by Jim Heath | Jan 25, 2019 | Headlines, Mueller Investigation, Trump
Special counsel Robert Mueller revealed today the most direct link yet between the Trump campaign’s and WikiLeaks’ parallel efforts to use Democratic Party material stolen by Russians to damage the election campaign of Hillary Clinton. In an indictment unsealed today,...
by Jim Heath | Jan 23, 2019 | Congress, Headlines, Mueller Investigation
Two powerful House committee chairs are planning a joint investigation into German lending giant Deutsche Bank, which is under scrutiny from Democrats over its business dealings with President Trump. House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff and Financial Services...
by Jim Heath | Jan 17, 2019 | Headlines, Justice Department, Mueller Investigation, Social Media, Trump
Longtime Donald Trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen said today he participated in ‘rigging’ of online polls to benefit Trump in 2014 and 2015 – ‘at the direction’ of the then-candidate and businessman. Cohen acknowledged the effort to...
by Jim Heath | Jan 16, 2019 | Headlines, Mueller Investigation, Trump
President Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, said today that he “never said there was no collusion” between the Trump campaign and Russia. “I never said there was no collusion between the campaign. Or between people in the campaign,”...
by Jim Heath | Jan 13, 2019 | Democrats, Headlines, Mueller Investigation, Trump
The Democratic chairmen of three House panels called on President Trump to cease what they said are “efforts to discourage, intimidate, or otherwise pressure” his former personal attorney and fixer, Michael Cohen, “not to provide testimony to Congress.” Reps. Elijah...
by Jim Heath | Jan 12, 2019 | Headlines, Justice Department, Mueller Investigation, Trump
President Trump today unleashed an extended assault on the F.B.I. and the special counsel’s investigation, knitting together a comprehensive alternative story in which he had been framed by disgraced “losers” at the bureau’s highest levels. In a two-hour span, Trump...