Section: TPM (USA)
Kushner: Russian State Bank CEO And I ‘Never Discussed Business’ In ’16 Meeting
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner said Tuesday that he “never discussed business” with the head of the Russian state investment bank Vnesheconombank (VEB), with whom he met shortly after the 2016 election upon the recommendation of then-Russian ambassador to the United States Sergei Kislyak. “We never discussed business together,” Kushner...
The Longstanding Trump-Russia Unknowns That Mueller Finally Answered
Reporting over the past two years surfaced dozens of mysterious interactions between the Trump campaign’s alleged involvement with Russian government officials and businessmen. The Mueller report, at long last, provided some answers. Here are some of the key unknowns in the Trump-Russia story that the special counsel’s probe helped...
Comedian Who Played President On TV Headed For Landslide Victory In Ukraine
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — A comedian whose only political experience consists of playing a president on TV appeared headed for a landslide victory in Ukraine’s real-life presidential election Sunday. Exit-poll results released after voting stations closed showed sitcom star Volodymyr Zelenskiy receiving an extraordinary 73.2% — or nearly three...
Ukraine Elects a President
Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a Jewish comedian who plays the President of Ukraine on TV, has been elected President of Ukraine by a landslide margin of 73% of the vote, according to a just released exit poll. …read more Source:...
Trump And Russia Worked Towards The Same Goal In 2016
In the heady days of late July 2016, Donald Trump was ready for Russian help. That much is clear from the Mueller report, which recounts how Trump repeatedly told Michael Flynn to find Hillary Clinton’s deleted emails after publicly asking Russia to “find” them. That episode fits a broader pattern. Throughout the 2016 campaign, Trump...
Kremlin Spins Redacted Mueller Report Into Another ‘I-Told-You-So’ Moment
MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin argued on Friday that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s 400-page report has not offered any credible evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The redacted report presented on Thursday said that there was no collusion between the Donald Trump campaign and Russian officials but it did...
Trump Campaign Was Deeply Co-opted By Russian Influence Operation
While special counsel Robert Mueller was unable to establish a criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russian government, his redacted report paints a picture of a campaign deeply co-opted by a multi-prong Russian influence campaign. The report details how over several months in the summer of 2016, different Russian intelligence...
Ex-Obama WH Counsel Greg Craig Pleads Not Guilty
Former Obama White House counsel Greg Craig has pleaded not guilty to charges of making false statements and concealing information in a federal foreign lobbying investigation spun off from the Russia probe. Craig entered the plea Friday in federal court in Washington a day after he was accused of hiding the details of his work for the Ukrainian...
This Week: Barr Goes Full Trump On FBI ‘Spying,’ Testifies About Mueller Report
Bill Barr was in the hot seat this week. In back-to-back Capitol Hill hearings, lawmakers grilled the Attorney General on his handling of the (very) long-awaited Mueller report. First came the House Appropriations Committee hearing, where Barr testified that he had no intention of submitting the full, unredacted report to Congress or of asking a...
Manafort-Linked Lobbyist Gets 36 Months Probation
International political consultant W. Sam Patten was sentenced to 36 months probation, 500 hours of community service, and a $5,000 fine on Friday for failing to register as a foreign agent, after spending months cooperating with federal prosecutors. Patten pleaded guilty in August 2018 to failing to register as a foreign agent of Ukraine,...
