As soon as Robert Mueller got witness testimony that Hope Hicks obstructed justice, he has the leverage to force her to cut a deal and turn on Trump. The New York Times reported, “Mr. Corallo is planning to tell Mr. Mueller about a previously undisclosed conference call with Mr. Trump and Hope Hicks, the White…
House Intelligence Committee ranking member Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) busted committee chair Rep. Devin Nunes for deceiving the House by changing the memo after it was voted on before he sent it to the White House. In a letter provided to PoliticusUSA, Schiff wrote: Dear Chairman Nunes: This evening, the Committee Minority discovered that the…
The misleading cover story crafted by the administration aboard Air Force One is under intense scrutiny as part of Mueller’s investigation.
“They are all going to go down with the ship if they are seen as trying to protect against the truth coming out in this investigation.”
Delusional fantasies like this are proof that, behind the scenes, Donald Trump is panicking – and he has good reason to.
Donald Trump tried to rig a congressional hearing by trying to ghostwrite questions for Republicans to ask Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. CNN reported: As a further sign of the President’s focus on Rosenstein’s testimony, one of the sources said Trump also had suggested questions to members of Congress that they could ask Rosenstein. One…
Rep. Adam Schiff released the transcript from the House Intelligence Committee meeting on releasing the memo, and in one critical exchange Democrats took out Trump stooge Devin Nunes. Here is the vital exchange in the transcript: Rep. Quigley: But let me ask you another question with the greatest respect. When you, as the majority, conceived…
CNN’s report that Trump asked Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein if he was on his team is has gashed the Trump presidency less than 24 hours after the State Of The Union. CNN reported: Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein visited the White House in December seeking President Donald Trump’s help. The top Justice Department official…
Trump’s PR effort to kill the Russia investigation was handed a devastating blow as FBI Director Christopher Wray opposes the release of the memo because it contains inaccurate information and a false narrative. Bloomberg News reported, “FBI Director Christopher Wray has informed the White House of his opposition to releasing a controversial, classified GOP memo…
At least one Republican thinks it would be a massive mistake for the president to stop special counsel Robert Mueller from completing the investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to sway the 2016 election. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine appeared on CNN’s “New Day” on Tuesday and discussed the possibility of Mueller…
Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) of the House Intelligence Committee went on MSNBC and exposed how Trump and Devin Nunes are conspiring to use the House of Representatives to kill the Mueller investigation. Video: Rep. Speier said, “I think once the transcript of our open hearing comes out tomorrow, it will be perfectly clear, it is…
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) was asked about his secret conspiracy memo, but instead of stopping to answer the question the guilty Trump stooge ran away. Video: was the exchange: Q: Chairman, can we ask you about the release of the memo? Are you glad the committee voted? Nunes: Talk to the Democrats. They talk to…
The FBI is investigating leads from a second Trump/Russia dossier that corroborates some of the details in the Steele dossier. The Guardian reported: The FBI inquiry into alleged Russian collusion in the 2016 US presidential election has been given a second memo that independently set out many of the same allegations made in a dossier…
Former governor of New Jersey Chris Christie is continuing to fill his role as a Trump lackey. Despite the overwhelming evidence that Russia interfered with the 2016 election and Trump’s long list of Russian ties, Christie said the president shouldn’t do a face-to-face interview with Special Counsel Robert Mueller because he believes there isn’t enough…
The U.S. released a list of prominent figures in Russia, including businessmen and government figures, on Monday night. The move, which was a form of punishment in response to Russia’s meddling in the 2016 elections, still didn’t prompt new sanctions against those named on the list. Some are already subject to sanctions. The list named…
Sadly, this near-constitutional crisis the country finds itself in was largely caused by Comey’s own actions as FBI director during the 2016 election
Republicans see the writing on the wall and are desperately grasping at straws to save the president, no matter how much damage they do to the country on their way down.Â
In response to the mounting evidence against Donald Trump, Republicans have decided to wage war against the U.S. intelligence community instead of holding an increasingly guilty president accountable.Â
One of the most important, if not the most important, goals of The Resistance movement is to get people to participate in local politics rather than just voting every four years in presidential elections. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears to be taking this seriously, because on Monday, he announced that the site would begin showing users more…
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, yet again, claimed that most Americans don’t care about the Russia investigation during the daily press briefing on Monday. When asked if Donald Trump had plans to mention the Russia probe during his first State of the Union address scheduled for Tuesday night, Sanders said: I think we’ve…
MSNBC’s Katy Tur shined a light on the Republican hypocrisy of going after Hillary Clinton with a claim that she had classified intelligence on her email server, but now supporting the release of a memo that contains classified information because they are trying to protect Trump. Video: Transcript of the exchange between Tur and Rep….
