Tag: Hillary Clinton

The ‘dossier’ and the uranium deal: A guide to the latest allegations

The following article by Glenn Kessler was posted on the Washington Post website October 29, 2017:

Fusion GPS is an opposition research firm run by ex-journalists, but how is it connected to the Trump dossier, Donald Trump Jr.’s Trump Tower meeting and the 2016 election? The Fact Checker’s Glenn Kessler explains. (Video: Meg Kelly/Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

As a service to readers bound to be confused by an increasingly complex story, here’s a brief guide to the latest developments in the tangled allegations involving Russia, President Trump and Hillary Clinton.

The Dossier

Background: The “dossier” is a collection of 17 memosconcerning President Trump and Russia written by Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer, between June 20 and Dec. 13, 2016. Steele produced his memos under a contract with Fusion GPS, a strategic intelligence firm run by former journalists. Continue reading “The ‘dossier’ and the uranium deal: A guide to the latest allegations”

Clinton, Trump and the Russia dossier: What you need to know

The following article by Jonathan Easley, Katie Bo WIlliams and Morgan Chalfant was posted on the Hill website October 28, 2017:

(Don Emmert/Agence France-Presse; Natalia Kolesnikova/Getty Images)

The revelation that Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) helped fund an explosive dossier about President Trump has roiled the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

Republicans are on the offensive, claiming the new funding revelations as evidence the investigations into whether there was collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia were fixed against them from the start. Democrats are trying to keep the focus on the contents of the memo and say it doesn’t matter who paid for it.

The saga took another bizarre twist on Friday when the conservative news outlet Washington Free Beacon said it paid the same opposition research firm used by the Democrats for dirt on Trump and other GOP candidates about six months earlier.

Here is a look at what we know about the controversial document at the center of the Russia investigation after the latest turn of events.

Continue reading “Clinton, Trump and the Russia dossier: What you need to know”

Trump shares GIF of himself striking Hillary Clinton in the back with a golf ball

The following article by Amy B. Wang was psoted on the Washington Post website September 17, 2017:

Donald Trump won the presidential election. Yet, since Nov. 8, Trump has tweeted about Democratic rival Hillary Clinton many times. (Victoria Walker/The Washington Post)

President Trump retweeted a meme on Sunday morning that showed him hitting Hillary Clinton in the back with a golf ball, prompting another round of outrage from critics who felt the president’s tweets had once again crossed the line.

The animated GIF spliced together a clip of Trump swinging a golf club with footage of Clinton falling, apparently edited to appear as though a golf ball had struck her down. Continue reading “Trump shares GIF of himself striking Hillary Clinton in the back with a golf ball”

Facebook says it sold political ads to Russian company during 2016 election

The following article by Carol D. Leonnig, Tom Hamburger and Rosaline S. Helderman was posted on the Washington Post website September 6, 2017:

Representatives of Facebook told congressional investigators Wednesday that it has discovered it sold ads during the U.S. presidential election to a shadowy Russian company seeking to target voters, according to several people familiar with the company’s findings.

Facebook officials reported that they traced the ad sales, totaling $100,000, to a Russian “troll farm” with a history of pushing pro-Kremlin propaganda, these people said. Continue reading “Facebook says it sold political ads to Russian company during 2016 election”

Women, Hillary Clinton among them, stand up for April Ryan, Maxine Waters — they ‘were simply doing their jobs’

The following article by Samantha Schmidt was posted on the Washington Post website March 29, 2017:

Addressing, American Urban Radio Networks Washington Bureau Chief April D. Ryan, White House press secretary Sean Spicer defended President Trump, saying, “You’re hellbent on trying to make sure whatever image you want to tell about this White House stays.” (Reuters)

Only a few hours apart on Tuesday, two black women were confronted by white, male public figures in exchanges that many viewed as demeaning and disparaging.

First, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly on Tuesday seemed to criticize Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) because of her appearance — comparing her hair to a “James Brown wig,” for which he later apologized. Continue reading “Women, Hillary Clinton among them, stand up for April Ryan, Maxine Waters — they ‘were simply doing their jobs’”

The touching letter Hillary Clinton sent this lifelong Republican protesting Donald Trump

The following article by Terrence McCoy was posted on the Washington Post website February 8, 2017:

Joanne Barr has received lots of letters since the Women’s March on Washington. But none like this one. (Photo by Heather Ainsworth for The Washington Post)

Joanne Barr, 54, has never wanted attention. She has only ever wanted a quiet life, and for a long time, what she had in Williamsport, a mountainous town in Central Pennsylvania, was just that. She never thought there would be a time when people would know her story. But then again, she never thought Donald Trump would be president, and when that happened, everything changed. Continue reading “The touching letter Hillary Clinton sent this lifelong Republican protesting Donald Trump”

FBI in agreement with CIA that Russia aimed to help Trump win White House

The following article by Adam Entous and Ellen Nakashima was posted on the Washington Post website December 16, 2016:

FBI Director James B. Comey and Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. are in agreement with a CIA assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election in part to help Donald Trump win the White House, officials disclosed Friday, as President Obama issued a public warning to Moscow that it could face retaliation. Continue reading “FBI in agreement with CIA that Russia aimed to help Trump win White House”

The Phony, Unprincipled War On Planned Parenthood

The following appears on the NationalMemo.com website and is by Mary Sanchez. You can find a link to the original article below.

Planned Parenthood LogoWith one careless comment, Jeb Bush revealed a fundamentally indifferent attitude toward half the U.S. electorate.

“I’m not sure we need half a billion dollars for women’s health issues,” he said in a speech at the Southern Baptist Convention in Nashville, Tennessee.

It was a throwaway aside in a longer blather about defunding Planned Parenthood, and one imagines that no sooner were the words out of his mouth than his cringing consultants were drafting a clarification.

The inevitable statement soon followed, admitting he “misspoke” and adding that “there are countless community health centers, rural clinics and other women’s health organizations that need to be fully funded.”

Too late. The game was on. Hillary Clinton blasted back, “When you attack women’s health, you attack America’s health.”

I don’t believe Bush misspoke. There’s something about abortion he wishes to ignore: Abortion is a women’s health issue. You cannot separate abortion from this context.

Oppose it or not — and I do — abortion is a medical procedure that ends an unwanted or health-threatening pregnancy. If we want to encourage the trend toward decreasing numbers of abortions in this country — and no one in their right mind wants to see more of them — we need to bolster women’s reproductive health services. That means Continue reading “The Phony, Unprincipled War On Planned Parenthood”