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 […]
Category: Russia
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
JEFF SESSIONS/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Russian Witch Hunt Hoax continues, all because Jeff Sessions didn’t tell me he was going to recuse himself…I would have quickly picked someone else. So much time and money wasted, so many lives ruined…and Sessions knew better than most that there was No Collusion!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 5, 2018 […]
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
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/PARDONS/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump, ramping up his assertions of extraordinary powers, declared in a tweet on Monday [6-4-18] that he had ‘the absolute right’ to pardon himself for any crime. While no president has ever attempted to pardon himself, and it is not clear whether Mr. Trump could legitimately take such a step, […]
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
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
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 […]
6/2/2018
DEMS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MEDIA/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “There was No Collusion with Russia (except by the Democrats). When will this very expensive Witch Hunt Hoax ever end? So bad for our Country. Is the Special Counsel/Justice Department leaking my lawyers letters to the Fake News Media? Should be looking at Dems corruption instead?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 2, […]
6/2/2018
DEMS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MEDIA/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “There was No Collusion with Russia (except by the Democrats). When will this very expensive Witch Hunt Hoax ever end? So bad for our Country. Is the Special Councel/Justice Department leaking my lawyers letters to the Fake News Media? Should be looking at Dems corruption instead?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 2, […]
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 […]
5/31/2018
JEFF SESSIONS/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Days after President Donald Trump deemed Jeff Sessions ‘beleaguered’ and threatened to fire him last July, members of the president’s inner circle made a desperate case to save the attorney general’s job. The White House chief of staff, Reince Priebus, and the president’s chief strategist, Steve Bannon, pleaded with Trump […]
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
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 […]
5/31/2018
JAMES COMEY/MEDIA/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Not that it matters but I never fired James Comey because of Russia! The Corrupt Mainstream Media loves to keep pushing that narrative, but they know it is not true!” – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 31, 2018 7:11 am […]
5/31/2018
CELEBS/FBI/RUSSIA/SPYGATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RUSH LIMBAUGH ‘If the FBI was so concerned, and if they weren’t targeting Trump, they should have told Trump. If they were really concerned about the Russians infiltrating a campaign (hoax), then why not try to stop it? Why not tell Trump? Because they were pushing this scam.’” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May […]
5/31/2018
ELECTIONS/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VOTER FRAUD: “U.S. election officials responsible for managing more than a dozen close races this November share a fear: Outdated voting machines in their districts could undermine confidence in election results that will determine which party controls the U.S. Congress…Most of the dozen-plus state and local election officials interviewed by Reuters said they […]
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/FBI/GOP/JEFF SESSIONS/RUSSIA/SPYGATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A senior Republican congressman disputed President Donald Trump’s claim that ‘spies’ infiltrated his 2016 campaign, saying that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was conducting a legitimate probe of Russian election meddling. Rep. Trey Gowdy (R., S.C.), who heads the House oversight committee, also said he understood Mr. Trump’s frustration with […]
5/30/2018
2016 ELECTION/CONGRESS/FBI/GOP/JEFF SESSIONS/RUSSIA/SPYGATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A senior Republican congressman disputed President Donald Trump’s claim that ‘spies’ infiltrated his 2016 campaign, saying that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was conducting a legitimate probe of Russian interference in the election. Rep. Trey Gowdy (R., S.C.), who heads the House oversight committee, also said he understood Mr. Trump’s […]
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, […]
5/29/2018
MILITARY/RUSSIA/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House has tried to avoid discussing a February skirmish between U.S. troops and Russian mercenaries in Syria, but that didn’t stop President Donald Trump from bragging about the Pentagon’s performance at a recent closed-door fundraiser. The details of the battle remain classified, but speaking to donors in midtown Manhattan last […]
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
ECONOMY/MILITARY/NORTH KOREA/RUSSIA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VA: “Sorry, I’ve got to start focusing my energy on North Korea Nuclear, bad Trade Deals, VA Choice, the Economy, rebuilding the Military, and so much more, and not on the Rigged Russia Witch Hunt that should be investigating Clinton/Russia/FBI/Justice/Obama/Comey/Lynch etc.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 29, 2018 6:27 am […]
5/29/2018
DEMS/HILLARY CLINTON/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Why aren’t the 13 Angry and heavily conflicted Democrats investigating the totally Crooked Campaign of totally Crooked Hillary Clinton. It’s a Rigged Witch Hunt, that’s why! Ask them if they enjoyed her after election celebration!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 29, 2018 6:09 am […]
5/29/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/POLLS/RUSSIA/SPYGATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The 13 Angry Democrats (plus people who worked 8 years for Obama) working on the rigged Russia Witch Hunt, will be MEDDLING with the mid-term elections, especially now that Republicans (stay tough!) are taking the lead in Polls. There was no Collusion, except by the Democrats!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 29, 2018 […]
