U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller has submitted a list of 35 potential witnesses for the Virginia trial of President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort due to begin next Tuesday, court documents filed on Friday showed.
A dozen public interest organizations are calling on the IRS to investigate the Trump Foundation for criminal violations of the US tax code.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday he had invited Donald Trump to Moscow and that both he and the U.S. president want further summits, despite the uproar in Washington after the two leaders met in Helsinki last week.
Instead of rebutting the claims, Giuliani sidestepped them, repeatedly called Cohen a liar and whined about the secret tapes.
With his back to the wall as he looks to save himself from legal trouble, Michael Cohen is wrecking Donald Trump’s world.
A roadmap to impeachment handed down by Robert Mueller may have meant something in the 1970s when the Republican Party wasn’t living inside a right-wing bubble of Fox News conspiracies.
Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg has been subpoenaed to testify in the federal investigation into Michael Cohen, as Trump’s former lawyer is burning it all to the ground.
Other politicians have faced criminal indictments for campaign finance violations when the evidence was far less damning.
If Republicans are truly interested in filing articles of impeachment against someone, they should look toward 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
A federal judge on Wednesday rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest effort to dismiss a lawsuit accusing him of unconstitutionally doing business with foreign governments while occupying the White House.
CNN’s Senior Congressional Correspondent Manu Raju captured Republican Senators duck and dodge on tape when asked about President Trump being caught on tape talking to his “fixer” Michael Cohen about silencing a story about his alleged affair with a Playboy model.
A federal judge on Wednesday rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest effort to dismiss a lawsuit accusing him of violating the Constitution by doing business with foreign governments while occupying the White House.
Forensic audio expert Paul Ginsberg slowed the Cohen tape down, cleaned up the background noise, and said that he heard Trump say the word cash, but not hear the word don’t on the Cohen tape.
A lawyer for Michael Cohen, U.S. President Donald Trump’s longtime personal attorney, released an audio recording of a conversation between Trump and Cohen in which they discussed paying for the rights to a Playboy model’s story about an alleged affair with Trump.
“What does this ‘hit by a truck’ exchange mean on the Cohen tape? ‘COHEN: All the stuff. Because — here, you never know where that company — you never know what he’s — TRUMP: Maybe he gets hit by a truck. COHEN: Correct. So, I’m all over that….’,” Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) asked Tuesday night after the release on CNN of the Trump-Cohen tapes.
Michael Cohen’s lawyer, Lanny Davis, gave CNN a Cohen/Trump tape that destroys Trump cover story about not knowing about a payoff to a Playboy model that he had an affair with in cash.
The criminal trial of President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was delayed on Monday by one week, with a U.S. judge making public the names of five witnesses granted immunity to testify.
It’s safe to say that Republicans in Congress don’t want Donald Trump to star in a sequel to his disastrous meeting with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki.
From Mueller’s criminal probe to Cohen’s secret tapes, Trump is in big trouble, and now he’s trying to abuse his power to get out of it.
Manafort, a long-time Republican operative and businessman, appeared in court for the hearing in a green prison jumpsuit. He has pleaded not guilty to 16 counts of bank and tax fraud and failure to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts.
A U.S. court on Monday released the names of five people for whom Special Counsel Robert Mueller had requested immunity to testify in the Virginia trial of President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Robert Manafort.
Twelve audio recordings seized from U.S. President Donald Trump’s onetime personal attorney, Michael Cohen, were turned over to federal prosecutors on Friday, according to a filing in federal court in Manhattan on Monday.
After Trump’s Twitter meltdown aimed at Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, two respected conservative columnists advised that the world ignore Trump’s attempt to distract from his Russia debacle.
A U.S. judge said he would rule later on Monday on whether to delay the criminal trial of President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and he would make public the identity of five witnesses granted immunity to testify.
Accused Russian agent Maria Butina had wider high-level contacts in Washington than previously known, taking part in 2015 meetings between a visiting Russian official and two senior officials at the U.S. Federal Reserve and Treasury Department.
