The Long, Twisted, and Bizarre History of the Trump-Russia Scandal
Carlo Allegri; Klimentyev Mikhail; Carlos Barria; Kevin Lamarque; Monterey Herald; Sergei Karpukhin; Jim Loscalzo (via ZUMA) Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Trump-Russia scandal—with all its bizarre and troubling twists and turns—has become a controversy that is defining the Trump presidency. The FBI recently disclosed that since July it has…
Trump Was Supposed to Talk About Tax Cuts. We Got Rape, Immigrants, and Voter Fraud Instead.
Kyle Mazza/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump kicked off a Thursday roundtable discussion on tax reform in West Virginia by targeting Sen. Joe Manchin, the Democratic senator in the deeply conservative state Trump won by a landslide, for voting against a range of his administration’s priorities, including…
Facebook Admits Millions More People Were Affected by Cambridge Analytica Breach Than Previously Known
Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Facebook said Wednesday that personal data for up to 87 million people—tens of millions more than originally thought—may have been “improperly shared” with Cambridge Analytica, the data analytics firm that worked for Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign. Most of those affected were in…
Andrew McCabe’s GoFundMe Just Broke $400,000
Cheriss May/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. An online fundraiser that was launched Thursday to help cover former deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe’s legal fees has surpassed $400,000, shattering the legal defense fund’s original goal of raising $150,000. And it’s only Friday. The 21-year FBI veteran was fired by the…
We Obtained Cambridge Analytica’s Post-Election Pitch to Potential Corporate Clients
Alex Milan Tracy/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the wake of Donald Trump’s shock victory in 2016, Cambridge Analytica, the secretive data analytics firm that worked for the Trump campaign and is now ensnared in an international controversy, set out to capitalize on its connection to the new…
Devin Nunes Is Raising Money Off His Shoddy Trump-Russia Investigation
Bill Clark/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Tuesday, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the chair of the House Intelligence Committee who has been widely criticized for undermining his panel’s haphazard Trump-Russia probe, sent out a pitch to conservative and Republican donors: we found there was no “collusion,” so send me…