Damning New Report Reveals Trump Team Communicated With Russia During The Campaign
The Trump campaign had repeated contacts with the Russian government at a time when Moscow was hacking the U.S. election.
The Trump campaign had repeated contacts with the Russian government at a time when Moscow was hacking the U.S. election.
“We need an independent investigation. Damn the lies, full throttle forward on the truth.”
“I just don’t think it’s useful to be doing investigation after investigation, particularly of your own party.”
“Accounts and photographs from other diners seem to indicate these communications occurred in the presence of other guests.”
“The point is that the sickness runs deep; Trump is horrible, but a horror made possible by GOP corruption and lack of conscience.”
It is beyond comprehension that the intelligence community would ever distrust the White House to the extent that it withholds critical intelligence.
Spicer claimed that talking about a 17-day delay “assumes a lot of things that aren’t true,†but what it actually involves is a suspension of reality.
During his daily briefing with reporters, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer called Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Joe Trudeau in what is the Trump White House’s latest insult to a US ally.
“The WH ignored DOJ warnings and clearly has troubling ties to Moscow. Jason Chaffetz & Congressional Republicans are shirking their duties”
Amid a growing chorus of demands for an investigation into who knew what, Chaffetz claims “I think that situation has taken care of itself”
“At the same time, General Flynn’s resignation is a troubling indication of the dysfunction of the current national security apparatus.”
Days after his national security as dinner theater debacle, President Trump Trump whined about leaks.
“Congressman, there is zero chance that we are going to move on until answers to the questions that present themselves at least get notice from the White House.”
Conway’s insistence on lying finally drove Lauer to drop a bombshell question, the question that could bring the entire Trump administration down.
Lauer said Conway was making him think Flynn wasn’t freelancing, and had made the Russia calls on behalf of the administration.
“We’ve actually created a series of commercials in an attempt to bring him up to speed on some information he may lack.”
Michael Flynn led the chants of “Lock her up!” Well, we know who should be locked up, and Flynn is only the first. He should be far from the last.
Trump hopes that the resignation of Mike Flynn represents the end of the Russian scandal, but it is likely the first domino to fall in a nightmare that has the potential to destroy a president.
Top Obama officials told the new administration that Flynn “was potentially vulnerable to Russian blackmail.”
Wall Street executive Steve Mnuchin was officially sworn in as treasury secretary on Monday.
The swipe comes after Trump spent the weekend compromising America’s security by turning an unexpected national security challenge into “dinner theater.”
Nancy Pelosi demanded Mike Flynn be fired after Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser allowed Mar-a-Lago to be turned into an non-secure, open air situation room which Pelosi referred to as “dinner theater.”
This isn’t for Democrats or Republicans, and it’s not to embarrass anybody. This is to make sure the American people know if there are conflicts.
Trudeau said it was not for Canada to lecture the U.S. but rather to continue to reflect Canada’s approach and stay true to its own values.
President Trump humiliated himself in front of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau by suggesting that the northern border is not secure and lying about the size of Electoral College win.
Do we really need more photos posted to FB by Trump guests of the man holding the nuclear football as Trump performs for the camera?
“If there’s evidence that makes it clear that Flynn lied to the Vice President and others…he can’t continue to be national security adviser.”
PolitiFact concluded that “there is no evidence this occurs, and Republicans and Democrats in New Hampshire say it does not.”
“Steve Miller works 18 hour days serving the country and the @POTUS What do you do? Basically talk to yourself & @morningmika Nobody watches!”
On December 30, the day after President Barack Obama retaliated for Moscow’s interference in the U.S. election, Donald Trump praised Putin for his delay in reacting to the sanctions.
President Trump’s National Security Adviser Michael Flynn did not know how to call the National Guard for an emergency. This is something every administration should know before they walk in the door.
“John Marshall settled that question in 1803. This is Mr. Trump meet Mr. Madison. Division of powers, independent judiciary, fundamental principals of our Constitution.”
“(They are) questioned, my young, little Miller. They will be questioned by the court — it’s called judicial review.â€
“What the actual f*ck is up w these Trump Admin ppl. They are the most smug, smarmy, cartoon villain-y ppl I’ve EVER seen. EVER.”
Perhaps there is someone left in the world who isn’t aware of Donald Trump’s troubling relationship with the Constitution. If so, this is for you.
As four men approached their lone victim, Trump’s acolytes shouted, “Hey snowflake! This is what a Trump America looks like, fag*ot!â€
President Trump is whining about the media not covering his “enthusiastic supporters” while Russian smokes threatens to bring this country down thanks to him and his administration.
