Trump Gives Mueller More Ammo To Bring Him Down By Firing Peter Strzok
Trump added more fuel to the Mueller fire when he had Peter Strzok fired instead of following proper FBI disciplinary procedures.
Trump added more fuel to the Mueller fire when he had Peter Strzok fired instead of following proper FBI disciplinary procedures.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, threw cold water on Trump’s witch hunt claims by saying that there is evidence of a Trump/Russia criminal conspiracy.
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) was trying to discredit Strzok and make him sound un-American when Strzok cut through the BS and cut to the heart of the Russia scandal.
House Republicans held a hearing to push Donald Trump’s deep state FBI bias discrediting of the Russia investigation, but the Peter Strzok hearing has totally backfired.
A bipartisan report from the Senate Intelligence Committee destroyed Donald Trump’s denials that Russia interfered to help him win the 2016 election.
A group of far-right Trump supporting House Republicans has introduced a treasonous resolution demanding a second special counsel to investigate the Russia investigation.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) explained that Mueller is not going to indict Trump and hand the decision over to some jury, but instead, he will turn any findings of criminal activity by the president over to the Deputy Attorney General, which makes Rod Rosenstein a very important part of this process.
Vice President Mike Pence waded right into the middle of the Russia scandal by calling for an end to the Mueller investigation, which highlighted how deep Pence is in on the Russia scandal with Trump.
On Meet The Press, James Comey destroyed the foundation of Trump’s Russia scandal defense in just 18 seconds.
Trump falsely claimed that Democrats colluded against him with the FBI and Russia during the 2016 election at a rally in Michigan.
Each time another ex-Trump confidant flips on their former boss and starts cooperating with Mueller, the special counsel gets another building block in its growing case against Trump.
Congressman Schiff gave the president and son Don Jr. a quick lesson on what it means to illegally leak classified information.
“It gins up [Trump’s] base and it may help him politically, but legally it’s of no moment. … I think the Republicans over-promised and under-delivered with their memo.”
Trump referred to himself in the third person, improperly used “their,” and capitalized words at random. The simple act of reading the tweet left the AM Joy panel struggling to control their laughter.
“They are all going to go down with the ship if they are seen as trying to protect against the truth coming out in this investigation.”
Delusional fantasies like this are proof that, behind the scenes, Donald Trump is panicking – and he has good reason to.
Republicans see the writing on the wall and are desperately grasping at straws to save the president, no matter how much damage they do to the country on their way down.
In response to the mounting evidence against Donald Trump, Republicans have decided to wage war against the U.S. intelligence community instead of holding an increasingly guilty president accountable.
All of the interviews shown in the clip took place after Trump reportedly ordered White House counsel to remove Mueller from his post.
“See, the whole plot to destroy the Trump presidency is about a disgruntled former golfer who didn’t like his greens fees and he held onto the grudge for years.”
Trump made the order last June, but he was forced to back down when the top White House lawyer said he would resign before going through with it.
The White House legal team really doesn’t want Donald Trump to be interviewed by Robert Mueller.
“The point was they didn’t care what was in the underlying documents. They wanted to make a political statement and feed the beast on Fox News.”
The question likely isn’t whether Trump will lie under oath during his interview with Robert Mueller. Instead, it’s how many lies will the president tell.
The pressure Trump and Sessions put on Wray is a sign that they are worried about the growing obstruction of justice case.
“The Republicans appear to have just left. I don’t know if they had other important stuff to do or didn’t want to participate but Democrats get to run the table.”
The release of today’s testimony – and the damning allegations brought forward by Glenn Simpson – brings the president and the entire GOP that much closer to complete collapse.
This despite the fact that the president, his lawyers, and White House officials have bragged about their transparency and cooperation when it comes to the Russia probe.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) explained on CNN that Steve Bannon is not a member of the cabinet and is no longer in the White House so his claims of executive privilege on questions about Russia are worthless.
“I believe high-level Trump associates, including potentially the president himself, are in increasing legal jeopardy. That’s because insiders have turned on them.”
Donald Trump hasn’t just let Russia get away with an attack on U.S. democracy – he’s essentially encouraging the next attack, too.
Rep, Adam Schiff (D-CA) didn’t pull any punches as he called out Republicans for running intentional distractions for Trump on Russia.
Rachel Maddow explained why one move from Dianne Feinstein sent Republicans reeling and their entire argument against the Russia investigation tumbling down.
On MSNBC’s All In, guest host Joy Reid bluntly spoke the truth about how Republican Senators Chuck Grassley and Lindsey Graham intentionally pushed a Russia conspiracy theory that they knew was a lie.
