According to CNN and verified by NBC News, Michael Cohen is saying that he is prepared to say the Donald Trump knew in advance about the Trump Tower meeting where a Russian operative offered dirt on Hillary Clinton. Click Here For More on this LIVE BREAKING NEWS.
UPDATE June 9: Trump JUST repeated the call to allow Russia back into the economic world power group called the G-7. Trump called on the world’s leading economies on Friday to reinstate Russia to the Group of 7 nations four years after it was cast out for annexing Crimea. The president made the suggestion to…
Monday night, on CNN, Rudy “Motormouth” Giuliani confirms what everyone already knew… Trump dictated the statement about Jr’s meeting with Russians in Trump Tower. Rudy called it a ‘mistake’ that at least 4 White House advisors and staff called it a mistake repeated. In a confidential letter to special counsel Robert Mueller in January, President…
Federal prosecutors on Monday accused President Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, of attempting to tamper with witnesses in his federal tax and money laundering case. In court documents, prosecutors working for the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, said that violated the terms of Mr. Manafort’s release while he awaits trial. They asked a…
Trump says he wishes he hadn’t picked Jeff Sessions as attorney general and is still mad about the Russia investigation recusal. Trump regrets his decision to pick Jeff Sessions as attorney general, the latest sign of his growing anger over the Russia investigation. Citing Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), who said earlier on CBS that Trump…
Dear Kim, I’m so sorry things didn’t work out for us. I can’t believe that backstabbing Pence and Bolton have been talking about our relationship behind our backs. So sorry they hurt your feelings. I cried all night about it. Really. You should see the bags under my eyes. I talked to my Fox and…
Trump will not meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un next month, which he announced in a letter to Kim released by the White House Thursday morning because cowardice. The letter from the President to Chairman Kim Jong Un: “It is inappropriate, at this time, to have this long-planned meeting.” VP Pence, provided cover for…
Trump cannot block Twitter users for the political views they have expressed, a federal judge in Manhattan ruled on Wednesday. Blocking users from viewing his Twitter account is unconstitutional and a violation of the First Amendment, Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald wrote in her ruling. “While we must recognize, and are sensitive to, the President’s personal First Amendment…
Jeffrey Yohai, the former son-in-law of Paul Manafort, the one-time chairman of President Donald Trump’s campaign, has cut a plea deal with the Justice Department that requires him to cooperate with other criminal probes. The former son-in-law is a former business partner of Manafort. The case against Yohai involves real estate and bank dealings in California…
President Trump’s financial disclosure, released on Wednesday, revealed for the first time that he paid between $100,001 and $250,000. to his personal attorney, Michael D. Cohen, as reimbursement for payment to a third-party i.e. Stormy Daniels, though the purpose of the payment was not specified. A footnote in the disclosure said that Mr. Cohen had…
On Friday, Trump broke yet another promise to the voters and enriched large corporations by proposing to lower drug prices by promoting competition among pharmaceutical companies, suggesting Big Pharma would have to disclose prices in advertising. Trump also forgot he promised to have the government directly negotiate lower drug prices for Medicare and denied American…
President Donald Trump unloaded on Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen at a heated cabinet meeting this week, railing against her for failing to stop illegal border crossings because it’s ALL HER FAULT that apprehensions at the border have tripled. Also, it’s her fault the courts keep slapping Trump down. Nielsen tried to explain the issues…
Michael Avenatti, attorney for Stormy Daniels, talks with Rachel Maddow about the revelations in a document he published to the web about money paid to Michael Cohen, arguing that the most charitable explanation of what that money was for was selling access to the president. Read the Avenatti’s Executive Summary here
Now that the adults have all left the White House, Trump is following his bull-in-the-china shop foreign policy tendencies and leaves the Iranian Nuclear agreement. Yesterday, Trump broke with with European allies over the Iran agreement and Monday, Mr. Trump will break with Arab allies with the formal opening of an American Embassy in Jerusalem. …
A company tied to a Russian oligarch sent $500,000 last year to an entity that lawyer Michael Cohen used to pay hush money to a porn actress who said she had a sexual encounter with President Donald Trump, according to attorney Michael Avenatti. The bombshell revelations, which couldn’t immediately be verified, caught companies and the…
