Want to See How Disinformation Could Play out in 2020? Just Look Overseas.
Employees from Facebook, Google, and Twitter are sworn in at a 2017 Senate hearing on Russian disinformation.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images After the 2016 election, Mark Zuckerberg notoriously dismissed the idea that Facebook had any role in the outcome as “crazy.” Experts were skeptical of his denial, and Zuckerberg officially ate his words the next year when…
Trump Tries to Walk Back His Admission That He’d Accept Foreign Election Help
President Donald Trump on Friday attempted to clarify his astonishing admission that he’d be willing to accept damaging information on his political rivals from a foreign government—remarks Democrats, including 2020 candidates, say are clear evidence that the president has yet to learn from the Russia investigation. But in trying to settle the controversy, Trump on…
The Head of Albania’s Conservative Party Faces Criminal Charges, and an Ex-Trump Aide Is Involved
Lulzim Basha pictured with President Donald Trump at a 2017 fundraiser for Wisconsin’s then-governor, Scott Walker. Prosecutors in Albania on Thursday announced plans to file criminal charges against Lulzim Basha, the head of the country’s main conservative party, regarding more than $600,000 in payments that his party reportedly made in 2017 to a Republican lobbyist…
How Lobbyists Are Cashing In on Trump’s Chaotic Libya Policy
President Donald Trump speaks on December 24, 2018.Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images With one phone call in April, President Donald Trump undercut years of American diplomacy in Libya, leaving US policy toward the war-torn state uncertain. Now a colorful cast of lobbyists and would-be profiteers are cashing in on the confusion, as they sign up with assorted…
Sarah Huckabee Sanders Embarks on Media Tour to Defend Her Lies
Among the string of explosive and damaging revelations that emerged from the Mueller report Thursday was White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ admission that she had lied to reporters in order to damage the reputation of former FBI Director James Comey. After Trump abruptly fired Comey in 2017 the midst of the FBI’s Russia…
Mueller: Manafort Discussed Enlisting Trump to Aid Russia in Ukraine
Paul Manafort on June 15, 2018Brendan Smialowski /AFP via Getty Images Former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort held secret meetings with a business associate suspected of having ties to Russian intelligence that involved discussing handing Russia effective control of eastern Ukraine, special counsel Robert Mueller reported on Thursday. Those talks included the possibility of Trump…