Politics
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Taylor and Kent’s Impeachment Inquiry Transcripts
Nov 13, 2019For just the fourth time in U.S. history, the House of Representatives held public impeachment hearings today. It began with the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, Acting U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor, and career Foreign... -
Barr Opens Criminal Investigation of DOJ Investigation of Russian Interference in 2016 Election
Oct 25, 2019The Department of Justice upgraded the administrative review of DOJ’s probe of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, into a criminal investigation. The review was being conducted by prosecutor prosecutor John Durham, but has been... -
Open Skies – With Trump, Every Day is Putin’s Birthday
Oct 24, 2019Trump has shown little ability as a deal-maker since he became president. He has, however, proven to be very skilled at deal-breaking. Tearing up international treaties and agreements that enhance the national security and general well... -
Rudy Giuliani’s Henchmen – Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman
Oct 22, 2019Parnas Lev Parnas was born in the Soviet Union in 1972, but came to the United states in 1976 and grew up in Brooklyn. He worked for a realtor selling units in Trump buildings as a... -
Who is Dimitry Firtash?
Oct 22, 2019Dimitry Firtash went from obscurity to billionaire with a sweetheart deal from Vladimir Putin a decade ago. Putin could have sold Russian gas directly to Ukraine, but instead he made Firtash the middleman in a secretive... -
Was Qatar the Middleman For a Rosneft Payoff for Trump?
May 16, 2018In a federal court case in Los Angeles, between investors in an old-timers 3-on-3 basketball league, a court filing claims that a Qatari Consul was involved in a political influence operation in the US when he... -
Mueller Ties Manafort and Gates to Russian Intelligence During the Campaign and Transition
Mar 28, 2018During a court hearing on sentencing for Alex van der Zwaan, Mueller’s prosecutors filed a report in which Mueller ties Manafort and Gates to Russian intelligence during the 2016 campaign and transition. Alex van der Zwaan,... -
The Trump and RNC Guy Peddling Government Influence for Cash
Mar 15, 2018On Trump’s first official visit to California as president earlier this week, he attended a Beverly Hills fundraiser organized by Elliott Broidy. Broidy is the deputy national finance chairman of the RNC, who became Trump’s latest... -
How Does Trump’s Guy Get Whole When he Owes Putin’s Guy Millions?
Oct 16, 2017When The Atlantic published the emails between Manafort and Konstantin Kilimnik, sent just weeks after Trump hired Manafort to lead his campaign for president, they led to more questions than answers. Subsequent reporting, though, has cleared up some of... -
Preservation of Slavery was the Primary Reason for Secession and Civil War
Aug 19, 2017Many on the right maintain that States’ Rights and taxes were the primary reasons for secession, and causes of the Civil War. They were not. Preservation of the institution of slavery was the primary reason. But no...