ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Rudy Giuliani said Monday [8-13-18] that he believes special counsel Robert Mueller will respond to President Donald Trump’s legal team on the terms of a possible presidential interview this week, adding that he does not want the Russia investigation to influence the upcoming midterm elections. Trump’s legal team, led […]
Category: Robert Mueller
8/13/2018
2016 ELECTION/JEFF SESSIONS/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A U.S. judge on Monday [8-13-18] backed Special Counsel Robert Mueller in the federal Russia investigation, allowing a case to proceed against a Russian company accused of helping fund a propaganda operation to sway the 2016 presidential election in Donald Trump’s favor. Judge Dabney Friedrich, in an opinion […]
8/13/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. prosecutors on Monday [8-13-18] rested their case against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort after 10 days of testimony alleging how he avoided taxes on at least $16 million of income and lied to banks to maintain an extravagant lifestyle once his work for pro-Kremlin politicians in Ukraine dried up. […]
8/12/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “.@JudgeJeanine ‘Bob Mueller, isn’t your whole investigation premised on a Fake Dossier, paid for by Hillary, created by a man who hates Donald Trump, & used to con a FISA Court Judge. Bob, I really think it’s time for you to give up your phony investigation.’ No Collusion!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August […]
8/12/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “.@JudgeJeanine ‘Bob Mueller, isn’t your whole investigation premised on a Fake Dossier, paid for by Hillary, created by a man who hates Donald Trump, & used to con a FISA Court Judge. Bob, I really think it’s time for you to give up your phony investigation.’ No Collusion!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 12, […]
8/12/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “.@JudgeJeanine ‘Bob Mueller, isn’t your whole investigation premised on a Fake Dossier, paid for by Hillary, created by a man who hates Donald Trump, & used to con a FISA Court Judge. Bob, I really think it’s time for you to give up your phony investigation.’ No Collusion!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August […]
8/12/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A week before the Trump presidential campaign announced that it had hired Paul Manafort, a Yankees ticket specialist alerted him that his annual season tickets would soon be arriving at his 43rd-floor apartment at Trump Tower in New York. ‘Will you and Kathy be attending opening day?’ the specialist […]
8/9/2018
ELECTION/POLLS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Rudy Giuliani may have just set up a midterm election showdown. President Donald Trump’s lawyer insisted Wednesday [8-8-18] that his latest proposal in the long-running tussle with special counsel Robert Mueller over an interview with the President was designed to shield the investigation from the political overhang of November’s polls. […]
8/9/2018
DEVIN NUNES/GOP/INTELLIGENCE/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “In a newly leaked audio recording, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, a California Republican, suggests that his party needs to retain control of the House of Representatives to protect President Donald Trump from special counsel Robert Mueller…The remarks appear to be a blunt assessment from Nunes, a top Trump […]
8/9/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The judge in the trial of U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort expressed contrition on Thursday [8-9-18] to jurors for harsh commentary directed at prosecutors. ‘I may have made a mistake. It has nothing to do with your consideration in this case,’ U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis said […]
8/9/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The trial of Paul Manafort, U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, is expected to shift focus on Thursday [8-9-18] from his alleged tax evasion to bank fraud as the prosecution’s case heads into its final two days. Prosecutors are expected to call a series of bankers to the stand to […]
8/8/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s lawyers on Wednesday [8-8-18] submitted a counteroffer to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s proposal for the terms of a possible interview with the president, the latest turn in the protracted negotiations over a sit-down stretching back to January. The counteroffer largely sticks to the terms the president’s legal […]
8/8/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s lawyers rejected the special counsel’s latest terms for an interview in the Russia investigation, countering on Wednesday [8-8-18] with an offer that suggested a narrow path for answering questions, people familiar with the matter said. Jay Sekulow, one of Mr. Trump’s personal lawyers, confirmed that a response […]
8/8/2018
IRS/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman being tried on federal tax and bank fraud charges, didn’t declare more than $16 million in income to the U.S. Treasury over a five-year span, an IRS revenue agent testified Wednesday [8-8-18]. The IRS revenue agent, Michael Welch, told jurors that a large chunk […]
8/8/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Rudy Giuliani said Wednesday [8-8-18] that President Donald Trump’s legal team has responded to the special counsel, the latest effort in ongoing negotiations over a possible interview…Sekulow confirmed in a statement that the legal team ‘responded in writing to the latest proposal’ from the special counsel, but declined to […]
