Paul Manafort, former campaign manager for President Donald Trump, had three U.S. passports, millions in assets and ties to Russian oligarchs, according to federal court documents after his indictment on tax fraud and money laundering charges.
Trump’s pick to run the Department of Agriculture, Sam Clovis, who was also a top Trump campaign official was questioned by Special Counsel Robert Mueller in front of the Russia investigation grand jury.
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is reportedly pressuring President Trump to “defang” Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump Russia probe by defunding it instead of firing him, according to a Politico report.
“Moscow never felt itself guilty so as to feel exonerated now,” he said, when asked whether the Kremlin interpreted the indictment as proof that its repeated denials about meddling in the U.S. presidential election had been confirmed.
Page appeared to have incriminated himself by casually admitting that, yeah, he was on email chains about Russia with George Papadopoulos.
Trump is reported to have spent Monday freaking out in the White House as the reality is hitting him that the Russia investigation is closing in.
“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.
White House aides are admitting that their own spin should not be believed and that the Manafort indictment and foreign policy adviser flipping to cooperate with the FBI is very bad.
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.
“Papadopolous is the big one – lesser charges but it is about collusion. And he is cooperating. Bad news for Trump,” Painter wrote on Twitter.
George Papadopoulos has pleaded guilty to lying to FBI agents, the federal special counsel said on Monday, becoming the third adviser to President Donald Trump’s campaign to face criminal charges in its investigation.
Watch the White House daily briefing, as White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders will face reporters after Paul Manafort was indicted and foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos flipped to cooperating with law enforcement.
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell that Speaker of the House Paul Ryan is intentionally helping Trump slow down the Russia investigation in Congress and cover up the President’s potential crimes.
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.
U.S. intelligence agencies say Russia interfered in the election to try to help Trump defeat Clinton, by hacking and releasing embarrassing emails and disseminating propaganda via social media to discredit her. The Kremlin has denied any meddling.
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.
Hours after his former campaign manager Paul Manafort and RNC’s Richard Gates surrendered under a grand jury indictment, President Trump’s schedule involves lunch with Vice President Mike Pence and Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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.
Legal expert, former federal prosecutor and candidate for Illinois Attorney General Renato Mariotti shared his preliminary thoughts on the Manafort/Gates indictments in the Trump Russia probe Monday morning.
As Donald Trump’s campaign manager Paul Manafort and his right hand man, who still works at the RNC, surrendered Monday morning after being indicted in the Russia investigation, President Trump tweeted about President Obama and the DNC.
“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.
As the Paul Manafort indictment dominates the news, Trump state TV, a.k.a. Fox News, is ignoring the first embers of Trump’s burning presidency.
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.
The investigation into possible Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election will enter a new phase as early as Monday, when the first charges resulting from the probe could be unsealed and a target taken into custody.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is closing in on Donald Trump, and like a wounded animal, Trump is doing everything conceivable to survive. Trump has returned to his familiar playbook of lies, distraction, and distortion to delude Americans and shift the searing light of suspicion from himself onto Hillary Clinton. From the outset of this investigation, Donald Trump has behaved like a guilty man, and nothing has changed to alter that perception. The president has conducted himself like a criminal throughout his campaign and presidency.
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) and Fox News Sunday tried as hard as they could to discredit the Russia investigation, but all that their attempt did was show how pathetic and sad their efforts to save Trump have become.
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.
A federal grand jury in Washington on Friday approved the first charges in the investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, a source briefed on the matter told Reuters.
Trump responded to the first charges being approved in the Robert Mueller Russia investigation by breaking from reality and tweeted a Murdoch owned New York Post story blaming Hillary Clinton for colluding with Russia.
A federal grand jury in Washington on Friday approved the first charges in the investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, CNN reported, citing sources briefed on the matter.
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.
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.
The ranking member of the House Intel Committee, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) exposed the new Republican investigations of Clinton and Obama for being the Trump led Russia distractions that they are.
