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Donald Trump’s Former Attorney General Defends Him On Fox News By Saying ‘Abuse Of Power Is Not A Crime’

Donald Trump’s Former Attorney General Defends Him On Fox News By Saying ‘Abuse Of Power Is Not A Crime’

Donald Trump’s former attorney general floated a controversial defense of the president as he faces a fast-moving impeachment inquiry, saying that Trump’s “abuse of power is not a crime.” Matthew Whitaker, who served as acting attorney general following Jeff Sessions, appeared on Fox News on Tuesday after potentially devastating testimony against Trump from the acting […]

5y ago

Former Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker Quits

Former Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker Quits

Former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker quit his job over the weekend, just weeks after the new attorney general was sworn in, according to NBC News. Whitaker had served as the senior counselor at the Justice Department after Attorney General William Barr was sworn in on February 14. The former Iowa prosecutor served as chief […]

5y ago

Matthew Whitaker May Have Revealed Donald Trump’s Pardon Plans In Little-Noticed Moment From His Testimony

Matthew Whitaker May Have Revealed Donald Trump’s Pardon Plans In Little-Noticed Moment From His Testimony

Matthew Whitaker generated plenty of news for his testimony before congress this week, but one overlooked moment that seemed to generate little attention at the time may have revealed some of Donald Trump’s plans to issue pardons related to the Russia investigation. The acting attorney general appeared this week before the House Judiciary Committee, where […]

5y ago

Matthew Whitaker Mocked For Heading Straight To Trump Hotel After Hearing: ‘He Had To Report Back To Daddy’

Matthew Whitaker Mocked For Heading Straight To Trump Hotel After Hearing: ‘He Had To Report Back To Daddy’

Matthew Whitaker’s contentious congressional hearing was already generating plenty of fodder for anti-Trump portions of the internet to mock, and a report that the beleaguered attorney general headed straight to Trump Hotel after his testimony has kicked it into overdrive. Whitaker, whom critics believe was hand-picked by Donald Trump to serve as the temporary replacement […]

5y ago

Matthew Whitaker’s Snap At Nadler Generates Intense Twitter Backlash For Acting Attorney General

Matthew Whitaker’s Snap At Nadler Generates Intense Twitter Backlash For Acting Attorney General

Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker spent Friday morning testifying in front of the House Judiciary Committee and there were numerous buzzworthy moments throughout the hours of his testimony. While Whitaker resisted answering many questions during the session, a moment where he essentially snapped at Committee Chairman Representative Jerry Nadler generated an especially fierce response from […]

5y ago

Matthew Whitaker Denies Interfering In Russia Probe, Refuses To Disclose White House Conversations

Matthew Whitaker Denies Interfering In Russia Probe, Refuses To Disclose White House Conversations

Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker has denied claims that he is attempting to interfere with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian election collusion. As USA Today reports, Whitaker made this denial on Friday during his hearing before the House Judiciary Committee. “I have not interfered in any way with the special counsel’s investigation,” he […]

5y ago

US House Judiciary Committee Seeks Subpoena For Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker’s Testimony

US House Judiciary Committee Seeks Subpoena For Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker’s Testimony

House Democrats are prepared to subpoena Matthew Whitaker if it appears that the acting attorney general is not forthcoming with his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee Friday, Reuters reports. Whitaker’s upcoming appearance will center around communications he had with the Trump White House and his unwillingness to recuse himself from his role in oversight […]

5y ago

Trump’s Acting AG Matt Whitaker Twice Lied On Resume, Claiming To Be ‘Academic All-American,’ Reports ‘WSJ’

Trump’s Acting AG Matt Whitaker Twice Lied On Resume, Claiming To Be ‘Academic All-American,’ Reports ‘WSJ’

Donald Trump chose Matthew Whitaker to serve as “acting” United States attorney general in November after firing Attorney General Jeff Sessions due to Sessions’ recusal from the investigation into Trump’s Russia connections, according to the Washington Post. But Whitaker was immediately at the center of controversy on several fronts. On Wednesday, a new scandal hit […]

5y ago

Adam Schiff: ‘We Are Going To Scrutinize Every Single Action By Matt Whitaker’

Adam Schiff: ‘We Are Going To Scrutinize Every Single Action By Matt Whitaker’

Incoming House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff vowed Sunday that “every single action by Matt Whitaker” will be scrutinized, the Hill reports. Schiff came on CNN‘s State of the Union to discuss rumors pertaining to President Donald Trump’s relationship with his Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker. As previously reported by the Inquisitr, Trump allegedly “lashed […]

5y ago

Trump Reportedly ‘Lashed Out’ At Whitaker For Letting Prosecutors File Charges That Make Him ‘Look Bad’

Trump Reportedly ‘Lashed Out’ At Whitaker For Letting Prosecutors File Charges That Make Him ‘Look Bad’