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Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump’s lawyer, tried again on Sunday’s This Week with George Stephanopolous to straighten out his client’s story and, once again, failed miserably. Instead of putting some questions to bed, Giuliani raised new questions about whether Mr. Trump had paid hush money to other women. He also suggested the president might invoke the…
President Trump said the former New York mayor will eventually get the facts right regarding a payment to a pornographic actress who said she had an affair with Mr. Trump, following two Fox Channel interviews where Giuliani torpedoed Trump’s previous statements. “And virtually everything said has been said incorrectly, and it’s been said wrong, or it’s…
Donald Trump promised to protect 2nd Amendment rights, didn’t mention his previous positions on background checks after the latest school massacre, and proceeded to campaign for the biggest jerks in Texas government at the NRA Convention in Dallas. Tying gun rights to winning midterms, Trump spent more time pushing for get-out-the-vote efforts and fawning over…
The FBI raided the office of Michael Cohen, a personal lawyer and confidant of President Donald Trump, Cohen’s attorney confirmed to CNN Monday. One source familiar with the matter told CNN that included in the documents authorities seized was information related to Stephanie Clifford, better known as porn actress Stormy Daniels, who alleges she had…
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team has reportedly been asking witnesses about events surrounding the 2016 Republican convention. According to Reuters, investigators are zeroing in on a possible discussion between then-Sen. Jeff Sessions and then-Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak, in addition to a change in the official Republican party platform that softened language relating to Russia. Mueller…
A day after President Trump tweeted his intention to replace Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin with Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson, the White House physician, the president told an audience in Richfield, Ohio, that “the Democrats didn’t want the vets to have choice.” Shulkin, who was a holdover from the Obama administration, suggested in a New…
Russia announced Thursday that it will expel 150 diplomats, including 60 Americans, and close the U.S. Consulate in St. Petersburg. The move comes after Western nations banded together in solidarity with the U.K. over the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in southern England earlier this month. The 60 expelled…
President Donald Trump reportedly told his top national security aides to not publicly tout a new U.S. lethal defensive weapons sale to Ukraine, for fear of angering Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to NBC News, it took “months” for those aides to convince the president to sign off on the sale to Ukraine’s military, which…
White House attorneys are looking into whether two loans worth more than $500 million given to President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner’s family real estate business violated any criminal laws or federal ethics regulations, The Wall Street Journal reports. The Journal obtained a letter from David Apol, the acting director of the Office…
A lawyer representing Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s longtime personal attorney, sent a cease and desist letter to the lawyer for Stephanie Clifford, the porn actress who uses the name Stormy Daniels, on Sunday night after Clifford appeared on CBS’ “60 Minutes” to discuss her alleged affair with Trump. Cohen’s lawyer, Brent Blakely, charged that…
President Trump ordered the expulsion of 60 Russians from the United States on Monday, including 12 people identified as Russian intelligence officers who have been stationed at the United Nations in New York, in response to Russia’s alleged poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain. The expulsion order, announced by administration officials, also closes…
John Dowd, President Trump’s personal attorney in the Russia investigation, resigned Thursday, The New York Times reported. The news comes just days after Dowd called for the end of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian election interference and whether the Trump campaign was involved. Dowd reportedly decided to resign after concluding that Trump was…
President Trump tweeted on Thursday evening that National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster is being replaced by John Bolton, a former United States ambassador to the United Nations and Fox News analyst. “I am very thankful for the service of General H.R. McMaster who has done an outstanding job and will always remain my friend,” Trump…
Former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe has followed in the footsteps of Trump foe James Comey—he reportedly kept personal memos on his dealings with the president. McCabe, fired by Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Friday less than two days before his retirement, took notes on his interactions with the president in the same manner as…
