8/6/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Rick Gates, a longtime business associate of U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, on Monday [8-6-18] testified at trial that he helped Manafort file false tax returns and hide his foreign bank accounts. Gates is expected to be the government’s star witness in its case against […]

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8/4/2018

LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As President Donald Trump’s legal team continued its will-he-or-won’t-he dance this week on a sit-down interview with special counsel Robert Mueller, a federal judge in Washington issued a tome on why Mueller’s appointment was rock-solid in the first place. Chief Judge Beryl Howell’s decision is not entirely novel; it falls […]

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8/3/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Paul Manafort’s longtime bookkeeper testified Thursday [8-2-18] that Mr. Manafort and an associate appeared to use documents that inaccurately inflated their firm’s income to obtain bank loans, a central allegation in the prosecution by special counsel Robert Mueller’s office. Heather Washkuhn also testified that even though she kept close tabs on […]

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8/3/2018

2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Paul Manafort’s accountants testified against the former Trump campaign chairman on Friday [8-3-18], telling jurors that loan amounts were fudged to help him on his taxes and that he did not disclose his financial stake in foreign companies. Testimony from the financial professionals who worked for Manafort are making up […]

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8/3/2018

COURTS/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “An accountant for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort admitted at Manafort’s tax- and bank-fraud trial Friday [8-3-18] that she filed tax returns she thought contained false information and that she may have committed a crime in doing so. Accountant Cindy Laporta said she had a sense that what Manafort and […]

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8/3/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “An accountant for U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort testified on Friday [8-3-18] that she knew an accounting treatment for a loan was wrong when preparing Manafort’s tax return. The accountant, Cynthia Laporta, said the accounting treatment involved the 2014 tax year. ‘I very much regret it,’ she […]

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8/3/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “An accountant for U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort testified on Friday [8-3-18] that she prepared his tax returns despite her concerns about the propriety of classifying money he transferred from overseas as loans. U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis asked the accountant, Cynthia Laporta, whether she was […]

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8/2/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A day after describing in detail how millions of dollars in payments from Ukrainian oligarchs enabled Paul Manafort to live in luxury through 2014, federal prosecutors outlined on Thursday [8-2-18] how his financial fortunes reversed so sharply in subsequent years that he made his Manhattan condominium available on Airbnb. Witnesses […]

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8/2/2018

LEGAL/LOBBYING/MICHAEL COHEN/NUCLEAR ENERGY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A major donor to President Trump agreed to pay $10 million to the president’s then-personal attorney if he successfully helped obtain funding for a nuclear-power project, including a $5 billion loan from the U.S. government, according to people familiar with the matter. The donor, Franklin L. Haney, gave the contract to […]

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8/2/2018

LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/ROGER STONE/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “An aide to Roger Stone, a former adviser to Donald Trump, must turn over documents and testify before the grand jury hearing evidence in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, a federal judge ruled Thursday [8-2-18]. At the same time, Mr. Mueller is negotiating the terms of a possible interview […]

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8/2/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Prosecutors on Thursday [8-2-18] pressed their bank and tax fraud case against Paul Manafort, presenting testimony and documents to try to prove U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman deceived his lead bookkeeper and a bank about his finances. On the trial’s third day, the prosecution pivoted away from describing Manafort’s […]

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8/1/2018

LEGAL/LOBBYING/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The mandate given to Robert S. Mueller III and his team was broad: to investigate not just Russian election interference but also any related crimes they might unearth. So when this group of seasoned prosecutors began rooting around Washington, they pounced on a ripe target — lobbyists taking millions […]

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8/1/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Prosecution questioning Wednesday [8-1-18] of the former manager of a luxury men’s clothing boutique Paul Manafort frequented, Alan Couture in New York, revealed an intriguing and mysterious development: someone apparently forged invoices from the store. Seeking to establish just how expensive Manafort’s tastes were, Manafort’s team got Maximillian Katzman—the store’s […]

