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Robert Mueller is a Republican. Rod Rosenstein is a Republican. Three Republican committee chairmen are asking to see the memos written by James Comey. Trump, of course, will continue to insist the investigation is a "witch hunt" perpetrated by Democrats.
GOP House committee chairmen request Comey memos on Trump
CBS News, Apr 13 2018 6:30 PM
Three Republican House committee chairmen called on Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to turn over memos written by fired FBI Director James Comey. In a letter dated Friday, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, House Oversight & Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy and House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes asked Rosenstein to turn over unredacted copies of the memos "immediately."
Comey has written a soon-to-be-released book that has more details about his firing and about his meetings with President Trump in the preceding months. The former FBI director wrote nine memos documenting his conversations with President Trump. House Republicans have repeatedly threatened to hold Justice Department officials in contempt as they have sought more than a million pages in documents related to Democrat Hillary Clinton and the beginning of the department's Russia investigation.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gop-hou...emos-on-trump/
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Well, well, well -- Donald Trump's number-one cheerleader. We now know the identities of Cohen's three clients: Donald Trump, Sean Hannity and Elliot Broidy (who got a former Playboy model pregnant and hired Cohen to negotiate $1.6 million in payments to her).
Sean Hannity is the client whose identity Michael Cohen wanted kept secret
A federal judge demanded today that the name of Cohen's client be revealed.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sean-ha...d-kept-secret/
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The orange parrot continues to squawk "Fake news! Witch hunt! Fake news! Witch hunt! No collusion!" while the web gets more and more tangled:
Michael Cohen met with a Russian oligarch in Trump Tower 11 days before Trump's inauguration
Business Insider, May 25 2018
Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg met with Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's longtime lawyer, 11 days before Trump's inauguration, The New York Times reported. During the meeting at Trump Tower, Vekselberg and Cohen reportedly discussed how to improve US-Russia relations under Trump.
Andrew Intrater, Vekselberg's cousin who heads the investment firm Columbus Nova, told The Times that Cohen and Vekselberg met three times, including at the inauguration. Shortly after the inauguration, Columbus Nova signed a $1 million consulting contract with Cohen, a deal that's now under the scrutiny of federal investigator. Intrater donated $250,000 to Trump's inaugural committee. Columbus Nova. paid Cohen approximately $500,000 in consulting fees between January and August 2017 and is a subsidiary of Renova Group, a Russian conglomerate founded by Vekselberg.
http://www.businessinsider.com/micha...3-times-2018-5
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Following the 2016 Presidential election, Russians bought thousands of Facebook ads to "inflame racial tensions over controversial immigration-related topics." This year's midterm elections are upcoming and I'm sure the Russians will continue their meddling. They're still guided by Nikita Khrushchev's 1956 declaration Мы вас похороним! ("We will bury you!" or "We will outlive you!")
Report: Russian-bought Facebook ads after the election sought to divide the country on immigration
https://www.aol.com/article/news/201...tion/23444377/
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This weekend, millions of Americans are honoring our nation's veterans. The President is not among those millions. He's busy continuing to attack the news media and continuing to spout his "Fake news! Witch hunt!" mantra.
Trump spends Memorial Day weekend in Washington, firing off tweet attacks on the Russia investigation and the media
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-n...527-story.html
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In a series of tweets this morning, Trump attacked the " dishonest news media," the "rigged Russia witch hunt" and "totally crooked Hillary Clinton" and, with no proof or evidence, accused Democrats of "collusion." But wait -- there's more! For a supposedly "innocent" man, Trump certainly spends a lot of time attacking Robert Mueller and Rod Rosenstein -- both of whom are Repubicans, by the way.