5/25/2018
MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Eleven days before the presidential inauguration last year, a billionaire Russian businessman with ties to the Kremlin visited Trump Tower in Manhattan to meet with Donald J. Trump’s personal lawyer and fixer, Michael D. Cohen, according to video footage and another person who attended the meeting. In Mr. Cohen’s office on […]
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/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A trial date for U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, for alleged financial crimes been postponed to July 24 in the Eastern District of Virginia District Court, according to a court filing on Friday [5-25-18]. The judge said the cause of the postponement from July 10 was ‘owing to […]
5/25/2018
MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A Russian oligarch with links to the Kremlin met Donald Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen at the Trump Tower in New York City less than two weeks before Trump’s inauguration as president, a source familiar with the meeting said on Friday [5-25-18]. During a discussion in Cohen’s office, located on the skyscraper’s 26th […]
5/24/2018
CONGRESS/FBI/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s chief of staff and a White House lawyer representing the president in the Russia investigation were present on Thursday [-5-24-18] at the start of two classified meetings requested by members of Congress to review sensitive material about the F.B.I.’s use of an informant in the inquiry. The two men left […]
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 […]
5/24/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/FBI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Senior U.S. lawmakers attended classified briefings on Thursday [5-24-18] on the FBI’s probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election after President Donald Trump made unsubstantiated claims about a ‘spy’ being used against his campaign, and a top Democrat said afterward he heard nothing to support Trump’s allegation. The briefings […]
5/23/2018
2016 ELECTION/CONGRESS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump accused federal investigators of using a spy inside his campaign, repeating unconfirmed claims and saying it could be one of the ‘biggest political scandals in history!’ The president also gave the scandal a name: ‘SPYGATE.’ But hours later, Mr. Trump slightly backed off the accusations, telling reporters, ‘I […]
5/23/2018
FBI/JAMES CLAPPER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump tweeted on Wednesday [5-23-18] that Mr. Clapper, the former director of national intelligence, said he ‘should be happy that the F.B.I. was spying on his campaign.’ Mr. Clapper did not say that. False. Mr. Trump is referring to comments by James R. Clapper Jr., who was the director of […]
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
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
RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “WITCH HUNT!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 23, 2018 8:34 am […]
5/23/2018
RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Look how things have turned around on the Criminal Deep State. They go after Phony Collusion with Russia, a made up Scam, and end up getting caught in a major SPY scandal the likes of which this country may never have seen before! What goes around, comes around!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May […]
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
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A New York taxi kingpin and business partner of President Donald Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen has agreed to cooperate with the government, The New York Times reported Tuesday [5-22-18]. The Times said the agreement for Evegny ‘Gene’ Freidman would allow him to avoid jail time and would have him work with […]
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
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee is pointing to a recent agreement between Justice Department officials and the White House to investigate the use of a confidential source sent to speak with Trump campaign aides as an attack on the department’s independence…After a meeting at the […]
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
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 […]
5/20/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump demanded Sunday [5-20-18] that his Justice Department look into whether it or the FBI spied on his presidential campaign for political reasons…The tweet comes after it was reported that the FBI dispatched a confidential source to speak with some aides to Trump’s presidential campaign about its possible […]
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 […]
5/18/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/MEDIA/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Reports are there was indeed at least one FBI representative implanted, for political purposes, into my campaign for president. It took place very early on, and long before the phony Russia Hoax became a ‘hot’ Fake News story. If true – all time biggest political scandal!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 18, […]
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
ENERGY[ALTERNATIVE/EU/GERMANY/RUSSIA/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is pressing Germany to pull the brakes on a major gas deal with Russia as the price for avoiding a trans-Atlantic trade war, according to German, U.S. and European officials. The officials said Mr. Trump told German Chancellor Angela Merkel in April that Germany should drop support for […]
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 […]
5/17/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congratulations America, we are now into the second year of the greatest Witch Hunt in American History…and there is still No Collusion and No Obstruction. The only Collusion was that done by Democrats who were unable to win an Election despite the spending of far more money!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May […]
