MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “President Trump woke up in balmy Buenos Aires early Friday [11-30-18], but his mind was back in Washington as he defended his decision to continue pursuing business deals as he ran for president in 2016, including looking ‘lightly’ at constructing a building in Russia. The president’s Twitter defense […]
Category: Robert Mueller
11/29/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Alan Dershowitz: ‘These are not crimes. He (Mueller) has no authority to be a roving Commissioner. I don’t see any evidence of crimes.’ This is an illegal Hoax that should be ended immediately. Mueller refuses to look at the real crimes on the other side. Where is the IG REPORT?” […]
11/29/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’This demonstrates the Robert Mueller and his partisans have no evidence, not a whiff of collusion, between Trump and the Russians. Russian project legal. Trump Tower meeting (son Don), perfectly legal. He wasn’t involved with hacking.’ Gregg Jarrett. A total Witch Hunt!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 29, 2018 9:50 pm […]
11/29/2018
2016 ELECTION/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump lashed out on Thursday [11-29-18] at his former personal attorney Michael Cohen after Cohen’s guilty plea to a new criminal charge in the Southern District of New York. While Trump might want to practice his poker face a bit when facing adversity, it is easy […]
11/29/2018
MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Silent for so long, Robert Mueller is beginning to show the public the building blocks of a case that could imperil Donald Trump’s presidency. In the process, the special counsel is beginning to expose the lies and obfuscations that people around Trump, and the President himself, erected to try […]
11/29/2018
DEMS/HILLARY CLINTON/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Did you ever see an investigation more in search of a crime? At the same time Mueller and the Angry Democrats aren’t even looking at the atrocious, and perhaps subversive, crimes that were committed by Crooked Hillary Clinton and the Democrats. A total disgrace!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 29, 2018 […]
11/29/2018
MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “The latest criminal charges against Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s longtime fixer, for lying about a Moscow hotel deal raised questions of whether Mr. Cohen created new legal risks for Mr. Trump or his family members, possibly by contradicting what they told investigators about the same project. The answer, […]
11/28/2018
PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump declined in a new interview to rule out the possibility that he could pardon Paul Manafort, his former campaign chairman…The President’s comments come following special counsel Robert Mueller’s accusation that Manafort violated his plea agreement and lied to Mueller’s team after being found guilty on eight […]
11/28/2018
COURTS/MIKE PENCE/ROBERT MUELLER/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Senate on Wednesday [11-28-18] advanced a controversial Trump judicial nominee who has faced strong criticism over his record on voting rights. In a 51-50 vote, with Vice President Mike Pence breaking the tie, the Senate agreed to move forward on the nomination of Thomas Farr, who President Donald Trump […]
11/28/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/ROGER STONE/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump told special counsel Robert Mueller in writing that Roger Stone did not tell him about WikiLeaks, nor was he told about the 2016 Trump Tower meeting between his son, campaign officials and a Russian lawyer promising dirt on Hillary Clinton, according to two sources familiar with […]
11/28/2018
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. President Donald Trump told the special counsel investigating possible collusion between his campaign and Russia that he was not aware ahead of time of a meeting in June 2016 between campaign officials and Russians, Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani said on Wednesday [11-26-18]. Trump’s response, in written […]
11/28/2018
PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday [11-28-18] he had not ruled out granting a pardon to his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who has pleaded guilty to a range of federal charges from money laundering to unregistered lobbying…Prosecutors for the special counsel investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 […]
11/28/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Legislation to protect the special counsel’s office probe into possible Russian election interference stalled in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday [11-28-18], spurring Republican Senator Jeff Flake to make good on his threat of opposing judicial nominations until the bill moves forward. Fellow Republican Vice President Mike Pence was called in […]
11/28/2018
MEDIA/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “While the disgusting Fake News is doing everything within their power not to report it that way, at least 3 major players are intimating that the Angry Mueller Gang of Dems is viciously telling witnesses to lie about facts & they will get relief. This is our Joseph McCarthy Era!” –Donald […]
11/28/2018