Trump accuses Mueller team of 'meddling' in midterm elections
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...rats-collusion
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History lesson: In October 1973, President Richard Nixon ordered Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who was leading the investigation of the break-in of the DNC offices at the Watergate Hotel. Richardson resigned rather than comply. Nixon then ordered Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus to fire Cox. Ruckelshaus resigned rather than comply. Nixon then ordered Solicitor General Robert Bork to Fire Cox. Bork complied but a federal judge ruled that the firing was illegal and an abuse of Presidential power. Rudy Giulani says Trump might fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions after the findings of the Russia probe are released. Will history repeat itself? Would Sessions' firing be ruled illegal and an abuse of Presidential power? Stay tuned.
Trump says he regrets hiring Jeff Sessions as his anger at attorney general's recusal in Russia inquiry flares again
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-n...530-story.html
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Rudy Giuliani has caught up to Sean Hannity. They now share the title of Trump's Number-One Cheerleader. Giuliani insists Trump has the power to halt the Mueller investigation and therefore could never be charged with obstruction of justice. He also claims Trump, if convicted of wrongdoing, could pardon himself. Giuliani also insists Trump "has done nothing wrong." If that is so, then why would Trump refuse to testify, huh, Rudy?
As Ray Stevens sang in Everything Is Beautiful, "There is none so blind as he who will not see" -- and that includes Trump, Giuliani and Hannity.
Giuliani adamant Trump would fight Mueller subpoena to testify in Russia probe
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/giuliani...-russia-probe/
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The President continues to insist there has been "no collusion" and the Mueller investigation is "fake news" and a "witch hunt" -- and yet the indictments and guilty pleas and plea bargains just keep on coming. How about that!
Mueller indicts former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Russian associate on obstruction charges
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/...adf_story.html
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And a few more strands have been added to the tangled web. If the NRA used Russian donations to help fund the Trump campaign, several people could soon be taking a nice little trip to prison.
Several prominent Russians met with NRA executives during 2016 campaign
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politi...D=ansmsnnews11
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Stone, like so many other Trump associates, repeatedly denied meeting with Russians. And, like many other Trump associates, he was lying. The truth is out:
Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone met with Russian man in 2016 who wanted Trump to pay $2 million for dirt on Clinton
http://thehill.com/homenews/administ...clinton-during
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Giuliani thinks Trump should not testify but Trump wants to. In the past few weeks of the Russia investigation, there have been several indictments, several plea bargains, the jailing of Paul Manafort and more details about meetings between Russians and the Trump campaign. Trump and Giuliani have been working non-stop trying to discredit Mueller, Comey, the Russia investigation, the FBI and the Justice Department. Are these the actions of an innocent man? Nay, say I.
Rudy Giuliani lays out conditions for Trump interview with Mueller
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rudy-gi...-with-mueller/
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This story falls under the category of "What did they know and when did they know it?"
Former Obama officials say Putin was largely undeterred in election meddling efforts
CBS News, Jun 20 2018 6:13 PM
Two former Obama administration officials said today that a failure to recognize the "scope and scale" of Russia's disinformation and influence campaign – alongside a reluctance to punish the Kremlin at a politically sensitive time – meant president Vladimir Putin was left largely undeterred during the 2016 presidential election.
In a hearing held by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, former assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland, who also served in the George W. Bush administration as the US ambassador to NATO, said that apart from issuing a "stern and personal" warning to Putin during a September G-20 summit, President Obama chose to wait until after the election to launch an investigation and a retaliatory response.
Michael Daniel, who served as Obama's cyber security coordinator from 2012 to 2017 and who also appeared as a witness, said officials "didn't actually have a complete understanding of the campaign that was being carried out" until late 2016 and 2017. Both Nuland and Daniel said Russia is likely to continue its efforts to exploit divisions in American society.
