Section: Vox (USA)
Trump chooses Putin’s word over the US intelligence community — again
“I really believe that when he tells me that, he means it.” President Donald Trump just sided with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the US intelligence community. That’s because in one of their conversations during an international summit in Vietnam, Putin denied that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election — and Trump...
Trump chooses Putin’s word over the US intelligence community — again
“I really believe that when he tells me that, he means it.” President Donald Trump just sided with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the US intelligence community. That’s because in one of their conversations during an international summit in Vietnam, Putin denied that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election — and Trump...
Trump chooses Putin’s word over the US intelligence community — again
“I really believe that when he tells me that, he means it.” President Donald Trump just sided with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the US intelligence community. That’s because in one of their conversations during an international summit in Vietnam, Putin denied that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election — and Trump...
New data shows how the Trump administration is destroying the State Department
Sixty percent of State’s equivalent of four-star generals are gone. Imagine a company where, in the past year, 60 percent of its top management quit and applicants to work there dropped by half. You’d assume that corporation would be on the verge of going bankrupt or in the throes of some catastrophe — Enron after the scandal or...
A Trump Cabinet official has direct business ties to Putin’s inner circle
One of those ties includes Putin’s son-in-law. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has business ties to members of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle — but he didn’t properly reveal that information to the government. It turns out that Ross’s investment firm has a 31.5 percent stake in Navigator, a British company...
The Manafort indictment is a historic test for American democracy
Mueller, Manafort, and the Trump era’s biggest crisis. The indictment of former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort sets the stage for a historic test of the American legal and political systems, which could soon come under new attack from a president who has previously asked his advisers about firing Special Counsel Robert Mueller and...
Vox Sentences: Documents, pompousness, incompetence, Papadopoulos
Vox Sentences is your daily digest for what’s happening in the world, curated by Ella Nilsen. Sign up for the Vox Sentences newsletter, delivered straight to your inbox Monday through Friday, or view the Vox Sentences archive for past editions. Robert Mueller hands down his first indictments; Kevin Spacey is in the middle of the latest...
What the Manafort and Papadopoulos indictments tell us about Mueller’s strategy
Monday’s big news revealed Mueller’s strategy: treat the Trump campaign like the mafia. Monday’s big Russia-related news shows that special counsel Robert Mueller is treating his probe into election collusion like a mob case — with President Donald Trump potentially playing the role of Al Capone. Early on Monday morning, FBI...
5 things we learned from Robert Mueller’s indictment of Paul Manafort
Mueller is trying to flip the former top Trump adviser against the president. The first big indictment in the Trump-Russia investigation has nothing to do with the president himself or with his campaign’s possible collusion with Russia in the 2016 election. Instead, special counsel Robert Mueller’s 31-page indictment against former...
5 things we learned from Robert Mueller’s indictment of Paul Manafort
Mueller is trying to flip the former top Trump adviser against the president. The first big indictment in the Trump-Russia investigation has nothing to do with the president himself or with his campaign’s possible collusion with Russia in the 2016 election. Instead, special counsel Robert Mueller’s 31-page indictment against former...
