Category: Investigations

10/4/2019

DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….of Ukraine, and cannot find any reason to charge the President with high crimes & misdemeanors. This is just a phony Witch Hunt, perpetuated by Democrats to get rid of Trump because they cannot beat him in a fair election.’ Richard Ketay” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 4, 2019 9:25 pm […]

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10/4/2019

CHINA/INVESTIGATIONS/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UKRAINE: “President Donald Trump on Friday [10-4-19] defended his brazen call for foreign governments to interfere in the 2020 election by launching investigations into the Bidens, repeatedly claiming he is duty-bound to encourage the probes while insisting his motivations are apolitical…The president has been road-testing such justifications on social media since declaring […]

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10/4/2019

CORRUPTION/DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UKRAINE: “President Trump denied again on Friday [10-4-19] that there was any quid pro quo attached to his pressure on Ukraine to investigate his political enemies, but text messages and testimony collected by congressional investigators indicated that his own representatives saw it differently. Envoys representing Mr. Trump sought to leverage the power of […]

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9/29/2019

CORRUPTION/DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “His lies were made in perhaps the most blatant and sinister manner ever seen in the great Chamber. He wrote down and read terrible things, then said it was from the mouth of the President of the United States. I want Schiff questioned at the highest level for Fraud & Treason…..” –Donald […]

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9/25/2019

DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UKRAINE: “‘Democrats wrote to the Ukrainian government in May 2018 urging it to continue investigations into President Donald Trump’s alleged collusion with Russia in the 2016 presidential campaign — collusion later found NOT TO EXIST.’ https://t.co/wYdRmpfddk” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 25, 2019 9:58 am […]

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9/25/2019

INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UKRAINE: “It did not take long for President Trump to see an opening during his July 25 call with Volodymyr Zelensky, the young new president of Ukraine. Just after 9 a.m. in Washington, Mr. Zelensky was heaping praise on the American president for bragging about helping Ukraine in its yearslong war with Russian-backed […]

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9/25/2019

DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “There has been no President in the history of our Country who has been treated so badly as I have. The Democrats are frozen with hatred and fear. They get nothing done. This should never be allowed to happen to another President. Witch Hunt!”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 25, 2019 6:24 am […]

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9/25/2019

INVESTIGATIONS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Great new book by the brilliant Andrew McCarthy, BALL OF COLLUSION, THE PLOT TO RIG AN ELECTION AND DESTROY A PRESIDENCY. Get it, and some other great new books which I will soon be recommending. They tell you about the Crooked Pols and the Witch Hunt that has now been exposed!”  –Donald […]

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9/24/2019

INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “‘He (Trump) has already been suffering from this type of a Witch Hunt since before his Inauguration. If it’s not one thing, it’s another. It’s a DISGRACE!’ @pnjaban @LouDobbs https://t.co/9I9kXo2B8V” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 24, 2019 10:34 pm […]

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9/24/2019

DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “Such an important day at the United Nations, so much work and so much success, and the Democrats purposely had to ruin and demean it with more breaking news Witch Hunt garbage. So bad for our Country!”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 24, 2019 4:08 pm […]

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9/24/2019

CORRUPTION/INVESTIGATIONS/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….You will see it was a very friendly and totally appropriate call. No pressure and, unlike Joe Biden and his son, NO quid pro quo! This is nothing more than a continuation of the Greatest and most Destructive Witch Hunt of all time!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 24, 2019 1:12 pm […]

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9/24/2019

DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/IMPEACHMENT/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “For months, dozens of House Democrats anxiously avoided even the mention of impeaching President Trump — right up until the moment that they demanded it. The sudden embrace of an impeachment inquiry by previously reluctant House Democrats — most notably Speaker Nancy Pelosi — is attributable to one fundamental fact: […]

