US accused of meddling in British politics with $500,000 grant for ‘public education’ courses

Lisa Smart, a Liberal Democrat MP and the party’s Cabinet Office spokesperson, said: “Magna Carta aimed to limit the powers of tyrants and said everyone was subject to the rule of law, something for which Trump has repeatedly shown utter contempt. 

“We have a proud tradition of liberty and freedom of speech in this country and we don’t need Trump’s Maga money meddling in our democracy.”…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/08/us-accused-of-meddling-in-british-politics-with-500000-grant-scheme-promoting-shared-values

 

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."..

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/anti-clinton-lawsuit-leads-another-harsh-rebuke-team-trump-rcna105805

The key reason the DOJ didn’t prosecute Trump’s hush money case

Why didn't prosecutors pursue the matter further [previously]? According to Geoffrey Berman — the Trump-appointed U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York, who wrote a book about his experiences — it's because there was political interference from other Trump appointees who ordered prosecutors to end their investigation...

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/key-reason-doj-didnt-prosecute-trumps-hush-money-case-rcna75887

Revealed: the hacking and disinformation team meddling in elections

• 'Team Jorge' unit exposed by undercover investigation
• Group sells hacking services and access to vast army of fake social media profiles
• Evidence unit behind disinformation campaigns across world
• Mastermind Tal Hanan claims covert involvement in 33 presidential elections

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/15/revealed-disinformation-team-jorge-claim-meddling-elections-tal-hanan

Barr Pressed Durham to Find Flaws in the Trump-Russia Investigation - The New York Times

The review by John Durham at one point veered into a criminal investigation related to Donald Trump himself, even as it failed to find wrongdoing in the origins of the Russia inquiry...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/26/us/politics/durham-trump-russia-barr.html

Trump accidentally proves that the Clinton campaign wasn’t the driving force of the Russia probe - The Washington Post

…In other words, as Trump and his lawyers were trying to prove that Clinton was the driving force behind the investigation into Russian interference, they were relying on documents released as part of that interference effort . It's some mixture of dishonest and galling — and it's not even the most ridiculous part of the case the lawsuit tries to make...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/25/trump-accidentally-proves-that-clinton-campaign-wasnt-driving-force-russia-probe/

Russian Roulette with David Corn (The Mary Trump Show podcast #13)

Mary Trump catigates the recent actions of the Republicans and their antagonism to the LGBT+ community. Then, she welcomes Mother Jones’ Washington D.C. Bureau Chief David Corn for a deep dive into the behavior of Putin’s Russia. They discuss the psychology driving the Ukrainian invasion and Putin’s attack against the West, his subversive influence on our politics and the world, and his relationship with Donald’s administration.

Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-b4p5h-12d21f61

Emails reveal new details of Trump White House interference in CDC Covid planning - POLITICO

… "This document resulted in less testing and less — less aggressive testing of those without symptoms that I believed were the primary reason for the early community spread," Birx said, adding that the change in the guidance was not based on science...

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/12/trump-cdc-covid-521128

Trump demands Pulitzer board rescind awards for Russia interference reporting | Donald Trump | The Guardian

…The then Pulitzer prize administrator, Dana Canedy, said: "This criticism is fake marketing. We stand behind the Pulitzer selection process, which has endured for 103 years. And the winning work speaks for itself."…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/04/donald-trump-pulitzer-prize-board-russia-new-york-times-washington-post

The person to ‘weaken’ America: what the Kremlin papers said about Trump

…multiple interactions between individuals linked to the Russian government and Trump's inner circle. The GRU spy Konstantin Kilimnik held clandestine meetings with Trump's campaign chairman, Paul Manafort.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/15/the-person-to-weaken-america-what-the-kremlin-papers-said-about-trump

The person to ‘weaken’ America: what the Kremlin papers said about Trump | Russia | The Guardian

… And what of the report's claim that Putin would be able to exploit Trump's weaknesses in "clandestine fashion" during bilateral discussions? 

