Update: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) told reporters on Wednesday that the committee has agreed to hear testimony from Special Counsel Mueller sometime in May, although a specific date has yet to be set. Original text below. *** During a press conference prior to last month’s release of …
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Buried in a footnote in Section II B of Volume II of the redacted Mueller report is a single reference to supposed kompromat the Russian government was rumored to have on the president — the infamous “pee tape.” The report confirms that then-FBI director James Comey briefed President-elect Trump about …
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Michael Cohen is scheduled to begin a three-year prison sentence on May 6th. He really doesn’t want to. On Thursday, lawyers for President Trump’s former lawyer and fixer sent a letter to congressional Democrats explaining that Cohen has conveniently discovered a “trove” of new documents that his team believes “have …
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On Sunday, Attorney General William Barr delivered a brief, narrow summary of Special Counsel Robert Mueller‘s nearly two-year investigation into the Trump campaign’s relationship with Russia. The president and his allies responded by declaring the matter settled while doing all they can to convince Americans that Barr’s assessment exonerates Trump …
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WASHINGTON —Paul Manafort, the disgraced Republican lobbyist and former chairman of Donald Trump‘s presidential campaign, was set to face trial later this month over allegations of money laundering, illegal foreign lobbying, witness tampering, and conspiracy against the United States brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. It would have been the …
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“It’s pretty clear to me everyone in the White House knows it’d be the end of President Trump’s presidency if he tried to fire Mr. Mueller,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina yesterday on ABC’s This Week, referring to Robert Mueller, the special counsel hired last May to investigate …
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