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The Cloud over the White House
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Russiagate
Party over Country
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Russiagate
Trump Loves Russia
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Russiagate
Trump and Mueller
![TKUMP!YOU WILLOA THE KUGIATHING AND STHAT CLEAR?ORYOURE FIRED! AND LEDGEYUR LOYALTY TO ffiami Herald FOR YOU LIKE DROOLER MUELLER I](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/001/276/804/6c6.jpg)
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Russiagate
Trump Jr. and Manafort invited to testify
![July 18, 2017 NOTICE OF COMMITTEE HEARING POSTPONEMENT The Senate Committee on the Judiciary hearing entitled: "Oversight of the Justice Department's (Non) Enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act: Lessons from the Obama Administration and Current Compliance Practices" scheduled for Wednesday, July 19, 2017 at 10:00 am. in Room 226 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building has been postponed subject to the call of the chair. By order of the Chairman Witnesses Panel I Mr. Adam Hickey Deputy Assistant Attorney General National Security Division U.S. Department Of Justice Washington, DC Mr. E.W. "Bll" Priestap Assistant Director Counterintelligence Division Federal Bureau Of Investigations Washington, DC The Honorable Michael Horowitz Inspector General U.S. Department Of Justice Washington, DC Panel II Mr. William Browder Chief Executive Officer Hermitage Capital Management London, United Kingdom Mr. Glenn R. Simpson Fusion GPS Washington, DC Mr. Paul J. Manafort DMP International, LLC Palm Beach Gardens. FL Mr. Donald J. Trump, Jr Trump Organization LLC New York, NY](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/001/276/803/3a4.jpg)
![July 18, 2017 NOTICE OF COMMITTEE HEARING POSTPONEMENT The Senate Committee on the Judiciary hearing entitled: "Oversight of the Justice Department's (Non) Enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act: Lessons from the Obama Administration and Current Compliance Practices" scheduled for Wednesday, July 19, 2017 at 10:00 am. in Room 226 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building has been postponed subject to the call of the chair. By order of the Chairman Witnesses Panel I Mr. Adam Hickey Deputy Assistant Attorney General National Security Division U.S. Department Of Justice Washington, DC Mr. E.W. "Bll" Priestap Assistant Director Counterintelligence Division Federal Bureau Of Investigations Washington, DC The Honorable Michael Horowitz Inspector General U.S. Department Of Justice Washington, DC Panel II Mr. William Browder Chief Executive Officer Hermitage Capital Management London, United Kingdom Mr. Glenn R. Simpson Fusion GPS Washington, DC Mr. Paul J. Manafort DMP International, LLC Palm Beach Gardens. FL Mr. Donald J. Trump, Jr Trump Organization LLC New York, NY](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/276/803/3a4.jpg)
Russiagate
Letter concerning the Trump family
![Congress of the Hititeù tates ll!ashington,刃 20515 July 19, 2017 The Honorable Andrew McCabe Acting Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation U.S. Department of Justice 935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20530 Dear Acting Director McCabe: We are writing to request that the Federal Bureau of Investigation conduct a review of a potentially serious issue involving First Daughter and Assistant to the President, Ivanka Trump. As a member of the White House staff and close adviser to the president, Ms. Trump applied for a security clearance, and, as a result, was required to disclose her own foreign contacts as well as those of her spouse and siblings Section 19 of the security clearance questionnaire for federal officials -known as Standard Form 86 (SF 86)-asks whether "you or any member of you immediate family in the past seven years had any contact with a foreign government, its establishment (such as embassy, consulate, agency, military service, intelligence or security service, etc.) or its representatives, whether inside or outside the U.S.? Knowingly falsifying or concealing information on a SF-86 questionnaire is a felony, punishable by up to five years in prison. Lack of candor, particularly regarding contacts with Russian officials, has been a significant issue for the Trump administration. We learned last week that Ms. Trump's husband, Jared Kushner, and brother Donald Trump Jr. met with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya and others, including a former Russian counter intelligence officer, for the purpose of obtaining damaging information about Hillary Clinton. Mr Trump Jr. initially denied any such meeting, and no mention of it was made on Mr. Kushner's initial security clearance questionnaire. Since his first filing, Mr. Kushner has had to update his SF-86 multiple times to reflect over 100 meetings or phone calls, including with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak and Russian banker Sergey Gorkov, according to reports. It was also reported in May that Mr. Kushner met with Kislyak to establish a back channel with the Kremlin. We are concerned that Ivanka Trump may have engaged in similar deception. For example, did she disclose her husband's meeting with Kislyak and Gorkov? Did she disclose