When he made his plea deal with Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Thursday and admitted that he had made contacts with Russia for Donald Trump during the 2016 election, Michael Cohen didn’t just place his former boss in legal and political jeopardy, he also put the president’s children, Don Jr. and Ivanka, under the microscope. […]
Just last week, Donald Trump submitted his written answers to questions from the office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, and at the time the president bragged the queries were incredibly easy to complete. But when it was announced that Trump’s former attorney and fixer, Michael Cohen, had pleaded guilty and would now testify that he […]
Not long before that infamous June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower between Donald Trump Jr, Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort and several Russian operatives, Don Jr. received a phone call from a blocked number. It’s long been suspected the call was from Donald Trump himself, checking to get an update on the upcoming meeting at Trump […]
The story broke with the suddenness of a bolt of lightning from a clear blue sky. Tuesday morning, The Guardian reported that former Trump 2016 campaign chairman met with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London on multiple occasions, including while he was working for the Trump campaign: “A well-placed source has […]
In a desperate attempt to put a positive spin on the 12 indictments handed down in mid-July against members of the Russian intelligence service known as the GRU, the White House issued a statement which read: “Today’s charges include no allegations of knowing involvement by anyone on the campaign and no allegations that the alleged […]
While we know the basic story of what happened in the 2016 election — i.e. Russia hacked the DNC and stole massive amounts of data that they then dumped via WikiLeaks; Trump narrowly won the electoral vote, managing to pull off razor-thin margins in states such as Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin — we only have […]
A couple of weeks ago, CNN reported that President Donald Trump and his attorneys had formally submitted written responses to questions from Special Counsel Robert Mueller as part of the ongoing Russia investigation. Asked if the president would now respond to any follow-up questions from Mueller’s team, Rudy Giuliani commented: “We’ll consider them and answer them […]
As Washington, D.C. and the rest of the country were busily preparing for Thanksgiving, prosecutors working for Special Counsel Robert Mueller were busy filing an extensive, 3,000-word motion Tuesday in response to an appeal over a grand jury subpoena. Politico reporter Darren Samuelsohn sent out this tweet Tuesday afternoon: Another NEW sealed motion just filed […]
Harry Litman is a former deputy attorney general for the Department of Justice and frequent guest on MSNBC, where he regularly shares his thoughts on the Russia probe being conducted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Tuesday morning, Litman tweeted out this: OK sports fans, commentators predict Robert Mueller's next steps at their peril, but there […]