Cambridge Analytica, the data research firm, has issued an extended statement explaining the types of data the firm used, and didn’t use, during the 2016 presidential election. The firm started working for the Trump campaign in June 2016. It has …
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions has decided not to appoint a second special counsel to investigate alleged abuses by the FBI and the Department of Justice regarding the obtaining of FISA warrants to surveille the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential …
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Special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigative team has alleged that a business associate of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort is a former member of the Russian intelligence services, and that Manafort and Rick Gates also a former Trump campaign …
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The inspector general of the Department of Justice has announced the opening of an investigation into actions by DOJ and FBI officials in the obtaining of FISA warrants “related to a certain U.S. person.” The “certain U.S. person” is widely …
President Donald Trump announced today that he has fired Veterans Affairs secretary David Shulkin in the latest shakeup in his cabinet. The President nominated Dr. Ronny Jackson as his replacement. The President shared the announcement on Twitter.
“I am pleased …
Continue ReadingFormer Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, in an op-ed in the New York Times this morning, called for the repeal of the Second Amendment of the Constitution.
“Rarely in my lifetime have I seen the type of civic engagement …
Continue ReadingAttorneys for the White House are looking into whether the President’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, violated ethics regulations by meeting with banking executives who then lent his family’s real estate business hundreds of millions of dollars.
Kushner had several meetings …
Continue ReadingConservative commentator Ann Coulter harshly criticized President Trump for signing a $1.3 trillion spending bill last week that didn’t include funding for a wall along the southern border if the United States.
“I can’t see any way to sugarcoat what …
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Bob Mercer was raised in New Mexico in the 1960’s. While in high school, he was able to work his way into a job at a nearby Air Force weapons lab writing computer programs. He once showed superiors at the …
Continue ReadingThe Department of Justice has announced a lawsuit against the state of California over some its “sanctuary” immigration policies. The lawsuit alleges that the state of California obstructs the federal government from enforcing existing immigration laws.
The DOJ cites three …
Continue ReadingPresidential son-in-law Jared Kushner has had his security clearance level downgraded to Secret level, from Top Secret/SCI-level, the nation’s highest. The downgrade is in accordance with new White House policies regarding personnel who have had their security clearances pending since …
Continue ReadingNew regulations that White House Chief of Staff John Kelly is putting in place regarding White House security clearances has placed President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, and Kelly, on a collision course. The potential conflict centers on which White …
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