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Robert Mueller questions BuzzFeed News' story on Donald Trump's instructions to Michael Cohen
Special counsel Robert Mueller's office Friday issued a rare public statement disputing the accuracy of a BuzzFeed News report saying President Donald Trump's former attorney told Mueller the president had directed him to lie to Congress. BuzzFeed, citing two unidentified law enforcement officials, reported that ...
FBI reportedly probed whether Trump secretly worked for Russia
Law enforcement officials became so concerned by President Donald Trump's behavior in the days after he fired FBI Director James Comey that they began investigating whether he had been working for Russia against U.S. interests, The New York Times reported Friday. The report cites unnamed ...
Donald Trump's one-time presidential campaign chairman Paul Manafort admitted in a court filing Tuesday he provided polling data from the campaign to a Russian with ties to intelligence during the 2016 U.S. presidential race. Manafort denied allegations from the Russian collusion investigation of Special Counsel ...
Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders contrite as 2016 campaign aides face harassment allegations
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and his chief lieutenants are offering contrition as some of his 2016 campaign staffers face allegations of sexual harassment that threaten to derail a second White House bid before it begins. Hours after a New York Times report detailed allegations of ...
Russian troll farm aimed to discourage black, liberal, LGBTQ U.S. voters: Senate study
The Russian troll farm that disrupted the 2016 U.S. presidential election sought particularly to demoralize Africa-Americans and discourage them from voting, according to a comprehensive new report for the Senate. The primary goal of the St. Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency (IRA) was to deepen divisions ...
Robert Mueller's Russia probe spending declines amid Trump attacks on 'waste'
Special counsel Robert Mueller cut back his spending on the Russia collusion investigation by 15 percent, his office said Friday, amid accusations by President Donald Trump's charge that the probe is wasting huge amounts. The Special Counsel's Office reported that it spent $8.47 million from ...
Trump knew hush-money payments were wrong, former lawyer Michael Cohen says
U.S. President Donald Trump knew it was wrong to order election-eve hush money paid to two women who claimed to have had affairs with him, his former lawyer Michael Cohen said in an interview to be broadcast Friday. Trump acted because he "was very concerned ...
U.S. prosecutors have made clear they believe President Donald Trump committed a crime. But can they prosecute him? The Constitution does not answer the question, and the majority of the legal community has long accepted that the answer is no — that the president has ...
Contacts between Trump campaign and Russia — multiple and undeniable
On Jan. 11, 2017, Donald Trump was asked in his first press conference after his shock election victory, "Did you or anyone in your campaign have any contact with Russia leading up to or during the campaign?" "No, not at all," Trump responded. Fact check: Senior ...
Trump lawyer met Russian offering 'political synergy,' special counsel reveals
U.S. prosecutors revealed Friday that a Russian offered cooperation to Donald Trump's campaign as early as 2015, declaring that the president's ex-lawyer Michael Cohen had provided "relevant" and "substantial" help to the Russia investigation. In a separate case, federal prosecutors demanded "substantial" prison time of ...
Robert Mueller, the U.S. special prosecutor in charge of the probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, recommended Tuesday that President Donald Trump's former national security advisor Michael Flynn face no jail time due to his "substantial" cooperation with the investigation. Mueller said in ...
