NORTH KOREA/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/SINGAPORE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Now that I am back from Singapore, where we had a great result with respect to North Korea, the thought process must sadly go back to the Witch Hunt, always remembering that there was No Collusion and No Obstruction of the fabricated No Crime.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 14, 2018 […]
Category: Robert Mueller
6/14/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Rudy Giuliani insisted Wednesday [6-13-18] evening that Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, would not flip on his ex-boss by cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe. ‘I checked into this last night. It’s not so,’ Giuliani told Laura Ingraham of Fox News. The former New York […]
6/12/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special counsel Robert Mueller’s office is asking federal Judge Dabney Friedrich for an order that would lock down documents shared with the Russian company Concord Management and Consulting, because of the potential for the information to be shared with foreign nationals and intelligence officials still working to sow discord in the […]
6/8/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Prosecutors have filed a new indictment against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort that also names as a defendant Konstantin Kilimnik, a close business colleague of Manafort’s who prosecutors have said has close ties to Russian intelligence. The indictment includes two new charges against both Manafort and Kilimnik: a count of […]
6/8/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal judge said U.S. President Donald Trump should publicly file his objections to findings of a court-appointed special master reviewing documents seized in a probe of the business dealings of his longtime personal lawyer, Michael Cohen. In an order issued on Friday [6-8-18], U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood in […]
6/7/2018
PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The special counsel’s accusation this week that Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, tried to tamper with potential witnesses originated with two veteran journalists who turned on Mr. Manafort after working closely with him to prop up the former Russia-aligned president of Ukraine, interviews and documents show. The two […]
6/7/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A series of seemingly authoritative assertions in recent weeks about the shape and scope of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian election interference has helped define it in the public eye, generating countless headlines and cable chyrons about the ongoing saga that has shadowed President Donald Trump’s White House. […]
6/7/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law Professor: ‘It all proves that we never needed a Special Counsel….All of this could have been done by the Justice Dept. Don’t need a multi-million dollar group of people with a target on someone’s back. Not the way Justice should operate.’ So true!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
6/7/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law Professor: ‘It all proves that we never needed a Special Councel….All of this could have been done by the Justice Dept. Don’t need a multi-million dollar group of people with a target on someone’s back. Not the way Justice should operate.’ So true!” – Donald Trump, […]
6/5/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Money laundering, tax evasion, acting as a foreign agent, now witness tampering. Special counsel Robert Mueller has turned up the heat on Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, threatening new criminal charges and asking a judge to put him in jail while he awaits trial…The Justice Department appointed […]
6/5/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The special counsel’s office has accused former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort of attempting to get witnesses to lie for him in court, and they’ve asked the judge to send him to jail as he awaits his trial, according to a filing in DC District Court Monday [6-4-18] night. One […]
6/5/2018
JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [6-5-18] leveled his latest broadside against his own Justice Department and attorney general, lamenting on Twitter that someone other than Jeff Sessions could have avoided ‘so much time and money wasted, so many lives ruined’ by the special counsel’s probe into possible collusion between […]
6/5/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Trump administration has put its search for the Justice Department’s No. 3 official on the back burner after failing to persuade several early candidates to take the challenging position, according to people familiar with the matter. The delay in filling the post is the latest sign of the […]
6/5/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A federal judge on Tuesday [6-5-18] ordered U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, to respond by Friday [6-8-18] to the government’s bid to revoke or revise his release and set a June 15 hearing on the matter, according to a court filing. Special Counsel Robert Mueller said in […]
6/5/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A recently published letter from President Donald Trump’s attorneys claiming that the president could not have obstructed the federal investigation into ties between his campaign and Russia is deeply flawed, 14 prominent law professors and legal scholars said Monday [6-4-18] in a pointed rebuttal sent to top lawyers at the White […]
