With all of the news this week — a major hurricane in the Southeast, the midterm election now just a few weeks away — you may have missed what could wind up being one of the most significant developments in the Russia investigation so far. On Thursday, attorney Michael Avenatti — who represents adult film […]
Oleg Deripaska is one of the richest men in Russia, with a value of over $3.7 billion. He made his money in the metals trade, with an emphasis on aluminum. At one time, his company, Basic Elements, was one of the largest aluminum producers in the world. Deripaska also has numerous ties to former Trump […]
On Saturday, just hours before Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed by a narrow 50-48 vote in the U.S. Senate, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) made it sound like the entire Kavanaugh fiasco had been a positive for Republicans: “It’s been a great political gift for us. The tactics have energized our base. We want to thank […]
With the Russia investigation reaching its conclusion, Special Counsel Robert Mueller is preparing to start issuing indictments once again, and that means some very big names are going to be appearing in court and surrendering to federal authorities. Bloomberg is reporting that the special counsel is on the verge of letting us know what his […]
When she stood on the floor of the Senate Friday afternoon and announced that she would be voting to confirm Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh to be the next associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, the question was immediately asked: Why would she do such a thing? How could a woman ignore the accusations […]
Something very strange is going on inside the Senate Judiciary Committee, and it could well sink the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to be the next associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. On Tuesday, the official Twitter account for the judiciary committee (which is controlled by Republicans), posted two tweets: As part of Judge Kavanaugh’s […]
For decades, Donald Trump and his family have allegedly avoided paying both state and federal taxes through a series out accounting tricks and outright fraud, the New York Times reported Tuesday. And it now appears that the penalties for that fraud could be fines so large that Trump and his children would be left without […]
On Monday, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort spent the day meeting with Special Counsel Robert Mueller and members of his investigative team according to Politico: “The sit-down at the special counsel’s downtown Washington D.C. office stems from Manafort’s guilty plea last month, which requires the former Trump campaign chairman to cooperate fully, truthfully, completely, and forthrightly…in […]
For months now, there’s been nervous chatter about what happens after the midterm election when it comes to the Russia investigation being conducted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Now that the president has fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions and replaced him with a loyalist flunky, it appears we’ve reached the Constitutional crisis stage of the […]