The president’s adviser and son-in-law lost his top-secret clearance, a White House official and another person familiar with Mr. Kushner’s situation said.
Paul Manafort and another former Trump aide, Rick Gates, are accused of hiding income and defrauding banks. The charges do not involve the president or his campaign.
"The trashing of these students — whose determination and passion are nothing but admirable — removes a rock to reveal several varieties of maggots," Margaret Sullivan writes.
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18 hours ago - One of the most-read newspaper columnists in America has said President Donald Trump's presidency “is code red”. Thomas Friedman of the New York Times wrote that “the biggest threat to the integrity of our democracy today is in the Oval Office”. The column discussed the influence of Russia on US ...
17 hours ago - The New York Times op-ed columnist is best known for his sober columns about foreign policy and technology. ... "Our democracy is in serious danger," he wrote in the opening line. ... Friedman's column lit up on social media when it was posted on NYTimes.com on Sunday night.
A plane flies over Miami Beach with a banner saying "Shame on you" Marco Rubio & (NRA - National Rifle Association of America). The senator and the gun rights organization have been criticized in the wake of the mass shooting at a Florida high school. http://cnn.it/2ohRrD4
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"How come, Marco Rubio?" the third billboard reads
One woman’s account of clandestine meetings, financial transactions, and legal pacts designed to hide an extramarital affair. (Via The New Yorker)
Karen McDougal's story provides a detailed look at how Donald Trump and his allies used clandestine hotel-room meetings, payoffs, and complex legal agreements to keep affairs—sometimes multiple affairs he carried out simultaneously—out of the press.
Today, a grand jury impaneled by special counsel Robert Mueller indicted 13 Russian nationals on charges of seeking to interfere in the U.S. election, with the “strategic goal” of sowing “discord in the U.S. political system.” By mid-2016 their operations were focused on “supporting” Trump’s campaign, and “disparaging” Hillary Clinton’s.
Last Tuesday, all four of America’s top intelligence officials – and all appointed by Trump – told Congress that not only did Russia interfere in the 2016 election, but it is already meddling in the 2018 election by using a digital strategy to exacerbate the country’s political and social divisions.
Yet Trump continues to refuse to even acknowledge the Russian role. The four intelligence chiefs testified that Trump has never asked them to take measures to combat Russian interference and protect democratic processes. Trump also continues to ignore a law Congress adopted overwhelmingly to impose sanctions for election meddling and aggression against Ukraine.
Why is Trump doing nothing about Russia? Is he signaling to Putin that it’s okay to meddle in the upcoming 2018 midterms?
