Sen. Klobuchar got Barr on the record saying she is free to request Trump’s tax returns and any other evidence connected to the Russia investigation.
The days of Barr acting as a middle man between Bob Mueller and the American people were over when he sold out his country to protect the president.
President Donald Trump has the right to instruct advisers not to testify before congressional oversight probes related to the Russia investigation, the White House said in a letter that blasts Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report as defective.
There is no other way to put this: William Barr lied under oath when he said he didn’t know how Mueller felt about his handling of the Russia report.
A U.S. federal judge ruled on Tuesday that Democrats in Congress can move forward with a lawsuit accusing President Donald Trump of violating the law by accepting gifts or payments from foreign governments through his businesses.
At the end of the day, it’s clear that Trump doesn’t give a damn about undocumented immigrants other than how much he can exploit them to his benefit.
Barr has forever tarnished his own reputation and put a stain on the Department of Justice. If he doesn’t resign, he should be impeached.
Mueller expressed his concerns in a letter and followed it up with a phone call to Barr in which he told the AG to release the special counsel summaries.
They cited, among many ethical and legal issues, Barr’s decision not to recuse himself, whether his non-summary summary was misleading, whether his conduct with respect to the report complied with DOJ practices, and whether he has demonstrated sufficient impartiality to continue overseeing the 14 criminal matters referred to other components of the DOJ and FBI.
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Federal prosecutors on Tuesday opposed a bid by President Donald Trump’s longtime adviser Roger Stone to obtain unredacted portions of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election to help his defense against criminal charges brought by Mueller. “The government does not intend…
As Donald Trump continues his war with the rule of law that he used to say he believes in, there are signs that Republican support for him may be softening. Certainly, one can look at the increase in support for Trump and his Putin-first agenda and conclude the opposite. Smaller numbers with increased conformity to…
It took a Canadian to point out how our mainstream media is failing us.
Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star Daniel Dale observed how our media fails to even mention Trump’s lies.
Not only do those around Trump not respect him and his ability to lead the country, but they often refuse to follow his dangerous whims.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is resigning, but Democrats are already talking about calling him to testify before the House Judiciary Committee.
“The redacted Mueller Report documents a series of activities that show strong evidence of collusion. Or, more precisely, it provides significant evidence that Trump Campaign associates coordinated with, cooperated with, encouraged, or gave support to the Russia/WikiLeaks election interference activities.
The “president” has now made 10,000 false or misleading claims while in office. What a lot of winning. Trump now lies so much in a day that he has lied more in a single month than he did in the first five months of his presidency.
Trump is facing a dangerous situation on obstruction as former White House counsel Don McGahn is viewed as a credible witness by Democrats and Republicans.
For one family caught up in the California synagogue shooting, a move from Israel to the United States in search of a safer life has been a journey “from fire to fire”.
Former acting attorney general Sally Yates said that she had prosecuted obstruction of justice cases that had less evidence than the federal government has on Trump.
If Trump continues to refuse to comply with lawful investigations, it will put America in a far more dangerous position than Watergate ever did.
Democrats have control of one half of one branch of the U.S. government – the House of Representatives – and they are using it to follow the money.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said the United States did not pay any money to North Korea as it sought the release of Otto Warmbier, a day after a report said Trump had approved a $2 million bill from Pyongyang for the American student’s care. “No money was paid to North…
By Jan Wolfe and Richard Cowan (Reuters) – The “i word” – impeachment – is swirling around the U.S. Congress since the release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s redacted Russia report, which painted a picture of lies, threats and confusion in Donald Trump’s White House. Some Democrats say trying to remove Trump from office would…
The more this president acts out, the less cautious Democrats in Congress have to be about moving toward impeachment.
a GCHQ spokesman said: “The allegations that GCHQ was asked to conduct ‘wire tapping’ against the then President Elect are’ nonsense. They are utterly ridiculous and should be ignored.”
“If the partisan Dems ever tried to Impeach, I would first head to the U.S. Supreme Court,” Trump wrote on Twitter.
The U.S. Constitution lays the ‘sole power’ of impeachment before the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Trump has no legal footing when it comes to these matters. Congress has the authority to conduct oversight, even if he doesn’t like it.
Democrats need to do is acknowledge that none of this is oversight as usual. The information laid out in Mueller’s report is extraordinarily damning.
Trump’s desperation became even more obvious as the White House is planning to block Don McGahn’s expected testimony before the House Judiciary Committee.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A 2017 tax overhaul championed by President Donald Trump will cut household taxes more in Republican-leaning states than in states that lean Democratic, according to research published by the U.S. central bank on Tuesday. The Tax Cut and Jobs Act, signed by Trump in December 2017, reduced tax rates for most Americans,…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A former White House security director on Tuesday plans to ignore a congressional subpoena to answer U.S. lawmakers’ questions about allegations that the Trump administration overruled career officials’ security clearance decisions, the Washington Post reported. Carl Kline, who served as the White House personnel security chief for the first two years of…
Trump is behaving like a guilty man who is just trying to buy time. In the end, his efforts to hide his finances are doomed to fail.
