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The Schmooze Monica Lewinsky Would Have Liked Starr Report To Be Treated Like The Mueller Report
Monica Lewinsky. She’s a household name. She’s associated, in most people’s minds, with graphic sex acts and humiliation. Imagine a world in which you don’t know the name Monica Lewinsky. And now, imagine how good that would feel for Monica Lewinsky. Lewinsky, whose relationship with then-President Bill Clinton as a 20-year-old White House intern led…
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News Jared Kushner Faces New Scrutiny On Israel After Mueller Lets Flynn Off Easy
Special Counsel Robert Mueller declared in a new court filing that former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn should not serve time in prison because of his “substantial assistance” with investigators — including sharing information on the Trump presidential transition team’s efforts to stop an anti-Israel resolution at the United Nations Security Council. Jared Kushner, President…
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Fast Forward Trump: Michael Cohen Very Guilty, But All Things Are ‘Unrelated’ To Me
President Trump called for Michael Cohen, his former lawyer, to “serve a full and complete sentence,” Talking Points Memo reported Monday. The president listed on Twitter the crimes that Cohen has pleaded guilty to, scoffing at his audacity to ask for a shorter prison sentence. He also claims the crimes were “unrelated to Trump,” despite…
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Fast Forward Trump Retweets Picture Of Rod Rosenstein Behind Bars
President Trump said in an interview with the New York Post on Wednesday that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein belongs behind bars because, “He should have never picked a special counsel.” Until recently, Rosenstein directly oversaw the work of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating whether Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election. Earlier…
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Fast Forward Michael Cohen Admits He Lied About Russia Tower Deal To Protect Trump
Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former lawyer, pleaded guilty Thursday morning to making false statements to Congress about his attempts at a Trump Tower deal in Moscow during the 2016 presidential campaign, the New York Times reported. He wasn’t scheduled to appear in the Manhattan courtroom, where he confessed to the new criminal charge. It was…
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Fast Forward Adam Schiff Warns Whitaker: ‘You Will Be Called To Answer’
Rep. Adam Schiff vowed on Sunday that he would hold acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker accountable, should he derail special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, The Hill reported. Schiff added in the interview on NBC that there are “very strong” facts proving that Whitaker shouldn’t even be overseeing the probe. “This is someone who’s made repeated…
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Fast Forward Trump Fires Jeff Sessions — Is Rosenstein Next In Push To End Mueller Probe?
President Trump forced out Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday, increasing the possibility that the president could also sideline Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who is overseeing special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into foreign interference in the 2016 presidential election. “We are pleased to announce that Matthew G. Whitaker, Chief of Staff to Attorney General…
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News The Bizarro Plot To Smear Robert Mueller Has Some Crazy Jewish Angles
A pro-Trump Jewish hedge fund prodigy and a Seth Rich conspiracy theorist tried to frame special counsel Robert Mueller — yes, that Robert Mueller — for supposed sexual harassment. They hatched a plot that wound up unraveling badly after it was uncovered by a Twitter-famous set of twins and was pitched to star journalist Ronan…
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