Section: Daily Kos (USA)
Trump world worries that Manafort’s partner will sing about much more than Manafort to Mueller
Rick Gates is not the household name that his former partner and Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort has become—that is, unless you’re a denizen of the White House. Gates is apparently getting plenty of mentions in the West Wing as Donald Trump and his associates fret over how much damage he can do to Team Trump as a cooperating witness in...
Trump Twitter rages at anyone who would question his Putin love
Donald Trump is upset. He’s upset that his sieve-like White House spilled that he ran over his own advisers in his haste to pass his congratulations to Vladimir Putin. And he’s upset that Americans don’t immediately agree with him that it’s only right to give Putin some sugar at this particular moment. xI called President...
British sting reveals how Trump’s IT firm used sex workers and bribes to fix political races
Britain’s Channel 4 conducted a lengthy sting operation on the strategic data firm that helped get Donald Trump elected. And what they found was a company that used sex, bribery and blackmail to get what they want. Channel 4 launched their investigation after interviewing former Cambridge Analytica research director Christopher Wylie. It...
Air of corruption hovers over RNC finance team as legal liabilities explode
Everyone remembers last month’s implosion of Republican National Committee finance chair Steve Wynn, who resigned due to what he called “an avalanche of negative publicity” over sexual harassment charges. Well, now two other gents on the RNC finance leadership team are embroiled in some legal trouble of their own: Michael Cohen, Donald...
UK PM Theresa May calls out Russia for nerve gas attack, promises a response
On Monday, British Prime Minister Theresa May spoke before Parliament on the attack that left at least two people in the UK hospitalized from exposure to a toxin. May left no doubt that she was taking this extremely seriously: It is now clear that Mr Skripal and his daughter were poisoned with a military-grade nerve agent of a type developed by...
Mueller gathering evidence Team Trump sought secret back channel to Kremlin at Seychelles meeting
The Washington Post is reporting that special counsel Robert Mueller is gathering evidence that the Seychelles meeting in January 2017 involving a U.A.E. adviser and Trump-connected Erik Prince was aimed at creating a secret back-channel between the incoming Trump administration and Russia. The U.A.E. adviser, George Nader, is now reportedly...
Putin very, very pleased with Trump and his willingness to ‘compromise’
The AP is reporting that Vladimir Putin likes Donald Trump. He really likes him. “I have no disappointment at all,” Putin said when asked about the U.S. president. “Moreover, on a personal level he made a very good impression on me.” What does Putin like most about Trump? He’s someone who will compromise. “It’s possible to negotiate...
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Aide to U.A.E. with ties to Team Trump is cooperating with Mueller investigation
An adviser to the United Arab Emirates who attended a meeting in early 2017 that connected participants close to both Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin is now cooperating with Special Counsel Robert Mueller and testified before a grand jury last week. The New York Times writes: Mr. Mueller appears to be examining the influence of foreign money on...
A review of ‘On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century’
Timothy Snyder reads five, and speaks ten, European languages, which give him a tremendous advantage when researching and writing about European history. An undergraduate at Brown University, he continued his studies at Oxford where he received his doctorate in 1997 while a British Marshall Scholar. In addition to fellowships in Paris, Vienna and...