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9/23/2019

DEMS/GOP/INVESTIGATIONS/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UKRAINE: “Democrats moved assertively on Monday [9-23-19] to increase political pressure on the White House and congressional Republicans to furnish documentation about explosive allegations that President Trump sought to pressure the Ukrainian president to help produce damaging information on a leading political rival. In the House, where the revelations about a conversation between […]

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9/19/2019

INVESTIGATIONS/LAWSUIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Lawyers for President Trump argued in a lawsuit filed on Thursday [9-19-19] that he could not be criminally investigated while in office, as they sought to block a subpoena from state prosecutors in Manhattan demanding eight years of his tax returns. Taking a broad position that the lawyers acknowledged had not been […]

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9/16/2019

DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The White House on Monday [9-16-19] blocked two more former aides to President Trump from testifying in House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry, but cleared a third witness, Corey Lewandowski, to appear publicly on Tuesday [9-17-19] and answer limited questions about potential obstruction of justice by the president. The White House […]

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9/16/2019

DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “They failed on the Mueller Report, they failed on Robert Mueller’s testimony, they failed on everything else, so now the Democrats are trying to build a case that I enrich myself by being President. Good idea, except I will, and have always expected to, lose BILLIONS of DOLLARS..”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]

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9/15/2019

INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “‘We cannot have what happened to this President happen again.’ Joe DiGenova. ‘It is time for Justice to come barreling in.’ @LouDobbs Can you imagine that with everything going on in this World, the Witch Hunt, though on a respirator, is still whimpering along. A disgrace!”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 15, […]

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9/13/2019

INVESTIGATIONS/NATURAL DISASTERS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “On Friday [9-13-19] morning in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., government scientists in khakis and sensible shoes bustled to work — beneath a towering bronze sculpture of a hand releasing seabirds — heading for a small scientific agency caught up in a political mess triggered by President Trump’s tweet about Hurricane […]

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9/12/2019

DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS/MILITARY/SCOTLAND/TRUMP BUSINESS: “The U.S. Air Force has lodged crews at President Donald Trump’s Scotland resort up to 40 times since 2015, a figure that is far higher than previously known. The tally represents the preliminary results of an Air Force review launched after POLITICO reported last week that an Air National Guard crew stayed at […]

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9/12/2019

DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/IMPEACHMENT/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee voted to intensify its investigation of Republican President Donald Trump on Thursday [9-12-19], as lawmakers edged closer to deciding whether to recommend his impeachment. The 41-member panel adopted a resolution allowing it to designate hearings as impeachment proceedings, subject witnesses to more […]

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9/4/2019

DHS/HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/INVESTIGATIONS/PARDONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday [9-4-19] subpoenaed the Department of Homeland Security for documents connected to President Donald Trump’s alleged offer to pardon officials who break the law while carrying out his immigration agenda. Trump has denied making such an offer, and his allies have reportedly claimed his closed-door […]

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8/23/2019

COURTS/DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “An appeals court panel hearing one of President Trump’s bids to keep his finances under wraps signaled Friday [8-23-19] that the subpoenas issued by two House committees did not necessarily have to be all or nothing…The arguments concerned subpoenas issued by two Democrat-controlled committees to Deutsche Bank and Capital One for […]

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8/13/2019

COURTS/DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS/LAWSUIT/LEGISLATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democrats took control of the House this year promising to use legislation and investigations to check President Trump. But facing substantial roadblocks to each, they are increasingly opposing him in a different way: Eight months into their majority, the House is going to court at a tempo never seen before. Fighting in […]

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7/18/2019

INVESTIGATIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Federal prosecutors’ decision to end an investigation into hush money payments to women claiming affairs with Donald Trump relied at least in part on long-standing Justice Department policy that a sitting president cannot be charged with a crime, a person familiar with the matter said Thursday [7-18-19]. The Justice Department told a federal […]

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7/17/2019

COURTS/INVESTIGATIONS/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A judge on Wednesday [7-17-19] ordered the release of documents relating to hush-money payments by Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen to two women who said they had sexual encounters with the president and disclosed that federal prosecutors had ended their investigation of the matter. U.S. District Judge William Pauley […]

