Новости за 11.02.2020

If you thought that recent news about President Trump’s “fleecing” of tax payers by charging his own Secret Service exorbitant fees for staying at his properties would sway his die-hard supporters, you’d be wrong. When it comes to the evidence surrounding Trump’s dealings with Ukraine didn’t matter, or his politicization of the National Prayer Breakfast, […]

The New York Times reports that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has fired his chief of staff and replaced him with a man who negotiated directly last year with Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani. According to the Times, Zelensky this week ousted chief of staff Andriy Bohdan, whose appointment was opposed by Giuliani, and replaced him with […]

Roger Stone was convicted by a jury for lying and witness tampering, so the Justice Department recommended to the judge in the case that he be sentenced with seven to nine years in prison. President Donald Trump tweeted his demand that Stone get out of jail with no time or accountability, despite a guilty verdict […]

Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani is preparing to make a purported “documentary” movie about Hunter Biden’s work with Ukrainian energy firm Burisma that will feature a paid actor pretending to be the son of former Vice President Joe Biden. Three Republican sources tell Yahoo News that Giuliani has been showing a trailer for the purported documentary […]

Reuters is reporting that the Justice Department prosecutor Aaron Zelinsky, who has been handling the Roger Stone case, has officially withdrawn from the case. Aaron Zelinsky, who had been a prosecutor in the special counsel's office, has moved to withdraw from Roger Stone's case. pic.twitter.com/3mHkuvgHhz — Brad Heath (@bradheath) February 11, 2020 In the last […]

President Donald Trump’s campaign manager Brad Parscale faced questions from Fox News on Tuesday about the president’s history of supporting the NYPD’s “stop and frisk” policy. After 2015 audio of Bloomberg defending the policy resurfaced this week, Fox News host Dana Perino invited Parscale to react. “Wow,” Parscale replied. “He’s in a difficult spot. I […]

Reuters’ Sarah N. Lynch broke a big story on Monday morning highlighting one of the more outrageous examples of the Trump administration’s penchant for rewarding supporters and punishing opponents: A U.S. Justice Department anti-human trafficking grant program is facing internal complaints, after two nonprofits were denied funding in favor of two less established groups whose applications […]

Rice University history professor Douglas Brinkley went on CNN Tuesday to roast President Donald Trump for misstating basic facts about American history. At the beginning, host Brianna Keilar played a clip of Trump claiming that Concord, New Hampshire was a famous city in the history of the United States, when in reality it was Concord, […]

According to an exclusive report from Just Security, a newly uncovered batch of unredacted emails shows the White House Office of Management and Budget lied to investigators about the Trump administration’s dealings with Ukraine. The emails “confirm that OMB, including the general counsel’s office, was fully in the loop about the Pentagon’s concerns and took […]

Republicans in the U.S. Senate blocked three bills that would help with election security on Tuesday. Meanwhile, Louisiana Parishes have been hit with infected software. “He told me we’d been infected by ransomware and to ask all 14 of my employees not to go into the office or try to access any of their files,” […]

MSNBC‘s Ari Melber got pushback Tuesday afternoon when he asked a New Hampshire voter why she decided to support Sen. Bernie Sanders in the 2020 Democratic presidential election primary. “I want to say, the reason I went for Bernie is MSNBC,” the woman told Melber, who was interviewing voters live in Manchester. “Go on,” said Melber. […]

Donald Trump Jr. circulated a viral video of Mike Bloomberg praising New York City’s controversial “stop-and-frisk” policy — but one of his father’s biographers pointed out more than a dozen examples of the president’s racism. In the video, Bloomberg defends the police policy that was widely condemned as racist, and President Donald Trump’s eldest son […]

Newly released emails have shed new light on the Trump Office of Management and Budget’s attempted coverup of the Ukraine scandal — and they left CNN’s Brianna Keilar stunned. As CNN national security correspondent Vivian Salama explained, the new emails show that “the OMB knew the Pentagon had concerns for months about the fact that […]

Despite his boasts about “great economic success,” job growth under President Donald Trump significantly trails the gains made during former President Barack Obama’s final three years in office. “If we hadn’t reversed the failed economic policies of the previous administration, the world would not now be witnessing this great economic success,” Trump declared during last week’s State of […]

President Trump likes to brag about how much he’s spending to help the US military — all part of his “tough guy persona” and the image he’s formulating that says he alone deserves credit for restoring the military to its former greatness after it was allowed to falter under President Obama. But as William D. […]

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday told the UN Security Council that the world should reject President Donald Trump’s Middle East plan, which he said would limit Palestinian sovereignty in a “Swiss cheese” deal. Brandishing a large map of Israel and Palestine as laid out by Trump’s long-awaited January 28 announcement, Abbas called it […]

A new batch of unredacted emails shows the White House Office of Management and Budget misled congressional investigators about administration actions toward Ukraine. The Trump administration had already released redacted versions of those emails Jan. 22 to the nonprofit group American Oversight under a court order, but Just Security obtained unredacted versions of the documents […]

Attorney General William Barr on Tuesday blasted Democratic politicians who support so-called sanctuary cities with protections for undocumented immigrants. Barr’s speech to a sheriffs conference came as the Department of Justice, which he oversees, is reportedly weighing whether to scale back sentencing recommendations for Roger Stone, a longtime ally of President Donald Trump. “[P]eople cannot […]

Democrats in the Virginia House of Delegates on Tuesday walked out of an opening prayer after a pastor invited by a Republican lawmaker took the opportunity to attack them for their stances on abortion and LGBT marriage. Virginia Mercury reports that the Rev. Dr. Robert M. Grant Jr. of The Father’s Way Church in Warrenton, […]

The Trump administration is moving to betray thousands of Hmong immigrants who came to the United States after the Vietnam War. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met late last month with Lao foreign minister Saleumxay Kommasith, and a letter dated Feb. 3 revealed the administration was negotiating to allow for the deportation of Laos-born immigrants […]

The Trump administration is moving to betray thousands of Hmong immigrants who came to the United States after the Vietnam War. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met late last month with Lao foreign minister Saleumxay Kommasith, and a letter dated Feb. 3 revealed the administration was negotiating to allow for the deportation of Laos-born immigrants […]

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday marked the 30th anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s release from jail with an address from the spot where the anti-apartheid icon made his first speech as an awestruck Ramaphosa held the microphone for him. On February 11, 1990, Mandela spoke from the Cape Town city hall to euphoric crowds, […]

The Dept. of Justice is currently deciding whether or not to charge Erik Prince, a top Trump ally who has been linked to the Trump transition team. Prince, a former Navy SEAL, is the founder of the private, para-military company originally known as Blackwater, and is also the brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. The […]

According to reports, the Justice Department is gearing up to give an entirely new sentencing recommendation for Roger Stone, walking back its earlier recommendation that he serve seven to nine years in prison. “The Department finds seven to nine years extreme, excessive and grossly disproportionate to Mr. Stone’s offenses,” a DOJ source told Fox News. […]

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed an action Monday in the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to strike down California’s ban on state-funded travel to Texas in the wake of a law that was viewed as discriminatory against LGBTQ people.In 2017, Gov. Greg Abbott signed House Bill 3859, which allowed child welfare service […]