Today’s story involves a woman who ran a high-end prostitution ring in New York City, “Manhattan Madam” Kristin Davis, who was running as a Libertarian for New York City comptroller when she was arrested on drug charges, testifying before a grand jury this week in the Trump Russia probe.
MOSCOW (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Rand Paul on Monday invited Russian lawmakers to visit Washington after holding talks in Moscow with parliamentarians and pledging to obstruct new sanctions against Russia. The Republican senator and ally of U.S. President Donald Trump said he had traveled to the Russian capital to encourage diplomacy amid tense relations between…
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, threw cold water on Trump’s witch hunt claims by saying that there is evidence of a Trump/Russia criminal conspiracy.
Rep. Adam Schiff said that Republicans have refused to agree with Democrats not to use any information that they may gain from Russian attacks in the 2018 election.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Saturday it had made U.S. actor Steven Seagal its special representative for Russian-U.S. humanitarian ties, a role it said was meant to deepen cultural, art and youth ties between the two countries.
With Trump constantly undermining and contradicting the rhetoric and actions of his own administration officials, Russia will not be deterred.Â
An accountant for U.S. President Donald Trump’s one-time campaign chairman Paul Manafort admitted in trial testimony on Friday that she helped backdate documents and falsify financial records at Manafort and his business partner’s request to reduce his tax burden and help him qualify for loans.
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Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) said on MSNBC’s The Beat with Ari Melber that the walls are closing in on Trump as besides the Russia and Cohen investigations, the president could be facing issues with criminal tax fraud over the Trump Foundation.
The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on a Russian bank it said had facilitated a transaction with a person blacklisted by Washington for involvement with North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.
Former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman said proof of Donald Trump’s guilt has been staring all of us right in the face.
Prosecutors on Thursday pressed their bank and tax fraud case against Paul Manafort, presenting testimony and documents to try to prove U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman deceived his lead bookkeeper and a bank about his finances.
Republican and Democratic U.S. senators introduced legislation on Thursday to impose stiff new sanctions on Russia, the latest effort by lawmakers to punish Moscow over interference in U.S. elections and its activities in Syria and Ukraine.
The Director Of National Intelligence was asked during the White House press briefing about Trump and Putin discussing Russia’s attacks on the United States during their summit, and he said that he wasn’t in a position to know what they talked about.
Prosecutors in the trial of U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort hammered away on Thursday at his lavish spending as they sought to prove fraud charges, while they also confirmed plans to call a key witness to testify.
The Republican senator is due to lead a U.S. delegation to the Russian capital and to meet Russian members of parliament, Russian agencies cited a senior lawmaker as saying earlier on Thursday.
By Sarah N. Lynch, Nathan Layne and Karen Freifeld ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Reuters) – Two witnesses in the trial of President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort testified on Wednesday that invoices purporting to bill a company tied to Manafort appeared to be fake. It was the first time that prosecutors from Special Counsel Robert…
At the end of the day, crimes are crimes. That’s not going to change, no matter how many cable news meltdowns Rudy Giuliani has in the coming weeks.
A foreign attack on American democracy was aided and abetted by the campaign of the current president. Um, yeah, that’s a bigger deal than Watergate.
This active threat to U.S. democracy is compounded by the fact that the president is simply unwilling to acknowledge the problem and act on it.
Former Bush ethics lawyer and current Democratic Senate candidate Richard Painter questioned Trump’s mental stability after the president incriminated himself for obstructing justice on Twitter.
Robert Mueller responded to Trump’s interview conditions, and he is not going to agree to let the president only answer questions in writing.
Rudy Giuliani told the media that if Trump wanted to obstruct justice, he legally could, which is not true.
Sarah Sanders got confronted by reporters at the White House briefing for Trump using his Twitter account to obstruct justice. Video: Transcript: Q: Federal law says that any threatening letter or communication aim at impeding a federal investigation constitutes an obstruction of justice. Rudy Giuliani issued a statement saying he does not think this morning’s…
The White House is publicly claiming that Trump isn’t paying attention to the Paul Manafort trial, but privately Trump is watching the television coverage and demanding updates from his lawyers.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, linked Trump to the attempted Russian hacking of Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO).
While collusion is not a technical legal charge, Mueller is probing any coordination between the Russian government and the Trump campaign, and could bring conspiracy charges if he finds that any campaign member worked with Russia to break U.S. law.
