NYT: Trump Promises a Revelation on Hacking. Expresses lingering skepticism about Russian interference
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Joy Reid’s best interviews with Trump surrogates and supporters
AM Joy 1/1/17 Joy Reid’s best interviews with Trump surrogates and supporters Watch Joy Reid challenge the falsehoods and mistruths of some of Donald Trump’s surrogates and supporters over the course of the past year. Duration: 9:21
Trump channels the ghost of Richard M. Nixon
By Peter Lance. December 30th, 2016. HuffPost The man who’ll soon occupy the same Oval Office as the man who once insisted that, “if the President does it, that means it’s not illegal,” ended the year with a message on Twitter proving that he hasn’t changed in two years. Back then on New Year’s Eve of […]
Salon.com Trump’s getting what he wants at Mar-a-Lago
Matthew Rozsa Dec. 31st, 2016 President-elect Donald Trump’s copious conflicts of interest haven’t made headlines this week like they have in the past, but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t anything worth noting. This week has revealed quite a bit of new information not only about how Trump has abused power in the past, but how […]
TheHill.com: Trump praises ‘very smart’ Putin on sanctions response
BY BEN KAMISAR – 12/30/16 02:52 PM EST President-elect Donald Trump on Friday lauded Russian President Vladimir Putin as “very smart” for not retaliating against the U.S. for new sanctions unveiled this week. “Great move on delay (by V. Putin) — I always knew he was very smart!” Trump tweeted Friday. Minutes after Trump’s tweet, the Russian Embassy […]
NYT: Obama Strikes Back at Russia for Election Hacking
By DAVID E. SANGER DEC. 29, 2016 WASHINGTON — President Obama struck back at Russia on Thursday for its efforts to influence the 2016 election, ejecting 35 suspected Russian intelligence operatives from the United States and imposing sanctions on Russia’s two leading intelligence services. The administration also penalized four top officers of one of those services, […]
GRIZZLY STEPPE: FBI Report on Russian Hacking
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NYT: How Russia Recruited Elite Hackers for Its Cyberwar
By ANDREW E. KRAMER DEC. 29, 2016 MOSCOW — Aleksandr B. Vyarya thought his job was to defend people from cyberattacks — until, he says, his government approached him with a request to do the opposite. CLICK IMAGE FOR LINK TO STORY. Mr. Vyarya, 33, a bearded, bespectacled computer programmer who thwarted hackers, said he was suddenly […]
Chicago Sun-Times: Trump conflicts of interest just beginning
Sun-Times Editorial Board 12.27.16 Two Trump family charities are shutting down or going into hibernation, which could be a blow to at least one favored recipient — the Trump family. But Donald Trump’s presidency is sure to be hammered by accusations of financial conflicts of […]
Vanity Fair: LARRY KUDLOW – TOP TRUMP CANDIDATE: PLUTOCRACY IS “JUST WHAT AMERICA NEEDS”
Larry Kudlow argues you can trust Trump’s billionaire advisers because “wealthy folks have no need to steal.” By Bess Levin December 28th, 2016. There has never been a White House administration nearly as wealthy as the team of financiers and business magnates Donald Trump has selected to implement his supposedly populist vision. Over the last […]