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Foxed! Anchor Shep Smith Unloads on Trump Over Don Jr.’s Russia Meeting

Keith Girard
The Trump Administration has been Foxed, again! In a blistering commentary on the conservative news network, anchor Shep Smith lambasted the administration for “mind-boggling deception” over a June 2016 meeting between Trump son, Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer who offered to provide “dirt” on Democratic rival Hillary Clinton....
MEDIA

Donald Trump Running Scared For First Time After James Comey Testimony

Keith Girard
Donald Trump is facing a prima facie case of obstruction of justice for his attempts to sway former FBI Director James Comey to drop the investigation of former national security adviser Michael Flynn, according to several legal scholars. For the first time, the White House appeared to be running scared. Comey’s testimony yesterday before the Senate Intelligence Committee dramatically raised the stakes of the Russia investigation....
WHITE HOUSE

End Game: Trump Russia Pieces Falling Into Place: How He Sold Out to Kremlin

Keith Girard
Donald Trump’s Russia gambit is facing its denouement. Although investigations probing his connections to the Kremlin are still underway, enough circumstantial evidence has been revealed to finally piece together a plausible scenario for collusion and criminal behavior. Although the following is just one theory, there’s no question the end game is at hand for the president and his Russian cronies, including Vladimir Putin....
NATIONAL SECURITY
Donald Trump faces growing scrutiny over his ties to Russia and debilitating attacks from supporters on his credibility. (Photo: Getty)

Run for Cover: Trump Under Siege, Russia Scandal Blows Up, Collusion Alleged

Keith Girard
Donald Trump’s White House is under siege after new evidence surfaced that campaign operatives colluded with Russia during the election. The charges came in the face of an unprecedented loss of confidence in his administration over Trump’s steady stream of false statements. Meanwhile, all out partisan warfare broke out on Capitol Hill after the House Intelligence Committee chairman broke precedent in an effort to provide cover for the president....
WHITE HOUSE

Russia Mole: Trump Campaign Manager Worked Secretly for Vladimir Putin

Keith Girard
President Donald Trump’s ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin deepened today (Mar. 22) following a new revelation that former campaign manager Paul Manafort worked secretly for Putin in apparent violation of the U.S. Foreign Agents Registration Act. Manafort allegedly crafted an ambitious political campaign to undermine anti-Russian opposition across former Soviet republics, Western Europe and the United States, The Associated Press reported....
NATIONAL SECURITY

Trump vs FBI: Director Vows to Get to Bottom of Russia Ties Wherever They Lead

Keith Girard
In an extraordinary congressional hearing unprecedented since the days of Watergate, FBI Director James Comey threw down the gauntlet on the agency’s investigation into ties between Russia and Donald Trump’s campaign, presenting Trump with the greatest crisis of his short presidency. Comey seemed intent on sending a clear message, beyond the damning revelation that Trump is under investigation....
CONGRESS

Trump Campaign Being Probed for Russia Hack Collusion, Sen. Graham Says

Keith Girard
Donald Trump’s campaign is being investigated for possibly colluding with Russia in the theft of emails from the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, according to Republican Sen. Lindsay Graham of South Carolina. If Trump, or campaign officials were working with Russian agents or officials or had knowledge that Russia was engineering the theft of the emails it could be in violation of the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act....
LAW
Donald Trump is being sued by Maryland and the District of Columbia for 'unprecedented' corruption involving his company. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

None Dare Call It Treason: Did Trump Collaborate With Russia Election Hacking?

Keith Girard
Russia’s release of private Democratic emails only had a major impact on the election because Trump hammered on them in the last hours of the campaign, raising the one question that has yet to be answered by U.S. intelligence agencies. Was Trump actively collaborating with the Russians? U.S. intelligence agencies nailed “with a high degree of certainty” that Russian President Vladimir Putin was behind the hacking of the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta....
NATIONAL SECURITY

Trump Hits Wall on Hack Claims; Russians Cheered His Election, Secret Report Says

Keith Girard
Donald Trump’s dissembling over Russian interference in the election has hit a wall. Details from a US intelligence report says high-level Kremlin officials “cheered” his election and considered it a “victory” over the United States. But that’s not all. The report details intercepted messages showing Russian officials discussing the hacking campaign against Democrats, and even identifies Russian officials who authorized third parties to pass stolen emails to WikiLeaks, according to reports....
NATIONAL SECURITY

Vladimir Putin Has Set Up Trump as ‘Cat’s Paw’ for Russian Aggression

Keith Girard
Vladimir Putin played a dangerous game when he interfered in the U.S. election to elect Donald Trump as president. The move brought into the open what our European allies have been warning us about: Russia’s campaign to undermine and ultimately destabilize the West. The campaign is taking modern asymmetrical warfare to a new and dangerous level, melding politics, diplomacy, militarism, cyber-warfare and disinformation into a coordinated assault on democracy....
POLITICS

Trump Presidency Damaged by Russian Hacking; Even Republicans Are Rebelling

Keith Girard
Donald Trump’s presidency appears to be severely damaged by the Russian election hacking scandal. Senior Republicans in Congress are now threatening even tougher sanctions against the Kremlin, a clear rejection of Trump’s claims that Russia was not involved. Trump’s credibility sank to a new low yesterday in the wake of sanctions announced by President Obama to punish Russia for meddling in the presidential election....
NATIONAL SECURITY

Obama Slams Russia With New Sanctions for Email Hacks Aiding Trump Election

Keith Girard
President Barack Obama today (Dec. 29) slammed Russia with new sanctions in response to its interference in the U.S. presidential election. “All Americans should be alarmed by Russia’s actions,” the president said in a statement. Two Russian intelligence agencies, three companies and four individual intelligence officers with singled out and banned from travel and doing business with U.S. companies an individuals....
NATIONAL SECURITY

Trump, a ‘Would-Be Dictator’ Surrounded by Extremists, Imperils Democracy–Soros

Keith Girard
Donald Trump has been slammed by his harshest criticism yet. Billionaire George Soros, who escaped Nazism as a child, called the president-elect a “would-be dictator” who has surrounded himself with extremists. “Democracy is now in crisis,” Soros warns in a new essay. “Even the US, the world’s leading democracy, elected a con artist and would-be dictator as its president,” he wrote on his Web site Project Syndicate....
WHITE HOUSE

Trump Wishes Russian Hacking Scandal Would Go Away, Obama Plans to Hit Back

Keith Girard
Donald Trump is still wishing mightily that Russia’s unprecedented tampering with the presidential election would just go away. But President Obama is vowing to take action against the Kremlin amid a looming congressional investigation into the scandal. Obama is expected to reveal today (Dec. 29) the steps he’s taking to retaliate for Russia’s efforts to sway the election in Trump’s favor....
NATIONAL SECURITY