her brother's and husband's meeting with Veselnitskaya? Did she accurately disclose her own foreign contacts in her initial filing, which reports suggest may be numerous? If in fact she did accurately disclose these meetings, who at the White House knew of Mr. Kushner's and Mr. Trump Jr's multiple contacts with Russian officials before they were made public? And, most importantly, did she discuss any of these meetings with the President, and, if so, when? To date, Ms. Trump and her husband Jared Kushner have played an influential role in her father's administration. Ms. Trump even took her father's place at the head table with world leaders at the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg, Between them, the couple have been assigned expansive policy portfolios, even as they maintain a business empire that relies on foreign financing and manufacturing. The juxtaposition of their public and private roles may be murky and confused, but her obligation to disclose her families and her foreign contacts is not. The high standard to which we hold public servants, particularly senior advisers to the President of the United States, requires that these questions be raised, and promptly answered PRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPE](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/001/276/801/f87.jpg)
![Congress of the Hititeù tates ll!ashington,刃 20515 July 19, 2017 The Honorable Andrew McCabe Acting Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation U.S. Department of Justice 935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20530 Dear Acting Director McCabe: We are writing to request that the Federal Bureau of Investigation conduct a review of a potentially serious issue involving First Daughter and Assistant to the President, Ivanka Trump. As a member of the White House staff and close adviser to the president, Ms. Trump applied for a security clearance, and, as a result, was required to disclose her own foreign contacts as well as those of her spouse and siblings Section 19 of the security clearance questionnaire for federal officials -known as Standard Form 86 (SF 86)-asks whether "you or any member of you immediate family in the past seven years had any contact with a foreign government, its establishment (such as embassy, consulate, agency, military service, intelligence or security service, etc.) or its representatives, whether inside or outside the U.S.? Knowingly falsifying or concealing information on a SF-86 questionnaire is a felony, punishable by up to five years in prison. Lack of candor, particularly regarding contacts with Russian officials, has been a significant issue for the Trump administration. We learned last week that Ms. Trump's husband, Jared Kushner, and brother Donald Trump Jr. met with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya and others, including a former Russian counter intelligence officer, for the purpose of obtaining damaging information about Hillary Clinton. Mr Trump Jr. initially denied any such meeting, and no mention of it was made on Mr. Kushner's initial security clearance questionnaire. Since his first filing, Mr. Kushner has had to update his SF-86 multiple times to reflect over 100 meetings or phone calls, including with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak and Russian banker Sergey Gorkov, according to reports. It was also reported in May that Mr. Kushner met with Kislyak to establish a back channel with the Kremlin. We are concerned that Ivanka Trump may have engaged in similar deception. For example, did she disclose her husband's meeting with Kislyak and Gorkov? Did she disclose her brother's and husband's meeting with Veselnitskaya? Did she accurately disclose her own foreign contacts in her initial filing, which reports suggest may be numerous? If in fact she did accurately disclose these meetings, who at the White House knew of Mr. Kushner's and Mr. Trump Jr's multiple contacts with Russian officials before they were made public? And, most importantly, did she discuss any of these meetings with the President, and, if so, when? To date, Ms. Trump and her husband Jared Kushner have played an influential role in her father's administration. Ms. Trump even took her father's place at the head table with world leaders at the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg, Between them, the couple have been assigned expansive policy portfolios, even as they maintain a business empire that relies on foreign financing and manufacturing. The juxtaposition of their public and private roles may be murky and confused, but her obligation to disclose her families and her foreign contacts is not. The high standard to which we hold public servants, particularly senior advisers to the President of the United States, requires that these questions be raised, and promptly answered PRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPE](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/276/801/f87.jpg)
Russiagate
Judiciary Letter requesting documents
