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.
The midterms are in peril, election security experts warn, because little has been done to assess the impact, if any, on voting in at least 21 states targeted by Russian hackers, “according to interviews with nearly two dozen national security and state officials and election technology specialists.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
President Trump was asked if he considers Russia a security threat during a press conference, and his answer confirmed that he is a Putin puppet.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation is looking at Mike Flynn’s role in trying to get Hillary Clinton’s emails from the Russians for the Trump campaign.
“If the dossier is about to be publicly defended and explained and backed up, that’s conceivably the whole ballgame.”
“It seems he is just always focused on Russia,” one senior GOP aide said, according to Politico.
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.
The end may very well be near for Donald Trump’s presidency.Â
In a move called a “hitch” in the Trump Russia probe, former FBI counterespionage chief Peter Strzok has left special counsel Robert Muller’s Trump Russia FBI investigative team for the Human Resources department, according to a scoop by ABC News.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller wants to interview former Trump chief of staff and RNC chairman Reince Priebus about the Russia scandal and the firing of James Comey.
There is no low that Republicans won’t sink to defend Trump, as Rep. Ron Desantis (R-FL) tried to claim that Trump was only joking when Putin expelled US diplomatic staff from Russia.
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.
Donald Trump tried to blame Democrats for the 2016 election collusion during a press conference that definitely caught the attention of investigators.
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.
As the investigation gets closer to the president, Trump’s bullying tactics are only likely to become worse.
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.
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.
Not only is Trump clearly unwilling and unable to do his own job, but he lashes out journalists for doing theirs.Â
Trump tried to bully Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) with one of angry personal attack tweets on the Russia scandal, but the Democrat shot back the six words that terrify Trump, “No one is above the law.”
House Intelligence Committee ranking member Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said that Donald Trump Jr’s emails were just the beginning, and Special Counsel Robert Mueller impaneled the grand jury because the investigation is heating up, not winding down.
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.
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.
Donald Trump is continuing to collude with Russia by repeating the talking of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev as he attacked the US Congress.
“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.”
In the latest demonstration that Russia controls Trump, Sec. of State Rex Tillerson is refusing to spend $80 million to counter Russian propaganda.
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.
Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein (CA), the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee warned Trump that if he fires Jeff Sessions, it will be the beginning of the end of a short presidency.
“The stilted nature of the text alone was sort of a tell that President Unindicted Co-conspirator was involved,” Rick Wilson said before unloading on Trump.
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.”
In an interview on MSNBC, Franken was asked if he took Kushner at his word. His simple response: “No.”
Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee are demanding a second special counsel be appointed to investigate former President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
The U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to slap new sanctions on Russia, Iran and North Korea, despite President Donald Trump’s objections to the legislation.
Trump followed up kicking transgender people out of the military by calling for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to fire acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe.
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) said that Democrats are looking at ways to prevent the Senate from going into full August recess to prevent Trump from replacing Jeff Sessions and stopping the Russia investigation. Video: Durbin was asked by Melber how Democrats would stop the Senate from going into full recess. He answered, “We’re exploring the…
After Manafort would only agree to one transcribed interview, the Senate Judiciary Committee subpoenaed the former Trump campaign manager to testify on Wednesday.
The MSNBC host warned that Trump could replace Jeff Sessions without needing confirmation if he made the appointment while the Senate is on vacation.
In the past, Cruz said that he didn’t think it was necessary to appoint a special counsel to look into Trump’s ties to Russia.
Jared Kushner tried to save himself from the Russia scandal by blaming everything related to the meeting with Russians on Donald Trump Jr.
Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and a senior White House adviser, said on Monday he “did not collude” with Russia and had roughly four meetings with Russian officials during the 2016 campaign and presidential transition.
Donald Trump is lashing out in every direction as the Russia scandal heats up. The President attacked Congressional Republicans for not protecting him from impeachment, and on Monday attacked the top Democrat who is investigating Russia in the House, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA).
In a move that is certain to make the scared president even jumpier, Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) is demanding that Donald Trump Jr. and Paul Manafort be required to testify under oath before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
A tantruming Donald Trump lashed out his own party on Sunday for not doing enough to protect him from the Russia scandal and potential impeachment.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) explained why Trump is freaking over the special counsel looking at his finances. The entire Trump Organization, meaning the Trump family could have been laundering money for Russia.
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.
The reason why Trump was freaking out on Twitter on Saturday is that US investigators are trying to flip Paul Manafort and get him to tell them everything he knows about Trump and Russia. Reuters reported: U.S. investigators examining money laundering accusations against President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort hope to push him…
“It’s clear that Robert Mueller is getting closer. We don’t have just smoke now, we’ve got fire in this Russia investigation.”
“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.”
Donald Trump’s refusal to speak to the NAACP is not about race as many would readily assume. Trump’s reluctance is centered on an acute emotional frailty.
Republicans are saying that it isn’t a coincidence that damaging information about Jeff Sessions’ communications with Russians was leaked days after the Trump said he wants him out. It is suspected that the leak about Sessions came from Trump. Journalist Garrett Graff tweeted: Every GOP figure I've spoken to at #AspenSecurity assumes Trump leaked this…
US spy agencies intercepted Russian communications that detail Attorney General Jeff Sessions discussing Trump campaign related issues with the Russians. Sessions is not only a perjurer, but he has been caught working with the Russians to help Trump win the election.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s lawyers are reviewing ways to limit or undermine the special counsel investigation of alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election, including by examining the backgrounds of the investigators, according to newspaper reports.
