By MATTHEW ROSENBERG, ADAM GOLDMAN and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT MARCH 1, 2017 WASHINGTON — In the Obama administration’s last days, some White House officials scrambled to spread information about Russian efforts to undermine the presidential election — and about possible contacts between associates of President-elect Donald J. Trump and Russians — across the government. Former American officials say they had two aims: […]
Campaign aide J.D. Gordon says change was requested by Donald Trump himself. By Jim Acosta March 2nd, 2017 Former Trump adviser met with Russian at RNC Situation Room J.D. Gordon, a former Trump campaign adviser, tells CNN’s Jim Acosta that he and other Trump personnel met with Russia’s ambassador to the US during the Republican National Convention in July 2016 […]
By Dana Milbank Opinion writer February 28 President Trump addressed Congress on Tuesday night. Or was it the state Duma? And how can you tell the difference? Trump uttered some 5,000 words and spoke for 60 minutes, but not one of those words was “Russia,” and not one of those minutes was devoted to the so-far successful effort by […]
BY GLENN GARVIN February 27th, 2017 Since the allegations about Donald Trump’s business connections to Russia started to fly last year in the middle of his presidential campaign, the fog of political war has made it difficult to tell the real from the shadow. Except for one very visible landmark: a sprawling, rococo seaside mansion in […]
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 2/27/17 New Commerce Secretary at nexus of lucrative Trump Russian deal: With a line that runs through newly confirmed Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Rachel Maddow connects the dots between a billionaire Russian oligarch and a Donald Trump deal worth tens of millions of dollars. Duration: 21:44 CLICK IMAGES for direct link to videos: White […]
Matthew Rozsa Tuesday, Feb 28, 2017 Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr, R-N.C., is shying away from publicity after admitting that he talked with the White House about reports that President Donald Trump’s campaign had contacts with Russian officials — and that he worked to discredit unfavorable coverage from CNN and The New York Times. […]
Charlotte England Monday 27 February 2017 18:05 GM When Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations died suddenly in New York last week, he became the sixth Russian diplomat to die unexpectedly since November, leaving internet conspiracy theorists trying to spot a pattern. Vitaly Churkin, 64, was rushed to hospital from his office at Russia’s UN mission on 20 February, after becoming ill without warning on his way in […]
Stephanie Kirchgaessner February 27, 2017 New commerce secretary Wilbur Ross’s response about possible links between Bank of Cyprus, Russian agents and Trump officials wasn’t released to Senate. CLICK IMAGE for direct link to story The White House has been accused of withholding information from Congress about whether Donald Trump or any of his campaign affiliates have […]
By Greg Miller and Adam Entous February 24 at 8:47 PM The Trump administration has enlisted senior members of the intelligence community and Congress in efforts to counter news stories about Trump associates’ ties to Russia, a politically charged issue that has been under investigation by the FBI as well as lawmakers now defending the […]
By Jim Sciutto, Evan Perez, Shimon Prokupecz, Manu Raju and Pamela Brown, CNN 7:03 PM ET, Thu February 23, 2017 Washington (CNN) The FBI rejected a recent White House request to publicly knock down media reports about communications between Donald Trump’s associates and Russians known to US intelligence during the 2016 presidential campaign, multiple US officials […]