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8/1/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Prosecutors on Wednesday [8-1-2018] introduced into evidence dozens of business, loan and tax-preparation records seized last year from the Virginia condominium owned by Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman now on trial on tax and bank-fraud charges. An FBI agent, Matthew Mikuska, testified that he and about 14 […]

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7/31/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Paul Manafort’s trial on financial fraud charges opened on Tuesday [7-31-18] with an effort by his defense team to deflect blame to the government’s star witness in the case, Rick Gates, Mr. Manafort’s longtime political consulting partner. The defense strategy pits the credibility of Mr. Manafort, a former campaign chairman for […]

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7/31/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. prosecutors raised the possibility on Wednesday [8-1-18] that an expected star witness may not testify against President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort even as the judge tried to rein in their portrayal of Manafort’s lavish lifestyle. Testimony in the second day of Manafort’s trial, the first stemming from […]

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7/31/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Prosecutors accused former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort of being a ‘shrewd’ liar who orchestrated a global scheme to avoid paying taxes on millions of dollars, in opening statements that kicked off Manafort’s trial on Tuesday [7-31-18]. Manafort lived an ‘extravagant lifestyle’ fueled by ‘secret income’ that he earned from his […]

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7/31/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A jury was sworn in Tuesday [7-31-18] for the trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, with opening statements on deck in the first case that special counsel Robert Mueller’s team is bringing to trial. The 12-person jury selected for Manafort’s trial includes six men and six women. There are […]

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7/31/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Prosecutors and defense attorneys selected a 12-member jury on Tuesday [7-31-18] to weigh the fate of Paul Manafort, U.S. President Donald Trump’s former 2016 campaign chairman, in the first trial to arise out of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe. The jury of six men and six women will hear testimony […]

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7/30/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The criminal trial of Paul Manafort that opens in Virginia Tuesday [7-31-18] is just one part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s sprawling Russia probe — but its verdict could have an outsized impact on Mueller’s work. A conviction against Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, who is fighting major bank and […]

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7/30/2018

LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, said Monday [7-30-18] that he’s not sure collusion with Russia would be considered a crime. But legal experts have repeatedly said that anyone found collaborating with Russia on the 2016 election could be charged with other crimes, such as conspiracy — and special […]

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7/29/2018

LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “After a week of revelations that suggest Michael Cohen may have turned on Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, the President’s current lawyer, argued that Trump’s former attorney wasn’t credible and has ‘lied all his life.’ That’s a stark reversal from what Giuliani once said about Cohen, whom he described as truthful […]

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7/30/2018

2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Paul Manafort on Tuesday [7-31-18] will become the first of President Donald Trump’s former aides to go on trial, accused of bank and tax fraud by federal investigators probing Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Despite a focus on financial crimes, the trial could yield politically damaging headlines […]

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7/29/2018

2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump’s allies sought to discredit his former attorney, Michael Cohen, after a week of escalating clashes that raised the question of how much Mr. Cohen may be prepared to divulge about his former boss. Rudy Giuliani, Mr. Trump’s lawyer, called Mr. Cohen a ‘pathological manipulator’ and ‘a liar’ […]

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7/29/2018

2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Paul Manafort, the veteran Republican political operative and lobbyist who helped run President Trump’s 2016 campaign, is scheduled to go to trial on financial fraud charges starting on Tuesday [7-31-18] in United States District Court in Alexandria, Va. The main points to be aware of: It is the first trial stemming […]

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7/29/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team will take President Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort to court in Alexandria, Va., on Tuesday [7-31-18], in a trial with implications reaching far beyond the immediate charges ranging from tax evasion to bank fraud. The outcome of the trial, which is expected to last three […]

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7/27/2018

LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A furious President Donald Trump and his allies are launching a campaign to undermine the credibility of Trump’s former personal lawyer and confidant, Michael Cohen, in response to Cohen’s dramatic public turn against his longtime patron. Trump, who has privately fumed about Cohen for days, trashed his former lawyer […]

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7/27/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Immigrant advocacy groups are gearing up to track down more than 400 parents who were separated from their children and deported without them. The challenge is so daunting that government attorneys have bristled every time it’s come up in court. And now a number of nonprofit groups say they’re prepared to join […]

