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.
