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No, Trump’s Bogus Obama-Wiretap Claim Was Not Just ‘Vindicated’ By Paul Manafort News
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.
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Robert Mueller Might Have Phone Records Showing The Trump Campaign Asking For Russia’s Help
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.”
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The FBI Wiretapped Paul Manafort And What They Heard Could Be The End For Trump
A FISA warrant was obtained, and Paul Manafort was wiretapped, as he was continuing to talk to Trump after the President took office.
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Trump’s Lawyers Are At Each Other’s Throats And Cracking Under The Russia Scandal Pressure
A bad sign for Donald Trump is that his legal team is openly fighting with each other in public as the Russia scandal is drawing closer to the President.
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Trump Panicked After Mueller Appointment And Demanded Resignation Of ‘Idiot’ Jeff Sessions
Sessions was so upset by the lashing Trump gave him that he sent a letter of resignation to the White House and called the Oval Office episode “the most humiliating experience in decades of public life.”
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Trump Terror Grows As Federal Investigation Into The Russia Scandal Expands
The federal investigation into the Russia scandal has expanded to include Michael Flynn’s son, as instead of getting smaller the investigation is snaring more people in Trump’s orbit.
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Lawyers Warn White House Aides That Trump Can’t Protect Them From Criminal Charges
Lawyers representing White House aides are trying to break the cult like demand for loyalty that Trump places about the truth by warning them that the President can’t protect them from criminal charges if they lie to Special Counsel Robert Mueller about the Russia scandal.
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Rachel Maddow Shows How The Russia Scandal Could Take Down The Whole Trump White House
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow asked a big, but simple question. Why are six current and former Trump administration officials hiring lawyers if they are only witnesses?
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Trump’s Lawyers Wanted Jared Kushner To Step Down Over Shady Russia Connections
A number of the president’s lawyers wanted Kushner out, worrying that he would become a legal liability as the special counsel investigation intensified.
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Trump’s White House Lawyer Has Lawyered Up As Obstruction Of Justice Investigation Gets Hot
Donald Trump’s White House legal counsel has hired a lawyer as Special Counsel Robert Mueller wants to know what he knew about why Trump fired James Comey.
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Panicking White House Is Setting Up Legal Defense Fund To Cover Costs Of Russia Investigation
Two key figures in the Russia investigation who are no longer with the administration are actually struggling to pay their legal fees.
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Rachel Maddow Advises Trump Family To Get ‘Good Lawyers’ As Russia Investigation Intensifies
“If the special counsel is now investigating administration officials for making misleading statements about ties to Russia … they’re all going to need good lawyers.”
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Rachel Maddow Warns Trump That Criminal Charges Could Soon Follow After New Facebook Revelation
If any American – i.e. anybody connected to the Trump campaign – knew this crime was being committed, they could face time in the slammer.
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Russia Scandal Gets Worse For Trump As Pro-Kremlin Groups Used Facebook To Influence Voters
The new revelation is the latest sign that, no, Russian election meddling – all to help Donald Trump defeat Hillary Clinton – is not fake news.
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Labor Day Bombshell Dropped As Congress Is Investigating Trump For Seeking Russia Business
During an interview on CNN’s State Of The Union, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, confirmed that Congress is investigating Trump for seeking business in Russia during the 2016 election.
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With Obstruction Of Justice Charges Closing In, Trump Has A Major Meltdown
In a ham-handed and amateur effort to smear the witness, Donald Trump is trying to discredit potential obstruction of justice charges against him by attacking former FBI Director James Comey.
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Trump’s Own Lawyers Confirm That The President Is Under Federal Criminal Investigation
Trump’s own lawyers submitted memos to Special Counsel Robert Mueller arguing that the President did not obstruct justice, which confirms that Trump is under federal criminal investigation.
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Stunning Evidence Suggests The Republican Party May Have Taken Illegal Russian Donations In 2016
Evidence from notes taken off of Paul Manafort’s cell from the infamous meetings with Russians at Trump Tower has RNC written near the word donations.
