Showing posts with label 2016 election. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2016 election. Show all posts

Thursday, December 18, 2025

Maga loyalist expands investigation into intelligence officials who angered Trump

"There is simply no factual basis for this investigation. It violates both DoJ and FBI standards that require a factual predicate. It is a fishing expedition where it has been clearly established – by two prior independent counsel investigations and a congressional investigation led by the current Secretary of State – there are no fish," he said. Bromwich added: "The government has refused to provide the basis for venue in Florida, nor has it been willing to describe the statutory violations it is pursuing. That is unprecedented in my 40 plus years of federal criminal practice.",..

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/17/trump-us-attorney-investigation-intelligence-officials


 

Thursday, July 24, 2025

Tulsi Gabbard’s Dangerous Disinformation Campaign Against America – Mother Jones

"Gabbard is engaging in blatant cherry-picking and gaslighting. And she's being sloppy with her subterfuge. Her case is easy to debunk. The intelligence reporting she cites does not contradict the ICA and does not indicate there was a high-level plot to produce a bogus report to damage Trump. She is providing a phony and weak cover story, both for Trump and Vladimir Putin. After all, long after the ICA was produced, the Mueller report and two congressional investigations confirmed that the Russians had assaulted the 2016 election, facts that Gabbardneglects to mention in her memo..."

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/tulsi-gabbards-dangerous-disinformation-campaign-against-america/ 



Wednesday, April 24, 2024

David Pecker and the Trump Tower conspiracy

" I covered the weird and historic 2016 campaign. While the celebrity candidate led in many early polls, he was far from a shoo-in for the nomination. Ben Carson was the front-runner for a spell in late 2015, Ted Cruz won the Iowa caucuses, and Marco Rubio was briefly seen as the logical young choice for the G.O.P. 

Pecker testified that as part of what prosecutors call "the Trump Tower conspiracy," hatched just before Trump announced his candidacy in June 2015, Trump — through Michael Cohen — helped The Enquirer generate phony stories about malpractice by Carson and adultery by Cruz and Rubio (not to mention an article sliming Cruz's father as connected to John F. Kennedy's assassination). 

No one in the courtroom was laughing at the lurid tabloid headlines when they were introduced into evidence. It seems clear that these bogus stories, too, were part of the corrupt and journalistically disgraceful Trump Tower deal…



Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Trump’s transparent attempt to play the victim on ‘election interference’ - The Washington Post

Below is a summary of how what's known about Trump's actions compares to this purported "election interference."… 

The Russia investigation 

Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's report did not establish that Trump or members of his campaign conspired with Russia in its efforts to influence the 2016 election. But it did find that Russia targeted a hacking operation at Hillary Clinton's personal office just hours after Trump said publicly, "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing." (Trump claimed it was a joke, even as he has continued to solicit foreign help in campaigns.) 

Top Trump advisers also met at Trump Tower with a Russian promising dirt on Clinton. And a bipartisan Senate report left open the possibility that there was more "collusion" beneath the surface…


Monday, April 22, 2024

Monday, April 15, 2024

Fact check: Trump’s false and unsubstantiated claims about his Manhattan criminal case | CNN Politics

Former President Donald Trump has repeatedly made false and unsubstantiated claims while denouncing the Manhattan criminal case against him over his alleged falsification of business records related to a hush money scheme executed during the 2016 presidential election...

Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Why Trump’s ‘hush money’ case is bigger than hush money - The Washington Post

"The allegations are in substance, that Donald Trump falsified business records to conceal an agreement with others to unlawfully influence the 2016 presidential election," Merchan summarizes in laying out the process for jury selection, which is set to begin Monday...


Monday, February 26, 2024

Trump ‘would’ve lost mind completely’ if Putin admitted interference, Fiona Hill says

"In many conversations around the edges of the conference," Hill said, "the prime ministers and presidents and foreign ministers and others … all know how capricious Trump is. And that's really what they're worried about, because it doesn't matter how many people that they know who become secretary of state or secretary of defense, it comes down to Trump himself and the unpredictability of his personality," she said. 

"And the result is that they have started to lose faith in the United States. And it's very distressing to hear."…

Saturday, December 30, 2023

Opinion | Tim Alberta on Why Evangelical Politics Was Ready for Trump - The New York Times

"For the book, I spoke with Cal Thomas, who had been one of Jerry Falwell Sr.'s lieutenants in the Moral Majority, and he talked to me in these really broken, regretful tones. He was very emotional talking to me about how during his years with Falwell and the Moral Majority, how he knew that they were just ripping these people off."

Wednesday, September 20, 2023

Anti-Clinton lawsuit leads to another harsh rebuke for Team Trump

The judge in the case didn't just reject the underlying claims, Middlebrooks could barely contain his disgust with the inanity of the legal complaint. "These were political grievances masquerading as legal claims," Middlebrooks concluded. "This cannot be attributed to incompetent lawyering. It was a deliberate use of the judicial system to pursue a political agenda." He went on to cite the attorneys' "cavalier attitude towards facts."..

Thursday, August 17, 2023

Republicans rewrite history on Trump targeting Clinton after 2016

The problem, of course, is that the GOP effort to rewrite recent history is as wrong as it is bizarre. Revisiting our earlier coverage, in Trump's first year in the White House, he publicly pleaded with the Justice Department to go after Clinton. A year later, the then-president told the White House counsel that he wanted to order the Justice Department to prosecute Clinton...

Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Despite reality, Trump pretends the Durham report wasn’t a dud

There is a degree of irony to the circumstances: For years, Team Trump insisted that the Russia scandal was pointless but the Durham investigation was real. It now appears these Republicans had it exactly backward: The Russia scandal was real, and the Durham investigation was pointless...







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