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Fast Forward Trump’s Lawyer Blames Secret Service For Allowing Trump Jr. Meeting With Russians
Jay Sekulow, a Messianic Jewish lawyer with a history of promoting Christian right causes in the U.S. and around the world, blamed the Secret Service for allowing the meeting between Donald Trump, Jr., and a Russian lawyer to take place on news programs on Sunday. Sekulow is working on Donald Trump’s private legal team, and…
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Opinion George W. Bush Speechwriter Slams ‘Toxic’ Trump In Washington Post Op-Ed
Washington Post columnist and former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, Michael Gerson slammed President Donald Trump for his moral ambiguity as this latest scandal involving his son’s contact with a Russian lawyer unfolds. The op-ed “An administration without a conscience,” published Thursday in the Washington Post, made no reservations in labeling the contact between…
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Fast Forward Russian ‘Gun-For-Hire’ At Trump Jr. Meeting Once Ran Smear Campaign Alleging Anti-Semitism
The former Soviet intelligence officer who was at the bombshell meeting with Donald Trump Jr. at Trump Tower last June allegedly helped organized a campaign against a fellow Russian seeking political asylum in the United States — by calling him anti-Semitic. Rinat Akhmetshin, a Russian-born political lobbyist now living in Washington D.C., was accused of…
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Fast Forward Conspiracy Theorists Claim Russian Lawyer Who Met With Donald Trump Jr. Is Part Of Liberal Plot
Right-wing conspiracy theorists are claiming that the Russian attorney who met with Donald Trump Jr. was actually a left-wing saboteur. The conspiracy rumblings started on Tuesday, after a reporter from the Washington Post tweeted a photo showing Natalia Veselnitskaya at a House committee hearing that featured President Obama’s ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul. McFaul said…
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Opinion The Trump-Putin Syria Ceasefire Puts Russia On Israel’s Border
The United States, Russia and Jordan, with Israel’s acquiescence, recently negotiated a ceasefire among warring parties in the southwest corner of Syria, an area bordering both Israel and Jordan. Presidents Trump and Putin announced the achievement at their Hamburg summit, and it took effect July 9. On the face of it, an end to the…
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Opinion New York Times Column Takes Aim At Kushner’s Security Clearance
In his column “All Roads Now Lead to Kushner,” published Thursday in The New York Times, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Nicholas Kristof made a very clear demand: revoke Jared Kushner’s security clearance immediately. Recent revelations that Kushner, Donald Trump Jr., and then-Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort met with a “Russian government attorney” in June 2016…
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Fast Forward Music Promoter Who Arranged Russia Meeting Met Donald Trump In Vegas In 2013
Rob Goldstone, the Jewish-British music promoter who arranged a meeting last year between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer promising dirt on Hillary Clinton, had previously met now-President Trump in Las Vegas in June 2013, CNN reported Wednesday. Videos obtained by the network show Trump dining and speaking with Goldstone, his client the Russian…
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Fast Forward Did Jared Kushner Help Russian Hacks Spread Fake Campaign News?
The pressure is building on Jared Kushner in the days after revelations that he attended a meeting with an attorney linked to the Russian government. And now he’s apparently under investigation for possible ties to the Kremlin’s fake news campaign against Hillary Clinton. According to McClatchy, an unidentified source close to Russia special counsel Robert…
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