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders lied to the American people as she stood at the podium and denied that Trump had anything to do with the retirement of Andrew McCabe, who is a key witness in the obstruction of justice investigation against the president. Video: Transcript of the exchange: Q: The president didn’t…
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, criticized by President Donald Trump for alleged bias against him and in favor of his 2016 Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton, has stepped down as the agency’s No. 2 official, a source familiar with the matter said on Monday. McCabe had been expected to…
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan is turning a blind eye and supporting Devin Nunes in his treasonous secret memo effort to kill the Russia investigation. Video: CNN’s Manu Raju reported, “There is a lot of support within the Republican conference on the house side to move forward and release this memo. The speaker Paul…
Republicans are making their move to give Trump the political cover he needs via a secret memo to remove Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to get to their real objective, which is firing Special counsel Robert Mueller. The New York Times reported: A secret, highly contentious Republican memo reveals that Deputy Attorney General Rod J….
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) has seen the House Republican secret memo, and he called it an effort to brainwash House Republicans into believing conspiracy theories during an interview on CNN. Video: Rep. Swalwell said, “I have read it and best describe it as a brainwashing document that tries to put forward to the rest of…
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) warned the White House that if Trump fires Special Counsel Robert Mueller without cause, his presidency will be finished. Video: Transcript via ABC’s This Week: RADDATZ: So, Senator Graham, you believe the stories about McGahn, about President Trump? GRAHAM: I don’t know. I believe it’s something that Mueller should look at….
Donald Trump directed that the Nunes secret memo be released, even though he doesn’t have the power to release it because he wants to fire deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein so that he can fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller. The Washington Post reported, “The president has told close advisers that the memo is starting to…
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) changed her position and said that it wouldn’t hurt to provide an extra safeguard and pass a bill blocking Trump from firing Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Video: Transcript of Collins on CNN’s State Of The Union: Jake Tapper: There have been a number of bipartisan bills that would attempt to protect…
New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker spoke to CNN on Friday about the urgent need for Congress to implement more checks and balances to keep President Trump under control and keep him from abusing his power. Speaking to Anderson Cooper, Booker said, “We see this president who has, in my opinion, very authoritarian tendencies that…
All of the interviews shown in the clip took place after Trump reportedly ordered White House counsel to remove Mueller from his post.
Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) warned that Trump is acting like a man with something to hide, which is why the investigators must be allowed to finish their job. Video: On CNN’s The Lead with Jake Tapper, Sen. Warner (D-VA) said, “Well, I respond, first of all, I’ve tried to give the president the benefit of…
By Karen Freifeld (Reuters) – White House Counsel Donald McGahn threatened to quit last June because he was “fed up” after President Donald Trump insisted he take steps to remove the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters. The New York Times reported on…
Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his office have interviewed at least one member of a Facebook team that was associated with Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, Wired magazine reported on its website on Friday.
The ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) took aim at Republicans in Congress for refusing to protect Special Counsel Robert Mueller from Trump’s Nixonian crimes. In a statement provided to PoliticusUSA, Rep. Schiff said, “The reports that the President not only considered firing Special Counsel Mueller, but went so far…
Former Watergate special prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks laid out the doomed choice of Trump on MSNBC. Either he can admit to obstructing justice, or he can lie to Bob Mueller, which would be another crime. Video: Wine-Banks said on MSNBC, “I think the broader context is the number of incidents that we’ve seen. You have a…
Trump’s response that The New York Times story that he tried to fire Robert Mueller is fake news did not come with a White House or a formal denial that the president ordered the firing of the Special Counsel. Video: Trump responded to the story by saying, “Fake news. Typical New York Times fake stories.”…
“See, the whole plot to destroy the Trump presidency is about a disgruntled former golfer who didn’t like his greens fees and he held onto the grudge for years.”
Trump made the order last June, but he was forced to back down when the top White House lawyer said he would resign before going through with it.
The congressman shredded his Republican colleagues for trading their integrity for the “momentary sugar high” of protecting Donald Trump.
It isn’t Trump’s lack of intellect, but his ego and desire to fight Robert Mueller that will lead to his demise in the Russia scandal. Video: On MSNBC’s The Beat, Ari Melber said, “There’s times when you can get a witness to incriminate himself by appealing to or taking advantage of their weaknesses. Ego can…
Major global technology providers have allowed Russian authorities to hunt for vulnerabilities in software deeply embedded across the U.S. government, a Reuters investigation has found.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) took his first walk-back Secret Society conspiracy step on Wednesday, but Thursday he fled.
