Closing arguments are set to take place Wednesday in the tax and bank fraud trial of U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort. The prosecution and defense will each sum up their side of the case in front of the jury before the 12-person panel begins deliberations on Manafort’s guilt or innocence. Manafort’s […]
President Donald Trump resumed his attacks Tuesday on a former adviser, Omarosa Manigault Newman, calling her a “dog” who deserved to be fired. In a Twitter comment, the U.S. leader praised his chief of staff, John Kelly, for dismissing her late last year. She was a long-time contestant on Trump’s one-time reality television show, “The Apprentice,” before […]
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump’s attorney said Sunday that his legal team will not allow special counsel Robert Mueller to question Trump about his firing last year of former FBI director James Comey. Comey, at the time Trump ousted him in May 2017, was chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and heading the agency’s […]
The Washington Post is reporting that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has fired agent Peter Strzok, who had become the target of Republican anger over his anti-Donald Trump text messages. The report says the action against Strzok is more severe than the recommendation of the FBI’s internal disciplinary arm. Strzok led the FBI’s 2016 investigation […]