U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday disparaged the appointment of a special counsel to investigate his campaign’s links to Russian interests in last year’s presidential election, calling it “the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history!” In a pair of early morning comments on his Twitter account, Trump complained that a special […]
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump’s White House was left reeling Wednesday following the stunning allegation that he sought to derail a criminal investigation into links his former national security adviser had with Russian officials on top of reports that Trump disclosed highly classified intelligence to two Moscow diplomats last week. “Nobody knows where this really […]
WASHINGTON — Political acrimony over President Donald Trump’s controversial decision to fire FBI Director James Comey is playing into the hands of a longtime U.S. adversary, several current and former U.S. intelligence officials say. “From a geopolitical standpoint, the real winner is Russia,” said Luke Hartig, a former senior director at the National Security Council under […]
A new public opinion poll shows more Americans than not are opposed to President Donald Trump’s firing of FBI director James Comey. The NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey in recent days said just 29 percent of those surveyed say they approve of Trump’s dismissal of Comey, who was in the fourth year of a 10-year […]