ATTORNEY GENERAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “For nearly a month, the American public has been under the impression, thanks to a four-page ‘summary’ by Attorney General William Barr, that Robert Mueller could not decide whether President Donald Trump had obstructed justice because of ‘difficult questions of law and fact.’ Barr suggested that the special counsel, […]
Category: Robert Mueller
4/19/2019
CONGRESS/DEMS/NEW YORK/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In the mid-1990s, Representative Jerry Nadler, who represents parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn, once said, ‘Anyone who would loan Donald Trump money is taking a risk.’ In 2017, Mr. Nadler said President Trump was ‘legally elected but is not legitimate.’ And this month, The Washington Post reported that in […]
4/19/2019
2016 ELECTION/GOP/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said on Friday [4-19-19] he was ‘sickened’ by the dishonesty of U.S. President Donald Trump and people around him as portrayed in a report on Russia’s attempts to influence the 2016 election. Romney, now a U.S. senator from Utah and an off-and-on Trump […]
4/19/2019
MEDIA/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @seanhannity: Mueller’s Final Report ‘Completely Vindicates’ President Trump ? https://t.co/t97JxHWdji” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 19, 2019 5:46 pm […]
4/19/2019
GOP/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said on Friday [4-19-19] he was ‘sickened’ by the dishonesty of U.S. President Donald Trump and people around him as portrayed in a report on Russia’s attempts to influence the 2016 election. Romney, now a U.S. senator from Utah and an off-and-on Trump critic, […]
4/19/2019
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY: “For two years, President Donald Trump and his close associates contradicted, denied and dodged reports and questions of Russian involvement in the 2016 campaign. Now that the Mueller report is out, redacted as it may be, we have the chance to fact-check those public denials against what many people […]
4/19/2019
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WHITE HOUSE STAFF: “A day after claiming that special counsel Robert Mueller’s report had vindicated him, President Donald Trump was in a foul mood about Mueller’s detailed findings, lashing out at the Russia investigator and fuming about aides who cooperated with him. Close White House advisers said they expect Trump’s hottest […]
4/19/2019
DEMS/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Statements are made about me by certain people in the Crazy Mueller Report, in itself written by 18 Angry Democrat Trump Haters, which are fabricated & totally untrue. Watch out for people that take so-called ‘notes,’ when the notes never existed until needed. Because I never….” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 19, […]
4/19/2019
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In the summer of 2016, not long after WikiLeaks began releasing damaging material hacked by the Russian government from the servers of the Democratic National Committee, candidate Donald Trump was traveling to an airport with campaign aide Rick Gates. Trump got off a phone call and told Gates more material […]
4/18/2019
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special counsel Robert Mueller was able to complete his investigation because President Donald Trump let him, the president asserted Thursday [4-18-19] afternoon, in his first public reaction since Mueller’s report was released hours earlier…Trump was initially mum after Mueller’s report into Russian interference during the 2016 election went public […]
4/18/2019
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In December 2016, a few weeks after Donald Trump’s surprise election victory, Russian president Vladimir Putin convened what a Russian oligarch described as an ‘all-hands’ meeting with some of his country’s top businessmen. A main topic of discussion: U.S. sanctions against Russia. One of the oligarchs present was Petr Aven, co-founder […]
4/18/2019
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Mr. Mueller examined about 10 actions by President Trump to determine whether he sought to obstruct justice but could not reach a conclusion. He found a concerted effort by Russia to interfere in the 2016 election, but established no criminal conspiracy between Mr. Trump’s campaign and Russia.The report detailed […]
4/18/2019
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Robert S. Mueller III laid out roughly a dozen episodes that revealed that President Trump was intent on using his position to protect himself and his associates from the investigation into links between his campaign and the Russian government’s covert operation to manipulate the 2016 election. Mr. Mueller, the […]
4/18/2019
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Robert S. Mueller III revealed the scope of a historic Russian campaign to sabotage the 2016 presidential election in a much-anticipated report made public on Thursday [4-18-19], and he detailed a frantic monthslong effort by President Trump to thwart a federal investigation that imperiled his presidency from the start. […]
4/18/2019
