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President Donald Trump is not considering firing the special counsel investigating Russian election interference, a top White House lawyer said, after a cascade of Trump tweets revived chatter that the deeply frustrated president may be preparing to get rid of the veteran prosecutor. In a first for Trump, he jabbed directly at special counsel Robert Mueller by name in weekend tweets that both challenged the investigation's existence and suggested political bias on the part of Mueller's investigators.
Today, we learn that the Robert Mueller forces are apparently sending his troops up to, if not, beyond the Trump red line. Despite threats of shutting down the special counsel operation, Mueller is on the march as he is reported to have issued subpoenas to the Trump Organization.
Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election, on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 21, 2017. Mueller has in recent weeks subpoenaed the Trump Organization to turn over documents, including some related to Russia, according to two people briefed on the matter, the New York Times reported on March 15, 2018.
The Trump Organization has donated $151,470 in foreign government profits at its hotels and similar businesses last year to the U.S. Treasury, an executive said in a statement Friday. George Sorial, the executive vice president and chief compliance counsel, said the Feb. 22 voluntary donation fulfills the company's pledge to donate profits from foreign government patronage while Donald Trump is president.
I'm increasingly more surprised about what President Donald Trump and his family haven't done to make money than what they have. A White House staff member adjusts the presidential seal before an event on the South Lawn in December.
It appears President Trump may have dodged the consequences of one shady habit, conducting extramarital affairs, by indulging in another unscrupulous habit: refusing to pay his employees. Last month Michael Cohen, President Trump's longtime personal lawyer, released a statement that seemed to suggest he paid Stephanie Clifford - a.k.a. Stormy Daniels, the porn star who claimed she had an affair with Trump - $130,000 of his own money right before the 2016 election.
President Trump's communications director and close aide Hope Hicks announced her resignation Wednesday and will leave the West Wing in a few weeks, White House officials said. Her departure comes a day after she refused to answer key questions from the House Intelligence Committee and at the end of a rocky month during which she was under fire for mishandling the White House response to spousal abuse allegations against Rob Porter, Trump's staff secretary whom Hicks reportedly had been dating.
It's been a jam-packed year of news since President Donald Trump moved into the White House, but it's also been a transformative -- if tumultuous -- year for each member of the first family. Trump and his extended nuclear family's first year in Washington saw new homes in cities, new roles, new books and even a new baby.
Democratic members of the House oversight committee asked the Republican chairman to begin a serious investigation into President Donald Trump's conflicts of interests. The letter was sent to Chairman Trey Gowdy of South Carolina on Thursday, one year after a news conference held by Trump and his attorney announcing efforts to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest by handing over his businesses' reins to his sons and putting his assets in a trust, among other measures.
The Trump Organization has given Special Counsel Robert Mueller and Congress a slew of emails and documents about meetings involving the real estate companies' executives, according to CNN. And some of those records pertain to a Belarusian-American businessman who is said to be a major source for the infamous Steele dossier.
Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and others in the Trump organization were offered a website address and decryption key for hacked WikiLeaks documents. A CNN report reveals an email was sent to then-candidate Donald Trump, offering a link to WikiLeaks documents.
Exclusive: Email shows effort to give Trump campaign WikiLeaks documents - STORY HIGHLIGHTS - Washington Candidate Donald Trump, his son Donald Trump Jr. and others in the Trump Organization received an email in September 2016 offering a decryption key and website address Email pointed Trump campaign to WikiLeaks documents that were already public A 2016 email sent to President Trump and top aides pointed the campaign to hacked documents from the Democratic National Committee that had already been made public by the group WikiLeaks a day earlier.
Exclusive: Email shows effort to give Trump campaign WikiLeaks documents - STORY HIGHLIGHTS - Washington Candidate Donald Trump, his son Donald Trump Jr. and others in the Trump Organization received an email in September 2016 offering a decryption key and website address Email pointed Trump campaign to WikiLeaks documents that were already public A 2016 email sent to President Trump and top aides pointed the campaign to hacked documents from the Democratic National Committee that had already been made public by the group WikiLeaks a day earlier.
The presidential daughter and adviser, in a "full-blown sprint" as she sells the Republican tax overhaul plan and juggles other initiatives, has had it with all that talk about her "pet project" to increase the child tax credit . "I get a little bit frustrated when people call it a pet project," Trump told The Associated Press as she spent a day shuttling between events in multiple states.
On his most grueling and consequential trip abroad, President Donald Trump stands ready to exhort Asian allies and rivals on the need to counter the dangers posed by North Korea's nuclear threat. The 12-day, five-country trip, the longest Far East itinerary for a president in a generation, comes at a precarious moment for Trump.
In this Jan. 19, 2017, file photo, then-President-elect Donald Trump and his wife Melania Trump and family wave at the conclusion of the pre-Inaugural "Make America Great Again! Welcome Celebration" at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. Four years ago, well before the furor over allegations Moscow engaged in cybermeddling to help get Donald Trump elected, at least 195 web addresses belonging to Trump, his family or his business empire were hijacked by hackers who may have been operating out of Russia, The Associated Press has learned.
Michael Cohen, an attorney for Donald Trump, arrives in Trump Tower in New York City, Dec. 16, 2016. Cohen acknowledged, Aug. 28, 2017, that the president's company considered building a Trump Tower in Moscow during the Republican primary, but that the plan was abandoned "for a variety of business reasons."
Donald Trump is the founder and owner of the privately owned Trump Organization , an international conglomerate based in New York City. Trump hires thousands of foreign workers at approximately 500 business entities of which Donald Trump is the sole or principal owner.
Club members and guests lunch in a lounge at Trump National Golf Club last month in Mooresville, N.C. The red-blue political divide is not only informing the president's policies, it is influencing the bottom line of the family-run Trump Organization. Jacob Biba/The New York Times Club members and guests lunch in a lounge at Trump National Golf Club last month in Mooresville, N.C. The red-blue political divide is not only informing the president's policies, it is influencing the bottom line of the family-run Trump Organization.