President Joe Biden said Russian leader Vladimir Putin will “pay a price” for interfering in United States elections after years of concerns from the intelligence community that Russian operatives meddled in the 2016 and 2020 elections to sow discord and spread disinformation. “We had a long talk, he and I,†Biden said during an interview…
Rep. Adam Schiff said that Trump is the worst person to be leading the country in the midst of a serious Russian cyber attack.
As Trump moves to pardon his crooked friend before his time is up, it’s important to remember that Michael Flynn confessed to crimes.
Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), in an op-ed for Fox News, claimed Democrats “ignore reality” when they focus on Russian interference in American elections. “Ever since the Democratic National Committee server was hacked during the 2016 election campaign, ‘Russian disinformation and interference’ has been the shiny object that Democrats and the mainstream media have used to bamboozle the…
In House testimony on Thursday, FBI Director Christopher Wray confirmed that the Russians are actively targeting Joe Biden.
Sen. Ron Johnson’s Russian propaganda fueled investigation has authorized subpoenas and depositions against forty-one former Obama officials.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) withheld intelligence warning of Russian disinformation attacks attacking Democrat Joe Biden to promote “allegations about the poor mental health.” ABC News broke the story, which came to light after its reporters obtained internal emails and a draft of the document. The intelligence bulletin, titled “Russia Likely to Denigrate Health…
Donald Trump seemingly believed he could pay Special Counsel Robert Mueller to drop the Russia investigation if it started to zero in on him.
President Donald Trump attacked Christopher Wray, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), during an interview he gave earlier this morning on Fox Business. “We know that the FBI lied to the Senate in February of 2018. Christopher Wray was running the FBI. Mr. President, is Christopher Wray hiding all of this stuff…
President Donald Trump lashed out at government officials and disputed claims that he trusts Russian leader Vladimir Putin over United States intelligence agencies. “John Bolton, one of the dumbest people I’ve met in government and sadly, I’ve met plenty, states often that I respected, and even trusted, Vladimir Putin of Russia more than those in…
The law was not kind to corrupt people this week. The DC Circuit sided with congressional oversight when it said the House could sue Don McGahn  if he didn’t comply with a subpoena. We learned that Deutsche Bank  gave up Donald Trump’s financials to Manhattan prosecutor Cyrus Vance, and the crown jewel came with New…
President Donald Trump lashed out at former acting Attorney General Sally Yates in a tweet earlier this morning, accusing her of participating in “the greatest political crime of the Century.” The president accused Yates of “leaking” a conversation with former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who would later plead guilty to a felony count of…
Senator Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) has called on President Donald Trump’s administration to brief the Senate on reports that a Russian military agency put a bounty on the heads of American troops. In a statement, Toomey said he read documents made available behind closed doors––and that doing so raised even more questions. “I have reviewed the…
President Donald Trump took to his Twitter account to insist reports that he ignored intelligence briefings about a Russian military agency putting a bounty on the heads of American troops are “fake news.” The president quoted a statement from the Department of Defense (DOD) released late Monday that it had not yet validated the reported…
President Donald Trump claimed a friend told him he is “the most perfect person” for surviving the investigation into his Russian ties. “Isn’t that true?” he asked the audience. "A friend of mine said, 'you have to be the most perfect person.' Isn't that true?" — Trump pic.twitter.com/9OWptMZngV — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 26, 2020…
U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, who oversees the case against former President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn, has appointed former judge John Gleeson to counter the Justice Department’s argument that Flynn’s case should be dismissed. Sullivan wrote that Gleeson will present arguments as an amicus curiae––or “friend of the court”––”in opposition…
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who was convicted in August 2018 on eight charges of tax and bank fraud related to work conducted in Ukraine and sentenced to 7 1/2 months in prison, has been granted a release as the novel coronavirus spreads in prisons. Manafort was released from a federal correctional institution in…
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) criticized former President Barack Obama after news outlets obtained a tape of a web talk between the former president and members of the Obama Alumni Association in which he said the “rule of law is at risk†in the United States after it emerged the Justice Department dismissed the…
President Donald Trump attacked former President Barack Obama, launching into an “Obamagate” conspiracy after news outlets obtained a tape of a web talk between the former president and members of the Obama Alumni Association in which he said the “rule of law is at risk†in the United States after it emerged the Justice Department…
President Donald Trump reflected on his approach to the Russia investigation during a phone interview with the hosts of “Fox and Friends,” saying he “learned a lot” from studying history and the administration of former President Richard Nixon. “I learned a lot from Richard Nixon. Don’t fire people,” he said. “I learned a lot. I…
If there is one thing the American people have learned over the past few years, it’s that Donald Trump demands loyalty – not to the country but to himself.
A court threw the lawsuit in the trash and suggested that Nunes and his lawyer could be sanctioned if they don’t give it up.
Instead of fighting back, this weak, corrupt president – and a spineless, complicit Republican Party – are allowing them to get away with it.
By inviting Russian interference in the U.S. election, Trump is jeopardizing America’s national security and undermining democracy.
