Ex-FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe has given memos about conversations he had with President Donald Trump to an inquiry into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election, US media say. They say the memos could support allegations that the president sought to obstruct justice. Mr McCabe was fired from the FBI on Friday following an … Read more
Allegations that Donald Trump dictated a misleading account of a meeting between his son and a Russian lawyer rattled the White House Tuesday — and deepened the president’s entanglement in the saga. Trump’s secretive and personal intervention, first reported by The Washington Post, casts doubt on claims he knew nothing about a meeting during the … Read more
Two chants emerged as hallmarks of Donald Trump’s campaign rallies as he made his improbable run for the White House. One was “Build the wall!” and the other was “Lock her up!” The plan for a wall on the border with Mexico has been slow getting off the ground, but Trump as president has revived … Read more
From publicly attacking a member of his own cabinet to delivering a partisan speech to a gathering of Boy Scouts, Donald Trump has shown once again it’s no longer business as usual in Washington. Trump has rewritten the political rule book since launching his long-shot bid for the White House two years ago, but the … Read more
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions found himself in an increasingly untenable position Tuesday, as President Donald Trump once again skewered him on Twitter, calling his onetime ally “VERY weak.” Sessions was one of Trump’s earliest and most loyal supporters, but the Republican billionaire has turned on him publicly in the past week, as rumors fly … Read more
US President Donald Trump attacked Attorney General Jeff Sessions again on Tuesday, calling him “VERY weak” in pursuing intelligence leaks and failure to go after former Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton over her emails. Trump’s latest Twitter salvo followed a report in the Washington Post that the president and his advisers have discussed replacing Sessions, once … Read more
Donald Trump’s war of words against his attorney general and one-time ally Jeff Sessions escalated Monday, raising speculation the president may be preparing the ground to replace him. Trump took to Twitter to declare his top lawyer “beleaguered” as he wondered out loud why Sessions was not investigating 2016 presidential candidate and former secretary of … Read more
Senior White House adviser Jared Kushner on Monday said he had four contacts with Russian officials but denied any collusion to help his father-in-law Donald Trump win the presidency, US media said. In a statement Kushner released hours before he was to appear before the Senate intelligence committee, he described contacts with Russian Ambassador Sergey … Read more
For two months, Robert Mueller — the lanky, 72-year-old independent prosecutor investigating the Russia scandal — has worked in virtual silence in a nondescript government office building in downtown Washington. But even without saying a word, the former FBI director and no-nonsense prosecutor has deeply unnerved the occupants of the White House just eight blocks … Read more
White House press secretary Sean Spicer and a member of President Donald Trump’s legal team resigned Friday in a one-two punch to a reeling administration, as pressure mounts from a broadening investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia. Spicer resigned in opposition to Trump’s naming of Anthony Scaramucci, a Wall Street financier and longtime … Read more
A key member of Trump´s legal team said he resigned his post Friday, a shake-up as Trump drew fire for apparent efforts to influence a former FBI director’s probe into collusion with Russia. Mark Corallo, who coordinated the Trump legal team’s public response to the crisis, told AFP in an email that he had resigned … Read more
Donald Trump hit the six-month point of his turbulent presidency Thursday in combative style — lashing out at his own attorney general over the probe into Russia’s alleged election meddling that has dogged him from day one. Since taking office on January 20, Trump has been on a roller coaster ride, and the gut-wrenching twists … Read more
President Donald Trump accused former FBI Director James Comey of trying to leverage a potentially compromising dossier over him in order to keep his job. In an interview with The New York Times published Wednesday, Trump said he was presented with the dossier by Comey in a meeting held in New York, before he took office. The … Read more
President Donald Trump accused fired FBI director James Comey on Wednesday of trying to create leverage with a dossier alleged to contain compromising information about the president. Comey’s apparent goal in a pre-inauguration encounter with Trump in which the veteran law enforcement official presented details of the dossier was to pressure the soon-to-be-president into letting … Read more
An eighth person who attended a controversial meeting with President Donald Trump’s eldest son has been identified as a top official of a company founded by a Russian billionaire with links to the Trumps, CNN said Tuesday. The confirmation is the latest development in the burgeoning scandal over the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russia, after … Read more
A Russian-American lobbyist revealed to have attended a meeting by Donald Trump Jr seeking damaging information on Hillary Clinton strongly denied working for Russian intelligence on Friday. It emerged on Friday that Rinat Akhmetshin, a Washington lobbyist with dual citizenship, accompanied Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya to the June 2016 meeting, at which Trump Jr expected … Read more
Donald Trump’s eldest son Don Jr may be in the media spotlight over his notorious Trump Tower meeting with a Russian lawyer promising dirt on Hillary Clinton. But the latest revelation in the burgeoning scandal has added to the pressure on another family member who was at the meeting and is already in the crosshairs … Read more
High-flying criminal lawyer Christopher Wray took a big step Wednesday toward becoming the next director of the FBI as he told lawmakers he would resign rather than bow to political interference. Nominated by Donald Trump after the president fired FBI chief James Comey in May, Wray told a confirmation hearing he would be ready to … Read more
Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the FBI pledged Wednesday to insulate the agency from outside interference, amid a probe into Russian election interference that could threaten the president and his inner circle. “If I am given the honor of leading this agency, I will never allow the FBI’s work to be driven by anything other … Read more
Did Donald Trump’s eldest son break US law in meeting a Russian lawyer he hoped would dish compromising dirt on the woman standing between his father and the White House? Could the 39-year-old real estate scion be charged with treason? This is what legal experts say about what is known so far of the June … Read more