![Mr. Donald Trump, Jr July 19, 2017 CHARLES E. GRASSLEY, JOWA CHAIRMAN ORRIN G HATCH UTAH LINDSEYO GRAHAM SOUTH CAROLINA OHN CORNYN. TEXAS MICHAEL S. LEE, UTAH TED CRUZ TEXAS BEN SASSE, NEBRASKA JEFF FLAKE ARIZONA MKE CRAPO, IDAHO THOM TILLIS NORTH CAROLINA JOHN KENNEDY,LOURSIANA DIANNE REINSTEIN, CALIFORNIA PATRICKJ. LEAHY, VERMONT RICHARD J.DURBIN, ILLINOIS S LDON WHITEHOUSE, RHODE ISLAND AMMY KLOBUCHAR, MINNESOTA anited States Senate documents provided during the meeting and all documents relating to scheduling, what happened during the meeting(s), and any related actions taken after the meeting(s); CHRISTOPHER A C----, DELAWARE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY MAIE K HIRONO, HAWA WASHINGTON, DC 20510-6275 OLAN DAVS Ce Counl and Stalf Dcto EO Duck Demerae Staflf Direco 2. all communications to, from, or copied to you relating to Rob Goldstone, Emin Agalarov, Aras Agalarov, Natalia Veselnitskaya, Rinat Akhmetshin, Anatoli Samochornov, Irakly (Ike) Kaveladze, Christopher Steele, Aleksej Gubarev, Webzilla B.V., XBT Holdings S.A., Alfa Group, Dmitry Peskov, Vladimir Putin, the Ritz Carlton Moscow Hotel, Paul Manafort, Carter Page, Igor Sechin, Sergei Ivanov, Igor Divyekin, Sergei Millian, Dmitry Medvedev, Michael Flynn, Jill Stein, Michael Cohen, Konstantin Kosachev, Viktor Yanukovych, Corey Lewandowski, Sergei Kislyak, Yuri Ushakov, Anton Vaino, Mikhail Kalugin, Andrei Bondarev, Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven, German Khan, Oleg Govorun, Sergey Lavrov, Rosneft, Sergei Kiriyenko, Oleg Solodukhin. This shall include any documents referring to any of the aforementioned using alternate spellings, pseudonyms nicknames, abbreviations, or codes; July 19, 2017 VIA ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSION Mr. Donald Trump, Jr c/o Alan S. Futerfas 565 Fifth Avenue, 7th Floor New York, NY 10017 Dear Mr. Trump We are writing to confirm that adequate steps are being taken to preserve records, and 3. all documents relating to any attempts or actions taken by you or the Trump campaign to with a request for documents regarding any attempts or interest in obtaining information about presidential candidate Hillary Clinton from Russian government and affiliated sources, including through a June 2016 meeting between Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort, Natalia Veselnitskaya, and obtain information during the 2016 presidential campaign about Hillary Clinton from Russian government officials, associates, or representatives; any individuals who purported to act or whom you believed to be acting on behalf of Russian governmernt officials, associates receipt of information obtained as a result of Russia's influen epresentatives; or anyone who might have been involved in or in We expect that you have already taken care to preserve relevant documents in light of opegonrve ns 1 eral law l documents relating to any attempt taken by you or the Trump campaign to enforcement and c this has been done, and describe the scope of documents that are being preserved in encourage, gain, re otherwise use information related to Russia in n aimed at the US 2016 presidenti has not yet been done, we ask that you immedi ou evant documents in vour pos 2016 election Russian government offic act or whom were bel in tact Patrick Davis of Chairman Grassley's staff at (202) 224-5225 or the Trump c taff at (202) 224-7703 meeed We2 owing documents to the Committee no later in produ in Committee on the Judi all documents related to the June 9, 2016 meeti arrange a meeting with Na ng y other meeting, or tskaya or Rinat Akhmetshin, including al Documents lude any written, recorded, or graphic material of any kind, including letters, memoranda, reports, her electronic ments, a ored informati mail or recordings/record Sheldon Whitehous ommunica er or not they resulted in final documen rump for President, Inc. and any related Trump campaign mmi n Crime and Terrorism ors, associ Committee on the Judici Comm r or on behalf of them](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/001/276/799/826.jpg)
![Mr. Donald Trump, Jr July 19, 2017 CHARLES E. GRASSLEY, JOWA CHAIRMAN ORRIN G HATCH UTAH LINDSEYO GRAHAM SOUTH CAROLINA OHN CORNYN. TEXAS MICHAEL S. LEE, UTAH TED CRUZ TEXAS BEN SASSE, NEBRASKA JEFF FLAKE ARIZONA MKE CRAPO, IDAHO THOM TILLIS NORTH CAROLINA JOHN KENNEDY,LOURSIANA DIANNE REINSTEIN, CALIFORNIA PATRICKJ. LEAHY, VERMONT RICHARD J.DURBIN, ILLINOIS S LDON WHITEHOUSE, RHODE ISLAND AMMY KLOBUCHAR, MINNESOTA anited States Senate documents provided during the meeting and all documents relating to scheduling, what happened during the meeting(s), and any related actions taken after the meeting(s); CHRISTOPHER A C----, DELAWARE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY MAIE K HIRONO, HAWA WASHINGTON, DC 20510-6275 OLAN DAVS Ce Counl and Stalf Dcto EO Duck Demerae Staflf Direco 2. all communications to, from, or copied to you relating to Rob Goldstone, Emin Agalarov, Aras Agalarov, Natalia Veselnitskaya, Rinat Akhmetshin, Anatoli Samochornov, Irakly (Ike) Kaveladze, Christopher Steele, Aleksej Gubarev, Webzilla B.V., XBT Holdings S.A., Alfa Group, Dmitry Peskov, Vladimir Putin, the Ritz Carlton Moscow Hotel, Paul Manafort, Carter Page, Igor Sechin, Sergei Ivanov, Igor Divyekin, Sergei Millian, Dmitry Medvedev, Michael Flynn, Jill Stein, Michael Cohen, Konstantin Kosachev, Viktor Yanukovych, Corey Lewandowski, Sergei Kislyak, Yuri Ushakov, Anton Vaino, Mikhail Kalugin, Andrei Bondarev, Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven, German Khan, Oleg Govorun, Sergey Lavrov, Rosneft, Sergei Kiriyenko, Oleg Solodukhin. This shall include any documents referring to any of the