Julian Assange’s lawyer claimed in court that Trump offered him a pardon, through a former GOP congressman, if he would cover-up Russia’s role in the DNC hack.
It was revealed in a court filing that it was Rod Rosenstein who authorized the release of the Strzok-Page texts that have fueled Trump’s conspiracy theories.
It’s time for members of both parties to condemn and investigate Russian meddling before they steal another election from the American people.
A former senior White House official said President Trump told them that he knew Ukraine tried to keep him from getting elected because “Putin told me.â€
And it’s not just one former White House official. It’s officials, plural.
Even setting aside Trump’s Ukraine shakedown, it should be disturbing to all Americans that he continues to allow foreign surveillance of his calls.
The Republican Party’s response to Donald Trump’s Ukraine crimes has confirmed once and for all that the GOP is dead and buried.
Former White House official Fiona Hill is testifying Thursday in the House impeachment inquiry, and her opening statement is a doozy for those who live in a Republican Bubble.
Hill says not only was Russia the country that “interfered” in our 2016 election, but they were successful.
New testimony confirms what Hillary Clinton said during the 2016 presidential campaign: Donald Trump is a puppet of Vladimir Putin.
Thursday’s reporting sealed the deal that the DOJ is officially dead and won’t be coming back as long as this president is in the White House.
The intelligence community’s inspector general alerted in a new, previously undisclosed warning that President Trump’s July 25 call with the then newly elected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy potentially exposed him to “serious national security and counter-intelligence risks.”
“It is not part of his job to use taxpayer money to shake down other countries for the benefit of his campaign,” Pelosi said of Trump after his White House released a redacted version of the promised full transcript of his Ukraine call.
Russia state TV not only directed Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden for loser Donald Trump, who can’t win an election without cheating, but also bragged with 100% confidence that Senate Republican will never impeach the man “whom we elected.”
Russian State TV trolled Trump for needing to cheat to win elections, agreeing that Trump won 2016 thanks to Russia and now needs Ukraine to win 2020.
After 46 Senate Republicans voted against $250 million in funding for election security in 2018, Senate Republicans have finally been shamed into making a vague gesture of care for US elections by agreeing to add just $250 million to the Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) Appropriations bill Thursday morning.
Trump called for mass resignations at The Times for reporting on the Kavanaugh sexual assault allegations and the Trump-Russia campaign collusion in 2016.
Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell said there is no chance McConnell will take up a common-sense gun safety bill when Congress returns in September.
Republicans on the Federal Election Commission wouldn’t allow the Commission to make a single phone call to the FBI about a potential investigation into NRA Russian money laundering for Trump
Republicans are desperate to end any type of investigations into this morally bankrupt president, but this might not be the best strategy.
Whether it’s called congressional oversight or an impeachment investigation, it’s clear that House Democrats are ramping up their investigations.
All of this is happening in plain view, and the consequences for American democracy have been and will continue to be disastrous.
Despite the narrative that Mueller’s hearing will doom any impeachment efforts, Maddow pointed out that just the opposite seems to be true a day later.
A disturbing new Senate report released on Thursday shows that voting systems in all 50 states were hacked by Russia in 2016.
While Trump and his friends at Fox News paint Mueller as a man without credibility, he continues to notch legal victories against former Trump officials.
The Democratic lawmaker said the committee he sits on will take Mueller’s testimony as an opportunity to expose the president’s crimes.
The former federal prosecutor listed at least seven ways Trump’s protectors at the Justice Department are trying to silence the special counsel.
Senate Democrats put Mitch McConnell on blast in a new report that blames him for singlehandedly standing in the way of securing America’s elections.
Trump’s own FBI Director Chris Wray said during his Senate testimony that the Russians are still trying to interfere in US elections.
Democrats are hoping that Mueller’s testimony on Wednesday will show us all the ways you can say there was “collusion†and there was obstruction. In reality, there was evidence to show that Donald Trump’s campaign conspired with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election. Since then, Donald Trump has done everything imaginable and beyond that…
The Donald Trump-William Barr Justice Department is trying to control what special counsel Robert Mueller says in his public testimony this week.
The Justice Department is trying to prevent two former members of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team from testifying behind closed doors as Mueller prepares to make a public appearance before lawmakers next week
DOJ investigators interviewed Christopher Steele for 16 hours, and they came away finding him to be surprising and credible.
Republicans are fine with Mueller testifying because they are planning to use the hearing to attack and smear the former special counsel.
Former president Jimmy Carter said that a full investigation would reveal that Donald Trump didn’t actually win the 2016 election.
Trump joked with Putin at the G20 about Russia interfering in the 2020 election and were all smiles when asked about Russia attacking US elections.
The new development will ensure that the saga surrounding Mueller’s report – and the crimes laid out in the document – will continue for Trump.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff has subpoenaed Felix Sater after he didn’t show up for an interview.
Hope Hicks confirmed to the House Judiciary Committee that Donald Trump welcomed Russia’s attack on the 2016 election, and was relieved by it.
