2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/NEW YORK/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Federal prosecutors in New York are examining whether U.S. President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, committed tax fraud in relation to his taxi-medallion business, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. Cohen, who was Trump’s personal lawyer, has not been charged with any crime. The Federal Bureau […]
Category: Russia Investigation
8/7/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “The star witness in the trial against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort faced tough questioning on cross-examination on Tuesday [8-7-18] about a ‘secret life’ that included an extramarital affair and stealing funds from his former boss. Rick Gates, who served as a right-hand man to Manafort in his political […]
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
2016 ELECTION/DONALD JR/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TWITTER: “President Donald Trump has been urged to stop tweeting about the 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Trump’s top advisers and several Russians, a source familiar with discussions tells CNN. The President was advised that his tweeting only gives oxygen to the topic, even if those around Trump do not […]
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
LEGAL/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The legal fund aimed at helping President Trump’s associates with fees related to the Russia investigation raised more than $200,000 through the end of June, mostly from a trio of longtime Trump allies, according to new tax filings reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. Half of that money came from California real-estate […]
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
MEDIA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….a law firm, eventually Kremlin connected sources, to gather info on Donald Trump. Collusion is very real with Russia, but only with Hillary and the Democrats, and we should demand a full investigation.’ Dan Bongino on @foxandfriends Looking forward to the new IG Report!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 6, 2018 9:25 […]
8/6/2018
HILLARY CLINTON/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’Collusion with Russia was very real. Hillary Clinton and her team 100% colluded with the Russians, and so did Adam Schiff who is on tape trying to collude with what he thought was Russians to obtain compromising material on DJT. We also know that Hillary Clinton paid through….” -Donald Trump, […]
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
MEDIA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Too bad a large portion of the Media refuses to report the lies and corruption having to do with the Rigged Witch Hunt – but that is why we call them FAKE NEWS!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 5, 2018 7:49 am […]
8/5/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “…Why aren’t Mueller and the 17 Angry Democrats looking at the meetings concerning the Fake Dossier and all of the lying that went on in the FBI and DOJ? This is the most one sided Witch Hunt in the history of our country. Fortunately, the facts are all coming out, […]
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 […]
8/2/2018
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 […]
8/1/2018
JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump called on Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday [8-1-18] to end the special counsel investigation, an extraordinary appeal to the nation’s top law enforcement official to end an inquiry directly into the president. The order immediately raised questions from some lawyers about whether it was an […]
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
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
PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Looking back on history, who was treated worse, Alfonse Capone, legendary mob boss, killer and ‘Public Enemy Number One,’ or Paul Manafort, political operative & Reagan/Dole darling, now serving solitary confinement – although convicted of nothing? Where is the Russian Collusion?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 1, 2018 10:35 am […]
8/1/2018
DEMS/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Russian Collusion with the Trump Campaign, one of the most successful in history, is a TOTAL HOAX. The Democrats paid for the phony and discredited Dossier which was, along with Comey, McCabe, Strzok and his lover, the lovely Lisa Page, used to begin the Witch Hunt. Disgraceful!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August […]
8/1/2018
PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Paul Manafort worked for Ronald Reagan, Bob Dole and many other highly prominent and respected political leaders. He worked for me for a very short time. Why didn’t government tell me that he was under investigation. These old charges have nothing to do with Collusion – a Hoax!” -Donald Trump, […]
8/1/2018
DEMS/JEFF SESSIONS/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “..This is a terrible situation and Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this Rigged Witch Hunt right now, before it continues to stain our country any further. Bob Mueller is totally conflicted, and his 17 Angry Democrats that are doing his dirty work are a disgrace to USA!” -Donald Trump, […]
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
DEMS/HILLARY CLINTON/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Collusion is not a crime, but that doesn’t matter because there was No Collusion (except by Crooked Hillary and the Democrats)!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 31, 2018 6:58 am […]
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 […]
7/30/2018
2016 ELECTION/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In the days after the 2016 presidential election, Donald J. Trump’s advisers had an unequivocal message about contacts between Russians and members of the campaign team: There were none. In the ensuing months, as numerous such communications were revealed, the message changed: There was no collusion with Russia’s effort […]
7/30/2018
MICHAEL COHEN/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In a day of confusing statements, President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani first startled observers with a public claim of a previously unknown meeting involving top Trump associates and Kremlin-linked Russians — then recanted the claim and said the meeting ‘never happened.’ During a nearly 45-minute interview on CNN […]
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