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7/17/2019

CAMPAIGN FINANCE/INVESTIGATIONS/MICHAEL COHEN/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal judge in Manhattan disclosed on Wednesday [7-17-19] that prosecutors have concluded their investigation into campaign finance violations involving President Trump and ordered that they publicly release some of their files, a new twist in a case that had threatened to upend the Trump presidency. The judge’s order […]

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7/11/2019

2016 ELECTION/HOUSE OF REPS/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Thursday [7-11-19] laid into congressional Democrats over their investigations into his administration and 2016 campaign, asking, ‘How many bites at the apple do they get’ before dropping their probes and moving on to issues like immigration reform? The tweets, which came as part of a […]

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7/8/2019

CAMPAIGN FINANCE/INVESTIGATIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Federal prosecutors have intensified their wide-ranging federal investigation into Elliott Broidy, a top fund-raiser for President Trump, signaling the Justice Department’s continued interest in questions about foreign influence on the administration. In recent months, federal authorities have searched Mr. Broidy’s Southern California office and subpoenaed records related to him from a […]

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7/1/2019

INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP BUSINESS: “That’s right, The Trump Foundation gave away 100% plus, with Zero rent or expenses charged, and has been being sued by Cuomo and New York State for years – another part of the political Witch Hunt. Just in case anyone is interested – Clinton Foundation never even looked at!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July […]

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6/28/2019

ETHICS/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/INVESTIGATIONS/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The U.S. House of Representatives Ethics Committee said on Friday [6-28-19] it will investigate Republican lawmaker Matt Gaetz after allegations he tried to threaten and influence the congressional testimony of President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen. Gaetz came under scrutiny earlier this year for a Twitter post that critics […]

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6/28/2019

DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former President Jimmy Carter questioned the legitimacy of Donald Trump’s presidency on Thursday [6-27-19], saying he would likely not be in the White House if the Russians did not interfere in the 2016 presidential election…Pressed by moderator and historian Jon Meacham on whether he believes Trump is an ‘illegitimate president,’ Carter stared, […]

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6/21/2019

HOUSE OF REPS/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Felix H. Sater, a former business associate of President Trump’s, failed to show up on Friday [6-21-19] to an interview with House investigators meant to explore his work on a proposed Trump real estate project in Moscow. He will now face a congressional subpoena. Mr. Sater had voluntarily agreed to […]

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6/20/2019

CONGRESS/DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS/MEDIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former White House communications director Hope Hicks told lawmakers Wednesday [6-19-19] that she had ‘never been asked to lie about matters of substance or consequence,’ contending that ‘white lies’ she had told on behalf of President Donald Trump were about small matters, such as his availability. The comments are part of the 273-page […]

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6/17/2019

DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is facing a hurdle no other president has — an unprecedented onslaught of investigations into almost every recent organization he has led. In California, investigators are examining some of the more than $100 million in donations to Trump’s inauguration. In New Jersey, they’re looking into the treatment of employees […]

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6/14/2019

INVESTIGATIONS/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump is challenging his former White House counsel’s testimony to Robert Mueller, asserting that he never even so much as suggested firing the special counsel. In an interview with ABC News, the president suggested that Don McGahn told Mueller of Trump’s supposed directive that he be fired in order to […]

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6/11/2019

DONALD JR/INTELLIGENCE/INVESTIGATIONS/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump Jr. will be interviewed behind closed doors with members of the Senate Intelligence Committee Wednesday [6-12-19], according to a source familiar with the matter. Trump Jr.’s meeting comes after Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.) issued a subpoena to compel him to appear before the panel, following up […]

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6/10/2019

GOP/IMPEACHMENT/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump, whose actions during the Russia investigation have prompted comparisons to the Watergate scandal, drew a distinction between himself and President Richard Nixon on Monday [6-10-19]: ‘He left. I don’t leave. A big difference.’ He made the comment on the same day that John Dean, the former Nixon White House […]

