The first “appearance” on “Saturday Night Live” of Trump attorney Michael Cohen doubled as a “Meet the Parents” reunion. In the sketch, former SNL cast member Ben Stiller plays Cohen, “attorney at law — and also sometimes not at law.” Cohen’s offices were raided by the FBI this week, a fact the lawyer’s fictional counterpart…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered Israel’s “full support” for airstrikes on Syrian targets in retaliation for the Assad regime’s alleged use of chemical weapons against civilians in the rebel-held town of Douma. “A year ago, I declared Israel’s full support for President Trump’s decision to take a stand against the use…
The special counsel in the Russia probe has evidence that President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen traveled to Prague in 2016, refuting Cohen’s claim that he never visited the Czech capital and bolstering an intelligence dossier that first described the trip, McClatchy reported on Friday. Investigators for Special Counsel Robert Mueller have evidence Cohen…
Michael Cohen wasn’t just arranging payoffs for women who claimed to have had affairs with President Trump. The Wall Street Journal reports today that Cohen orchestrated a $1.6 million payoff to a former Playboy model impregnated by Elliott Broidy, a prominent Jewish Republican donor. “I acknowledge I had a consensual relationship with a Playboy Playmate,”…
Michael Cohen is asking Judge Kimba Wood to suppress legal documents related to his relationship with Donald Trump in his trial over payments to the pornographic actress Stormy Daniels. Wood, a federal judge, has certainly seen lighter moments in her time on the bench. In 2010, Wood gave a Jewish defense attorney the day off…
NEW YORK (JTA) — A pledge by 51 student groups at New York University to boycott Israel and two pro-Israel campus organizations is a sign of “animosity” at the private campus, a Jewish student leader said. In the resolution, which was released Monday, the student organizations express their support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions…
President Trump has pardoned former George W. Bush administration official Lewis “Scooter” Libby, who was convicted of lying in an investigation of the unmasking of a CIA agent, a source said on Friday, in a step that would underscore Trump’s willingness to grant pardons in high-profile cases. Conservatives have been pushing for a pardon for…
Michael Cohen, an attorney for President Donald Trump, has been under criminal investigation for months, federal prosecutors disclosed in a filing in Manhattan federal court in Friday. Prosecutors said the investigation focuses on Cohen’s “own business dealings” rather than his work as an attorney. The filing came in response to Cohen’s effort to block prosecutors…
A lawyer for President Donald Trump sought in court on Friday to stop U.S. prosecutors from deciding what materials seized from his personal attorney can be used in a probe that began with a referral by investigators looking into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Monday’s raids of attorney Michael Cohen’s home and office…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Members of a bipartisan U.S. House of Representatives task force on anti-Semitism condemned attacks on survivors of the Florida high school shooting in February, including anti-Semitic images and comparisons of the students to Nazis. “It is shameful for anyone to attack students – especially survivors of gun violence – with anti-Semitic slurs…
Ex-President Jimmy Carter says his push for Middle East Peace played an important role in turning the evangelical voting bloc into the arms of the Republican Party. Carter told the Associated Press, that he, “took a position of wanting to see balance between Israel and the Palestinians.” Carter wasn’t able to bring about a final…
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