8/8/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/RUDY GIULANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s lawyers on Wednesday [8-8-18] submitted a counteroffer to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s proposal for the terms of a possible interview with the president, the latest turn in the protracted negotiations over a sit-down stretching back to January. The counteroffer largely sticks to the terms the president’s legal […]
8/8/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Rick Gates wrapped up his testimony Wednesday [8-8-18] in the trial of his onetime friend and boss, former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, reiterating that the two men conspired to lie on their taxes and defraud banks. Mr. Gates admitted over three days to various crimes, including some he said he […]
8/8/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Rick Gates has finished three days’ worth of dramatic testimony in federal court against his former business partner, ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort — but not before defense lawyers caused a stir by pressing him for details on his past infidelity. A day earlier, Gates acknowledged having a single extramarital relationship […]
8/8/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Before President Trump headed to meet Vladimir Putin last month, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein requested a meeting in the Oval Office. He was ready to indict Russian officials for election hacking and wanted to know if the president wanted the Justice Department to announce the charges before or after […]
8/8/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump says that the criminal trial of his former campaign aide, Paul Manafort, has nothing to do with him. But jurors in a Virginia courtroom heard his name repeatedly on Tuesday [8-7-18]. Trump’s name, his 2016 campaign and his inauguration came up several times during the trial’s […]
8/8/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Star government witness Rick Gates ended three days of testimony on Wednesday [8-8-18] after admitting he lied, stole money and cheated on his wife, as lawyers for U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort attacked his character. Manafort lawyer Kevin Downing got in a final shot in federal court […]
8/7/2018
DEMS/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Tom Fitton, the head of conservative group Judicial Watch, has made a career of suing the federal government over suspected bureaucratic corruption, irritating every president since Bill Clinton. But in Donald Trump, Fitton has found an enthusiastic booster — a president who, rather than bristling at Judicial Watch’s frequent accusations of malfeasance […]
8/6/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special counsel Robert Mueller’s star witness, Rick Gates, finally took the stand on Monday [8-6-18], incriminating his former boss Paul Manafort in multimillion-dollar tax evasion, bank fraud and hiding offshore accounts, while also admitting to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars during a decade on Manafort’s payroll. On the […]
8/6/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Rick Gates, the key prosecution witness in the tax and fraud trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, testified Monday [8-6-18] he had committed crimes alongside and at the direction of his former partner — and had also stolen from Manafort himself. In stunning testimony at Manafort’s trial on […]
8/6/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GUILIANI/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s legal team is preparing to respond to special counsel Robert Mueller regarding the possibility of an interview, Rudy Giuliani told CNN Monday [8-6-18]. Giuliani, one of Trump’s lawyers, would not characterize the response. He’s recently suggested that Trump and his lawyers would be making a final […]
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 […]
8/5/2018
2016 ELECTION/DONALD JR/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump acknowledged Sunday [8-5-18] that a meeting his son held with a Russian government lawyer in June 2016 was an attempt ‘to get information on’ Democrat Hillary Clinton but defended the encounter as ‘totally legal.’ Mr. Trump and his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr. , have repeatedly denied […]
8/5/2018
2016 ELECTION/DONALD JR/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump acknowledged on Sunday [8-5-18] that his son met with Russians in 2016 at Trump Tower to get information on his election opponent Hillary Clinton, saying it was ‘totally legal’ and ‘done all the time in politics.’ The Republican president had previously said the meeting […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
8/2/2018
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Special counsel Robert Mueller continues to press for an interview with the Russian oligarch and his pop star son who encouraged Donald Trump Jr. to meet in June 2016 with a Russian lawyer promising dirt on Hillary Clinton. The conversations between the attorney for Aras Agalarov and his […]
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 […]
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 […]
8/1/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump pushed his lawyers in recent days to try once again to reach an agreement with the special counsel’s office about his sitting for an interview, flouting their advice that he should not answer investigators’ questions, three people briefed on the matter said on Wednesday [8-1-18]. Mr. Trump has […]