Something along these lines took place during their notorious 2018 summit in Helsinki. Asked at a joint press conference to condemn Kremlin hacking and dumping, Trump endorsed Putin's assertion that Moscow had not interfered – a claim at odds with the findings of all 14 US intelligence agencies. After a backlash at home, and amid speculation the Russians were somehow blackmailing the president, Trump said he misspoke.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/15/the-person-to-weaken-america-what-the-kremlin-papers-said-about-trump

Kremlin papers appear to show Putin’s plot to put Trump in White House

…Vladimir Putin personally authorised a secret spy agency operation to support a "mentally unstable" Donald Trump in the 2016 US presidential election during a closed session of Russia's national security council, according to what are assessed to be leaked Kremlin documents...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/15/kremlin-papers-appear-to-show-putins-plot-to-put-trump-in-white-house

Arizona secretary of state asks for investigation into possible election interference by Trump, Giuliani - CBS News

…Hobbs said the attempted contacts by Mr. Trump, Giuliani and Ward "involve clear efforts to induce supervisors to refuse to comply with their duties," while Ward's messages were an attempt "to convince him not to fulfill the board's statutory duty to canvass the election."…

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/arizona-secretary-of-state-katie-hobbs-investigation-donald-trump-rudy-giuliani/

US intelligence report says Russia attempted to interfere in 2020 election

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence released its declassified report on foreign threats to 2020 federal elections, which concludes that foreign adversaries -- including Russia -- did attempt to interfere in the 2020 election.
https://youtu.be/1letgvhRQC0

Putin targeted people close to Trump in bid to influence 2020 election, U.S. intelligence says - The Washington Post

...The report does not identify those individuals by name, but it appears to reference Trump's onetime personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani, whose repeated meetings with a suspected Russian agent came under scrutiny by U.S. officials...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/intelligence-assessment-2020-election-russia-iran/2021/03/16/a2650478-8662-11eb-bfdf-4d36dab83a6d_story.html

Russia targeted Trump allies to hurt Biden in 2020 election, US officials say | US elections 2020 | The Guardian

... it also punctured a counter-narrative pushed by Trump's allies that China interfered on Biden's behalf, concluding that Beijing "did not deploy interference efforts"...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/16/russia-interfere-2020-us-presidential-election-trump-biden

Senate Intel Releases Volume 5 of Bipartisan Russia Report

U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Acting Chairman Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Vice Chairman Mark Warner (D-VA) released the fifth and final volume of the Committee’s bipartisan Russia investigation titled, “Volume 5: Counterintelligence Threats and Vulnerabilities,” which examines Russia’s attempts to gain influence in the American political system during the 2016 elections.....
https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/press/senate-intel-releases-volume-5-bipartisan-russia-report 

COVID Commander-in-Chief (Pod Save the World podcast)

The foreign policy implications of Trump catching Covid, erosion of democracy in India, a possible coup in Kyrgyzstan, an update on fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan, a major dam project in Ethiopia, then weird military music videos, Subway subs and soccer. Then former CIA Director John Brennan joins to talk about Russia’s 2016 election interference, Saudi Arabia, the CIA’s darker history and his new book, Undaunted.

Interview: 

https://www.spreaker.com/user/9513168/covid-commander-in-chief

Lawsuit Alleges Trump-Appointed CEO Broke Laws In Seeking To Steer VOA Coverage : NPR

Five suspended officials at the U.S. Agency for Global Media are suing the agency, its new CEO and several of his most senior aides, alleging they are breaking the law — routinely — in pursuing a pro-Trump agenda for the Voice of America news service. The primary defendant, CEO Michael Pack, was nominated by President Trump and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in early June after a tumultuous process that lasted more than two years. Since beginning the job, Pack has sidelined executives and fired leaders at Voice of America and the other government networks he oversees. He has also moved to investigate and even punish journalists responsible for certain stories about Trump, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and the racial justice protests that roiled the nation this summer.
https://www.npr.org/2020/10/08/921684152/ex-officials-sue-trump-appointed-ceo-for-breaking-laws-at-voice-of-america

Trump rewrites the Russia probe from the hospital - POLITICO

The president declassified intelligence documents meant to implicate Clinton in 2016 meddling, but officials say they're misleading......

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/06/trump-russia-ratcliffe-426868