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7/27/2018

LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A federal judge expressed skepticism on Friday [7-27-18] at a request for a gag order from the former personal lawyer for U.S. President Donald Trump against the lawyer for adult film actress Stormy Daniels, who is suing the president. At a hearing in Los Angeles, U.S. District Judge S. James Otero […]

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7/27/2018

2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Michael Avenatti, the attorney representing porn actress Stormy Daniels in her lawsuits against President Donald Trump, now also represents three other women who claim to have had affairs with Trump who say they were paid to stay silent about. The Associated Press reported Thursday that Avenatti announced his new clients […]

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7/26/2018

LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Allen Weisselberg, a longtime financial gatekeeper for President Donald Trump, has been subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury in the criminal probe of Mr. Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, according to people familiar with the investigation. Mr. Weisselberg is considered a witness in the investigation, the people said. It […]

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7/26/2018

LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Allen Weisselberg, a longtime financial gatekeeper for President Donald Trump, has been subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury in the criminal probe of Mr. Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, according to people familiar with the investigation. Mr. Weisselberg is considered a witness in the investigation, the people said. It […]

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7/26/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When federal judge Dana Sabraw gave orders to reunite separated families by certain dates, he made his demands clear: These were ‘firm deadlines,’ he warned. ‘Not aspirational goals.’ That was weeks ago, before an earlier deadline in the case. Fast forward to Thursday [7-26-18], and US officials are scrambling to reunite hundreds […]

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7/26/2018

2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “About a month before Michael Cohen released his recording of a sensitive conversation he had with Donald Trump, the President’s longtime attorney and adviser was agonizing over the silent treatment he was getting from his former boss…Federal prosecutors were bearing down on him over his business dealings, some involving […]

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7/25/2018

LEGAL/MICHAEL CHOEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Lanny J. Davis’s client list, like his quintessentially Washington career as an all-purpose lawyer, lobbyist, crisis consultant and television-talker, is lengthy, international — and more than occasionally contradictory. Mr. Davis has represented Harvey Weinstein and Penn State, a Ukrainian oligarch with links to President Trump’s indicted former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, […]

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7/25/2018

LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Just before Election Day, when The Wall Street Journal uncovered a secret deal by the National Enquirer to buy the silence of a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with Donald J. Trump, his campaign issued a flat denial. ‘We have no knowledge of any of this,’ Mr. […]

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7/25/2018

2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “President Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, escalated his dispute with the president on Tuesday [7-24-18] by releasing a secret recording of a conversation in which Mr. Trump appears to have knowledge about hush money payments to a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with […]

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7/25/2018

LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump said on Wednesday [7-25-18] that it is ‘so sad’ that his longtime personal attorney recorded their private conversations, suggesting that audio released Tuesday [7-24-18] has been doctored to exclude ‘positive things’ that he was ‘presumably’ saying…In an interview with POLITICO, Davis scoffed at the president’s suggestion about the […]

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7/25/2018

LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump blasted his former attorney Michael Cohen on Wednesday [7-25-18], the morning after CNN aired the audio of a recording Cohen made of the two…In the audio aired first on CNN’s ‘Cuomo Prime Time,’ Trump and Cohen can be heard discussing how they would buy the rights to […]

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7/25/2018

LEGAL/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Michael Cohen and the publisher of the National Enquirer forged an alliance over the years, looking out for the interests of Donald Trump and each other. Now, federal investigators are examining those ties as part of a wide-ranging probe into Mr. Cohen’s personal business dealings and his self-described role as […]

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7/25/2018

LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “On Tuesday [7-24-18] night at 9 sharp, any pretense that Michael Cohen might still be in President Donald Trump’s camp ended. That’s the moment when the previously secret recording of a 2016 conversation between Trump’s personal fixer and the then-presidential candidate aired on CNN’s ‘Cuomo Prime Time.’ The recording, in which […]

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7/25/2018

LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “What kind of a lawyer would tape a client? So sad! Is this a first, never heard of it before? Why was the tape so abruptly terminated (cut) while I was presumably saying positive things? I hear there are other clients and many reporters that are taped – can this be […]