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Although special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation appears to be drawing closer to proving that associates of President Donald Trump ‘colluded’ with foreigners to influence the 2016 election, extraordinary steps by Trump’s allies to undermine special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation appear to have slowed down the prosecutor. But it […]
11/28/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. President Donald Trump told the special counsel investigating possible collusion between his campaign and Russia that he was not aware ahead of time of a meeting in June 2016 between campaign officials and Russians, Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani said on Wednesday [11-28-18]. Trump’s response, in written answers […]
11/27/2018
CYBERWAR/ROBERT MUELLER/ROGER STONE/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Draft court filings obtained by CNN outline significant insights into what special counsel Robert Mueller may know about Roger Stone’s efforts to seek documents from WikiLeaks in 2016. Mueller’s office was preparing to tell a federal court that Stone pushed an associate to get documents from WikiLeaks — information […]
11/27/2018
FBI/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The likely incoming chairman of the House Judiciary Committee warned President Donald Trump that ‘even dangling a pardon’ for his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort ‘would fortify a claim or a charge of obstruction of justice’…Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team informed a federal judge on Monday [11-26-18] that Manafort […]
11/27/2018
PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [11-27-18] continued to rail against Robert Mueller, attempting to sow doubt about the special counsel and his team and suggesting that ‘heroes’ will emerge from the investigation into Russian election meddling. In a string of tweets, Trump accused Mueller of being a ‘conflicted prosecutor […]
11/27/2018
MITCH MCCONNELL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday [11-27-18] he would ‘probably’ block a renewed effort to bring to a vote a bill to protect Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The bill, known as the Special Counsel Independence and Integrity […]
11/27/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A lawyer for Paul Manafort, the president’s onetime campaign chairman, repeatedly briefed President Trump’s lawyers on his client’s discussions with federal investigators after Mr. Manafort agreed to cooperate with the special counsel, according to one of Mr. Trump’s lawyers and two other people familiar with the conversations. The […]
11/27/2018
MEDIA/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….The Fake News Media builds Bob Mueller up as a Saint, when in actuality he is the exact opposite. He is doing TREMENDOUS damage to our Criminal Justice System, where he is only looking at one side and not the other. Heroes will come of this, and it won’t be Mueller […]
11/27/2018
DEMS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Phony Witch Hunt continues, but Mueller and his gang of Angry Dems are only looking at one side, not the other. Wait until it comes out how horribly & viciously they are treating people, ruining lives for them refusing to lie. Mueller is a conflicted prosecutor gone rogue…” -Donald […]
11/27/2018
PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, repeatedly lied to federal investigators in breach of a plea agreement he signed two months ago, the special counsel’s office said in a court filing late on Monday [11-26-18]. Prosecutors working for the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, said Mr. Manafort’s […]
11/27/2018
PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump on Tuesday [11-27-18] lobbed familiar insults and accusations at the special counsel investigation, a day after prosecutors said his former campaign chairman repeatedly lied to investigators in breach of a previous plea agreement. The continuing investigation is a ‘Phony Witch Hunt,’ carried out by a ‘conflicted’ prosecutor […]
11/27/2018
PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump’s behavior isn’t doing much to bolster White House assurances that he’s got nothing to worry about from Robert Mueller’s probe, after a series of potentially ominous turns in the Russia investigation. The President’s recent barrage of tweets and comments and testimony from sources close to him — […]
11/26/2018
2016 ELECTION/JAMES COMEY/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump complained Monday [11-26-18] that Robert Mueller has thus far ignored Trump 2016 campaign staff who the president said want to be interviewed for the special counsel’s Russia investigation, renewing his attacks on Mueller’s probe into allegations of collusion between Trump’s campaign and the Russian […]
11/26/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When Mueller does his final report, will he be covering all of his conflicts of interest in a preamble, will he be recommending action on all of the crimes of many kinds from those ‘on the other side'(whatever happened to Podesta?), and will he be putting in statements from…..” –Donald […]
11/23/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/ROGER STONE/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “An associate of Roger Stone, a longtime ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, said on Friday [11-23-18] he was talking with the special counsel probing Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election about a possible plea deal…It was not immediately clear what charges Corsi may face. Peter Carr, a […]