The news that the Clinton campaign and the DNC helped to fund the Steele Dossier adds a twist in that the research that Clinton helped to pay for may end up helping to bring down Trump.
House Republicans are trying to cover-up Trump’s Russia crimes by launching a new investigation of how the DOJ handled the Hillary Clinton email investigation.
Rep Trey Gowdy has gone so far out of his way to enable Donald Trump’s family to avoid email laws that Democrats are moving closer to pushing for a vote on subpoenaing Jared Kushner’s emails.
Democrats on a congressional panel say members of its Republican majority are trying to sabotage an investigation into suspected Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, raising concerns the two parties will reach contradictory conclusions.
“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.”
The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee has asked the son of President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser to provide documents and testimony as part of the panel’s probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, a source familiar with the congressional matter told Reuters.
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.
Representatives of Facebook, Twitter and Google have been asked to appear on Nov. 1 at hearings on alleged Russian interference in U.S. politics called by the U.S. Senate and House Intelligence Committees, officials said.
A 108-page analysis of Trump’s actions in the firing of James Comey done by the Brookings Institute concludes that the President likely obstructed justice and that Special Counsel Robert Mueller could recommend impeachment.
North Korea is preparing to test a long-range missile which it believes can reach the west coast of the United States, a Russian lawmaker just returned from a visit to Pyongyang was quoted as saying on Friday.
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.
President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that a military strike against North Korea designed to destroy its nuclear and missile program might not succeed because Pyongyang could have hidden military facilities that nobody knows about.
“There were a lot more states,” Republican Senator Richard Burr, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told reporters at the U.S. Capitol.
The head of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee said on Wednesday there was general consensus in the panel that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, but it was still examining evidence to determine if there was collusion between Moscow and the Trump campaign.
Russia is quietly boosting economic support for North Korea to try to stymie any U.S.-led push to oust Kim Jong Un as Moscow fears his fall would sap its regional clout and allow U.S. troops to deploy on Russia’s eastern border.
Russia used Facebook’s ad targeting system to help Donald Trump carry both Wisconsin and Michigan.
After Special Counsel Robert Mueller requested Jared Kushner’s private emails, Trump’s son in law moved his emails to Trump Organization servers.
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.
Documents turned over to Special Counsel Robert Mueller show that Trump’s company was trying to do business in Russia after he had locked up the Republican presidential nomination.
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Russia probe Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating Mike Flynn’s possible violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), violations of which have a maximum sentence of five years in prison.
Soon after President Trump was sworn into office on January 20, the NSA warned Jared Kushner not to use a personal email address for government business because it would leave him vulnerable to hacking by the Russians and others. So then he proceeded to use a personal email address for government business.
It’s no wonder Russia was so successful. There is great power in appealing to people’s feelings that their government isn’t listening to them, that they are disempowered. A great example of just one way this was done (and is done) was shared today by former FBI Special Agent of the Counterintelligence Division and now CNN analyst and Editor at Just Security, Asha Rangappa.
Twitter said on Thursday it had suspended about 200 Russian-linked accounts as it probes online efforts to meddle with the 2016 U.S. election, but an influential Democratic senator slammed its steps as insufficient.
Republicans continue to deny that the Russians impacted the U.S. election for Donald Trump, and the President himself calls the notion a hoax and claims Facebook had it out for him. They are, however, quite quick on the draw to use the Russia investigation to go after anti-fracking ads.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) isn’t intimidated by Trump and his associates’ personal attacks on him. In fact, Schiff called the attacks a badge of honor.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating three donations from Americans with ties to Russia to Trump political funds that total $2 million.
Roger Stone told the media Tuesday after testifying in a closed hearing on the Trump Russia probe of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee that he “expressed my view” that he is “aware of no evidence whatsoever of collusion by the Russian state or the Trump campaign or anyone associated with Donald Trump.”
Trump made the reason for his fight with the NFL clear on Sunday. The President is attempting to hide behind the flag to dodge the growing darkness of the Russia scandal.
Former federal prosecutor Preet Bharara explained why the word obstruction should terrify Trump during an interview on CNN.
