The president’s comments toward Flynn and Manafort were characterized as expressing sympathy toward them. . Both Flynn and Manafort were charged as part of Mueller’s probe. But Trump has made numerous comments about both men indicating that pardons for them remained an option. ...…
Photo: Brendan Smialowski/Bloomberg Special Counsel Robert Mueller III found evidence suggesting President Donald Trump’s public comments during the prosecution of Paul Manafort were intended to encourage his former campaign chairman to not cooperate with the government—and possibly to..…
theme of my published bookWar with Russia is The United States is in Cold War with Russia, and one more dangerous, more fraught with possibilities of war, than was Cold War the world survived. ..…
Barr for his statements that put a positive gloss for Trump on the report, but did not make any immediate comment on the substance of Mueller’s findings. . . . ..…
Based on McGahn’s account, Trump asserted that the conflicts were significant enough for Rosenstein to fire Mueller. “Mueller has to go,” McGahn recalled Trump saying. . McGahn said he understood Trump’s comments as directing him to go ask Rosenstein to fire..…
Comey later told Congress that Trump asked him to back off the case — comments that Comey interpreted as an effort to quash the investigation. ... But Mueller concluded Trump’s comments did not amount to direct intervention. ..…
Once informed of the upcoming Times story by Hicks, Trump instructed her to provide no comment, which she thought was 'odd because he usually considered not responding to the press to be the ultimate sin,' Mueller wrote. . ..…
CIA spokesmen did not return emails seeking comment. . The article was written before the conclusions of the investigative report on Russian collusion by special counsel Robert Mueller were made public by Attorney General William Barr, who told Congress the Trump campaign was spied on by the..…
April 18, 2019 Open Phones on Release of Mueller Report, Part 1. Telephone lines and media were open for comments on the release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report on... ..…
The report found there was “no collusion” but also detailed an extensive amount of interference into the 2016 election by the Russian government and 10 instances of possible obstruction by Trump that Mueller examined. . The Washington Examiner has reached out to Sanders for comment. . ...…