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Trump Pardon Plan Blown Up As Special Counsel Is Working With New York AG On Russia Probe
Trump’s pardon power will be worthless as special counsel Robert Meuller is working with the New York attorney general in the clearest signal yet that state criminal charges could be coming in the Russia scandal.
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Bombshell Dropped On Trump As 1 Attorney General Is Looking At Russia State Crimes
On his MSNBC program The Beat, Ari Melber reported that Trump can’t pardon his way out of any state crimes committed in the Russia scandal and that one state attorney general is already looking their jurisdiction for potential Russia state crimes.
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Trump Under Investigation For False Statements And Obstruction Of Justice In Russia Cover-Up
Investigators want to know what Donald Trump knew about his son’s Trump Tower meeting with Russia and if he tried to cover-up its real purpose.
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There Is Now A Direct Connection Between Trump And Putin As Evidence Of Russia Collusion Grow
Trump’s personal attorney asked Putin for help with a Trump business deal during the 2016 campaign, as evidence of a Trump/Putin connection is becoming concrete.
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GOP Senators Admit That Trump Is Obsessed With Ending The Russia Investigation
“It seems he is just always focused on Russia,” one senior GOP aide said, according to Politico.
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Russia Comes Roaring Back As Top Trump Aide Emailed Campaign Officials About Meeting With Putin
An email sent from a top Donald Trump aide referenced a previously unknown attempt to set up a meeting between Trump campaign associates and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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‘The End Is Near’: Co-Author Of ‘Art Of The Deal’ Predicts That Trump Is About To Resign
The end may very well be near for Donald Trump’s presidency.Â
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Trump’s Russia Troubles Grow As Congressional Investigators Want To Question His Secretary
The Russia investigation continues to inch closer to the President on a daily basis as congressional investigators want to question the secretary who handles his appointments and communications.
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The Feds Are Closing In On Trump Because Paul Manafort Told Them About Russia Meeting
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.
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FBI Raids Former Trump Campaign Manager’s Office And Seizes Docs And Records Related To Russia
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.
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Trump’s Twitter Rampage Backfires As Richard Blumenthal Doubles Down On Russia Investigation
Instead of taking Trump’s bait, Sen. Blumenthal is digging in his feet and doubling down on the increasingly serious investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia.
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Kellyanne Conway Flips Out and Babbles About Obama and Benghazi When Hammered With Russia Truth
When ABC’s George Stephanopoulos called out the Trump White House for lying about the Russia scandal, even perpetual Trump lie machine Kellyanne Conway broke down and began to make no sense while stumbling over her words and talking about Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Benghazi.
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Governor Who Switched Parties For Trump Owes Millions In Taxes After Deal With Russian Company
It was a nice photo-op for the West Virginia governor, but there seems to be more to the story than a simple change of heart.
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Panicked Trump Whines About Hillary Clinton’s Emails As Grand Jury Zeroes In On White House
The president lashed out like a tired third grader during a campaign rally in West Virginia as the investigation into his ties to Russia continues to escalate.
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Trump White House Closer To Facing Criminal Charges As Mueller Impanels Grand Jury In DC
The investigation into potential crimes committed by the President and campaign has expanded as a grand jury has been impaneled in Washington, D.C. as part of the Russia investigation.
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Cory Booker and Lindsey Graham Just Stopped Trump’s Plan To Fire Mueller Dead In Its Tracks
Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) have introduced new legislation that would put a check on Trump’s ability to fire the special counsel investigating the Russia scandal, Robert Mueller.
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Key Dem Promises Bipartisan ‘Firestorm’ If Trump Fires Bob Mueller For Looking At Tax Returns
“There’s a likelihood that there will be a confrontation. And if there’s a confrontation and if there’s a threat to fire Bob Mueller, there will be a firestorm of opposition on both sides of the aisle here in Congress.”
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Leaked Transcript Dooms Trump As He Refuses To Rule Out Pardons For His Russia Crimes
A leaked transcript of the full Wall Street Journal interview with Donald Trump reveals that when the President was asked about pardons for the Russia scandal, he dodged the question and babbled about Jared Kushner.
