7/20/2017 Has enough water gone under the bridge? Apparently in the case of Jon Huntsman it has. Today President Trump nominated Huntsman as Ambassador to Russia despite criticizing his performance in 2012. A Republican, Jon Huntsman, served as Ambassador to China during the Obama administration. Huntsman also served as Governor of the state of Utah, and Ambassador to Singapore. Huntsman ...
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Trump not happy with Jeff Sessions on Russia
7/20/2017 Donald Trump, during an interview with the "failing" New York Times, said "Sessions should have never recused himself, and if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me before he took the job and I would have picked somebody else." He went on "How do you take a job and then recuse yourself? If he would ...
Read More »Donald Trump Jr’s emails are the smoking gun
7/12/2017 Donald Trump Jr. today released emails proving his desire to receive damaging information on Hillary Clinton from sources inside the Russian government. It is against Federal Election Law for candidates or their campaign representatives to get something of value from a foreign national. The Jr. Trump released the emails shortly being notified by the New York Times that they ...
Read More »Criminal defense lawyers are in high demand by Trump Administration
When the pressure begins to mount, it’s sometimes wise to consult a lawyer. In the case of the Trump Administration, it seems everybody is hiring a lawyer. It’s so bad, even the lawyers are hiring lawyers. Many of the attorneys hired by administration staff specialize in criminal defense. Donald Trump has so many lawyers, it’s hard to keep track of ...
Read More »Putin delighted Trump wants to share cyber security secrets with Russia
7/9/2017 President Trump met with Vladimir Putin on Friday, and today tweeted that the two of them discussed forming an "impenetrable Cyber Security unit so that election hacking, & many other negative things, will be guarded and safe". The announcement was lauded by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who stated "The two leaders also acknowledged the challenges of cyber threats and ...
Read More »Promised damaging information on Clinton, Donald Jr. met with Russian lawyer
7/09/2017 In a stunning admission, Donald Trump Jr. stated to the New York Times that he met with Russian operatives in the hope of securing campaign information damaging to Hillary Clinton. On July 9, 2016, Donald Trump Jr., along with campaign chief Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner, held a meeting in Trump Tower with a Russian Lawyer Natalia Veselnitkaya. ...
Read More »Trump campaign chairman received $17 million from pro-Russian political party
6/28/2017 Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, filed as a foreign agent today. The filing revealed that Manafort’s firm, DMP International, received $17.1 million between 2012 and 2014 from the Party of Regions, the pro-Russian former ruling party in Ukraine. Manafort resigned from Trump’s campaign when it was reported he had received undisclosed cash payments for his work in ...
Read More »Trump feels vindicated by Comey’s testimony, others disagree
6/8/2017 Former FBI Director James Comey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee today, reiterating many of the things stated in his prepared statement. Following Mr. Comey’s testimony, President Trump stated that he feels “complete vindication” from accusations that have made against him. Despite so many false statements and lies, total and complete vindication…and WOW, Comey is a leaker! — Donald ...
Read More »Comey provides written statement before testimony
06/07/2017 A day before he is scheduled to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Former FBI Director James Comey released the prepared statement he plans to offer the committee before being questioned. Contained in the prepared statement are detailed notes of nine instances where Comey and Trump interacted. The discussions regarded reports that Russia held compromising information on Trump, Michael ...
Read More »Just about nobody can trust Donald Trump
It started just about as soon as he took office. The false claims about the crowd size at his inauguration really didn’t matter, but the Trump staff insisted on telling the lie. When the truth started to get in the way, they tried “alternative facts”. it wasn’t long before people in the Trump Administration started to lose credibility and trust, ...
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