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, said Monday [7-30-18] that he’s not sure collusion with Russia would be considered a crime. But legal experts have repeatedly said that anyone found collaborating with Russia on the 2016 election could be charged with other crimes, such as conspiracy — and special […]
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 […]
7/30/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Paul Manafort on Tuesday [7-31-18] will become the first of President Donald Trump’s former aides to go on trial, accused of bank and tax fraud by federal investigators probing Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Despite a focus on financial crimes, the trial could yield politically damaging headlines […]
7/29/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team will take President Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort to court in Alexandria, Va., on Tuesday [7-31-18], in a trial with implications reaching far beyond the immediate charges ranging from tax evasion to bank fraud. The outcome of the trial, which is expected to last three […]
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
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A furious President Donald Trump and his allies are launching a campaign to undermine the credibility of Trump’s former personal lawyer and confidant, Michael Cohen, in response to Cohen’s dramatic public turn against his longtime patron. Trump, who has privately fumed about Cohen for days, trashed his former lawyer […]
7/27/2018
DONALD JR/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump on Friday [7-27-18] said he had no prior knowledge of a June 2016 meeting his eldest son had with a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower, disputing an account that a person familiar with the matter says his former lawyer Michael Cohen is planning to tell the special […]
7/27/2018
2016 ELECTION/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, claims that then-candidate Trump knew in advance about the June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower in which Russians were expected to offer his campaign dirt on Hillary Clinton, sources with knowledge tell CNN. Cohen is willing to make that assertion to […]
7/27/2018
DEMS/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TWITTER: “….,the only Collusion with Russia was with the Democrats, so now they are looking at my Tweets (along with 53 million other people) – the rigged Witch Hunt continues! How stupid and unfair to our Country….And so the Fake News doesn’t waste my time with dumb questions, NO,….” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
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, […]
7/26/2018
GOP/JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/PAUL RYAN/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “House conservatives’ bid to oust Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein amid a fight over the Russia investigation lost steam Thursday [7-26-18] when top Republicans rejected the move, with Attorney General Jeff Sessions urging Congress to focus on other priorities. House Speaker Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) said he doesn’t […]
7/26/2018
JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/PAUL RYAN/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions and House Speaker Paul Ryan spoke out against ousting Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Thursday [7-26-18], a day after fellow Republicans mounted an effort to impeach him amid a fight over the Russia investigation…Earlier in the day, Mr. Sessions said Congress should focus its […]
7/26/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “About a month before Michael Cohen released his recording of a sensitive conversation he had with Donald Trump, the President’s longtime attorney and adviser was agonizing over the silent treatment he was getting from his former boss…Federal prosecutors were bearing down on him over his business dealings, some involving […]
7/26/2018
GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/PAUL RYAN/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan on Thursday [7-26-18] rejected a move by fellow Republicans to impeach Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the No. 2 Justice Department official, who oversees the federal probe of Russia’s role in the 2016 presidential election…A group of Republicans in the House of Representatives […]
7/25/2018
RUSSIA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. President Donald Trump will postpone a second meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin until next year after the federal probe into Russian election meddling is over, national security adviser John Bolton said on Wednesday [7-25-18]…Trump weathered fierce criticism after his summit last week with Putin in Helsinki after he […]
7/25/2018
RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/SANCTIONS/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Bipartisan momentum is building in the Senate to crack down on Russia, even as President Donald Trump prepares to bring Vladimir Putin to Washington. It’s a remarkable split-screen moment, with lawmakers pressing not only for new penalties against the Kremlin but for Trump to use more of the sanctions power Congress […]
7/24/2018
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Early one morning in October, Rick Gates, a Washington lobbyist who had been a top official in the Trump campaign, emailed family and friends warning them that he was about to be indicted by the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election. He declared himself innocent of ‘collusion with […]
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
NATIONAL SECURITY/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is considering stripping a half-dozen former national security officials of their security clearances, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Monday [7-23-18], calling their public commentary about the ongoing Russia probe inappropriate. The list of former officials under consideration includes former CIA Director John Brennan, former Director […]
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
OBAMA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….and the DOJ, FBI and Obama Gang need to be held to account. Source #1 was the major source. Avoided talking about it being the Clinton campaign behind it. Misled the Court to provide a pretext to SPY on the Trump Team. Not about Carter Page..was all about getting Trump…..” -Donald […]
7/22/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump claimed without evidence on Sunday [7-22-18] that his administration’s release of top-secret documents related to the surveillance of a former campaign aide had confirmed that the Justice Department and the F.B.I. ‘misled the courts’ in the early stages of the Russia investigation…In a series of early-morning tweets, […]
