By MATT APUZZO, MATTHEW ROSENBERG and ADAM GOLDMAN JUNE 20, 2017 WASHINGTON — Senior officials across the government became convinced in January that the incoming national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, had become vulnerable to Russian blackmail. CLICK IMAGE for direct link to NYT story. At the F.B.I., the C.I.A., the Justice Department and the Office of the Director of National […]
By Andrew Kaczynski Tue June 20, 2017 Donald Trump’s nominee to be the director of the FBI, Christopher Wray, represented an American energy executive in 2006 who was being criminally investigated by the Russian government. CLICK IMAGE for link to CNN story & video. The detail, which was included on Wray’s biography on the website of […]
BY JOSH SAUL ON 6/19/17 Lawyers seeking to unseal documents related to the criminal past of a former business partner of President Donald Trump said in federal court on Monday that the documents may contain evidence that Trump committed fraud. CLICK IMAGE for link to Newsweek story. The sealed documents are from a federal case against Felix […]
BY JEFF STEIN ON 6/19/17 Updated | First it was Russia and Turkey. Now congressional investigators are zeroing in on the previously undisclosed business dealings of former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn in the Middle East. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for link to Newsweek story and video. On Monday, the ranking Democrats on two House committees looking […]
By Rosalind S. Helderman, Tom Hamburger and Rachel Weiner June 19 In August, as tension mounted over Russia’s role in the U.S. presidential race, Donald Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, sat down to dinner with a business associate from Ukraine who once served in the Russian army. Konstantin Kilimnik, who learned English at a military school that some experts consider […]
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By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK Published JUNE 18, 2017 LONDON — President Trump has done business with royals from Saudi Arabia for at least 20 years, since he sold the Plaza Hotel to a partnership formed by a Saudi prince. Mr. Trump has earned millions of dollars from the United Arab Emirates for putting his name on a golf course, with a second […]
By Peter Lance. June 18th On the 45th anniversary of the break-in at the Democratic National Committee Headquarters at The Watergate complex MSNBC aired a two-hour documentary narrated by Robert Redford. It has chilling relevance to the current crisis over Donald J. Trump, Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and his possible obstruction of justice […]
By Abby Phillip June 16 President Trump fired off tweets Friday morning attacking the special counsel’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, and apparently, Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for link to WP video. CLICK HERE for link to WP story. “I am being investigated for firing the FBI Director by […]
Bryan Logan 6.15.17 Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein issued a stunning statement Thursday night that appeared to be a rebuke of intelligence leaks roundly criticized by President Donald Trump and Republicans at large. The statement said Americans should think twice “before accepting as true any stories attributed to anonymous ‘officials.’” CLICK IMAGE for link to story. […]
