Tag Archives: James Comey

Tireless fighter of corruption, Donald Trump, commutes sentence of politician found guilty of attempting to sell a U.S. Senate seat

By Mark | February 18, 2020

Back during Trump’s impeachment trial, the Republicans made the case that the President was a “corruption fighter.” That, they told us, was why he’d put the screws to the administration of Volodymyr Zelensky in Ukraine, in hopes of getting his administration to announce an investigation into Joe Biden. Well, today, Donald Trump, the anti-corruption champion, […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Barack Obama, Celebrity Apprentice, commuted sentence, corruption, Donald Trump, extortion, Illinois, Marcy Wheeler, pardon, prison sentence, Rod Blagojevich, Senate, shakedown, Ukraine, Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelensky | 12 Comments

Notes taken during the May 10, 2017 meeting between Trump and the Russian Ambassador to the United States may exist, and may show that Trump said he was fine with their election interference

By Mark | September 28, 2019

On May 9, 2017, President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, the man who, up to that point, had been leading the investigation into Russian interference during the 2016 election. Trump, the very next day, welcomed Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Putin’s Ambassador to the United States Sergei Kislyak into the White House […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2016, but her emails, collusion, Dan Coats, Donald Trump, election interference, FBI, H.R. McMaster, Helsinki, Hillary Clinton, intelligence community, ISIS, Michale Flynn, national intelligence, Obama, Robert Mueller, Russia, Russiagate, sanctions, Sergei Kislyak, Sergei Lavrov, treason, Vladimir Putin, White House | 45 Comments

The Barr memo isn’t the Mueller report

By Mark | March 26, 2019

I wanted to hold off on posting anything about the Mueller report until we actually had it in front of us. It’s looking now as though that may be several weeks away, in spite of the fact that members of the House voted unanimously to make it public. It would appear as though the White […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Adam Schiff, Affordable Care Act, Barack Obama, border wall, collusion, Department of Justice, Donald Trump, executive power, exoneration, FBI, health care, Hillary Clinton, House Intelligence Committee, innocence, marketing, obstruction of justice, Preet Bharara, proclamations of innocence, Robert Mueller, Russia, Russiagate, truth, William Barr | 108 Comments

Our President, the Russian agent

By Mark | January 14, 2019

As much as I’d like to spend my time this evening talking about Donald Trump and his 300 hamburgers, I think our time together might be better spent discussing the two big pieces of news that broke over the weekend concerning the Russia investigation. First, the New York Times reported that, just after Donald Trump […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged collusion, counterintelligence, Donald Trump, election interference, FBI, foreign agent, Helsinki, Robert Mueller, Russia, Russiagate, treason, Vladimir Putin | 66 Comments

Saying, “It is what it is,” Donald Trump announces that we will be giving the Saudis a pass on the cold-blooded murder of Jamal Khashoggi, an American resident and Washington Post reporter

By Mark | November 20, 2018

Today, Donald Trump issued an extremely unusual official statement from the White House on the October 2 murder in Istanbul of United States resident Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist. After declaring the world to be “a very dangerous place,” the President, in his statement, made the case as to why, in his opinion, even […]