russia and presidential election
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Paul Manafort, Trump’s Former Campaign Chairman, Pleads Not Guilty to Conspiracy Against the United States
Updated Monday, Oct. 30, 2017, 2:38 p.m. EDT: President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Manafort’s business associate Rick Gate have both pleaded not guilty following their arrest on several felonies, including conspiracy against the United States. According to the Los Angeles Times, Manafort and Gates both appeared before a federal judge Monday…
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Report: 2 Democratic Senators Asked Comey to Investigate Jeff Sessions’ Meetings With Russian Ambassador
Two Democratic senators made three separate requests asking the FBI to investigate U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions in response to concerns that he may have had an additional meeting with Russian ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak that was not disclosed. CNN obtained copies of the letters Sens. Al Franken (D-Minn.) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.),…
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Justice Department Appoints Special Counsel to Oversee Probe of Russian Interference in Election
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced Wednesday that the Department of Justice has appointed a special counsel, Robert Mueller, to oversee the investigation into whether or not associates of President Donald Trump and Russian officials coordinated last year to interfere with the U.S. presidential election. Mueller is a former prosecutor who also served as FBI…
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Devin ‘the Douche’ Nunes Will Sit Out Russia Investigation
Devin Nunes, the guy from your fourth-grade class who actually wrote down the names of the people who talked when the teacher was out of the room, will step down from his post as chair of the House of Representatives’ Intelligence Committee investigation into how Russia stole the election for His Excellency Donald “Assistant Putin”…