By JACK GILLUM, CHAD DAY and JEFF HORWITZ Apr. 12, 2017 WASHINGTON (AP) — Last August, a handwritten ledger surfaced in Ukraine with dollar amounts and dates next to the name of Paul Manafort, who was then Donald Trump’s campaign chairman. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for direct link to AP exclusive. Ukrainian investigators called it evidence of off-the-books payments from a […]
By MIKE McINTIRE APRIL 12, 2017 Aug. 19 was an eventful day for Paul Manafort. That morning, he stepped down from guiding Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign, after a brief tenure during which Mr. Trump won the Republican nomination, Democrats’ emails were hacked and the campaign’s contacts with Russia came under scrutiny. Dogged by revelations about past financial […]
By MICHAEL BIESECKER and GARY FINEOUT April 12, 2017 at 6:05 am WASHINGTON — As a top aide to Florida’s attorney general, Carlos G. Muniz helped defend the office’s decision to sit out legal action against Trump University. Now the president is naming him to be the top lawyer in the U.S. Education Department. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for direct […]
BY MAX GREENWOOD AND MEGAN R. WILSON – 04/12/17 Paul Manafort, the former chairman of Donald Trump‘s presidential campaign, might register as a foreign agent with the Department of Justice, a spokesman for Manafort said Wednesday. CLICK IMAGE for direct link to story on the hill.com The spokesman said Manafort is “taking appropriate steps in response to the guidance” he was […]
By Ellen Nakashima, Devlin Barrett and Adam Entous April 11 The FBI obtained a secret court order last summer to monitor the communications of an adviser to presidential candidate Donald Trump, part of an investigation into possible links between Russia and the campaign, law enforcement and other U.S. officials said. CLICK IMAGE for link to WP VIDEO CLICK HERE for […]
Editor’s note. For background on the significance of Eric Trump’s statement read: HuffPost ____________________________________________________________________ By Simon Johnson and Gordon Rayner, political editor 11 APRIL 2017 Donald Trump’s decision to launch a cruise missile attack on Syria proved he is not in league with Russia and will not be “pushed around” by Vladimir Putin, the US President’s son has told The Daily Telegraph. […]
MATTHEW ROZSA SUNDAY, APR 9, 2017 If President Donald Trump did indeed collude with Russia to defeat Hillary Clinton, his best chance of getting away with it rests on manipulating our culture’s notoriously distractible attention span. Indeed, there has been so much thrown out there about this issue — from countless interactions between Trumpers and unsavory […]
By MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ APRIL 10, 2017 Several years ago, federal agents traveled to Moscow to enlist the help of their Russian counterparts in arresting one of the world’s most pernicious email spammers. They were rebuffed, a former American law enforcement official who was there said. The spammer, who used the pseudonym Peter Severa, was protected, probably by […]
THE LAST WORD WITH LAWRENCE O’DONNELL 4/7/17 The Trump-Putin theory on Syria that can’t be ruled out Lawrence O’Donnell lays out how Donald Trump’s credibility problems have made an impossible scenario possible. David Corn, Rick Wilson, and Indira Lakshmanan join. Duration: 15:25 CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for link to video. investigatingtrump.com Editor’s note: The link above is […]
Editor’s note: China too, raised the question of whether Trump’s Syrian airstrike was meant to distance him from the Russia scandal. See Huffington Post from April 10th, 2017 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ By JANE PERLEZ APRIL 8, 2017 BEIJING — With President Xi Jinping safely out of the United States and no longer President Trump’s guest, China’s state-run media on Saturday was free […]
