Trump Admits His Campaign Colluded With Russia In Disastrous Press Conference
During a press conference, Trump denied that he personally colluded with Russia, but said that he could only speak for himself, not his campaign.
During a press conference, Trump denied that he personally colluded with Russia, but said that he could only speak for himself, not his campaign.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has told US Senators in a briefing that Russia investigation has moved from counterintelligence into a criminal probe.
President Trump told ABC World News Tonight anchor David Muir that if asked about the appointment of the special counsel on his first foreign trip, he would blame the Democrats.
Former CIA Director Brennan will finally testify in open session before House Intel Committee next Tuesday as part of Russia probe, Rep. Adam Schiff announced.
Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) unloaded on the FCC after they voted 2-1 to roll back net neutrality protections and in essence destroy the internet.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) explained why Vice President Mike Pence, who headed the Trump transition team, may go down with Trump in the Russia scandal if he knew that Mike Flynn was under investigation in January 2017.
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer put out an ominous tweet hyping their concern over the motorist that killed one and injured dozens in Times Square. It seems like the White House might have been hoping for terrorism, but the incident was caused by a driver with multiple DWIs.
Speaker Ryan was asked about some of his own House Republicans saying that they would be better off with Pence as president, and instead of defending Trump, Ryan said that he would give credence to the question.
Now comes a suggestion of possible witness tampering by Donald Trump.
Last month, fired and under investigation Mike Flynn – who was seeking immunity to testify to Congress, was meeting with friends when he told them the president had just sent him a message to stay strong.
House Democrats have already raised more money in the first four months of Trump’s presidency than they did during the entire year of 2015, as people are getting engaged and involved in taking back the House in 2018.
“The Trump administration’s reported education budget is an abomination,” Booker said.
Republican political strategist Rick Wilson, who knows a thing or two about D.C., has some rather terrifying advice for White House staffers. It’s time to save yourselves.
The fact that Roger Ailes died at this moment in American history was symbolic of a current time when both the network that was his brain child (Fox News) and the political party that he worked for and supported (Republican) are wilting and dying before our eyes.
President Trump was let out of his cage long enough to tweet, and it appears to be the real Donald because there’s a misspelling, that the special counsel appointed to investigate his possible collusion with Russia is the “single greatest witch hunt in American history.”
When it comes to vote suppression, Donald Trump and Kris Kobach belong to the same delusional cult. Both have a history of indulging in refuted conspiracy theories about voter fraud. Both extreme in extreme and unconstitutional remedies to imagined problems. Both won elections based on lies. It’s small wonder Trump appointed Kobach to head his…
Even before Trump leaves on his first trip abroad as President, that trip is tainted because Trump will attend a Summit with an indicted war criminal.
The New York Times just added fuel to the raging dumpster fire threatening to take down this White House.
Administration officials are trying to remain calm in public, but privately, they know the train is coming off the track.
Donald Trump knows that the longer this investigation goes on, the more likely it is that he will be forced out of office.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions was not about the special counsel until after the deputy attorney general has signed the letter making the appointment.
If there is anything the past week has taught us, it’s that Trump’s campaign promises weren’t totally empty after all.
The appointment of a special counsel to oversee the investigation was a big step forward, and if Trump dares to try and pull Nixon and fire the special counsel, impeachment will get very real.
Imagine if House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA ) told Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and his colleagues last year that he thought Russian President Vladimir Putin paid Republican Donald Trump.
Because it was just reported that this happened on June 15, 2016. Spokespeople for the two Republican leaders flatly denied this, until confronted with the fact that there is a recording. Now they claim it was a joke.
The Trump White House was given no advance notice of the special counsel appointment, and it is being reported that Trump was completely blindsided by the announcement.
Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein has appointed former FBI Director Robert Muller to serve as special counsel to oversee the investigation into Trump’s ties with Russia.
President Obama immediately saw right through Donald Trump as the then president told friends that the president-elect was a “bullsh–ter,” after an election night phone call in November 2016.