Republican supporters of Trump now think it’s okay for the president to be a criminal if the economy is growing and the jobless rate is falling.
Under William Barr, the Department of Justice – which exists to protect the rule of law in the U.S. – has become a complete joke.
Trump has shown that this decades-old guideline barring criminal presidents from being indicted most definitely needs to be revised.
Trump’s comments this week that he would welcome (more) foreign election interference in 2020 struck a nerve with some GOP lawmakers.
Former White House Communications Director Hope Hicks, once a close aide to President Donald Trump, has agreed to turn over documents related to his 2016 election campaign to congressional investigators, a top Democratic lawmaker said on Tuesday.
The White House has told Hope Hicks, a former close aide to President Donald Trump, not to turn over documents to the House Judiciary Committee related to her time in the administration, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) has a three-part plan that would stop the Russians from interfering in future elections to help Republicans and Trump.
Andrew McCabe said that in his view Robert Mueller spoke out because he was concerned about the way that Trump and Barr distorted his report.
Trump admitted for the first time that the Russias helped him get elected in 2016, but he claims that there was no crime.
Rachel Maddow said Mueller’s public remarks leave Congress no choice but to use their authority to hold Donald Trump accountable.
Robert Mueller’s comments didn’t only make a liar out of attorney general William Barr, but they provided Congress a clear roadmap.
The Virginia senator said it is likely that Democrats in the House will still call on Mueller to testify and he will have to comply.
Impeachment looks like the best tool Dems have left – not only to fight the lawless Trump but to send a message to future presidents.
Three out of four chairmen and ranking Republicans wouldn’t even respond when asked how they reviewed the report.
Donald Trump’s new order reads like a threat to the agencies in the federal government that exist to keep the country safe.
Republican Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan said a few other Republicans have privately expressed sympathy to his view that President Trump should be impeached.
The first Republican in the U.S. Congress to say openly that President Donald Trump has committed impeachable offenses drew a 2020 election challenge on Monday from within his own party, the Detroit Free Press reported.
Trump has officially blocked White House Counsel Don McGahn from testifying before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday.
Trump is in full retreat mode and pretending like Barack Obama never told him in their face to face meeting not to hire Mike Flynn.
Rachel Maddow only had one question following the explosive news that people connected to the White House and Congress tried to obstruct the Russia probe.
Mike Flynn told Robert Mueller that Republicans in Congress tried to interfere and obstruct his investigation to protect Trump.
Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday began a marathon reading of the redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s 448-page assessment of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was forced to sign an NDA and not disclose to the public information about the Russian hacking of his state’s voter databases.
By a margin of 56%-19%, a new poll shows that voters across the political spectrum want special counsel Robert Mueller to testify.
One of Ivanka Trump’s lawyers allegedly told Michael Cohen to lie about Ivanka Trump’s involvement in the Trump Tower Moscow deal.
House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) is preparing to subpoena Trump’s lawyers for obstructing the Russia investigation. Adam Schiff is coming for Trump’s lawyers CNN reported: The House Intelligence Committee is investigating whether attorneys representing President Donald Trump, his family, and the Trump Organization misled the committee or obstructed its Russia investigation in…
Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis said that Russian hackers gained access to voter databases in two Florida counties before the 2016 election.
Even though the Trump campaign is still under investigation for working with Russia in 2016, they seem eager to seek foreign help again in 2020.
Trump can’t win if 2020 is a referendum on his disastrous presidency and morally bankrupt character, so he is ready to rely on more foreign meddling.
The White House asked Don McGahn to lie for Trump on obstruction of justice twice in the last month in an effort to calm the president down.
For the president, the 2020 campaign isn’t just about winning a second term in the White House. It’s about avoiding time in the big house.
Robert Mueller will turn “dry words from a report” into an explosive made-for-television indictment of the president of the United States.
Senate Republicans on the Intelligence Committee blindsided Trump and his White House by not giving the advance notice on Donald Trump Jr. being subpoenaed.
President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday rejected a subpoena from a Democratic-led congressional committee seeking documents from former White House counsel Don McGahn relating to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia inquiry.
The divided U.S. Congress’ fight over the Mueller report intensified on Tuesday as the U.S. Senate’s top Republican sought to shut the door on congressional probes while House Democrats pushed ahead with efforts to gather testimony from top administration officials.
Once Robert Mueller is on the record explaining that there was clear evidence that Trump obstructed justice, it will be a game-changer.
President Donald Trump and his former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, have both used Twitter to spar with enemies over the last decade. Cohen, 52, is due to report to federal prison in New York state on Monday to begin serving a three-year sentence for crimes including illegal hush payments to women on Trump’s behalf.
Cohen told journalists he hoped that once he completes his prison sentence that “the country will be in a place without xenophobia, injustice and lies at the head of our country. There still remains much to be told. And I look forward to the day that I can share the truth.”
U.S. Attorney General William Barr is headed for a showdown on Monday with Democrats in Congress, as lawmakers prepared to begin contempt proceedings against the top U.S. law enforcement officer if he fails to hand over the full, unredacted Mueller report.