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6/6/2019

2016 ELECTION/COURTS/DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. congressional Democrats moved closer on Thursday [6-6-19] to suing in federal court for access to the unredacted Mueller report on Russian election meddling, and its underlying evidence, taking a step bound to intensify their clash with President Donald Trump. After months of stonewalling by Trump of their many investigations of […]

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6/6/2019

DEMS/FEDERAL RESERVE/INVESTIGATIONS/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A group of Democratic senators wants top officials at the Federal Reserve to examine whether Deutsche Bank complied with anti-money-laundering and other laws after bank employees flagged transactions tied to President Trump as potentially suspicious. The request, in a letter sent Thursday [6-6-19], was in response to a New York Times […]

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5/30/2019

INVESTIGATIONS/ROBERT MUELLER: “Look, Robert Mueller should’ve never been chosen [to run an investigation] because he wanted the FBI job and he didn’t get it. And the next day, he was picked as Special Counsel. So you tell somebody, “I’m sorry, you can’t have the job.” And then, after you say that, he’s going to make […]

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5/23/2019

CONGRESS/INVESTIGATIONS/LEGISLATION/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “One day after President Donald Trump indicated he would not cut deals with Congress while he’s being investigated, he cut a deal with Congress. With Trump’s support, the Senate passed a long-stalled disaster aid bill, in the perfect encapsulation of a whiplash-inducing week. On Tuesday [5-22-19], hopes of a two-year budget deal […]

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5/23/2019

INVESTIGATIONS/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Democrats are getting nothing done in Congress. All of their effort is about a Re-Do of the Mueller Report, which didn’t turn out the way they wanted. It is not possible for them to investigate and legislate at the same time. Their heart is not into Infrastructure, lower….. ….drug prices, […]

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5/22/2019

DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump and Speaker Nancy Pelosi engaged in a public and bitter feud on Wednesday [5-22-19], with the president detonating bipartisan negotiations over the speaker’s accusations of a ‘cover-up’ and Pelosi bluntly responding: ‘I pray for the president of the United States.’ The breakdown resulted in Trump declaring that he […]

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5/22/2019

DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….But they really want a do-over! You can’t investigate and legislate simultaneously – it just doesn’t work that way. You can’t go down two tracks at the same time. Let Chuck, Nancy, Jerry, Adam and all of the rest finish playing their games….”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 22, 2019 12:01 pm […]

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5/22/2019

GOP/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As I have long been saying, and has now been proven out, this is a Witch Hunt against the Republican Party and myself, and it was the other side that caused the problem, not us!”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 22, 2019 10:15 am […]

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5/22/2019

DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “..BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN. Mr. McGahn can be forgiven for declining the honor of appearing in Mr. Nadler’s pseudo-impeachment drama.’ Wall Street Journal Editorial Board Today – May 21, 2019”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 22, 2019 10:11 am […]

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5/22/2019

DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘The Democrats are in danger of becoming irrelevant because of their decision to keep taking the country on wild goose chases. They ought to start governing. You know, for a change.’ Michael Goodwin @newyorkpost” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 22, 2019 8:54 am […]

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5/22/2019

DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS/NANCY PELOSI/STEVE MNUCHIN/TREASURY/TRUMP TAXES: “It was another wild day in Washington as President Trump stormed out of a three-minute Oval Office meeting with Democratic congressional leaders, Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused the president of a ‘cover-up’ and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin held firm on his refusal to release Mr. Trump’s tax returns to Congress. But Democrats […]

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5/21/2019

DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Freshman Democrats who delivered the House majority are starting to split under impeachment pressure as a number of those in competitive districts are now warming to the idea of launching proceedings against President Donald Trump. As the administration continues to stonewall requests for documents — not just surrounding special counsel Robert Mueller’s […]

