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Fast Forward Politico Called Anti-Semitic For Accusing Chabad In Trump’s Russia Scandal
A tangled web of relationships ties Donald Trump and his associates to Vladimir Putin’s Russia — and Chabad appears to be right in the middle of them. The Hasidic movement forged an unlikely alliance with the Russian strongman two decades ago just as Trump and others close to him were pursuing a series of lucrative…
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Fast Forward Adam Schiff Blindsided By Nunes Resignation From Russia Probe
Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House’s Intelligence Committee, [said Thursday that he only learned of chairman Devin Nunes’ decision to step aside from an inquiry into ties between the Donald Trump campaign and Russia when the news broke to the entire world. It’s not the first time that the Jewish representative from California…
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News Jared Kushner Suddenly Looms Large In Trump Probe — Is Trouble Ahead For Jewish Golden Boy?
A Washington Post graphic published recently mapped the ties and alleged ties to Russia of President Trump and his associates. The name of Jared Kushner, once the wunderkind of Team Trump, loomed shockingly large within the elaborate web crisscrossing the illustration. The 36-year-old son-in-law and senior adviser to the president has at least three points…
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Fast Forward Did Wife Of White House Leaker Ezra Cohen-Watnick Work To Burnish Russia’s Image?
A pair of American genealogists believe they’ve found information linking the wife of White House staffer Ezra Cohen-Watnick with pro-Russian advocacy in the U.S. After learning of Cohen-Watnick’s alleged involvement in providing Republican Devin Nunes with information showing members of the Trump transition team had shown up in secret intelligence reports, genealogists Renee Stern Steinig…
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Fast Forward Adam Schiff Gets To See Secret Trump Probe Documents
The top Democrat on the U.S. House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff, said intelligence reports he viewed at the White House on Friday were the same documents seen by panel Chairman Devin Nunes last week. Nunes, a Republican, sparked a controversy last week when he said he had seen documents at the White House that indicated…
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News How Adam Schiff Turned Into Donald Trump’s Worst Nightmare
He is a soft-spoken moderate who has emerged as the unlikely face of resistance to President Trump — and he could become a bona fide threat to The Donald’s presidency as the probe into Russia’s interference in the election explodes. California’s Adam Schiff is meticulous and detail-oriented. He’s not the type of firebrand partisan attack dog…
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News Meet Ezra Cohen-Watnick, The Secret Source At The Center Of Trump Russia Probe
Who is Ezra Cohen-Watnick, the 30-year-old White House aide who could be a key player in the blockbuster investigation into Russian ties to President Trump and his campaign? Cohen-Watnick, 30, who The New York Times reports provided key information in the probe, is a once fast-rising protege of ousted Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn…
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Fast Forward Chabad Rabbi Loses Russia Deportation Appeal
(JTA) — A Russian appeals court affirmed the expulsion order issued against an American rabbi working in Sochi, in what a local leader of the Chabad movement called a “dark day” for Jews. In its ruling Tuesday against Ari Edelkopf, the Krasnodar Court of Appeals accepted the position of a Sochi tribunal that earlier this…
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