“Robert Mueller is doing his work methodically and meticulously and he will use every tool at his disposal. He is already in possession of knowledge that we don’t have from a public source.”
The idea that Trump’s closest family members and advisers were communicating with Russian officials without Donald Trump’s knowledge is becoming increasingly unlikely.
According to NBC’s Howard Feinman, Republicans are freaking out and trying to discredit the Steele dossier because Robert Mueller is getting close to Trump on obstruction of justice.
Once Trump’s right-hand man in the White House, Reince Priebus just added another piece to the ever-growing obstruction of justice puzzle being constructed by special counsel Robert Mueller.
“As a former prosecutor, I can tell you that this just screams out consciousness of guilt. All these actions the president’s taking to try to protect himself from the investigation.”
According to the New York Times, “Mr. McGahn was unsuccessful, and the president erupted in anger in front of numerous White House officials, saying he needed his attorney general to protect him.”
The new details continue to build the obstruction case against Trump, but they also increase the likelihood that the president and his GOP apologists will escalate their war on the FBI and special counsel Robert Mueller.
The man who is overseeing the Russia investigation, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, is meeting with Speaker of the House Paul Ryan about the Russia investigation.
The man who in less than a year could be leading the House Russia investigation, Rep. Adam Schiff, just destroyed all of Trump’s efforts to distance himself from the players in the Russia scandal.
Rachel Maddow put her finger on why Trump is trying to destroy the FBI. It turns out that the FBI had a source inside the Trump campaign giving them information since the Summer of 2016.
In an impromptu interview with the New York Times, Trump said, “I have the absolute right to do what I want to do with the Justice Department.”
The latest aspect of Mueller’s probe could show how widespread and hands-on the coordination was between Russia and the president’s team.
Trump will try to paint Flynn as a liar, but it’ll be a tough sell given all the praise he has heaped on the ex-national security adviser.
Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe confirmed James Comey’s explosive testimony that Trump demanded his loyalty.
The question is no longer whether the behavior of these Republicans is going to cause long-lasting damage to U.S. democracy – it’s how much damage will it cause.
“What if it’s not Robert Mueller who gets fired? What if it’s Rod Rosenstein or Jeff Sessions, either of whom could start the process that would result in the end of the Mueller investigation?”
“Why does this keep happening? Why do we consistently have to get news about the behavior and the meetings and the conversations of the American president from the Russian government?”
Unlike the non-scandal surrounding Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email account that defined last year’s campaign coverage, this one could actually uncover a smoking gun.
CNN’s Jake Tapper asked House Intelligence Committee member Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) what he was missing on Trump/Russia collusion evidence, and the case that Rep. Schiff made was devastating.
On CNN’s New Day, House Intelligence Committee ranking member Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said that Republicans are allowing figures in the Russia investigation like Donald Trump Jr. to avoid answering questions by invoking flimsy privilege claims.
At multiple points during the campaign, Trump-connected associates suggested they would lift the crippling Russian sanctions.
According to the CBS News survey, 43 percent Republicans feel that it’s either very or somewhat likely that Trump’s team had an inappropriate relationship with Russia.
Trump Jr. claimed client-attorney privilege to explain his refusal to divulge what he and elder Trump talked about following the secret June 9 meeting with Russian officials at Trump Tower.
The question of what Russia was supposed to get in return for helping Trump win the election was answered today as a bombshell text from Mike Flynn to a business partner promised to rip up the Obama sanctions on Russia as one of Flynn’s first orders of business.
It’s not a good place for the White House to be when their only remaining argument in defense of Donald Trump is that he is above the law.
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.
Distracting from the increasingly damning Russia scandal by touting a tax scam that will eviscerate the middle-class probably isn’t a good strategy.
Rachel Maddow explains why Mike Flynn’s cooperation with the Special Counsel is another step toward the Russia hammer coming down on Vice President Mike Pence.
The reason why Senate Republicans are trying to get more than the 50 votes needed for their tax cut for the rich is that they want to keep Mike Pence from having to come to the Senate because they are afraid reporters will him about Mike Flynn.
Trump is doing his best to hand Robert Mueller and congressional investigators an open-and-shut obstruction of justice case against him.
When asked by the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) if Trump ever directed him to hinder the Russia investigation, Attorney General Jeff Sessions refused to answer the question.
The news that Mike Flynn is either trying to cut a deal with special counsel Robert Mueller or has cut a deal means that someone or all of the Trump family are going down.
