By MAGGIE HABERMAN and RACHEL ABRAMS MARCH 29, 2017 Ivanka Trump, the elder daughter of President Trump, is becoming an official government employee, joining her husband, Jared Kushner, in serving as an unpaid adviser to her father in the White House. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for direct link to NYT story. The announcement on Wednesday amounts to the formal recognition […]
by Ilya Marritz and Andrea Bernstein Mar 28, 2017 Paul J. Manafort, the former Trump campaign manager facing multiple investigations for his political and financial ties to Russia, has engaged in a series of puzzling real estate deals in New York City over the past 11 years. Real estate and law enforcement experts say some of these transactions fit […]
Michael Isikoff March 27, 2017 The House intelligence committee investigation into Russian interference in last year’s election was thrown into new turmoil Monday night, after the ranking Democrat on the panel called on the Republican chairman, Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., to “recuse himself from any further involvement.” CLICK IMAGE for direct link to story The call by […]
By Devlin Barrett and Adam Entous March 28 The Trump administration sought to block former acting attorney general Sally Yates from testifying in the House investigation of possible links between Russian officials and Donald Trump’s campaign, according to letters provided to The Washington Post. The effort to keep Yates from testifying has further angered Democrats, who have accused Republicans […]
By JO BECKER, MATTHEW ROSENBERG and MAGGIE HABERMAN MARCH 27 Senate investigators plan to question Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and a close adviser, as part of their broad inquiry into ties between Trump associates and Russian officials or others linked to the Kremlin, according to administration and congressional officials. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for link to video. CLICK HERE: for […]
By Jake Tapper, Washington Correspondent Updated 1:14 PM ET, Mon March 27, 2017 Washington (CNN) It has been something of a mystery, the whereabouts of House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes on the day before his announcement that he saw information suggesting that communications of then-President-elect Donald Trump and his advisers may have been swept up in […]
By Peter Lance March 27th, 2017. Investigatingtrump.com & The Huff Post Editor’s note: See CNN story at right: It was one bizarre week for Rep. Devin Nunes, Chair of the only committee in the U.S. House investigating the possibility that Russia handed the 2016 election to Donald Trump Last Monday he gaveled open a hearing in […]
The Republican intelligence chairman got a message and jumped out of an Uber. The next morning he dropped a bombshell based on classified information. Tim Mak 3.24.17 Hours before the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee announced his shocking claims about surveillance of the Trump transition team on Wednesday morning, he practically disappeared. Rep. Devin Nunes was traveling with a senior […]
James Woolsey says he attended a September meeting where other participants, including then-Trump adviser Mike Flynn, talked of moving Fethullah Gulen back to Turkey without going through U.S. extradition process. By JAMES V. GRIMALDI, DION NISSENBAUM MARGARET COKER March 25, 2017 Retired Army Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, while serving as an adviser to the Trump campaign, met with top Turkish government […]
By Eric Levitz March 24, 2017 This week, the Republican tasked with leading the House’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election — and, thus, into the allegation that Trump aides participated in that interference — decided to personally brief the president on some interesting intelligence reports he’d come across. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for direct link to story. […]
