Michael Cohen Accused Trump and His Family of a Lot of Crimes Today
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. During stunning testimony before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform on Wednesday, Michael Cohen, the president’s former personal lawyer, called his old boss “a racist,” “a con man,” and a “cheat” while detailing a laundry list of lies by Donald Trump. But…
Read Michael Cohen’s Explosive Opening Statement: Trump Is a “Racist” and a “Con Man”
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Here’s What Congress Should Ask Michael Cohen
Michael Cohen leaves federal court on December 12, 2018.Spencer Platt/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Wednesday, Michael Cohen, the once influential lawyer and fixer for Donald Trump, will testify in public before the House Oversight Committee and tell all. Or perhaps not all, but a lot. Now a…
A Top Democrat Just Threatened to Subpoena the Mueller Report “If Necessary”
Susan Walsh/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On ABC’s This Week, House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said Sunday that if the results of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election aren’t released to the public, he and his colleagues will use subpoena…
Mueller Asks Judge to Throw the Book at Manafort
Paul Manafort at the Republican National Convention on July 18, 2016.Patrick Fallon/Zuma Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a lengthy sentencing memo released Saturday, Special Counsel Robert Mueller recommended that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort face around 20 years in prison for committing “an array of felonies for over…
Italian Investigators Just Uncovered a Major Russian Election Meddling Plot
Russian President Vladimir Putin during a 2018 news conference with Italy’s prime ministerSergei Chirikov/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A bombshell investigation published Friday by Italy’s L’Espresso magazine reveals a plot that might sound familiar. Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini of the hard-right Lega Nord party, L’Espresso reports, last year…