Trump claims that he didn’t know anything about the meeting where his son tried to collude with a representative of the Russian government. If evidence surfaces that Trump did know, the President will be linked to collusion with a hostile foreign government and could be impeached. Reuters reported: Asked if he knew that his son…
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) gave an answer that can only be described as gutless enablement when asked if he would ever meet with a foreign source offering campaign information.
Trump Jr. could be in legal jeopardy, they counter. They argue, “Donald Jr. and others may also be liable for conspiracy with respect to espionage, depending on how any illicit information was obtained and the level of their awareness of any spying.”
President Donald Trump on Wednesday defended his eldest son as “innocent” following emails that showed Donald Trump Jr. welcomed Russian help against his father’s rival in the 2016 presidential election, deepening the controversy over purported Russian meddling.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday it was preposterous that U.S. President Donald Trump’s eldest son was blamed for meeting a Russian lawyer who emails suggest might have had damaging information about Hillary Clinton last year.
Donald Trump Jr. sat down with his good friend Sean Hannity and flat out contradicted his own emails with a series of lies that were a total disaster, but you can be sure made President Trump feel better as he sat in jammies and watched from the White House.
On her MSNBC program, Rachel Maddow pointed out that the Russians knew about the Donald Trump Jr. meeting before The New York Times ever did, and asked the vital question, did the Russians use their information to blackmail anyone in the White House?
Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY) just made Trump’s problems a lot worse by writing to the FEC and demanding an investigation into whether Trump broke campaign finance and criminal laws by accepting a contribution or a donation from Russia.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s eldest son on Tuesday released an email chain which refers to a top Russian government prosecutor as offering the Trump campaign damaging information about Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.
Trump and the Republican Party ran on Hillary Clinton’s emails, but Clinton could get some karmic revenge as it is Donald Trump’s Jr.’s emails that are providing the paper trail that could bring down Trump.
Donald Trump Jr. dug himself and his father in deeper on the Russia scandal by releasing transcripts of emails that show Russia was supporting Donald Trump for president, and that Donald Trump Sr. had a direct connection to Russia.
“This meeting, purportedly in June, in July the Russians start dumping documents helpful to Donald Trump, hurtful to Hillary Clinton.”
Donald Trump Jr. was told in an email that the damaging info on Hillary Clinton that he sought during his meeting with a Kremlin-linked lawyer “was part of a Russian government effort to aid his father’s candidacy.”
Each day brings another “drip” of information that increases the likelihood that there was collusion between the president’s campaign and Moscow.
“Do I think it’s appropriate? I think I probably would’ve done the same thing. I mean, it’s opposition research.”
Experts are warning that Donald Trump Jr. may have violated federal criminal statutes by meeting with Russia, and has now placed himself in legal jeopardy by admitting that the meeting took place.
A source from within the White House told the media that they are coordinating with the alt-right to defend Donald Trump Jr.
While trying to save his father’s skin from the Russia scandal, Donald Trump Jr. accidentally confirmed in a statement that the Trump campaign was colluding with Russia to get dirt on Hillary Clinton.
Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-PA) has announced that he will be introducing legislation to prevent President Trump from forming an election cyber security group with Russia.
On CBS’s Face The Nation, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) torched Donald Trump for cooperating with Russia on preventing election hacking by saying by saying that he is sure Russia could help since they are the ones doing the hacking.
During an interview on CNN’s State Of The Union, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said that the committee wants to hear from Paul Manafort, Jared Kushner, and Donald Trump Jr. on their meeting with a Kremlin-linked Russian attorney.
Donald Trump’s self-incriminating habit on social media struck again on Sunday as the President all but admitted that he is working for Putin as he said that he never discussed the tougher sanctions that the Senate passed with the Russian leader. Trump tweeted: Sanctions were not discussed at my meeting with President Putin. Nothing will…
The greatest trick the devil ever performed was to convince the world that he did not exist. However, he was unable to carry out this illusion alone. Donald Trump has figured this out and enlisted his very own shepherd to spread his malevolent message. Fox News and it’s resident dolt, Sean Hannity, play the part of messenger of misinformation and political distortion.
