Let me highlight a few details from stories touching on June 2016, December 2016 and February 2017 … Read More
The Russian-American lobbyist, who is reportedly a former Soviet-era counter-intelligence officer and attended the June meeting at Trump Tower, says Natalia Veselnitskaya brought a package of documents with her to the meeting. And he thinks she left them with Trump. Here’s his account. Read More
I know I speak for the whole staff – because I’ve spoken to probably half of them about this already this morning – when I say that for all that we are collectively steeped in this story, we are very much having a hard time keeping up with all the different threads that have emerged out of the original Times Don Jr stories over the last week. I’ve mentioned that as we expand the new TPM Investigations Desk and create new parts of the site, some part of Prime, some not, one of our big focuses is on narrating and helping you organize and make sense of the different dimensions of these emerging stories. For me that has always been an essential part of what TPM does, breaking down the fourth wall of the journalistic voice, stepping back to explain connections between different threads of stories and so forth. In any case, these are dimensions of the site we will be expanding in the coming days, weeks and months. Today, a lot of this will inevitably come from the Editors’ Blog.
For now, I will simply say that if it looks to you like the wheels are coming off all this really rapidly, yes, it looks that way to me too.
I was tempted to say this was a paradox. But it’s too straightforward for paradox. The key truth of Trumpism is that for all the purported hatred of “the media”, the main Trumpers are almost all fundamentally media creatures. They think in media terms. They are media creations. Read More
Besides the latest Trump admission we have another major story (congressional sex tape, cyberstalking) that just broke. I’m supposed to be asking you to join Prime this month. If you’re a regular reader, please sign up today so I can focus on posting. Thanks.
Hours after denying he knew anything about the meeting to get anti-Hillary material from the Russian government, Trump says “Maybe it was mentioned.”
Trump lawyer Marc Kasowitz responds to man who emailed saying Kasowitz should resign from defending Trump: ““I’m on you now. You are fucking with me now Let’s see who you are Watch your back , bitch … I already know where you live, I’m on you. You might as well call me. You will see me. I promise. Bro.”
Again, this wasn’t a critic threatening action against Trump, just some guy who sent in a relatively polite email.
In that overnight article from the Times, it noted that Jared Kushner may not have shared the full story of that June 9th, 2016 meeting with the President when they discussed it last month. That is a problem on a number of levels, not least of which is that I’m pretty sure it is – big picture – not true. Read More
I wanted to flag a quick thing about coverage of the Russia story. This paragraph is from an overnight Times story.
The Trump family, friends said, always draws closer under intense pressure. But Mr. Trump bridles at the idea that his children, who have not spent years in the public spotlight like him, are now facing unrelenting scrutiny over what he believes to be a manufactured scandal by the news media.