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, examined an array of actions President Trump took in office that could have constituted obstruction of justice. Ultimately, Mr. Mueller declined to make a decision about whether Mr. Trump broke the law and Attorney General William P. Barr stepped in to cleared the […]
4/18/2019
FBI/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WHITE HOSUE STAFF: “When ousted FBI Director James Comey delivered damaging testimony to Congress in 2017, attracting nationwide attention, White House aides insisted that President Donald Trump’s mood was ‘light.’ Shortly after news broke that Donald Trump Jr. agreed to meet with Russian nationals promising dirt on Hillary Clinton, Trump reported […]
4/18/2019
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump White House and its allies went into overdrive on Thursday [4-18-19] to spin the Mueller report as a vindication, even as it became clear that the 448-page document was filled with unflattering details about the president and even suggested that he might still be hiding unknown criminal activity. […]
4/18/2019
ATTORNEY GENERAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. Attorney General decided that President Donald Trump did not obstruct a probe into whether his campaign colluded with Russia, but some legal experts said prosecutors laid out a wealth of evidence to the contrary and that they intended to leave that determination to Congress. Special Counsel Robert […]
4/18/2019
JEFF SESSIONS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump responded to news of special counsel Robert Mueller’s 2017 appointment by telling then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions that he was ‘fucked,’ according to a redacted version of Mueller’s report released Thursday [4—18-19]. ‘Oh my God,’ the president told Sessions, according to the report. ‘This is terrible. This […]
4/18/2019
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special Counsel Robert Mueller may not have found evidence of a criminal conspiracy between Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia, but his report details extensive contacts between the campaign and Russian operatives who sought to influence the election. Mueller said in his report released on Thursday [4-18-19] that he found ‘numerous […]
4/18/2019
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special counsel Robert Mueller’s long-awaited report is more damning than President Donald Trump has publicly claimed, detailing Trump’s aggressive efforts to interfere in the Justice Department’s Russia probe and declining to rule out that Trump obstructed justice. Far from the ‘complete and total exoneration’’ the president has declared in […]
4/18/2019
CHRIS CHRISTIE/FBI/JAMES COMEY/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump asked former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie about the prospect of firing Special Counsel Robert Mueller and also asked him to be an intermediary to FBI Director James Comey, according to the Mueller report released Thursday [4-18-19]. The redacted report reveals for the first time that […]
4/18/2019
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s calculated move to pre-emptively declare ‘complete exoneration’ in the Russia probe will be put to the test in a matter of hours. After nearly two years of waiting, the public on Thursday will finally see the results of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into whether the Trump […]
4/17/2019
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 U.S. election has ensnared dozens of people, including several advisers to President Donald Trump and a series of Russian nationals and companies. Rod Rosenstein, the No. 2 U.S. Justice Department official, in May 2017 appointed Mueller to look […]
4/17/2019
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESETIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Attorney General William Barr is due on Thursday [4-18-19] to release a redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on the 22-month investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 U.S. election and contacts between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Moscow. The special counsel and U.S. intelligence agencies […]
4/17/2019
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A former Trump administration official who cooperated with Robert Mueller’s probe is having serious second thoughts about talking to the special counsel’s office, citing concerns about being named in the Justice Department’s redacted version of the report. This aide noted the White House requested that former senior officials cooperate […]
4/17/2019
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When the Mueller report crashes into a Washington feverish with anticipation on Thursday [4-18-19], the White House hopes to show President Donald Trump busy doing his job — and far away from a phone-sized keyboard. Trump typically spends the first half of his workday in the White House residence in […]
4/17/2019
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “More than two dozen current and former Trump administration officials gave interviews to special counsel Robert Mueller during his investigation, according to a CNN analysis of past reporting, court filings and public statements from some of the witnesses. Several of these witnesses are still working in senior positions at the […]