6/4/2018
DONALD JR/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “For nearly a year, the denials from President Trump’s lawyers and spokeswoman were unequivocal. No, the president did not dictate a misleading statement released in his son’s name…But in a confidential, hand-delivered memo to the special counsel, Mr. Trump’s lawyers acknowledged that, yes, Mr. Trump had dictated the statement, which […]
6/4/2018
FBI/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Federal prosecutors on Monday [6-4-18] accused President Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, of attempting to tamper with witnesses in his federal tax and money laundering case. In court documents, prosecutors working for the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, said that violated the terms of Mr. Manafort’s release while […]
6/4/2018
PARDONS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump declared Monday [6-4-18] that the appointment of the special counsel in the Russia investigation is ‘totally UNCONSTITUTIONAL!’ and asserted that he has the power to pardon himself, raising the prospect that he might take extraordinary action to immunize himself from the ongoing probe. In a pair of early-morning tweets, […]
6/4/2018
DEMS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/PARDONS/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As President Donald Trump claims an ‘absolute right’ to pardon himself, top Democratic lawmakers are countering with their own message: ‘You are not a king.’ ‘The restoration of King George lll without his splendid education,morals,or grace,’ Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.), a member of the House Judiciary Committee, tweeted, linking to […]
6/4/2018
GOP/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican, suggested Monday [6-4-18] that the President should hire a new lawyer if his current one is telling him that he can pardon himself. ‘If I were President of the United States and I had a lawyer that told me I could pardon […]
6/4/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump claimed Monday [6-4-18] that the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller is ‘totally unconstitutional’ and asserted that he had the ‘absolute right’ to pardon himself, citing ‘numerous legal experts.’ The president added, in a pair of tweets, ‘but why would I do that when I have done […]
6/4/2018
JAMES COMEY/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Donald Trump and his lawyers are staking out a vision of an unrestrained and all-powerful presidency in a staggeringly audacious defense of his actions related to the Russia probe already shared with special counsel Robert Mueller. The assertions made by Trump’s former lawyer John Dowd and Jay Sekulow, who […]
6/4/2018
DEMS/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The appointment of the Special Counsel is totally UNCONSTITUTIONAL! Despite that, we play the game because I, unlike the Democrats, have done nothing wrong!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 4, 2018 9:01 am […]
6/4/2018
DEMS/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The appointment of the Special Councel is totally UNCONSTITUTIONAL! Despite that, we play the game because I, unlike the Democrats, have done nothing wrong!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 4, 2018 8:07 am […]
6/4/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Sunday [6-3-18] questioned why the Justice Department or FBI did not notify him during the campaign that Paul Manafort was under investigation, insisting that Manafort would have never been hired if he had known…In a second tweet, Trump downplayed Manafort’s role on his campaign, saying […]
6/4/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday [6-4-18] said he had committed no wrongdoing but has the ‘absolute’ power to pardon himself, echoing sweeping arguments put forth by his lawyer Rudy Giuliani on Sunday [6-3-18]. The remarks come as U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the […]
6/3/2018
HILLARY CLINTON/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Mark Penn ‘Why are there people from the Clinton Foundation on the Mueller Staff? Why is there an Independent Counsel? To go after people and their families for unrelated offenses…Constitution was set up to prevent this…Stormtrooper tactics almost.’ A disgrace!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 3, 2018 12:34 pm […]
6/3/2018
HILLARY CLINTON/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Mark Penn ‘Why are there people from the Clinton Foundation on the Mueller Staff? Why is there an Independent Councel? To go after people and their families for unrelated offenses…Constitution was set up to prevent this…Stormtrooper tactics almost.’ A disgrace!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 3, 2018 12:25 pm […]
6/2/2018
DEMS/HILLARY CLINTON/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….’$17 million spent, it’s a scam Investigation. Americans are being worked. We now know there was Russian collusion, with Russians and the Democrats. The Mueller team is stacked with anti-Trumpers, who actually represented Clinton people (& gave $’s to Crooked H).’” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 2, 2018 7:40 am […]
