A conservative U.S. political activist romantically linked to admitted Russian agent Maria Butina has been indicted by a federal grand jury on wire fraud and money laundering charges, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in South Dakota said on Wednesday.
The House Intelligence Committee is set to pursue a wide investigation into attempts to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election, including a look at Donald Trump’s financial transactions, the panel’s Democratic chairman Adam Schiff said on Wednesday.
Not only is Donald Trump under a real congressional investigation that should terrify him, but he looks weaker than ever.Â
One important element of the Trump-Republican tax scheme is that those who live in the bluest states will be harmed the most.
A U.S. Justice Department office is investigating whether department attorneys committed professional misconduct in a criminal case involving a wealthy Florida financier accused of sex crimes, the department said in a letter to a senator released on Wednesday.
While El Paso constructed a border fence in 2008, it was among the country’s safest cities well before it was built, the mayor reminded Trump.
MSNBC host Ari Melber tore into the right-wing propaganda network for its pathetic defense of Donald Trump’s empty work schedule.
President Donald Trump urged lawmakers in his State of the Union address to put new limits on abortion, but partisan division in the U.S. Congress means the Supreme Court likely will set the agenda on the divisive issue, as it has for decades.
By Ginger Gibson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats vying to challenge U.S. President Donald Trump in the 2020 election moved quickly to attack his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, saying it lacked substance and did nothing to unite the country. About 10 Democrats have already launched campaigns to challenge Trump, and a dozen…
By Sonia Elks LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Donald Trump’s pledge to halt all new HIV infections in the United States within a decade was dismissed as an “empty gesture” by activists who said his administration had stripped resources from those fighting the epidemic. Critics said the promise made in the State of the Union…
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) tried to argue that Trump’s border wall would stop gun violence, as he tried to get a father who lost his child in the Parkland shooting kicked out of the building.
The House Intelligence Committee has voted to turn over the transcripts of witness testimony to Robert Mueller for a perjury investigation, which means that the clock is ticking on Donald Trump Jr. being indicted.
Barely a month into the new Congress, financial lobbyists in Washington are already strategizing how to handle the star power of rookie Democrat lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
By Gary Robertson RICHMOND, Va. (Reuters) – Virginia‘s attorney general on Wednesday admitted to having worn blackface at a college party, becoming the state‘s third high-ranking Democrat caught up in scandal since the release Friday of a racist photo from Governor Ralph Northam’s medical school yearbook. Attorney General Mark Herring said in a statement that…
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials on Wednesday described a multi-pronged strategy for tightening the southern border with Mexico that did not focus mainly on a massive wall President Donald Trump demands, according to lawmakers who attended a classified briefing.
Even as he appealed for unity, President Donald Trump made it clear in his State of the Union address on Tuesday that his idea of common ground is having Democrats back his policy agenda and stop investigating his administration.
Trump responded to House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff’s launch of an investigation into him by attacking Schiff and calling him a political hack.
Donald Trump’s pledge to halt all new HIV infections in the United States within a decade was dismissed as an “empty gesture” by activists who said his administration had stripped resources from those fighting the epidemic.
House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) laid out the committee’s areas of investigation, and one of the things they will be looking at is whether Trump and his family laundered money.
MSNBC took apart Trump’s claim that he created an economic miracle and found that his economic growth is the same as Obama’s over a similar time period. Trump said at the State Of The Union, “On Friday, it was announced that we added another 304,000 jobs last month alone — almost double what was expected….
But Democratic women lawmakers from the House of Representatives, many of them dressed elegantly in white to celebrate 100 years of women having the right to vote, projected a picture of calm displeasure during Trump’s speech that made clear his version of unity was not one they could accept.
Former CIA Director John Brennan said that the Republicans who are standing with Trump against the intelligence community are complicit in his crimes.
Recent court filings by special counsel Robert Mueller show that he is planning to indict additional people for crimes related to 2016 election interference, according to Glenn Kirschner, former assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. Mueller’s documents mentioned several “uncharged individuals†as well as “ongoing investigations†in the Paul Manafort case. Last week…
Along with being Vice President of the United States, Mike Pence is also Donald Trump’s chief lackey and bootlicker. Therefore it was no surprise when Pence appeared this morning on television praising his criminal boss for shutting down the government for 35 days and costing the nation billions of dollars it will never get back….
Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Wednesday lambasted Donald Trump’s pathetic statement in his State of the Union (SOTU) address that Democrats would have to stop the investigations into his administration. The president said this was a precondition for bipartisan cooperation and getting any legislation passed. During Schumer’s appearance on CNN, host John Berman…
During his State of the Union (SOTU) Address Donald Trump once again laid claim to being the biggest liar in the history of the U.S. presidency. This is true even though he read the speech, which had been prepared in advance. The biggest lie, of course, is that Donald Trump is a legitimate president, which…
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren listed her race as “American Indian” on a State Bar of Texas registration card in 1986, the Washington Post has reported. The Post’s disclosure represents a previously unknown example of Sen. Warren claiming her race as Native American. It is also the first document that definitively shows the 2020 presidential hopeful making…
Trump’s speech was light on new initiatives to further stoke growth in an economy seen as losing momentum as it began 2019. A Reuters poll last month forecast economic growth would slow to 2.1 percent this year after likely averaging around 3 percent in 2018.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) blasted Trump for not doing his homework and have no plan for his State Of The Union address.
