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Registration will allow you to post comments on GreenwichTime.com and create a GreenwichTime.com Subscriber Portal account for you to manage subscriptions and email preferences. As the midterm elections approach, one thing is clear: Neither the Trump administration nor Congress has done enough to deter Russia and other hostile foreign powers from interfering in the U.S. democratic process.
According to the prosecution's reasoning, Cohen's six-figure hush-money payments to Trump's mistresses would have been legal, had he made them directly from the coffers of the Trump presidential campaign. On the flip side, Trump's defense at the moment amounts to: The six-figure payments my corporation made to the porn star and nude model to keep them from talking about how I cheated on my wife with them, were, at worst, a minor violation of campaign finance laws.
U.S. Senator Rand Paul said he invited Russian lawmakers to Washington, after talks in Moscow that his hosts called a signal to President Donald Trump of a desire to build ties. Paul told reporters Monday that he issued the invitation at a meeting with members of the international relations committee of Russia's upper house of parliament, including the chairman, Konstantin Kosachyov, and Sergey Kislyak, the former Russian ambassador to the U.S. The Republican lawmaker, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, "has access" to Trump and top U.S. officials "and we expect that we will be able to convey through him our signals" of a desire to establish dialogue, Kosachyov said, according to the state-run RIA Novosti news service.
Vladimir Putin would not dream of a system in which the president isn't in charge. "The issue, I think, for us in the midterms is, what message is Putin hearing? Is he hearing the message that we heard from [Director of National Intelligence Daniel] Coats and [FBI Director Christopher A.] Wray and others in that press conference at the White House, or is hearing the message of the president of the United States? And I fear that the message that the Kremlin cares most about is what they hear from Donald Trump, and that is still one of denial and cover for the Russians."
In this file photo taken on June 19, 2013 Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Robert Mueller testifies before the US Senate Judiciary Committee on oversight during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Twelve Russian intelligence officers have been indicted by a grand jury for hacking Democratic Party emails ahead of the 2016 US presidential election, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced July 13, 2018.
When he's not casting doubt on findings that nail Russia dead to rights on 2016 election interference, President Trump makes sport of his predecessor's failure to disrupt that meddling. Obama "did NOTHING about it," Trump says, ignoring the fact that Obama did, in fact, urge Vladimir Putin to stop.
Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats, left, speaks Thursday at the White House briefing on election security as FBI Director Christopher A. Wray, National Security Agency Director Gen. Paul Nakasone and Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen listen.
UPDATE, with video The "dirty little secret" that explains how the Party of Reagan morphed into the Party of Putin is a four-letter word, Bill Maher said tonight: Race. "Russia," Maher said during his New Rules segment on HBO's Real Time With Bill Maher , "is one of the last places on earth to say, 'F*ck diversity.
While the White House remains reluctant to even criticize Russia publicly, Congress has taken another step toward ratcheting up pressure on Moscow following its efforts to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The latest move came Thursday, when a bipartisan group of senators introduced a new package of potential sanctions on Russia.
The Russian pop star who helped set up the infamous 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer promising dirt on then-White House rival Hillary Clinton is making headlines again. But in a testament to how bonkers the news lately, it's not for the Trump-trolling video for his bossa nova cheese-pop single, "Got Me Good," which giddily sends up President Trump's hydra-headed scandals tied to Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Registration will allow you to post comments on StamfordAdvocate.com and create a StamfordAdvocate.com Subscriber Portal account for you to manage subscriptions and email preferences. It has become an article of faith among Republicans and some pundits: If only President Donald Trump would stop with the racism and cruelty , the authoritarian assaults on the press and on the Mueller probe, and the panting embraces of Vladimir Putin, Republicans could bask in the glorious "Trump economy" and stave off big losses this fall.
Thundering that the media is the "fake, fake disgusting news," President Donald Trump unleashed a torrent of grievances Thursday at a Pennsylvania campaign rally in which he cast journalists as his true political opponent. Trump barnstormed in a state that he swiped from the Democrats in 2016 and that is home to a Senate seat he is trying to place in the Republicans' column this fall.
It has been more than two weeks since President Donald Trump met one-on-one with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland, but Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats admitted Thursday that he is still does not know the details of what was said during the sit-down. Briefing reporters from the White House podium about the Trump administration's efforts to prevent election interference by Russia and other potential actors, Coats and national security adviser John Bolton were asked to address the President's commitment to the issue given he failed to directly confront Putin last month.
The alleged covert Russian agent liked to communicate via Twitter messages and WhatsApp. Her overly flirtatious approach left men wondering what she was truly after.
Senators announced legislation Thursday to impose a new set of sanctions on Russia, seeking to warn Moscow against future meddling while also reassuring European allies of American support, notwithstanding President Trump's unpredictable approach to them. The bill harnesses economic sanctions, U.S. immigration law, federal prosecutors and international treaties to try to pressure Russian leaders into a more cooperative stance on the world stage.
Former Gov. Christine Todd Whitman kept up her attacks on President Donald Trump Tuesday, insisting it was time for her "fellow Republicans" to urge the president to remove himself from office. As the Washington Examiner notes, Whitman, who admits she supported Hillary Clinton for president in 2016, told CNN that Trump's news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin convinced her that Trump must go.
Facebook said Tuesday it shut down 32 fake pages and accounts involved in an apparent "coordinated" effort to stoke hot-button issues ahead of November midterm US elections, but could not identify the source although Russia is suspected of involvement. It said the "bad actor" accounts on the world's biggest social network and its photo-sharing site Instagram could not be tied directly to Russian actors, who American officials say used the platform to spread disinformation ahead of the 2016 US presidential election.
As the FBI drills down in its investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and the Pentagon vows to build new capabilities to take on Russian weapons, Russia is, in plain sight, also working on a global power grab with its energy gambit. Nord Stream 2 , the deal that prompted President Donald Trump to blow a gasket at the NATO summit earlier this month, has Germany doubling the amount of natural gas it is buying from Russia.
In this July 28, 2018, photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during the State Prize awards ceremony in Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. Congress is producing an unusual outpouring of bills, resolutions and new sanctions proposals to push back at President Donald Trump's approach to Putin.