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7/25/2018

LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday [7-25-18] expressed disbelief that his longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen would have taped conversations with him, a day after an audio recording of a conversation between the two men was aired on U.S. television. A lawyer for Cohen, Lanny Davis, released the recording of Trump […]

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7/23/2018

CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration gave its first indication Monday [7-23-18] of how many parents separated from their children may have already been deported: More than 460. In a status update on the ongoing court-ordered family reunifications filed Monday, the government said 463 parents of separated children aged five and older are indicated as […]

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7/23/2018

2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A U.S. judge on Monday [7-23-18] delayed the criminal trial of President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort until next week, and made public the identity of five witnesses granted immunity to testify. U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III also said the office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller […]

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7/23/2018

2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Twelve audio recordings seized from U.S. President Donald Trump’s onetime personal attorney, Michael Cohen, were turned over to federal prosecutors on Friday [7-20-18], according to a filing in federal court in Manhattan on Monday [7-23-18]. They include a recording of a conversation between Cohen and Trump two months before the […]

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7/23/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, has granted the request for five witnesses to testify with immunity in the criminal trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. US District Judge T.S. Ellis is also ordering special counsel Robert Mueller’s team to tell Manafort’s team the nearly 30 witnesses it is […]

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7/22/2018

LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump’s lawyers have waived attorney-client privilege on his behalf regarding a secretly recorded conversation he had in September 2016 with his former longtime lawyer Michael Cohen in which they discussed payments to an ex-Playboy model who says she had an affair with the President, according to sources familiar with […]

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7/21/2018

LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Inconceivable that the government would break into a lawyer’s office (early in the morning) – almost unheard of. Even more inconceivable that a lawyer would tape a client – totally unheard of & perhaps illegal. The good news is that your favorite President did nothing wrong!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 21, 2018 […]

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7/20/2018

LEGAL/MEDIA/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Bill Shine, a former co-president of Fox News hired this month as President Trump’s communications chief, brought conservative credentials and heavy baggage with him into the White House. President Trump embraced the former and ignored the latter. Mr. Shine, now struggling to limit the damage from Mr. Trump’s performance on Monday [7-16-18] with […]

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7/20/2018

2016 ELECTION/FBI//LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Trump’s longtime lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, secretly recorded a conversation with Mr. Trump two months before the presidential election in which they discussed payments to a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with Mr. Trump, according to lawyers and others familiar with the recording. The F.B.I. […]

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7/20/2018

LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “MIchael Cohen taped a conversation in person with Donald Trump in which the two men discussed buying the rights to a former Playboy Playmate’s story that she had an affair with Mr. Trump more than a decade ago, according to people familiar with the matter. The conversation, between the then-GOP presidential […]

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7/20/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/ICE/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Attorneys for the U.S. government were due in court on Friday [7-20-18] to update a federal judge on efforts to reunite some 2,500 immigrant children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border as part of a crackdown on illegal immigration. The government has six more days to comply with the reunification […]

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7/18/2018

DEMS/JARED/KUSHNER/LEGAL/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Democratic National Committee tried and failed three times to serve Jared Kushner with a lawsuit at his Manhattan apartment and was turned away by a US Secret Service agent when it attempted to deliver the packet to the White House senior adviser’s Washington, DC, home, according to court filings. After consulting with […]

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7/18/2018

2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/NEW YORK/TRUMP BUSINESS: “New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday [7-18-18] opened the door to a possible criminal case against the Donald J. Trump Foundation with a statement from his counsel that Cuomo was prepared to provide a criminal referral if asked. ‘At Governor Cuomo’s direction, the state stands ready to provide the Attorney […]

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7/16/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/HHS/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal judge in San Diego is temporarily blocking the government from deporting recently reunited immigrant families, the latest ruling to go against the Trump administration as it rushes to reunite more than 2,500 children with their families. Judge Dana Sabraw gave the Trump administration a week to file a written objection […]