aforementioned using alternate spellings, pseudonyms nicknames, abbreviations, or codes; July 19, 2017 VIA ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSION Mr. Donald Trump, Jr c/o Alan S. Futerfas 565 Fifth Avenue, 7th Floor New York, NY 10017 Dear Mr. Trump We are writing to confirm that adequate steps are being taken to preserve records, and 3. all documents relating to any attempts or actions taken by you or the Trump campaign to with a request for documents regarding any attempts or interest in obtaining information about presidential candidate Hillary Clinton from Russian government and affiliated sources, including through a June 2016 meeting between Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort, Natalia Veselnitskaya, and obtain information during the 2016 presidential campaign about Hillary Clinton from Russian government officials, associates, or representatives; any individuals who purported to act or whom you believed to be acting on behalf of Russian governmernt officials, associates receipt of information obtained as a result of Russia's influen epresentatives; or anyone who might have been involved in or in We expect that you have already taken care to preserve relevant documents in light of opegonrve ns 1 eral law l documents relating to any attempt taken by you or the Trump campaign to enforcement and c this has been done, and describe the scope of documents that are being preserved in encourage, gain, re otherwise use information related to Russia in n aimed at the US 2016 presidenti has not yet been done, we ask that you immedi ou evant documents in vour pos 2016 election Russian government offic act or whom were bel in tact Patrick Davis of Chairman Grassley's staff at (202) 224-5225 or the Trump c taff at (202) 224-7703 meeed We2 owing documents to the Committee no later in produ in Committee on the Judi all documents related to the June 9, 2016 meeti arrange a meeting with Na ng y other meeting, or tskaya or Rinat Akhmetshin, including al Documents lude any written, recorded, or graphic material of any kind, including letters, memoranda, reports, her electronic ments, a ored informati mail or recordings/record Sheldon Whitehous ommunica er or not they resulted in final documen rump for President, Inc. and any related Trump campaign mmi n Crime and Terrorism ors, associ Committee on the Judici Comm r or on behalf of them](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/276/799/826.jpg)
Russiagate
Russia threatens US over spy compounds
![Russia in USA @RusEmbUSA Follow #Ryabkov: we need an unconditional return of property in the #US otherwise. retaliation measures will follow tass.com/politics/956740 MOCKBA 6:03 AM-18 Jul 2017 337 Retweets 177 Likes MFA RussiaDepartment of State, Heather Nauert and 7 others 790 t 337 177](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/001/276/796/a16.png)
![Russia in USA @RusEmbUSA Follow #Ryabkov: we need an unconditional return of property in the #US otherwise. retaliation measures will follow tass.com/politics/956740 MOCKBA 6:03 AM-18 Jul 2017 337 Retweets 177 Likes MFA RussiaDepartment of State, Heather Nauert and 7 others 790 t 337 177](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/276/796/a16.png)
Russiagate
Rohrabacher staffer outed for Russian ties
![Long before he took up his most recent post as an aide to California Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, Behrends worked alongside the Afghan mujahideen, helped the future Blackwater founder Erik Prince get an internship on Capitol Hill (later, he navigated the security firm through the political fallout from a 2007 massacre of civilians in Iraq) and served as chief lobbyist for a firm at the heart of the Jack Abramoff scandal. More recently, he has become a confidant of the pro-Trump Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel and served as the Capitol Hill point-man for the right-wing government of Hungary. While his boss-who was jokingly described by Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy in a closed-door meeting last year as being on the Kremlin's payroll-is the most vociferous defender of Russian interests in Congress and a staunch ally of President Donald Trump, it is Behrends who does much of the actual work, a role that now thrusts him into the spotlight as investigators and media sleuths suss out links between Trump's allies and Moscow. Behrends has been the chief Capitol Hil contact for the lawyer Natalia Vetlitskaya and the lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin, a former Soviet intelligence officer, whose contacts with Trump Jr., along with Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort, are now at the center of questions about whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/001/276/795/d5d.jpg)