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Jared Kushner’s Latest Russia Defense: Trump Team Was Too Incompetent To Collude With Moscow
“They thought we colluded, but we couldn’t even collude with our local offices,” Kushner said during a private meeting.
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More Evidence Of Cover-Up As Trump Personally Wrote Don Jr.’s False Statement On Russia Meeting
The new development “adds to a series of actions that Trump has taken that some advisers fear could place him and some members of his inner circle in legal jeopardy.”
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Al Franken Tries Not To Laugh When Asked If He Believes Jared Kushner’s Russia Lies
In an interview on MSNBC, Franken was asked if he took Kushner at his word. His simple response: “No.”
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An Unhinged Trump Touts Fake Fox News Story And Claims Russia Was Against Him In 2016
Here’s more evidence that Donald Trump is nothing more than a low information Fox News viewer. Trump used a Fox and Friends story as proof that Russia was really against him during the 2016 election.
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Even Republicans Are Warning Trump Not To Try To Replace Sessions With A Recess Appointment
Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) told Donald Trump on the Senate floor to forget about trying to use the Senate’s August recess to kill the Russia investigation by firing Attorney General Jeff Sessions and appointing a new AG.
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Trump Secretly Plotting Recess Appointment If Jeff Sessions Resigns As Attorney General
“Trump has been talking privately about how he might replace Sessions and possibly sidestep Senate oversight, four people familiar with the issue said.”
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Rachel Maddow Explains The Terrifying Maneuver Trump Could Use To Kill The Russia Investigation
The MSNBC host warned that Trump could replace Jeff Sessions without needing confirmation if he made the appointment while the Senate is on vacation.
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Trump Family Crumbles As Kushner Tries To Save Himself By Blaming Russia Meeting On Trump Jr.
Jared Kushner tried to save himself from the Russia scandal by blaming everything related to the meeting with Russians on Donald Trump Jr.
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Trump’s Own Lawyer Screws Up And Admits That The President Has Committed Crimes
A bad Sunday for Trump got worse when his own lawyer Jay Sekulow was asked about the President pardoning himself, and instead of denying that Trump committed any crimes, he said that the Supreme Court would have to decide if Trump can pardon himself.
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Key Dem Says Firing Robert Mueller Would Be Grounds For Impeaching Trump
“It’s clear that Robert Mueller is getting closer. We don’t have just smoke now, we’ve got fire in this Russia investigation.”
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Malcolm Nance Throws Hammer Down On White House, Says Trump Is Under Complete Russian Control
“He may not even know that he is an asset under your control until you pull that string, and then suddenly you need him to do things for you – and they do.”
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Rachel Maddow Just Busted The Senate Republican Plan To Save Trump From The Russia Scandal
Rachel Maddow blew up the Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman’s scheme to save Donald Trump with conspiracy filled hearing on Wednesday.
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Watch MSNBC Hosts Destroy A GOP Congressman’s Russia Scandal Blame The Media Talking Points
Rep. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) tried to blame the media for the Russia scandal, but MSNBC hosts Ali Velshi and Stephanie Ruhle called out Cramer for using GOP talking points and got him to admit that he doesn’t know what they cover because he has not seen their show.
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Exclusive: Moscow lawyer who met Trump Jr. had Russian spy agency as client
The Russian lawyer who met Donald Trump Jr. after his father won the Republican nomination for the 2016 U.S. presidential election counted Russia’s FSB security service among her clients for years, Russian court documents seen by Reuters show.
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Terrified Trump May Pardon Himself And His Family Members Over Russia Scandal
The recent actions by Trump suggest that he is running scared as Robert Mueller’s investigation zeroes in on the White House.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders Changes Her Tune On Jeff Sessions To Cater To Disturbed Trump
During an off camera gaggle, Deputy White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders threw Attorney General Jeff Sessions under the bus and said that Trump regrets appointing the AG.
