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Steve Bannon Called the Trump Tower Meeting “Treasonous”

Miguel Juarez Lugo/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. According to a forthcoming book by Michael Wolff, President Donald Trump’s ousted chief strategist, Steve Bannon, believes the infamous June 2016 meeting between members of Trump’s inner circle and a Russian lawyer supposedly offering damaging information on Hillary Clinton was “treasonous” and “unpatriotic.”…

Republicans Quietly Warn Trump: Don’t Fire Mueller

Robert Mueller leaves the Capitol building after meeting with the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill, June 21, 2017.Ting Shen/Xinhua via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. With members of Congress headed home for the holidays, Washington is bracing for the possibility that President Donald Trump will attempt to…

Trump Administration Imposes Sanctions on Son of Kremlin Official Linked to Trump Tower Meeting

Russian Prosecutor General Yuri ChaikaRyumin Alexander/TASS via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Treasury Department has slapped sanctions on Artem Chaika, the son of Russian prosecutor general Yuri Chaika. A June 2016 email to Donald Trump Jr. described the Russian prosecutor as a participant in an effort by Moscow to aid…

Stolen Emails. Wikileaks. White Supremacists. Donald Trump. It All Happened in 2009.

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Heads of StateWhat does a 2009 controversy involving climate scientists have in common with Russia’s cyberattacks during the 2016 election? Quite a lot, actually. Both incidents featured stolen emails, WikiLeaks, Donald Trump, and day after day of breathless, often inaccurate, media coverage. Eight years…

Rep. Adam Schiff Warns Republicans Are Moving to Shut Down House Russia Probe, Target Mueller

Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Republicans on the House intelligence committee appear intent on shutting down the panel’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election as soon as next Friday, according to the committee’s top Democrat. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) warned in a series of tweets…

Democrats Push to Subpoena Trump Data Firms

December 3, 2016 – New York, New York, US – Trump campaign digital director Brad Parscale in the lobby of Trump Tower on December 3, 2016.Albin Lohr-Jones/Avalon via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Two senior House Democrats are pushing to subpoena Cambridge Analytica and Giles-Parscale, data consulting firms…