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 […]
4/17/2019
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Thursday [4-18-19], at least a dozen attorneys and staff members for President Donald Trump will plunge into special counsel Robert Mueller’s 400-page report on Russian interference in the 2016 election. Their mission? Distill the document into a quick response for the waiting political world. The president and his advisers are getting […]
4/16/2019
COURTS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Federal District Judge Reggie Walton expressed uncertainty about the redactions Attorney General William Barr is making to special counsel Robert Mueller’s report and suggested he may want to review the Justice Department’s redactions for himself once versions of it are made public. ‘Obviously there is a real concern as […]
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 […]
4/16/2019
DEMS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A feeling of uneasy anticipation hangs over Washington ahead of the release of a redacted version of Robert Mueller’s report Thursday [4-18-19]. Many in the White House seem braced for bad news — which is odd considering President Donald Trump has already claimed complete absolution from the special counsel. But […]
4/16/2019
DEMS/MEDIA/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As he awaits the Thursday [4-18-19] release of the redacted special counsel report on his 2016 campaign’s ties to Russia, President Trump is filling his idle moments — and blowing off any anticipatory steam — by turning to a familiar pastime: television. In speeches, in interviews and on Twitter this […]
4/15/2019
DEMS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Mueller Report, which was written by 18 Angry Democrats who also happen to be Trump Haters (and Clinton Supporters), should have focused on the people who SPIED on my 2016 Campaign, and others who fabricated the whole Russia Hoax. That is, never forget, the crime…..” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April […]
4/15/2019
HILLARY CLINTON/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Mueller, and the A.G. based on Mueller findings (and great intelligence), have already ruled No Collusion, No Obstruction. These were crimes committed by Crooked Hillary, the DNC, Dirty Cops and others! INVESTIGATE THE INVESTIGATORS!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 15, 2019 6:15 am […]
4/13/2019
CONGRESS/DEMS/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Why should Radical Left Democrats in Congress have a right to retry and examine the $35,000,000 (two years in the making) No Collusion Mueller Report, when the crime committed was by Crooked Hillary, the DNC and Dirty Cops? Attorney General Barr will make the decision!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 13, 2019 […]
4/12/2019
LEGAL/MEDIA/OBAMA/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Friday [4-12-19] accused the media of burying news that a White House counsel in the Obama administration had been indicted on ‘very serious’ charges similar to those his former campaign chairman and national security adviser pleaded guilty to last year…Craig, who served in the White House in […]
4/12/2019
DEMS/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘Democrats don’t like the results of the Mueller Report, so now they’re trying everything else.’ @RepDougCollins They should stop wasting time and money and get back to real legislating, especially on the Border!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 12, 2019 8:46 am […]
4/12/2019
ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “‘I don’t need to know any more. We’re done, absolutely done, he (Mueller) tried the case. There’s NO COLLUSION.’ @LindseyGrahamSC @foxandfriends No matter what we do or give to the Radical Left, it will never be enough!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 12, 2019 8:06 am […]
4/11/2019
ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @DailyCaller: Rod Rosenstein Defends Attorney General’s Handling Of Mueller Report https://t.co/qMmzaPYrK4” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 11, 2019 7:24 pm […]
4/11/2019
2016 ELECTION/ATTORNEY GENERAL/ROBERT MUELLER/SPYGATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Thursday [4-11-19] told reporters ‘there was absolutely spying into my campaign’ in 2016, feeding partisan tensions about the anticipated release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s final report and the origins of the Russia investigation. The president’s declaration comes a day after Attorney General William Barr […]
4/10/2019
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION: “I have not seen the Mueller report. I have not read the Mueller report. I won. No collusion. No obstruction. I won. Everybody knows I won. And the pros knew it was illegally started. The whole thing was illegal. I have not read the Mueller report. I haven’t seen the Mueller report. […]
4/10/2019
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION: “Well, the Mueller Report is interesting. After $35 million, with 13 — increased to 18 — angry Democrats — people that truly hated Donald Trump, truly hated Trump — they found no collusion whatsoever with Russia. But I could have told you that and so could most people… It was an illegal […]
4/10/2019