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Trump Throws Embarrassing Tantrum Over Jeff Sessions Not Being His Russia Puppet
“If he would have recused himself before the job, I would have said, ‘Thanks, Jeff, but I’m not going to take you.’ It’s extremely unfair — and that’s a mild word — to the president.”
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Ex-Intel Director Destroys Trump For Trying To Make Russia, Not America, Great Again
“This affinity for Russia is a very curious thing,” Clapper said. “Bear in mind, Russia is an existential threat to this country.”
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Russia Scandal Explodes As White House Confirms Trump and Putin Held 2nd Secret Meeting At G-20
After Ian Bremmer said that Trump and Putin held a second private meeting at the G-20, the White House finally confirmed that a meeting involving just Trump, Putin, and a translator happened.
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Nicolle Wallace Obliterates Chris Christie And Shows Why No One Will Go On TV To Defend Trump
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie tried to defend Donald Trump Jr. and Donald Trump, but when he was pressed by MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace, it showed why no one would go on television to defend Trump.
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Chris Christie Abandons Trump, Says Secret Russia Meeting Was “Probably” Against The Law
You know things are going bad in Trumpworld when the unpopular New Jersey governor tries to distance himself from the president’s team.
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Even Members Of Congress Are Calling Out The Stupidity Of Trump’s Lawyer
After Trump’s lawyer Jay Sekulow had claimed that the Secret Service should have stopped the Russians from meeting with the Trump campaign, Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) called Sekulow dumb as a rock.
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The Secret Service Just Put A World Of Russia Scandal Hurt On Donald Trump
The Secret rejected Trump’s lawyer’s argument that they should have vetted the Russians that Trump Jr. was meeting, but made it clear that they were in the building to protect Trump, which means that President Trump knew about the meeting.
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Adam Schiff Drops A Bombshell By Showing How Trump Knew About Russia Collusion
House Intelligence Committee ranking member Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) pointed to a canceled Trump speech during the campaign that was supposed to be about Clinton at around the time Trump Jr. was meeting with Russians as a possible indication that Trump knew about Russia collusion.
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Fox News Flat Out Lies And Claims Hillary Clinton Was Colluding With Russia Against Trump
There is lying, and then there is what Fox News’s Eric Bolling did when he reversed the facts of the Russia story to claim that it was really Hillary Clinton who was colluding with Russia to get dirt on Trump.
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AM Joy Bursts Into Laughter As Pro-Trump Analyst Goes Full Crazy To Defend Don Jr. Meeting
Unable to defend the content of the actual meeting, the analyst just repeatedly held up funny pictures of Rob Goldstone, the man who arranged the meeting.
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Terrible News For Trump As A Connection Is Made Between Russian Lawyer And The President
The lawyer at the heart of the meeting with Donald Trump Jr. got her front row seat at a recent congressional hearing through a Republican lobbyist who is close to President Donald Trump.
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Fox News Turns On Trump And Says His White House Is Lying About Russia Scandal
Even Fox News is starting to flee Trump, as Shep Smith and Chris Wallace told Fox News viewers that Trump is lying to them about the Russia scandal.
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Trump’s Lawyers Still Don’t Know Everyone Who Was At The Trump Tower Meeting With Russians
When Trump, or a member of his administration, or his family claim that there is nothing else to the Russia meeting story, keep in mind that according to Trump’s own lawyers they still don’t know the names of everyone who attended the meeting.
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Trump Caught In Huge Russia Lie As Former Soviet Intel Official Met With Trump Jr. and Kushner
It turns out that the Russian government lawyer wasn’t the only person at the Trump Jr., Kushner, Manafort meeting. The meeting was also attended by a former Soviet counterintelligence official.
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Trump Caught In Massive New Lie As His Legal Team Knew About Don Jr. Emails Since June
The idea that Trump’s own lawyers would know about the explosive emails and the president himself would be left out of the loop is almost impossible to believe.
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Malcolm Nance Reminds Trump He’s Under Investigation, Tells WH Staff To Lawyer Up Immediately
As the Russia scandal continues to hang over the White House, Trump and his staff would be smart to take it more seriously.