At the end of the day, the election process was not meant to be the ultimate check on a president who is implicated in criminal activity.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico said on Saturday it had “deep concern” about armed groups that intimidate and extort migrants on the border, shortly after the ACLU and Democratic senators called for a probe into such citizen efforts to block migrants from crossing. “These types of practices can drive human rights abuses of people who…
If Democrats want to make the bipartisan case for impeachment, all they have to do is roll the tape of their Republican colleagues.
The leader of an armed group that is stopping undocumented migrants who cross into the United States from Mexico had boasted about training to assassinate former President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, an FBI agent said in court papers on Monday.
The man whose campaign met with hostile foreign power officials and spies during the 2016 campaign just tried to accuse Democratic former Secretary of State John Kerry of possibly violating the Logan Act.
By Jonathan Landay and Aram Roston WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Erik Prince, founder of the now defunct Blackwater security firm and a supporter of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential run, appears to have misled the U.S. Congress on details of contact he had with a Russian banker in January 2017, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report released on…
Trump was enraged over the Mueller report, so he sent Rudy Giuliani out to defend him. The result of the interview was so bad that it helped the case for impeachment.
Doing nothing is not an option, particularly after Democrats were successful in 2018 based in part on their promise to hold this president accountable.
Donald Trump has reportedly become increasingly angry and is lashing out at those around him as he watches the cable news coverage.
Following the release of Robert Mueller’s redacted report, Donald Trump’s approval rating has tumbled to the lowest point this year.
Mueller said in his report released on Thursday that he found “numerous links” and that the Trump campaign “expected it would benefit” from Russia’s effort to tilt the ballot in Trump’s favor.
It also revealed that Trump’s staff and associates frequently ignored the president – disregarding his orders and hoping he just wouldn’t ask again.
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Friday that U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s long-awaited report did not contain any evidence the Russian state had meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Mueller’s report, released on Thursday, details extensive contacts between Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russian operatives who, it said, sought to tilt the…
What should worry the American people is that there is no indication that Russia’s efforts to undermine U.S. democracy have stopped.
As Trump looked for a way to deflect from the damning Mueller report, he took to Twitter to – what else? – trash Barack Obama.
It wasn’t just minor details Trump was unable to remember. His inability to recall touched on some of the main components of Mueller’s investigation.
The bad news for Trump – and for Bill Barr – is that the United States is not the authoritarian regime he wishes it was – at least not yet.
If Barr’s press conference intended to present the facts in an honest way to the American public, then Mueller would likely be there.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler tore William Barr to shreds for acting as a spin master for Donald Trump.
Trump’s legal team has been able to get out in front of the Mueller report – which is expected to be damning – and craft a rebuttal with Barr’s help.
With less than two days until Robert Mueller’s redacted report is released, it’s no wonder Donald Trump is feeling uneasy.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) suggested that there might be an indictment waiting for Donald Trump as soon as he leaves office.
Trump is threatening to sue his own accountants if they comply with a congressional subpoena and turn over his tax returns.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-MA) sent a new letter to the IRS obliterating all of Trump’s excuses for hiding his tax returns.
Trump promised the now acting head of Homeland Security a pardon if he would break immigration laws for him.
Donald Trump’s tax return cover-up appears to be reaching its conclusion – and it’ll likely be quite devastating for him.
NY State Sen. Brad Hoylman said that a bill could pass the legislature that would allow the state to get Trump’s tax returns for Congress in a couple of weeks.
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin failed to meet a House Democratic deadline to turn over President Trump’s tax returns, and Democrats are talking to their lawyers about what comes next.
While Barr may think his actions are protecting his Trump, they are only increasing the chances that Democrats will formally open an impeachment inquiry.Â
Congressman Adam Schiff laid out all the ways Trump has undermined the rule of law in just two short years – and it was jarring.
White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said on Fox News Sunday that Democrats would never see Trump‘s tax returns. He was not telling the truth. Mulvaney said on Fox News Sunday, “Keep in mind they knew they’re not going to get these taxes. They know what the law is. They know that one of…
A top Democratic lawmaker said on Saturday that the handling of the Mueller report by attorney general William Barr makes impeachment more likely.
Cohen, who is due to start a three-year prison term on May 6, is still going through a recently accessed hard drive with more than 14 million files, including e-mails, voice recordings and attachments from his computers and phones, Davis said.
