Author: Freedom Watch
Analysis | Mueller just drew his most direct line to date between the Trump campaign and Russia By Aaron Blake Washington Post March 28, 2018 Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation just drew what appears to be its most direct line to date between President Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia. That line is drawn in a new court filing related to the upcoming sentencing of London attorney Alex van der Zwaan. Van der Zwaan has pleaded guilty to lying about his contacts with deputy Trump campaign manager Rick Gates and a person identified in the document only…
Freedom Watch TV March 28, 2018
Mueller tells court Rick Gates knew he and Manafort were dealing with ex-Russian intel agent Newsweek March 28, 2018 In a court filing Tuesday night special counsel Robert Mueller alleges Rick Gates, a close associate of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, knew the two were working with a former Russian intelligence officer during the 2016 election. The FBI has determined the former officer continued to have ties to Russian intelligence in 2016 and worked with Gates and Manafort in September and October that year. It is not clear whether the two men knew this. Continue Reading…..
Trump attack unleashes oppo against Mueller By Darren Samuelsohn POLITICO March 28, 2018 When President Donald Trump lashed out against Robert Mueller by name earlier this month, the president’s supporters sprang into action—treating the chief Russia investigator to political campaign-style opposition research. Within hours, the Drudge Report featured a story blaming Mueller, the special counsel leading the Justice Department’s Russia probe, for the FBI’s clumsy investigation into the 2001 anthrax attacks when Mueller ran the bureau. The independent pro-Trump journalist Sara Carter posted a story charging that Mueller, as a federal prosecutor in Boston in the mid-1980s, had…
Bipartisan Senate duo calls on Trump to back off Mueller By Elana Schor POLITICO March 28, 2018 Sens. Thom Tillis and Chris Coons defended the rationale behind their bill but put the onus on Trump to let Mueller continue rather than demand congressional leadership take up their legislation. “We urge President Trump to allow the Special Counsel to complete his work without impediment, which is in the best interest of the American people, the President, and our nation,” they added. Continue Reading…..
Newsmax TV March 27, 2018
McConnell bill would legalize hemp as agricultural product By Morgan Gstalter TheHill March 26, 2018 Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced a new bill on Monday that would legalize hemp as an agricultural product. The Hemp Farming Act of 2018 would legalize hemp, removing it from the federal list of controlled substances and allowing it to be sold as an agricultural commodity, according to WKYT. Continue Reading…..
Orlando nightclub shooter’s father, an FBI informant, brushed off son’s terror comments, agent says By Greg Norman Fox News March 26, 2018 The Orlando nightclub shooter’s dad — revealed to be an FBI informant — told authorities who were investigating Omar Mateen before the attack that pro-terror comments the would-be gunman made to coworkers were just examples of him “being stupid,” an agent testified Monday. FBI Special Agent Juvenal Martin, who was on the stand in the terrorism trial of Noor Salman, Omar Mateen’s wife, said Omar’s father, Seddique, had called him while his son was being investigated…
Claiming Executive Privilege To Avoid Mueller Could Backfire For Trump By Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux FiveThirtyEight March 26, 2018 Will President Trump sit down for a one-on-one interview with special counsel Robert Mueller? It might be more likely after the president’s lead lawyer on the Russia investigation resigned last week. The lawyer, John Dowd, had reportedly advised the president against such a move, and now he’s out. If Trump does talk to Mueller, there’s a possibility that he could invoke executive privilege to try to avoid answering some of the special counsel’s questions.1 That would be the first formal invocation…
Trump Won’t Hire 2 Lawyers Whose Appointments Were Announced Days Ago By Maggie Haberman, Michael S. Schmidt and Mark Landler New York Times March 25, 2018 President Trump has decided not to hire two lawyers who were announced last week as new additions to his legal team, leaving him with a shrinking stable of lawyers as the investigation by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, enters an intense phase. “The president is disappointed that conflicts prevent Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing from joining the president’s special counsel legal team,” Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, Jay Sekulow, said in…