6/1/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Justice Department has spent roughly $17 million investigating Russian meddling in the presidential election since last May, according to a new spending report released Thursday [5-31-18]. The department previously said $6.7 million had been spent from May 2017 through September 2017. Thursday’s expenditure report shows new costs of approximately […]
6/1/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A social media expert who worked with influential Donald Trump ally Roger Stone during the 2016 U.S. presidential race testified before a federal grand jury on Friday [6-1-18] after being subpoenaed by the special counsel investigating potential collusion between Trump’s campaign and Russia. Jason Sullivan arrived at the federal courthouse in […]
6/1/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A.P. has just reported that the Russian Hoax Investigation has now cost our government over $17 million, and going up fast. No Collusion, except by the Democrats!” – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 1, 2018 6:05 am […]
6/1/2018
JAMES COMEY/PARDONS/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “There are multiple explanations for President Donald Trump’s latest pardon storm but they are all rooted in a defining character trait — his relish for wielding unchecked power. By expunging the conviction of conservative filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza, and by hinting at more controversial pardons to come, Trump is showing […]
5/31/2018
JEFF SESSIONS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump pressured Attorney General Jeff Sessions on multiple occasions over the last 14 months to overturn his decision to recuse himself from the Russia investigation, according to a source familiar with the President’s demands. Trump made the request on several occasions — each to no avail. The President’s […]
5/31/2018
FBI/GOP/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani dismissed Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy’s defense of the FBI’s use of a confidential source to investigate potential Russian outreach to individuals connected to Trump’s presidential campaign, telling CNN on Thursday, ‘He’s drinking the Kool-Aid.’ Giuliani went on to criticize Gowdy over his handling of a […]
5/31/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The special counsel investigation into Russian election interference and any coordination with President Donald Trump’s campaign has cost more than $16 million so far. That’s according to a financial report released Thursday [5-31-18] by the Justice Department. The investigation led by former FBI Director Robert Mueller accounted for nearly […]
5/31/2018
MEDIA/PARDON/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump told reporters Thursday [5-31-18] that he is considering pardoning Martha Stewart and commuting former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s sentence. Trump floated the idea of pardoning or commuting the sentences of the two former ‘Apprentice’ series stars hours after he pardoned the conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza. […]
5/31/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team investigating suspected Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election spent $4.5 million between October last year and March 2018, the Department of Justice said on Thursday [5-31-18]. In addition, other Justice Department ‘components’ spent $5.476 million on activities supporting the investigation, the department said […]
5/31/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “He is ridiculed as ridiculous. He is attacked as around the bend. He is maligned as morally bereft in his unwavering defense of his old friend and client, President Donald Trump. Yet Rudy Giuliani may just be crazy like a fox. It turns out that he is doing exactly what the […]
5/30/2018
JEFF SESSIONS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump said on Wednesday [5-30-18] that he wished he had chosen another lawyer to be his attorney general, instead of Jeff Sessions, who recused himself from the sensitive Russia investigation early in the Trump administration. Mr. Trump was responding to an interview on CBS with Representative Trey Gowdy, Republican […]
5/30/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A lawyer for U.S. President Donald Trump’s longtime personal attorney, Michael Cohen, on Wednesday [5-30-18] accused adult film actress Stormy Daniels’ lawyer of leaking Cohen’s bank records to the press, calling it a ‘drive-by shooting of my client’s rights.’ The comments by Cohen lawyer Stephen Ryan regarding Daniels’ lawyer, […]
5/30/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “A lawyer for U.S. President Donald Trump’s longtime personal attorney, Michael Cohen, on Wednesday [5-30-18] accused adult film actress Stormy Daniels’ lawyer of leaking Cohen’s bank records to the press, calling it a ‘drive-by shooting of my client’s rights.’ The comments by Cohen lawyer Stephen Ryan regarding Daniels’ lawyer, Michael Avenatti, […]
5/30/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “One is the most cacophonous man in America, the other is the most silent. And as they head for a seemingly inevitable clash, both are living out the creeds that made them who they are. President Donald Trump and Robert Mueller may be contemporaries but are temperamental opposites, divided most deeply […]
5/29/2018