DEMS/FBI/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday [4-10-19] called special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation an ‘attempted coup’ intended to remove him from office…Trump has long derided Mueller’s probe as a ‘witch hunt’ and accused the former FBI director of building a team stacked with Democrats. Mueller, a registered Republican, submitted a report […]
4/10/2019
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday [4-10-19] he had not seen or read a report into Russian election meddling by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, a day after his attorney general would not say whether he had briefed the White House or shared the report. Attorney General William Barr on […]
4/5/2019
DEMS/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘Trolling the Mueller Report. Democrats Lost On Collusion. Now They’re Inventing A Coverup.’ @WSJopinion James Freeman @LouDobbs” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 5, 2019 6:58 am […]
3/4/2019
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democrats in the House of Representatives are gearing up to issue subpoenas to try to obtain Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s full report on Russia’s role in the 2016 U.S. election and President Donald Trump’s actions related to the inquiry. The question is: how successful will they be? Attorney […]
4/4/2019
MEDIA/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The New York Times had no legitimate sources, which would be totally illegal, concerning the Mueller Report. In fact, they probably had no sources at all! They are a Fake News paper who have already been forced to apologize for their incorrect and very bad reporting on me!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
4/3/2019
2016 ELECTION/CONGRESS/DEMS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. congressional Democrats on Wednesday [4-3-19] authorized a powerful committee chairman to subpoena Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s full report on Russia’s role in the 2016 election, moving closer to a legal clash with President Donald Trump’s administration. The Democratic-led House of Representatives Judiciary Committee voted to enable its chairman, […]
4/3/2019
CONGRESS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Some of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators have told associates that Attorney General William Barr did not properly convey how damaging their findings were for President Donald Trump, The New York Times and The Washington Post reported. The investigators said Barr, in his memo to Congress, did not adequately portray […]
4/2/2019
CONGRESS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump appeared to backpedal on Tuesday [4-2-19] from his initial desire for special counsel Robert Mueller’s report to be released to Congress and the public, a sharp diversion from his enthusiastic calls for the release of the highly anticipated report. In a series of tweets, Trump disparaged congressional […]
4/2/2019
DEMS/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Robert Mueller was a God-like figure to the Democrats, until he ruled No Collusion in the long awaited $30,000,000 Mueller Report. Now the Dems don’t even acknowledge his name, have become totally unhinged, and would like to go through the whole process again. It won’t happen!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 2, […]
4/2/2019
DEMS/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In 1998, Rep.Jerry Nadler strongly opposed the release of the Starr Report on Bill Clinton. No information whatsoever would or could be legally released. But with the NO COLLUSION Mueller Report, which the Dems hate, he wants it all. NOTHING WILL EVER SATISFY THEM! @foxandfriends” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 2, 2019 […]
4/1/2019
MEDIA/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A group advocating for journalists and First Amendment rights is asking a judge to clear away one of the key obstacles the Justice Department is citing as grounds for withholding portions of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s final report: the presence of information gathered through the secret actions of a grand […]
4/1/2019
DEMS/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “No matter what information is given to the crazed Democrats from the No Collusion Mueller Report, it will never be good enough. Behind closed doors the Dems are laughing!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 1, 2019 9:43 am […]
3/29/2019
HEALTHCARE/ROBERT MUELLER/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “At a rally in Michigan, President Trump misstated the findings of the special counsel investigation, misleadingly promised to protect patients with pre-existing conditions and falsely described funding for a restoration program for the Great Lakes. WHAT MR. TRUMP SAID: ‘By the way, we’re bringing a lot of those car companies […]
3/29/2019
CONGRESS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The special counsel’s report on the investigation into Russia’s election interference will be made public by mid-April, Attorney General William P. Barr told lawmakers on Friday, adding that the White House would not see the document before he sent it to Congress…Prosecutors from the office of the special counsel, Robert […]
