Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch have written an insider account titled Crime in Progress, with eye-popping anecdotes, of alleged collusion and the failure of the US media to expose it. In January 2017 a meeting took place in a deserted building in Foggy Bottom. It was conspiratorial. The office in downtown Washington belonged to David […]
The National Rifle Association (NRA) has acted as a โforeign assetโ in providing Russian officials access to US political organizations, according to an investigation by Senate Democrats. The results of the investigation were published by the Oregon senator Ron Wyden on Friday. The report also alleges that the NRA may have broken tax laws by […]
LawFare has a very interesting article on the Russian investigation and Donald Trump. Here is a very brief portion of the article written by Benjamin Wittes, editor in chief of Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of several books. The rest you may read at […]
The meaning of ‘trumped-up’ according to the Cambridge Dictionary is: “deliberately based on false information so that someone will be accused of doing something wrong and punished: Example: She was imprisoned on trumped-up corruption charges. The fact that the phrase ‘trumped-up’ contains the name Trump is most evident by the unbelievably high number of tweets […]
In the release, the Russia meeting was framed as a discussion about the adoption of Russian children โthat was not a campaign issue at the timeโ. Photograph: Joshua Roberts/Reuters President Trump personally dictated the press statement issued in the name of his eldest son that misleadingly downplayed the significance of a 2016 meeting with a […]
Jared Kushner, Donald Trumpโs son-in-law and senior adviser, who has been drawn into the billowing inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 election, told congressional investigators on Monday that he hoped his appearance before them would clear his name and โput these matters to restโ. But in his presentation to members of the Senate intelligence […]
Few Republicans were quicker to embrace President Trumpโs campaign last year than Jeff Sessions, and his reward was one of the most prestigious jobs in America. But more than four months into his presidency, Mr. Trump has grown sour on Mr. Sessions, now his attorney general, blaming him for various troubles that have plagued the […]
President Trump defended his conduct related to the investigation into his campaignโs ties to Russia and made several misleading claims on Thursday afternoon. In a joint news conference with President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia, Mr. Trump denied there was any collusion between his campaign and Russian officials, explained why he had fired James B. […]
First published on Thursday 11 May 2017 19.56ย BST Donald Trump has said he was thinking of โthis Russia thingโ when he decided James Comeyโs fate โ contradicting the White House rationale that he fired the FBI director for mishandling the Clinton email investigation. Comey had been leading an investigation into possible collusion between Trump advisers […]
In dramatically casting aside James B. Comey, President Trump fired the man who may have helped make him president โ and the man who potentially most threatened the future of his presidency. Not since Watergate has a president dismissed the person leading an investigation bearing on him, and Mr. Trumpโs decision late Tuesday afternoon drew […]
DONALD TRUMP won the White House on the promise that government is easy. Unlike his Democratic opponent, whose career had been devoted to politics, Mr Trump stood as a businessman who could Get Things Done. Enough voters decided that boasting, mocking, lying and grabbing women were secondary. Some Trump fans even saw them as the […]
Wilbur Ross, the Trump administrationโs new commerce secretary, presided over a deal with a Russian businessman with ties to Vladimir Putin while serving in his previous role as vice-chairman of the Bank of Cyprus. The transaction raises questions about Rossโs tenure at the Cypriot bank and his ties to politically connected Russian oligarchs. It comes […]
The top Democrat on one of the congressional committees investigating ties between Donald Trump and Russia has raised โgrave doubtโ over the viability of the inquiry after its Republican chairman shared information with the White House and not their committee colleagues. In the latest wild development surrounding the Russia inquiry that has created an air […]
On Saturday morning, without presenting evidence, tweets by Donald Trump accused former president Barack Obama of illegal wiretapping. On Saturday, the president launched a series of tweets that began at 5.35am. In one he wrote: โTerrible! Just found out that Obama had my โwires tappedโ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This […]
Donald Trumpโs attorney general Jeff Sessions twice spoke with the Russian ambassador to the United States during the presidential campaign. Sessions is another Trump appointee raising questions about Trump and Russia connection. The Washington Post, citing justice department officials, first reported that Sessions met with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak once in September 2016, when US […]
The White House has confirmed that its chief of staff spoke with top FBI officials about the bureauโs inquiry into links between Donald Trumpโs associates and Russia โ a conversation which appears to violate justice department rules to ensure the integrity of investigations. The administration had sought to push back against reports from CNN and […]
A week before Michael T. Flynn resigned as national security adviser, a sealed proposal was hand-delivered to his office, outlining a way for President Trump to lift sanctions against Russia. Mr. Flynn is gone, having been caught lying about his own discussion of sanctions with the Russian ambassador. But the proposal, a peace plan for […]
Phone records and intercepted calls show that members of Donald J. Trumpโs 2016 presidential campaign and other Trump associates had repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials in the year before the election, according to four current and former American officials. The call logs and intercepted communications are part of a larger trove of information […]
Before the election a joint public statement by the director of national intelligence and secretary of homeland security said that intelligence agencies are โconfidentโ that the Russian government directed the hacking. That statement did little to sway supporters of Donald Trump, who heard their candidate cast doubt on that intelligence finding, and instead revel in […]
To understand why Mr. Putin is rooting for the American billionaire, you have to follow the money โ and not just Mr. Trumpโs alleged links to Russian businesses. The Kremlin, analysts here say, is running out of money fast, and needs to find a way to end the Western sanctions that were levelled against it […]