Trump’s own UN Ambassador, Nikki Haley, said during an interview on CNN that everybody knows that Russia interfered in the election, and by everybody, she means everyone but Trump who just denied that Russia interfered in the election at the G 20.
Trump can pretend to be a strongman all he wants, but in his first real opportunity to put America first and show strong leadership, he backed down bigly.
“I’m questioning the patriotism of all of those Republicans who are allowing this president to side with Putin, to wrap his arms around Putin.”
Former Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta told MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews that he believes that the pressure from the Russia investigation is causing Trump to strike out and say things with no concern for whether or not they are true. Video: John Podesta to @hardball: 'How can you imagine sitting there, preparing for one…
House Intel Committee ranking member Rep. Adam Schiff didn’t hold back on his skepticism as he destroyed all of the major points in the White House’s version of Trump’s meeting with Putin.
“Trump just unilaterally surrendered to Russia on election interference,†Morgan Finkelstein, the Press Secretary for the liberal Center for American Progress Action Fund, said in a memo send to PoliticusUSA, in which Finkelstein likened the meeting between the two leaders to a “good first Tinder date.â€
Sergey Lavrov told reporters that Republican President Donald Trump accepted Russian President Vladimir Putin’s assurances that Russia didn’t meddled in the 2016 presidential election.
Collusion comes so easily and naturally to Trump and Putin that it is almost like they have done this before.
The Russians could barely hide their joy and were all smiles as Putin met Trump at the G20.
“One way to stab in the heart aggressive American reporting on that subject is to lay traps for American journalists who are reporting on it.”
James Clapper said the Russians will continue to collect intelligence and interfere in U.S. elections so long as the United States, led by Trump, refuses to “push back.”
Just as Hillary Clinton warned the country during the campaign, Trump is turning out to be a Putin “puppet” who is delivering every last item on Russia’s wish list.
House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) called out Trump after he refused to say with certainty that Russia was behind the 2016 election hacking as a man who is too weak to stand up to Putin.
“How has [Putin] earned a face-to-face, full-scale, bilateral meeting with the U.S. president? What has he done to deserve that meeting and that respect?”
In an effort to bury the Russia story, Trump announced on the 4th of July that he would be meeting with Putin on Friday.
It’s becoming increasingly hard to believe that Trump had no idea what some of his closest advisers were up to with respect to Russia.
It is being reported that Russian hackers were caught discussing how to get hacked Clinton emails to Mike Flynn of the Trump campaign, which would be proof that Trump colluded with Russia during the 2016 election. Buried in the middle of a story about how a Republican operative tried to obtain Hillary Clinton’s hacked emails,…
The leaders of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee’s Russia probe on Thursday called on the White House to respond more fully to their request for any records on President Donald Trump’s conversations with fired FBI Director James Comey.
All Democrats from the House Judiciary and Oversight committees demanded that the Department of Justice investigate Attorney General Jeff Sessions for violating his “recusal” from the Russia investigation by collaborating in the firing of former FBI head James Comey.
Calling President Trump’s denial of Russian attack on our election “dismaying and objectionable”, former Ambassador Nicholas Burns said it’s the President’s duty to be skeptical of Russia and that his refusal to take action is “a dereliction of the basic duty to defend the country.”
Rachel Maddow exposed how Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee are trying to stop the FBI’s investigation into Trump collusion with Russia through an effort to discredit the purpose of the investigation.
Donald Trump is proclaiming all stories about the Russia scandal fake after one CNN story about a person who was joining his administration’s ties to a Russian investment fund was found to be false, and three journalists resigned.
