Democratic Senator Demands Investigation Into Whether Trump Jr. Lied to Congress
Chip Somodevilla/CNP via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A Democratic senator is calling for an investigation into whether Donald Trump Jr. lied when he told the Senate Judiciary Committee that aside from Russia, he knew of no other foreign government or foreign nationals who offered to assist the Trump…
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…
Trump Is Now Fundraising Off Conspiracy Theory That FBI “Infiltrated” His Campaign
Ron Sachs/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump’s longstanding frustrations with the ongoing Russia investigations hit a new level Sunday, when he announced over social media that he intended to order the Justice Department investigate claims that the FBI may have wrongly “infiltrated” his presidential campaign for political…
Report Suggests Blackwater Founder Erik Prince May Have Lied to Congress
Blackwater founder Erik Prince before his House Intelligence Committee testimony, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017.Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Blackwater founder Erik Prince appears to have a problem. The New York Times reported Saturday that Prince, the brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, arranged and attended an August 3, 2016…
Rudy Giuliani Can’t Handle This 1998 Clip of Him Blowing Up His Own Trump Claims
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As President Donald Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani has repeatedly argued that a sitting president does not have to comply with a subpoena, asserting that if one were to be issued in the special counsel’s Russia investigation, Trump has the authority to resist it. “He’s the…
Russian Firm Indicted for Election Interference Accuses US of ‘Hypocrisy’
Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Lawyers representing a Russian company indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller for supporting meddling in the 2016 US elections accused the US of hypocrisy in a Monday court filing. Concord’s lawyers argue Mueller is bucking years of precedent “to indict…