Impeachment Impeachment timeline: Feb 2: Trump answer to article/House pre-trial brief; Feb 8: House reply to Trump answer/Trump pre-trial brief; Feb 9: House pre-trial rebuttal/Trial resumes. UPDATE: Read the House brief here and Trump’s response to the article of impeachment here. Donald Trump’s entire impeachment legal team disbanded – with just a week […]
The facts come out Former President Trump allegedly conspired with a Justice Department official to fire then-acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen in order to force Georgia state lawmakers to overturn its presidential election results. The plan, developed earlier this month, involved sending a letter to Georgia officials, falsely saying that the […]
Legal dangers ahead The Manhattan district attorney’s office interviewed Michael Cohen for numerous hours on Thursday, focusing on Trump’s business dealings and relationship with Deutsche Bank. This is the second time that Cohen met with DA Vance’s prosecutors, who are looking to the Trump Organization for possible tax, bank, and insurance fraud, […]
Author’s note: Due to the Capitol riots/insurrection dominating the news (and rightly so), I made the decision to focus on the events that got buried in the news cycle over the past week. Russia A new report by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) found that Trump […]
Election shenanigans On Saturday, Trump called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) in an attempt to convince him to overturn the results of the presidential election. Audio of the call, which lasted over an hour, was published by The Washington Post. Trump alternately berated Raffensperger, tried to flatter him, […]
Trump’s hit job fizzles Emails and photos purportedly belonging to Hunter Biden were circulating in Ukraine last year at the same time that Rudy Giuliani was in the country searching for dirt on Joe Biden. Two people said they were approached with Hunter’s alleged emails, first in May 2019 and second in September […]
October surprise Trump and allies are pushing an unverified and highly suspicious narrative to smear Joe Biden by trying to tie him to his son Hunter Biden’s work in Ukraine. Last week, the New York Post published emails and photos allegedly from a laptop belonging to Hunter – but without […]
Fox News: Russian laundromat The Trump administration has been using conservative outlets like Fox News to launder unverified Russian intelligence intended to denigrate Democratic officials and candidates. In the latest instance last week, DNI John Ratcliffe declassified handwritten notes from 2016 by then-CIA Director John Brennan stating that he had briefed […]