CONGRESS/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Special Counsel Robert Mueller may well be in the final stages of wrapping up his principal investigation. Last week, I argued here in Politico that Mueller will want to avoid interfering with the November midterms, and so will try to conclude by July or August. On this one we can […]
5/29/2018
JEFF SESSIONS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “By the time Attorney General Jeff Sessions arrived at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort for dinner one Saturday evening in March 2017, he had been receiving the presidential silent treatment for two days. Mr. Sessions had flown to Florida because Mr. Trump was refusing to take his calls about a pressing […]
5/29/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Republican President Donald Trump broadened his condemnation of the Russia probe with a tweet Tuesday [5-29-18] accusing it of being a partisan exercise that could unfairly tip the midterm elections in favor of Democratic congressional candidates. The ‘angry Democrats’ who are ‘working on the rigged Russia Witch Hunt, will be […]
5/29/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump alleged Tuesday [5-29-18]— without providing any evidence — that special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation will meddle in the midterm elections to benefit Democrats. Trump’s claim is his latest attack on the credibility of the Russia investigation as being politically motivated, though it’s a significant new step in […]
5/29/2018
DEMS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/NEW YORK/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Rep. Jerrold Nadler’s first battle with Donald Trump came in the 1990s, when the future president sought federal money for a project that would have benefited one of his developments on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Mr. Nadler, a New York Democrat, opposed the subsidies and had them stripped from […]
5/25/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A Russian oligarch who was questioned by special counsel Robert Mueller and recently sanctioned by the US visited President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen in Trump Tower during the presidential transition in January 2017, according to video reviewed by CNN and a person familiar with the matter. The January 9, […]
5/25/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, lost a bid on Friday [5-25-18] to have certain criminal charges filed against him by Special Counsel Robert Mueller dismissed. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who is presiding over Manafort’s case in Washington, said in a ruling that she will not […]
5/24/2018
MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/ROGER STONE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump worries that his lawyer, Michael Cohen, might cut a plea deal and turn against him. But an even greater threat may be creeping up on Trump: Roger Stone. Although Cohen is considered the keeper of Trump’s most private secrets, Stone has known the president for much […]
5/23/2018
2016 ELECTION/MEDIA/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special counsel Robert Mueller is fighting a drive by media organizations to unseal secret court filings relating to searches and surveillance efforts undertaken as part of the investigation into possible coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia in the 2016 election. While lawyers for President Donald Trump have suggested in […]
5/23/2018
JARED KUSHNER/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, had his White House security clearance restored Wednesday [5-23-18], a person familiar with the matter said, after months of uncertainty stemming in part from his role in the ongoing investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller. Kushner was stripped of his interim clearance […]
5/23/2018
FBI/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A federal judge expressed skepticism on Wednesday [5-23-18] toward a request by lawyers for President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort to suppress evidence seized by FBI agents working for Special Counsel Robert Mueller. The hearing before U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson gave Manafort another opportunity to hinder the […]
5/23/2018
ATTORNEY GENERAL/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The man aspiring to be the new face of the resistance is a practicing Sikh who likes to call attention to his turban and happens to have jurisdiction over 20 of President Donald Trump’s properties, including Bedminster. New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal says he sees an opening in the […]
5/22/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MEDIA/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s defense is going after one of special counsel Robert Mueller’s top deputies in a bid to persuade a federal judge to order a hearing into leaks to the media. In a court filing Monday [5-21-18] night, Manafort’s attorneys singled out prosecutor Andrew Weissmann over […]
5/22/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Lawyers for President Donald Trump are increasingly skeptical of letting him give an interview with prosecutors running the Russia investigation, but are thinking through how to prepare him for the possible high-stakes session nonetheless. Rudy Giuliani, one of the president’s outside lawyers, said in an interview Tuesday [5-22-18] that […]
