by Jim Heath | Feb 20, 2020 | Headlines
Intelligence officials warned House lawmakers last week that Russia was interfering in the 2020 campaign to try to get President Trump re-elected, a disclosure to Congress that angered Trump, who complained that Democrats would use it against him. The day after the...
by Jim Heath | Feb 20, 2020 | Headlines
Roger Stone., the Republican political consultant who for years portrayed himself as the dirty trickster of American politics, was sentenced today to more than three years in prison for obstructing a congressional inquiry in a bid to protect President Trump. The case...
by Jim Heath | Jan 13, 2020 | Headlines, Impeachment
With President Trump facing an impeachment trial over his efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden Jr. and his son Hunter Biden, Russian military hackers have been boring into the Ukrainian gas company at the center of the affair. The...
by Jim Heath | Dec 19, 2019 | Headlines, Trump
Almost from the moment he took office, President Trump seized on a theory that troubled his senior aides: Ukraine, he told them on many occasions, had tried to stop him from winning the White House. After meeting privately in July 2017 with Russian President Vladimir...
by Jim Heath | Dec 17, 2019 | Foreign Affairs
Russian state TV has bragged that Donald Trump is an ‘agent’ of Moscow following foreign minister Sergey Lavrov’s visit to the White House. The day after the closed-door meeting, news channel Rossiya 1 ran a segment entitled ‘Puppet Master and...