Spicer was asked repeatedly during a press gaggle aboard Air Force One en route to DC about the Comey memo, why Trump won’t release the tapes to prove his side, is the president lawyering up, is he concerned about the references to Watergate, and did he discuss his leaking of Israel’s highly classified information about an ISIS plot with Netanyahu. Phew.
Rachel Maddow very subtly gave Lawrence O’Donnell an endorsement that sounded like she doesn’t want to see The Last Word host leave MSNBC when his contract expires in June.
Rep. Walter Jones (R-SC) has become the first House Republican to sign on to the Democratic discharge petition that would force a House vote on a bill requiring Trump to release his tax returns.
House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) announced that former FBI Director James would testify before his committee at 9:30 AM next Wednesday. Mark the date on your calendar because it could be the beginning of the end for Trump’s presidency.
Trump’s firewall within the Republican congressional majority is crumbling as Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) has released a statement saying that she is open to appointing a special prosecutor to investigate the President.
Trump hijacked a commencement address to Coast Guard grads to whine about the media and how unfairly he has been treated.
The tide is shifting against Trump as Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) told reporters that if the Comey memo is true, it is grounds for impeachment.
When NBC News’s Andrea Mitchell asked Trump Sec. of State Rex Tillerson if Russia bugged the office, he laughed, and said, “I would have no way to know that,” before walking away.
While the White House and Republicans on the Hill try to pass off President Trump’s comments to Comey as “That’s just the way he talks,” Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) made an excellent case for obstruction of justice charges against Donald Trump, if the report about Comey’s memo is accurate.
Hours after the report on Comey’s memo in the New York Times that President Trump tried to interfere in the FBI ‘s investigation into the President and his possible collusion with Russia, Republicans are privately beginning to worry.
After the news of the Comey memo had broken, Fox News could not find a single Republican member of Congress who was willing to go on the conservative news network to defend Trump.
The comparisons to Nixon just won’t quit as Nixon told Halderman to tell CIA to tell the FBI to stop the investigation.
Trump did the same thing, but even more directly. Trump just cut out the middleman and talked directly to the FBI Director.
Everyone remembers Donald Trump’s public statements, campaign promises and website posts where he promised to ban Muslims from the United States.
The Last Word is pulling in record ratings, but Lawrence O’Donnell’s show will end when his contract expires because Trump put pressure on NBC to fire the host because he was too critical of the President.
The coverage of Trump’s endless stream of presidency destroying news over the last 24 hours has varied between sad spin, flat out denial, and pretending like the Trump presidency doesn’t exist.
Rachel Maddow is breaking the news that a criminal subpoena has been issued about a loan that former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort took out with a Trump, business associate.
After the latest bombshell revelation that Trump may have obstructed justice, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) put the heat on Republicans to step up and hold Trump accountable.
A source close to former FBI Director James Comey said that he didn’t write memos about his conversations with President Obama because the conversations were routine and Obama was truthful.
Darrell Issa gave Rachel Bade of Politico the middle finger when she asked him about James Comey’s note, which as reported indicated that President Trump interfered in the investigation into his ties with Russia by asking Comey to stop investigating Flynn.
House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) says he is ready to use his subpoena power if that is what it takes to get access to James Comey’s memos of his conversations with Donald Trump.
Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) called on former FBI Director James Comey to testify before Congress, saying Comey needs to “share what he knows”.
Notes attributed to then FBI Director James Comey show that President Trump asked him to stop investigating General Mike Flynn the day after Flynn was fired.
CNN’s Jake Tapper revealed that the same information that Trump leaked to Russia that is so sensitive that CNN was warned in march not to report it because it would get people killed.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was asked Tuesday, “Do you have concerns with the President’s ability to properly handle classified information?”
Sen. McConnell replied, “No.”
Trump is so nuts that his advisers are afraid to leave him alone in meetings with foreign leaders because they are afraid of what he will say.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) leads Donald Trump in a new poll 49%-39%, as the reeling president is getting swallowed by his Russia scandal.
