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President Donald Trump's Acting Attorney General/Yes Man Matthew Whitaker said Monday that Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and any ties to the Trump campaign is "close to being completed." Whitaker expressed skepticism about the Mueller investigation before he…

UPDATED with Roger Stone presser:  “As I have always said, the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about,” Roger Stone said outside federal court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida following his arrest in a pre-dawn FBI raid on his house. “After a two year inquisition, the charges today relate in no…

A federal judge has delayed sentencing on Michael Flynn, the Donald Trump White House’s National Security Advisor, after hinting he thought Flynn deserved slammer time for lying to the FBI about his contacts with former Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergei Kislyak The move stunned reporters, who had expected Judge…

President Donald Trump shot back at former First Lady Michelle Obama over an excerpt of her new book in which she said she would never forgive him for his birther conspiracy about her husband and the impact it had on her family. "I guess she wrote a book. She got paid a lot of money to write a book. And they always…

John Oliver kicked off Last Week Tonight marveling at Rudy Giuliani's much discussed morning brain fart. The president's lawyer and “one man legal improv troupe,” went on Chuck Todd’s Sunday Beltway show Meet The Press and came up with a rationale for his boss’s refusal to sit down with Robert Mueller that was, even…

Al Capone, the Chicago mobster dead more than 70 years, is trending worldwide on Twitter this morning because President Donald Trump tweeted that authorities treated the gangster better than they are treating his former campaign chief Paul Manafort. This on Day 2 of Manafort’s trial in Alexandria, Virginia, on charges…

After a major morning Twitter dump, President Donald Trump proudly declared to reporters on the White House lawn that “they” too are now using the name “Spygate” with regard to his campaign to discredit Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian election meddling. “We now call it ‘Spygate.’ You’re calling it…

Ty Cobb, President Donald Trump’s handle-bar mustachioed White House attorney, is leaving just as Trump has started really spitting Twitter fire over Robert Mueller’s hotted-up Russia probe. Replacing Cobb, Emmet T. Flood, the D.C. lawyer who saw former President Bill Clinton through his impeachment. File that under…

President Trump last June ordered the firing of Robert Mueller, the special counsel overseeing the Russia investigation, the New York Times reported Thursday evening. Trump backed off when his White House counsel, Don McGahn, responded he would quit rather than carry out the order, advising senior White House…

UPDATED with Jared Kushner reports: Former national security adviser Michael Flynn on Friday became the first member of President Donald Trump’s administration to be charged and plead guilty in Robert Mueller’s probe of Russian meddling in the presidential election. Flynn pleaded guilty Friday morning to lying to the F…

President Donald Trump can’t seem to figure out who is this George Papadopoulous, who got arrested months ago, pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, and has been cooperating with Mueller’s Russian election-meddling probe since. So, Trump rummaged through his Take-a-Lie/Leave-a-Lie Tray, Stephen Colbert explained, and…

UPDATED with details: President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Manafort’s former longtime colleague Rick Gates pleaded not guilty of charges resulting from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia election meddling probe. Manafort's bail was set at $10 million and Gates' at $5M. Both men have…