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7/13/2018

2016 ELECTION/DEMS/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election indicted 12 Russian intelligence officers on Friday [7-13-18] for hacking the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton presidential campaign. The indictment came just three days before President Trump is planning to meet with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia […]

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7/12/2018

LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “In the end, the arrest at an Ohio strip club of Stephanie Clifford, the pornographic film star who said she had an affair with Donald J. Trump before he became president, was quickly resolved because of one fact: she was not a regular employee of the club. Ms. Clifford, who performs under […]

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7/12/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Paul Manafort arrived at the jail in Alexandria, Virginia — the William G. Truesdale Adult Detention Center — Thursday [7-12-18] morning, according to a spokesperson for the Alexandria Sheriff’s Office. A mugshot released by the sheriff’s office shows an unsmiling Manafort with graying hair and light facial stubble four weeks after the […]

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7/11/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/HHS/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A day after dozens of parents were reunited with children who had been separated at the U.S.-Mexico border by immigration officials, the U.S. government faces a looming deadline to match another roughly 2,000 children with parents. The struggle to track and match parents with children under five suggests meeting a July 26 […]

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7/11/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort has been able to review evidence and is being treated like a ‘VIP’ in jail, prosecutors said on Wednesday [7-11-18], arguing against Manafort’s efforts to postpone his trial on fraud charges. In a filing to a Virginia federal judge overseeing one of […]

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7/10/2018

LEGAL/LOBBYING/MICHAEL FLYNN/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former national security adviser Mike Flynn has a new job: He has joined a global lobbying and investment advisory firm. As he awaits sentencing for lying to federal investigators, he is going into business with Washington lobbyist Nick Muzin and his New York partner Joey Allaham with a new firm called […]

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7/10/2018

FBI/LEGAL/MICHAEL FLYNN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser who pleaded guilty in a case related to the Russian election collusion investigation, is eager to move to the sentencing phase and put his legal ordeal behind him, Flynn’s lawyer said at a hearing on Tuesday. Robert Kelner confirmed at the […]

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7/9/2018

2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Michael Cohen, the President’s former fixer and ultimate loyalist, is sending a clear signal to President Donald Trump and his attorney, Rudy Giuliani, that ‘the truth is not you(r) or your client’s friend,’ according to sources with knowledge of Cohen’s thinking. Two sources familiar with Cohen’s thinking say he […]

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7/8/2018

2016 ELECTION/FBI/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s attorney, Rudy Giuliani, said Sunday [7-8-18] that he isn’t concerned about Michael Cohen potentially cooperating with federal prosecutors…Giuliani also said that if Cohen tells the truth, ‘we’re home free.’ The comments follow an interview Cohen had with ABC News last week in which he suggested […]

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7/6/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Paul Manafort does not want to visit court until his Virginia criminal trial and he waived his right to appear in court for any upcoming hearings in the Eastern District of Virginia, his attorneys wrote in a filing Friday [7-6-18]. No other hearings are currently scheduled before the district court until his […]

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7/6/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/HHS/IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is asking a judge for more time to reunite families who cross the border illegally then seek asylum, saying in court documents that officials are still struggling to match some children with parents arrested at the border. A federal judge gave the government until Tuesday [7-10-18] to reunite […]

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7/5/2018

FBI/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s embattled former personal lawyer Michael Cohen, who has dropped hints that he may cooperate with federal prosecutors investigating his former boss, has hired an attorney and PR man who led former President Bill Clinton’s public defense against multiple scandals in the 1990s. Lanny Davis, who spent countless hours […]

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7/5/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Special counsel Robert Mueller’s prosecutors are urging a federal appeals court to reject former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s bid to be released on bail as he prepares for two criminal trials, including one set to begin later this month. In a filing Thursday [7-5-18], Mueller’s team urged the U.S. Court […]

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7/2/2018

LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s longtime personal fixer, sat down with ‘Good Morning America’ for his first interview since federal agents raided his office in April, he said it was a step toward reaching his ultimate goal of ‘resolution.’ But as revealing as it was, the interview that aired […]