7/22/2018
CONGRESS/GOP/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In the nearly two years since Russia attacked the American democratic process, congressional Republicans have played conflicting roles in the drama: Some have pressed to impose sanctions on Russia and quietly pursue investigations, but they have been outshouted by Republicans who have obfuscated and undercut efforts to uncover the Kremlin’s plot. […]
7/22/2018
FBI/GOP/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “When President Trump declassified a memo by House Republicans in February that portrayed the surveillance of a former campaign adviser as scandalous, his motivation was clear: to give congressional allies and conservative commentators another avenue to paint the Justice Department’s investigation into Russian election interference as tainted from the start. […]
7/22/2018
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “South Carolina Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy on Sunday [7-22-18] called on President Donald Trump to affirm wholeheartedly the intelligence community’s conclusion that Russia attempted to influence the 2016 presidential election. ‘The evidence is overwhelming,’ Gowdy said. ‘It can be proven beyond any evidentiary burden that Russia is not our friend and […]
7/22/2018
DEMS/MEDIA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “.@PeteHegseth on @FoxNews ‘Source #1 was the (Fake) Dossier. Yes, the Dirty Dossier, paid for by Democrats as a hit piece against Trump, and looking for information that could discredit Candidate #1 Trump. Carter Page was just the foot to surveil the Trump campaign…’ ILLEGAL!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 22, 2018 […]
7/22/2018
MEDIA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Andrew McCarthy – ‘I said this could never happen. This is so bad that they should be looking at the judges who signed off on this stuff, not just the people who gave it. It is so bad it screams out at you.’ On the whole FISA scam which led to […]
7/22/2018
HILLARY CLINTON/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/SPYGATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Looking more & more like the Trump Campaign for President was illegally being spied upon (surveillance) for the political gain of Crooked Hillary Clinton and the DNC. Ask her how that worked out – she did better with Crazy Bernie. Republicans must get tough now. An illegal Scam!” -Donald Trump, […]
7/22/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congratulations to @JudicialWatch and @TomFitton on being successful in getting the Carter Page FISA documents. As usual they are ridiculously heavily redacted but confirm with little doubt that the Department of ‘Justice’ and FBI misled the courts. Witch Hunt Rigged, a Scam!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 22, 2018 5:28 am […]
7/21/2018
DEMS/GOP/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “No Collusion, No Obstruction – but that doesn’t matter because the 13 Angry Democrats, who are only after Republicans and totally protecting Democrats, want this Witch Hunt to drag out to the November Election. Republicans better get smart fast and expose what they are doing!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 21, 2018 […]
7/21/2018
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Rigged Witch Hunt, headed by the 13 Angry Democrats (and now 4 more have been added, one who worked directly for Obama W.H.), seems intent on damaging the Republican Party’s chances in the November Election. This Democrat excuse for losing the ‘16 Election never ends!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July […]
7/21/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/GOP/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Trump administration disclosed on Saturday [7-21-18] a previously top-secret set of documents related to the wiretapping of Carter Page, the onetime Trump campaign adviser who was at the center of highly contentious accusations by Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee that the F.B.I. had abused its surveillance powers. Democrats in […]
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 […]
7/17/2018
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 […]
7/17/2018
RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Thank you @RandPaul. ‘The President has gone through a year and a half of totally partisan investigations – what’s he supposed to think?’” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 17, 2018 9:33 am […]
7/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/FBI/GOP/RUSSIA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump stood next to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Monday [7-16-18] and publicly challenged the conclusion of his own intelligence agencies that Moscow interfered in the 2016 presidential election, wrapping up what he called a ‘deeply productive’ summit meeting with an extraordinary show of trust for a […]
7/16/2018
FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/OBAMA/RUSSIA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Obama thought that Crooked Hillary was going to win the election, so when he was informed by the FBI about Russian Meddling, he said it couldn’t happen, was no big deal, & did NOTHING about it. When I won it became a big deal and the Rigged Witch Hunt […]
7/16/2018
RUSSIA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Our relationship with Russia has NEVER been worse thanks to many years of U.S. foolishness and stupidity and now, the Rigged Witch Hunt!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 16, 2018 1:05 am […]
7/15/2018
FBI/JAMES COMEY/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “One year after President Trump fired the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, agents say they have less confidence in the ethics and vision of the bureau’s new leadership, according to internal survey data. The survey results further undercut one of the explanations that President Trump and his aides gave for […]
7/15/2018
OBAMA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @realDonaldTrump: The stories you heard about the 12 Russians yesterday took place during the Obama Administration, not the Trump Admini…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 15, 2018 8:40 am […]
7/15/2018
OBAMA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @realDonaldTrump: These Russian individuals did their work during the Obama years. Why didn’t Obama do something about it? Because he t…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 15, 2018 8:33 am […]
7/14/2018