Democrats are turning up the pressure as Americans across the country are demanding to see Trump’s tax returns after his summit fiasco with Putin.
The FBI on Saturday released documents related to the surveillance of former Trump presidential campaign adviser Carter Page as part of a probe into whether he conspired with the Russian government to undermine the 2016 U.S. election.
This is a dangerous moment for the country, and the American people need to wake up and stay engaged, particularly as the midterms approach.
Trump’s decision to throw Cohen under the bus and dedicate all of his loyalty to Russian president Vladimir Putin will end up having disastrous consequences
Trump’s three-pronged meltdown on Saturday – trashing the government, accusing Cohen of a crime and insisting that “your favorite President did nothing wrong!” – is proof that he’s terrified.
People close to Michael Cohen say that he felt mistreated by Trump in the past, and now he is ready to unload what he knows to prosecutors.
President Donald Trump’s longtime lawyer Michael Cohen secretly recorded a conversation with Trump before the presidential election in which they discussed payments to a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with Trump, the New York Times reported on Friday.
While Sally Yates was stunned by Trump’s performance with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki this week, she says it tells us a lot about where his loyalties lie.
Schmidt is no longer a Republican, but the party he left behind should follow his lead – or face the wrath of the American voter in November.
Russia on Thursday broadcast a series of videos showing the testing and operation of a new generation of nuclear and conventional weapons, days after Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump discussed how to avoid an arms race.
President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin blamed forces within the United States on Thursday for marring what they called the success of their first summit, with Trump saying he looked forward to their second meeting.
The White House on Wednesday declined to rule out accepting a Russian proposal for the questioning in the United States of Americans sought by the Kremlin for “illegal activities,” including a former U.S. ambassador to Moscow.
For the United States of America, this week keeps getting worse as the president continues to work on behalf of a foreign adversary – despite what his own intelligence community has found.
Trump has no defense when it comes to the increasing likelihood that his campaign coordinated with Russia to undermine the 2016 presidential election.Â
MSNBC host Ari Melber fought back laughter before quickly shutting down Republican Rep. Bill Johnson for defending Trump’s latest spin job.
A federal judge on Wednesday denied a request by President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort to suppress evidence seized by the FBI from his home as part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s ongoing probe into whether Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign colluded with Russia.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday opened the door to a possible criminal case against the Donald J. Trump Foundation with a statement from his counsel that Cuomo was prepared to provide a criminal referral if asked.
A federal judge in Virginia on Tuesday denied a motion by former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort to move a trial set to start next week from the Washington suburb of Alexandria to the city of Roanoke, Virginia.
Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) on Tuesday said he is willing to consider additional sanctions on Russia.
Yes, that’s all of the commitment we have from the Republican Speaker of the House, even after his party’s president announced in front of the entire world, while standing next to President Putin, that he backed Russia over his own country.
There have been a lot of dark days for the U.S. since Trump took office. Monday was a particularly troubling one, and history will not soon forget it.
Protesters rallied outside the White House in Washington Monday evening upon President Trump’s return from his disastrous trip to Helsinki, Finland where he sided with President Putin against the U.S., carrying signs calling Trump a Traitor-in-Chief and calling for his immediate impeachment.
Despite sheltering themselves safely inside the primetime Fox News bubble, Trump and Hannity are alone in their belief that Monday’s press conference was good for the country.
The Democratic senator accused Trump of betraying the most important role of the commander-in-chief: to protect the American people.
While many Democrats have been standing up to this dangerous president since he took office, Monday’s performance in Helsinki seems to be a turning point.
The U.S. intelligence community has been clear about the threat posed by Russian political interference and will continue “to provide unvarnished and objective intelligence” assessments, the Director of National Intelligence said on Monday.
Former CIA chief John Brennan went further, suggesting Trump should be removed from office: “Donald Trump’s press conference performance in Helsinki rises to exceeds the threshold of ‘high crimes & misdemeanors.’
