President Donald Trump spent the morning casting doubt on the results of the 2020 election, alleging that “ballot abuse” contributed to his loss against President-elect Joe Biden. Now he’s lashed out at Andrew McCabe, the former deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for the role he played in the Russia probe, which…
Hopefully our now soon-to-be former President, also known as Individual-1 in a court filing against Trump’s former fixer/lawyer Michael Cohen by the Southern District of New York in 2018, will soon enough find himself housed in a prison and clothed in an orange jumpsuit. Trump was accused of a crime in this filing and has…
President Donald Trump attacked Christopher Wray, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), during an interview he gave earlier this morning on Fox Business. “We know that the FBI lied to the Senate in February of 2018. Christopher Wray was running the FBI. Mr. President, is Christopher Wray hiding all of this stuff…
Four former presidents of the D.C. Bar Association have called for the body to investigate Attorney General William Barr. They accuse him of unethical behavior and violating his oath to uphold the Constitution. In a lengthy complaint published on Wednesday, the signatories point to Barr’s actions on the Special Counsel’s Russia probe, the clearing of…
Kayleigh McEnany has claimed that the Russia investigation was a waste of the country’s time and that it was based on a hoax. She was responding to an op-ed from Robert Mueller. The former Special Counsel wrote an article in The Washington Post defending his probe. He also criticized the President for commuting Roger Stone’s sentence. The…
A top prosecutor involved in Robert Mueller’s probe has admitted investigators could have done more during the special counsel’s investigation into Russia. Andrew Weissmann was head of the criminal fraud division at the Department of Justice. In his new book, Where Law Ends, he will outline the Mueller investigation’s work. “I am deeply proud of the…
President Donald Trump claimed a friend told him he is “the most perfect person” for surviving the investigation into his Russian ties. “Isn’t that true?” he asked the audience. "A friend of mine said, 'you have to be the most perfect person.' Isn't that true?" — Trump pic.twitter.com/9OWptMZngV — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 26, 2020…
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was granted sweeping subpoena power by Republicans to subpoena former Obama officials in his bogus Russia probe.
President Donald Trump continued promoting his “Obamagate” conspiracy theory on Twitter this morning in a joint attack against former President Barack Obama and media organizations that have printed unfavorable coverage of his presidency. First Trump thanked the hosts of “Fox and Friends” for “covering, supremely, the greatest political scandal in the history of the United…
U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, who oversees the case against former President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn, has appointed former judge John Gleeson to counter the Justice Department’s argument that Flynn’s case should be dismissed. Sullivan wrote that Gleeson will present arguments as an amicus curiae––or “friend of the court”––”in opposition…
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) criticized former President Barack Obama after news outlets obtained a tape of a web talk between the former president and members of the Obama Alumni Association in which he said the “rule of law is at risk” in the United States after it emerged the Justice Department dismissed the…
President Donald Trump attacked former President Barack Obama, launching into an “Obamagate” conspiracy after news outlets obtained a tape of a web talk between the former president and members of the Obama Alumni Association in which he said the “rule of law is at risk” in the United States after it emerged the Justice Department…
President Donald Trump reflected on his approach to the Russia investigation during a phone interview with the hosts of “Fox and Friends,” saying he “learned a lot” from studying history and the administration of former President Richard Nixon. “I learned a lot from Richard Nixon. Don’t fire people,” he said. “I learned a lot. I…
The prosecutor that Attorney General Barr handpicked to investigate the intel community’s Russia investigation rejects Trump’s conspiracy theory.
Trump’s lawyers realized that they have no idea what White House Counsel Don McGahn told Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
Robert Mueller responded to Trump’s interview conditions, and he is not going to agree to let the president only answer questions in writing.
CNN’s Dana Bash laughed in Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani’s face when he claimed that his defense of Trump isn’t motivated by political considerations.
Trump to spin the judge throwing out the DNC lawsuit over Russia collusion as a victory, but it was a lie. The lawsuit was not tossed for lack of merit, but jurisdiction.
The New York Times is reporting today that two of Paul Manafort’s closest associates turned on him and gave evidence to Robert Mueller leading to the special counsel filing new charges of witness tampering against President Trump‘s former campaign chairman. The associates are veteran journalists who had previously worked with Manafort in the Ukraine, where…
MSNBC’s Katy Tur called out the four-point strategy that Trump is using to try to survive the Mueller investigation and the Russia scandal.
Trump tantrumed because federal law enforcement did their job and did not tip him off that his campaign was the subject of an investigation.