During a town hall in Elm Grove, WI, Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) hinted that Congress would have to do something if NSA Mike Flynn’s lies about contact with Russia go all the way up to President Trump. According to the Constitution, that “something” is impeachment.
“Since January 20, we’ve assumed that the Kremlin has ears inside the Situation Room,” a Senior Pentagon intelligence official is quoted as saying. Adding, “There’s not much the Russians don’t know at this point.”
George Stephanopoulos’s destruction of Trump Senior Adviser Stephen Miller’s voter fraud lie is proof that the press is going fight Trump’s baseless falsehoods to the American people.
The ratings are in, and they are bad news for President Trump. Alec Baldwin’s Trump impression is so popular that it led the program to six-year ratings high and easily bested the ratings for the episode that Trump guest hosted in 2015.
During an interview on ABC’s This Week, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, ask the one question that could bring down the Trump administration. Did Trump instruct Flynn to talk to the Russians?
After yet another brutally on point lampooning of Sean Spicer by Melissa McCarthy on Saturday Night Live, Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) rubbed salt in the wound by telling Joy Reid “Nobody takes him seriously anyway… Let’s have fun with him while he’s there.”
It was an avalanche of robotic talking points and lies for Trump policy advisor Stephen Miller this Sunday, solidifying that he is in the right administration for his ethics and integrity. Miller earned praise from Trump for this performance.
Senator Franken called President Trump’s mental health into question based on the number of lies he tells, called for an independent investigation into Trump’s ties to Russia, and slammed Nancy DeVos as the “the least qualified nominee I’ve ever seen.”
From airports to schools and city centers to city streets the people of this country are showing up because they believe in what this country can be.
Trump is really calling the checks and balances and separation of powers in the Constitution “disgraceful” because he refuses to accept they apply to him.
The new data comes days after Trump took aim at the polls, calling them “fake news” if they find that he or his policies are unpopular.
“I’ll be damned if we’re going to have a draft-dodging chickenhawk president of the United States … ordering the people I served with back into another conflict.”
After only three weeks of this new administration, the fears of the LGBTQ community are becoming a reality.
The immigrant community is on high alert as the new president’s deportation force begins to take shape.
The American people are sick of the Republican Party’s lies on Obamacare.
If Trump enabled a person who was working with an enemy of the United States by naming him his National Security adviser that is a high crime. If Trump ignored all of the public information available about the Flynn/Russia connection and moved forward anyway, that is a high crime.
The intrigue, fighting and back-stabbing within the Trump administration just three weeks in is enough to compete with the War of the Roses.
Democratic Senators Maria Cantwell and Patty Murry want answers after a vital educational rights resource for disabled students, and their families vanished after Education Secretary Betsy DeVos took office.
Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) are planning to land a massive blow against the Republican effort to take away health care from tens of millions of Americans with a day of Senate led nationwide protests on February 25.
Taxpayers are paying for his travel to Florida, but Donald Trump has blacked out the windows and banned reporters from taking pictures of his golf vacation at the “Winter White House.”
The CIA denied a top aide to Trump’s National Security adviser security clearance, just hours after Donald Trump’s National Security adviser was busted for lying about the nature of his repeated contacts with a Russian ambassador.
A member of the Federal Election Commission has called on President Donald Trump to share any evidence he has to support a statement that voter fraud caused him and former Senator Kelly Ayotte to lose in New Hampshire in the 2016 U.S. election.
Last week it was Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau demanding an apology from the Fox “News” Channel. This week it’s Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has nuclear weapons at his disposal.
Trump blithely talked about destroying the career of a man who disagreed with Trump on a policy issue and Senator Leach is mad as hell about it.
Asked how he plans to respond to Iranian President Rouhani, who said earlier today that any nation that threatens Iran will “regret” it, President Trump responded, “He better be careful.”
It’s been reported Friday evening that the intel compiled by the former British spy has gained credibility among law enforcement.
The sharp eyes of Democratic Sen. Martin Heinrich caught President Donald Trump jeopardizing national security by recklessly handling classified information.
Less than a week after running a $3 million bill that taxpayers will need to pay for his vacation in Florida, President Trump used a visit by Japanese PM Abe as an excuse to spend millions of more taxpayer dollars on another Florida vacation.
Top Democrats are demanding that President Trump fire Michael Flynn immediately after Flynn was busted for possibly undermining Russian sanctions behind President Obama’s back.
The look on Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s face after shaking Donald Trump’s hand revealed a foreign leader who thinks the new president is crazy.
President Trump was incapable of keeping his ego in check when asked during a joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Abe about the Nine Circuit Court’s ruling against his Muslim ban Executive Order. Trump set himself up for complete humiliation by promising to win a case that he continues to lose in court.