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7/2/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/HHS/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Federal officials are struggling to reunite migrant children with their families despite a court deadline, and agencies do not have the resources or procedures to help thousands of children detained at the border back into the arms of their parents, according to a dozen current and former officials, advocates and experts. With […]

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6/27/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A search warrant application unsealed on Wednesday [6-27-18] revealed closer links than previously known between President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort and a Russian oligarch with close ties to the Kremlin. In an affidavit attached to the July 2017 application, an FBI agent said he had reviewed tax returns for […]

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6/26/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “More than a dozen states sued the Trump administration on Tuesday [6-26-18] over its separation of migrant children and parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, saying President Donald Trump’s order last week ending the breakups was illusory. In a complaint filed with U.S. District Court in Seattle, 17 states and the District of […]

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6/25/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Lawyers for Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s former presidential campaign manager, said on Monday [6-25-18] they plan to appeal a judge’s decision to jail Manafort while he awaits a criminal trial in Washington later this fall. Judge Amy Berman Jackson in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia […]

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6/25/2018

2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Michael Caputo was facing $130,000 in legal bills with no clear way to pay on the May morning that special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators interviewed him about Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election. Mr. Caputo planned to liquidate his retirement savings and children’s college accounts, and said the size […]

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6/22/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A federal judge on Friday [6-22-18] dealt another blow to U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, refusing to dismiss a money laundering charge brought against him by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson’s ruling was the latest setback for Manafort, whose charges stem […]

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6/22/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The mother rushed toward her son the second he stepped off the jetway. Then she teared up. In the waiting area of Gate C14 at Baltimore Washington International Airport, she wrapped a blanket around him, cradled his head in her arms and wept. ‘I love you,’ she said in Spanish, between sobs. […]

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6/20/2018

LEGAL/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Federal authorities have subpoenaed the publisher of the National Enquirer for records related to its $150,000 payment to a former Playboy model for the rights to her story alleging an affair with Donald Trump, according to people familiar with the matter. The subpoena from Manhattan federal prosecutors requesting information from the publisher, […]

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6/20/2018

BORDER/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former longtime lawyer, resigned from his post as national deputy finance chairman at the Republican National Committee Wednesday [6-20-18], according to an RNC official, saying the investigations into his contacts with Russia and his business dealings were proving too great a distraction. In a letter […]

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6/20/2018

LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A federal judge in Los Angeles has rejected a request by the adult film actress Stormy Daniels to restart her lawsuit there against U.S. President Donald Trump and his longtime lawyer Michael Cohen. In an order dated Tuesday [6-19-18], U.S. District Judge James Otero said the amount of media attention in […]

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6/19/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A Guatemalan woman who was separated from her 7-year-old son after crossing the border from Mexico last month filed a new lawsuit on Tuesday [6-19-18] challenging the Trump administration’s practice of splitting up immigrant families even when an adult claims asylum. The suit, filed in federal court in Washington, demands the immediate […]

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6/19/2018

LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Michael Cohen took aggressive steps to collect on a multimillion-dollar debt in October 2016, at the time he was seeking to come up with $130,000 to pay a former adult-film star for agreeing to keep quiet about an alleged sexual encounter with Donald Trump. The debt stemmed from a loan to […]

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6/15/2018

CALIFORNIA/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Calling for an end to the ‘media circus’ that has engulfed his numerous legal cases, Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s longtime personal fixer, has asked a judge in California to keep his adversary, the lawyer Michael Avenatti, from speaking about him in the news media. In a motion filed on Thursday […]

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6/15/2018

LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen has indicated to family and friends he is willing to cooperate with federal investigators to alleviate the pressure on himself and his family, according to a source familiar with the matter. Cohen has expressed anger with the treatment he has gotten from the […]

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6/15/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A judge on Friday [6-15-18] sent longtime Republican political operator and businessman Paul Manafort to jail pending trial after a charge of witness tampering, the latest episode in a slow fall from grace of a man who was President Donald Trump’s campaign chairman in 2016. Manafort, a target of Special Counsel […]

