The jury ended its first day of deliberations in the prosecution of Paul Manafort in the Eastern District of Virginia. When this trial is over, Manafort faces a second trial on other charges in federal court in D.C.
The jury asked the judge for help understanding “reasonable doubt.” As is usual in...
The United States has imposed sanctions on Chinese and Russian companies for violating the trade restrictions on North Korea. The move highlights President Donald Trump’s strategy to keep tightening the screws on Pyongyang over its nuclear program.
The Treasury Department blacklisted a Russian port agency and two Chinese firms on Wednesday for aiding North...
Should Donald Trump sit down to a face-to-face interview with Robert Mueller and his team?
The answer for me has been clear for a long time: Just Say No.
Democrats? Yes, Democrats.
The social media giant said Tuesday that it uncovered a whole web of fake accounts spreading disinformation in what they believe could be an attempt to influence the upcoming midterm elections.
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Robert Mueller did not start Trump Derangement Syndrome. That started before the 2016 election, but went ballistic when Trump won.
#TheResistance movement immediately went into crisis attack mode, trying to intimidate Electors and to delegitimize the election result.
President Donald Trump took to Twitter to demand Attorney General Jeff Sessions shut down Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe immediately.
Are you getting tired of this yet? I know I am.
The media obsession with non-stories is tiresome, but because the he-said, she-said is what’s passing for serious news these days (regardless of veracity) we can’t ignore it. So, here we are.
Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen recently claimed that President Trump...
Berkeley is the one place you would almost expect to engage in this sort of rhetoric.
The College Fix reports:
UC Berkeley prof: Trump is engaged in ‘textbook treason’
A political science professor at UC Berkeley says that President Trump’s recent press conference with Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland is an example of...
When I was studying interpersonal communication and how to track an argument or any other verbal exchange, one thing that was very much emphasized was the difference between content and process.
Content is just what it sounds like: the subject matter about which two people (let’s say, a married couple) are talking....
Trump finally sat down with Putin Monday, roiling every corner of the political world.
This afternoon, Trump clarified remarks he made following the meeting with Russian President Putin.
I watched the Trump-Putin press conference on Monday morning, then spent almost 8 hours in the car with only terrestrial news radio, when available.
When I finally arrived and had a chance to catch up on Twitter and replays of cable news, it was obvious that I re-entered a world divorced from...
President Donald Trump met privately with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland, this morning around 6:30 AM ET.
Trump told CBS News that he had “low expectations” going into the meeting.
I’ve been waiting for this for a long time. The Russia meddling with the 2016 election has been a bone of #Resistance contention since the election day “upset” that stunned everyone but those across America who saw something in Trump and believed in him.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced today that a federal grand jury indicted 12 Russians, all officers with Russia’s intelligence agency GRU, for allegedly hacking into the DNC and Hillary’s campaign.
The most important part of Rosenstein’s speech: “...
Thursday, FBI agent Peter Strzok addressed a joint House Oversight and Judiciary hearing where he was grilled on anti-Trump text messages he sent while conducting the Russia and Clinton investigations.
President Donald Trump questioned Germany’s growing dependency on Russian energy supplies and described Berlin as a “captive” of Russia. “They pay billions of dollars to Russia and we have to defend them against Russia,” President Trump said. He also criticized Chancellor Angela Merkel’s continued refusal to spend enough on Europe’s security.
The remarks...
