Giuliani Admits Trump May Have Spoken to Cohen About Congressional Testimony After All
Is it just us, or do his television appearances only get more and more confusing?State of the Union/CNN Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Every time Rudy Giuliani goes on television to defend his client from charges of collusion and obstruction, he appears to shift the legal goal posts to protect…
Ukrainian Oligarch Scrutinized by Robert Mueller Was a Giuliani Client
JJbuket/Wikimedia Commons Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A Russian Ukrainian mogul who has drawn scrutiny from special counsel Robert Mueller has a business connection to one of the lead lawyers representing Donald Trump in the Russia investigation: former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani told Mother Jones that Pavel Fuks,…
A New Right-Wing Smear Campaign Targets a Former FBI Official to Distract From Russia Scandal
Rep. Mark Meadows (left) and Rep. Jim Jordan talk during a press conference calling on the president to declassify the Carter Page FISA applications.Bill Clark/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. What happens when the politics of personal destruction intersect with a Trumpian conspiracy theory? Unfortunately, I’ve seen it, thanks to…
Senate Republicans Vote Down Effort to Maintain Sanctions on Russian Oligarch’s Companies
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Senate Republicans, led by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, defeated a bipartisan bid to keep sanctions in place against companies owned by Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. The Trump administration announced last month it was planning to remove the sanctions targeting the energy…
William Barr’s Testimony May Not Sit Well With Donald Trump
Alex Wong/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Based on Tuesday’s testimony by William Barr, Donald Trump’s attorney general pick, the president may already regret the nomination. Trump has spent nearly two years raging against the Justice Department for allowing special counsel Robert Mueller to investigate the Trump campaign’s ties…
Donald Trump Was Always a Counterintelligence Nightmare
Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In normal times, this would be an absurd moment: The president of the United States being asked the question, “Are you now or have you ever worked for Russia?” And more absurd: the president not answering the query. That’s what happened on…