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 […]
8/1/2018
JEFF SESSIONS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump on Wednesday [8-1-18] urged Attorney General Jeff Sessions to end the Russia investigation ‘right now,’ renewing public pressure on the nation’s top law-enforcement official to halt a probe that has resulted in charges against his former campaign officials and more than two dozen Russians…The president’s comments come […]
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 […]
8/1/2018
FBI/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “…..remain in the FBI while he himself was being investigated. This is a real issue. It won’t go into a Mueller Report because Mueller is going to protect these guys. Mueller has an interest in creating the illusion of objectivity around his investigation.’ ALAN DERSHOWITZ….” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 1, […]
8/1/2018
FBI/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’FBI Agent Peter Strzok (on the Mueller team) should have recused himself on day one. He was out to STOP THE ELECTION OF DONALD TRUMP. He needed an insurance policy. Those are illegal, improper goals, trying to influence the Election. He should never, ever been allowed to……..” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
8/1/2018
2016 ELECTION/JEFF SESSIONS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump appealed to Attorney General Jeff Sessions to end an investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 election, drawing a rebuke from his fellow Republicans in Congress who said the probe must go on. It was Trump’s most direct call for his top U.S. law […]
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 […]
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 […]
7/31/2018
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [7-31-18] embraced a line of defense offered by his attorney, Rudy Giuliani, that ‘collusion is not a crime,’ even though he continued to deny any alleged ties between his campaign and Moscow during the 2016 election…For months, Trump has insisted that there was ‘no […]
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 […]
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 […]
7/31/2018
2016 ELECTION/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump again attacked Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russia and the 2016 U.S. election on Tuesday [7-31-18], reiterating that his campaign did not collude with Moscow and saying collusion is not a crime anyway. Trump commented hours before his former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, was […]
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 […]
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 […]
7/30/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TWITTER: “Donald Trump is giving Americans a glimpse of the fury raging inside him as a pivotal moment nears for special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, and different strands of political and legal vulnerability swirling around the President become ever more threatening. Trump launched his most personal attack to date against […]
7/29/2018
DEMS/HILLARY CLINTON/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….Also, why is Mueller only appointing Angry Dems, some of whom have worked for Crooked Hillary, others, including himself, have worked for Obama….And why isn’t Mueller looking at all of the criminal activity & real Russian Collusion on the Democrats side-Podesta, Dossier?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 29, 2018 3:20 […]
7/29/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Is Robert Mueller ever going to release his conflicts of interest with respect to President Trump, including the fact that we had a very nasty & contentious business relationship, I turned him down to head the FBI (one day before appointment as S.C.) & Comey is his close friend..” -Donald […]
7/29/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “There is No Collusion! The Robert Mueller Rigged Witch Hunt, headed now by 17 (increased from 13, including an Obama White House lawyer) Angry Democrats, was started by a fraudulent Dossier, paid for by Crooked Hillary and the DNC. Therefore, the Witch Hunt is an illegal Scam!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
7/27/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Just two days after the White House postponed plans to have President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia visit Washington in the fall, the Russian leader said on Friday [7-27-18] that he had invited President Trump to visit him in Moscow. Praising Mr. Trump as a leader ‘who seeks to keep his […]
7/27/2018
CYBERWAR/ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “With the midterm election only a few months away, government officials working to counter election interference from Russia have been operating with no strategy from the top, including from President Donald Trump’s fractured National Security Council, leaving each agency to fend for itself without White House support or direction, according […]
7/27/2018
DEMS/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Arrived back in Washington last night from a very emotional reopening of a major U.S. Steel plant in Granite City, Illinois, only to be greeted with the ridiculous news that the highly conflicted Robert Mueller and his gang of 13 Angry Democrats obviously cannot find Collusion…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 27, […]
7/26/2018