11/23/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/ROGER STONE/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A conservative writer and associate of Trump confidant Roger Stone said Friday [11-23-18] that he is in plea talks with special counsel Robert Mueller’s team. Jerome Corsi told The Associated Press he has been negotiating a potential plea but declined to comment further. He said on a YouTube show last […]
11/29/2018
G20/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “White House aides had hoped that the G-20 summit would be an opportunity for President Donald Trump to showcase his deal-making skills. Now, they’re worried that special counsel Robert Mueller’s latest bombshell could overshadow his latest tour on the world stage. And some think that’s just the way Mueller wanted […]
11/20/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [11-20-18] submitted written answers to questions from special counsel Robert Mueller related to the investigation of possible collusion between Trump associates and Russians. The responses from the President signify a major development in the Mueller probe following months of negotiations between the special counsel’s office […]
11/20/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump has submitted written answers to questions from Special Counsel Robert Mueller in his probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 election and possible collusion with the Trump campaign, Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani said on Tuesday [11-20-18]…Giuliani said Trump did not plan to answer any questions from […]
11/20/2018
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump has provided the special counsel with written answers to questions about his knowledge of Russian interference in the 2016 election, his lawyers said Tuesday [11-20-18], avoiding at least for now a potentially risky sit-down with prosecutors. It’s the first time he has directly cooperated with the […]
11/20/2018
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump laid out for the special counsel his defense in the investigation into possible ties between his associates and Russia’s election interference, the president’s lawyers said in a statement on Tuesday [11-10-18]. The details of Mr. Trump’s responses were not immediately clear, but his lawyers said that now […]
11/19/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump will give special counsel Robert Mueller written responses to a slate of questions as early as Tuesday [11-20-18]. Trump’s lawyers set an informal Thanksgiving deadline for the president to finalize his responses on topics surrounding the Russian hacking of the 2016 election, and he’s almost ready to […]
11/18/2018
ATTORNEY GENERAL/DEMS/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “So funny to see little Adam Schitt (D-CA) talking about the fact that Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker was not approved by the Senate, but not mentioning the fact that Bob Mueller (who is highly conflicted) was not approved by the Senate!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 18, 2018 1:01 pm […]
11/18/2018
DEMS/ROBERT MUELLER/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is name-calling Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff for saying Matthew Whitaker’s appointment as acting attorney general is unconstitutional. Trump says Schiff shouldn’t complain that Whitaker wasn’t confirmed by the Senate because neither was special counsel Robert Mueller, who’s investigating 2016 election interference and possible ties between Moscow and Trump’s […]
11/18/2018
ATTORNEY GENERAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump said in an interview aired Sunday [11-18-18] that he most likely would not sit for an interview with the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, asserting that ‘we’ve wasted enough time on this witch hunt and the answer is, probably, we’re finished.’ The president also claimed […]
11/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos is asking to delay a looming prison stint by citing an appeal that challenges the legality of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s appointment. Papadopoulos elected not to mount such a challenge in his own case last year when Mueller’s office charged him with […]
11/16/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Friday [11-16-18] said he has answered a list of questions from Robert Mueller about his dealings with Russia and other matters being investigated by the special counsel. However, the president said he has not yet submitted his responses to the special counsel’s office. Trump has long […]
11/16/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Friday [11-16-18] said he had ‘very easily’ completed his written answers for Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 U.S. election, but had not yet submitted them to Mueller’s office. Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump said he wrote the […]
11/15/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Criticized for picking an acting attorney general who has a history of speaking out against Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, President Donald Trump launched another attack Thursday [11-15-18] against the special counsel. Claiming that ‘the inner workings of the Mueller investigation are a total mess,’ Trump tweeted that investigators ‘have found […]
11/15/2018
DONALD JR/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Lawyers for President Donald Trump and his son Donald Trump Jr. insist they aren’t worried about special counsel Robert Mueller. But half a dozen people in contact with the White House and other Trump officials say a deep anxiety has started to set in that Mueller is about to […]
