World / Crime & Legal Nov 7, 2019
Trump's son tweets name of alleged whistleblower, breaking strict conventions for protection
President Donald Trump's son published on Wednesday the name of the alleged anonymous whistleblower whose complaint fired the impeachment inquiry against Trump, breaking strict conventions for protecting officials who reveal wrongdoing in government. Amid calls by the president himself to expose the whistleblower, Donald Trump ...
World / Crime & Legal Nov 7, 2019
President Donald Trump is blasting the media for not reporting the name of a person who has been identified in conservative circles as the whistleblower who spurred the impeachment inquiry. Yet Trump has carefully avoided using the name himself. Exposing whistleblowers can be dicey, even ...
World / Crime & Legal Aug 28, 2019
Financial records related to U.S. President Donald Trump and three of his children that congressional Democrats have requested from Deutsche Bank AG include tax returns, the bank disclosed in a court filing on Tuesday. Two committees in the U.S. House of Representatives subpoenaed Deutsche Bank ...
World / Crime & Legal Jun 12, 2019
President Donald Trump's eldest son will testify Wednesday behind closed doors to a Republican-led Senate committee investigating Russia election meddling, a congressional source said. The appearance by Donald Trump Jr. before the Senate Intelligence Committee follows a dispute that made headlines last month when the ...
World / Crime & Legal May 13, 2019
Trump may provoke U.S. lawmakers to impeach him, says key Democrat
Democrats are reluctant to impeach U.S. President Donald Trump, but he may provoke such a move by continuing to obstruct efforts by Congress to oversee his administration, a senior Democratic lawmaker said on Sunday. Adam Schiff, chairman of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee, told ...
World / Crime & Legal May 10, 2019
Trump says he's 'surprised' by Senate subpoena of his son, Don Jr.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said the Senate Intelligence Committee's subpoena of his son, Donald Trump Jr., came as a surprise, one day after reports that the Republican-led panel had called on his son to again answer questions. "I'm pretty surprised," Trump said at ...
World / Crime & Legal May 9, 2019
U.S. Senate panel subpoenas Trump's son over Russia contacts
The Russia probe plunged Washington into turmoil Wednesday as Donald Trump's son reportedly was ordered to testify before a Senate panel and the White House refused to release material on investigations into the president. A day after the top Republican in Congress called the Russia ...
Business Feb 7, 2019
House panel to probe Trump financial 'entanglement' with foreign governments
Vowing not to be "intimidated" by Donald Trump, the new Democratic chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said the panel will probe whether foreign governments had improper leverage over the president or his business interests. Rep. Adam Schiff told reporters Wednesday that the panel will ...
World / Crime & Legal Jan 31, 2019
Civil rights lawyer Margaret Ratner Kunstler seen as Roger Stone's possible WikiLeaks link
Tucked into last week's indictment of Roger Stone, the brash longtime confidante of President Donald Trump, was a fleeting reference to an attorney who had the ability to contact WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Prosecutors wrote that an email from Stone, seeking dirt on Democratic presidential ...
Business Dec 19, 2018
President Donald Trump has agreed to shut down his personal charity, the Trump Foundation, the New York attorney general said Tuesday, accusing it of engaging in a "shocking pattern of illegality" to advance his political and business interests. State Attorney General Barbara Underwood said the ...