With the revelation this week from President Donald Trump’s former attorney, Michael Cohen, that Trump was trying desperately to arrange the construction of a Trump Tower in Moscow just months before the 2016 election was held, it seemed that we might have reached an inflection point in the Russia investigation. Moving forward, Special Counsel Robert […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Late Thursday evening, prosecutors working for Special Counsel Robert Mueller filed a request asking for a 10-day delay on updating a federal judge on the status of former 2016 Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort’s cooperation with their office as it relates to the ongoing Russia investigation. Bloomberg reports: “Lawyers in the case were supposed to […]
If you were looking for proof that the Russia investigation being conducted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller is on the verge of some explosive revelations, it was provided by none other than President Donald Trump himself in a series of Thursday tweets that reeked of desperation and guilt. The tweets started this morning with these […]
Thursday morning, a story from CNN about the latest on the investigation being conducted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller drew special attention coming as it did just a day after Donald Trump fired his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, and replaced him with a GOP political hack. This detail from the CNN report was especially intriguing: […]