![Long before he took up his most recent post as an aide to California Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, Behrends worked alongside the Afghan mujahideen, helped the future Blackwater founder Erik Prince get an internship on Capitol Hill (later, he navigated the security firm through the political fallout from a 2007 massacre of civilians in Iraq) and served as chief lobbyist for a firm at the heart of the Jack Abramoff scandal. More recently, he has become a confidant of the pro-Trump Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel and served as the Capitol Hill point-man for the right-wing government of Hungary. While his boss-who was jokingly described by Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy in a closed-door meeting last year as being on the Kremlin's payroll-is the most vociferous defender of Russian interests in Congress and a staunch ally of President Donald Trump, it is Behrends who does much of the actual work, a role that now thrusts him into the spotlight as investigators and media sleuths suss out links between Trump's allies and Moscow. Behrends has been the chief Capitol Hil contact for the lawyer Natalia Vetlitskaya and the lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin, a former Soviet intelligence officer, whose contacts with Trump Jr., along with Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort, are now at the center of questions about whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/276/795/d5d.jpg)
Russiagate
Sean Hannity colluded with Russian agents
![Specifically, Sean Hannity is on signals intelligence co-ordinating his pro-Trump message with organs of the Russian state, such as RT, Sputnik, Wikileaks and Julian Assange. However, emails co-ordinating messaging wit!h registered agents of the Russian state are said to exist from more shows than that of Sean Hannity](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/001/276/794/480.jpg)
![Specifically, Sean Hannity is on signals intelligence co-ordinating his pro-Trump message with organs of the Russian state, such as RT, Sputnik, Wikileaks and Julian Assange. However, emails co-ordinating messaging wit!h registered agents of the Russian state are said to exist from more shows than that of Sean Hannity](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/276/794/480.jpg)
Russiagate
Trump claims Comey used dossier as blackmail
![In the interview, Mr. Trump said he believes Mr. Comey told him about the dossier to implicitly make clear he had something to hold over the president. "In my opinion, he shared it so that I would think he had it out there," Mr. Trump said. As said. "In retrospect." 09 leverage? "Yeah, I think so, " Mr. Trump](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/001/276/793/393.jpg)
![In the interview, Mr. Trump said he believes Mr. Comey told him about the dossier to implicitly make clear he had something to hold over the president. "In my opinion, he shared it so that I would think he had it out there," Mr. Trump said. As said. "In retrospect." 09 leverage? "Yeah, I think so, " Mr. Trump](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/276/793/393.jpg)
Russiagate
Trump threatens Mueller
![Mr. Trump said Mr. Mueller was running an office rife with conflicts of interest and warned that investigators would cross a red line if they delve into Trump family finances unrelated to Russia. Mr. Trump never said he would order the Justice Department to fire Mr. Mueller, nor would he outline circumstances under which he might do so. But he left open the possibility as he expressed deep grievance over an investigation that has taken a political toll in the six months since he took office.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/001/276/792/83a.jpg)
![Mr. Trump said Mr. Mueller was running an office rife with conflicts of interest and warned that investigators would cross a red line if they delve into Trump family finances unrelated to Russia. Mr. Trump never said he would order the Justice Department to fire Mr. Mueller, nor would he outline circumstances under which he might do so. But he left open the possibility as he expressed deep grievance over an investigation that has taken a political toll in the six months since he took office.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/276/792/83a.jpg)
Russiagate
Deutsche Bank is being investigated
![Banking regulators are reviewing hundreds of millions of dollars in loans made to Mr. Trump's businesses through Deutsche Bank's private wealth management unit, which caters to an ultrarich clientele, according to three people briefed on the review who were not authorized to speak publicly. The regulators want to know if the loans might expose the bank to heightened risks. Separately, Deutsche Bank has been in contact with federal investigators about the Trump accounts, according to two people briefed on the matter. And the bank is expecting to eventually have to provide information to Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel overseeing the federal investigation into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/001/276/791/3ed.jpg)
![Banking regulators are reviewing hundreds of millions of dollars in loans made to Mr. Trump's businesses through Deutsche Bank's private wealth management unit, which caters to an ultrarich clientele, according to three people briefed on the review who were not authorized to speak publicly. The regulators want to know if the loans might expose the bank to heightened risks. Separately, Deutsche Bank has been in contact with federal investigators about the Trump accounts, according to two people briefed on the matter. And the bank is expecting to eventually have to provide information to Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel overseeing the federal investigation into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/276/791/3ed.jpg)
Russiagate
Bobby 3 Sticks won't be deterred.