When Trump’s controversial Education Secretary Betsy DeVos tried to enter a Washington, D.C. school, protesters blocked the door and would not let her in.
A new Public Policy Polling poll revealed that American voters have so little trust Trump that they find Saturday Night Live to be more credible than the President.
The American people are divided on whether the President of the United States – a guy who’s been in office for just three weeks – should be impeached from office.
The White House has so many business entanglements that they can barely utter more than a syllable without finding themselves violating an ethics rule.
Donald Trump lost, and Hillary Clinton – like the majority of Americans who oppose this president – is clearly savoring it.
Trump called the court’s ruling a “political decision,” despite the fact that even the Bush-appointed judge on the panel ruled against him.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) pulled no punches and took President Trump to school while celebrating the Trump administration’s latest defeat on their Muslim ban in court.
President Trump’s Muslim ban continues to be a loser as the 9th Circuit Court has issued an order denying the Trump administration’s request to lift the block on the Muslim ban.
He went on to say it is possible residents of those countries could be required to provide the information so officials can “get on those websites to see what they’re looking at.
When asked on MSNBC if Congress is heading for four more years of stalemate, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) dropped a truth bomb and said that she doesn’t expect Trump to be in office for four years because he is vulnerable to impeachment.
A complaint has been filed with the Homeland Security Office of Inspector General urging an investigation into Kellyanne Conway’s illegal promotion of Ivanka Trump’s clothing line on Fox News.
After Trump had tweeted an inaccurate statement about an interview that the cable news network had just concluded, CNN responded to the President’s false statement by playing the tape and tearing into the President for calling the network fake news.
During an interview on Fox and Friends, White House Senior Adviser Kellyanne Conway broke the law by using her position and the White House briefing room to tell people to buy Ivanka Trump’s clothing line.
While meeting with airline executives, President Trump went on a rant that was based on stuff his personal pilot told him that was both unpresidential and made zero sense.
The deliberate omission of white extremist attacks is necessary for Trump to convince Americans that the only one thing they have to fear is Islam.
“The bottom line is,” said Graham, “it was long overdue with her. I mean, she is clearly running for the nomination in 2020.”
Trump says Nordstrom’s treatment of Ivanka is terrible! No, “Terrible” is Muslims murdered by a Trump supporter in a terrorist attack.
The ACLU continues to be on the front lines in the battle to resist the new administration.
Price as head of HHS will make the GOP attempt to take health insurance from millions of Americans much easier.
Being on the receiving end of Trump’s Twitter tantrums is apparently good for business.
After one of the most heated battles over an attorney general nominee in the nation’s history, the Senate voted to confirm Sen. Jeff Sessions and set into motion a Trump war on civil rights.
Assistant Democratic Leader Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) said that the silencing of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) was a carefully orchestrated Republican plot. If this is the case, then the scheme has horribly backfired on Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and his party.
President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch has confirmed that he called Trump’s attack on the judiciary branch of the US government disheartening and demoralizing.
In a disgusting display, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer tried to dodge criticism of the disastrous Yemen raid by claiming that anyone who criticizes the raid is dishonoring the memory of deceased CPO Ryan Owens.
The Democratic base is not in the mood to compromise with racism and misogyny, let alone cater to Republicans after their unprecedented theft of Obama’s right and responsibility to fill the Supreme Court seat.
President Trump’s attack on Nordstrom undermined his false image as a president for the people and confirmed the perception that Trump is using the platform of the presidency to make money.
If you were wondering if Democratic Minority Leader Senator Chuck Schumer had it in him to fight the surreal attacks on democracy courtesy of the Trump administration, wonder no more. Senator Schumer took a flamethrower to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s use of Rule XIX to silence Senator Elizabeth Warren Wednesday on the Senate floor. Schumer…
“As you know, I did the Dakota pipeline and nobody called up to complain, because it was unfair. Years of getting approvals, nobody showed up to fight it.”
When Republicans voted to silence Senator Elizabeth Warren Tuesday night on the Senate floor, they justified it by using shame. This matters because this is how Republicans silenced dissent under George W. Bush, and way too many liberals and Democrats fell for it then.
“Think about it: Senator Warren was silenced in the U.S. Senate for reading the words of Coretta Scott King. We are losing our democracy.”
“Mitch McConnel and the Republicans came to the floor to shut me down…what I’d like to do outside the Senate, I just want to read the letter.”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) selectively enforced an obscure Senate rule to silence Elizabeth Warren as she discussed Trump attorney general nominee Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL).
After Cruz expressed phony concern about insurance company profits, Sanders excitedly pounced.