It is being reported that the D’Souza pardon was intended to send a loud message to Mueller witnesses that if they keep quiet, Trump will pardon them.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) took Rudy Giuliani’s Watergate comparison and turned it around to make the point that what Trump has potentially done is bigger and worse than Watergate.
The Justice Department announced Wednesday evening that it will hold back-to-back meetings on Thursday to review classified information concerning a confidential intelligence source in the Russia investigation. The first meeting will include House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes and Oversight Chair Trey Gowdy and the second will include the bipartisan “Gang of Eight” and Gowdy. The…
On January 6, 2017, between Donald Trump winning the presidential election and his being sworn in, our nation’s intelligence community issued a document clearly outlining how Russia, at the directive of the President of that nation, interfered with our election, favoring Donald Trump. When asked by a reporter yesterday, whether the Department of Homeland Security…
A group of far-right Trump supporting House Republicans has introduced a treasonous resolution demanding a second special counsel to investigate the Russia investigation.
During his Sunday madness tweet storm over the Russia investigation, Trump claimed that anyone who supports the Russia investigation is not a real American.
Trump took to Twitter and had himself a Sunday morning meltdown over reports that the Trump campaign was also meeting with Middle Eastern countries about illegal interference in the 2016 election.
Officials at the Department of Justice are warning that House Intelligence Committee chairman, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), is abusing the power of his position to collect government secrets that he can weaponize and use against Special Counsel Robert Mueller. The New York Times reported, “But increasingly, top officials at the Justice Department have privately expressed…
One of the deepest fears of many Americans is that our government has been taken over, or at least unduly influenced, by Russia and its President Vladimir Putin. And this week’s revelations about Michael Cohen from Stormy Daniels’ lawyer Michael Avenatti have done nothing to calm those fears. In fact, it is possible to interpret…
Rudy Giuliani is digging Trump’s political grave by inventing fake quotes about the investigation from Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
As Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Rep. Devin Nunes (R – CA) has become a hero to Republicans and a laughingstock to Democrats. His committee’s “investigation” into the Trump campaign’s collusion with Russia during the 2016 election was indeed a total joke, although Republicans (especially the president) loved it because it concluded that without…
Robert Mueller is leaving no stone unturned as he is interviewing one of Trump’s closest friends, Tom Barrack.
Lost in the Rudy Giuliani media storm is the fact that yesterday was a very bad news day for Trump’s friends and bad boys Roger Stone and Paul Manafort. On Thursday, Special Counsel Mueller requested 70 blank subpoenas for appearances in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA) in the case…
On Sunday talk shows former FBI Director James Comey completely dismissed and derided the Republicans’ House Intelligence Committee report that said there was no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Comey said Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press that he considers the report, issued Friday by Republicans, to be a “political document.” He expressed his opinion…
Many Americans are hoping that this November’s midterm elections will result in what is being called a ‘Blue Wave’ that would sweep into power so many Democrats in Congress that they would take back control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Some people think that the biggest impact of Democratic control would…
Instead of providing reassurance that Mr. Trump was not considering firing Robert Mueller or Rod Rosenstein, Trump provided a cryptic response to a reporter yesterday asking whether “he had decided it not worth the political fallout” to fire either of the men associated with the Russian investigation. Mr. Trump responded to the question beginning with…
Today, John Dowd, one of several attorneys working on Mr. Trump’s legal team has resigned as was speculated by many. With reports of Trump’s disaffection with his legal team coupled with reports of his taking advice from more non-traditional individuals such as Fox News personality, Judge Jean Pirro. Fox news opinion personalities have urged Trump…
Each time another ex-Trump confidant flips on their former boss and starts cooperating with Mueller, the special counsel gets another building block in its growing case against Trump.
Trump’s lawyers are now urging him to refuse an interview with Robert Mueller, citing the president’s inability to tell the truth.
Congressman Schiff gave the president and son Don Jr. a quick lesson on what it means to illegally leak classified information.
“It gins up [Trump’s] base and it may help him politically, but legally it’s of no moment. … I think the Republicans over-promised and under-delivered with their memo.”
After the Nunes memo turned out to be an incredible flop, Donald Trump scurried off to his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida on Saturday.
Trump referred to himself in the third person, improperly used “their,” and capitalized words at random. The simple act of reading the tweet left the AM Joy panel struggling to control their laughter.
While Republicans point to the memo as proof that the FBI was out to get Trump’s campaign via FISA court warrants, Maddow explained just how insane that argument is.
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.
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.
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.
All of the interviews shown in the clip took place after Trump reportedly ordered White House counsel to remove Mueller from his post.
“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.
