The nearly 1,000 page report released by the Senate Tuesday morning reveals new details about Russian interference in the 2016 election, going beyond — and at times openly contradicting — the findings of the Mueller report.
Former Deputy Postmaster Skeptical Of DeJoy’s Assurances That Mail Slowdown Is On Hold
Around 90 minutes after the postmaster general sought to assure Americans that he was pausing certain new initiatives “to avoid even the appearance of any impact on election mail,” the former deputy postmaster general appeared via webcam before an assembly of reporters, unimpressed.
Ex-DHS Official Warns He Is Just ‘Opening Salvo’ In Trump Alumn Crusade Against POTUS
Former Department of Homeland Security chief of staff Miles Taylor publicly warned President Donald Trump on Tuesday that he is just the “opening salvo” of former administration officials who will be coming forward with their own testimonies in the coming weeks to ensure Trump is not re-elected in November.
“The President hasn’t heard the last of us,” Taylor told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos Tuesday morning when asked if there was more to come. “In fact, me speaking out yesterday, you can think of it as an opening salvo.”
Taylor said that in the coming weeks, the President can expect to hear from other ex-administration officials who can speak firsthand to “the same testimonies that I gave which is that he’s ill-equipped to hold the office that he has, and that a second term would be more dangerous than a first term.”
.@ABC NEWS EXCLUSIVE: Former Trump administration official Miles Taylor speaks out on breaking with Pres. Trump and endorsing Joe Biden. https://t.co/io8dW4sq7E pic.twitter.com/hBZsncaZz5
— Good Morning America (@GMA) August 18, 2020
Good Morning America reported that Taylor became the highest-ranking former administration official to endorse Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden after publicly airing his criticism of President Trump in a video released Monday by Republican Voters Against Trump.
In the video, Taylor accused Trump of repeatedly exploiting the Department of Homeland Security to advance his own political agenda.
Following the the video’s release during the ABC interview on Tuesday, Taylor said working in Trump’s White House was like playing “whack-a-mole with bad presidential decisions.” He cited family separation policy at the Mexico border and the President’s callous attitude toward relief assistance following wildfires in California as the key reasons for his departure fro the Trump administration.
“Every single month I served in that administration, after we’ve ended family separation, the President would come to us and say, not only he wanted to reinstate it,” Taylor said. “He wanted to double down and implement a deliberate policy of ripping any kid apart from their parents that showed up at the border, any kid at the border.”
Although Taylor has said he left the administration on his own terms, the President’s son-in-law and senior White House adviser Jared Kushner sought to discredit Taylor by suggesting during a CNN interview on Monday that the former administration official “wasn’t up for the task.”
Trump also without addressing the assertions made by Taylor dismissed the former White House official as a “DISGRUNTLED EMPLOYEE” who is “said to be a real ‘stiff.'”
Correction: This post originally misidentified the name of the group Republican Voters Against Trump.
A Journey Through Donald Trump’s Small-Dollar Fundraising Drive, In Ten Easy Steps
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For a supposed billionaire, Donald Trump sure spends a lot of time asking me for money.
Intel Committee’s 1,000 Page Russia Report Ends With Dueling GOP And Dem Appendices
After the nearly 1,000 pages of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election came to an end, the committee’s Republicans and Democrats offered their views on the evidence surfaced in the years-long investigation.
MyPillow CEO Goes Off On CNN As He’s Grilled On Hawking Unproven COVID-19 Treatment
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GOP-led Report Reveals Just How Close Manafort Was To Russian Military Intel
“Fragmentary” evidence suggests that Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and a close associate of his may have had ties to Russia’s hacking of the 2016 Clinton campaign and the subsequent campaign to leak the stolen documents, a Republican-led Senate committee said on Tuesday.
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20 States To Sue DeJoy And USPS Over Controversial Agency Restructuring
At least 20 states are reportedly poised to sue the U.S. Postal Service and Postmaster General Louis DeJoy over his wide-reaching restructuring of the agency’s operations that threatens to hamper mail-in voting ahead of the elections in November.
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DeJoy Announces He Will Pause USPS Overhaul Until After Election
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy announced Tuesday, days before a slate of congressional hearings, that he will postpone the USPS overhaul until after the November election “to avoid even the appearance of any impact on election mail.”
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Jim Jordan Mocks Protests As He Backs Trump’s War On Mail-In Voting
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) took to “Fox and Friends” on Tuesday morning to slam Democrats for criticizing President Trump’s explicit efforts to hamper mail-in voting. Continue reading “Jim Jordan Mocks Protests As He Backs Trump’s War On Mail-In Voting”