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Senate Dems Slam Trump And Defend America As White House Considers Lifting Russia Punishment
A handful of Democratic Senators were fuming on Thursday as Donald Trump and the White House strongly consider giving back two compounds to Russia that were shut down by the Obama administration.
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Donald Trump’s Russia Lawyer Cracks Up And Threatens A Stranger
President Trump’s personal lawyer for the Russia scandal threatened a stranger in an email Wednesday evening, writing, “Watch your back, b*tch” and “I already know where you live.”
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John McCain Throws Tantrum Because Russia Scandal Is Stalling The Deadly GOP Health Care Bill
“I think it’s very difficult when you have this overwhelming barrage of new information that unfolds every few days. I think it’s obvious.”
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Trump Flees The Country As Russia Scandal Blows Up And Impeachment Legislation Hits Congress
Trump may be far away, but the stench of scandal and controversy that has plagued his presidency since day one will follow him to France.
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Paul Ryan Enables Trump Crimes With The Most Cowardly Answer On Russia You’ll Ever Hear
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) gave an answer that can only be described as gutless enablement when asked if he would ever meet with a foreign source offering campaign information.
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Trump Just Confessed To Committing Crimes And Blew Up His Presidency With One Tweet
There are signs that President Trump has retreated to his mental happy place of the 2016 election as Trump took to social media to defend himself against the Russia scandal by claiming that Hillary Clinton may have gotten away with crimes.
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Rachel Maddow Shakes Trump To His Core By Asking One Big Question About The Russia Scandal
On her MSNBC program, Rachel Maddow pointed out that the Russians knew about the Donald Trump Jr. meeting before The New York Times ever did, and asked the vital question, did the Russians use their information to blackmail anyone in the White House?
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A Fed Up Top House Republican Blew At Gasket At Trump Over The Russia Scandal
The Russia scandal is breaking apart the Republican Party as the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) fumed at the Trump administration during an interview on Fox News.
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Trump’s Day Just Got Even Worse As Calls Grow For A Criminal Investigation
Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY) just made Trump’s problems a lot worse by writing to the FEC and demanding an investigation into whether Trump broke campaign finance and criminal laws by accepting a contribution or a donation from Russia.
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Trump Releases A Crazed Statement That Doesn’t Deny That His Son Colluded With Russia
The White House is pretending that everything is fine, as Donald Trump released a statement praising his son for being a “high-quality person,” but never denying the allegation that Donald Trump Jr. colluded with Russia.
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Donald Trump Jr. Just Released Smoking Gun Emails That Prove Russia Was Supporting Trump
Donald Trump Jr. dug himself and his father in deeper on the Russia scandal by releasing transcripts of emails that show Russia was supporting Donald Trump for president, and that Donald Trump Sr. had a direct connection to Russia.
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Adam Schiff Lays Out The Devastating Timeline Of Russia-Trump Campaign Collusion
“This meeting, purportedly in June, in July the Russians start dumping documents helpful to Donald Trump, hurtful to Hillary Clinton.”
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Another NYT Bombshell: Donald Trump Jr. Knew Russian Government Was Helping His Dad’s Campaign
Donald Trump Jr. was told in an email that the damaging info on Hillary Clinton that he sought during his meeting with a Kremlin-linked lawyer “was part of a Russian government effort to aid his father’s candidacy.”
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John Podesta Slams Trump Jr.’s Russia Meeting: “Starting To Smell More And More Like Collusion”
Each day brings another “drip” of information that increases the likelihood that there was collusion between the president’s campaign and Moscow.
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Republican Senator Wants Donald Trump Jr. To Be Questioned Before Senate On Russia
The shoes are beginning to drop as Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine told the press that she would like Donald Trump Jr. to be questioned by the Senate Intelligence Committee and testify about Russia.
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Adam Schiff Drops A Russia Bombshell As Investigators Want To Question Donald Trump Jr.