In a social media statement that can only be labeled psychotic, Trump blamed former President Obama for not stopping the Russia attack on the 2016 election that he claims never happened. Trump tweeted: Just out: The Obama Administration knew far in advance of November 8th about election meddling by Russia. Did nothing about it. WHY?…
The press failed in the 2016 election. Instead of riding over this sore spot to point fingers at Putin and even Trump – both of whom certainly deserves it – we need to take ownership of this failure. The one thing we have control over and need to change for the future is our own choices.
Russia’s heavy hand on tech imports worries U.S. officials.
Republican governors also refused to secure voting systems, with one Republican calling it an assault on “state’s rights.”
In a tone that would become familiar in the following months, Republicans and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) allowed Russia to interfere in the election to help Trump by expressing skepticism about the intelligence that Russia was meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
In a total disaster of a Fox News interview, President Donald Trump admitted to committing the crime of witness tampering.
Despite the insecure president’s social media tantrums, the investigation into his presidential campaign’s ties to Russia isn’t going anywhere.
President Trump and Republicans are pretending Russia didn’t attack the U.S. during the 2016 election and isn’t continuing to attack it right now, Democrats are trying their best as the minority party to protect the country.
Top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) gave Trump until Friday to turn the tapes over and if he won’t, subpoenas could be coming his way.
U.S. House Democrats rejected an assertion by Deutsche Bank that privacy laws prevent it from sharing information about President Donald Trump’s finances, as they investigate possible collusion between his campaign team and Russia.
Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers confirmed to special counsel Robert Mueller that Trump also asked them to deny that he was under federal investigation which Comey’s account of the reason why he was fired by Donald Trump.
House Oversight Democrats are connecting the dots and demanding to know why Trump is jeopardizing classified information by not suspending Jared Kushner’s security clearance.
Election expert J. Alex Halderman told the Senate Intelligence Committee Wednesday that voting machines can absolutely be hacked and votes changed, and that we must prepare now.
Russian hackers targeted 21 U.S. states’ election systems in last year’s presidential race, a Department of Homeland Security official told Congress on Wednesday.
A plane carrying Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu was buzzed by a NATO F-16 fighter jet as it flew over the Baltic Sea, but was seen off by a Russian Sukhoi-27 military jet, Russian news agencies reported on Wednesday.
Federal investigators probing the lobbying work of ousted national security adviser Michael Flynn are focused in part on the role of Bijan Kian, Flynn’s former business partner, according to a person interviewed by the FBI.
Rachel Maddow’s excellent reporting on developments in the Russia investigation continued with the news that a Federal Grand Jury in the Eastern District of Virginia issued subpoenas related to Paul Manafort. This is the same district that is investigating Michael Flynn, which Maddow suggests is indicative of efforts to consolidate the investigation based on two…
As the Trump inner circle lawyers up and seeks advice from criminal lawyers, special counsel Robert Mueller has added a prosecutor to the Trump campaign probe who specializes in witness flipping.
There’s one more previously unreported meeting during the height of Russian interference in the election between President Trump’s campaign chair Paul Manafort and a suspected Russian spy/Ukrainian businessman.
Trump sent his own lawyer Jay Sekulow to Fox News Sunday with the message that the President isn’t under criminal investigation, but the lawyer lost it and ended up admitting twice that Trump is under investigation.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) confirmed during an interview on ABC’s This Week that there is evidence that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia and that the President obstructed justice.
“They’re going to get somebody, and they’re going to get him for something. And they’re probably going to go to jail.”
Trump’s tweets about “witch hunts” aren’t only reflections of presidential paranoia. They are part of a deeper strategy to discredit the man investigating him for obstruction of justice.
“If President Trump were to fire Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein and then got Special Counsel Mueller fired, I believe Congress would begin impeachment proceedings.”
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee just hinted at the constitutional crisis that will occur if Trump fires the Deputy Attorney General and the Special Counsel.
The White House appears to be in total denial about the severity of the Russia scandal, as Vice President Mike Pence called his move to hire a criminal defense attorney very routine.
