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Donald Trump’s Pardons Were So ‘Poorly Worded’ That His Allies May Still Be Prosecuted, Legal Experts Say

Donald Trump’s Pardons Were So ‘Poorly Worded’ That His Allies May Still Be Prosecuted, Legal Experts Say

Former President Donald Trump issued more than 100 pardons before leaving the White House, most of them to personal friends and political allies, including controversial figures such as Paul Manafort and Gen. Michael Flynn. According to a Saturday report from Business Insider, some legal experts believe that Trump’s pardons were so “poorly worded” that the […]

3y ago

Donald Trump Could Face Criminal Charges For His ‘Corrupt Pardons,’ Harvard Law Professor Claims

Donald Trump Could Face Criminal Charges For His ‘Corrupt Pardons,’ Harvard Law Professor Claims

U.S. President Donald Trump’s controversial use of his pardoning power could land him in some legal hot water and even lead to potential criminal charges, a legal expert claims. In an op-ed for the Financial Times, Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe noted that Trump has handed out a number of “corrupt pardons.” As he […]

3y ago

Donald Trump Heard With Lev Parnas On 2018 Audio File, Extent Of Relationship Appears Greater Than Admitted

Donald Trump Heard With Lev Parnas On 2018 Audio File, Extent Of Relationship Appears Greater Than Admitted

Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed to be unacquainted with Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, the two Rudy Giuliani associates who were charged last October with allegedly funneling hundreds of thousands in Russian cash into a pro-Trump super PAC. However, new evidence continues to emerge that his relationship with the two Ukrainian-born businessmen was far more […]

4y ago

Paul Manafort Believed Sean Hannity Was Relaying Backchannel Messages From Donald Trump In 2017, Per FBI Memo

Paul Manafort Believed Sean Hannity Was Relaying Backchannel Messages From Donald Trump In 2017, Per FBI Memo

Paul Manafort reportedly believed Fox News host Sean Hannity was relaying backchannel messages from Donald Trump to him — all while the former was under investigation for federal crimes, new documents allege. The revelation was part of a trove of documents related to Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, which were obtained and published by BuzzFeed News. […]

4y ago

Paul Manafort’s Fraud Case In New York Has Been Dismissed, Clearing Hurdle For Presidential Pardon

Paul Manafort’s Fraud Case In New York Has Been Dismissed, Clearing Hurdle For Presidential Pardon

A New York judge threw out mortgage fraud charges against Paul Manafort on Wednesday on double jeopardy grounds, ruling that President Donald Trump‘s former campaign chairman could not be charged again with financial crimes he’d already been tried for in federal court. This is a decision that could pave the way for a presidential pardon, […]

4y ago

Former Trump Campaign Official Rick Gates Sentenced To 45 Days In Jail

Former Trump Campaign Official Rick Gates Sentenced To 45 Days In Jail

Rick Gates, the former deputy campaign manager for then-candidate Donald Trump in the 2016 election cycle and former business partner of Paul Manafort, was sentenced to 45 days in jail on December 17. “I greatly regret the mistakes I’ve made, and I have worked hard to honor my commitment to make amends,” Gates told the […]

5y ago

Paul Manafort Hospitalized, Former Trump Campaign Chair Experienced Cardiac Event

Paul Manafort Hospitalized, Former Trump Campaign Chair Experienced Cardiac Event

Paul Manafort, former campaign chair for President Donald Trump’s successful 2016 campaign, has been hospitalized in response to a cardiac event, per ABC News. According to the ABC News report, Manafort has been recovering from the incident since Thursday, December 12. Sources close to the former campaign chair say that during his recovery, he was […]

5y ago

Roger Stone Talked WikiLeaks With Donald Trump, Top Campaign Official Testifies, Contradicting Trump Testimony

Roger Stone Talked WikiLeaks With Donald Trump, Top Campaign Official Testifies, Contradicting Trump Testimony

In a dramatic testimony that one legal expert, via Twitter, called “real evidence of serious criminal wrongdoing” by Donald Trump, a top 2016 Trump campaign official testified that Trump knew in advance of at least one WikiLeaks dump of hacked Democratic emails. The testimony, by Trump’s 2016 deputy campaign manager Rick Gates, came on Tuesday […]

5y ago

Robert Mueller Target, Called ‘Russian Spy’ By Fiona Hill, Fed Ukraine Conspiracy Theory To Trump Campaign

Robert Mueller Target, Called ‘Russian Spy’ By Fiona Hill, Fed Ukraine Conspiracy Theory To Trump Campaign

Donald Trump believes a conspiracy theory that Ukraine, not Russia, interfered in the 2016 presidential election. That is why Trump has called Ukraine a “corrupt country” full of “terrible people” that “tried to take me down,” according to testimony by former U.S. envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker. The baseless Ukraine theory was reportedly injected into […]

5y ago

Many Calling On Fox News To Fire Sean Hannity After Judge Reveals His Secret Text Messages With Paul Manafort

Many Calling On Fox News To Fire Sean Hannity After Judge Reveals His Secret Text Messages With Paul Manafort