5/22/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump’s legal team is trying to narrow the scope of the President’s potential interview with special counsel Robert Mueller to questions on Russia-related matters that occurred before Trump’s election, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CNN. Trump’s lawyers, who are urging Mueller to wrap up his investigation, are looking […]
5/22/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When President Trump publicly demanded that the Justice Department open an investigation into the F.B.I.’s scrutiny of his campaign contacts with Russia, he inched further toward breaching an established constraint on executive power: The White House does not make decisions about individual law enforcement investigations…Almost since he took office, Mr. […]
5/22/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A significant business partner of Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s personal lawyer, has quietly agreed to cooperate with the government as a potential witness, a development that could be used as leverage to pressure Mr. Cohen to work with the special counsel examining Russian interference in the 2016 presidential […]
5/22/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Special counsel Robert Mueller has no-commented his way through more than a year of the Russia probe. But he’s recently picked up an unwelcome spokesman of sorts: Rudy Giuliani. For better or worse, Donald Trump’s newest personal lawyer has in his first month on the job claimed to relay […]
5/21/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said he will ‘demand’ that the Justice Department investigate whether the FBI infiltrated his presidential campaign, an extraordinary order that came hours before his legal team said the special counsel indicated the investigation into the president could be concluded by September…Trump’s demand puts further pressure on the […]
5/21/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEVIN NUNES/FBI/GOP/ROBERT MULLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House brokered an agreement on Monday [5-21-18] with intelligence and law enforcement officials that will allow Republican congressional leaders to view some of the most highly classified information related to the Russia investigation, administration officials said. For months, a small group of lawmakers close to Mr. Trump […]
5/21/2018
GOP/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Frustrated and impatient, fed up with waiting and eager to fight back, President Trump has embarked on what amounts to a two-prong strategy to contain the threat and undercut the credibility of the escalating investigations targeting him and his associates. The blizzard of Twitter messages combined with a string […]
5/21/2018
DEVIN NUNES/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump on Monday [5-21-18] praised Rep. Devin Nunes — who is aggressively pushing the Justice Department for sensitive documents related to the Russia probe — as a ‘very courageous man.’ In remarks delivered before swearing in CIA Director Gina Haspel, Trump diverted from the focus of […]
5/21/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/OBAMA ADMIN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump has wrenched the United States back to the brink of a constitutional showdown after a weekend of rage culminated in his demand for an investigation into claims that the Obama administration inserted a spy in his 2016 campaign. Trump’s power play injected fresh intensity into […]
5/20/2018
2016 ELECTION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Justice Department asked its internal watchdog to examine if there was any impropriety in the counterintelligence investigation of President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, after the president demanded Sunday [5-20-18] that the department investigate the motives behind the inquiry. Earlier Sunday, in one of a series of tweets targeting […]
5/18/2018
CONGRESS/DEMS/GOP/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “For months, the political world has treated Robert S. Mueller III as the arbiter of President Trump’s fate: Hopeful Democrats have theorized about the damage Mr. Mueller’s investigation might inflict. Suspicious Republicans, led by Mr. Trump, have cast him as leading a ‘witch hunt.’ But this week Rudolph W. Giuliani, […]
5/18/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/OBAMA ADMIN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump and his supporters are circulating an explosive theory: The FBI, they say, may have planted a mole, or ‘spy,’ inside the 2016 campaign to bring him down. The unverified allegation has lit up conservative media and earned space on Trump’s Twitter feed just as special […]
5/18/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday [5-18-18] escalated his attacks on the Justice Department, suggesting that the FBI may have planted or recruited an informant in his 2016 presidential campaign. Trump stopped short of accusing the FBI of spying on his campaign, instead citing unnamed reports that at least one […]
5/17/2018
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump asserted on Thursday [5-17-17] that federal investigators attempted to infiltrate his 2016 campaign with a confidential informant — a scandalous overreach, he said, that would be ‘bigger than Watergate!’ In some sense, many analysts have said, he is right: Efforts by a hostile foreign power to influence an […]
5/17/2018
