Former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, who plans to plead guilty for falsifying documents in the investigation of President Donald Trump’s campaign, was found to have sent several anti-Trump texts after Trump was elected. “Viva le resistance,” he texted an FBI colleague in November 2016 after Trump won when he was asked if he would serve…
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An attorney for Tara Reade, the former Joe Biden staffer who alleges he sexually assaulted her in 1993, told Breitbart News Tuesday evening that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) defense of Biden earlier Tuesday was “nonsensical.” “Now I’ve heard Joe Biden’s explanation. I think it’s sufficient,” Schumer had said, according to Politico. “I think…
Senate TV / Getty White House lawyer Patrick Philbin calmly demolished House Democrats’ second article of impeachment during President Donald Trump’s trial in the Senate on Monday — using Democrats’ own past arguments. Phil bin began by explaining the reasons that the White House had resisted congressional subpoenas — not because of a “blanket” refusal,…
Chuck Cooper, an attorney for former National Security Adviser John Bolton, said that Bolton’s book manuscript was submitted to the National Security Council for a standard review for classified information, but its contents appear to have been leaked to the New York Times. Cooper was reacting to a story in the Times that alleges President Donald…
Joe Biden attended a fundraiser hosted by a high-profile trial lawyer, once accused of defrauding the British Petroleum (BP) oil spill recovery effort, during a recent campaign swing through Texas. The former vice president traveled to the Lone Star State on Friday for a series of events meant to bolster his standing ahead of Super Tuesday.…
The lawyers representing the “whistleblower” at the center of the impeachment inquiry conceded Wednesday they “had come into contact with presidential candidates from both parties.” Attorneys Mark Zaid and Andrew Bakaj, however, insisted in a statement that the whistleblower’s relationship with the politicians was limited to their role as “elected officials,” not as candidates. The…