The White House legal team really doesn’t want Donald Trump to be interviewed by Robert Mueller.
“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.
CIA Director Mike Pompeo has been questioned by the special counsel’s office investigating alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and possible collusion with President Donald Trump’s campaign, NBC News reported on Wednesday.
The pressure Trump and Sessions put on Wray is a sign that they are worried about the growing obstruction of justice case.
“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.
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.
“I believe high-level Trump associates, including potentially the president himself, are in increasing legal jeopardy. That’s because insiders have turned on them.”
Donald Trump hasn’t just let Russia get away with an attack on U.S. democracy – he’s essentially encouraging the next attack, too.
“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.”
The idea that Trump’s closest family members and advisers were communicating with Russian officials without Donald Trump’s knowledge is becoming increasingly unlikely.
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.”
According to the New York Times, “Mr. McGahn was unsuccessful, and the president erupted in anger in front of numerous White House officials, saying he needed his attorney general to protect him.”
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.
“He is not a king! He is a president in a constitutional model of government.”
In an impromptu interview with the New York Times, Trump said, “I have the absolute right to do what I want to do with the Justice Department.”
The latest aspect of Mueller’s probe could show how widespread and hands-on the coordination was between Russia and the president’s team.
Trump will try to paint Flynn as a liar, but it’ll be a tough sell given all the praise he has heaped on the ex-national security adviser.
Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe confirmed James Comey’s explosive testimony that Trump demanded his loyalty.
The question is no longer whether the behavior of these Republicans is going to cause long-lasting damage to U.S. democracy – it’s how much damage will it cause.
“What if it’s not Robert Mueller who gets fired? What if it’s Rod Rosenstein or Jeff Sessions, either of whom could start the process that would result in the end of the Mueller investigation?”
“Why does this keep happening? Why do we consistently have to get news about the behavior and the meetings and the conversations of the American president from the Russian government?”
Unlike the non-scandal surrounding Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email account that defined last year’s campaign coverage, this one could actually uncover a smoking gun.
According to the CBS News survey, 43 percent Republicans feel that it’s either very or somewhat likely that Trump’s team had an inappropriate relationship with Russia.
It’s not a good place for the White House to be when their only remaining argument in defense of Donald Trump is that he is above the law.
Mueller wants to make sure Manafort remains under house arrest after it was revealed that the former Trump campaign manager recently ghostwrote an op-ed with a Russian operative.
Distracting from the increasingly damning Russia scandal by touting a tax scam that will eviscerate the middle-class probably isn’t a good strategy.
Trump is doing his best to hand Robert Mueller and congressional investigators an open-and-shut obstruction of justice case against him.
Before Trump was sworn in, the CIA warned Israel that Vladimir Putin had “leverages of pressure” over Trump.
The move by Mueller suggests that, while the Trump campaign claims to be “voluntarily” handing over all Russia-related documentation, they aren’t being fully forthcoming.
To make matters worse for Trump, an even larger number of Americans – nearly two thirds – believe that the ongoing investigation into the president’s ties to Russia is a “serious matter.”
The President of the United States has spent his entire life trampling law, bullying subordinates, disrespecting races different from his and dodging all accountability for his actions. He’s about to learn that karma has a way of righting wrongs and humbling the most powerful of men.
Trump’s legal team is suggesting they will go after Mueller if he investigates anything they don’t want him to.
Sessions didn’t just meet with the Russians himself, but he was informed about similar contacts made by others in the campaign.
If there is any investigation Trump should be worried about, it’s the one that is pushing his administration closer to complete collapse – not the phony one he wishes he could wage against Hillary Clinton.
Page appeared to have incriminated himself by casually admitting that, yeah, he was on email chains about Russia with George Papadopoulos.
“It doesn’t matter what right-wingers think about something else. What matters is the prosecution and the evidence they’re developing. And all your talk about distraction isn’t going to help your side.”
Republicans are leaping to defend Mueller as concerns grow that Trump may try to fire him.
On Sunday morning, Donald Trump gave America a glimpse of his state of frantic panic with a real-time outburst on Twitter that is directly related to the first criminal charges being approved in the Russia investigation.
Trump has spent 27 percent of his time as president golfing and more than a third hiding out at one of his lavish properties.
The explosive news that the first charges have been filed in Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation is putting the recent Trump-Fox propaganda blitz in a new perspective.
According to a new report, many GOP lawmakers are restless and “ready to close the books” on the probe.
“One way you can know that something is a very salient story … is when the Trump White House or the Trump campaign starts denying all knowledge of the people and entities involved.”