Author: Stephanie Moffat

Bipartisan Senate Intel Committee Confirms Trump Wiretap Claim Is False The Bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee, in a statement on Thursday rejected Donald Trump’s accusation that President Obama had Trump Tower wiretapped. The head of the Senate Intelligence Committee Republican Richard Burr and Vice Chairman Mark Warner said that there is no evidence that the Obama administration “wiretapped” Trump Tower, according to a joint statement issued Thursday. “Based on the information available to us, we see no indications that Trump Tower was the subject of surveillance by any element of the United States government either before or after Election Day 2016,”...

Congressman: Trump Leaked Classified Info On Television It appears that Donald Trump leaked classified information on television, during a Fox News interview. The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee said in a statement released Thursday that Trump likely disclosed classified information during his television interview Wednesday night. “In his effort to once again blame Obama, the President appeared to have discussed something that, if true and accurate, would otherwise be considered classified information,” Congressman Adam Schiff said in statement. Here is the segment in question: “I just want people to know, the CIA was hacked, and a lot of things taken —...

‘No Such Wiretap Existed,’ Ryan Throws Cold Water On Trump’s Baseless Wiretap Accusation Speaker Paul Ryan joined other members of Congress who have said that there is no evidence to back up Donald Trump’s accusation that President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower. “The intelligence committees — in their continuing, ongoing, and widening investigation into all things Russia — got to the bottom, at least so far with respect to our intelligence community, that no such wiretap existed,” said Ryan. Yesterday, Congressmen Nunes and Schiff held a press conference and announced that “no evidence” exists to back up Trump’s claims. “As I...

Second Just Blocks Trump’s New Muslim-Ban Two judges, two days in a row, have blocked Donald Trump’s new Muslim-ban. U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang in Maryland said Donald Trump’s Muslim-ban, despite its revisions, is still meant to discriminate against Muslims. The just pointed to Trumps own public comments in the ruling. According to the Washington Post the judge “declared that even the revised travel ban was intended to discriminate against Muslims. He said those wanting evidence of anti-Muslim intent need look no further than what the president himself has said about it.” “The history of public statements continues to...

Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday praised a federal judge’s ruling to immediately block Donald Trump’s second Muslim-ban. Pelosi called it a victory for the Constitution. “The Trump Administration’s repackaging did nothing to change the immoral, unconstitutional and dangerous goals of their Muslim and refugee ban. It was the same ban, driven by the same dangerous discrimination, and today, it met the same defeat in court,” Pelosi said in a statement. “Yet another judge has found that the true unconstitutional purpose of President Trump’s Muslim ban is revealed in the hateful rhetoric and prejudice that dominated his campaign,” Pelosi continued. “The...