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I'm Proud We Published the Trump-Russia Dossier - Exactly one year ago BuzzFeed published what's now known simply as "the dossier": a set of reports put together by a former British intelligence officer named Christopher Steele during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Faced with a growing backlash, President Donald Trump's former chief strategist released a statement Sunday reaffirming his support for the commander in chief and praising Trump's eldest son as "both a patriot and a good man." Bannon infuriated Trump with comments to author Michael Wolff describing a June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower in New York between Donald Trump Jr., Trump campaign aides and a Russian lawyer as "treasonous" and "unpatriotic."
President Donald Trump's former chief strategist released a statement Sunday reaffirming his support for the commander in chief and praising Trump's eldest son as "both a patriot and a good man." Bannon infuriated Trump with comments to author Michael Wolff describing a June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower in New York between Donald Trump Jr., Trump campaign aides and a Russian lawyer as "treasonous" and "unpatriotic."
Stephen Colbert, right, executive producer of the Showtime animated series "Our Cartoon President," takes part in a panel discussion on the show with fellow executive producer Chris Licht at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour on Jan. 6, 2018, in Pasadena, Calif. Stephen Colbert, right, executive producer of the Showtime animated series "Our Cartoon President," takes part in a panel discussion on the show with fellow executive producer Chris Licht at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour on Jan. 6, 2018, in Pasadena, Calif.
Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino staff interacted with Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock more than 10 times in the days leading up to the October 1 massacre that claimed 58 lives. During Paddock's stay at the hotel, room service and housekeeping "had contact with Paddock or entered his suite more than 10 times," according to a statement sent to CNN from MGM Resorts International, which owns the Nevada hotel.
Staff at the Mandalay Bay hotel interacted with Las Vegas mass shooter Stephen Paddock just days before he killed 58 people and injured 500 others at a music country concert on the strip last October, MGM Resorts International told The Las Vegas Review Journal on Friday. "Mandalay Bay staff, room service and housekeeping had contact with Paddock or entered his suite more than 10 times over the course of his stay, including the three days leading up to October 1," an MGM Resorts spokesperson said in response to emailed questions about any future changes in hotel room policies from the Review Journal.
Back in January 2016, there were reports that the FBI, based on emails recovered during the investigation of the Clinton email scandal, had opened a "public corruption" investigation on the Clinton Foundation. If you are sentient being, you were not shocked about the words "corruption" and "Clinton foundation" appearing in close proximity to one another.
Comedy Central's THE DAILY SHOW WITH TREVOR NOAH and THE OPPOSITION W/ JORDAN KLEPPE will be providing instant analysis and commentary about the President's first STATE OF THE UNION address and telecast LIVE with back-to-back episodes from 11:00-11:30 p.m. ET and 11:30-midnight ET respectively on Tuesday, January 30. This marks the seventh time THE DAILY SHOW WITH TREVOR NOAH has aired LIVE, having previously done so throughout the 2016 Presidential Election on election night, after the presidential and vice presidential debates, and on the final nights of both the Republican and Democratic National Conventions. The Opposition w/ Jordan Klepper made its series debut last fall and will be airing a LIVE episode for the first time.
She always finds a way, you guys! 3. Reforming tax law is hard because: A. Having both hands in the cookie jar leaves very little room to maneuver. B. It is hard to say the word "reform" unironically, without laughing so hard I accidentally legislate a little.
Trump tells the New York Times that 'all forms of media will tank' if he is not president; reaction and analysis from journalist Emily Shire and Fox News contributor Tammy Bruce. I will be announcing THE MOST DISHONEST & CORRUPT MEDIA AWARDS OF THE YEAR on Monday at 5:00 o'clock.
After I returned home from New York to see my family for the holidays in my first weeklong vacation in almost four years , I read some of Trump's insane interview with Michael Schmidt from The New York Times at Mar-A-Lago, and it was truly terrifying. Can you imagine any president of the U.S. conducting an interview with a major news service where none of his aides or staffers were present or even knew it was happening? As word trickled back to the White House, advisers worked to reach the president, with Trump's personal aide interrupting at one point to hand him a cellphone with White House communications director Hope Hicks on the line; she checked in on the interview from afar.
Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos told an Australian diplomat in May 2016 that Russia had political dirt on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, the New York Times reported on Saturday. Then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at a campaign rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S. November 8, 2016.
An Australian diplomat's tip, and not a ,dirty dossier, from a former MI6 spy, appears to have triggered FBI probe into Russian meddling in the US election In May 2016, Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos met an Australian diplomat for a night of heavy drinking at a London bar He told Alexander Downer, the Australian high commissioner to the United Kingdom, that Russia had obtained dirt on Hillary Clinton Trump backers have alleged the Russia probe was ignited by a salacious dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele An Australian diplomat's tip, and not a 'dirty dossier' from a former MI6 spy, appears to have helped persuade the FBI to investigate Russian meddling in the US election.
George Papadopoulos told an Australian diplomat that Russia had "political dirt" on Hillary Clinton in May of last year, a conversation that might have played a role in the FBI's decision to open an investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, according to a report published Saturday. The New York Times reported that Papadopoulos, then a foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump's campaign, was drinking at an upscale London bar when he told Australia's top diplomat in Britain, Alexander Downer, that Russia had political information on Clinton.
WASHINGTON: Former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos told an Australian diplomat in May 2016 that Russia had political dirt on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, the New York Times reported on Saturday. The conversation between Papadopoulos and the diplomat, Alexander Downer, in London was a driving factor behind the FBI's decision to open a counter-intelligence investigation of Moscow's contacts with the Trump campaign, the Times reported.
Sen. Al Franken vowed that he is "not giving up my voice" in his first public appearance in his home state of Minnesota since announcing plans to resign amid sexual misconduct accusations. "Here's my promise to you," he told about 300 supporters, family members and friends gathered Thursday night at the Machine Shop event space in northeast Minneapolis, according to the Star Tribune.
New York Times reporter Ceylan Yeginsu filed breaking news from London: A three-month old interview with a former president! Prince Harry interviewed Barack Obama in Toronto in September, and the interview aired on BBC's Radio 4: " A Prince and a President: BBC's Obama Interview ." The online headline was cornier: "When Harry Met Barry: The BBC Obama Interview": It was a case of the famous interviewing the famous.
Strong irony is in the air as California heads into the hot political year of 2018, with an initiative to end the state's "top two" primary election system in play just as top two, also known as the "jungle primary," may be about to accomplish its central purpose. That aim was to allow voters in the minority party to influence elections and elect more moderate members of the larger party when their own party either has no candidate in a race or fields a sure loser.
Establishment journalists claim that the Trump era has produced a "golden age" of journalism, but media coverage in 2017 was plagued with errors and "bombshells" that turned out to be anything but. CNN botched a major story in December when they alleged that Donald Trump Jr. was colluding with Wikileaks over stolen documents.