The fact that Mike Pence is now lawyering up suggests that, while he has largely flown under the radar with respect to the Russia scandal, he may have reason to worry after all.
The investigation into Kushner – Trump’s son-in-law and most trusted advisor – appears to have escalated yet again.
The news that Vice President Mike Pence has hired a private lawyer to represent him is a sign that Pence may go down with Trump for the Russia scandal.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) is pushing for the House to investigate Trump for obstruction of justice as the news only gets worse for the President.
The legal problems keep piling up for Attorney General Jeff Sessions as a legal expert is warning that he is in contempt of Congress.
While signing an executive order related to apprenticeships, Trump ignored questions about reporters on the obstruction of justice investigation.
While it is unknown if there are tapes, a new report of a memo from a former NSA official documents, Trump’s attempts to influence the NSA and interfere in the Russia investigation.
President Trump confirmed on social media that he is under investigation for obstruction of justice because he doesn’t understand that tweets are official statements and evidence that can be used against him.
Republicans may have spent the first few months of Trump’s presidency cowardly refusing to hold him accountable, but even they are starting to recognize his days in the White House may be numbered.
Instead of responding with a denial that Trump is being investigated for obstruction of justice, Trump’s legal team responded by calling the leak illegal.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has broadened the FBI’s investigation to include an investigation of President Donald Trump for potential obstruction of justice.
During an interview on The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) responded to Jeff Sessions’ testimony, by calling on the Attorney General to come before the Judiciary Committee so that the Minnesota Senator can question him.
Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) didn’t buy for a second that Jeff Sessions didn’t understand his question when he lied under oath in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Franken accused Sessions of trying to whitewash and downplay his lie and urged the Attorney General to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
You’re probably hearing a lot of this because it’s the Republican talking point. But it’s only meant for those who really don’t understand the most basic ideas about our government. That is to say, it’s meant for the Trump base.
If there was one devastating lesson to come out of Jeff Sessions’ testimony it was that Donald Trump never showed concern to the Attorney General about the Russia election hacking.
Democratic Senator Martin Heinrich (D-NM) accused Jeff Sessions of obstructing the Russia investigation by refusing to answer questions.
During his testimony before the Senate Intel Committee, Jeff Sessions confirmed that Comey did not want to be left alone with Trump.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions didn’t deny that he met with Russians, but said that he didn’t recall meeting with Russians. Sessions also denied colluding with Russians specifically but didn’t deny working with Russia on the campaign.
While testifying before a Senate subcommittee, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein rejected the idea being floated by Trump allies of firing the special counsel by saying there is no good cause to fire Robert Mueller.
President Trump’s personal lawyer Mark Kasowitz bragged that he got New York U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara fired, warning Trump, “This guy is going to get you.â€
The hack into US voting systems by Russia was worse than reported. Thirty-nine states were compromised, and the Obama administration worried that the Kremlin’s goal was to delete voter registration information.
Jeff Sessions is in big trouble, no matter what he tells the Senate Intelligence Committee.
The move by the Senate comes as the White House has repeatedly suggested they would “look at” lifting sanctions on Russia.
The ranking of the House committee investigating Russia, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) put an end to Trump’s dreams of firing special counsel Robert Mueller by letting the President know that if he fires Mueller, Congress will reappoint him.
Friends of Donald Trump are telling reporters that the President is seriously considering terminating Russia special counsel Robert Mueller.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions tried to get out of testifying in public, but the Senate Intelligence Committee is debating whether to deny the AG’s request to testify in closed session.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has become a key target of Democrats and those who are demanding answers in the Russia investigation.
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) told Senate Intelligence Committee leadership that the public has a right to hear the testimony of Jeff Sessions, so the committee should hold the Attorney General’s hearing in public.
The President’s own lawyer refused to answer when he was asked if Trump would promise not to interfere with or fire special counsel Robert Mueller.
