In late August of last year, it was reported by the Wall Street Journal and NBC News that Allen Weisselberg, chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, had agreed to cooperate with federal investigators who are looking into the payment of hush money to women who allege they had affairs with Donald Trump. CNN noted: […]
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 […]
Everywhere you look, those who once worked for and with Donald Trump are gladly agreeing to cooperate with investigators in order to lessen their own legal exposure as it relates to the president, the 2016 campaign, Russia, and the Trump Organization. First came Michael Cohen, who has done serious damage to Trump by assisting both […]
As we all try to patiently wait for the latest developments from Special Counsel Robert Mueller, some incredibly tantalizing tidbits of information are starting to trickle out of the ongoing probe being conducted into the 2016 Trump campaign, and a new report from a British newspaper has some bad news for the Trump children. The […]
The question of whether a sitting president can be indicted has never actually been litigated in court, but there is a Department of Justice memo which would seem to suggest it goes against DOJ policy. Specifically, a DOJ memo written in 2000 states: “A necessity to defend a criminal trial and to attend court in […]
One thing rational people can agree on: Donald Trump’s presidency is going to come to a premature end. The signs are everywhere, as are the scandals which threaten to bring him down. All that remains unclear is exactly how the Trump administration will end, and when. Since we cannot accurately gauge the timing of this […]
The question gets asked just about every day: When will Special Counsel Robert Mueller take the next steps which will tell us the end might be near for Donald Trump and the cabal of collaborators who may well have committed treason during the 2016 presidential campaign? It’s been over a year since former National Security […]
Earlier this week, CNN, NBC News, and the Washington Post all reported that the long-awaited report from Special Counsel Robert Mueller was about to be delivered to newly confirmed Attorney General William Barr. But by Friday, those reports were proven to be wrong, with a senior Justice Department official telling NBC that Barr would not […]