By Karen DeYoung and Adam Entous May 31 The Trump administration is moving toward handing back to Russia two diplomatic compounds, near New York City and on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, from which its officials were ejected in late December as punishment for Moscow’s interference in the 2016 presidential election. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for direct link to WP photos. CLICK HERE for […]
by KEN DILANIAN and ADAM REISS MAY 30 2017, 8:51 PM ET President Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, told NBC News on Tuesday that if he is issued a subpoena as part of Congressional probes into Russian interference in the U.S. election he will testify. Earlier, Cohen said that he has received requests for information from the Senate […]
By Pamela Brown, Jim Sciutto and Dana Bash, Tue May 30, 2017 (CNN) Russian government officials discussed having potentially “derogatory” information about then-presidential candidate Donald Trump and some of his top aides in conversations intercepted by US intelligence during the 2016 election, according to two former intelligence officials and a congressional source. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE […]
By Juliet Eilperin, Emma Brown and Darryl Fears May 29 The Trump administration is planning to disband the Labor Department division that has policed discrimination among federal contractors for four decades, according to the White House’s newly proposed budget, part of wider efforts to rein in government programs that promote civil rights. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for link to WP video. […]
By MAGGIE HABERMAN, GLENN THRUSH and JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS MAY 27, 2017 President Trump returned home on Saturday to confront a growing political and legal threat, as his top aides tried to contain the fallout from reports that his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is a focus of investigations into possible collusion between Russia and the president’s campaign and transition teams. CLICK […]
By Ellen Nakashima, Adam Entous and Greg Miller May 26 Jared Kushner and Russia’s ambassador to Washington discussed the possibility of setting up a secret and secure communications channel between Trump’s transition team and the Kremlin, using Russian diplomatic facilities in an apparent move to shield their pre-inauguration discussions from monitoring, according to U.S. officials briefed on intelligence reports. CLICK […]
By Robert Costa May 26 The Senate Intelligence Committee, which is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential race, has asked President Trump’s political organization to gather and produce all Russia-related documents, emails and phone records going back to his campaign’s launch in June 2015, according to two people briefed on the request. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for direct link to WP story. The […]
By Dana Bash, Shimon Prokupecz and Gloria Borger, Fri May 26, 2017 Washington (CNN) Then-FBI Director James Comey knew that a critical piece of information relating to the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email was fake — created by Russian intelligence — but he feared that if it became public it would undermine the probe and the Justice Department itself, according […]
ANNA NEMTSOVA SPENCER ACKERMAN 05.26.17 KIEV—The Ukrainian parliamentarian Mustafa Nayyem says the FBI has come to him at last, asking about Paul Manafort, who had a long record as a political operative serving pro-Russian figures here before he became the campaign manager for Donald Trump last year. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for direct link to story. Nayyem and other Ukrainian […]
By Aaron Blake May 25 2017 at 7:50 PM Jared Kushner has just been revealed as the senior White House adviser who is under investigation in the Russia probe — which is news that comes as little surprise. Indeed, when The Washington Post reported last week that a then-unnamed top Trump adviser was a focus, many quickly assumed it was […]