The European Union and the United States are best friends, and saying the two are foes was “fake news”, European Council President Donald Tusk said on Sunday, after U.S. President Donald Trump had called the EU a foe on trade matters.
Former Watergate Prosecutor Nick Akerman dropped a bomb on Saturday, saying the details in Robert Mueller’s Friday indictment of 12 Russians indicate that the special counsel is preparing similar indictments of Trump campaign officials. Akerman said “there is no way” the Russians would have been able to carry out their aggressive attack on U.S. democracy without…
For U.S. President Donald Trump, a summit with Vladimir Putin risks a political backlash at home and abroad. For the Russian president, however, the fact the summit is even happening is already a big geopolitical win.
With one question on Thursday, Rachel Maddow completely destroyed the Trump-GOP conspiracy theory that the FBI was working in 2016 to hurt Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. If that was the bureau’s intent, Maddow asked, then why didn’t they come forward during the campaign and tell the American people that there was a good possibility the…
The Republican Party stooped to a whole new level of shame during Thursday’s clown show in the House of Representatives when they questioned FBI agent Peter Strzok. The most stunning development throughout the entire proceeding was how each GOP congressman attacked Strzok’s extramarital affair with former FBI attorney Lisa Page – and they did it…
If sleeper KGB agents can’t outrun the FBI, then it’s safe to say that the corrupt campaign of conman Donald Trump can’t either.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort has been able to review evidence and is being treated like a “VIP” in jail, prosecutors said on Wednesday, arguing against Manafort’s efforts to postpone his trial on fraud charges.
Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser who pleaded guilty in a case related to the Russian election collusion investigation, is eager to move to the sentencing phase and put his legal ordeal behind him, Flynn’s lawyer said at a hearing on Tuesday.
“In an utterly callous display of unwarranted privilege and entitlement and without even a minimal sense of noblesse oblige President Donald Trump has, through the defendant entities, exploited and denied significant wages to his own longstanding personal driver,” the complaint said.
Michael Avenatti, who is the lawyer for Stormy Daniels, is threatening to run for president against Trump if he sees no one who can beat him.
A personal assistant to Paul Manafort granted the FBI access to a storage locker, allowing the government to secure evidence that President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager is trying to suppress, according to testimony on Friday in a federal court hearing in Virginia.
Former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty in October to lying to FBI agents investigating possible collusion between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia, will be sentenced on Sept. 7, a judge ordered on Thursday.Former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty in October to lying to FBI agents investigating possible collusion between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia, will be sentenced on Sept. 7, a judge ordered on Thursday.
Trey Gowdy spent more than two years pushing Benghazi conspiracy theories and wasting taxpayer dollars on a phony investigation.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has issued a grand jury subpoena to another associate of longtime Donald Trump adviser Roger Stone, a lawyer for Andrew Miller, the subject of the subpoena, said on Thursday.
It is not a coincidence that President Trump got a $500 million kickback from China, and his daughter got trademarks approved the same day that Trump dropped sanctions.
Michael Cohen, a longtime personal lawyer to U.S. President Donald Trump, is seeking to prevent prosecutors from reviewing about 12,000 files out of more than four million seized by authorities as part of a criminal investigation.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders broke the law when she used her official government position to attack a restaurant that kicked her out. As PoliticusUSA’s Sarah Jones first tweeted: #SarahSanders is using her power as a press secretary from the most powerful bully pulpit in the world to harm a business for not…
A federal judge on Friday dealt another blow to U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, refusing to dismiss a money laundering charge brought against him by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
Most Americans think President Donald Trump should agree to an interview with Special Counsel Robert Mueller, if asked, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll shows.
U.S. Senate Democrats on Monday pressed Justice Department officials about whether some FBI agents may have leaked damaging information about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to Rudy Giuliani, now U.S. Senate Democrats on Monday pressed Justice Department officials about whether some FBI agents may have leaked damaging information about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to Rudy Giuliani, now an adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, shortly before the 2016 election.an adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, shortly before the 2016 election.