OBAMA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “These Russian individuals did their work during the Obama years. Why didn’t Obama do something about it? Because he thought Crooked Hillary Clinton would win, that’s why. Had nothing to do with the Trump Administration, but Fake News doesn’t want to report the truth, as usual!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 14, […]
7/14/2018
OBAMA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The stories you heard about the 12 Russians yesterday took place during the Obama Administration, not the Trump Administration. Why didn’t they do something about it, especially when it was reported that President Obama was informed by the FBI in September, before the Election?” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 14, 2018 5:08 […]
7/14/2018
OBAMA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The stories you heard about the 12 Russians yesterday took place during the Obama Administration, not the Trump Administrations. Why didn’t they do something about it, especially when it was reported that President Obama was informed by the FBI in September, before the Election?” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 14, 2018 4:53 […]
7/13/2018
FBI/GOP/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page was questioned behind closed doors on Friday just hours after FBI agent Peter Strzok had been grilled in a raucous 10-hour public hearing, and Republicans said they learned new information from a witness who was able to talk more freely than Strzok. Two Republican congressmen, Reps. […]
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 […]
7/12/2018
FBI/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The embattled F.B.I. agent who oversaw the opening of the Russia investigation mounted an aggressive personal defense on Thursday [7-12-18], rejecting accusations that he let his private political views bias his official actions and labeling Republicans’ preoccupation with him ‘another victory notch in Putin’s belt…’ But in defending himself and […]
7/12/2018
FBI/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Peter Strzok tussled with GOP lawmakers at a contentious hearing Thursday [7-12-18], with the FBI agent denying that anti-Trump text messages he sent influenced his work and Republicans accusing him of epitomizing purported bias among federal investigators..Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R., Va.) said Mr. Strzok’s exchange of thousands of […]
7/12/2018
FBI/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “An FBI agent who criticized then-presidential candidate Donald Trump in text messages during the 2016 election campaign vigorously defended himself at a raucous hearing on Thursday, describing Republican lawmakers’ attacks on him as helping America’s enemies. Republican and Democratic lawmakers shouted and swapped insults in the U.S. House of Representatives […]
7/11/2018
CONGRESS/FBI/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump called out Lisa Page after the former FBI lawyer failed to appear before Congress Wednesday [7-11-18]. ‘Ex-FBI LAYER Lisa Page today defied a House of Representatives issued Subpoena to testify before Congress!,’ Trump, in Europe for a high-stakes NATO summit, tweeted. ‘Wow, but is anybody really surprised!…The misspelling […]
7/11/2018
FBI/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “How can the Rigged Witch Hunt proceed when it was started, influenced and worked on, for an extended period of time, by former FBI Agent/Lover Peter Strzok? Read his hate filled and totally biased Emails and the answer is clear!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 11, 2018 5:47 pm […]
7/11/2018
CONGRESS/FBI/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Ex-FBI LAYER Lisa Page today defied a House of Representatives issued Subpoena to testify before Congress! Wow, but is anybody really surprised! Together with her lover, FBI Agent Peter Strzok, she worked on the Rigged Witch Hunt, perhaps the most tainted and corrupt case EVER!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 11, 2018 […]
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
LEGAL/LOBBYING/MICHAEL FLYNN/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former national security adviser Mike Flynn has a new job: He has joined a global lobbying and investment advisory firm. As he awaits sentencing for lying to federal investigators, he is going into business with Washington lobbyist Nick Muzin and his New York partner Joey Allaham with a new firm called […]
7/10/2018
FBI/NATO/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I am on Air Force One flying to NATO and hear reports that the FBI lovers, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page are getting cold feet on testifying about the Rigged Witch Hunt headed by 13 Angry Democrats and people that worked for Obama for 8 years. Total disgrace!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
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 […]
7/9/2018
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Based on meetings he and other senators just held with Russian leaders in Moscow, Sen. Jerry Moran has a few words of caution for President Donald Trump as he prepares to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin…Moreover, Sen. Moran suggests the president might want to think twice about his plan to […]
7/9/2018
RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s new Supreme Court pick, Brett Kavanaugh, could soon be in a position to address several big legal questions at the center of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. The list includes the question of whether Trump can be subpoenaed to testify in a criminal case; the […]
7/8/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s attorney, Rudy Giuliani, said Sunday [7-8-18] that he isn’t concerned about Michael Cohen potentially cooperating with federal prosecutors…Giuliani also said that if Cohen tells the truth, ‘we’re home free.’ The comments follow an interview Cohen had with ABC News last week in which he suggested […]
7/7/2018
DEMS/FBI/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Rigged Witch Hunt, originally headed by FBI lover boy Peter S (for one year) & now, 13 Angry Democrats, should look into the missing DNC Server, Crooked Hillary’s illegally deleted Emails, the Pakistani Fraudster, Uranium One, Podesta & so much more. It’s a Democrat Con Job!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July […]
7/7/2018
DEMS/FBI/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Public opinion has turned strongly against the Rigged Witch Hunt and the ‘Special’ Counsel because the public understands that there was no Collusion with Russia (so ridiculous), that the two FBI lovers were a fraud against our Nation & that the only Collusion was with the Dems!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July […]