DEMS/GOP/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump and his critics actually agree on something. If a column he read in a magazine is correct, he wrote on Twitter on Thursday [5-17-18], ‘this is bigger than Watergate!’ Never mind that he was thinking of something different than his adversaries when they use the same phrase. Mr. Trump […]
5/17/2018
2016 ELECTION/LAWSUIT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A lawyer for U.S. President Donald Trump’s campaign on Thursday [5-17-18] rejected as ‘wild speculation’ allegations by three Americans that it conspired with Russians to disseminate their private information from hacked emails to deter them from supporting Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election. A hearing in U.S. District Court for […]
5/17/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump and his allies ramped up their pressure campaign against special counsel Robert Mueller on Thursday [5-17-18] — the one-year anniversary of his sprawling investigation — as they seek to discredit the probe that shows no signs of wrapping up soon. Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor […]
5/17/2018
GOP/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Unlike the president, Robert Mueller hasn’t uttered one word in public about his Russia investigation in the year since he was appointed special counsel. And that is rattling just about everyone involved. What’s he up to? When will he bring the probe to and end? He doesn’t have to say, and […]
5/17/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The former son-in-law of Paul Manafort, the one-time chairman of President Donald Trump’s campaign, has cut a plea deal with the Justice Department that requires him to cooperate with other criminal probes, two people with knowledge of the matter said. The guilty plea agreement, which is under seal […]
5/17/2018
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TWITTER: “President Donald Trump sarcastically congratulated America Thursday [5-17-18] on the one-year anniversary of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, maintaining that there was no collusion between his campaign and the Russians. ‘Congratulations America, we are now into the second year of the greatest Witch […]
5/17/2018
2016 ELECTION/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office notified a federal court in Virginia on Thursday [5-17-18] it had filed under seal an unredacted memorandum that is expected to shed light on the scope of his wide-ranging probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. The filing, made as part of […]
5/16/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, will not indict President Trump if he finds wrongdoing in his investigation of Trump campaign links to Russia, according to the president’s lawyers. They said Wednesday [5-16-18] that Mr. Mueller’s investigators told them that he would adhere to the Justice Department’s view […]
5/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/GOP/ROBERT MUELLER/SENATE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A GOP-led Senate committee backed U.S. intelligence agencies’ finding that Moscow tried to boost Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign by hacking and spreading misinformation, a bipartisan conclusion that breaks with a House panel’s position and the president’s rejection of the notion that Russia wanted him to win. The Senate Intelligence […]
5/16/2018
HILLARY CLINTON/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Thousands of pages of interview transcripts with the participants of the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting shed new light on how eager Donald Trump Jr. and senior members of the Trump campaign were to obtain damaging information on Hillary Clinton — and how frustrated and angry they were that […]
5/16/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TWITTER: “U.S. Justice Department Special Counsel Robert Mueller has issued two subpoenas to a social media expert who worked for longtime Donald Trump adviser Roger Stone during the 2016 presidential election campaign. The subpoenas were delivered late last week to lawyers representing Jason Sullivan, a social media and Twitter specialist Stone hired […]
5/16/2018
JAMES COMEY/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s attorney has an unlikely new role model for special counsel Robert Mueller: James Comey. Frustrated by the open-ended nature of Mueller’s Russia probe, which hits its one-year mark on Thursday [5-17-18], Rudy Giuliani says Mueller should follow the example Comey set in 2016, when the then-FBI […]
5/15/2018
HILLARY CLINTON/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The White House official had a startling assertion: He thought he had received an email in the first half of 2016 alerting the Trump campaign that Russia had damaging information about Hillary Clinton. Testifying behind closed doors on Capitol Hill in late March, the official, John K. Mashburn, said he remembered […]
5/15/2018
PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former prosecutor Gene Rossi learned to expect lectures and humiliation when he appeared before U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis, who regularly ridiculed his arguments. But when Mr. Rossi returned several years ago from chemotherapy, Judge Ellis—after sternly summoning him to the bench—became tearful as he asked how Mr. Rossi was […]
5/13/2018
BUSINESS/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “When Michael Cohen came knocking after the 2016 election, touting himself as the president’s lawyer, a man who could decipher the new administration, Ford Motor Co. said no. So did Uber Technologies Inc. He managed to notch AT&T Inc. and Novartis AG . And Squire Patton Boggs, a law and lobbying […]