Now that he’s fed the the right-wing media and base yet another false narrative and absurd conspiracy to feast upon, the Republican Senator says it might have all been written in jest.
The Republican chairman of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee said on Thursday he wanted to start releasing the transcripts of interviews the committee has done about a meeting at Trump Tower seen as central to investigations of Russia and the 2016 U.S. election.
“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,…
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.”
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…
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said that all of the threads in the Russia scandal lead to Donald Trump. Video: On MSNBC’s All In With Chris Hayes, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said of Jeff Sessions, “He was involved in the campaign then as a US Senator, now as Attorney General, his potential involvement in this cover-up,…
Special Counsel Robert Mueller wants to talk to Donald Trump, and people close to Trump are warning the President to stay away because Mueller is, “a killer.” The Washington Post reported: However, some of Trump’s close advisers and friends fear a face-to-face interview with Mueller could put the president in legal jeopardy. A central worry,…
In a pool spray with reporters, Trump denied every new story out there with the Russia investigation and tried to pretend like everything is good as his presidency inches toward its reckoning. Video: Transcript of Trump and reporters in the Oval Office: Reporter: Did you talk to him about it? Trump: No, I didn’t. I’m…
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is the first member of Trump’s cabinet to be interviewed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller as part of the Russia investigation. The New York Times reported, “Attorney General Jeff Sessions was questioned for several hours last week by the special counsel’s office as part of the investigation into Russia’s meddling in…
The pressure Trump and Sessions put on Wray is a sign that they are worried about the growing obstruction of justice case.
Facebook published a blog post on Monday dealing with the website’s failure to prevent its millions of users from being exposed to a massive amount of fake news and Russian-linked propaganda during the 2016 election. Samidh Chakrabarti, Facebook’s project manager, wrote about the various ways the social network potentially impacted democracy as a whole and…
At least one Republican lawmaker engaged with Russia-linked content on Twitter during the 2016 election. On Saturday, Texas Sen. John Cornyn tweeted a screenshot of an email the social networking platform had sent notifying him of the fact that he’d been one of the hundreds of thousands to have interacted with Russian content. The message…
The FBI is looking into whether a Russian banker with close ties to Putin and the Kremlin sent money to the National Rifle Association (NRA) during the presidential campaign to help push Trump to victory. The NRA spent an estimated $30 million supporting the Trump campaign, and as the original McClatchy report notes, it’s against…
Russian bots are busy at work promoting the GOP’s latest attempt to discredit the investigation looking into whether Trump colluded with the Russian government to sway the 2016 election. According the website Hamilton 68, which tracks the Twitter activity of propaganda accounts and bots linked to Russia, the hashtag #ReleaseTheMemo was tweeted 3,916 times on…
Twitter Inc, which is reviewing Russian interference during the 2016 U.S. elections, said on Friday it would notify some of its users whether they were exposed to content generated by a suspected Russian propaganda service.
“The Republicans appear to have just left. I don’t know if they had other important stuff to do or didn’t want to participate but Democrats get to run the table.”
The release of today’s testimony – and the damning allegations brought forward by Glenn Simpson – brings the president and the entire GOP that much closer to complete collapse.Â
It is being reported that Trump personally told Steve Bannon not answer questions from House investigators about Russia.
During an interview on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) discussed how Trump and his Republican enablers in Congres are colluding to derail the Russia investigation.
This despite the fact that the president, his lawyers, and White House officials have bragged about their transparency and cooperation when it comes to the Russia probe.
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said that Trump is aggressively trying to obstruct the Russia investigation by muzzling witnesses.
Special counsel Robert Mueller and his team have uncovered hundreds of suspicious transactions involving Russian diplomats in the U.S. and are currently analyzing them, according to a BuzzFeed News report. Among these diplomats is former Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, whose name has been central to the Russia scandal because of his contact with multiple people in…
According to CNN, Trump’s former adviser and campaign strategist Steve Bannon has come to an agreement with special counsel Robert Mueller’s team in the Russia investigation. Instead of having to testify in front of a grand jury, he’ll be questioned by prosecutors. Bannon was subpoenaed Tuesday by the House Intelligence Committee after stating he’d been instructed…
The Russia investigation is increasingly focusing on Trump’s inner circle. On Tuesday, Trump’s former adviser and campaign strategist Steve Bannon was questioned for 11 hours by the House Intelligence Committee and was subpoenaed to further testify before a grand jury after he claimed to have been told not to answer questions about Russia by the…
The Trump family is freaking out over Russia as Eric Trump tried to reassure his dad’s supporters that everything was fine, but what came out of his mouth was a frenzied rant about the media, the 2016 election, and an unmistakable tone of distraction and panic.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) explained on CNN that Steve Bannon is not a member of the cabinet and is no longer in the White House so his claims of executive privilege on questions about Russia are worthless.
