russian interference
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Trump Pardons 20 Federal Prisoners, Including Convicted Trump Allies and Soldiers Who Killed Unarmed Iraqi Civilians
What do war criminals, Trump allies, embezzlers and other white-collar criminals have in common? Y’all’s almost-former president is spending his last days in office freeing them from prison. On Tuesday, Donald Trump pardoned or granted clemency to 20 prisoners and former prisoners, including three Republican congressmen, two people convicted of crimes during the investigation into…
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A Clapback to Russian Trolls
The black community shares a special sense of solidarity in modern-day America. We speak out in dismay at injustices inflicted on our brothers and sisters, who are related not necessarily by blood but by common experience. We root for others in the community, even when we haven’t met them. When black people congregate—at family reunions,…
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Ex-White House Aide Hope Hicks Is Said to Have Agreed to Spill Her Guts Before a House Panel Looking Into Whether Trump Meddled in Russia Probe
Is Donald Trump’s former communications director Hope Hicks getting ready to tell all? According to ABC News, Hicks has agreed to go before the House Judiciary Committee next week to answer lawmakers’ questions about whether Trump meddled in efforts to determine if Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election. Hicks, who left the White House…
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Donald Trump’s Attorney Rudy Giuliani Accuses Special Counsel Robert Mueller of Destroying Evidence
“President” Donald Trump and those around him know that the Mueller investigation is swiftly closing in on him. As those who were formerly associated with him go down in flames as a result of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, more evidence seems to drop that points to the given conclusion:…
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Donald Trump Clearly Doesn't Care About Election Security
For the first time during his presidency, Donald Trump chaired an election security meeting Friday in which senior-level national security experts discussed ways to protect America’s electoral process from foreign interference. The Washington Post reports, however, that the meeting lasted less than an hour and no new directives on how to counter or deter threats…
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Mueller Grand Jury Indicts Russians Accused of Interfering With 2016 Election
A federal grand jury impaneled by special counsel Robert Mueller indicted 13 Russians and three Russian entities Friday for their alleged roles in interfering with the 2016 presidential election. A statement from the special counsel’s office said that the defendants are “accused of violating U.S. criminal laws in order to interfere with U.S. elections and…
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People in Ferguson, Mo., and Baltimore Were Targeted by a Russian-Bought Facebook Ad That Referenced Black Lives Matter: Report
More information has come to light about the Facebook ads purchased by a Russian-government-affiliated troll farm during the 2016 presidential election. Ads were purchased that referenced Black Lives Matter and specifically targeted people in Ferguson, Mo., and Baltimore. Both Ferguson and Baltimore were the sites of widespread civil unrest and protests after high-profile killings of…
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A Conference Asked Hackers to See Which Voting Machines Could Be Breached: They Hacked All of Them
We might as well face it, y’all—they stole the election. If you didn’t believe it after the secret Russian house party with Donald Trump’s son (the dumb one, not the neo-Nazi one), the Paul Manafort canceled checks, Jeff Sessions and the Russian ambassador becoming “friends with benefits,” or Trump and Putin making out in the…