President Donald Trump denied allegations of lewd behavior made in an intelligence dossier and asked whether the FBI would consider proving it was a lie, former FBI Director James Comey wrote in an upcoming memoir, according to the Washington Post.
“Who will decide whether these findings from Mueller will be brought forward in the form of criminal charges versus in the form of a report that goes to Congress for potential impeachment proceedings?”
“There is an increasing sense of alarm among my Republican colleagues, as well as Democratic members of the Senate, that we are staring into the abyss. The world is watching. And history will be watching what we do.”
Trump and his allies are reportedly worried that investigators got their hands on conversations recorded by Michael Cohen.
Last night, Robert Costa, from the Washington Post reports that Steve Bannon is “pitching a plan to West Wing aides and congressional allies” in an apparent attempt to “cripple the federal investigation, into the matter of Russian interference.” The reader will recall that Steve Bannon fell out of Mr. Trump’s graces over his comments in…
“This president is unethical, and untethered to truth and institutional values,” the former FBI director writes in his new book.
According to James Comey, Trump was obsessed with the Steele Dossier and Russian prostitutes, which provides insight to a motivation for Trump obstructing justice. The Washington Post reported: Comey describes Trump as having been obsessed with the prostitutes portion of the infamous dossier compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, raising it at least…
One of the sources familiar with the matter and another person said on Thursday that Rosenstein is now on shaky ground. The second person said the feeling among both White House and Justice Department officials is that Rosenstein is abdicating authority and not putting constraints on the investigation.
The lethal poison that struck down a former Russian spy and his daughter last month in England was a highly pure type of Novichok nerve agent, the global chemical weapons watchdog concluded on Thursday, backing Britain’s findings.
The United States’ largest actors’ union on Thursday called for an end to auditions and professional meetings in private hotel rooms and residences to protect its members from “potential harassment or exploitation.”
A federal jury in Houston found former U.S. Republican Congressman Steve Stockman guilty of fraud on Thursday, including siphoning off more than $1 million in campaign funds for his own use, court records showed.
By throwing a tantrum and blowing up the negotiations over an interview, Trump has given Mueller the ability to finish his obstruction of justice investigation earlier than scheduled. NBC News reported, “Prior to Monday’s raid, Mueller’s team had been aiming to finalize a report on its findings on whether the president has tried to obstruct…
By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic U.S. lawmakers asked embattled Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt on Thursday to provide documents about ethics issues they said were revealed to them by a former agency official, including spending on bulletproof vests, weapons and a contract with an Italian security service. The Democrats, including Senators Tom…
(Reuters) -cDemocratic lawmakers on Thursday questioned whether the head of a Chicago bank was seeking a favor from the incoming Trump administration when he inquired about the confirmation process for a top U.S. Army position before extending $16 million in loans to Trump’s former campaign chairman. Lawmakers disclosed the inquiry as part of an ongoing…
Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are leaving Congress at a faster rate than at any time in history, and Paul Ryan’s retirement announcement will probably speed up the process. When incumbents don’t run for reelection the opposing party has a much better chance to pick up a seat, since incumbency usually guarantees a…
Trump stood in the Rose Garden and invented a fantasy Democratic tax increase to be spent on unnamed items, as a blue wave loons on the horizon. Video: Trump invents a fantasy Democratic tax increase. pic.twitter.com/6ZXdOSTzxl — Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) April 12, 2018 Trump said, “Nobody thought they’d ever see that. They’ll have a…
At a Rose Garden event that was supposedly about tax cuts, Trump went off script and asked a Republican Congressman if the law could be changed so that he can remain in the White House for 16 years. Video: At a Rose Garden event, Trump just asked a Congressman to change "the law" so that…
The vote is meant to show Republican voters that their party cares about fiscal responsibility, but may come just days after congressional budget analysts said annual U.S. deficits will soon approach $1 trillion due to recent legislation.
The Mike Pompeo confirmation hearing imploded when he was asked and refused to answer questions about his interview with Special Counsel Robert Mueller or Russian election interference. Video of the exchange between Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Pompeo: Everyone around Trump is dirty as #MikePompeo refuses to answer questions about #Mueller interview. pic.twitter.com/wWlvZHqM6p — PoliticusUSA…
There has been much discussion about President Trump firing or otherwise disposing of Special Counsel Robert Mueller. In fact media headlines have been awash with such speculation, stoking fears that we will soon be facing a constitutional crisis unlike anything seen before in U.S. history. The New York Times published an article two days ago…
The word of a second “catch and kill” cover-up of a story about Trump’s sex life has investigators focused on connections between Trump, Michael Cohen, The National Enquirer and bank fraud. The AP reported: The Associated Press confirmed the details of the Enquirer’s payment through a review of a confidential contract and interviews with dozens…
It is 208 days until November 6, 2018, the date of the midterm elections. After the votes are counted it is likely (assuming Russia has not hacked our voting machines) that Democrats will re-take control of the U.S. House of Representatives, and Nancy Pelosi will be re-installed as Speaker of the House. This is all…
Three Russian tycoons targeted by a new list of U.S. sanctions may have lost a combined $7.5 billion since the list was announced, according to Reuters calculations based on price moves in the listed companies the three co-own.
U.S. progressive groups are gearing up for nationwide protests if President Donald Trump fires the special counsel investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, or replaces the Justice Department official overseeing the probe.
The craziness that comes out of the Trump administration every day is almost too much to keep track of.  And his Twitter account still hasn’t been shut down, which should have happened a long time ago in the interests of national security.  For example, Trump has been trying to make Middle East and Syrian…
The tiniest discrepancy on a registration form places them on a “pending†voter list. A Reuters analysis of Georgia’s pending voter list, obtained through a public records request, found that black voters landed on the list at a far higher rate than white voters even though a majority of Georgia’s voters are white.