Trump’s legal fees to deal with his Russia-collusion scandal are being paid for by a Russian connected billionaire.
Wisconsin, a key state in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, said on Friday it was one of the 21 states that the federal government notified were targeted by Russian government hackers but no votes were changed.
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,…
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.”
Former White House Press Secretary went into full panic mode after it was uncovered that he has detailed journals that would be of great interest to the Russia investigation about what was said in meetings at the Trump White House.
“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.
Special counsel Robert Mueller is looking at President Trump’s actions while President, including interactions with Russian agents. So Mueller is not only focusing on obstruction of justice. Mueller is pushing at warp speed to answer the critical question of whether or not Trump has been compromised by a foreign power.
The Russians weren’t just using Facebook to hurt Hillary Clinton with fake news. They also organized pro-Trump rallies in swing states like Florida.
Rachel Maddow asked two key questions that both illustrate how the Russia scandal is bigger than Trump and has entangled the Republican Party.
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said that if Trump and his people won’t cooperate with the Russia investigation, investigators will do whatever takes to get to the bottom of the scandal.
U.S. President Donald Trump is using money donated to his reelection campaign and the Republican National Committee to pay for his lawyers in the probe of alleged Russian interference in the U.S. election, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Former CIA and FBI agents wondered if perhaps Donald Trump’s public accusation about President Obama wiretapping him was actually meant as a warning to those around him that they were being listened to.
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.
A FISA warrant was obtained, and Paul Manafort was wiretapped, as he was continuing to talk to Trump after the President took office.
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.
Steve Bannon, Jared Kushner, Mike Flynn and Jordan’s King Abdullah II had a secret meeting on January 5th, 2017, during the time Flynn was trying to broker his U.S./Russia nuclear deal. Flynn claimed he stopped pushing the deal in December.
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.
Democratic lawmakers are probing whether retired U.S. General Michael Flynn secretly promoted a U.S.-Russian project to build dozens of nuclear reactors in the Middle East after becoming President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser.
President Donald Trump warned his fired National Security Adviser Mike Flynn to “stay strong†last April, and Flynn is “staying strong†by refusing a new request to appear as a witness before the Senate Intelligence committee, according to a report by CNN.
Rachel Maddow laid out the size and scope of how many Trump administration or campaign officials have lied about connections with Russia.
A number of the president’s lawyers wanted Kushner out, worrying that he would become a legal liability as the special counsel investigation intensified.
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.
Two key figures in the Russia investigation who are no longer with the administration are actually struggling to pay their legal fees.
Robert Mueller’s investigation is picking up strength as the category five scandal gets closer and closer to the Oval Office.
According to the Russians, Trump held a White House meeting with Russia’s new ambassador to the US. The meeting was kept off of the President’s schedule and was not made publicly known.
“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.”
Senator Chris Coons (D-Del), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, sent out a statute on giving false statements to Congress after Donald Trump, Jr. spoke with Senate staff Thursday.
The new reason, according to Donald Trump, Jr.’s statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee, that he met with the Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya in June of 2016 during the U.S. presidential election was because… wait for it, you need to sit down… he was worried about Hillary Clinton’s fitness for office.
Twitter Inc. should provide an analysis of recent Russian activity on its social media platform, similar to the one Facebook Inc. provided, the top Democrat on the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee told reporters on Thursday.
If any American – i.e. anybody connected to the Trump campaign – knew this crime was being committed, they could face time in the slammer.
The new revelation is the latest sign that, no, Russian election meddling – all to help Donald Trump defeat Hillary Clinton – is not fake news.
Facebook Inc said on Wednesday it had found that an influence operation likely based in Russia spent $100,000 on thousands of ads promoting divisive social and political messages in a two-year-period through May.
Anything Trump, Jr says in the Senate meeting can be used against him and it is a crime to lie to Congress.
Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort blocked Russia probe special counsel Robert Mueller from obtaining the transcript of Manafort’s summer interview with Senate Intelligence committee, according to a new report from CNN.
