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Trump officials deny encouraging George Papadopoulos to engage with Russia even though the former aide pleaded guilty to lying about his talks with a 'Kremlin-linked professor' A former foreign policy adviser to Trump, Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to lying about communicating with individuals said to have ties to the Kremlin The former campaign aide was allegedly trying to arrange a meeting between then-GOP candidate Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin Papadopoulos told Special Counsel Robert Mueller that he was encouraged to cultivate ties to individuals said to be close to Putin The special counsel said Papadopoulos lied to FBI about when he learned from a professor that Russia claimed to have 'dirt' on Hillary Clinton 'My understanding is there wasn't encouragement,' White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters at her daily briefing on Tuesday Sam Clovis, a former ... (more)
Russian President Vladimir Putin would like to ignore the Bolshevik Revolution, which marks its 100th anniversary next month. Putin reportedly told his advisers that it would be unnecessary to commemorate the occasion.
Well over a year after the FBI began investigating "collusion" between the Trump campaign and Vladimir Putin, Special Counsel Robert Mueller has brought in his first major indictment. Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort has been charged with a series of crimes dating back years, though none is tied directly to President With a leak to CNN that indictments were coming, Mueller's office stole the weekend headlines.
Ex-campaign chairman Paul Manafort and another former Trump aide appeared in court, pleading not guilty to conspiracy against the United States. An investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election moved into a new and more perilous stage for the White House Tuesday after three aides to Donald Trump's presidential campaign, including a former chairman, were charged.
In this photo from President Donald Trump's Twitter account, George Papadopoulos, third from left, sits at a table with then-candidate Trump and others at what is labeled at a national security meeting in Washington that was posted on March 31, 2016. Papadopoulos, a former Trump campaign aide belittled by the White House as a low-level volunteer was thrust on Oct. 30, 2017, to the center of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, providing evidence in the first criminal case that connects Trump's team and intermediaries for Russia seeking to interfere in the campaign.
For months, President Donald Trump has railed against an investigation into whether operatives for his surprisingly successful presidential campaign worked with the Russian government to turn the election. Monday's release of charges brought against Trump's former campaign manager, and the guilty plea of a former campaign adviser, suggest Trump's "witch hunt" explanation won't make it through Halloween.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election revealed its first targets Monday, with a former campaign adviser to President Donald Trump admitting he lied to the FBI about his contacts with Russians. Separately, Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, and a former Manafort business associate were indicted on felony charges of conspiracy against the United States and other counts.
As a service to readers bound to be confused by an increasingly tangled story, here's a brief guide to the latest developments in the tangled allegations involving Russia, President Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Background: The ''dossier'' is a collection of 17 memos concerning Trump and Russia written by Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer, between June 20 and Dec. 13, 2016.
Fusion GPS is an opposition research firm run by ex-journalists, but how is it connected to the Trump dossier, Donald Trump Jr.'s Trump Tower meeting and the 2016 election? The Fact Checker's Glenn Kessler explains. As a service to readers bound to be confused by an increasingly tangled story, here's a brief guide to the latest developments in the tangled allegations involving Russia, President Trump and Hillary Clinton Background: The "dossier" is a collection of 17 memos concerning President Trump and Russia written by Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer, between June 20 and Dec. 13, 2016.
Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses the United Nations General Assembly in 2015. Putin's interference in the 2016 U.S. election has been the center of a crisis in relations between the two countries.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is greeted as he steps off his plane as he arrives, Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. Tillerson is returning from a seven country trip.
It seems the perfect recipe, a union of minds and fates. A case, long disputed, deliberated over, conspired over, meets a modern US president who favours the notion of birther theories, rigged systems, corrupt elites and corrosive establishments.
American Center for Law and Justice executive director Jordan Sekulow discusses the new controversy surrounding a 2010 uranium deal between the Obama administration and Russia. Republicans on Capitol Hill launched several investigations Tuesday into an Obama-era deal with Russia, during which the U.S. sold uranium, a key component to developing nuclear weapons, to its on-and-off adversary, despite a discovery by the FBI into a Russian bribery plot.
The Homeland Security Department said Monday wealthy financier William Browder, a British citizen who lobbied for a law targeting Russian officials over human rights, was cleared for travel to the United States on Oct. 18, four days before he says he was denied entry into the U.S. Browder tweeted on Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin placed him on an Interpol travel list and the U.S. had simultaneously revoked his visa. His comments drew outrage from congressional Republicans and Democrats who immediately demanded answers from American officials.
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."
It has always niggled me as to what the always arrogant 44th President of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama, actually meant when he was caught on an open microphone telling Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that he needed more "flexibility" from the Russians. They needed to give him "space" since "it was [his] last election" but "after '[his] election, [he] would have more flexibility."
In one of his first major interviews since President Donald Trump took office, former President Jimmy Carter opened up about his views on politics and cultural clashes in the Trump era. Speaking with New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd in a piece titled "Jimmy Carter Lusts for a Trump Posting", Carter opined on a number of political topics: The former president said he would serve as a liaison to North Korea , and that he offered his services to Trump's national security adviser H.R. McMaster at the funeral of Zbigniew Brzezinski, an adviser who helped shape Carter's foreign policy agenda.
How did Russia come to control 20 percent of the U.S. uranium supply? What's Uranium One, and why is the FBI investigating it? And what do the Clintons have to do with all of this? Glenn answers those questions and more in this 3-minute clip with what you need to know about the bombshell report this week that may connect a Russian scheme with the Clinton Foundation. The FBI started investigating Russian efforts to control the uranium supply in 2009, and details have slowly surfaced since then.
Former U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton speaks during an interview with Mariella Frostrup at the Cheltenham Literature Festival in Cheltenham, Britain October 15, 2017. REUTERS/Rebecca Naden Seoul: Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton slammed President Donald Trump's "dangerous and short-sighted" war of words with North Korea Wednesday, saying his Twitter tirades only benefitted Pyongyang's attention-seeking ruler and hurt Washington's credibility.