Republicans and the Trump White House have been downplaying the indictment of Paul Manafort and claiming that it contained no Russia or collusion connection, but Rachel Maddow used newly released court documents to blow that defense to bits.
A California neuroscientist vying to unseat Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher stepped up his criticism of the conservative on Tuesday, demanding he return a $1,000 contribution from indicted Trump adviser Paul Manafort.
Senator Tom Carper, the top Democrat on the Senate environment committee, said Pruitt’s decision was part of an EPA effort to “delegitimize the work of nonpartisan scientists.†Carper added, “this crusade endangers the health of every American, and it cannot be tolerated.â€
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.
The United States is quietly pursuing direct diplomacy with North Korea, a senior State Department official said on Tuesday, despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s public assertion that such talks are a waste of time.
The former Trump adviser who took a plea deal and is cooperating with the FBI has provided evidence that the Trump campaign approved a meeting with Russia in an effort to collude with a hostile foreign power.
Representative Jeb Hensarling, the Republican chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Committee, announced on Tuesday that he would retire from Congress at the end of 2018, marking the exit of Congress’s leading advocate for rolling back strict financial rules.
Leading Republicans in the U.S. Senate, expressing frustration at how slowly President Donald Trump’s nominees are being confirmed, on Tuesday called for changes in the chamber’s procedures to speed up the approval process.
Trump’s presidential impotence was on full display after the New York terror attack that killed eight and injured fifteen when instead of leading, all Trump could muster was an all-caps tweet.
By Gina Cherelus and Daniel Trotta NEW YORK (Reuters) – A pickup truck struck down multiple people on a bike path in lower Manhattan, killing several and injuring numerous others on Tuesday afternoon, before the driver was shot and taken into custody, the New York City police said. The pickup truck crashed into another vehicle…
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders defended Robert E. Lee by comparing him to Washington, Jefferson, JFK, and FDR while ignoring that Robert E. Lee tried to destroy the nation that those presidents led.
Fox News employees are speaking off the record and blasting their network’s embarrassing non-coverage of and Trump propaganda on the Russia scandal.
Democratic U.S. senators introduced a bill on Tuesday they said would prevent President Donald Trump from launching a nuclear first strike on North Korea on his own, highlighting the issue days before the Republican’s first presidential trip to Asia.
The Rev. Rob Lee, an indirect descendant of Gen. Robert E. Lee, called White House Chief of Staff John Kelly’s false praise for Lee and the Confederacy ignorant.
The Securing America’s Voting Equipment, or SAVE, Act is the latest attempt by lawmakers to respond to what U.S. intelligence agencies say was a multi-pronged cyber operation, including hacking and online propaganda by Russia during the 2016 presidential election aimed at helping President Donald Trump.
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.
Trump was asked by reporters if he will pardon Paul Manafort, and his only answer was to say thank you.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – White House Chief of Staff John Kelly said on Monday a special counsel should be appointed to investigate Democrats over a uranium deal during the Obama administration and a dossier compiled on Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign. “I think probably as a layman looking at this kind of thing we…
A new PPP survey found that support for impeaching Donald Trump has reached a record high and that more voters favor impeaching Trump than favor keeping him in office.
According to a former federal prosecutor said that anyone in Trump’s orbit who talked to George Papadopoulos since July should be thinking hard about what they said because Mueller may have had his cooperating witness making tapes to use in the prosecution of others.
“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.
That left some Trump associates worried about what or whom Mueller would target next, despite the White House’s public dismissal of the developments as unrelated to the president and his campaign.
Despite spewing a blatant lie about Rep. Wilson earlier this month, Donald Trump Chief of Staff John Kelly took a page from his boss and said he will “never” apologize.
Any significant delay in unveiling a bill could jeopardize the Republicans’ goal of getting it through Congress and onto President Donald Trump’s desk before January 2018.
The death toll from the deadliest rash of wildfires in California history has risen to 43, after a 17-year-old girl who was badly burned in the fires earlier this month died at a hospital, officials said on Monday.
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.”
President Donald Trump’s top national security aides pushed back on Monday against U.S. lawmakers calling for a new congressional war authorization, saying it would be a mistake to impose geographic or time limits on the campaign against Islamic State and other militant groups.
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.
Facebook Inc said on Monday that Russia-based operatives published about 80,000 posts on the social network over a two year period in an effort to sway U.S. politics, and that about 126 million Americans may have seen the posts during that time.
Three weeks after allegations of Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein’s predatory sexual behavior moved millions of women around the world to use the hashtag #MeToo to share their own stories of abuse on social media, more than 20 women contacted by Reuters say they are still grappling with the fallout.
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.
Republican Senator Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told Manu Raju that President Trump should not get in the way of FBI Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the President should let him do his job.
Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) is accelerating his plan to introduce a constitutional amendment that would limit Trump’s ability to use presidential pardons.
The White House responded to the damaging news that former campaign manager Paul Manafort has been indicted and a former foreign policy adviser flipped and is cooperating with law enforcement by turning up the pressure to investigate Hillary Clinton
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating a $300 million contract that Puerto Rico’s government power company awarded to a U.S.-based energy startup, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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’s really hard to imagine what Fox News or Republicans would have been saying if Obama’s campaign chairman had just been indicted for conspiracy against the United States because nobody who worked for Obama got indicted, as John Harwood pointed out Monday morning.
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.
“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 counsel said in a statement.
Paul Manafort, a former campaign manager for U.S. President Donald Trump, surrendered to federal authorities on Monday in the first charges stemming from a special counsel investigation of possible Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, according to media reports.
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.
Most of the National Football League’s Houston Texans team knelt in protest as the national anthem was played for Sunday’s game in Seattle, an apparent rebuke of team owner Bob McNair for his remark about “inmates running the prison.”
