WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal agents have raided the office of President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen, seizing records on topics that include a $130,000 payment made to porn actress Stormy Daniels, who says she had sex with Trump. The raid prompted a new blast Tuesday from the president, who tweeted that “Attorney-client privilege is […]
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Robert Mueller's Russia probe shows it pays to cooperate
WASHINGTON (AP) — George Papadopoulos, taken by surprise by FBI agents at an airport last summer, now tweets smiling beach selfies with a Mykonos hashtag. Rick Gates, for weeks on home confinement with electronic monitoring, gets rapid approval for a family vacation and shaves down his potential prison time. Michael Flynn, once targeted in a […]
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Mueller would be the worst of all firings
Unsurprisingly for the former host of “The Apprentice,” Donald Trump has given us every variety of firing. There have been necessary firings (at three weeks, the ouster of Michael Flynn was long overdue), cruel firings (Rex Tillerson, check out Twitter) and spectacularly ill-advised firings (the cashiering of James Comey that led directly to the hiring […]
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Investigation must continue
Increasingly, President Donald Trump has been taking aim at Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller and his ongoing investigation. Trump’s recent criticisms of the Department of Justice, the FBI and the intelligence community; his claim that the conclusions of the House Intelligence Committee (at least the Republican majority) makes it obvious no collusion has occurred and that […]
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Maine Democrats call for defense of Mueller's investigation of Trump
Though President Donald Trump called a special prosecutor’s probe “a total WITCH HUNT with massive conflicts of interest” in a Monday morning tweet, Maine Democrats vying for a seat in Congress this year uniformly back Special Counsel Robert Mueller. “Mueller must be allowed to finish the investigation for the sake of our democracy,” said Jonathan […]
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White House says Donald Trump isn't considering firing Mueller
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is not considering firing the special counsel investigating Russian election interference, a top White House lawyer said, after a cascade of Trump tweets revived chatter that the deeply frustrated president may be preparing to get rid of the veteran prosecutor. The late-Sunday statement from White House lawyer Ty Cobb […]
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Angus King: Donald Trump needs to back off criticism of Mueller probe
Maine Sen. Angus King said Sunday that President Trump’s criticism of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation is a huge mistake and that any attempt by the president to have Mueller fired would trigger a constitutional crisis. King, speaking from Carrabassett Valley, made his remarks on the CBS News program “Face the Nation,” whose moderator, […]
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Paul Manafort pleads not guilty to new Russia charges
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort maintained his innocence on Wednesday to new charges he acted as an unregistered foreign agent and directed an international money-laundering conspiracy. Manafort appeared at the federal courthouse and entered a formal plea of not guilty to a second indictment brought against him by prosecutors […]
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Ex-Donald Trump campaign aide pleads guilty in Russia probe
WASHINGTON (AP) — A former top adviser to President Donald Trump’s election campaign pleaded guilty Friday to federal conspiracy and false-statements charges in the special counsel’s Russia investigation. The plea by Rick Gates revealed that he is planning to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation as it continues to probe the Trump campaign, Russian […]
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Grand jury charges 13 Russians with meddling in U.S. election
WASHINGTON (AP) — Thirteen Russians and three Russian entities were charged Friday with an elaborate plot to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, federal prosecutors announced Friday. The indictment, brought by the office of special counsel Robert Mueller, alleges that Russians used bogus social media postings and advertisements fraudulently purchased in the name of […]