President Donald Trump “lashed out” at acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker for letting prosecutors file charges that make him “look bad,” according to a new report from CNN. Trump was reportedly angry about federal prosecutors referencing his allegedly illegal actions in the case against his former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen. As previously reported by […]

5y ago

Whitaker Does Not Have To Recuse Himself From Mueller Probe, ‘CNN’ Reports

Whitaker Does Not Have To Recuse Himself From Mueller Probe, ‘CNN’ Reports

Amid the reports Thursday that President Trump’s nominated attorney general, William Barr, wrote a specific memo about Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation — there’s other news about the recusal chances of a Trump attorney general pick. Matthew Whitaker, who is serving as acting attorney general following the resignation of Jeff Sessions last month, has been […]

5y ago

Nick Ayers, Thought To Be Trump’s Next Chief Of Staff, Won’t Take Job After All

Nick Ayers, Thought To Be Trump’s Next Chief Of Staff, Won’t Take Job After All

After it was announced late last week that current White House Chief of Staff John Kelly would be departing by the end of this year, many began to speculate who President Donald Trump would pick to replace him. A leading contender for the role, however, has just bowed out. Nick Ayers, who currently serves as […]

5y ago

Hundreds Of Justice Department Lawyers Want Matthew Whitaker Removed As Acting AG

Hundreds Of Justice Department Lawyers Want Matthew Whitaker Removed As Acting AG

More than 400 lawyers and staffers who work at the Department of Justice have asked for Matthew Whitaker to be removed as acting Attorney General, according to USA Today. They all signed a statement that leaves no question about what they think of Trump’s decision to give the post to Whitaker, who served as the […]

6y ago

Trump Happy With Whitaker, In No Rush To Name New Attorney General, ‘Bloomberg’ Reports

Trump Happy With Whitaker, In No Rush To Name New Attorney General, ‘Bloomberg’ Reports

After accepting the resignation of former Attorney General Jeff Sessions on the day after election day and naming Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general, President Trump is in no hurry to name a permanent replacement, despite pressure from other elected officials. That’s according to a Bloomberg News report published Wednesday morning. According to the piece […]

6y ago

Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker Made Nearly $1 Million At A Secretive Right-Leaning Nonprofit

Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker Made Nearly $1 Million At A Secretive Right-Leaning Nonprofit

Newly-appointed acting attorney general Matthew G. Whitaker was paid nearly a million dollars by a conservative political group that doesn’t reveal its donors. Financial disclosure forms reveal that he took $904,000, a majority of his income since 2016, from the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT), Business Insider reports. The disclosure raises questions about […]

6y ago

Dem Rep Says Trump Doesn’t Get He’s Not A ‘Medieval King’

Dem Rep Says Trump Doesn’t Get He’s Not A ‘Medieval King’

It’s Thanksgiving weekend, and while many Americans are dreaming about what to serve as side dishes for dinner (alongside the turkey, of course), one Democratic lawmaker in the House of Representatives is saying that the president may believe we are meant to serve him at his every wish and whim. Rep. Jim Himes (D-Connecticut) opined […]

6y ago

Charles Schumer Calls For DOJ Probe Into Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker’s White House Connections

Charles Schumer Calls For DOJ Probe Into Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker’s White House Connections

Chuck Schumer, the top Democrat in the Senate, spoke with the watchdog for the Justice Department on Tuesday. His goal was to push for an investigation into communications that had taken place between acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker and the White House, according to a report by Business Insider. Schumer has called on the Justice […]

6y ago

Dem Senators Sue Trump, Challenge Constitutionality Of Acting AG Matthew Whitaker’s Appointment

Dem Senators Sue Trump, Challenge Constitutionality Of Acting AG Matthew Whitaker’s Appointment

Three Democratic U.S. Senators have filed an official complaint against the president and his acting attorney general, alleging that the individual President Donald Trump appointed to fill that role was placed there improperly and illegally. Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island), and Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) filed a lawsuit against acting Attorney General Matthew […]

6y ago

In Tweet, Trump Changes Schiff’s Name To ‘Little Adam Schitt’ — The Lawmaker Responds

In Tweet, Trump Changes Schiff’s Name To ‘Little Adam Schitt’ — The Lawmaker Responds

President Donald Trump on Sunday took aim at a representative of Congress whom he’s frequently clashed with on Twitter — only this time, the president apparently altered the Congressman’s name to make it sound like a curse word. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-California) spoke on Sunday about the need to determine whether Trump’s temporary appointment to […]

6y ago

Trump Talks Whitaker’s Views On Russia Probe: ‘What Do You Do When A Person’s Right?’

Trump Talks Whitaker’s Views On Russia Probe: ‘What Do You Do When A Person’s Right?’

In an interview with Fox News Chris Wallace broadcast Sunday, President Donald Trump touched upon his acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker’s views on Robert Mueller’s Russia probe, Raw Story reports. When asked if he was aware of Whitaker’s views on Mueller’s investigation into collusion and possible coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign, the president […]

6y ago

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