The prosecution on Tuesday portrayed U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort as a man who felt tax and banking laws did not apply to him and described how he opened more than 30 bank accounts in three foreign countries to “receive and hide” income from Ukraine.
Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) who serves on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that he and his children had been targeted by hackers.
The U.S. Senate’s top Democrat, Chuck Schumer, on Tuesday expressed concern about Russian interference in the upcoming November elections, saying President Donald Trump should do more to prevent meddling and that it appears a Russian agency was behind the latest Facebook fake-account controversy.
The jury was selected on Tuesday in the trial of U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and opening arguments were set to begin in the afternoon.
Facebook Inc has identified a coordinated political influence campaign through dozens of inauthentic accounts on its platform ahead of November’s U.S. midterm election,
The new argument being made by Donald Trump’s legal defense team is blatantly desperate, but it’s catching fire in Trumpland.
Donald Trump openly questioned the patriotism of those who don’t support the confirmation of his Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh.
Paul Manafort, a former chairman of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, faces 18 criminal counts in his trial in a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, that starts on Tuesday. Half the counts involve bank fraud and bank fraud conspiracy, which can carry a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison for each count. He has pleaded not guilty. Here is a summary of the charges:
The more Trump’s legal team – aka the hapless Rudy Giuliani – tries to defend the president, the more trouble they find themselves in.
Rep. Steve Cohen predicted that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is going to indict Jared Kushner and Donald Trump Jr. for their direct involvement in the Russia conspiracy.
Trump and his campaign could be facing criminal charges on everything from election violations to bank fraud and cyber crimes if they are found to have conspired with Russia.
Former US Attorney Barbara McQuade discussed how Rudy Giuliani got prosecutors closer to be able to charge the Trumps with the crime of conspiracy.
Paul Manafort on Tuesday will become the first of President Donald Trump’s former aides to go on trial, accused of bank and tax fraud by federal investigators probing Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Thousands protested in central Moscow on Sunday against a proposed increase to the retirement age and the crowd chanted slogans critical of President Vladimir Putin whose approval ratings have been dented by the bill.
Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) responded to a question about Donald Trump Jr. potentially committing a crime by lying to Congress with a call for the Mueller investigation to end.
Tech firms like Facebook (FB.O) should be made liable for “harmful and misleading†material on their websites and pay a levy so they can be regulated, British lawmakers said, warning of a crisis in democracy due to misuse of personal data.
Twitter Inc on Friday said it lost 1 million monthly active users from the previous quarter and warned the closely watched figure could keep falling as it deletes more phony accounts, causing the biggest one-day decline in its shares since 2016.
If Trump is afraid of journalists’ questions about these bombshell allegations, then he’ll fold like a cheap tent when he has to answer to Mueller.
When this information comes out, the entire house of cards on which Trump built his illegitimate presidency will come crashing to the ground.
President Donald Trump is open to visiting Moscow, the White House said on Friday after Russian President Vladimir Putin said he had invited the American leader.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders released a statement for Trump on his election security meeting, and the statement did not mention Russia once.
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.
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) delivered the message to Michael Cohen that now is the time to cooperate with Robert Mueller. Video: Rep. Swalwell said on MSNBC’s Deadline: White House: We were as thorough as you could be on the democratic side without having subpoena power and without having Republicans across the table from us on…
Trump has no plan to keep America’s election’s secure, and he has no agency or person in charge of election security, and to make sure that everyone knows that he could care less, his national security meeting on election security lasted less than 30 minutes.
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.
Rachel Maddow confirmed CNN’s reporting that Michael Cohen said that Trump signed off on infamous Trump Tower meeting with the Russians and that Cohen is willing to tell Special Counsel Robert Mueller what he knows.
With his back to the wall as he looks to save himself from legal trouble, Michael Cohen is wrecking Donald Trump’s world.
If you look at Trump’s Twitter page, you will see no shortage of moronic rantings that could fall under the umbrella of obstruction of justice.
The Russian plan for 2018 seemed obvious. The Russians will attack vulnerable red-state Democratic Senators who are up for reelection. This plan was confirmed with Russia’s attack on Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO).
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is using Trump’s Twitter account as part of his investigation as the special counsel is examining the president’s tweets.
Facebook Inc Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg’s fortune took an almost $16 billion hit on Thursday, as the social media giant headed for the biggest one-day wipeout in U.S. stock market history, a day after executives forecast years of lower profit margins.