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/RUSSIA/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Republican at the helm of the Senate’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election backed on Wednesday the assessment by American intelligence agencies that Moscow favored Donald J. Trump in the race, contradicting both the president and fellow Republicans in the House. Senator Richard M. Burr of North […]
5/16/2018
DEMS/GOP/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Six months after the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower between Trump campaign officials and a self-described Kremlin informant, an intermediary contacted Donald J. Trump’s office asking for a follow-up, according to documents released on Wednesday [5-16-18] by a Senate committee…The follow-up overture is one of the kernels of new information contained […]
5/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Within hours of opening an investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia in the summer of 2016, the F.B.I. dispatched a pair of agents to London on a mission so secretive that all but a handful of officials were kept in the dark. Their assignment, which has not been previously […]
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
HILLARY CLINTON/RUSSIA/SANCTIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Documents released Wednesday [5-16-18] shed new light on how a group of Russians promised associates of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign incriminating information on Hillary Clinton but instead presented their case for rolling back a U.S. sanctions law targeting Russian human-rights abusers. Testimony by those who attended a June 9, 2016 […]
5/16/2018
GOP/RUSSIA/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A Republican-led Senate committee backed U.S. intelligence agencies’ finding that Moscow attempted to boost Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, breaking with a GOP-led House panel that examined the same material. The conclusion on the January 2017 intelligence finding was part of the committee’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election, which […]
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
2016 ELECTION/DONALD JR/RUSSIA/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump Jr. struck an unapologetic tone during hours of congressional questioning last year, saying he didn’t think there was anything wrong with meeting a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower ahead of the 2016 presidential election or that the get-together might have been part of a Russian government effort to […]
5/16/2018
HILLARY CLINTON/RUSSIA/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A U.S. Senate committee on Wednesday [5-16-18] released hundreds of pages of transcripts and other details from its investigation of a meeting at Trump Tower in June 2016 with Russians who claimed to have damaging information about Hillary Clinton, President Donald Trump’s Democratic rival for the presidency. The Senate Judiciary Committee, […]
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
MEDIA/POLLS/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Can you believe that with all of the made up, unsourced stories I get from the Fake News Media, together with the $10,000,000 Russian Witch Hunt (there is no Collusion), I now have my best Poll Numbers in a year. Much of the Media may be corrupt, but the People truly get […]
5/14/2018
BUSINESS/RUSSIA/SANCTIONS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A former senior campaign and transition aide to President Donald Trump recently inked a deal to help a Russian oligarch’s conglomerate shed sanctions the Trump administration slapped on them last month. Bryan Lanza, who is in regular contact with White House officials, is lobbying on behalf of the chairman of EN+ Group, an […]
5/11/2018
2016 ELECTION/JAMES COMEY/RUSSIA/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former FBI Director James Comey is skipping a closed-door Senate hearing next week to discuss the intelligence community’s findings about Russian interference in the 2016 elections…Comey was among four former intelligence community leaders invited to attend the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing. The other three, former National Intelligence Director James Clapper, […]
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 […]
5/9/2018
LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “An attorney for porn star Stormy Daniels said on Wednesday [5-9-18] he has more evidence of ties between a Russian oligarch sanctioned by the United States and a payment to U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, and questioned other companies’ dealings with Cohen’s firm. In two television interviews, Daniels’ attorney, […]
5/9/18
DEMS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Democratic lawmakers urged President Donald Trump in a letter Wednesday [5-9-18] to drop his nominee to lead the Department of Justice’s criminal division due to his past work for a Russian bank with ties to President Vladimir Putin. The group — spearheaded by Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) — […]
5/9/18
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA/TREASURY/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “The Treasury Department’s Inspector General is investigating whether confidential financial information related to President Donald Trump’s longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen might have been leaked, IG spokesman Rich Delmar confirmed Wednesday [5-9-18]. The probe was launched after Michael Avenatti, lawyer to adult film star Stormy Daniels, distributed a document claiming that AT&T, […]
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
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A company created by Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, received $500,000 in 2017 from an investment fund linked to a Russian oligarch, according to a person familiar with the matter. Separately, AT&T Inc. said it made payments to Mr. Cohen’s company in 2017 for ‘insights’ into the administration at a […]
5/8/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A shell company that Michael D. Cohen used to pay hush money to a pornographic film actress received payments totaling more than $1 million from an American company linked to a Russian oligarch and several corporations with business before the Trump administration, according to documents and interviews. Financial records reviewed by […]
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 […]