About half the respondents in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll suspect that President Donald Trump broke the law during the presidential campaign, and just 3 in 10 Americans surveyed think that alleged wrongdoing ends with those who were charged this week by the special counsel. The poll finds substantial support for the investigation, with […]
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Putin Says President”Trump Is Not My Bride”
Russian President Vladimir Putin today called it “naïve” to ask him whether he is disappointed with the presidency of Donald Trump, saying the relationship between the two leaders, often described as a so-called bromance, isn’t personal. “He’s not my bride,” Putin told reporters at an economic summit in the Chinese city of Xiamen. “I am […]
Top FBI Investigator Resigns From Trump-Russia Collusion Investigation
One of the FBI’s top investigators, tapped by special counsel Robert Mueller just weeks ago to help lead the probe of Russian meddling in last year’s presidential election, has left Mueller’s team, sources tell ABC News. The recent departure of FBI veteran Peter Strzok is the first known hitch in a secretive probe that by […]
Grand Jury Has Been Assembled In Russia Probe By Mueller
Special counsel Robert Mueller has impaneled a grand jury as part of his investigation into possible collusion between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia in last year’s election, sources tell the Wall Street Journal. The report follows Mueller stepping up the probe by hiring several high-powered lawyers. Earlier this week, Reuters reported that Greg Andres, a […]
Congress Passes New Sanctions On Russia And Undermines Trump’s Authority
The House and Senate have struck a deal that could send to President Trump’s desk this summer a bill that slaps new sanctions on Russia. In addition to the new sanctions on Russia for its interference in the U.S. 2016 election and its military aggression in Ukraine and Syria, the bill also gives Congress the […]
Conservatives Angling To Fire Mueller Due To His Investigation Of Trump
Jeff Sessions will likely continue to lead the Department of Justice, despite the public clash between President Donald Trump and his choice for attorney general. But Trump’s frustration with the direction of the Russian probe and the special prosecutor are understandable, said Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, a government watchdog group. “Sessions should un-recuse […]
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 […]
Putin Says Russia Will Honor Paris Climate Agreement
President Vladimir Putin says Russia will meet its obligations under the Paris climate agreement. Speaking at a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg, Putin said that “we honor the Paris agreement.” He added that Russia has made decisions related to the implementation of the […]