The former chief financial officer of the Trump Organization pleaded guilty today to fraud and tax evasion and is expected to testify as a prosecution witness in the trial against Donald Trump’s company, with whom he worked for nearly half a century. Allen Weiselberg, 75, pleaded guilty to all 15 charges he faced in Manhattan […]
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Why did Trump steal classified documents?
Toy Timothy L. O’Brien We now know that the reason the FBI searched Donald Trump’s Palm Beach residence last week is because the 45th president is under investigation for possessing classified documents related to nuclear weapons and possibly violating the Espionage Act. He also may have lied to federal officials about the documents and obstructed […]
Republicans demand justification for FBI raid on Trump residence
Republicans are stepping up their pressure to release an FBI affidavit that would show authorities’ justification for raiding and seizing documents at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, Florida, home. The warrant released after the investigation found that Trump had 11 folders of classified documents at his residence and that the Justice Department had “reasonable cause” […]
The FBI seized ‘top secret’ documents from Donald Trump’s home
FBI agents who searched Donald Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, on Monday seized 11 sets of classified documents, including some classified as “top secret,” the US Department of Justice said today, also revealing that they had reason to believe that the former US president may have violated the Espionage Act. The “bombshell” revelation was made […]
Trump Claims ‘The Nuclear Weapons Issue Is A Hoax’
Former US President Donald Trump has claimed in a social media post that “the nuclear weapons thing is a hoax”, reacting to a Washington Post report that FBI agents sought to retrieve documents from linked to nuclear weapons when they searched his Florida residence earlier this week. It is unclear whether the documents were found […]
USA: Documents related to the country’s nuclear weapons were searched by the FBI at Trump’s house
Federal police who raided former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago mansion in Palm Beach were looking to recover documents related to US nuclear weapons, according to sources the Washington Post cited without naming them. According to the publication, it has not been made clear at this time whether the documents sought by the FBI have been […]
The implications of Trump’s legal adventures
By Kostas Raptis The Financial Times spoke of an “unprecedented” event. The Guardian, again, spoke of entering “uncharted territory”. But the investigation carried out by FBI forces on Monday at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s Florida mansion, is not the only such test facing the 45th president of the United States. On Tuesday, a Washington appeals court […]
Iran planned to assassinate Trump’s ‘right-hand man’ John Bolton, US says
American justice today revealed a conspiracy led by a member of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards to assassinate John Bolton, former White House national security adviser. The US Department of Justice said in a statement that Shahram Poursafi, or Mehdi Rezagi as he is also known, 45, was indicted in absentia for offering to pay $300,000 […]
Political storm in the USA after the search of the house of Donald Trump
First step towards bringing him to trial for some, “political persecution” for others: the FBI’s search of Donald Trump’s home cast a new harsh light on Tuesday on the deep division in the US, while the former Republican president is increasingly courting more open to the possibility of running again. Never before had a former […]
Revelations about Trump: ‘He made pieces of documents that should have been kept’
Republican former President Donald Trump appears to have been flushing documents he had previously shredded into toilet bowls, according to footage released Monday. Maggie Haberman, political editor of the New York Times, secured the photos, which will be included in “Confidence Man,” her upcoming book about the White House in the Trump days. Despite the […]