3/29/2019
DEMS/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Robert Mueller was a Hero to the Radical Left Democrats, until he ruled that there was No Collusion with Russia (so ridiculous to even say!). After more than two years since the ‘insurance policy’ statement was made by a dirty cop, I got the answers I wanted, the Truth…..” –Donald Trump, […]
3/28/2019
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump feels vindicated. And now he’s out for blood. Wearing the same red tie he wore on Inauguration Day, Trump took the stage in Michigan on Thursday [3-28-19] for the first time since being cleared of Russian conspiracy charges and proceeded to tear through a vengeance-laced speech that […]
3/28/2019
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The House Intelligence Committee’s first hearing since Robert S. Mueller III completed his report had barely begun when the panel’s Republicans moved en masse to demand the resignation of the committee’s chairman. It went downhill from there. The acrimony on display Thursday [3-28-19] as the intelligence committee tried to […]
3/28/2019
2016 ELECTION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The still-secret report on Russian interference in the 2016 election submitted last week by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, was more than 300 pages long, the Justice Department acknowledged on Thursday [3-28-19]. Mr. Barr wrote to Congress on Sunday offering what he called the ‘principal conclusions’ […]
3/28/2019
DEMS/ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The 2020 presidential campaign is more likely to turn on rising health care costs, the dysfunction in the immigration system and the state of the economy than the poisoned legacy of the 2016 election. But the triumphalism of President Donald Trump and the building power struggle in Washington after Robert […]
3/28/2019
MEDIA/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Wow, ratings for ‘Morning Joe,’ which were really bad in the first place, just ‘tanked’ with the release of the Mueller Report. Likewise, other shows on MSNBC and CNN have gone down by as much as 50%. Just shows, Fake News never wins!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 28, 2019 6:04 am […]
3/27/2019
HILLARY CLINTON/MEDIA/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump, in his first interview since the end of Robert Mueller’s investigation, reiterated on Wednesday [3–27-19] that the special counsel’s inquiry was unnecessary and that the focus of public suspicion should have been on the other side. Speaking to Sean Hannity on Fox News, Trump attacked Mueller’s team […]
3/27/2019
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump will not invoke executive privilege to withhold information from special counsel Robert Mueller’s confidential report and supports the public release of the investigation’s findings, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Wednesday [3-27-19]. Multiple sources told CNN earlier this month that White House lawyers expected to […]
3/27/2019
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/OBAMACARE/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Now that the peril of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation is behind him, President Donald Trump is resuming an old battle: repealing Obamacare. Reversing an earlier position, Trump’s Justice Department notified a federal appeals court in New Orleans late Monday [3-25-19] it would ask judges to toss out the entire […]
3/27/2019
KELLYANNE CONWAY/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “George Conway, a conservative lawyer and the husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, argued in a new op-ed that President Donald Trump is unfit for office, regardless of the Mueller report’s findings. ‘If the charge were unfitness for office, the verdict would already be in: guilty beyond a reasonable […]
3/27/2019
CONGRESS/DEMS/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In the days since Attorney General William P. Barr wrote to Congress describing the still secret report by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, a mystery he introduced remains pressing: Why did Mr. Mueller take no position on whether President Trump obstructed justice? Mr. Barr spoke briefly by phone on Wednesday […]
3/26/2019
CONGRESS/FBI/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump was on Capitol Hill on Tuesday [3-26-19], just 36 hours removed from one of the best moments of his presidency: Attorney General Bill Barr announcing — via a letter to Congress — that special counsel Robert Mueller did not establish any conspiracy or coordination between the President’s 2016 […]
3/26/2019
DEMS/OBAMACARE/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Fallout from special counsel Robert Mueller’s report is far from over, but House Democratic leaders showed on Tuesday [3-26-19] that they want to focus attention on defending the Affordable Care Act after the Trump administration said that the entire health care law should be struck down. During a closed-door House Democratic […]
3/26/2019
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The conclusion of Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation has discredited media ‘all over the world,’ President Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday [3-26-19] morning, celebrating the special counsel’s findings by slamming the news coverage of Mueller’s probe…Trump and his allies have relentlessly attacked the media since Mueller concluded that no one on […]