If Republicans won’t do their job, the United States has no protection from Trump firing Mueller and pardoning himself. Checks and balances do not execute themselves. They require and depend upon patriots upholding their oath of office. Thus, we face a new level of crisis.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s outside legal team spokesman has resigned amid media reports the team is being reorganized as investigations continue into alleged Russian meddling in the U.S. election and possible collusion with Trump’s campaign.
The recent actions by Trump suggest that he is running scared as Robert Mueller’s investigation zeroes in on the White House.
It’s no surprise that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is currently investigating the Trump family finances in relation to Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.
Both the FBI and Special Counsel Robert Mueller are looking at the financial transactions between the Trump family, Trump associates, and Russians for potential money laundering.
Donald Trump trashed Attorney General Jeff Sessions for not protecting him from the Russia investigation and hinted that he would fire special counsel Robert Mueller if he tries to investigate Trump or his families finances.
House Intelligence Committee member Rep. Jackie Speer (D-CA) said that she believes meeting with Donald Trump Jr. and the Russians were the tip of the iceberg. Investigators are digging deeper and asking questions about Trump Jr.’s interactions with Russia.
“Mr. Trump said Mr. Mueller was running an office rife with conflicts of interest and warned that investigators would cross a red line if they delve into Trump family finances…”
“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.”
“This affinity for Russia is a very curious thing,” Clapper said. “Bear in mind, Russia is an existential threat to this country.”
Paul Manafort and Donald Trump will be testifying next Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee as the Russia scandal is poised to dominate another week of Trump’s presidency.
The top Democrat on the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee said on Wednesday it was “deeply troubling” that President Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Germany this month for talks not attended by any U.S. national security officials.
Bremmer said Trump got up from his seat halfway through dinner and spent about an hour talking “privately and animatedly” with Putin, “joined only by Putin’s own translator.”
The lack of a U.S. translator raised eyebrows among other leaders at the dinner, said Bremmer, who called it a “breach of national security protocol.”
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.
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.
President Donald Trump’s eldest son and former campaign chairman can testify publicly before U.S. Senate committees, Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein told CNN on Tuesday.
“If this is the strategy that they’re going to go to … then we have got a crisis in national security going on.”
You know things are going bad in Trumpworld when the unpopular New Jersey governor tries to distance himself from the president’s team.
The U.S. Secret Service on Sunday denied a suggestion from President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer that it had vetted a meeting between the president’s son and Russian nationals during the 2016 campaign.
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.
New financial disclosure forms reveal that the Trump campaign used donor money to pay the retainer for Trump Jr.’s lawyer before The New York Times published their big story.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) called Donald Trump Jr.’s emails clear evidence of the Trump campaign’s desire to collude with Russia during an interview on ABC’s This Week. Video: Schiff said: The question that we’ve had, among others, is, was the campaign doing privately what the president was urging publicly? And here you have now evidence…
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.
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.
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.
Republicans are finding it increasingly hard to defend the Trump team’s conduct with Russia during the 2016 campaign.
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.
Former Ambassador Rep. Don Beyer†shared a security clearance form containing directions that you must fill out a declaration of all foreign contacts by the clearance holder “or your spouse.”
Ivanka Trump’s spouse is Jared Kushner.
Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Democrat Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said on Friday that the Kremlin got the message that Donald Trump welcomed their help on the election.
House Democrats renewed calls for a vote on an independent commission to investigate Russia’s interference in the U.S. election and ties to the Trump administration during their Friday morning press conference, with Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi saying Republicans “have become enablers of the violations of our Constitution.”
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.
The Trump campaign’s digital and data director will speak to the House Intelligence Committee that investigating potential Trump collusion with Russia, as the investigation is apparently looking at any data sharing between the Russians and Trump.
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.
As the Russia scandal continues to hang over the White House, Trump and his staff would be smart to take it more seriously.
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.
U.S. President Donald Trump, who is fighting off allegations of ties between his election campaign and Moscow, said he would invite Russian President Vladimir Putin to the White House but that now was not the right time for that.
When asked by CNN’s Jake Tapper why Trump would give back compounds to the Russians that were taken away by Obama after they attacked the 2016 election, Trump’s Deputy Assistant Sebastian Gorka said that it was because they wanted to give collaboration with Russia a chance.
During a gaggle with reporters aboard Air Force One, Donald Trump admitted that he might have been told about Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with a Russian government attorney, but he claims that he was never told that the meeting was about getting dirt on Hillary Clinton.
At a joint press conference in Paris, Donald Trump finally took a question from a reporter about his son Donald Jr.’s meeting with a Russia government attorney and his answer was to try to blame former Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch for his Trump Jr’s problems.
Republicans refused to allow discussion of amendments that would have kept America safe and blocked Trump from opening the door for future Russia cyber attacks as part of the NDAA.
During an interview on Fox News, VP Mike Pence’s spokes[erson would answer when he was asked on three occasions if Pence met with Russians.
“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.”
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.
In an interview with Reuters, Donald Trump said, “I think many people would have held that meeting.”
