trump and russia
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Roger Stone Claims Russian National Offered ‘Dirt’ on Hillary Clinton in Exchange for $2 Million
Roger Stone said that a Russian national approached him in May 2016 with damaging information about Hillary Clinton and wanted $2 million in exchange, the Washington Post reports. Calling himself Henry Greenberg, the man offered compromising information on Clinton, Donald Trump’s presumptive general election Democratic opponent at the time, but did not detail exactly what…
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Trump Talks to Vladimir Putin So Much, They’re on a Friends-and-Family Plan
Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn’t know that admitting that he talks to President Donald Trump on the regular probably isn’t a good thing, considering that the Trump administration is currently being investigated for Russian collusion in the 2016 election. But that’s exactly what the Russian leader did Tuesday. During an interview with an Austrian news…
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House ‘Intelligence’ Committee Clears Trump, Associates of Wrongdoing in 2016 Election
Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee released a redacted version of the final report on their yearlong investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Don’t worry; I read it for you. The report concludes that neither the president nor his known associates “colluded, coordinated, or conspired with the Russian government.” This, ladies…
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Felix Sater Claims Trump Organization Pursued Deal With Sanctioned Bank During 2016 Election
Longtime Donald Trump associate Felix Sater told Chris Hayes on his MSNBC show Friday that he was trying to secure a real estate deal during the 2016 campaign to build “Trump Tower Moscow” with funding from VTB Bank, which is currently under U.S. sanctions. “I had a local developer there [in Russia], and I had…
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Rick Gates Becomes 3rd Member of Trump’s Campaign to Plead Guilty to Lying
The bricks in the Kremlin wall, also known as the Trump administration, continue to crumble as former presidential campaign aide Rick Gates becomes the third person close to Donald Trump to make a deal with special counsel Robert Mueller after pleading guilty to conspiracy and making a false statement. Gates—who, in October, was indicted alongside…
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Trump Urged Lawyer to Persuade Jeff Sessions Not to Recuse Himself in Russia Probe: Report
Why was it so important to President Donald Trump to have Attorney General Jeff Sessions oversee the Russia investigation? It couldn’t possibly be because the president of the United States and the overlord of Russia are secretly play cousins who spend the night over each other’s house and make forts out of bedsheets in the…
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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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George Papadopoulos, Former Trump Campaign Aide, Pleads Guilty to Lying to FBI During Russia Investigation
Another one bites the dust. More specifically, Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopolous is actually just taking the L, apparently, and has pleaded guilty to making false statements to FBI agents during their investigation into possible Russian interference in the U.S. 2016 presidential elections. The Associated Press tweeted out the news, citing court papers.…
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Paul Manafort Offered to Give Private Briefings on Presidential Election to a Billionaire Russian Oligarch: Report
On July 7, 2016, less than two weeks before Donald Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination, his then-campaign manager Paul Manafort wrote an email to a Russian billionaire with close ties to the Kremlin and offered to provide him with briefings on the presidential race. Portions of the email written by Manafort to aluminum magnate…
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Donald Trump: Putin Is Bae, and No One Can Stop Our Love!
The media needs to stop trying to break up President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Trump gave Putin his final rose, and at this point they have a miniature poodle named Flynn and a Prius they share. Sure, the commoner would think that asking about the Russian president’s decision to force the U.S. Embassy…