In a properly functioning United States, the Justice Department operates independently of the White House. This hasn’t been the case since President Trump took office. For nearly two years, he harassed his first attorney general, Jeff Sessions, for recusing himself from overseeing the Mueller investigation, before eventually forcing him to …
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First-ballot hall-of-fame criminal Paul Manafort has been indicted yet again. On Wednesday morning, the Manhattan district attorney’s office charged President Trump’s former campaign manager with 16 state felonies, including mortgage fraud, falsifying business records and more. The indictment was announced almost immediately after Judge Amy Berman Jackson sentenced Manafort to …
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WASHINGTON —Paul Manafort, the ostrich-jacket-wearing lobbyist and former campaign chairman for President Trump, took another hit in federal court on Wednesday. Judge Amy Berman Jackson found that Manafort lied to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigative team on multiple topics, including his interactions with a former associate in Ukraine with reported …
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Last December, Michael Flynn, the retired general and national security adviser to President Trump, pleaded guilty to lying to federal agents about his communications with Russia‘s ambassador to the United States while he was working for Trump’s transition team. He’s since been cooperating with the special counsel’s office. A lot. …
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Senate Democrats on the Judiciary Committee have released a report of “preliminary findings” about the Trump campaign’s infamous meeting with Russians at Trump Tower seeking “incriminating information on Secretary Clinton.” The report raises more questions than it answers: “We still do not know,” it reads, “the full story about the …
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This story was reported in partnership with The Investigative Fund and Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting. Additional reporting: Aaron Sankin, Laura Starecheski, Michael Corey, Jaime Longoria and Jasper Craven. The revelations overcame Edgar Maddison Welch like a hallucinatory fever. On December 1st, 2016, the father of two from …
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