Over the years, Donald Trump has repeatedly said he was about to release his tax returns. For example: 2011 “Maybe I’m going to do the tax returns when Obama does his birth certificate. “I may tie my tax returns, I’d love to give my tax returns, I may tie my tax returns into Obama’s birth certificate.” President […]
Even though he met with members of the House Intelligence Committee for eight hours on Wednesday, it was what Donald Trump Jr. refused to discuss that will likely have the greatest long-term consequences for him. When it came to questions about the infamous Trump Tower meeting in June of 2016 with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya and […]
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has indicted or managed to get guilty pleas from four people connected to the Russia investigation so far, and it now looks like more indictments are on the way, just in time for Christmas. Let’s go back for a second and revisit a well-known fact: Dozens of sealed indictments remain on […]
The people who support Alabama GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore are a strange lot. They seem to believe that an accused child molester has been ordained by God to serve as their representative in Washington. Moore spokesperson Janet Porter appeared on CNN Tuesday morning and it got strange fast as she began the interview by telling […]
Robert Mueller is following Donald Trump’s money, and that’s very bad news for the president. The latest shot across the White House bow is a subpoena issued to German financial institution Deutsche Bank for data on all accounts held by Trump and members of his family. Bloomberg reports: “Mueller issued a subpoena to Germany’s largest lender several weeks […]
In the latest example of Bizarro World logic from President Trump and his legal team, we now learn that an American head of state cannot possibly obstruct justice because he’s the president and that’s impossible. Trump’s lead attorney, John Dowd, was asked about this tweet sent out on Trump’ Twitter account. It appears to prove that Trump […]
Back in May, after he had fired FBI Director James Comey, President Trump sent out this somewhat cryptic tweet: James Comey better hope that there are no "tapes" of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 12, 2017 As it turned out, Trump didn’t actually have any […]
Ever since the 2016 election and subsequent investigations of Russian interference in the process, President Trump has steadfastly maintained that neither he or anyone on his team has any connections to Russia or Russian figures. But a trove of emails released by The New York Times suggests Trump is lying yet again. According to a new report from the Times: “In fact, […]
Even though disgraced National Security Adviser Mike Flynn has now agreed to fully cooperate with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of possible collusion between President Trump and Russia, the president’s lead attorney, Ty Cobb, tried to downplay the latest development, issuing a statement which read: “Today, Michael Flynn, a former National Security Adviser at the White House for 25 […]
When Michael Flynn agreed to plead guilty on a charge of lying to the FBI Friday, many said it was very bad news for President Trump. But it was also a seismic event for Vice President Mike Pence. On her show Friday evening, Rachel Maddow began connecting the dots on how the Flynn plea impacts Pence: “Vice President […]