Section: Daily Kos (USA)
What did Russia get in exchange for hacking our electorate?
Last week I wrote a detailed overview of what is publicly known about contacts between Donald Trump, his associates, and members of Russian government, intelligence agencies, and even mobsters. Despite their repeated claims that they didn’t meet or talk with any Russians before the election, we now know that Donald Trump himself met with...
Trumpcare is the ultimate distraction, but don’t forget Donald Trump is already drowning in scandals
Republicans are in a rush to take from the poor, give to the rich, reward insurance executives, and keep America orange. And certainly a bill that’s literally life or death for millions of Americans demands attention. But while the media sometimes appears to have the attention span of a gnat, it shouldn’t be forgotten that the Trump...
Trump’s dozens of connections to Russia aren’t in question, it’s how they affected the election
It’s amazing what we know about Trump and Russia. The things that we don’t have to speculate about, where the connections are already documented, is already quite a list. We know that Donald Trump was bailed out of bankruptcy by oligarchs from Russia and other former Soviet states after Trump had screwed up so many deals that no bank...
5 critical questions Trump needs to answer about the Russian ambassador’s covert trip to Trump Tower
On the heels of the news that Attorney General Jeff Sessions twice met with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak (and lied about it under oath) leading up to the election—and so did a number of other key advisers—the New York Times followed up with this huge development: The New Yorker reported this week that Mr. Kushner had met with Mr. Kislyak at...
Campaign adviser changes story and now contradicts Trump, says Donald ordered Ukraine change at RNC
Donald Trump is having a very, very bad week. As reports emerge that several of his key advisers, including Attorney General Jeff Sessions, met with the Russians the week of the RNC convention, one former adviser has now publicly changed his story to contradict his former boss. Members of the Trump campaign interfered with an RNC delegate...
The big questions still swirling around Jeff ‘I don’t recall’ Sessions
If there’s one thing we know about administration officials of popular vote loser Donald Trump, it’s that they never disclose anything unless they’re forced to. As Sen. Chuck Schumer put it, “They’ll only do the right thing when they’re caught doing the wrong thing.” That’s what led to Attorney...
Donald Trump Jr. was paid $50,000 for meeting to discuss U.S.-Russia cooperation in Syria
A month before the November elections, Donald Trump Jr. attended a meeting in Paris to discuss the Syrian conflict and possible U.S.-Russian cooperation in the region. The Wall Street Journal now reports he was paid at least $50,000 to attend that meeting. Donald Trump Jr. addressed a dinner on Oct. 11 at the Ritz Hotel in Paris, hosted by the...
Sessions holds press conference
Attorney General Jeff Sessions just called a surprise press conference. Maybe he has very big news for us, as the revelation that he lied to Congress about the two times he met with the Russian ambassador while he was also a prominent Trump campaign surrogate. Or maybe not. Watch with us here. It will be on the major cable news networks and also...
The tipping point: Will Trump, Congress, Sessions, Comey all cooperate to bury Russia connections?
In a week where we have news of Donald Trump’s personal attorney working with pro-Russian forces to craft a deal that hands over Crimea while lifting U.S. sanctions, Trump’s campaign chair being blackmailed over millions funneled to him from Moscow, and Russian officials continuing to brag about their inside connection to the Trump...
Trump puts the FBI on his low-life leaker list
On Thursday, the Trump regime violated the separation between the the White House and the law enforcement sphere of the FBI. The FBI rejected a recent White House request to publicly knock down media reports about communications between Donald Trump’s associates and Russians known to US intelligence during the 2016 presidential campaign,...
