Jared Kushner Is Now Under Special Counsel Investigation For His Financial Dealings With Russia
The investigation into Kushner – Trump’s son-in-law and most trusted advisor – appears to have escalated yet again.
The investigation into Kushner – Trump’s son-in-law and most trusted advisor – appears to have escalated yet again.
If there was one devastating lesson to come out of Jeff Sessions’ testimony it was that Donald Trump never showed concern to the Attorney General about the Russia election hacking.
Jeff Sessions is in big trouble, no matter what he tells the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has become a key target of Democrats and those who are demanding answers in the Russia investigation.
If you want to know how damaging James Comey’s testimony was to the White House, consider that not a single member of the Trump administration appeared on the Sunday shows to defend the President.
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) told Senate Intelligence Committee leadership that the public has a right to hear the testimony of Jeff Sessions, so the committee should hold the Attorney General’s hearing in public.
Trump is desperately spewing nonsense because he knows he has no credibility – and because, with each passing day, the obstruction of justice case against him builds a little bit more.
The Trump administration is in for a rude awakening if they think the American public will believe the president over James Comey.
If this is the new strategy from the Trump administration – to just remain silent when the American people demand answers – then Congress better come up with a way to fight back, and fast.
The poll also found that a staggering 60 percent of Americans believe the president’s relationship with Moscow is either “illegal” or “unethical.”
If anything, Comey’s statement raises more concerns and questions about Trump’s inappropriate conduct.
Four top law firms turned down offers to represent Trump in the Russia investigation because they are concerned that the President won’t listen to them, and he won’t pay them.
“It’s been an ongoing assault. … I was doing nothing, I was doing nothing. … The meeting was about nothing,” Page said.
It’s clear where the political energy is in this country right now, and it’s not with Donald Trump.
Americans are reminding Donald Trump that they will not rest until the truth comes out about his administration’s ties to Russia.
At the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Vladimir Putin tried to bail Trump out but made the president look guilty of colluding with the Russians.
The White House rushed to lift sanctions that the Obama administration imposed on Russia for interfering in the 2016 election.
MoveOn Civic Action and United To Protect Democracy have sent a letter to the Department of Justice urging an immediate investigation into White House senior adviser and presidential son in law Jared Kushner for undisclosed contacts with Russia.
Regardless of the motivations behind the latest Trump move, it’s clear the Russians are getting exactly what they had hoped for by helping this president win the White House in 2016.
If he had a third meeting with Kislyak last year, as the new reporting suggests, it would be not the first or second time the attorney general lied about his meetings Russian officials – it would be the third.
The House Intelligence Committee will issue subpoenas for Mike Flynn, and Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen as the daily drip of Russia scandal news drowns Trump.
Not only did the Russians successfully interfere in last year’s presidential election to help Trump become president, but now they are successfully shaping U.S. policy in their favor.
Flynn needs to hand over every last shred of paperwork relevant to this probe, not hand over a few to give off the impression that he is being transparent.
In his first daily press briefing since Trump returned from his foreign adventure, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer refused to the answer the question when he was asked if Donald Trump knew about Jared Kushner’s communications with Russia.
The Russia scandal is getting very personal for Trump as Congressional investigators are demanding that his lawyer Michael Cohen turn over documents related to the Russia investigation.
Jared Kushner seems to think that the spotlight on his potential crimes will go away if he goes back home to New York.
Chuck Todd interviewed former DNI James Clapper on Meet The Press, and the picture that was painted did major damage to the Trump White House’s version of the Russia scandal.
White House officials Gary Cohn and H.R. McMaster refused to comment on reports that Jared Kushner had unreported meetings with the Russians and tried to establish a back channel to Putin that couldn’t be detected by US intelligence.
“What did he intend to transmit through Russia’s secure cryptographic systems to communicate with Vladimir Putin? The presidential daily briefing? The nuclear codes?”
The White House appears to have gone into full bunker mentality mode over the Russia scandal by canceling a scheduled Trump rally in Iowa next week.
