WASHINGTON—A Trump campaign adviser was in touch in the weeks before the 2016 election with a person he said was a Russian former spy, a lawyer who worked with both men told special counsel Robert Mueller’s office. Richard Gates told London-based lawyer Alex van der Zwaan that Mr. Gates’s longtime business associate in Ukraine was a “former Russian intelligence officer,” with the GRU, Russia’s military-intelligence agency, prosecutors on Mr. Mueller’s team wrote in a memo filed in federal court late Tuesday. The three men... … [Read more...] about Robert Mueller Links Trump Campaign Aide With Russian Ex-Spy
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Colbert: Trump Should Just Hire Robert Mueller as His Attorney (Video)
"The Late Show" host has a novel idea to solve Trump's difficulties hiring lawyers to represent him in the ongoing Russia probe Ross A. Lincoln, provided by Published 8:14 pm, Tuesday, March 27, 2018 Image 1of/1 CaptionClose Image 1 of 1 Colbert: Trump Should Just Hire Robert Mueller as His Attorney (Video) 1 / 1 Back to Gallery Stephen Colbert kicked off Tuesday’s episode of “The Late Show” with an unconventional solution to Donald Trump’s problem finding lawyers to represent him in the ongoing Robert Mueller investigation: just hire Robert Mueller. Colbert noted that since the resignation of lawyer John Dowd, POTUS has not been able to bring new blood to his defense efforts. First, it looked like Trump would hire husband and wife legal team Joseph E. diGenova and Victoria Toensing to represent him in the probe investigating possible Russian interference in the 2016 election. Latest entertainment videos … [Read more...] about Colbert: Trump Should Just Hire Robert Mueller as His Attorney (Video)
Robinson: Trump’s biggest problem is not Robert Mueller, Stormy Daniels or Vladimir Putin
By E.J. Dionne Jr. | The Washington Post March 27, 2018 at 12:15 pm WASHINGTON — President Trump’s most urgent political problem doesn’t involve Robert Mueller, Stormy Daniels, Vladimir Putin or the hundreds of thousands of voters who marched for gun control. Rather, it’s that his diehard supporters might be starting to realize how thoroughly he has played them for suckers. On immigration, the issue that most viscerally connects the president with his thus-far-loyal base, Trump got basically nothing in the $1.3 trillion spending bill he signed Friday. The vaunted “big, beautiful wall” he pledges to build along the 2,000-mile border with Mexico? Trump got 25 miles’ worth of new wall, along with eight miles of new fencing. And the bill specifies that none of this tiny increment can be built using any of the prototype designs Trump so ostentatiously showed off. The threatened punishment for “sanctuary cities” that show … [Read more...] about Robinson: Trump’s biggest problem is not Robert Mueller, Stormy Daniels or Vladimir Putin
Evangelical Christians, Mark Davis on Robert Mueller’s investigation, DFW Airport, White House staff
U.S. ensures freedomsRe: "Why do evangelical Christians support Trump? It is the sad result of tough choices, made in response to unreasonable challenges, says David French," March 18 Points. French suggests the support by evangelical Christians of President Donald Trump -- despite his moral and ethical deficiencies -- is a political reaction to three specific realities exposing and challenging their dogma and outweighing, for them, the Christian ideal that might otherwise guide their political behavior. Those realities are that under the Constitution, the government lacks power to control: whether, when, where or how we or our children may or must pray; whether a woman may or must carry to full term her first-trimester pregnancy; and whether and to whom we may or must marry. These are matters of personal choice and freedom, not governmental control. Unfortunately, Trumpian evangelicals rarely mention publicly Jesus' overriding ethical teaching, the Golden … [Read more...] about Evangelical Christians, Mark Davis on Robert Mueller’s investigation, DFW Airport, White House staff
Advice for Trump: Don’t fire Robert Mueller — He will clear you in the end
close Video Trump takes to Twitter to attack Mueller investigation again The president's criticism raises speculation that he may seek to have the special counsel fired; chief White House correspondent John Roberts reports. Will he or won’t he? Rumors continue to swirl and speculation abounds about whether President Trump will order the firing of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russian meddling in our 2016 presidential election and alleged misconduct by the Trump campaign and the president. President Trump is a high-risk, high-reward player and he often wins. He’s a man of action who is impatient with delays. But in this case, he needs patience. He needs to let the Mueller probe finish on its own time, politically and legally, because that’s the only way for the president to shut down all the speculation and be cleared of doing anything wrong. So firing Mueller should be off the table – something President Trump doesn’t … [Read more...] about Advice for Trump: Don’t fire Robert Mueller — He will clear you in the end