special counsel robert mueller
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Paul Manafort Hid Foreign Income on Taxes, His Accountant Says
Paul Manafort’s accountant testified Friday that the ex-Trump campaign manager repeatedly denied having foreign bank accounts and stakes in foreign companies. CNN reports Manafort is standing trial as a result of being charged with 18 counts of tax and banking crimes. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges. Special counsel Robert Mueller’s prosecution of…
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Trump Will Have to Speak With Special Counsel Mueller's Team In Person, Not Only Submit Written Answers
While special counsel Robert Mueller has no problem cutting the number of obstruction-related questions Donald Trump would be asked by his investigators, the president will still have to answer them in person and not simply in written form. CNN reports that Trump’s legal team has only agreed to submit written answers to Mueller and have…
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Paul Manafort Drops His Lawsuit Against Robert Mueller Just as His Own Criminal Trial Begins
The criminal trial for Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort began Tuesday morning in a federal court in Alexandria, Va. It is the first trial to come out of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference with the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Things moved very quickly on the first day of court. The…
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Trump’s Tweets Reportedly Being Investigated in Mueller Probe
Donald Trump is a keyboard gangster, and Twitter is his gun. He wields his personal Twitter account like a weapon, using it to attack the press, foreign dignitaries and leaders, members of his own administration and anyone else who does not fall in line and do exactly what he wants them to at any given…
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Is Michael Cohen About to Flip on Trump?
With all the theatrics surrounding Donald Trump’s signing of an executive order to end family separations at the border, you may have missed out on a pretty big news nugget earlier Wednesday. Michael Cohen—Trump’s personal attorney and longtime confidant who has become one of the bigger fish caught in the Robert Mueller investigation web—submitted a…
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How Much Does It Cost to Find Out if the Trump Campaign Colluded With the Russians? $17 Million So Far
Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel on May 17, 2017, and tasked with finding out whether or not members of the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to disrupt the 2016 U.S. presidential election. In the year since his appointment, his team has managed to secure guilty pleas from Donald Trump’s foreign policy aide George Papadopoulos,…
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Trump’s Latest Conspiracy Theory Might Be His Craziest Yet
Truth and evidence are two things that have never bothered President Donald Trump or his administration. In fact, if truth and evidence were a person, it would be 2001 Tyronn Lue, and the personification of Trump’s care for truth and evidence would be Allen Iverson. On Tuesday, shocking absolutely no one who didn’t vote for…
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It’s Been a Year Already: So, What Actually Happens if Trump Fires Mueller?
Today, Thursday, marks the one-year anniversary of special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s appointment to personally fulfill the political fantasies of every pussy-hat-wearing, resistance-T-shirt-sporting, Salon-reading citizen left in America. That fantasy, of course, is of Mueller finding evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians to influence the 2016 presidential election in his favor. More…
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12 Lawyers and Counting Have Passed on Working for Toxic Trump
President Donald Trump is toxic; he knows it, the world knows it. But it must be really bad when the president of the United States is so radioactive that 12 lawyers and counting have passed on representing him in the special counsel investigation. According to CNN, lawyer Steven Molo, a former prosecutor who specializes in…
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Shook: After Cohen Raids, Trump’s Lawyers Reportedly No Longer Want Him to Talk to Mueller
The FBI raids on Michael Cohen’s office, home and New York City hotel room apparently have Donald Trump’s lawyers so shook, they are now re-evaluating whether or not they want their client to do a sit-down with special counsel Robert Mueller for an interview. Sources close to the matter told CNN that attorneys for the…