The ranking Democrats on the House Judiciary, Oversight, and Intelligence Committees issued a joint statement declaring that House Freedom Caucus effort to impeach Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has no chance of removing Rosenstein. Ranking Members Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) of the House Judiciary Committee, Elijah Cummings (D-MD) of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and…
The Trump-loving gun group has remained silent even after it was revealed that Russian agent Maria Butina infiltrated the organization.
If Republicans are truly interested in filing articles of impeachment against someone, they should look toward 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
A U.S. judge said on Wednesday she may consider imposing a gag order on lawyers for accused Russian agent Maria Butina after prosecutors complained about statements by her lead attorney to the news media and expressed concern about turning over evidence to the defense.
Facebook officials on Tuesday said the company is using a range of techniques including artificial intelligence to counter Russian operatives or others who use deceptive tactics and false information to manipulate public opinion.
Sec. of State Mike Pompeo was asked if he was told what Trump and Putin talked about in their private meeting, and the Secretary of State fell apart.
Trump’s National Security Advisor, John Bolton, said in a statement that Trump would not be meeting with Putin again until the “witch hunt” is over.
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) said that Trump’s recent tweets show that he is nervous and panicking over either Mueller or the midterms.
Outside experts have concluded that the Russian attack on the 2016 election did enough damage to swing 80,000 votes in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, which put Trump in the White House.
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.
Rachel Maddow showed that Trump is intentionally scrubbing facts from the official White House record as part of a disinformation campaign against America.
Unlike a year ago, when Congress worked with lightning speed on a sanctions law targeting Russia, North Korea and Iran, some lawmakers said on Tuesday the Senate and House of Representatives were carefully weighing their response to growing fears that Moscow is plotting to interfere in November’s congressional elections.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) just called on Robert Mueller to subpoena Trump, and if he refuses to comply, take him to court.
Trump tweeted that he fears that Russia is going to interfere in the election to help Democrats, as he is trying everything to distract from his own betrayal of America.
Against all evidence, Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) said he didn’t have a problem with President Donald Trump sitting down with Putin, claiming that what matters is the message that Trump might send to stop meddling in our country.
The Attorney General of the United States, Jeff Sessions, laughed and joined in as students chanted lock her up while he gave a speech in DC.
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.
At the end of the day, Devin Nunes is to Trump what Trump is to Russian president Vladimir Putin: an obedient lapdog.Â
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.
The White House on Monday threatened to strip six former U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials, including Obama-era CIA director John Brennan, of their security clearances as President Donald Trump considers striking back at critics of his summit meeting last week with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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.
A pair of prominent Republican U.S. senators said on Sunday that the United States needs to prepare new sanctions against Russia to discourage interference in upcoming elections.
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) suggested that Trump’s UN Ambassador, Secretary of State, Director of National Intelligence, and FBI Director all consider quitting after the president sided with Putin on Russian election meddling.
CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Carter Page repeatedly if he had any relationships with Russian government officials, and Page responded by dodging the questions.
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA), who served in the Iraq War, raised questions about Trump’s loyalty to the United States during an interview on CNN’s State Of The Union.
Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, brought up the possibility that Trump may be compromised because he was laundering money for Russia,
The 412 pages released this Saturday related to the surveillance of former Trump presidential campaign adviser Carter Page as part of the Trump Russia 2016 probe discredit Devin Nunes (R-CA) and the GOP memo, which claimed that a Yahoo News article was used to corroborate Steele.
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
The U.S. Treasury is open to removing Russian aluminum producer Rusal from a U.S. sanctions list, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Friday, adding the objective was “not to put Rusal out of business.”
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) told MSNBC that the battle to get testimony or the notes of the translator from Trump’s private meeting with Putin isn’t over and that Special Counsel Robert Mueller may be able to get the translator’s notes.
Putin and advocates for the Kremlin’s position had had no success with the campaign – until Trump became president. The Magnitsky Act of 2012 is the backdrop of Putin’s proposal to Trump at the Helsinki meeting earlier this week that the United States give Russian officials access to former U.S. ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul.
A group of U.S. lawmakers are planning to visit Russia again following a rare trip to Moscow by Republican members of Congress this month, Interfax news agency cited Russia’s ambassador to the United States as saying on Friday.
While pro-Trump groups struggle to pull off a single event, the president continues to face massive protests calling for his impeachment.
The U.S. Justice Department announced on Thursday a policy to alert the public about foreign cyber operations like Russia’s alleged hacking and disinformation campaign during the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
