Barr, Mueller trade barbs as Russia probe rift goes public

Credit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Wed, 01 May 2019 22:50:23 +0000

Barr, Mueller trade barbs as Russia probe rift goes public

Private tensions between Justice Department leaders and Robert Mueller’s team broke into public view in extraordinary fashion Wednesday as Attorney General William Barr pushed back at the special counsel’s “snitty” complaints over his handling of the Trump-Russia investigation report.

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AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s torrent of twisted claims on Russia

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2019 15:51:38 +0000

AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s torrent of twisted claims on Russia

WASHINGTON — Russia keeps reverberating even with special counsel Robert Mueller’s report now part of history. As much as President Donald Trump says he wants the United States to move on, he’s found it hard to turn away himself, as seen in a torrent of tweets and remarks railing against Democrats, trashing Mueller and painting […]

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Trump’s executive privilege strategy could mean messy fight

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2019 16:07:52 +0000

Trump’s executive privilege strategy could mean messy fight

WASHINGTON — Since George Washington’s time, presidents have used executive privilege to resist congressional inquiries in the name of protecting the confidentiality of their decision-making. President Donald Trump threatened this past week to broadly assert executive privilege to block a number of current and former aides from testifying, including some who have cooperated with special […]

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Trump Tower meeting emails ‘really bad,’ aide told Trump

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2019 09:38:10 +0000

Trump Tower meeting emails ‘really bad,’ aide told Trump

The president’s communications director didn’t sugarcoat it: The emails, Hope Hicks told Donald Trump, were ”really bad.” The emails showed how the president’s oldest son had accepted a meeting with a Russian lawyer with the promise of receiving dirt on his father’s opponent, Hillary Clinton. Not only that, he’d been told the dirt was part of the Russian government’s ongoing support for his father.

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Trump makes new threat to send soldiers to US-Mexico border

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2019 12:56:41 +0000

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is making a new threat to send armed soldiers to the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump tweeted Wednesday that “Mexico’s Soldiers recently pulled guns on our National Guard Soldiers, probably as a diversionary tactic for drug smugglers on the Border,” but he didn’t support the drug-smuggling claim. He tweeted: “Better not happen […]

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Top US Democrat says party will decide soon on impeachment

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2019 17:17:10 +0000

Top US Democrat says party will decide soon on impeachment

A leading Democratic lawmaker said Sunday that his party would likely decide within a few weeks whether a move to impeach President Donald Trump would be “the best course for the country.”

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Trump brushes off Romney’s criticism, points to loss in 2012

Credit to Author: cbibe| Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2019 00:53:21 +0000

Trump brushes off Romney's criticism, points to loss in 2012

President Trump fires back saying that had Romney put the same energy into running for president in 2012 the Utah Republican could have won.

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Trump laces into ex-advisers who spoke with Mueller

Credit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2019 03:36:40 +0000

Trump laces into ex-advisers who spoke with Mueller

President Donald Trump lashed out Friday at current and former aides who cooperated with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, insisting the deeply unflattering picture they painted of him and the White House was “total bullshit.”

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