The Senate Intelligence Committee appears to be closing in on Donald Trump as they have requested all communications documents going back to the launch of his presidential campaign.
By establishing a war room to fight the Russia collusion investigation, the Trump White House is all but admitting their guilt.
A new report confirms that Republican political operatives were working with the Russian government to hurt Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election.
Jeff Sessions can’t stop lying about his contacts with Russian officials during last year’s campaign.
The Russians tried to take advantage of the fact that Trump is easily influenced by those around him and has no core convictions.
President Trump has meddled in the Russia investigation and tried to get the investigation dropped against Mike Flynn, but House Intel Committee Ranking Member Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) is warning that Flynn may be found in contempt of Congress if he ignores House subpoenas.
After Mike Flynn took the Fifth and refused to testify or turn over documents, the Senate Intelligence Committee subpoenaed two of Flynn’s businesses, because a corporation has no Fifth Amendment rights. This a point that should scare the living daylights out of Donald Trump.
CNN’s report comes just hours after The Washington Post released a similar report alleging the same thing – that Trump tried to stop the investigation into his campaign’s ties to Russia
The increasingly explosive Russia scandal isn’t just dragging the president down – he’s taking the entire GOP with him.
Not only are House Democrats accusing Mike Flynn of lying to the FBI about his Russian contacts and trips, but they are also very interested in what Vice President Mike Pence knew, and when he knew it.
During a press conference, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie defended James Comey while claiming that he wouldn’t have let Mike Flynn into the White House, much less given him a job.
Former Trump associates Paul Manafort and Roger Stone have turned over documents to the Senate Intelligence Committee investigating the Russia scandal.
White House insiders describe Trump as rattled and down as the Russia investigation escalates and gets inside the West Wing.
As the Trump administration continues to deny that they colluded with Russia, former national security adviser Mike Flynn will decline a subpoena from the Senate Intelligence Committee and invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
The White House is refusing to apologize for Trump handing classified intelligence to Russia. At a press gaggle aboard Air Force One, Sec. of State Rex Tillerson said that Trump wouldn’t apologize because he is not sure there is anything to apologize for.
House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) warned that the Russia scandal goes way beyond Trump. He added that a lot of people might have legal problems with this scandal, but people should lose of Russia’s interference with our democracy.
At a donor dinner, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) urged people to pay less attention to the Trump Russia scandal, and instead focus on Islamic terrorism, youth unemployment, and the rise of China.
“I’m convinced that he’s nuts. I thought he belonged in an institution. He was crazy before he became president. Now he’s really crazy.â€
Holding the president accountable for trying to block an investigation – a criminal act – doesn’t jive well with Trump’s supporters.
James Comey will testify that Donald Trump intended to interfere with the Russia investigation. His testimony will blow up the main defense that Republicans have been using that the President wasn’t trying to interfere with the investigation when he met with former FBI Director.
Trump is already planning to use an obscure ethics rule to publicly undermine and smear Robert Meuller, who was appointed the special counsel to investigate the Russia scandal.
People don’t just disapprove of the job he’s doing or believe his policies are bad for the country. They consider him a clear and present danger to the safety of the United States of America.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) bluntly stated that Trump had caused a constitutional crisis and his possible ties to Russia and the Russian election interference was an act of treason.
Donald Trump’s attorney made a big mistake on Friday when he claimed that the President Of The United States has no income from Russia, “with few exceptions.”
The firing appears to be the first step in Trump’s long-term goal of turning the FBI into an extension of his own political operation.
“We’re fiddling while Rome is burning. This president needs to be impeached. I believe that.”
Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe directly contradicted the White House when he said that Comey maintained broad support within the FBI.
Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe had a message for those who are trying to obstruct the Russia investigation that the FBI can’t be stopped from doing the right thing and protecting the American people and the Constitution.
“The president has to go overboard in appointing someone as the new FBI director that the Democrats are comfortable with so we can put this issue behind us.”