11/15/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump erupted at special counsel Robert Mueller on Twitter on Thursday [11-15-18] morning, calling the special counsel’s Russia probe a ‘witch hunt like no other in American history,’ lashing out at Mueller’s team and firing off baseless accusations of corruption as the White House reportedly negotiates whether and […]
11/15/2018
DEMS/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Universities will someday study what highly conflicted (and NOT Senate approved) Bob Mueller and his gang of Democrat thugs have done to destroy people. Why is he protecting Crooked Hillary, Comey, McCabe, Lisa Page & her lover, Peter S, and all of his friends on the other side?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
11/15/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Fresh off three days of private meetings with his personal lawyers, President Trump renewed his attacks on Thursday [11-15-18] on the special counsel investigation, calling it ‘A TOTAL WITCH HUNT LIKE NO OTHER IN AMERICAN HISTORY!’ The barrage, launched on Twitter, ended a period of relative quiet by the president […]
11/15/2018
OBAMA/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….care how many lives the ruin. These are Angry People, including the highly conflicted Bob Mueller, who worked for Obama for 8 years. They won’t even look at all of the bad acts and crimes on the other side. A TOTAL WITCH HUNT LIKE NO OTHER IN AMERICAN HISTORY!” -Donald Trump, […]
11/15/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The inner workings of the Mueller investigation are a total mess. They have found no collusion and have gone absolutely nuts. They are screaming and shouting at people, horribly threatening them to come up with the answers they want. They are a disgrace to our Nation and don’t…” -Donald Trump, […]
11/14/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Special counsel Robert Mueller again pushed back the sentencing of former Donald Trump campaign deputy Rick Gates because the longtime GOP operative is still cooperating on ‘several ongoing investigations.’ The delay, laid out in a new one-page joint filing, stands in contrast to two other high-profile former Trump officials — […]
11/14/2018
ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “By multiple accounts, Donald Trump is in one of the deepest funks of his presidency. The bad news is that the challenges and threats that are making his mood so dark are likely to get worse before they get better. The President is angry at his rebuke from voters in […]
11/14/2018
BUDGET/CHUCK SCHUMER/DHS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Wednesday [11-14-18] that budget negotiations are set to move forward so long as President Donald Trump doesn’t interfere with them…He added that Senate Democrats also want to ensure that Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker doesn’t interfere with special counsel Robert Mueller’s […]
11/14/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Justice Department on Wednesday [11-14-18] defended the legality of President Donald Trump’s appointment of Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general to replace the ousted Jeff Sessions, rejecting the views of critics that the move ran afoul of the U.S. Constitution and federal law. A legal opinion sent to […]
11/13/2018
DEMS/FBI/HOUSE OF REPS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The incoming Democratic chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee intends to investigate President Donald Trump’s impact on the integrity of the Justice Department and the FBI, according to a letter sent to top federal law enforcement officials on Tuesday. Representative Jerrold Nadler, now the […]
11/13/2018
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump is expected to provide written answers to questions from the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election as soon as this week, a person familiar with the matter said on Tuesday [11-13-18]. The questions from Special Counsel Robert Mueller that Trump […]
11/12/2018
ATTORNEY GENERAL/ETHICS/JEFF SESSIONS/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Attorney General Matthew Whitaker is consulting with ethics officials regarding possible recusal from overseeing the special counsel’s Russia investigation, the Justice Department said on Monday [11-12-18]…Whitaker has been overseeing special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation since last Wednesday, when Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ resignation triggered a set of events that left […]
11/12/2018
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “An associate of Roger Stone, a longtime ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, expects to be indicted by the U.S. special counsel probing Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, he said on Monday [11-12-18]. Jerome Corsi, a right-wing commentator, said in a livestream posted to YouTube he expected to […]
11/9/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House is bracing for the probe of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign to fire up again. Trump’s advisers are privately expressing worries that the special counsel, who’s been out of the news for the past month, has been stealthily compiling information and could soon issue new indictments or a […]
11/8/2018