Today's hearing was part of the committee's ongoing investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election and follows an earlier hearing on election security. Subsequent hearings are expected to focus on the role of social media and on whether members of the Trump campaign colluded with Russia as it carried out its influence campaign.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/former-...dling-efforts/
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Robert Mueller's team is accelerating its probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election and the Trump campaign's many ties to Russia. More indictments could be forthcoming. This article explains the Russian connections of 13 Trump associates and family members:
Mueller poised to zero in on Trump-Russia collusion allegations
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...d8HW?ocid=AMZN
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Donald Trump has never accepted the findings of the United States intelligence agencies. Several times he has said, "Putin told me he didn't meddle in our elections and I believe him." Why would a United States President trust the word of a Russian leader more than he trusts the findings of his own nation's intelligence agencies? Be afraid, America -- be very afraid.
Senate panel backs up intelligence agencies, says Russia aimed to help Trump in election
Los Angeles Times, Jul 3 2018 12:45 PM
The Senate Intelligence Committee today backed up conclusions from US intelligence agencies that Moscow interfered in the 2016 election with the aim of helping President Trump win, releasing an unclassified report which called the intelligence assessment solid. "The Committee has spent the last 16 months reviewing the sources, tradecraft and analytic work underpinning the Intelligence Community Assessment and sees no reason to dispute the conclusions," said North Carolina Senator Richard Burr, the panel’s chairman.
The new Senate report does not address the issue of collusion. It did say, however, that intelligence agencies were on solid ground by saying Moscow developed a "clear preference" for Trump.
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-n...703-story.html
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Mueller's team has already issued 20 indictments and obtained five guilty pleas. And, as the song says, we've only just begun.......
Mueller taps more prosecutors to help with growing Trump probe
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...BIqw?ocid=AMZN
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Trump and his lawyers refuse to discuss the facts. Instead, they spend all their time trying to discredit everyone involved in the investigation: "Comey is a liar. Cohen is a liar. Bannon is a liar. Gates is a liar. Flynn is a liar. Manafort is a liar. Mueller is biased. Rosenstein is biased. The investigation is a witch hunt." A man who is innocent would not be attacking everyone this way.
'I want to see all their texts': Giuliani claims with no evidence that messages sent by Mueller’s team could show anti-Trump bias
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...NfA6?ocid=AMZN
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Russia wanted Donald Trump to win our 2016 Presidential election. They created thousands of fake social-media accounts to spread pro-Trump and anti-Clinton propaganda. Is there any doubt they'll meddle in our November election? Or the 2020 Presidential election? Or the 2022 midterms? Or.......
Russian bots are back: #WalkAway attack on Democrats is likely a Kremlin operation
Are Democrats leaving the party in disgust? No, but Russian-fueled online trolls want you to think so.
https://www.salon.com/2018/07/09/rus...lin-operation/
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In three days, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will meet in Helsinki. Interpreters, and no one else, will be present. Trump continues to disagree with the findings of US intelligence agencies that Russians meddled in our 2016 election: "Putin says Russia didn't meddle and I believe him." Well, 12 more Russians have just been indicted. This makes 25 so far and Trump still takes Putin's word over the conclusions of our intelligence agencies. As the saying goes, "There is none so blind as he who will not see."
12 Russians indicted in Mueller investigation
CNN, Jul 13 2018
The Justice Department today announced indictments in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election against 12 Russian nationals, accusing them of engaging in a "sustained effort" to hack Democrats' emails and computer networks.
All 12 defendants are members of the GRU, a Russian federation intelligence agency within the main intelligence directorate of the Russian military, who were acting in "their official capacities."
DOJ says the hacking targeted Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, with the intention to "release that information on the internet under the names DCLeaks and Guccifer 2.0 and through another entity."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...2096?ocid=AMZN
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Yep, just like I wrote above, there is none so blind as he who will not see. The orange parrot continues to ignore reality and spout his three favorite phrases: "Rigged! Fake news! Witch hunt! Rigged! Fake news! Witch hunt! Awwrrkkk!"
Trump was briefed about Mueller's indictments earlier this week -- then today he called the investigation 'rigged' and a 'witch hunt'
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump...hackers-2018-7