Before Trump was sworn in, the CIA warned Israel that Vladimir Putin had “leverages of pressure” over Trump.
Trump and Putin got some bad news as Facebook has announced that they will be unveiling a tool that will allow people see if they liked or followed Russian created content.
Trump is trying to pretend like the Russia investigation doesn’t exist, but it was reported that special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating Jared Kushner’s contacts with foreign leaders.
The move by Mueller suggests that, while the Trump campaign claims to be “voluntarily” handing over all Russia-related documentation, they aren’t being fully forthcoming.
“Every time he sees me, he says, ‘I didn’t do that.’ And I believe, I really believe, that when he tells me that, he means it.”
Donald Trump may be out of the country, but the Russia investigation is boiling hot after White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller was interviewed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
To make matters worse for Trump, an even larger number of Americans – nearly two thirds – believe that the ongoing investigation into the president’s ties to Russia is a “serious matter.”
Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, put another nail in Trump’s coffin after Carter Page admitted that he not only met with high-level officials in Russia but that he also notified his supervisors on the Trump campaign about the meeting.
Trump suddenly can’t remember meeting with his foreign policy team in 2016, as he practically begged the press to focus on Hillary Clinton and the DNC instead of the Russia scandal while leaving for his trip to Asia.
Sessions didn’t just meet with the Russians himself, but he was informed about similar contacts made by others in the campaign.
If there is any investigation Trump should be worried about, it’s the one that is pushing his administration closer to complete collapse – not the phony one he wishes he could wage against Hillary Clinton.
Republicans and the Trump White House have been downplaying the indictment of Paul Manafort and claiming that it contained no Russia or collusion connection, but Rachel Maddow used newly released court documents to blow that defense to bits.
According to a former federal prosecutor said that anyone in Trump’s orbit who talked to George Papadopoulos since July should be thinking hard about what they said because Mueller may have had his cooperating witness making tapes to use in the prosecution of others.
Page appeared to have incriminated himself by casually admitting that, yeah, he was on email chains about Russia with George Papadopoulos.
“It doesn’t matter what right-wingers think about something else. What matters is the prosecution and the evidence they’re developing. And all your talk about distraction isn’t going to help your side.”
Republicans are leaping to defend Mueller as concerns grow that Trump may try to fire him.
The former Trump foreign policy adviser who flipped and is cooperating with FBI on the Russia investigation was supervised by Attorney General Jeff Sessions during the campaign.
It is all falling apart for Trump as one of his foreign policy advisers has pled guilty to a charge of making false statements to the FBI related to efforts to set up meetings between Russians and Trump.
The explosive news that the first charges have been filed in Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation is putting the recent Trump-Fox propaganda blitz in a new perspective.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, most certainly shook the White House as he issued a warning to Trump about his presidential abuses of power.
According to a new report, many GOP lawmakers are restless and “ready to close the books” on the probe.
“One way you can know that something is a very salient story … is when the Trump White House or the Trump campaign starts denying all knowledge of the people and entities involved.”
It’s been a long time since Fox Business Network’s Lou Dobbs stopped pretending to be an actual journalist, but his interview with Donald Trump on Wednesday was one of the most appalling displays of propaganda ever televised.
“For him to be interviewing candidates for that prosecutor who may in turn consider whether to bring indictments involving him and his administration seems to smack of political interference.”
Rachel Maddow showed why the Trump White House should be very afraid by connecting the dots on a meeting between Jared Kushner and a Putin ally during the presidential transition.
President Donald Trump’s former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus was interviewed on Friday by the special counsel investigating whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 U.S. election.
As Donald Trump and his team continue to insist that the Russia scandal is “fake news,” reporting produced each day shows otherwise.
No matter how many unhinged tweets the president posts or how many hurricane photo-ops he takes, Robert Mueller’s investigation continues to circle around Donald Trump.
Facebook is releasing the details about the Russian ad campaign that was part of their interference to get Trump elected, and the numbers are a how to guide for building an illegitimate US president.
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With two tweets about the Russia scandal on Friday, Donald Trump gave investigators more information that brought them closer to potential criminal charges. Trump tweeted: The Russia hoax continues, now it's ads on Facebook. What about the totally biased and dishonest Media coverage in favor of Crooked Hillary? — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 22,…
The fact that Mueller is requesting Air Force One phone records shows that he is clearly ramping up his inquiry into whether Trump obstructed justice.
“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.
Rachel Maddow asked two key questions that both illustrate how the Russia scandal is bigger than Trump and has entangled the Republican Party.