ATTORNEY GENERAL/JEFF SESSIONS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “There is a growing sense of concern inside the White House over the negative reaction to Matthew Whitaker being tapped as acting attorney general after Jeff Sessions’ abrupt firing. Whitaker, who was Sessions’ chief of staff, has faced criticism since Wednesday afternoon’s announcement for his previous comments on […]
11/8/2018
ATTORNEY GENERAL/JEFF SESSIONS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s pick for acting attorney general, Matt Whitaker, is a close friend of Trump’s 2016 election campaign co-chair, and a former government ethics chief said the friendship makes Whitaker unable to oversee impartially a politically charged investigation into the campaign. Matthew Whitaker, named on Wednesday [11-7-18] […]
11/8/2018
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/JEFF SESSIONS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congressional Democrats on Thursday [11-8-18] demanded emergency hearings in the U.S. House of Representatives to investigate President Donald Trump’s ouster of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, calling the move an effort to undermine a federal probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. Trump forced the resignation […]
11/8/2018
ATTORNEY GENERAL/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “While special counsel Robert Mueller technically had a new boss at the Justice Department as of Wednesday [11-7-18] afternoon, the day-to-day work of the probe forged ahead on Thursday [11-8-18]. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s top deputy, Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Ed O’Callaghan, met with lawyers from the […]
11/8/2018
DEMS/JEFF SESSIONS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The ouster of Attorney General Jeff Sessions by President Donald Trump on Wednesday [11-7-18] drew sharp criticism from Democrats, who warned Trump against moving to squash a probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The probe, led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller under the supervision of […]
11/8/2018
ATTORNEY GENERAL/JEFF SESSIONS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s pick for acting attorney general, Matt Whitaker, is a close friend of Trump’s 2016 election campaign co-chair, and a former government ethics chief said the friendship makes Whitaker unable to oversee impartially a politically charged investigation into the campaign. Matthew Whitaker, named on Wednesday […]
11/8/2018
DEMS/JEFF SESSIONS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Three presumptive Democratic committee chairman on Thursday [11-8-18] outlined on a call for Democratic lawmakers the steps they’re planning to take to investigate the firing of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and protect special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation following the appointment of acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker. On the call […]
11/7/2018
JEFF SESSIONS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A day after voters chose divided government by handing the House majority back to Democrats, President Donald Trump made the sort of I-do-what-feels-right-when-it-feels-right move that has become his hallmark over his past three years in political life: He fired Jeff Sessions. And in so doing, Trump appears to have […]
11/7/2018
ELECTION/POLLS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump renewed his attacks on special counsel Robert Mueller and his Russia probe on Wednesday [11-7-18], less than 24 hours after Democrats won control of the House. ‘According to NBC News, Voters Nationwide Disapprove of the so-called Mueller Investigation (46%) more than they Approve (41%),’ Trump wrote on […]
11/7/2018
POLLS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “According to NBC News, Voters Nationwide Disapprove of the so-called Mueller Investigation (46%) more than they Approve (41%). You mean they are finally beginning to understand what a disgusting Witch Hunt, led by 17 Angry Democrats, is all about!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 7, 2018 10:39 am […]
11/7/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/HOUSE OF REPS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special counsel Robert Mueller is set to emerge from his midterm campaign hibernation period with a powerful new ally as House Democrats surged back to the majority in Tuesday’s [11-6-18] elections. The lead Russia investigator, who in the days and weeks ahead has a series of important court […]
11/7/2018
JEFF SESSIONS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Given President Donald Trump’s prolonged campaign to degrade Attorney General Jeff Sessions as ‘weak,’ ‘beleaguered’ and ‘scared stiff and Missing in Action,’ it seemed inevitable that Trump would fire Sessions shortly after midterms. Few expected, however, that Trump would drop the ax on Sessions before the voting machines even […]
11/1/2018
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/ROGER STONE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “When the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, appeared on a video link from Europe a month before the 2016 presidential election and vaguely promised to release a flood of purloined documents related to the race, the head of Donald J. Trump’s campaign, Stephen K. Bannon, was interested…The email exchange, not previously […]
