Tag Archives: Russia

2/23/2018 Rick Gates, a former top aide to President Trump’s campaign, pleaded guilty to two felonies on Friday and promised to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election. Gates and Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort were indicted in October on charges that they secretly worked on behalf of a pro-Russian political faction in Ukraine ...

2/17/2018 On January 7, 2017, the leaders of the US Intelligence Agencies delivered a report on how the Russians interferred with the presidential election of 2016 (National Intelligence Report on Russian Interference).  Later in the year, FaceBook and Twitter both admitted and disclosed how the Russians used them to peddle influence to Americans. Not wanting to admit the possibility that ...

2/17/2018 President Trump no longer claims that Russian interference in the 2016 elections is a hoax.  He no longer claims that it is a fabrication.  Not after Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller today indicted 13 Russians for conspiracy to defraud the United States. The indictment lists in detail the activities of Russians doing their best to interfere in the elections.  In addition, ...

2/14/2018 – Excerpts from The Washington Post Top U.S. intelligence officers were united in their opinion that Russia is continuing efforts to disrupt the U.S. political system and is targeting the 2018 midterm election, following its successful efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election.  Their assessment stands in contrast to President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly voiced skepticism of Russian meddling ...

2/13/2018 Three of the nation’s top intelligence officials said Tuesday that the U.S. has seen Russian activity aimed at meddling in the upcoming midterm elections. “We have seen Russian activity and intentions to have an impact on the next election cycle,” CIA Director Mike Pompeo told the Senate intelligence committee. National Intelligence Director Dan Coats and Adm. Mike Rogers, the ...

2/2/2018 A memo produced by Republican staffers was supposed to contain proof that the FBI abused its surveillance authority while investigating the Trump Campaign ties to Russia.  It didn’t. Produced by the office of Republican Devin Nunes, the memo contained classified information and was widely criticzed for being biased and incomplete.  In March of 2017, Nunes was accused of innapropriate ...

1/10/2018 Backtracking from his earlier statements, even those coming just a few days ago, President Trump is not so sure he will meet with Robert Mueller.  The President has previously stated that he “100%” would be willing to meet with the Special Prosecutor to discuss the ongoing investigation of Russia in the 2016 election.

1/6/2018 President Trump lost his mind today when author Michael Wolff released his new book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House. According to Michael Wolff, Trump agreed to give him access to the White House because he liked an article Wolff wrote about him in June 2016 for The Hollywood Reporter.  Wolff said he conducted over 200 interviews with Trump and his associates ...

01/03/2018 In a new book due to be released Wednesday, Steve Bannon is quoted as saying Donald Jr. was treasonous when he agreed to meet with Russians in an attempt to get dirt on Hillary Clinton.  Bannon is the former Chief Strategist and confidant to Donald Trump. In “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House”  author Michael Wolff quotes ...

01/01/2018 There were some big ones, some really big ones.  And there were many, very many lies.  As a matter of fact, Donald Trump set an all time record for telling lies during his short tenure (Trump tells over 2,000 lies )  But when we look back at the year and try to pick out the biggest lie Donald Trump told ...