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Category: 2016 Elections

Trump Blames FBI for Not Warning Him About Paul Manafort

Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump has been known to boast about only hiring the best people, but in hindsight says he could’ve used some help. On Sunday, Trump complained that the FBI didn’t inform him that his own campaign chairman was…

Roger Stone to Associate: “Prepare to Die”

Roger Stone and Randy CredicoRonen Tivony/NurPhoto/ZUMA; John Minchillo/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Special Counsel Robert Mueller appears to be increasingly interested in the actions of Roger Stone. Investigators have questioned former associates of Stone, the self-proclaimed political dirty trickster who has been a longtime official and unofficial adviser to…

Russia’s Campaign to Help Trump Win Was Just the Start

Mother Jones illustration; Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Former FBI special agent Clint Watts was tracking Islamic State terrorists and their propaganda on Twitter in 2014 when he first encountered a different kind of troll. These accounts weren’t trying to recruit fighters for jihad. They were promoting an…