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Robert Mueller’s Brilliant Strategy for Outmaneuvering Trump Pardons
Why special counsel Mueller is bringing so few charges against George Papadopoulos and, especially, Paul Manafort.
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Trump attorney: We’ll challenge Mueller if he investigates old real estate deals
An attorney representing President Trump in the ongoing investigation into whether his campaign colluded with Russia said in an interview published Saturday that his team would challenge special counsel Robert Mueller if the probe began looking at Trump's former business deals.
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Robert Mueller has enough evidence to charge Michael Flynn and son – report
Special counsel Robert Mueller has collected sufficient evidence to charge Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, and his son in the investigation into alleged collusion between Trump aides and Russia, NBC News reported on Sunday. Citing multiple sources familiar with the investigation, NBC said Mueller’s team was looking at possible charges of money laundering and lying to federal agents...
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Trump says he believes Putin's election meddling denials
President Donald Trump suggested on Saturday he's done confronting Russian President Vladimir Putin over his country's election meddling since it's insulting to the Russian leader.
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Former U.S. intelligence officials: Trump being ‘played’ by Putin
Two top former U.S. intelligence officials said Sunday that President Trump is being “played” by President Vladimir Putin on Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and accused him of being susceptible to foreign leaders who stroke his ego. “By not confronting the issue directly and not acknowledging to Putin that we know you’re responsible for this, I think he’s giving Putin a pass,” former CIA director John Brennan said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
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Jared Kushner might not be telling the truth about Russia
A Republican member of the Senate Intelligence Committee said this week Kushner should be called to Capitol Hill to be questioned about his business connections.
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Frontline: Putin's Revenge (part 1)
FRONTLINE tells the inside story of how Vladimir Putin came to see the United States as an enemy — and why he decided to target an American election.
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Trump: ‘People will die’ because of the Russia investigation
On Saturday, President Donald Trump said that “people will die” because of the Department of Justice and Congress’s investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 election. “This artificial Democratic hit job gets in the way,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on the way to Hanoi, Vietnam. “It gets in the way. And that’s a shame. Because people will die because of it. And it’s a pure hit job. And it’s artificially induced. And that’s [a] shame.”
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The Secret Correspondence Between Donald Trump Jr. and WikiLeaks
The transparency organization asked the president’s son for his cooperation—in sharing its work, in contesting the results of the election, and in arranging for Julian Assange to be Australia’s ambassador to the United States.
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Why FBI Can’t Tell All on Trump, Russia
The FBI cannot tell us what we need to know about Trump's contacts with Russia. Why? Because doing so would jeopardize a long-running, ultra-sensitive operation targeting mobsters tied to Putin — and to Trump. But the Feds’ stonewalling risks something far more dangerous: Failing to resolve a crisis of trust in America’s president. WhoWhatWhy provides the details of a two-month investigation in this 6,500-word exposé.
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Trump impeachment threat grows as obstruction of justice investigation deepens
President Donald Trump may have convinced himself that the investigation into his campaign’s alleged links to Russia is winding down, but evidence suggests quite the opposite—and that it is inching ever closer to his door. Specifically, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into possible obstruction of justice is ratcheting up, according to reports.
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Steyer’s Campaign to Impeach Trump Is Heading to Times Square
Tom Steyer, the billionaire environmentalist and Democratic mega donor, said he’s heading to the heart of New York City for the next step of his $20 million ad campaign urging the impeachment of President Donald Trump. “We’re putting a couple of large billboards in Times Square calling for the impeachment of the president,” Steyer said Monday in an interview. “We legitimately feel that this is the huge issue in front of the American people that no one is standing up for what the overwhelming number of Americans think.”
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Exclusive: Manafort flight records show deeper Kremlin ties than previously known
Paul Manafort’s flight records in and out of Ukraine, which McClatchy obtained from a government source in Kiev, and interviews with more than a dozen people familiar with his activities suggest the links between Donald Trump’s former campaign manager and Russia sympathizers run deeper than previously believed.
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Turkey pardoned by Trump had multiple contacts with Russian officials
Grav E. Gobbles, a 4-year-old bird from western Minnesota, received a pardon Tuesday during a ceremony in the Rose Garden. But how Gobbles was able to secure a presidential pardon has come under scrutiny, sources say. By Paul Sharpe. [Satire]
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Trump Pressed Top Republicans to End Senate Russia Inquiry
President Trump told Senators Mitch McConnell, Richard Burr and others that he wanted an inquiry into Russian interference in the election to come to a close.
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Former Trump Adviser Michael Flynn Pleads Guilty In Special Counsel's Russia Investigation
In a criminal information filing from Mueller’s team, the government alleges that Flynn “willfully and knowingly made materially false, fictitious, and fraudulent statements” in an interview with FBI agents on Jan. 24. It alleges he falsely told the FBI that he did not ask the Russian ambassador to refrain from retaliating to sanctions the Obama administration imposed on Russia in late December. Flynn also allegedly lied about asking the Russian ambassador on Dec. 22 to delay or defeat a pending United Nations Security Council resolution.
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Stocks Fall, Treasuries Rally on Political Turmoil: Markets Wrap
U.S. stocks fell the most in three weeks and Treasuries surged with gold as financial markets lurched into risk-off mode after Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to federal agents. Equities pared the worst of the fall as Senate Republicans edged closer to passing tax cuts. The S&P 500 Index fell as much as 1.5 percent before cutting the drop in half as of 12:10 p.m. in New York. Gold futures surged more than 1 percent and 10-year Treasury yields plunged nine basis points. Bloomberg’s dollar index sank as investors flocked to the yen.
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Operative Offered Trump Campaign ‘Kremlin Connection’ Using N.R.A. Ties
A conservative operative trumpeting his close ties to the National Rifle Association and Russia told a Trump campaign adviser last year that he could arrange a back-channel meeting between Donald J. Trump and Vladimir V. Putin, the Russian president, according to an email sent to the Trump campaign.
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Trump lashes out at FBI over Russia probe
Donald Trump lashed out at the FBI on Sunday, issuing a fresh denial that he asked former director James Comey to drop an investigation into the conduct of one of his top aides, Michael Flynn. In a Twitter tirade, Mr Trump said the FBI's reputation was "in tatters".
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Mueller Goes After Trump's Bank Accounts, Subpoenas Deutsche Bank
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has subpoenaed Deutsche Bank, demanding that it disclose details of transactions and documents on accounts help by President Trump and members of his family as the "Russian collusion" probe now turns its attention to Trump's bank accounts. According to Handelsblatt, which first reported the news, the bank received the subpoena several weeks ago.
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