Trump may have thought Barr’s initial four-page summary was a boost for him, but it has quickly turned into a full-fledged disaster.
All along, one of Donald Trump’s biggest fears was that the American public would get a glimpse behind the curtain of his shady financial dealings.
House Intelligence Committee member Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) said that Trump’s inaugural committee is under investigation for selling access to foreign governments.
The House Ways and Means Committee has given the IRS exactly one week to turn over Trump’s personal and business tax returns. Rep. Neal had some great reasoning for requesting the exact returns that he did, “Under the Internal Revenue Manual, individual income tax returns of a President are subject to mandatory examination, but this…
Democrats aren’t afraid to go to the mat to get the complete Mueller report. Polling shows that the American people are with them.
It’s no surprise now that the president is attacking the same lawmakers – Reps. Jerry Nadler and Adam Schiff – driving the effort to get Mueller’s report.
Donald Trump is trying to normalize unethical behavior by claiming it’s okay so long as he doesn’t get implicated in a crime.
Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) blasted Trump as absurd and small minded for thinking that his request to obtain the full Mueller report is based on some personal vendetta.
If William Barr doesn’t release the complete Mueller report by Thursday, the American people will be taking to the streets in protest.
The goal of the hastily-released Barr report was never to give the American people a clear and fair summary of Mueller’s findings.
O’Rourke’s proposal would be a big shift from Trump’s Cabinet, where out-of-touch secretaries view taxpayer dollars as their own personal piggy bank.
Neal Katyal, the former DOJ official who wrote the special counsel rules says Attorney General William Barr is going beyond the rules with the Mueller report.
The mushrooming White House security clearance scandal got even bigger as House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) announced that his committee would be working with the Oversight Committee on the investigation.
It has been confirmed by a whistleblower that Jared Kushner was one of the 25 White House officials who was denied a security clearance but was overruled by Trump.
Donald Trump likes to think he is an authoritarian ruler that can use the U.S. government as his personal playtoy, but he is in for a rude awakening.
The administration is behaving as they have all along, like people who know they’re guilty and are working tirelessly to conceal the facts.
Maddow cited previous investigations which released their reports either to Congress or the public almost immediately after they concluded.
While MSNBC and CNN largely steered clear of Trump’s rally, Fox News devoted its airtime to the president as he threw a grade school tantrum in Michigan.
Donald Trump repeatedly overstated his wealth on documents to lenders. Now, these documents are the focus of multiple investigations.
The strategy paid off, insulating Trump from the legal jeopardy presented by a sit-down interview with the special counsel’s team – an interview that Trump had said publicly he wanted to do. There was even a tentative date for the interview – Jan. 27, 2018 – though one of Trump’s lawyers told Reuters he never intended to make the president available to Mueller. And Mueller never issued a subpoena demanding testimony.
The longer this administration slow-walks the release of Rober Mueller’s report, the more hollow Donald Trump’s celebrations look.
For the past couple of years, we endured Donald Trump’s paranoid claims about fellow Republican, Robert Mueller. Throughout it all, Trump lied when he called Mueller an angry Democrat on a witch hunt. Trump held his fire on the Mueller report until after his Roy Cohn aka William Barr scrubbed and spun it into a…
William Barr’s four-page summary was a political document that was seemingly designed to protect Trump. It should be treated as such.
Donald Trump would rather make Puerto Rico suffer than admit that his initial response to Hurricane Maria was a massive failure.
Not only do the American people need to read the full report immediately, but Robert Mueller should testify before Congress to clear the air.
William Barr’s hastily-crafted summary has raised far more questions than it has answered. The American people deserve the actual report immediately.
White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway told reporters Monday morning that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) should resign over his collusion comments because she says he “lied.”
Congressman John Lewis believes Donald Trump is an illegitimate president, regardless of what Robert Mueller’s final report concludes.
What we do now is that Trump betrayed the country during the 2016 election. If and when that information comes out in the report, it is up to Congress and the American people to take action. Â
There are still multiple investigations that could endanger the president and his family worse than Mueller ever could have.
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The closure of Special Counsel Robert Mueller‘s investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 U.S. election does not mark the end of legal worries for President Donald Trump and people close to him. Other ongoing investigations and litigation are focusing on issues including his businesses and financial dealings, personal…
The fact that Trump is already profiting from his reelection bid more than a year before the 2020 election would be stunning if it wasn’t so predictable.
House Oversight Committee chairman Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) is looking to investigate Jared Kushner for leaking classified info through his use of WhatsApp.
Maddow’s reporting is just the latest reminder that, while the public has learned a lot about Trump’s ties to Russia, Mueller likely knows much more.Â
Given what we now know what’s happening in the Southern District of New York, it’s no surprise that Trump wanted to bring Bharara under his wing.