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6/14/2018

LEGAL/TRUMP FAMILY: “The New York state attorney general’s office on Thursday [6-14-18] sued President Donald Trump, three of his children and the family’s foundation, accusing the charity of wide-ranging illegal conduct including coordinating with Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign. The lawsuit, filed in state Supreme Court in Manhattan, calls Mr. Trump’s foundation ‘little more than an […]

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6/14/2018

LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Rudy Giuliani insisted Wednesday [6-13-18] evening that Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, would not flip on his ex-boss by cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe. ‘I checked into this last night. It’s not so,’ Giuliani told Laura Ingraham of Fox News. The former New York […]

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6/13/2018

LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s longtime personal fixer, will soon be parting from the lawyers who are representing him in a potentially damaging and wide-ranging federal investigation into his business dealings, according to two people familiar with the case. Mr. Cohen has not yet been approached by the prosecutors conducting the inquiry […]

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6/12/2018

LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special counsel Robert Mueller’s office is asking federal Judge Dabney Friedrich for an order that would lock down documents shared with the Russian company Concord Management and Consulting, because of the potential for the information to be shared with foreign nationals and intelligence officials still working to sow discord in the […]

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6/8/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Prosecutors have filed a new indictment against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort that also names as a defendant Konstantin Kilimnik, a close business colleague of Manafort’s who prosecutors have said has close ties to Russian intelligence. The indictment includes two new charges against both Manafort and Kilimnik: a count of […]

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6/8/2018

LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal judge said U.S. President Donald Trump should publicly file his objections to findings of a court-appointed special master reviewing documents seized in a probe of the business dealings of his longtime personal lawyer, Michael Cohen. In an order issued on Friday [6-8-18], U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood in […]

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6/7/2018

LEGAL/MIKE PENCE/SPORTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Colin Kaepernick’s legal team is expected to seek subpoenas for President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and other campaign officials relating to the quarterback’s collusion case against the NFL, a source familiar with the ongoing grievance process has told CNN. The new move intends to explore NFL owners’ ties with […]

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6/6/2018

LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “The adult-film actress Stormy Daniels on Wednesday [6-6-18] accused her former attorney Keith Davidson of colluding with President Donald Trump’s onetime lawyer and fixer, calling Davidson a ‘puppet’ for Trump who ‘hatched a plan’ to put a lid on reports of his infidelities. Daniels made the complaint in a lawsuit […]

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6/6/2018

LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Adult film actress Stormy Daniels on Wednesday [6-6-18] launched a new lawsuit against her former attorney, Keith Davidson, as well as President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, saying the two men ‘colluded’ and ‘acted in concert’ to ‘manipulate’ Daniels and to benefit Trump. The lawsuit, filed in the Superior Court […]

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6/5/2018

LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “White House press secretary Sarah Sanders refused again on Tuesday [6-5-18] to correct her August statement that President Donald Trump wasn’t involved in drafting a misleading statement about his son’s meeting with a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower…A day earlier, Sanders referred questions on the matter to the President’s outside counsel. The President’s […]

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6/5/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The special counsel’s office has accused former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort of attempting to get witnesses to lie for him in court, and they’ve asked the judge to send him to jail as he awaits his trial, according to a filing in DC District Court Monday [6-4-18] night. One […]

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6/5/2018

LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A judge ruled Tuesday [6-5-18] that President Donald Trump can be deposed in a defamation lawsuit brought last year by Summer Zervos, a former contestant on ‘The Apprentice’ who says Trump kissed and groped her after she appeared on the show. Zervos is one of more than a dozen women who have […]

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6/5/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A federal judge on Tuesday [6-5-18] ordered U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, to respond by Friday [6-8-18] to the government’s bid to revoke or revise his release and set a June 15 hearing on the matter, according to a court filing. Special Counsel Robert Mueller said in […]

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6/5/2018

LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A recently published letter from President Donald Trump’s attorneys claiming that the president could not have obstructed the federal investigation into ties between his campaign and Russia is deeply flawed, 14 prominent law professors and legal scholars said Monday [6-4-18] in a pointed rebuttal sent to top lawyers at the White […]

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