Federal prosecutors investigating U.S. President Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen have extracted more than 700 pages of messages sent using encrypted programs like WhatsApp and Signal on phones seized from Cohen, according to a court filing on Friday.
A federal judge on Friday refused to grant Michael Cohen, U.S. President Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, an immediate restraining order against the attorney for adult film actress Stormy Daniels.
The federal investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and potential collusion by Donald Trump’s campaign has targeted – directly or indirectly – a growing group of presidential associates.
New York state’s highest court on Thursday rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest bid to avoid potentially having to answer questions under oath in a defamation lawsuit by a former contestant on his television show “The Apprentice.”
Trump went off on an unhinged rant after the New Attorney General sued his family for criminal activity related to the Trump Foundation.
The lawsuit accuses the Trump Foundation which is Donald, Donald Jr., Eric, and Ivanka Trump of using their charity to engage in a pattern of persistent illegal conduct, including illegally assisting Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
Barbara Underwood, the attorney general, accused the Donald J. Trump Foundation and its directors of conducting “extensive unlawful political coordination” with the campaign, and “repeated and willful self-dealing” to benefit Trump’s personal and business interests.
If the GOP wants their party to survive, it’s time for them to stop protecting a dangerous president just because he has the same letter next to his name.
The possibility of Michael Cohen getting desperate and flipping on Trump should scare the hell out of the White House.Â
Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort will be arraigned on Friday following a third superseding indictment against him by Special Counsel Robert Mueller that lodged additional charges on accusations of witness tampering.
It’s no surprise that Donald Trump, already the laughingstock of the world, would hire Rudy Giuliani to do his legal work.
The spineless Speaker of the House can continue to provide cover for this president, but no one is buying it. Especially not Robert Mueller.Â
Rudy Giuliani has come up with a new condition for special counsel Robert Mueller to meet. Trump’s lawyer wants Mueller to promise to end his investigation within two months.
Today’s admission brought us even closer to answering the question of whether the Trump campaign actively worked with Russia to undermine the 2016 election.
Rep. Rooney’s complete repudiation of Trump’s lie is meaningful given his status on the powerful House Intelligence Committee
The new lawsuit filed by Stormy Daniels against her former attorney implicates Sean Hannity in Trump propaganda collusion.
A former contestant on Donald Trump’s reality TV show “The Apprentice” may pursue her defamation lawsuit against the U.S. president, a New York state judge ruled on Tuesday, despite Trump’s effort to have an appeals court put it on hold.
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, to respond by Friday to the government’s bid to revoke or revise his release and set a June 15 hearing on the matter, according to a court filing.
If there is one person who has documents Donald Trump doesn’t want investigators to see, it’s Michael Cohen.
Mueller asked the judge to revise or revoke the ex-Trump campaign manager’s pretrial release, which could send him to jail until his trial takes place.
Nixon’s most controversial claim – that nothing the president does is illegal – came after he was already forced out of office.
Not only is Trump caught in (another) massive lie that adds more evidence to Mueller’s obstruction case, but he is proving that a moment of scrutiny in the witness chair would sink him.Â
In Trump’s efforts – just like Nixon’s – to save himself, he is making it much more likely that his presidency will collapse.
Once again, by arguing that Trump is above the law and not that he is innocent, the president’s lawyers are essentially admitting their client is guilty.
Trump, after spending months waging war on the U.S. intelligence community, is accusing others of destroying American institutions.
A social media expert who worked with influential Donald Trump ally Roger Stone during the 2016 U.S. presidential race testified before a federal grand jury on Friday after being subpoenaed by the special counsel investigating potential collusion between Trump’s campaign and Russia.
The president may have broad power to issue pardons, but using one to avoid criminal liability is obstruction of justice.Â
Trump has on more than one occasion revealed that his intent was to end the Russia investigation, whether that was by firing Comey or pressuring members of his administration to be loyal to him.
Trump knows he is guilty, and his only remaining option is to create an alternate reality for him and his supporters.