Another Donald Trump mural believed to be the work of Australian graffiti artist Lushsux has popped up on Israel’s barrier in the occupied West Bank, this time depicting the U.S. president sharing a kiss with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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.
MSNBC’s Joy Reid put on a clinic of how to destroy a conservative conspiracy theory when the topic of the Clinton Uranium One deal came up.
Trump son in law, and White House adviser Jared Kushner is being investigated by the Maryland Attorney General for abusive debt collection practices and poor living conditions at several of his properties.
U.S. Senator Susan Collins, a Republican member of the Intelligence Committee, said Democrats should be called again to testify about reports that their party and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign paid for parts of a dossier that detailed accusations about President Donald Trump’s ties to Russia.
After Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló called on the power authority to cancel the $300 million contract with the Trump administration donor owned Whitefish Energy, the power authority has announced that the contract has been canceled.
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 new Gallup presidential approval rating daily tracker reveals that Republicans are running away from Donald Trump.
By a margin of 46%-28% voters surveyed in the NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll said that they want to elect a Democratic Congress in 2018 to limit and check Trump.
During an interview on ABC’s This Week, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee investigating Trump and Russia, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), cut through the GOP Steele Dossier distraction in seconds with a single vital question.
On Sunday morning, Donald Trump gave America a glimpse of his state of frantic panic with a real-time outburst on Twitter that is directly related to the first criminal charges being approved in the Russia investigation.
In calling out the Trump rationalizers, those people who know better so they attack the dissenters, the media, liberals, Clinton, Kristol said, “It’s the collaborators who can’t abide the resisters; it’s the fellow travelers who most want to shut down dissenters.”
San Juan Mayor Carmen YulÃn Cruz said, “There’s a moral imperative of the federal government to commit to the people of Puerto Rico. That moral imperative has not been fulfilled in the manner that it should be fulfilled.”
Pope Francis, in a major speech on Europe, on Saturday urged the European Union to “recover the sense of being a single community” if it wants a future of prosperity and fairness for all.
The Republican-led Federal Communications Commission is moving to quickly undo roadblocks to increased consolidation among media companies, potentially unleashing an onslaught of deals among TV, radio and newspaper owners as they seek to better compete with online media.
About 300 white nationalists and neo-Nazis took to the streets of the small Tennessee city of Shelbyville on Saturday to protest refugee resettlement in the state, which sued the federal government over the issue earlier this year.
The motorcade also overtook a female cyclist, whom the White House pool reporter said was wearing a white top and cycling helmet. She responded by giving the middle finger.
Thousands of women who marched to protest Republican President Donald Trump’s inauguration gathered in Detroit on Friday to organize around issues like the viral “Me Too” movement exposing the pervasiveness of sexual harassment and violence.
“I couldn’t sleep at night having to embrace the president or condoning his behavior or being okay with some of his positions,†he said. “I just couldn’t do it — it was never in the cards.â€
Rep. Reuben Gallego (D-AZ) delivered a warning to Trump that firing Special Counsel Robert Mueller would be considered an impeachable offense.
Not only do 71 percent of Americans believe politics has reached a new low under Trump, but 70 percent say the administration itself is “dysfunctional.”Â
Trump has spent 27 percent of his time as president golfing and more than a third hiding out at one of his lavish properties.Â
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.
Trump mouthpiece Cory Lewandowski was on Fox and Friends where he demanded that the focus be on the “Clinton administration,” instead of Trump. The problem is that there is no Hillary Clinton administration. She’s not the president.
Trump went on a self-pity parade and complained about how badly the press is treating him which was not a coincidence after the reports of the first criminal charges being approved in the Russia collusion investigation.
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.
In a statement, Zinke claimed that he had nothing to do with his neighbor getting the contract to do a job the company is not suited for, that is priced so high it stands out for adding rampant waste to its naked corruption. Zinke says he welcomes all investigations into the allegations.
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.
Trump is getting desperate and trying to sabotage the Russia investigation by using Hillary Clinton’s emails to show FBI and Comey misconduct.
There was a lot wrong with Trump releasing a commercial hyping his Fed chair announcement, but the craziest part of the delusional video is that the least popular president in history is assuming that he will win a second term.
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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.
Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that the official White House position on the nearly two dozen women who accused Trump of sexual harassment is that they are all lying.
Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders looked America in the eye on Friday and accused Hillary Clinton of colluding with the Russians during the 2016 election.
Sen. Orrin Hatch is reportedly planning to retire before the end of his term, and Mitt Romney is going to run for his seat in Utah.
For the first time since accusing Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein of raping her, actress Rose McGowan spoke out, blasting the pussy-grabbing culture saying it cannot and will not stand.
The Whitefish contract is quickly spiraling into a major scandal that perfectly captures the rampant corruption of the Trump administration.
The Federal Emergency Management Administration on Friday said it did not approve a multi-million dollar contract between Puerto Rico’s power utility and a small Montana firm to repair storm damage, and has “significant concerns” about the deal.
Trump took the attempted Republican distraction from his potential crimes with Putin and Russia to a new level by blaming his entire Russia scandal on Hillary Clinton.
The American Legion, which rarely speaks out on bank policy or politics, said in a statement it would “not be silent while banks and payday loan shops rip off servicemembers and veterans”. But it will likely have a hard time convincing Trump to veto the resolution to roll back the Obama-era policy.
Where there is smoke, there tends to be fire, say medical researchers who found frequent marijuana users have about 20 percent more sex than those who abstain.
The senators said they were also concerned about reports of “contemporaneous communications between Whitefish and senior members of the federal executive branch, including Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke,” as the contract was being discussed.