3/26/2019
FBI/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “After Watergate, it was unthinkable that a president would fire an F.B.I. director who was investigating him or his associates. Or force out an attorney general for failing to protect him from an investigation. Or dangle pardons before potential witnesses against him. But the end of the inquiry by the […]
3/26/2019
ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The end of Robert Mueller’s probe marks a new phase of Donald Trump’s presidency. It also marks a new phase for the small group of citizen journalists, Twitter thread-spinners and stunt artists who rose to prominence on the back of investigation. After devoting much of their waking lives to the […]
3/26/2019
ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “News that special counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia has put President Donald Trump in his favorite position as he heads into his 2020 re-election campaign: the victim, fighting against an establishment that has tried to take him down…It’s unusual for a […]
3/25/2019
POLLS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “There are few areas of widespread agreement in American politics, but special counsel Robert Mueller’s recently completed probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election has revealed a few of them. First, Americans really want Mueller’s report released in full to the public — beyond the four-page summary of the […]
3/25/2019
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special Counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence of collusion between U.S. President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia in the 2016 election, but left unresolved the issue of whether Trump obstructed justice by undermining the investigations that have dogged his presidency. Even though Mueller’s findings on obstruction of justice were […]
3/25/2019
DEMS/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump seems to think he is in the clear where the special counsel investigation is concerned. So why isn’t he happier? Maybe because he already misses Robert Mueller. In his summation of the Mueller report findings, Attorney General William Barr said investigators did ‘not establish that the President was involved’ […]
3/25/2019
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. Attorney General William Barr’s conclusion that President Donald Trump did not obstruct justice, revealed publicly on Sunday in a letter to lawmakers, reflects inherent difficulties in proving such an obstruction case, legal experts said. Barr sent a four-page letter to congressional leaders summarizing a report by U.S. Special […]
3/25/2019
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Monday [3-25-19] morning quarterbacks are out to get Robert Mueller. Fresh off the revelation that the special counsel skirted the question of whether President Donald Trump obstructed justice in the Russia probe, Mueller is getting hit with abrupt criticism for not to pressing more forcefully for an in-person interview […]
3/25/2019
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said Monday [3-25-19] that he believes Robert Mueller acted honorably during his Russia probe — seemingly reversing nearly two years of verbal attacks on the special counsel. Trump, after giving a prepared statement with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was asked whether Mueller acted honorably throughout his […]
3/25/2019
ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Members of President Donald Trump’s legal team on Monday [3-25-19] called Robert Mueller an ‘honest’ and ‘professional’ man — but also took shots at the special counsel’s probe — one day after Attorney General William Barr announced in a letter to Congress that the special counsel found no Russia […]
3/25/2019
CONGRESS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Today’s letter from Attorney General William Barr to Congress summarizing the conclusions of special counsel Robert Mueller is an enormous win, legally and politically, for President Donald Trump. But many political and legal battles of enormous consequence still lie ahead. Two critical points at the outset. First, Barr’s letter is […]
3/25/2019
DEMS/GOP/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump and his Republican allies went on the offensive on Monday [3-25-19], vowing to pursue and even punish those responsible for the Russia investigation now that the special counsel has wrapped up without implicating him or his campaign in a criminal conspiracy to influence the 2016 election. Mr. Trump, grim […]
3/25/2019
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘No matter your ideologies or your loyalties, this is a good day for America. No American conspired to cooperate with Russia in its efforts to interfere with the 2016 election, according to Robert Mueller, and that is good.’ @BretBaier @FoxNews” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 25, 2019 5:10 am […]
3/20/2019