The revelation that Fox News host Sean Hannity had been secretly communicating with former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort has led to rising calls for the network to fire Hannity for not disclosing the conflict to his viewers. A court on Friday unsealed more than 50 pages of text messages from Paul Manafort, including communications […]

5y ago

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Calls Solitary Confinement ‘Torture’ After Believing Paul Manafort Will Be Held There

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Calls Solitary Confinement ‘Torture’ After Believing Paul Manafort Will Be Held There

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called solitary confinement “torture” while being under the impression that former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort is going to be held there, Yahoo News reports. What’s more, he’s going to be held at Rikers Island, which is in the freshman Democrat representative’s home district. Manafort is currently serving a federal sentence at a […]

5y ago

Jared Kushner On Finding A Trump Administration Job For Banker Who Bribed Paul Manafort: ‘On It!’

Jared Kushner On Finding A Trump Administration Job For Banker Who Bribed Paul Manafort: ‘On It!’

According to an indictment that was unsealed on Thursday, bank CEO Stephen Calk offered millions of dollars in loans to Trump Campaign Manager Paul Manafort in exchange for a senior role in the new administration, Bloomberg reports. Manhattan federal prosecutors are charging that Calk bribed Manafort with $16 million in loans in exchange for potential […]

5y ago

Bank CEO Charged With Bribing Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort For Administration Position

Bank CEO Charged With Bribing Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort For Administration Position

According to an indictment, Manhattan federal prosecutors are charging banker Stephen Calk with bribing former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, CNN reports. The indictment, unsealed Thursday, alleges that Calk bribed Manafort with $16 million in loans in exchange for a high-ranking position in the administration of now-President Donald Trump. That position never materialized. Despite apparent […]

5y ago

Trump Campaign Boss Paul Manafort Messaged Russia Via Secret Alfa Bank Server, Steele Dossier Author Told U.S.

Trump Campaign Boss Paul Manafort Messaged Russia Via Secret Alfa Bank Server, Steele Dossier Author Told U.S.

One of the enduring mysteries that has gone unsolved by special counsel Robert Mueller surrounded mysterious online communications during the 2016 campaign between a computer server located in Manhattan’s Trump Tower — which was then Donald Trump’s main place of residence — and a server registered to Alfa Bank, one of Russia’s largest financial institutions, […]

5y ago

Robert Mueller Asks Judge To Postpone Rick Gates Sentencing Due To His Cooperation In Other Cases

Robert Mueller Asks Judge To Postpone Rick Gates Sentencing Due To His Cooperation In Other Cases

Special Counsel Robert Mueller is asking the judge to postpone the sentencing of former Donald Trump campaign senior adviser Rick Gates, as the former associate of Paul Manafort continues to cooperate with various Department of Justice investigations. Time magazine says that Mueller is asking the judge in this case to hold off on sentencing Gates […]

5y ago

Paul Manafort’s Lawyer Heckled After Falsely Claiming Judge Cleared Him Of Russian Collusion: ‘You’re A Liar’

Paul Manafort’s Lawyer Heckled After Falsely Claiming Judge Cleared Him Of Russian Collusion: ‘You’re A Liar’

Paul Manafort’s lawyer got a fact check in real time during a press conference Wednesday outside a courtroom where the former Trump campaign manager received another prison sentence. Just minutes after Judge Amy Berman Jackson handed Manafort an additional 3.5 years in prison on top of the four-year sentence he received last week, lead attorney […]

5y ago

Paul Manafort Sentenced To A Total Of 7.5 Years In Prison

Paul Manafort Sentenced To A Total Of 7.5 Years In Prison

On Wednesday, Paul Manafort was sentenced to an additional 43 months in prison, bringing his total sentence to 7 years behind bars. According to The New York Times, Judge Amy Berman Jackson gave Manafort 60 months running concurrently to 30 months in the 47-month sentence that Trump’s former campaign consultant was sentenced to last week. […]

5y ago

Robert Mueller Could Release A Second Report

Robert Mueller Could Release A Second Report

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s report to Congress on the Russia investigation is likely to arrive sometime soon, according to various media reports in recent weeks. Said report is expected to lay out which crimes, if any, were committed in relation to allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. According to a new report […]

5y ago

White House Refuses To Rule Out Pardon For Manafort

White House Refuses To Rule Out Pardon For Manafort

In a Monday press conference, White House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that President Donald Trump has not yet ruled out the possibility of granting a pardon to his convicted former campaign manager Paul Manafort. According to Politico, Sanders tried to shut down speculation that the president was about to issue a pardon any day […]

5y ago

Donald Trump Is Privately Praising Paul Manafort For Not Being A ‘Rat’ Like Michael Cohen

Donald Trump Is Privately Praising Paul Manafort For Not Being A ‘Rat’ Like Michael Cohen

Donald Trump has privately been praising his former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, whom he once believed expendable, because of Manafort’s apparent allegiance to him, according to The Daily Beast. In private conversations with friends and aides, Trump has praised Manafort for standing his ground, unlike “coward” and “rat” Michael Cohen, whom the president now loathes […]

5y ago

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