Steve Bannon got subpoenaed by House Republicans after he refused to answer questions about the Trump transition and White House in front of the Intelligence Committee. Fox News reported: In the now hours-long, ongoing interview conducted by investigators for the House Intelligence Committee, Bannon’s attorney told lawmakers that the White House directed his client not…
“I believe high-level Trump associates, including potentially the president himself, are in increasing legal jeopardy. That’s because insiders have turned on them.”
During a briefing with reporters, House Intelligence Committee ranking member Rep. Adam Schiff said that more people know about the Trump Tower meeting with Russians and he specifically pointed to Ivanka Trump as someone that he wants to speak with.
Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA), a member of the House Intelligence Committee investigating the Russia scandal blew apart Trump’s claim that Democrats have said that there is no collusion.
Rep, Adam Schiff (D-CA) didn’t pull any punches as he called out Republicans for running intentional distractions for Trump on Russia.
The Mueller investigation is expected to last well into 2018, and there is little evidence that the Special Counsel wants to talk to Trump anytime soon.
Donald Trump has a new Russia cover story, and it is that the Democratic Party are the real colluders with Russia.
Days ago, Trump claimed to be a “stable genius” amid increasing talk that he’s too erratic and mentally unfit to be president of the United States. On Tuesday, Democratic Rep. Brendan Boyle trolled him by introducing the Standardizing Testing and Accountability Before Large Elections Giving Electors Necessary Information for Unobstructed Selection Act — or the “Stable…
As his Russia conspiracy theory crashed and burned, Donald Trump suggested that Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) did something illegal by releasing the unclassified Senate testimony of a co-founder of Fusion GPS.
On The Last Word, Lawrence O’Donnell explained why the release of the transcript that may doom Trump by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) makes her a national hero.
Ranking Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) released the testimony of Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson and in the process debunked the Republican conspiracy theory that the Russia investigation is based on opposition research.
“Robert Mueller is doing his work methodically and meticulously and he will use every tool at his disposal. He is already in possession of knowledge that we don’t have from a public source.”
Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) expressed the belief that more convictions are coming in 2018 on the Russia scandal as evidence grows of obstruction of justice.
Trump’s lawyers are trying to do everything that they can to keep their client away from sitting down for an interview with Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
It seems that Trump’s lawyers weren’t convinced by his recent claims of being a “stable genius.” NBC reported Monday that the president’s legal team is trying to get him the easiest interview format for Mueller’s investigation once his turn to be questioned inevitably comes. Among the options being discussed is an interview in which Trump…
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee said two words about Trump’s behavior in relation to firing Comey that should terrify the White House. Schiff’s talked about the potentially corrupt intent behind the president’s actions.
The head of the Central Intelligence Agency said on Sunday that Russia and others are trying to undermine elections in the United States, the next major one being in November when Republicans will try to keep control of Congress.
Proof that zero truth is allowed in Trump’s Republican Party came when Steve Bannon apologized to Trump for telling the truth about the Russia scandal.
“We can’t put that into the public record because there is no evidence of that. I’ve been following Russia-gate since last July. There’s no such thing.”
The idea that Trump’s closest family members and advisers were communicating with Russian officials without Donald Trump’s knowledge is becoming increasingly unlikely.
According to NBC’s Howard Feinman, Republicans are freaking out and trying to discredit the Steele dossier because Robert Mueller is getting close to Trump on obstruction of justice.
Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley (Iowa) and Lindsey Graham (South Carolina) are trying to get the FBI to file criminal charges against the author of the Steele Dossier in an abuse of congressional power to cover-up for Trump.
Once Trump’s right-hand man in the White House, Reince Priebus just added another piece to the ever-growing obstruction of justice puzzle being constructed by special counsel Robert Mueller.
“As a former prosecutor, I can tell you that this just screams out consciousness of guilt. All these actions the president’s taking to try to protect himself from the investigation.”
The new details continue to build the obstruction case against Trump, but they also increase the likelihood that the president and his GOP apologists will escalate their war on the FBI and special counsel Robert Mueller.Â
Two top law enforcement officials met U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan on Wednesday to discuss demands by congressional supporters of President Donald Trump that the Justice Department hand over files relevant to investigations of possible Trump 2016 campaign ties to Russia, a source familiar with the meeting said.
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), a member of the House Intelligence Committee investigating Russia, said that investigators want to see Trump’s bank records, and they want Steve Bannon to testify about Trump money laundering.