The bipartisan move by the Senate Intelligence Committee to force Flynn to hand over all records related to Russia suggests that they are unfazed by Trump’s firing of James Comey.
Why is Sessions involved in this decision if he has supposedly recused himself from all things related to Russia?
Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) is warning that US democracy is in danger and calling for Speaker of the House Paul Ryan to appoint a bipartisan commission to investigate Trump and Russia after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey.
Maddow said Trump’s move to distract from the Sally Yates hearing was the most “cynical” thing she has seen in politics in “many, many years.”
“The White House should be going through a full lifestyle polygraph to determine was Michael Flynn just an individual liar or did he have accomplices?”
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) told CNN that House investigators had uncovered power classified evidence of Trump, his family, his businesses, and his campaign’s deep personal, financial, and political ties to Russia.
While meeting with Donald Trump after the election, President Obama warned the then president-elect not to hire Mike Flynn, which means that Trump is ultimately responsible for Flynn’s potential crimes while serving as national security adviser.
“Ask Sally Yates, under oath, if she knows how classified information got into the newspapers soon after she explained it to W.H. Council.”
The Trump White House is planning on running a smear campaign against Sally Yates while she testifies before Congress about the Trump/Russia scandal.
Sally Yates is described as being motivated and ready to set the record straight about the warning that she gave the White House about Mike Flynn’s Russia activities when he testifies before the Senate.
For those who are worried that if Trump goes down for the Russia scandal, Vice President Mike Pence will be in charge, keep in mind that Pence in was in charge of the transition that never vetted Mike Flynn. The entire Trump administration is knee deep in the Russia scandal.
“If you want to turn this president to stone, ask him about Mike Flynn.”
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer tried to blame President Obama for Trump hiring Mike Flynn because Trump never did another background check of Flynn but used the same one that Obama administration did years before.
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) released three documents that show that Mike Flynn committed crimes while serving in the Trump administration and that the White House is engaging in a cover-up of those crimes.
“More and more information is coming out about the connections of the Trump allies and some people in his cabinet and their connections to Russia, and it’s only going to get worse.”
“GOP leadership, with less backbone strength than Gumby, has tossed morals, integrity & patriotism out the window in their lust for power.”
Pitted against the US intel community (IC) we find a ‘bullsh*t tornado’ of what Rick Wilson calls “magic spells and rejected X-Files scripts.”
During an interview on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) warned Donald Trump that the truth is going to catch up to him on Russia.
After Trump’s son in law Jared Kushner failed to disclose two meetings with high profile Russians, House Democrats are demanding that Kushner’s security clearance be suspended.
As Toronto Star fact checker Daniel Dale put it, “Trump’s Fox Business interview is highly dishonest and frequently bonkers.”
“What I did should have been done by the Obama administration long before I did it…I think Syria would be a lot better off right now”
While the rest of cable news fawns over Trump’s ineffective and unauthorized strike in Syria, Maddow didn’t flinch.
“Trump’s poll numbers suck for a reason. It’s not complicated. He. Is. Bad. At. Being. President.”
“No matter what the White House throws at us, we’re going to be pressing forward.”
The congressman has access to more intelligence than the average member of Congress.
Ranking House Intelligence Committee member Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) isn’t being distracted by President Trump’s diversions on the Russia scandal. Schiff blew Trump’s latest attempt to throw Congress off his trail to bits with the facts about intelligence collection. In a statement provided to PoliticusUSA, the ranking House Intelligence Committee member said: If the White…
The Post reports that Blackwater founder Erik Prince, acting on behalf of Trump, secretly met in Jan. with a representative of Vladimir Putin
No matter how hard the president tries, this explosive scandal isn’t going anywhere.
Trump was so intent on distracting and defending himself on Twitter that he didn’t realize that he accidentally admitted that a federal judge found that his campaign was coordinating with Russia.
House Intelligence Committee ranking member Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) caught the Trump White House red-handed engaging in the Russia cover-up when he went to the White House to view documents.
Democrats are taking this investigation seriously, while Republicans are bending over backward to protect the GOP president.