WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Secret Service on Sunday denied a suggestion from President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer that it had vetted a meeting between the president’s son and Russian nationals during the 2016 campaign. Donald Trump Jr. has acknowledged that he met in New York with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya after he was told […]
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Trump Complains About Historically Low Approval Polls
President Trump on Sunday blasted a poll showing him with a record low approval rating as “the most inaccurate poll around election time!” “The ABC/Washington Post Poll, even though almost 40% is not bad at this time, was just about the most inaccurate poll around election time!” Trump tweeted. The ABC News/Washington Post poll, released […]
Chechen President Denies Torturing And Murdering Gay People
MOSCOW (AP) — Chechnya’s strongman leader has harshly denounced claims that his southern Russian republic has tortured and even killed gay men, denying that there even are any homosexual men in his region. Kremlin-backed Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov has faced wide international criticism since a Russian newspaper reported this spring that his security forces had […]
Hawaii’n Judge Eases Travel Ban Restrictions Again
HONOLULU — A federal judge in Hawaii on Thursday expanded the list of family relationships needed by people seeking new visas from six mostly Muslim countries to avoid President Donald Trump’s travel ban. U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson ordered the government not to enforce the ban on grandparents, grandchildren, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews […]
Suspected Russian Spy Was At Meeting With Trump Jr.
WASHINGTON — The Russian lawyer who met with Donald Trump Jr. and others on the Trump team after a promise of compromising material on Hillary Clinton was accompanied by a Russian-American lobbyist — a former Soviet counterintelligence officer who is suspected by some U.S. officials of having ongoing ties to Russian intelligence, NBC News has […]
Trump Adviser Calls Juniors Russian Meeting A Category 5 Hurricane
A close adviser to the Trump White House described the revelations surrounding Mr. Trump’s eldest son Donald Trump Jr. and his meetings with a Russian lawyer as a “Category Five hurricane”, CBS News’ Chief White House Correspondent Major Garrett reports. The adviser called it “very bad” as the fallout over Trump Jr.’s meeting continues after […]
Sessions Decision Making Called Into Question By Democrats
Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday asking why the Department of Justice settled a major money-laundering case involving a real-estate company owned by the son of a powerful Russian government official whose lawyer met with Donald Trump Jr. last year. Trump Jr., the president’s […]
Vice President Pence Beginning To Distance Himself From President
Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday offered a curious statement in response to that morning’s release of emails showing that the eldest son of President Donald Trump met with a Kremlin-linked lawyer in 2016 intending to obtain damaging information on Hillary Clinton. The carefully worded response from Pence’s press secretary Marc Lotter attempts to absolve […]
Trump Says Son Is ‘Open, Transparent, Innocent’ Despite Being Caught In Lie
President Donald Trump defended his son Wednesday morning amid the swirling controversy surrounding Donald Trump Jr.’s emails regarding a meeting with a Russian lawyer, praising him for being “open” and “transparent.” “My son Donald did a good job last night. He was open, transparent and innocent,” the president tweeted, referring to his son’s appearance last […]
Trump Jr. Emails Prove He Went To Meeting With Russians About Campaign
Donald Trump Jr. was told in an email before his meeting with a Russian lawyer — who he believed had damaging info on Hillary Clinton — that the material was part of the Kremlin’s effort to aid his father’s campaign, a report says. At least three people with knowledge of the correspondence told the New […]
Military Plane Crash In Mississippi Kills 16 Service Members
A military transport plane that was being used on a training flight crashed in Mississippi on Monday, killing 16 military service members, the Marine Forces Reserve has confirmed. Of the deceased, 15 were Marines and one was a sailor, according to Richard Spencer, the Trump administration’s nominee for Navy secretary, who addressed the subject during […]
Comey’s Private Trump Memos Contained Classified Information
Comey’s private memos on Trump conversations contained classified material More than half of the memos former FBI chief James Comey wrote as personal recollections of his conversations with President Trump about the Russia investigation have been determined to contain classified information, according to interviews with officials familiar with the documents. This revelation raises the possibility […]