Senator Al Franken (D-MN) warned early Tuesday afternoon that President Trump is endangering U.S. national security.
President Trump described the meeting where he leaked classified intelligence to Russia as a great meeting. Trump considers a meeting where he jeopardized US national security a great meeting.
The problem for Trump, legally, isn’t that he gave classified intel to Russia. The president’s bigger problem is that this could be considered a violation of his oath of office and an impeachable offense.
While trying to clean up the scandal from Trump leaking classified intelligence to Russia, national security adviser H.R. McMaster made things even worse.
More voters are now in favor of impeaching Donald Trump (48%) than are opposed to impeaching the president (41%) in the latest PPP Poll.
Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) demanded that the White House make transcripts of Trump’s meeting with Russian officials available to Congress.
Schumer added, “And if the president has nothing to hide, he should direct that the transcript of the meeting be made available.”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell spoke with Bloomberg’s Kevin Cirilli on ‘Bloomberg Daybreak: Americas’ to weigh in on the news that Republican President Trump leaked highly classified information about an ISIS plot to the Russians.
McConnell’s response was a call for less drama.
“There’s no courage. They (Republicans) just hope the storm will go away,” Jennifer Bendery of the Huffington Post reported a House Democrat telling her of their Republican colleagues.
Hours after Trump’s Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, NSA H.R. McMaster, and Deputy NSA for Strategy put out statements claiming Trump didn’t leak classified secrets about ISIS to the Russians as the Washington Post detailed, Trump admitted to it and bragged about it.
The President of the United States is either knowingly handing over highly classified intelligence to a foreign adversary or he isn’t smart enough to know what constitutes classified information.
Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL) is speaking out and saying that Donald Trump is in desperate need of psychological help after the President leaked classified intelligence to the Russians.
Trump isn’t just leaking classified info, but he doesn’t seem to know what is and isn’t classified to begin with. Perhaps he should read his one-page briefings.
Last summer, referencing Hillary Clinton, Ryan said: “Individuals who are ‘extremely careless’ with classified information should be denied further access to such information.”
National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster issued what could only be described as a non-denial denial.
When Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was told that Trump leaked classified intel to Russia the former maverick responded by weakly stating that the President has the right to leak intel to an enemy of America.
Donald Trump leaked classified intelligence about ISIS to Russia; Republicans can’t be allowed to mumble concerns about Trump. The American people must demand the impeachment of this president.
Sean Spicer was repeatedly asked if Trump would comply with a congressional request turn over any secret Comey tapes to Congress, and each time he refused to comment.
Democratic House Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi made a move to tie Speaker of the House Paul Ryan to the Russia scandal by requesting that Ryan insists that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein brief the House on the Comey firing.
Prominent Republicans who used not to be frightened are now scared of Trump after the past week, which means that the door is now opening for a serious bipartisan movement to oust this president and his administration.
Meet Curtis Ellis, a right-wing extremist on par with Steve Bannon and Mike Flynn, who accused Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton of conspiring to achieve ethnic cleansing of white working people. He is reported to be a Trump finalist for a U.S. Department of Labor international affairs job.
In another defeat for Republican efforts to keep African-Americans from voting, the Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal to reinstate North Carolina’s Voter ID law.
116 days in and things look bad for the entire Republican Party, thanks to Trump. “Trump’s 39% job rating is a screaming alarm bell for the Republican Party when you think about the midterms,” NBC’s First Read warned in just one example. There’s more.
According to a new report, President Trump is so emotionally unstable that his aides have to hide information from his to keep from setting him off. Trump also makes policy based on printouts of Internet stories, which are sometimes fake news that is handed to him by staff.
Fake news, fake news, fake news….
Senate Republicans are warning that the odds are high that Trumpcare is going to fail in the Senate, which is going to leave Republicans begging to do a deal with Democrats on health care.