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5/14/2019

ATTORNEY GENERAL/INVESTIGATIONS/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Federal prosecutor John Durham, known for bringing independent rigor to challenging and politically sensitive cases, just got his latest high-profile assignment. Durham will help Attorney General William Barr review the origins of the Russia investigation, a task that could catapult the press-shy career prosecutor into the national spotlight. Durham is […]

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5/9/2019

ATTORNEY GENERAL/DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Sen. Kamala Harris Thursday asked Attorney General William Barr to clarify whether President Donald Trump ever pressured Barr to open an investigation into any individual. The letter comes hours after Trump called for former Secretary of State John Kerry to be prosecuted for violating the Logan Act by negotiation with […]

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5/5/2019

ECONOMY/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Despite the tremendous success that I have had as President, including perhaps the greatest ECONOMY and most successful first two years of any President in history, they have stolen two years of my (our) Presidency (Collusion Delusion) that we will never be able to get back…..” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 5, 2019 […]

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5/3/2019

DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Sen. Kamala Harris called on the Justice Department inspector general to look into whether Attorney General William Barr had received or complied with any requests from the White House to investigate President Donald Trump’s ‘perceived enemies.’ In a letter sent Friday [5-3-19] to Inspector General Michael Horowitz, the California Democrat, who […]

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5/1/2019

DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “In 1973, when Donald J. Trump’s real estate firm faced a potentially existential threat from the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s accusations of discriminatory practices, his lawyer, Roy Cohn, filed a countersuit against the government, accusing the agency of defamation. The gambit, announced at a news conference, helped Mr. Trump, […]

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4/29/2019

INVESTIGATIONS/NRA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Three days after addressing the National Rifle Association convention, President Donald Trump told the NRA on Monday [4-29-19] to straighten out in the wake of a leadership crisis and a high-profile investigation into its finances…Turmoil marked the NRA convention in Indianapolis as President Oliver North announced he would not seek a second term and expressed […]

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4/26/2019

CONGRESS/DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS/LAWSUIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is flatly refusing to cooperate in numerous U.S. congressional probes of himself and his administration, taking a defiant stance that could trigger protracted court fights with House of Representatives Democrats. In an unprecedented step, the Trump administration has filed a lawsuit to try to block one congressional subpoena; some […]

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4/26/2019

CONGRESS/DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “At least half a dozen committees of the U.S. Congress are investigating President Donald Trump, who is refusing to cooperate with most of them since the April 18 release of the Mueller report on Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, setting up a likely court battle. The clash between […]

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4/25/2019

CONGRESS/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump is definitely building a wall — but it is between the White House and the House of Representatives. In the aftermath of Robert S. Mueller III’s report, the White House has quickly assumed a defiant, hard-line stance that it will not respect subpoenas and demands for information from various House […]

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4/24/2019

DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump spiked partisan tensions to new heights Wednesday [4-24-19], saying his administration will challenge ‘all the subpoenas’ sent his way by congressional Democrats. The president’s comment came the same day the Justice Department sent a letter to House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) stating it would not comply […]

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4/23/2019

ATTORNEY GENERAL/ELECTION/FBI/INVESTIGATIONS/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Attorney General William Barr has received a waiver to participate in the investigation of 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), a Malaysian development company that has come under investigation by the FBI and DOJ for alleged money laundering. The waiver, dated April 16, allows Barr to participate in ‘the investigation and litigation of […]

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4/17/2019

DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The investigations surrounding President Donald Trump’s campaign and his presidency have not ended even though Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller has wrapped up his probe. Prosecutors in a half-dozen federal, state and city jurisdictions are pursuing overlapping inquiries focused on how Trump operated his namesake business empire, how a porn star […]

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4/16/2019

DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/INVESTIGATIONS/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “After three months in power, House Democrats have finally hit their investigative stride. They’ve teed up invasive probes of President Donald Trump’s finances, uncorked subpoenas and set the stage for court battles that could consume Washington through the 2020 election. But everything could change Thursday [4-18-19] when Attorney General […]

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