Julian Borger in Washington Friday 28 April 2017 The UK government was given details last December of allegedly extensive contacts between the Trump campaign and Moscow, according to court papers. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for direct link to Guardian story. Reports by Christopher Steele, a former MI6 officer, on possible collusion between the the Trump camp and the Kremlin […]
By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS and PATRICIA COHEN APRIL 27, 2017 WASHINGTON — President Trump’s proposal to slash individual and business taxes and erase a surtax that funds the Affordable Care Act would amount to a multitrillion-dollar shift from federal coffers to America’s richest families and their heirs, setting up a politically fraught battle over how best to use the […]
SOPHIA TESFAYE FRIDAY, APR 28, 2017 Although Attorney General Sessions did not confirm a Department of Justice investigation into President Donald Trump’s ousted national security adviser Michael Flynn, he did announce on Friday that he will not be involved in any federal investigation. CLICK IMAGE for direct link to story. Sessions had already recused himself from the […]
BY KATIE BO WILLIAMS – 04/27/17 The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee on Thursday slammed the White House for refusing to comply with a bipartisan request for documents about former national security adviser Michael Flynn. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for direct link to the story. “I honestly do not understand why the White House is […]
By Dan Lamothe and Ed O’Keefe April 27 2017 The Pentagon’s top watchdog has launched an investigation into money that former national security adviser and retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn received from foreign groups and whether he failed to obtain proper approval to do so, lawmakers and defense officials said Thursday. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for link to WP […]
JEREMY VENOOK APR 24, 2017 President Donald Trump still has not taken the necessary steps to distance himself from his businesses while in office. In accordance with a plan that he and one of his lawyers, Sheri Dillon, laid out at a press conference on January 11, Trump has filed paperwork to remove himself from the day-to-day operation of […]
There are just seven part-time staffers working on the Senate inquiry. Not one of them is a trained investigator. And they haven’t interviewed a single player in Trump’s orbit. TIM MAK 04.23.17 The Senate Intelligence Committee’s probe into Russia’s election interference is supposedly the best hope for getting the public credible answers about whether there […]
As the F.B.I. investigated Hillary Clinton and the Trump campaign, James B. Comey tried to keep the bureau out of politics but plunged it into the center of a bitter election. By MATT APUZZO, MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT, ADAM GOLDMAN & ERIC LICHTBLAU APRIL 22 WASHINGTON — The day before he upended the 2016 election, James B. Comey, the director of the Federal Bureau […]
By Pamela Brown, Shimon Prokupecz, Jim Sciutto and Marshall Cohen, The FBI gathered intelligence last summer that suggests Russian operatives tried to use Trump advisers, including Carter Page, to infiltrate the Trump campaign, according to US officials. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for direct link to CNN story and video. The new information adds to the emerging picture of how the […]
CARRIE JOHNSON April 20, 2017 The woman leading the Justice Department’s investigation of foreign meddling into the 2016 election and possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia has told staff members she will leave the department in May. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for direct link to NPR story. Mary B. McCord has served at the highest […]