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION: [Reporter: “Do you know when the Mueller report will be released, Mr. President?”] “I have no idea. No collusion. No collusion… I had the greatest electoral victory — one of them — in the history of our country. Tremendous success. Tens of millions of voters. And now somebody is going to write […]
3/20/2019
2016 ELECTION/ELECTORAL COLLEGE/ROBERT MUELLER: “I just won an election with 63 million votes or so. Sixty-three million. I had 206 to 223 in the Electoral College — 306 to 223. And I’m saying to myself, wait a minute, I just won one of the greatest elections of all time in the history of this country […]
3/20/2019
INVESTIGATIONS/ROBERT MUELLER: [Reporter: “Do you know when the Mueller report will be released, Mr. President?”] “I have no idea. No collusion. No collusion. I have no idea when it’s going to be released. It’s interesting that a man gets appointed by a deputy; he writes a report. You know — never figured that one out. […]
3/15/2019
DEMS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….should never have been appointed and there should be no Mueller Report. This was an illegal & conflicted investigation in search of a crime. Russian Collusion was nothing more than an excuse by the Democrats for losing an Election that they thought they were going to win…..” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
3/14/2019
HOUSE OF REPS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The House of Representatives on Thursday [3-14-19] passed a resolution calling for special counsel Robert Mueller’s report to be released to the public once it is completed. The vote was overwhelmingly bipartisan, with 420 members voting in favor of the resolution and zero voting against it. Four Republicans […]
3/13/2019
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘The Lisa Page (FBI) transcript also confirms earlier reporting that Page testified Russian Collusion was still unproven when Special Counsel Robert Mueller was appointed.’ Catherine Herridge, @FoxNews In other words they appointed someone when there was (and is) no crime. Bad!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 13, 2019 5:47 pm […]
3/13/2019
ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @GeraldoRivera: As #RobertMueller approaches the end, interesting how little anti-Trumpers are invoking infamous #SteeleDossier the tabl…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 13, 2019 9:28 am […]
3/12/2019
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The public overwhelmingly supports the release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s forthcoming report. But the Trump administration could still opt to release barebones findings while concealing critical aspects of Mueller’s investigation in a simple way: by hiding behind a cloak of classification. Over the course of the investigation, we have […]
3/12/2019
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Television crews have been positioned outside the offices of the special counsel, the federal courthouse and, at least before they were asked to leave, the McLean, Va., home of the new attorney general, William P. Barr. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are so desperate for hints that they are asking […]
3/10/2019
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @paulsperry_: BREAKING: Even Mueller’s case against Russia itself, for interfering in the 2016 election, is breaking down” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 10, 2019 8:44 pm […]
3/7/2019
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer of U.S. President Donald Trump, on Thursday [3-7-19] sued the Trump Organization, saying it reneged on its obligation to reimburse him for millions of dollars of legal fees and costs related to his work. In a complaint filed in the New York state supreme […]
3/4/2019
MEDIA/ROBERT MUELLER/ROGER STONE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The former Trump adviser Roger J. Stone Jr. faced questions on Monday [3-4-29] over the publication of a book and new Instagram posts that may have violated a gag order prohibiting him from making public statements about the legal proceedings against him. The office of the special counsel, Robert S. […]
3/1/2019
2016 ELECTION/CONGRESS/DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In addition to Special Counsel Robert Mueller and other federal prosecutors, several U.S. congressional committees are pursuing investigations focusing on President Donald Trump, looking at questions regarding Russia’s role in the 2016 presidential election as well as the Republican president’s finances. Democrats took control of the House of Representatives in […]
2/26/2019
CONGRESS/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen plans to tell U.S. lawmakers this week that Trump asked him several times about a proposed skyscraper project in Moscow long after he secured the Republican presidential nomination, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters. Cohen’s assertion that Trump was inquiring […]
2/25/2019
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP BUSINESS: “House Democrats are planning to cross one of President Donald Trump’s red lines: investigating his personal finances. With special counsel Robert Mueller expected to wind up his probe soon, Democrats are launching an investigation to discover why Deutsche Bank was willing to lend The Trump Organization money when other banks […]