![There's one more thing we know: Robert S. Mueller III's investigation has the resources it needs and won't be deterred by the spin from the White House and Fox News that this is all much ado about nothing. Among other things, Mueller will probably pry from Trump what he worked so hard to conceal: Not just his tax returns as specific documents, but also the secrets and revelations contained therein, wherever they might lead. In the end, it may all turn out to be squeaky-clean. But I wouldn't bet on it.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/001/276/790/f14.jpg)
![There's one more thing we know: Robert S. Mueller III's investigation has the resources it needs and won't be deterred by the spin from the White House and Fox News that this is all much ado about nothing. Among other things, Mueller will probably pry from Trump what he worked so hard to conceal: Not just his tax returns as specific documents, but also the secrets and revelations contained therein, wherever they might lead. In the end, it may all turn out to be squeaky-clean. But I wouldn't bet on it.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/276/790/f14.jpg)
Russiagate
Sanders knew the fix was in
![00 Verizon 10:14 PM イ51 Tweet Ryan Adams @filmystic Wow @AriMelber: Did you not know that Putin was trying to divide Democrats? @BernieSanders: Of course we knevw That was not a great secret. ME rnie Sanders Calls for bbie Wasserman Schultz to esign After Email Leak sa Chan J 24 2016 nie Sanders on Sunday called for Democratic National umittee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz to resign after ed emails appear to show party officials trying to aid ary Clinton's campaign during the primary. Vermont senator said he was "disappointed" but not at what the reported Wikileaks emails purported Top DNC officials mocked Sanders during the 兆! THE RU MPARTMENTS OF 15 FORD FUSIONS THAT WERE CLEAN SLATE. DEMS WILL JOIN IN!" I TRUMP 7/18/17, 8:45 PM Tweet your reply Home Explore Notifications Messages Me](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/001/276/537/b4d.jpg)
![00 Verizon 10:14 PM イ51 Tweet Ryan Adams @filmystic Wow @AriMelber: Did you not know that Putin was trying to divide Democrats? @BernieSanders: Of course we knevw That was not a great secret. ME rnie Sanders Calls for bbie Wasserman Schultz to esign After Email Leak sa Chan J 24 2016 nie Sanders on Sunday called for Democratic National umittee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz to resign after ed emails appear to show party officials trying to aid ary Clinton's campaign during the primary. Vermont senator said he was "disappointed" but not at what the reported Wikileaks emails purported Top DNC officials mocked Sanders during the 兆! THE RU MPARTMENTS OF 15 FORD FUSIONS THAT WERE CLEAN SLATE. DEMS WILL JOIN IN!" I TRUMP 7/18/17, 8:45 PM Tweet your reply Home Explore Notifications Messages Me](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/276/537/b4d.jpg)
Russiagate
Sinister implications
![Note that merely six months into Trump's presidency, the likely explanations for his conduct now reside on the decidedly more sinister end of the spectrum. Or, at least, if you're inclined to favor the less sinister side of the spectrum, you now have to account for the known actions of individuals at the center of the campaign that seem more consistent with the theories at the more sinister end of it](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/001/276/536/05f.jpg)
![Note that merely six months into Trump's presidency, the likely explanations for his conduct now reside on the decidedly more sinister end of the spectrum. Or, at least, if you're inclined to favor the less sinister side of the spectrum, you now have to account for the known actions of individuals at the center of the campaign that seem more consistent with the theories at the more sinister end of it](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/276/536/05f.jpg)
Russiagate