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Putin Bars Opposition From Running For President

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12/25/2017 Russian election officials under Vladimir Putin formally barred Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny from running for president, prompting calls from him for a boycott of next year’s vote. The Central Election Commission decided unanimously that the anti-corruption crusader isn’t eligible to run. Navalny is implicitly barred from running for office because of a conviction in a fraud case which ...

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Michael Flynn pleads guilty, will cooperate with investigation

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12/01/2017 Michael Flynn, former national security adviser to President Trump, pleaded guilty Friday to a charge that he lied to FBI agents about prior contacts with Russia’s ambassador while serving in the White House.  Prosecutors said in court Friday that Flynn had agreed to cooperate with authorities. Flynn served as the president’s national security adviser until he resigned in February after admitting that he ...

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Kushner Not Turning Over Documents

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11/16/2017 Jared Kushner is in hot water.  He seems to be a bit forgetful when it comes to documents. In addition to refusing to supply all the required documents for his security clearance, Jared Kushner has now been remiss in submitting all documents relating to Russia connections as requested by a Senate committee investigating Russian ties to the 2016 election.  Inquiries ...

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Could Donald Jr. be any dumber? The appalling truth about Jr. and WikiLeaks

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11/14/2017 On September 20, 2016, during the height of last year’s presidential election, the WikiLeaks Twitter account sent a private direct message to Donald Trump Jr.   “A PAC run anti-Trump site putintrump.org is about to launch,” WikiLeaks wrote. “The PAC is a recycled pro-Iraq war PAC. We have guessed the password. It is ‘putintrump.’ See ‘About’ for who is behind ...

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Trump Believes Putin Over US Intelligence Agencies

11/11/2017 “Every time he sees me he says I didn’t do that, and I really believe that when he tells me that, he means it,” Trump told reporters.  And thus Donald Trump has decided to trust the word of Vladimir Putin, over multiple US Intelligence agencies who are convinced Putin ordered interference in last year’s elections. Trump made the comment ...

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Trump Campaign Manager Manafort first on Mueller hit list

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10/30/2017 Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign manager, was indicted today on 12 charges which could put him behind bars for decades. The indictment was signed by Robert Mueller, who was named special prosecutor May 17.  The indictment focuses on an entity first created by Manafort in 2005 for political consulting, called Davis Manafort Partners. In 2011, Manafort created DMP International ...

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Russia Targeted Election Systems In 21 States

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9/22/2017 The Department of Homeland Security notified nearly half of the U.S. states that their election systems were targeted by Russian  hackers in an attempt to influence the 2016 election. In most of the states, the hackers were engaged in activities like scanning. In other states, hackers attempted to infiltrate systems and failed, but in a small selection of states, ...

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Russia placed thousands of fake Facebook ads during election

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9/21/2017 Despite President Trump’s claim that Russians influencing the election is “fake news”, today Facebook announced that it is a fact. Facebook will turn over to Congress over 3,000 political ads taken out by Russins in an attempt to influence the 2016 election. The company has been struggling for months to address the steadily mounting evidence that Russians manipulated the ...

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Moscow Trump Tower sought during election

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9/3/2017 During the presidential election, the Trump organization sought, and negotiated to build a Trump Tower in Russia new documents show.  The negotiations went so far that Trump actually signed a letter of intent to move forward with the massive project.  The evidence contradicts the president’s claim that he has no ties to Russia, and that he “stayed away” from ...

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House, Senate pass new Russian sanctions that Trump can’t touch

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7/27/2017 On Thursday the Senate passed legislation placing new sanctions on Russia and rebuking President Donald Trump in a bill that is now ready for him to sign.  The bill gives Congress the ability to block Trump from easing sanctions against Moscow in the future without their consent.  The bill also includes additional sanctions on Iran and North Korea. The ...

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