10/30/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “The office of the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, has asked the F.B.I. to investigate what appears to be an effort to smear him, stemming from suspicious emails offering women money in exchange for fabricating sexual misconduct claims against him…The plot appeared to be the latest, and one of the more […]
10/30/2018
FBI/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/SEX ABUSE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team has asked the FBI to look into claims that women were offered money to fabricate sexual assault allegations against Mueller, who leads the probe into Russia’s attempts to influence the U.S. election in 2016…Jack Burkman, a Washington lawyer and Republican operative, told Reuters he […]
10/19/2018
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump, asked about the Russian national charged with attempting to interfere in the 2018 midterm elections Friday [10-19-18], was quick to defend himself and repeat that there was ‘no collusion’ with his campaign…Federal prosecutors charged 44-year-old Elena Alekseevna Khusyaynova, of St. Petersburg, Russia, with conspiracy to defraud the […]
10/19/2018
2016 ELECTION/GOP/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Republican lawmakers will next week question Rod Rosenstein, the U.S. Justice Department official who oversees a special counsel’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and links between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Moscow, committee chairmen said on Thursday [10-18-18]. The Republican chairmen of two U.S. House […]
10/18/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has not given special counsel Robert Mueller a certain date by which his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election must be completed, a source within the Justice Department familiar with the investigation said. But speculation that it will wrap up immediately after […]
10/18/2018
ELECTION/HOUSE OF REPS/JOE BIDEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday [10-18-18] said he hopes Democrats don’t try to impeach President Donald Trump if they retake the House of Representatives following next month’s midterm elections…The former vice president said Democrats should wait until special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe is concluded […]
10/17/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s pick to fill the job of White House counsel is an indication the White House is preparing for possible post-election legal brawls with Democrats over everything from the findings of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation to possible impeachment if Democrats take over the House of Representatives. Pat […]
10/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions dodged questions Tuesday [10-16-18] over whether President Donald Trump has pressured him to resign amid Trump’s relentless criticism during his tenure leading the Justice Department. Sessions acknowledged that Trump has been ‘frustrated with him,’ but said he is ‘honored’ to head the Justice […]
10/11/2018
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special counsel Robert Mueller has delivered written questions to President Donald Trump and his lawyers about a potential Russian conspiracy with the Republican’s 2016 campaign to influence the election, according to a source familiar with the matter. The submitted questions bypass — for now — a high-stakes legal fight over […]
10/11/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s lawyers are preparing answers to questions for the U.S. special counsel probing Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday [10-11-18]. President Donald Trump’s lawyers are preparing answers to questions for the U.S. special counsel probing Russian […]
10/11/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MEDIA/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is suggesting he would ‘do what is necessary’ to bring the Russia probe to a conclusion, including potentially sitting down for an interview. Trump, in a wide-ranging interview with Fox & Friends on Thursday [10-11-18], said of the investigation into possible ties between his campaign and […]
10/9/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump declared a reprieve Monday [10-8-18] for Rod Rosenstein , saying he has no plans to fire his deputy attorney general whose future has been the source of intense speculation for two weeks…The flight provided an opportunity for their most extensive conversation since news reports last month […]
10/8/2018
CAMPAIGN/INTELLIGENCE/ISRAEL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A top Trump campaign official requested online manipulation proposals by an Israeli intelligence firm in 2016 to help defeat Hillary Clinton and Republican primary opponents, The New York Times reports. There is no evidence Trump’s campaign acted on any of the proposals by Psy-Group, a company staffed by former Israeli intelligence […]
10/8/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump’s lawyers have maintained an unusual level of contact with attorneys representing clients caught up in the expanding Russia probe, communication that could taint evidence that special counsel Robert Mueller is collecting in his investigation of the president. They’re not being shy about it either. The president’s attorneys talk […]
10/2/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/ROBERT MUELLER/ROGER STONE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team is combing through Roger Stone’s track record as a self-proclaimed ‘dirty trickster’ amid its investigation into whether Stone was involved in Russian efforts to steal and disseminate damaging information about Democrats ahead of the 2016 election. The questions about Stone’s past reveal how […]