JAMES COMEY/JEFF SESSIONS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TWITTER: “For years, President Trump has used Twitter as his go-to public relations weapon, mounting a barrage of attacks on celebrities and then political rivals even after advisers warned he could be creating legal problems for himself. Those concerns now turn out to be well founded. The special counsel, […]
7/24/2018
GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s top allies in the House are considering a last-ditch attempt to circumvent Republican leaders and punish Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who oversees Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus and a regular Trump confidant, said Tuesday [7-24-18] […]
7/23/2018
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s legal team has submitted a counteroffer to special counsel Robert Mueller on a possible interview with the president that could allow for questions about collusion with Russia but curtail inquiries related to obstruction of justice. As negotiations for such a sit-down are set to enter their […]
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 […]
7/23/2018
IRAN/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TWITTER: “President Donald Trump is lashing out in all directions as the fallout from his summit with Vladimir Putin becomes ever more toxic, the Russia investigation grinds on with no end in sight, and his frustration boils over on a lack of progress on North Korea. The tensions reached a new […]
7/23/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump renewed his complaints Monday [7-23-18] about the Russia investigation overseen by special counsel Robert Mueller, and came even closer to instructing law enforcement officials to shut it down. Trump began his venting by writing online that the probe was triggered by a now-infamous dossier of salacious […]
7/23/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “…..’Carter Page wasn’t a spy, wasn’t an agent of the Russians – he would have cooperated with the FBI. It was a fraud and a hoax designed to target Trump.’ Tom Fitton @JudicialWatch A disgrace to America. They should drop the discredited Mueller Witch Hunt now!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
7/23/2018
HILLARY CLINTON/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “So we now find out that it was indeed the unverified and Fake Dirty Dossier, that was paid for by Crooked Hillary Clinton and the DNC, that was knowingly & falsely submitted to FISA and which was responsible for starting the totally conflicted and discredited Mueller Witch Hunt!” -Donald Trump, […]
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 […]
7/22/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/SANCTIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The recent federal indictment of Russian intelligence officers by the special prosecutor investigating Moscow’s election interference and possible Trump campaign collusion lays the groundwork for Washington to slap more sanctions on its former Cold War foe. The question is whether President Donald Trump will levy them. Special counsel Robert Mueller’s indictment […]
7/20/2018
NOMINATIONS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has raised concerns about indicting a sitting president and expressed his desire to overturn a ruling upholding the constitutionality of an independent counsel. And in newly unearthed video reviewed by CNN, Kavanaugh also implies that he believes there’s only one institution that […]
7/18/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Judge Brett Kavanaugh two years ago expressed his desire to overturn a three-decade-old Supreme Court ruling upholding the constitutionality of an independent counsel, a comment bound to get renewed scrutiny in his confirmation proceedings to sit on the high court. Speaking to a conservative group in 2016, Kavanaugh bluntly […]
7/17/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A federal judge in Virginia on Tuesday [7-17-18] denied a motion by former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort to move a trial set to start next week from the Washington suburb of Alexandria to the city of Roanoke, Virginia. Manafort had requested a change of venue on the grounds that […]
7/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/GOP/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Republicans across the ideological spectrum delivered pointed rebukes to President Trump after Monday’s [7-16-18] extraordinary news conference with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, with Speaker Paul D. Ryan admonishing Mr. Trump and declaring, ‘There is no moral equivalence between the United States and Russia.’ Mr. Ryan was joined […]
7/16/2018
INVESTIGATION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA: [Reporter: “Mr. President, you tweeted this morning that it’s U.S. foolishness, stupidity, and the Mueller probe that is responsible for the decline in U.S. relations with Russia.”] “I hold both countries responsible. I think that the United States has been foolish. I think we’ve all been foolish… But I do feel that we […]
7/13/2018
DEMS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A dozen Russian intelligence officials were charged Friday [7-13-18] with hacking into the Democratic National Committee and the campaign of the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, and distributing stolen emails, according to an indictment obtained by special counsel Robert Mueller’s office. The officers spear-phished volunteers and employees of the […]
7/13/2018
2016 ELECTION/HILLARY CLINTON/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It was one of the more outlandish statements in a campaign replete with them: In a news conference in July 2016, Donald J. Trump made a direct appeal to Russia to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails and make them public…As it turns out, that same day, the Russians — […]
