After news that former Trump campaign chairman and convicted felon Paul Manafort might rejoin Donald Trump’s campaign, Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore) asked the DNI to declassify a Senate report with details about Manafort’s relationship with Russian government operatives.
Rachel Maddow connected Trump’s desperate need for cash, and Paul Manafort’s life work of spending Russian oligarch money to advance Putin’s interests.
We are at a dangerous moment in America. Republicans have effectively sanctioned violent vigilante justice.
There are many inmates with intriguing cases hoping for a presidential pardon. Unfortunately for them, many are neither Republicans or close personal friends to Donald Trump. On Tuesday, the president delivered pardons to disgraced politicians Chris Collins and Duncan Hunter. He also absolved the war atrocities of Blackwater contractors. On Wednesday night, Trump continued to…
President-Elect Joe Biden has reportedly expressed concerns about the many possible criminal prosecutions of Trump distracting from his presidential mission. Just as Barack Obama declined to pursue prosecution against the Bush-Cheney regime for its outright lies about Iraq’s possession of weapons of mass destruction, leading us into a prolonged and unnecessary war with Iraq, costing…
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…
Trump is actively trying to erase the Russia scandal before the 2020 election, and now he is tweeting about Paul Manafort.
The signs are mounting that special counsel Robert Mueller may soon be issuing a report with the findings from his investigation which has been going on nearly two years. The past week was a very eventful one for Mueller and his team of investigators, and there were several clues that their work may soon conclude…
Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update” hosts had some choice words concerning the “slap on the wrist sentence” given to President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort. They said that Manafort being sent to a “white man’s prison” is about the same thing as being sent away to college for four years. “Weekend Update” co-host…
As we reported yesterday, Bob Mueller’s sentencing memorandum for Paul Manafort was due to a federal judge in DC District Court before midnight last night. But as of early Saturday morning, the sentencing memorandum is still not publicly available. This has led to speculation that Mueller is keeping the document under seal because it might…
All of Washington is waiting for special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on collusion between Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia. Rumors are that Mueller could submit a report to the Department of Justice (DOJ) as early as next week. If that happens, it would bring to a close what the president refers to as a “witch…
The federal government will soon begin selling off Paul Manafort’ s assets which he accumulated after decades of shady and illegal lobbying work. After the process is completed it is expected that Bob Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election will have made a profit, bringing in more money than it has cost….
A former GOP member of Congress has predicted that Donald Trump will leave the White House “soon” in a “spectacular political crash-and-burn” set to take place during 2019. John LeBoutillier, who was a Republican representative in New York City back in the 1980’s, made his prediction in a column for The Hill. LeBoutillier wrote in…
Special Counsel Bob Mueller has slowly been disclosing a very broad and extensive pattern of deception by Donald Trump’s aides and associates, according to the Associated Press. Seemingly everyone involved tried to cover up Russian contacts during the 2016 campaign and transition period, the AP reported. Most observers have said that they have never seen…
Many people are very worried about Robert Mueller and his Russia investigation. Some people are worried that Donald Trump will undercut Mueller by issuing pardons . As Jason Easley from PoliticusUSA wrote yesterday: “Democrats have been expecting that Trump would try to abuse the pardon power to obstruct justice since the Mueller investigation began. House…
By Brendan Pierson and Sarah N. Lynch NEW YORK/ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Reuters) – A U.S. Treasury Department official has been criminally charged with leaking confidential documents relating to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and others to a reporter from digital media company BuzzFeed, Manhattan federal prosecutors said on Wednesday. Natalie May Edwards, a senior adviser…
Rep, Adam Schiff (D-CA) said that Trump and his lawyers are terrified that Paul Manafort is cooperating with Robert Mueller.
Paul Manafort hand-picked Mike Pence to be Trump’s VP nominee, so Manafort’s flip could be very bad news for the vice president.
Prosecutor Andrew Weissman told the Judge in the Mueller probe that President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort has agreed to cooperate with the Justice Department.
Is convicted felon Paul Manafort finally ready to give Bob Mueller the evidence he needs to bring down Donald Trump? According to the Washington Post, Manafort is again having serious discussions with the special counsel’s office about a possible plea deal. Ever since Mueller indicted Manafort on multiple criminal counts nearly one year ago that…
Before talks broke down, Paul Manafort was trying to cut a plea deal with Robert Mueller, in a sign that the rumblings about a pardon coming from the White House weren’t good enough for Trump’s former campaign chairman.
