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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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Fast Forward Marc Kasowitz May Soon Quit As Trump Russia Scandal Lawyer
President Trump’s private lawyer, Marc Kasowitz, may quit in frustration, according to a New York Times report Tuesday. Kasowitz, who has represented the president for years and is a close ally, is seeking to advise Trump on the Russia investigation. But according to the Times report, he and his associates are frustrated at being kept…
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Fast Forward Russia Scandal Mogul Puts New Jersey Mansion On Market For $7M — And That’s A Loss
Aras Agalarov, the billionaire whose pop star son has become embroiled in the Trump-Russia scandal, is selling his New Jersey mansion for $7 million, according to the New York Post. He bought the house for $8 million in 2007. The current price reportedly includes furniture. Agalarov is married to Irina Agalarova, who is Jewish. Emin…
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News The Secret Jewish History Of Donald Trump Jr.’s Russia Scandal
There’s much that we don’t know about the bonds that tie Donald Trump, his campaign or his family to Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin. But there are some important clues that are mostly being overlooked. To follow the trail, it helps to recall that the Trumps are not the only American family whose tangled ties to the…
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Fast Forward Republican Lee Zeldin Sees ‘Condiment’ on Don Jr.’s Russia ‘Nothing Burger’
GOP Rep. Lee Zeldin suggested he was concerned about Donald Trump Jr.’s emails regarding getting damaging information about Hillary Clinton from Russia, saying there was perhaps “some condiment on this nothing burger.” I voted for @POTUS last Nov. & want him & USA to succeed, but that meeting, given that email chain just released, is…
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