ProPublica has been collecting disclosure forms that lay out Trump administration officials’ financial holdings and employment backgrounds. We now have disclosures from more than 400 officials and we’re sharing them with you. They are from White House staffers, President Trump’s Cabinet and from the hundreds of members of so-called beachhead teams that the administration has […]
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American Pravda Part 3/3: CNN Selectively Edits, Hates Trump and Think Voters Are Stupid (VIDEO)…
“On the inside, we all recognize he is a clown that he is hilariously unqualified for this. He’s really bad at this and that he does not have America’s best interests. We recognize he’s just fucking crazy.” He continues to attack Trump personally, instead of focusing on his policy: “He’s not actually a Republican. He […]
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CNN Faced $100M Lawsuit over Botched Russia Story…
The specter of a $100 million libel suit scared CNN into retracting a poorly reported story that slimed an ally of President Trump’s — and forcing out the staffers responsible for it, The Post has learned. The cable network’s coverage of Trump transition team member Anthony Scaramucci came amid federal scrutiny of corporate parent Time […]
House Panel Votes to Force Congress to Vote on War Against Islamic State…
The House Appropriations Committee, in a surprise move, adopted an amendment Thursday offered by leading anti-war Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) that would force Congress to vote on a new authorization for the battle against the Islamic State. The amendment, which passed by voice vote, would repeal within 240 days of the enactment of appropriations for […]
NYTs Issues Correction: 4 Intelligence Agencies NOT 17 Approved ODNI Russian Hacking Assessment…
Correction: June 29, 2017 – A White House Memo article on Monday about President Trump’s deflections and denials about Russia referred incorrectly to the source of an intelligence assessment that said Russia orchestrated hacking attacks during last year’s presidential election. The assessment was made by four intelligence agencies — the Office of the Director of […]
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REPORT: Obama Admin Relied on Outside Country for ‘Critical Intelligence’ Claiming Russia Interference…
The source of the intelligence led to the National Security Agency’s (NSA) reluctance to make conclusions with high confidence based on the data, the Post reported. Those details were buried inside an extensive, 7,700-plus word Washington Post article published last week titled, “Obama’s secret struggle to punish Russia for Putin’s election assault.” The piece was […]
CNN’s Van Jones Calling Russia Story A ‘Nothing Burger’ (VIDEO)…
CNN commentator Van Jones called the Russia story a “nothing burger” in the second CNN-related undercover video released by Project Veritas this week. “The Russia thing is just a big nothing burger,” Jones says on the video, apparently unaware he is being filmed. “There’s nothing there you can do.” The comments caught on tape aren’t […]
Sarah Palin Sues New York Times for Defamation…
On Tuesday evening, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin hired Hulk Hogan’s lawyers and sued the New York Times for defamation for falsely accusing her in a June 14 editorial of inciting Jared Lee Loughner to shoot Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-AZ). The Times’ editorial was published on the day that James Hodgkinson shot House Majority Whip […]
Burr: Senate Panel to Get Comey Memos…
The Senate Intelligence Committee has reached an agreement to receive memos written by former FBI Director James Comey detailing his interactions with President Donald Trump, Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.) told POLITICO on Wednesday. It had been an open question whether Congress would get access to the memos, which several committees in both the House and […]
Lindsey Graham Asks Very Simple Question about ‘Unmasking’; Massive Evasion Effort Ensues…
For months now, Senator Lindsey Graham has been trying to get an answer to a very simple question, namely ‘if his conversations are ‘incidentally’ captured while he’s overseas talking with a foreign leader who’s being surveilled by the U.S. intelligence community and his name is subsequently unmasked, is he, as a United States citizen and/or […]
Roger Stone Has Set a Date to Testify in the House Russia Probe Behind ‘Close Doors’…
Roger Stone has scheduled July 24 as the date of his testimony before the House Intelligence Committee, according to his attorney. Stone, a longstanding ally of President Trump, will appear before the panel during a closed hearing, Robert Buschel told Politico Tuesday. “We tried really hard,” he said of publicly conducting the hearing, which comes […]
Podesta Meets With House Intelligence Panel Behind Closed Doors…
The House Intelligence Committee met behind closed doors Tuesday with John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign chairman, amid complaints by President Donald Trump that the Obama administration didn’t do enough to counter Russian interference in the U.S. election. Podesta’s email account was hacked, as was the Democratic National Committee’s. Many of those emails were then […]
It’s My Party by Andrew Cockburn…
Close to a decade ago, as Barack Obama was cresting toward his first presidential victory, Jim Martin pleaded desperately for his help. Martin was a progressive Democrat running for the U.S. Senate in Georgia, and for most of the race he had been an underdog, outspent five to one. Then, a month before the vote, […]
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On Russia, a Senator’s Deception and a Timeline of Trump Frustration by Byron York…
Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley’s accusation that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer lied about President Trump and the Russia investigation — that Schumer said the president was under investigation after he, Schumer, had been specifically told by the FBI that Trump was not — is shedding new light on the events that led to the president’s […]
Theater That Put on Trump Assassination Play Gets New $100,000 Grant…
The Public Theater in New York has received an additional $100,000 grant from the federal government, fresh off its controversy for staging a Julius Caesar production where a Donald Trump lookalike is assassinated. Just days after controversy over the graphic mock Trump killing began, the National Endowment for the Arts announced its newest round of […]
58 Republican Lawmakers Demand Ginsburg Recuse Herself from Trump Travel Ban Case…
A group of fifty-eight Republican congressmen sent a letter to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Monday asking that she recuse herself from the proceedings on President Donald Trump’s travel ban. The complaint stems from a series of comments Ginsburg made in July 2016 attacking then-candidate Trump. The octogenarian said Trump was a “faker” and […]
McCain Institute Refuses to Disclose Big Donations…
McCain Institute for International Leadership executives refuse to disclose how much money big donors have contributed to the nonprofit that’s named after Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group has learned. McCain was the architect of the landmark Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 — more popularly known as “McCain-Feingold” […]
Lawyers Representing Bernie Sanders Supporters Fear for Their Life…
Jared Beck is not a lawyer likely to file a frivolous motion in Federal court. He’s an honors graduate of Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review, and a Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude graduate of Harvard College. Prior to setting up his own practice with his […]
Flynn Didn’t Disclose Role in Saudi Deal with Russians…
Former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn appears to have failed to report a 2015 trip to Saudi Arabia on behalf of a U.S./Russia business plan to build nuclear reactors, according to a congressional letter issued Monday requesting documents from the companies he allegedly represented. The seven-page letter — which contains the signatures of Democratic ranking […]
Rand Paul: “Federal Government Shouldn’t Be Giving Insurance Companies Any Money” (VIDEO)…
Sen. Rand Paul joins CNN’s Wolf Blitzer to discuss warrantless spying on American citizens, and his stand opposing the Senate Republicans’ health care plan. Sen. Paul is one of four GOP senators who have come out against the current form of the bill. “It is not going to win any Pullitzer prizes for reading, I’ll […]
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