Trump-Russia News 3/2/19.
Vox: “The brewing fight over making the Mueller report public, explained.” https://www.vox.com/2019/3/1/18233814/mueller-report-release-bill-barr-congress-trump NBC News: “Michael Cohen testified he was in the room when Republican strategist Roger Stone called President Donald Trump and told him about an impending WikiLeaks release of stolen Democratic National Committee emails. If Cohen lied to Congress, he could be indicted for it and the world would soon find out. If Cohen told the truth, then Trump is in trouble … Trump and Stone have been united in denying it not only in public statements, but also in legally binding assurances to the government. Lying in public is legal. Lying to the government is a crime.” https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/part-michael-cohen-s-testimony-could-spell-trouble-trump-mueller-n978161 Salon: “Trump concerned probes in Southern District of New York could land him in ‘legal hellscape.’” https://www.salon.com/2019/02/25/trump-concerned-probes-in-southern-district-of-new-york-could-land-him-in-legal-hellscape_partner/ Irish Examiner: “All the President’s men: The key players in the Trump-Russia investigation.” https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/specialreports/all-the-presidents-men-the-key-players-in-the-trump-russia-investigation-908083.html Daily Beast: “Felix Sater … former business associate of President Trump, will testify before Congress on March 14 about the Trump Tower Moscow deal … after Cohen testified on Wednesday that Trump lied to the public about his involvement in the project … when Trump was the presumptive Republican nominee for president.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-associate-felix-sater-will-testify-publicly-about-trump-tower-moscow-in-march New York Times: “Trump ordered his chief of staff to grant his son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, a top-secret security clearance last year, overruling concerns flagged by intelligence officials and the White House’s top lawyer.” https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/us/politics/jared-kushner-security-clearance.html Politifact: “Jared Kushner appears to have misled Congress about his security clearance … providing false information to Congress is … potentially a crime all by itself.” https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/article/2019/feb/26/three-questions-could-entangle-jared-kushners-secu/ Think Progress: “Cohen accused the president of all these felonies:” https://thinkprogress.org/cohen-accused-the-president-of-all-these-felonies-1188a2b35f55/ FactCheckOrg: “Here we lay out the conflicting accounts of what Trump’s former personal attorney told the House Committee on Oversight and Reform at the Feb. 27 hearing, and what the president has said in the past.” https://www.factcheck.org/2019/02/cohen-trump-at-odds/