During an interview with Trump Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Meet The Press host Chuck Todd confronted Tillerson directly about the Trump administration’s refusal to talk to Russia about their interference in the 2016 election, and it was what Tillerson didn’t say that spoke volumes about Trump’s guilt.
Senate Democratic Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) strongly signaled that Democrats wouldn’t support Trump’s pick to be FBI director unless a special prosecutor is appointed to investigate Trump and Russia.
In the first clear sign that the Russia scandal is impacting Trump with his own supporters, 78% of Americans want a special prosecutor or a select committee to investigate Trump and Russia.
Rep. Peter King (R-NY) said that there are more ties between Clinton and Russia than there are between Trump and Russia, so the Russia scandal, according to King, is really about Hillary Clinton, not Donald Trump.
House Intel Committee ranking member Rep. Adam Schiff said that if Trump has been taping in the White House, those tapes would be the best proof of obstruction of justice.
Donald Trump is mad because he is failing as president, and he is considering firing his Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, chief strategist Steve Bannon, White House counsel Don McGahn and press secretary Sean Spicer. Trump is also angry at his own cabinet.
The past one hundred plus days of this administration have not only been a constant battering to the fabric of our democracy but a neglect to the needs of the poor and vulnerable as well.
Melissa McCarthy’s latest satire of White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer showed that the American people had lost all faith in Trump and his White House to tell them the truth about anything.
A global cyber attack described as unprecedented in scale forced a major European automaker to halt some production lines while hitting schools in China and hospitals in Indonesia on Saturday, though it appeared to die down a day after its launch.
U.S. Homeland Security officials met with major U.S. airlines and a trade group to discuss the impact of possibly expanding a ban on large electronic gadgets on planes to flights from some European airports, three sources briefed on the meeting said.
U.S. Senator John Cornyn will no longer deliver the commencement address at Texas Southern University this weekend, the school said after U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was booed at another historically black university.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s economic policies risk creating growth that mostly benefits the rich and aggravates income inequality in the United States, Nobel Prize-winning economist Angus Deaton said.
Trump Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said that people with Type 2 diabetes don’t deserve to have health insurance because they gave themselves diabetes.
Trump couldn’t keep it together long enough to get through the commencement address at Liberty University without ranting about his critics.
“As scandals-in-the-making go, this one may become famous for featuring the President as the principal witness against himself: he seems committed to uncovering any cover-up,” Obama White House Counsel Bob Bauer observed.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said what no one else is saying by slamming Republicans who are refusing to grow a spine on the Russia scandal until they get what they want out of Trump.
After being personally attacked and smeared by the Trump administration, former FBI Director James Comey says that he will testify, but only if the hearing is in public.
On the day that Donald Trump announced he might just cancel White House briefings and the White House just stopped answering the phone all together, a woman posted to Facebook pictures she’s putting in random bushes of a cutout of the top half of Sean Spicer’s head.
The company owned by the family of senior White House aide Jared Kushner will skip roadshow events in China this weekend seeking money from local investors for a real estate project in exchange for a shot at U.S. immigrant visas, a company spokesman said.
Only in Bizarro World — aka the Fox “News” Channel — is the firing of James Comey a reason to salivate over the Hillary Clinton email scandal being reopened.
Republicans, both elected and appointed, are betraying their oath of office by not appointing independent investigators for the Trump Russia probe. The security of the United States is on the line. This is no time for more of their partisan party first attitudes.
Trump will talk about anything, but he is suddenly refusing to discuss whether he is illegally taping conversations in the White House.
Anyone who pays attention knew a Friday morning twitter tantrum was imminent. For while Trump prides himself for his ability to use the element of surprise, there are two things for which he is so predictable it must sting his fragile ego.
Trump will obsess over media coverage of him and when the coverage isn’t favorable he’ll tweet that it’s fake news. In Trumpland, the emperor decides what is true and what isn’t. Anything that makes Trump look good is “true†anything that shows him how he really is, is not.