9/28/2018
2016 ELECTION/HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A U.S. House of Representatives committee voted on Friday [9-28-18] to release dozens of transcripts of interviews from its investigation of Russia meddling in the 2016 U.S. elections, including conversations with senior associates of President Donald Trump. The House Intelligence Committee voted unanimously to send transcripts of […]
9/28/2018
2016 ELECTION/HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A U.S. House of Representatives committee voted on Friday [9-28-18] to release dozens of transcripts of interviews from its investigation of Russia meddling in the 2016 U.S. elections, including conversations with senior associates of President Donald Trump. The House Intelligence Committee voted unanimously to send transcripts of […]
9/25/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Latest on President Donald Trump and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein (all times local): 10:30 a.m. President Donald Trump says at the United Nations that he’ll be meeting with his embattled deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein on Thursday [9-27-18]. ‘Today,’ he says, ‘I’m doing other things.’ Trump […]
9/25/2018
GOP/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “We’re now a little more than 36 hours from the face-to-face meeting between President Donald Trump and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Since Monday [9-24-18] morning — when rumors spread like wildfire that Rosenstein was on his way to resign to chief of staff John Kelly — the […]
9/25/2018
CLINTONS/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Ken Starr would love to hear from Donald Trump. He thinks he could help. The former independent counsel whose investigation into President Bill Clinton led to Clinton’s impeachment says President Trump has enough to be worried about that he’ll need good lawyers around him as he decides whether to sit […]
8/24/2018
CONGRESS/DEMS/GOP/INTELLIGENCE/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democratic lawmakers on Monday [9-24-18] renewed their calls for Republicans in Congress to pass legislation to protect special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference amid heightened uncertainty over Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s fate in the Trump administration. Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate […]
9/24/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “More than Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s job will be on the line when he meets with President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday [9-27-18]. Also in the balance will be the fate of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe. The ouster of Rosenstein — who serves […]
9/21/2018
CABINET/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump vowed Friday [9-21-18] night to eradicate a ‘lingering stench’ at the Justice Department, hours after it was reported that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein discussed wearing a ‘wire’ to record conversations with Trump and recruiting Cabinet members to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove him from […]
9/20/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former attorney, has spoken with special counsel Robert Mueller’s team several times over the past month, ABC News reported Thursday [9-20-18]. Cohen’s attorney Lanny Davis appeared to confirm the ABC report later Thursday when he praised his client for speaking to Mueller…The report said the […]
9/20/2018
FBI/JAMES COMEY/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former FBI director James Comey said he’s not worried by President Donald Trump’s order to the bureau to release a slew of his text messages, saying he ‘wasn’t a big texter’ when he was at the law enforcement agency. Trump’s sudden Monday [9-17-18] move to release Comey’s communications […]
9/20/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/FBI/GOP/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democratic operatives are growing anxious that Republicans working to undermine the FBI’s Russia probe are teeing up a series of document dumps meant to gin up GOP voters ahead of the midterm elections. After weeks of hand-wringing, President Donald Trump on Monday [9-17-18] ordered the declassification of a slew of […]
9/19/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL FLYNN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former national security adviser Michael Flynn is set to be sentenced on December 18 for lying to FBI investigators, federal Judge Emmet Sullivan said Wednesday [9-19-18]. Flynn pleaded guilty to one charge last December as a result of the special counsel probe led by former FBI Director Robert Mueller. Both […]
9/19/2018
FBI/MICHAEL FLYNN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, will be sentenced on Dec. 18, according to a court filing on Wednesday. Flynn pleaded guilty in December 2017 to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russia, in exchange for […]
9/19/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday [9-19-18] morning insisted he had no concerns about former campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s recent agreement to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller…As part of a guilty plea struck last Friday [9-14-18], Manafort agreed to cooperate fully with Mueller’s probe into Russian interference and whether […]