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Senator Rand Paul will be meeting with President Donald Trump on Monday afternoon to request that disgraced former CIA Director John Brennan have his security clearance revoked. Brennan has been working in the media and bashing Trump for airtime, even accusing the president of treason following the meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a series of unhinged tweets.
Postponing the start of Paul Manafort's trial on bank and tax fraud until next week, a federal judge in Virginia on Monday granted the request of Special Counsel Robert Mueller to give limited immunity to five different people in exchange for their testimony in the bank and tax fraud trial of the former Trump Campaign Manager. Judge T.S. Ellis III gave Manafort's defense an extra six days to review documents in the case, setting the start of the trial for July 31. During a pair of hearings on Monday, federal prosecutors indicated they believed that Manafort had given false financial information to the Federal Savings Bank of Chicago, in order to get $16 million in home loans after the 2016 election.
But the Kentuckian also has a taste for the good life and is not opposed to having a nice vacation on his donor's dime, according to information reviewed by the non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics and reported by the Courier-Journal . Using funds from his Political Action Committee, Reinventing a New Direction, Paul spent $11,043 at restaurants in Italy and Malta last year.
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul went after former CIA director John Brennan following his comments calling President Trump "treasonous" Wednesday on "Tucker Carlson Tonight." "The former director of the CIA, you think of that as a sober minded person, responsible person, kind of a James Bond with maybe an advanced degree.
Sen. Rand Paul certainly has his differences with President Donald Trump, a one-time rival for the White House. But on one cornerstone issue, a resistance to U.S. intervention abroad, they are simpatico.
Amid an outpouring of fury from Democrats and their liberal media partners on Tuesday, President Trump pushed back on the negative reaction to his meeting with Russia's Vladimir Putin in several tweets: "While I had a great meeting with NATO, raising vast amounts of money, I had an even better meeting with Vladimir Putin of Russia. Sadly, it is not being reported that way - the Fake News is going Crazy!" Trump tweeted around 10:20 a.m. A short time earlier, he tweeted: "I had a great meeting with NATO.
Taking to Twitter hours after he was blasted by senior Republicans and Democrats, the president wrote: 'While I had a great meeting with NATO, raising vast amounts of money, I had an even better meeting with Vladimir Putin of Russia.
President Trump's European tour hasn't been without its incidents, but a press conference on Monday with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland is grabbing all the headlines. Trump was asked if he believed his own American intelligence agencies or the Russian president when it came to the allegations of meddling in the elections.
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., characterized his colleague Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., as being wrong for four decades after the latter made critical remarks about Monday's U.S.-Russia summit in Helsinki. Paul appeared on Fox News and said McCain's comments - the ailing senator called the meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin a "tragic mistake" - were misguided.
Republican Sen. Rand Paul says asking for the extradition of the Russian intelligence agents indicted Friday for interfering in the 2016 election would be a "moot point." "I think it'd be a moot point; I don't think Russia is sending anyone back over here for trial, the same way we wouldn't send anybody over there for trial," the Kentucky senator said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union."
Russia meddled in the 2016 election in part as a retaliation against the U.S. influencing elections in eastern Europe, Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul said Sunday. "I think really we mistake our response if we think it's about accountability from the Russians," Paul told Jake Tapper on CNN's "State of the Union.
U.S. President Donald Trump drives a golf buggy on his golf course at Turnberry golf club, in Turnberry, Scotland, Sunday, July 15, 2018. President Trump and the First Lady spent the weekend in Scotland, as part of their visit to the UK before leaving for Finland where he will meet Russian leader Vladimir Putin for talks on Monday.
The Latest on President Donald Trump : 4 p.m. President Donald Trump is describing the European Union as a "foe" in an interview taped in Scotland. Trump told CBS News in an interview Saturday that he thinks the U.S. has "a lot of foes," including the bloc of European nations that are among America's closest allies.
"I believe that an independent judiciary is the crown jewel of our constitutional republic. If confirmed by the Senate, I will keep an open mind in every case and I will always strive to preserve the Constitution of the United States and the American rule of law."
A Long Island man was arrested Friday for threatening to kill supporters of President Donald Trump and Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin - then nearly hitting a Zeldin campaign staffer with his car, according to Suffolk County police. It was the latest in a string of attacks against the administration and its allies.
The list of contenders to fill a Supreme Court vacancy by retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy is narrowing, with President Donald Trump telling reporters that he's focused on two or three people ahead of his Monday announcement. "I think I have it down to four people.
President Donald Trump is closing in on his next Supreme Court nominee, with three federal judges leading the competition to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy. Trump's top contenders for the vacancy at this time are federal appeals judges Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh and Raymond Kethledge, said a person familiar with Trump's thinking who was not authorized to speak publicly.
A key GOP senator is warning President Donald Trump not to repeat "mistakes" of past Republican presidents by picking a Supreme Court nominee who turns out to be insufficiently conservative. In a Fox News op-ed, Cruz writes that "after countless mistakes by Republicans, we finally have a chance to get this right."
WASHINGTON – Vice President Mike Pence has met with some of the contenders for the Supreme Court vacancy created by Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement, The Associated Press has learned. The meetings took place in recent days, a person familiar with the search process said.
Vice-President Mike Pence has met with some of the contenders for the Supreme Court vacancy created by Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement, The Associated Press has learned. The meetings took place in recent days, according to a person familiar with the search process.