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Trump Says He Is Victim Of The Greatest Witch Hunt In American History

President Trump described himself as the victim of a “witch hunt” Thursday morning, a day after the Justice Department appointed a special counsel to investigate possible collusion between  Trump associates and the Russian government to meddle in the 2016 presidential election. In a pair of tweets Thursday shortly before 8 a.m., Trump — without evidence — pointed […]

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Sessions Lied During Confirmation Hearings About Meeting With Russia

Then-Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) spoke twice last year with Russia’s ambassador to the United States, Justice Department officials said, encounters he did not disclose when asked about possible contacts between members of President Trump’s campaign and representatives of Moscow during Sessions’s confirmation hearing to become attorney general. One of the meetings was a private conversation […]