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Putin Critic Alexei Navalny Out Of Coma And Responsive After Poisoning
BERLIN (AP) — Poisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s condition has improved, allowing doctors to take him out of an induced coma, the German hospital treating him said Monday. Navalny, a fierce, high-profile critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was flown to Germany last month after falling ill on Aug. 20 on a domestic...
Russia Got What It Wanted
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. Let’s go back to the very beginning — Russian interference in the 2016 election, when, deep in the bowels of the Russian Internet Research Agency (IRA) two key strategic plans unfolded. One was “help elect Trump.” Imaginary bloggers and “likers” were set up to...
House Panel To Consider Contempt For Pompeo For Stiffing Them On Ukraine ‘Smear’ Docs
The House Committee on Foreign Affairs announced Friday that it was taking a step towards contempt proceedings for Secretary of State Mike Pompeo over his refusal to comply with its subpoena for various Ukraine-related documents that the State Department has already turned over to GOP senators. The announcement did not set a date for when...
5 Points On Trump’s RNC Gambits And The Hatch Act Debate
An 81-year-old government ethics law is back in the headlines again, as the Trump administration is accused of staging official government events for purposes of the Republican National Convention. White House officials have downplayed concerns about the law, called the Hatch Act, by suggesting that the scrutiny they’re now facing is mere...
Trump Jr. Punches Back At Speculation He Was High At RNC: ‘You Have Me Confused With Hunter Biden’
Donald Trump Jr. on Wednesday morning managed to throw Hunter Biden under the bus while hitting back at allegations of cocaine use during his RNC speech. After going on a tear against the media during an appearance on “Fox and Friends,” Trump Jr. was asked about the media’s concern with his “glassy” eyes during his RNC speech on Monday...
Four Ways In Which Senate Intel’s Bipartisan Russia Report Went Further Than Mueller’s
The nearly 1,000 page report released by the Senate Thursday morning reveals new details about Russian interference in the 2016 election, going beyond — and at times openly contradicting — the findings of the Mueller report. The Senate Intelligence Committee released the report into Russian meddling and allegations of ties between the Trump...
GOP-led Report Reveals Just How Close Manafort Was To Russian Military Intel
“Fragmentary” evidence suggests that Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and a close associate of his may have had ties to Russia’s hacking of the 2016 Clinton campaign and the subsequent campaign to leak the stolen documents, a Republican-led Senate committee said on Tuesday. The report, released by the Senate Intelligence Committee,...
READ: Senate Intel Drops Final Russia Probe Report With New Details On Manafort, Stone
The Senate Intelligence Committee released its final report into Russian interference in the 2016 election on Tuesday, documenting Russian intelligence operations during the election and alleged ties between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign. Several members of the Trump campaign and its unofficial circle are labeled by the committee as...
Sen. Ron Johnson: My Biden Probe Will ‘Certainly’ Help Trump Win
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said this week that his investigation into Vice President Joe Biden “would certainly help Donald Trump win reelection,” as the probe continues to face down widespread allegations that it is laundering Russian disinformation. Politico first reported the interview on Thursday evening. “The more that we expose of the...
Trump Claims He Is ‘The Last Person’ Russia Wants In Office
President Donald Trump on Friday dismissed a finding from a top U.S. intelligence official that found Russia will “primarily denigrate” Joe Biden in the 2020 election. “I think the last person Russia wants to see in office is Donald Trump because nobody’s been tougher on Russia than I have — ever,” Trump said during a news conference at his...