5/10/2018
GOP/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MEULLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A pair of top Republican lawmakers met with senior officials at the Justice Department Thursday [5-10-18] in an attempt to resolve a standoff over GOP requests for classified information related to the special counsel’s investigation into Russian election meddling. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R., Calif.) and fellow […]
5/10/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Rudy Giuliani, who last month joined the team of lawyers representing President Donald Trump in the Russia investigation, resigned from his law firm on Thursday [5-10-18], citing the ‘pressing demands’ of the special counsel probe. Mr. Giuliani said last month that he would take a ‘temporary leave of absence’ from […]
5/9/2018
BUSINESS/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Novartis AG was drawn into Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of suspected Russian meddling in the U.S. presidential election after paying $1.2 million to a consulting firm led by Donald Trump’s lawyer. The Swiss drugmaker said Wednesday [5-9-18] that it had a one-year agreement with attorney Michael Cohen’s firm that began […]
5/9/2018
MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators have questioned a Russian oligarch about hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments his company’s US affiliate made to President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, after the election, according to a source familiar with the matter. Viktor Vekselberg, chairman of asset manager Renova Group, is […]
5/8/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A Dutch attorney now has the dubious distinction of being the first person imprisoned in connection with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Alex van der Zwaan, 33, reported to a low-security Federal Bureau of Prisons facility near Allenwood, Pennsylvania, on Monday to serve […]
5/7/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump has derided the Fifth Amendment as the refuge of mobsters, and during Watergate President Richard Nixon infamously told aides, ‘I want you all to stonewall it, let them plead the Fifth Amendment, cover up, or anything else.’ Despite the negative implications of taking the Fifth, the US […]
5/7/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Lawyers advising President Donald Trump in the Russia investigation hope to decide whether he should testify by May 17, the one-year anniversary of the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller, Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani said Monday [5-7-18]. Mr. Trump’s legal team has long been divided on whether he should agree […]
5/7/2018
COURTS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special counsel Robert Mueller seemingly enjoyed free rein over the last year in his investigation into President Donald Trump’s campaign connections to the Kremlin, arresting suspects, winning plea deals and handing down indictments at will. Until last week. Much to the merriment of the president and his lawyers, Mueller’s prosecutors have […]
5/6/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s legal team is striking a more combative tone with Robert Mueller, suggesting publicly that the president may decline to cooperate with the special counsel’s prosecutors. That tougher stance comes as the Mueller probe already faces a time crunch because of the approaching midterm elections. Rudy Giuliani, the former […]
5/6/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Rudolph W. Giuliani, reeling after a chaotic first week as President Trump’s lawyer, tried again on Sunday [5-6-18] to straighten out his client’s story. But Mr. Giuliani raised new questions about whether Mr. Trump had paid hush money to other women and suggested the president might invoke the Fifth Amendment to […]
5/4/2018
GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said Friday [5-4-18] that he would ‘love to speak’ with special counsel Robert Mueller, but only if he’s “treated fairly…” The President also called into question the impartiality of Mueller’s team, saying it was filled with Democrats, and pointed out that Mueller worked as the FBI […]
5/3/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump and Robert Mueller look ready to go to war. It was always theoretically possible that the Russia investigation could end with the President and the special counsel on either side of a constitutional showdown. But a breakneck sequence of events over the last two days may have made the […]
5/3/2018
FBI/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Federal investigators wiretapped the phone lines of U.S. President Donald Trump’s longtime lawyer Michael Cohen before the FBI seized records and documents in a raid last month on his offices, hotel room and home, NBC News reported on Thursday [5-3-18]. NBC, citing sources familiar with legal proceedings involving Cohen, […]
5/2/2018
GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The House Republican duo targeting senior leaders at the Justice Department have a new demand for Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein: They want to see an unredacted copy of the memo he sent to whom detailing the scope of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. The same lawmakers are […]