Robert Mueller to testify publicly before 2 House committees

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 12:27:19 +0000

Robert Mueller

WASHINGTON — Special counsel Robert Mueller has agreed to testify publicly before Congress on July 17 after Democrats issued subpoenas to compel him to appear, the chairmen of two House committees announced. Mueller’s unusual back-to-back testimony in front of the House Judiciary and the Intelligence committees is likely to be the most highly anticipated congressional […]

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AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s torrent of twisted claims on Russia

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2019 15:51:38 +0000

AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s torrent of twisted claims on Russia

WASHINGTON — Russia keeps reverberating even with special counsel Robert Mueller’s report now part of history. As much as President Donald Trump says he wants the United States to move on, he’s found it hard to turn away himself, as seen in a torrent of tweets and remarks railing against Democrats, trashing Mueller and painting […]

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Trump’s executive privilege strategy could mean messy fight

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2019 16:07:52 +0000

Trump’s executive privilege strategy could mean messy fight

WASHINGTON — Since George Washington’s time, presidents have used executive privilege to resist congressional inquiries in the name of protecting the confidentiality of their decision-making. President Donald Trump threatened this past week to broadly assert executive privilege to block a number of current and former aides from testifying, including some who have cooperated with special […]

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Trump Tower meeting emails ‘really bad,’ aide told Trump

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2019 09:38:10 +0000

Trump Tower meeting emails ‘really bad,’ aide told Trump

The president’s communications director didn’t sugarcoat it: The emails, Hope Hicks told Donald Trump, were ”really bad.” The emails showed how the president’s oldest son had accepted a meeting with a Russian lawyer with the promise of receiving dirt on his father’s opponent, Hillary Clinton. Not only that, he’d been told the dirt was part of the Russian government’s ongoing support for his father.

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Democrats to prepare subpoenas for full Mueller report

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2019 14:38:52 +0000

Jerrold Nadler

WASHINGTON — The House Judiciary Committee will prepare subpoenas this week seeking special counsel Robert Mueller’s full Russia report as the Justice Department appears likely to miss an April 2 deadline set by Democrats for the report’s release. The Judiciary panel plans to vote on subpoenas Wednesday, a day after the deadline. The chairmen of […]

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Trump declares victory now but legal perils far from over

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 14:23:13 +0000

Donald Trump

President Donald Trump may be reveling in what he sees as “complete and total exoneration” from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, but his legal perils are far from over.

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Mueller’s Russia probe report rules out criminal collusion

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 10:59:00 +0000

Donald Trump

WASHINGTON — Special counsel Robert Mueller did not find evidence that President Donald Trump’s campaign “conspired or coordinated” with Russia to influence the 2016 presidential election but reached no conclusion on whether Trump obstructed justice, Attorney General William Barr declared. That brought a hearty claim of vindication from Trump but set the stage for new […]

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AP FACT CHECK: Trump claims an exoneration he wasn’t given

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2019 10:29:03 +0000

AP FACT CHECK: Trump claims an exoneration he wasn’t given

Donald Trump heard words from a judge that the judge didn’t speak, as the president reached to denounce the Russia investigation as a hoax and celebrate an exoneration he wasn’t given.

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House panel seeks documents on 81 people linked to Trump

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2019 10:55:41 +0000

Jerrold Nadler

Democrats launched a sweeping new probe of President Donald Trump, an aggressive investigation that threatens to shadow the president through the 2020 election season with potentially damaging inquiries into his White House, campaign and family businesses.

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House to query 60 Trump officials in obstruction probe

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2019 17:32:17 +0000

Jerrold Nadler

Declaring it’s “very clear” President Donald Trump obstructed justice, the chairman of the House committee in charge of impeachment says the panel is requesting documents Monday from more than 60 people from Trump’s administration, family and business as part of a rapidly expanding Russia investigation.

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