7/13/2018
2016 ELECTION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Justice Department announced indictments against 12 Russian nationals as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, accusing them of engaging in a ‘sustained effort’ to hack Democrats’ emails and computer networks. All 12 defendants are members of the GRU, a […]
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 […]
7/13/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/HILLARY CLINTON/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal grand jury on Friday [7-13-18] charged 12 Russian intelligence officers with hacking Democratic computer networks in 2016, in the most detailed U.S. accusation yet that Moscow meddled in the presidential election to help Republican Donald Trump. The indictment, which alleges a wide-ranging conspiracy involving sophisticated hacking […]
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 […]
7/10/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESETIGATION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It is not every day that a potential constitutional showdown over a presidential subpoena coincides with a confirmation hearing for a crucial Supreme Court seat. Less likely yet is a nominee who has written extensively about the very question at the heart of the dispute. But that novel historical […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
7/3/2018
NSA/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday [7-3-18] that the National Security Agency had violated Americans’ privacy through unauthorized collection of phone and text message data, seemingly attempting to tie the data collection to the investigation of special counsel Robert Mueller…The NSA announced late last month that it was deleting improperly collected phone […]
6/28/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When is Bob Mueller going to list his Conflicts of Interest? Why has it taken so long? Will they be listed at the top of his $22,000,000 Report…And what about the 13 Angry Democrats, will they list their conflicts with Crooked H? How many people will be sent to jail […]
6/28/2018
JAMES COMEY/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Peter Strzok worked as the leader of the Rigged Witch Hunt for a long period of time – he got it started and was only fired because the gig was up. But remember, he took his orders from Comey and McCabe and they took their orders from you know […]
6/26/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort was dealt a major loss on Tuesday [6-26-18] when a federal judge who had previously expressed some sympathy for Manafort refused to dismiss charges brought against him by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Judge T.S. Ellis in the U.S. District Court […]
6/25/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “With a sudden flurry of plans for high-level contacts between Washington and Moscow, President Donald Trump appears to be telegraphing an upcoming meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin — a controversial push to engage the Kremlin at a time when relations between the US and key European allies are rapidly […]
6/25/2018
2016 ELECTION/BUSINESS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A Russian company accused of helping fund a propaganda operation to sway the 2016 presidential election in Donald Trump’s favor asked a federal judge on Monday [6-25-18] to dismiss charges brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, saying Mueller was unlawfully appointed and lacks prosecutorial authority. Concord Management and Consulting LLC, […]
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 […]
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 […]
6/22/2018
POLLS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GUILIANI/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Most Americans continue to believe that the Russian effort to influence the 2016 presidential election is a serious matter that should be investigated, but the constant criticism by President Donald Trump of special counsel Robert Mueller is taking its toll, according to a CNN poll conducted by SSRS released […]
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 […]
6/18/2018
JAMES COMEY/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Comey gave Strozk his marching orders. Mueller is Comey’s best friend. Witch Hunt!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 18, 2018 10:27 am […]
6/17/2018
FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “FBI agent Peter Strzok, who was sharply criticized by the inspector general last week for sending anti-Trump text messages, has agreed to appear before congressional committees that invite him to testify, his lawyer said in a letter made public Sunday [6-17-18]. Mr. Strzok was the lead agent on the Federal […]
6/15/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump and his allies seized Friday [6-15-18] on the Justice Department inspector general’s report into the Hillary Clinton email investigation to claim special counsel Robert Mueller’s sprawling probe is corrupt and must end. Try telling that to Mueller. Hours after the president thundered from the White House […]
6/15/2018
FBI/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @foxandfriends: .@jasoninthehouse: Anything Mueller is doing with his investigation is tainted by the anti-Trump FBI agents https://t.co…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 15, 2018 6:55 am […]
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 […]