon sessions of […]

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10/15/2019

DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democrats are allowing no transparency at the Witch Hunt hearings. If Republicans ever did this they would be excoriated by the Fake News. Let the facts come out from the charade of people, most of whom I do not know, they are interviewing for 9 hours each, not selective leaks.” –Donald Trump, […]

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10/11/2019

DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UKRAINE: “The State Department’s request went in early March to Marie L. Yovanovitch, a longtime diplomat who had served six presidents: Would she extend her term as ambassador to Ukraine, scheduled to end in August, into 2020? Less than two months later came another departmental communiqué: Get ‘on the next plane’ to Washington. […]

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10/11/2019

COURTS/DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP TAXES: “President Trump’s accounting firm must comply with a House committee’s demands for eight years of his financial records, a federal appeals court panel ruled on Friday [10-11-19] in a major victory for House Democrats in their struggle against his vow to stonewall ‘all’ of their oversight subpoenas. In a 66-page ruling, […]

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10/9/2019

GOP/INVESTIGATIONS/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Trey Gowdy, the former South Carolina congressman who led the committee that investigated the terrorist attack on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, will join President Trump’s legal team as an outside adviser. The move — which had been widely anticipated — was announced Wednesday [10-9-19] […]

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10/8/2019

GOP/INVESTIGATIONS/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UKRAINE: “To his allies, President Donald Trump never did anything to warrant the investigation into Russian collusion in the 2016 election. But this is not Russia. This time, some of those same allies say, Trump brought the Ukraine investigation on himself. One said it‘s ‘unseemly,’ while others called it a ‘naive’ and ‘stupid’ […]

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