Trump keeps acting like Russia investigation is like one of the civil suits that he used to face in business. The president has no idea of what he is about to face when Bob Mueller interviews him. The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell discussed how unprepared Trump is for what will be coming his way:…
The White House legal team really doesn’t want Donald Trump to be interviewed by Robert Mueller.Â
“The point was they didn’t care what was in the underlying documents. They wanted to make a political statement and feed the beast on Fox News.”
“The fact that the Republicans have put the entire Republican Party brand on the line to smear and assassinate the character of the entire FBI … is political suicide.”
The question likely isn’t whether Trump will lie under oath during his interview with Robert Mueller. Instead, it’s how many lies will the president tell.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) has been told by Trump’s Assistant Attorney General not to release his latest adventure in Russia conspiracy scams defending Trump. Here is the letter from Boyd to Nunes: Notice how the DOJ takes a not so subtle jab at Speaker of the House Paul Ryan for enabling…
Trump told reporters that he is looking forward to talking to Robert Mueller under oath, which suggests that he thinks that he can lie to the Special Counsel and get away with it. As Ari Melber reported: According to The New York Times: He also said he would be willing to answer questions under oath,…
After the bombshell report that Mike Flynn was meeting with the FBI while working in the White House, Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters that she doesn’t know when the last time was that Trump talked to Flynn. Video: Transcript: Q: What was the president’s reaction to learning that his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn,…
A new Quinnipiac Poll found that support for Democrats taking back Congress increased by two points from 11 points to 13 points after the government shutdown. Trump and the Republicans in Congress took most of the combined blame (49%-32%) for the shutdown over the Democrats. According to Quinnipiac, the Democratic margin on the generic 2018…
President Trump didn’t intend anything by asking the then-acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe for whom he voted in the 2016 election, according to the RNC’s Ronna Romney McDaniel. “I think it’s just a conversation. I don’t think it intends, you know, all of these terrible things that people are trying to put forward.”
Despite having promised to be “the greatest jobs president that God ever created,” Trump’s first year as president has cost tens of thousands of people jobs in at least one industry — tourism. As it turns out, having a leader who’s insulted various races, ethnicities, and religions has a negative impact on the number of…
Democratic Mayors are boycotting a scheduled meeting at the White House after the Trump administration launched a racist attack on 23 sanctuary cities and two states. Here is the DOJ statement announcing the threat to some of America’s biggest cities: The Department of Justice today sent the attached letters to 23 jurisdictions, demanding the production…
Trump and his team’s stance on whether he’ll agree to a face-to-face interview with Special Counsel Robert Mueller for the ongoing Russia probe keeps changing. Last summer, Trump said he’d agree to being questioned “one hundred percent,” claiming he’d be “glad” to do so. But that was prior to the indictments of Trump campaign chairman…
Fast food company Burger King is taking on the Trump administration’s decision to reverse the landmark 2015 net neutrality rules and making fun of the top U.S. telecommunications regulator in doing so.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) are asking Twitter and Facebook to look into Russian-linked bot accounts that pushed the #ReleaseTheMemo trend started by Republicans. The memo referred to in the hashtag was written by Republican staffers and purportedly contains evidence showing that the Department of Justice and the FBI have conducted a corrupt…
CIA Director Mike Pompeo has been questioned by the special counsel’s office investigating alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and possible collusion with President Donald Trump’s campaign, NBC News reported on Wednesday.
DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – U.S. trade authorities are investigating whether there is a case for taking action over China’s infringements of intellectual property, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said on Wednesday, calling Beijing’s 2025 technology strategy a “direct threat”. Action on intellectual property would open a new front in global trade battles involving the United States….
