The Russians Who Hacked the DNC Are Now Targeting European Governments
Annette Riedl/DPA via ZUMA Press The group of Russian hackers that hacked the Democratic National Committee ahead of the 2016 US presidential election “has been busy compromising government targets, including three European Ministries of Foreign Affairs and the Washington DC embassy of a European Union county, all without drawing attention to their activities,” according to…
Donald Trump Just Won the Conflict-of-Interest Olympics
Kyodo via AP Images The United States will host the next G7 summit of world leaders at Donald Trump’s struggling Doral golf resort outside of Miami—a move that essentially forces foreign governments to line the president’s pockets. The decision poses perhaps the largest conflict of interest yet for a leader whose presidency is riddled with…
The Justice Department Hired the Son of a Vocal Trump Defender
Attorney General William Barr and President Donald TrumpAlex Brandon/AP The son of one of President Donald Trump’s most vocal defenders has a new gig in Trump’s Justice Department. Brady Toensing—whose mother Victoria Toensing and and step-father Joe diGenova are key players in the rapidly growing Ukraine scandal—joined the DOJ in June as a senior counsel…
Mulvaney Admits Quid Pro Quo, Says We Should “Get Over It”
White House chief of staff Mick MulvaneyEvan Vucci/AP Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, for some reason, has just admitted that aid to Ukraine was held up because President Trump wanted them to investigate political opponents: After @jonkarl points out the White House’s explanation for its dealings with Ukraine was quid-pro-quo, the chief…
ICE Detainee at Troubled For-Profit Jail Dies in Apparent Suicide
Detainees walk with their hands behind their backs at the Winn Correctional Center, one of six jails in Louisiana run by LaSalle Corrections that Immigration and Customs Enforcement has started using this year. Gerald Herbert/AP On May 18, Roylan Hernández Díaz and his wife, Yarelis Gutierrez, legally entered the United States in El Paso, Texas,…
Trump Offers Big Middle Finger to Emoluments Clause
President Trump has announced that next year’s G7 meeting will be held at the Trump National Doral in Miami. His acting chief of staff explains that there’s nothing wrong with this: MULVANEY: “Again, anticipating your questions, how is this this is not emolument violation? Will the president profit from this? The president pretty much made…