Section: POLITICO – U.S. Edition (USA)
Report: Trump’s team had contacts with Moscow during campaign
Russia’s deputy foreign minister said Thursday that officials from his government were in contact with Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, contradicting pledges from the president-elect that he had not interacted with the Kremlin despite numerous statements praising Russian President Vladimir Putin.”Obviously, we know most of...
11 questions for President-elect Donald Trump
From his calls to jail his opponent to his conflicting statements about barring Muslims from the United States, America’s next president has provoked a striking number of questions about how he would govern. Here is an early — and surely incomplete — list of some of the biggest:1. Will he seek to prosecute Hillary Clinton?Trump has egged on...
How Will the World Change After the Election?
American intelligence officials are used to forecasting how foreign elections will affect the United States. But whatever would foreign prognosticators make of Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and the world of November 9 and beyond?We asked some of the smartest spies and analysts we know to turn the tables and imagine they were the National...
State Dept. drops more Clinton emails recovered from her server
The State Department on Thursday dropped more than a thousand additional pages of Hillary Clinton’s emails that the FBI recovered from her private server, but a significant number of the documents are near duplicates of messages the agency previously released. State has been reviewing and publicly posting the emails in response to a pair of...
A Trump Tower Goes Bust in Canada
The 65-story Trump International Hotel & Tower Toronto has all the glitz and ambition of the luxury-brand businessman with his name in giant letters near its spire. It’s the tallest residential skyscraper in Canada, and probably the fanciest. The hotel’s sleek cream-and-black interiors were inspired by Champagne and caviar. Every...
Democrats’ retort to FBI: What about Trump and Russia?
Amid a potentially lethal frenzy about renewed FBI activity related to Hillary Clinton’s email, the Clinton campaign and its Democratic allies worked furiously on Monday to change the subject to FBI interest in Donald Trump’s ties to Russia.Democrats have complained for weeks that FBI director James Comey has refused to discuss his...
Clinton eyes Biden for secretary of state
Joe Biden is at the top of the internal short list Hillary Clinton’s transition team is preparing for her pick to be secretary of state, a source familiar with the planning tells POLITICO.This would be the first major Cabinet candidate to go public for a campaign that’s insisted its focus remains on winning the election, and perhaps...
Trump sides with Putin over U.S. intelligence
Donald Trump angrily insisted on Wednesday night that he is not Vladimir Putin’s “puppet.” But at a minimum, in recent months he has often sounded like the Russian president’s lawyer—defending Putin against a variety of specific charges, from political killings to the 2014 downing of a passenger jet over Ukraine, despite the weight of...
Clinton plots mop-up of Trump’s global mess
Hillary Clinton’s campaign is already looking past Nov. 8 and is plotting out what she will do on the international front to reassure allies, deter enemies and otherwise repair the damage to America’s reputation caused by Donald Trump.The biggest challenge? Deciding where on earth the new president should start. “Everybody wants to be...
How Mike Flynn Became America’s Angriest General
On August 7, 2014, clusters of well-dressed men and women filed into the gleaming metal and glass superstructure of the Defense Intelligence Agency at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, just across the river from Ronald Reagan National Airport, for the retirement ceremony of Lieutenant General Michael T. Flynn, the agency’s director. Among those...