What’s bad for Donald Trump is bad for the Republican Party, and yesterday was a horrible day for Donald Trump. Republicans are suffering because they have allowed Trump to do a hostile takeover of their party. And now, like it or not, when people think of the Grand Old Party they think of Trump. This…
Yesterday was a day that will be remembered in the history books as one of the worst days ever for any President of the United States. The Paul Manafort guilty verdicts followed by the Michael Cohen plea deal were definitely bad news for Donald Trump. Even as Trump and his supporters deny he did anything…
Trump claimed that the Manafort conviction had nothing to do with him while denying the reality that Manafort was in charge of his presidential campaign at a critical point.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, used the Paul Manafort conviction and Michael Cohen guilty plea as proof that the Mueller investigation is not a witch hunt.
Rick Gates on Monday took the stand in the federal fraud case against his former business partner, ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, testifying that he committed crimes while working for Manafort. Rick Gates testifies he committed crimes while working for Paul Manafort – https://t.co/IKkmKwjO9Y — Fox News Politics (@foxnewspolitics) August 6, 2018 Federal prosecutor Greg…
Special Counsel Robert Mueller just obtained a major court ruling that destroyed any chance Donald Trump ever had of getting his case thrown out. Many people in Trump’s camp have argued that Mueller doesn’t have the legal authority under the U.S. Constitution to go after the president. That argument has now gone down in flames….
The White House is publicly claiming that Trump isn’t paying attention to the Paul Manafort trial, but privately Trump is watching the television coverage and demanding updates from his lawyers.
Tad Devine was the top strategist for the 2016 presidential campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders. Thursday it was announced that he will assist in the special counsel office’s prosecution of Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s campaign chairman for five months in 2016. Court filings have shown that Devine participated in Manafort’s work in Ukraine, earning $10,000 per day….
In a court filing, Special Counsel Robert Mueller showed that even while locked up in jail, Paul Manafort is continuing to commit crimes by sending and receiving emails.
The Paul Manafort trial is set to begin on July 25, and special counsel Robert Mueller has now shown us how he will use the trial not only to put Trump’s former campaign manager in prison for the rest of his life but also to prove corruption in the Trump campaign. The indictments against Manafort…
When former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort was put in jail they took away his tie and his belt. When this happens, you know that there is a concern that those items will be used by the inmate to hang himself and put an end to his misery. On CNN Friday night former White House…
Paul Manafort being ordered to jail is another sign that Mueller in ending Trump’s world. Video: As NBC’s Pete Williams pointed out the calculus has now changed for Manafort, “Does that change his thinking about his strategy so far which has been to aggressively fight the government’s case. Will this cause him to reconsider and…
On the surface it appears that Donald Trump is winning . He has a unique ability to dominate news cycles and absorb all of the media’s attention through his brash public statements and his tweet storms. What Trump has said and done since the story was published about an FBI informant in his presidential campaign…
Lost in the Rudy Giuliani media storm is the fact that yesterday was a very bad news day for Trump’s friends and bad boys Roger Stone and Paul Manafort. On Thursday, Special Counsel Mueller requested 70 blank subpoenas for appearances in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA) in the case…
The name Paul Manafort seems to be synonymous with the Trump presidential campaign and Russian collusion. But if new court filings by the Department of Justice are any indication, Manafort was known by the FBI to be committing crimes before he joined Trump, and even before Trump announced his candidacy for president. The filings made…
The legal team representing Richard Gates, a business associate of U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, wants to stop representing him due to “irreconcilable differences,” according to a court filing unsealed on Wednesday.
U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller unveiled a trove of documents on Friday showing what he said was “irrefutable evidence” that President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort violated a court gag order by ghost-writing an opinion piece designed to improve his public image.
Mueller wants to make sure Manafort remains under house arrest after it was revealed that the former Trump campaign manager recently ghostwrote an op-ed with a Russian operative.
A California neuroscientist vying to unseat Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher stepped up his criticism of the conservative on Tuesday, demanding he return a $1,000 contribution from indicted Trump adviser Paul Manafort.
When asked by reporters about the indictment of Paul Manafort, the Speaker of the House, tripped over his own two feet while cowardly trying to dodge the question.
The White House and Republicans are spinning hard, claiming that Paul Manafort had a “limited” role in Trump’s campaign. This phrase is all over cable news right now, but it’s not accurate.
