Though we’ve known for over two years that Russia attacked the 2016 election in an effort to make sure Donald Trump was elected president, it turns out that the Trump-Russia connection goes back much further. An investigative report from Foreign Policy (FP) magazine reveals that the main hold Russia has over Trump is the fact that […]
A week ago, it looked like Attorney General William Barr was actually going to be able to hide the most damaging portions of the report compiled by Special Counsel Robert Mueller and allow President Donald Trump to maintain that he had been exonerated. Or, as Trump has said endless times since a redacted copy of […]
In September of 2016, just two months before the presidential election, Donald Trump Jr. was in close contact with WikiLeaks, possibly with Julian Assange himself, as Julia Ioffe of The Atlantic reported in November of 2017: “Just before the stroke of midnight on September 20, 2016, at the height of last year’s presidential election, the […]
Since they cannot possibly blame their savior, President Donald Trump, many right-wingers inside the Republican Party are now saying that Vice President Mike Pence may have caused the entire Mueller probe which looked into connections between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia. As Christian Vanderbrouk notes in The Bulwark, Pence has a lot to answer […]
In February, the U.S. Attorney’s office in the Southern District of New York (SDNY), detonated a bombshell when it issued a subpoena to the Trump inaugural committee demanding thousands of pages of documentation related it donors, vendors, and finances. But it was what the cover of that subpoena stated that has sent shivers across the […]
Could it be that the reason top Republicans are so reluctant to say anything about the high crimes and misdemeanors allegedly committed by President Donald Trump be due to the fact that those very same GOP lawmakers are compromised when it comes to the matter of Russia and Vladimir Putin? Richard Painter, who served as the […]
Earlier today, the House Judiciary Committee voted to authorize Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) to issue subpoenas for the full report compiled by Special Counsel Robert Mueller and all underlying investigative materials. Nadler noted: “We’re going to work with the attorney general and for a short period of time in the hope that he will reveal […]
On Monday, Donald Trump took his victory lap in response to the summary issued by his handpicked attorney general and even suggested that he was planning to retaliate against those who had begun the Russia investigation, telling reporters: “There are a lot people out there that have done some very, very evil things, very bad […]
Minutes after Attorney General William Barr’s four-page “summary” of the Mueller report was released to Congress and the press, Donald Trump’s defenders began proclaiming that it completely exonerated the president and was great news for the White House. That’s simply not true. As House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler noted immediately after he read over […]
While the investigation being conducted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller threatens President Donald Trump both legally and politically, it may also wind up spelling the end of the Trump Organization A recent report from CNN lays out exactly how much jeopardy the Trump family business is in and how the expanding damage from the Russia probe could […]