During an interview on CNN’s State Of The Union, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said that the committee wants to hear from Paul Manafort, Jared Kushner, and Donald Trump Jr. on their meeting with a Kremlin-linked Russian attorney.
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Maxine Waters Slams Unpatriotic GOP For Not Standing Up To Putin Puppet Trump
“I’m questioning the patriotism of all of those Republicans who are allowing this president to side with Putin, to wrap his arms around Putin.”
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Rachel Maddow: Someone Is Sending Fake NSA Docs To The Media To Undermine Russia Reporting
“One way to stab in the heart aggressive American reporting on that subject is to lay traps for American journalists who are reporting on it.”
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Ex-Intel Director Destroys Bogus Trump Claim: ‘No Evidence’ Russia Wasn’t Behind Election Hack
James Clapper said the Russians will continue to collect intelligence and interfere in U.S. elections so long as the United States, led by Trump, refuses to “push back.”
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Emboldened By Pro-Putin Trump, Russia Ramps Up Spying Efforts In The U.S.
Just as Hillary Clinton warned the country during the campaign, Trump is turning out to be a Putin “puppet” who is delivering every last item on Russia’s wish list.
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Rachel Maddow Destroys Trump’s ‘Inconceivable’ Decision To Give Putin A Face-To-Face Meeting
“How has [Putin] earned a face-to-face, full-scale, bilateral meeting with the U.S. president? What has he done to deserve that meeting and that respect?”
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Trump Betrays America By Announcing Meeting With Putin On The 4th Of July
In an effort to bury the Russia story, Trump announced on the 4th of July that he would be meeting with Putin on Friday.
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Top GOP Operative Worked With Michael Flynn During Campaign To Obtain Hacked Clinton Emails
It’s becoming increasingly hard to believe that Trump had no idea what some of his closest advisers were up to with respect to Russia.
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Trump’s Jeff Sessions Problem Just Got Ten Times Worse As Investigation Demands Grow
All Democrats from the House Judiciary and Oversight committees demanded that the Department of Justice investigate Attorney General Jeff Sessions for violating his “recusal” from the Russia investigation by collaborating in the firing of former FBI head James Comey.
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Bombshell Report Reveals Mitch McConnell Allowed Russia To Attack The US To Help Trump
In a tone that would become familiar in the following months, Republicans and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) allowed Russia to interfere in the election to help Trump by expressing skepticism about the intelligence that Russia was meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
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Russia Probe Continues To Bury Trump As House Committee Will Interview First Major Witness
Despite the insecure president’s social media tantrums, the investigation into his presidential campaign’s ties to Russia isn’t going anywhere.
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U.S. House Dems reject Deutsche Bank privacy claim in Trump query
U.S. House Democrats rejected an assertion by Deutsche Bank that privacy laws prevent it from sharing information about President Donald Trump’s finances, as they investigate possible collusion between his campaign team and Russia.
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Democrats Connect The Dots And Create A Russia Nightmare For Jared Kushner And Trump
House Oversight Democrats are connecting the dots and demanding to know why Trump is jeopardizing classified information by not suspending Jared Kushner’s security clearance.
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Even Newt Gingrich Admits The Russia Scandal Is So Bad That People Will Go To Jail
“They’re going to get somebody, and they’re going to get him for something. And they’re probably going to go to jail.”
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Dem Congressman Promises Impeachment Proceedings If Trump Fires Mueller And Rosenstein
“If President Trump were to fire Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein and then got Special Counsel Mueller fired, I believe Congress would begin impeachment proceedings.”
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Adam Schiff Just Signaled That All Hell Will Break Loose If Trump Fires Rosenstein And Mueller
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee just hinted at the constitutional crisis that will occur if Trump fires the Deputy Attorney General and the Special Counsel.
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Mike Pence Calls Hiring A Criminal Defense Lawyer Routine As Russia Scandal Denial Grows
The White House appears to be in total denial about the severity of the Russia scandal, as Vice President Mike Pence called his move to hire a criminal defense attorney very routine.