“The indictment contains 12 counts: conspiracy against the United States, conspiracy to launder money, unregistered agent of a foreign principal, false and misleading FARA statements, false statements, and seven counts of failure to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts,” the statement said.
Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort arrived an FBI field office on Monday morning after he was told by Special Counsel Robert Mueller to surrender to law enforcement after being indicted in the Russia investigation.
This seems a lot like an offer of collusion from the Trump campaign chair to a Russian billionaire closely aligned with the Kremlin, and it is reportedly in written form via an email. Manafort made an offer that seems to investigators “created a potential opening for Russian interests at the highest level of a U.S. presidential campaign.”
“What could I do for [Russia] with this presidential campaign that might make them forgive my debt?” Maddow asked, channeling former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
To put it simply to my Trump-supporting friends: You shouldn’t be cheering this news. You should be shaking in your boots about what might come next.
Sources indicated that some of the information collected via wiretaps included “communications that sparked concerns among investigators that Manafort had encouraged the Russians to help with the campaign.”
The FBI found out about the meeting between Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and the Russians because former campaign manager Paul Manafort told the feds about it.
As the investigation gets closer to the president, Trump’s bullying tactics are only likely to become worse.
The FBI’s raid of Paul Manafort’s office means that they have evidence of criminal wrong doing by Trump’s former campaign manager during the 2016 election.
After Manafort would only agree to one transcribed interview, the Senate Judiciary Committee subpoenaed the former Trump campaign manager to testify on Wednesday.
The reason why Trump was freaking out on Twitter on Saturday is that US investigators are trying to flip Paul Manafort and get him to tell them everything he knows about Trump and Russia. Reuters reported: U.S. investigators examining money laundering accusations against President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort hope to push him…
Rachel Maddow blew up the Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman’s scheme to save Donald Trump with conspiracy filled hearing on Wednesday.
Paul Manafort and Donald Trump will be testifying next Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee as the Russia scandal is poised to dominate another week of Trump’s presidency.
You know things are going bad in Trumpworld when the unpopular New Jersey governor tries to distance himself from the president’s team.
In an interview with Reuters, Donald Trump said, “I think many people would have held that meeting.”
Rachel Maddow’s excellent reporting on developments in the Russia investigation continued with the news that a Federal Grand Jury in the Eastern District of Virginia issued subpoenas related to Paul Manafort. This is the same district that is investigating Michael Flynn, which Maddow suggests is indicative of efforts to consolidate the investigation based on two…
The Russians tried to take advantage of the fact that Trump is easily influenced by those around him and has no core convictions.
Former Trump associates Paul Manafort and Roger Stone have turned over documents to the Senate Intelligence Committee investigating the Russia scandal.
Manafort claimed he was an unpaid member of the Trump campaign – if you don’t count the millions he received from Trump-affiliated businesses after stepping down.
“Paul Manafort pledged to influence politics, business dealings and news coverage inside the United States to benefit President Vladimir Putin’s government.”
A Democratic lawmaker threw down the gauntlet Wednesday, saying that former Chairman of the Trump campaign Paul Manafort needs to be subpoenaed, “Our investigation will not be complete if he (Manafort) does not testify, so he should be subpoenaed.”
“Russia has perfected political warfare using cyber assets and apparently decided to apply these tactics so American democracy itself was hacked.”
“You do know you just attacked a Gold Star family?” one adviser warned Trump. “What’s that?” he asked.
In response to the Trump campaign’s ouster of chairman Paul Manafort, the Hillary Clinton campaign is demanding that the Republican nominee discloses his Kremlin ties to US voters.
It should be no surprise why Donald Trump has made pro-Russia comments and policy proposals.
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign woes have gotten bigger as his campaign manager Paul Manafort’s name has turned up in a ledger of illegal payments that were made by a network in Putin’s sphere of influence in Ukraine.
“The plane I saw on television was the hostage plane in Geneva, Switzerland, not the plane carrying $400 million in cash going to Iran!”
“Donald Trump changed the Republican platform to become what some experts would regard as pro-Russian” and Republicans are silent.
With all the drama surrounding the opening night of the RNC, radical (and dangerous) changes in the Republican Platform got little attention.
It all started with Paul Manafort, Trump’s “campaign manager”, accusing Ohio’s Republican Governor and previous 2016 Republican primary candidate John Kasich of refusing to endorse Trump because he wants to be the President.
“Trump is considered one of the more LGBT-friendly Republican candidates,” lied NBC’s Hallie Jackson