White House whined to DOJ that Trump didn’t get exonerated
White House lawyers wanted Mueller to either charge Trump with a crime or say nothing at all.
By Emily Singer - May 02, 2019White House lawyers wanted Mueller to either charge Trump with a crime or say nothing at all.
By Emily Singer - May 02, 2019House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Attorney General William Barr lied to Congress, and she called it out as a ‘crime.’
By Emily Singer - May 02, 2019Trump’s attorney general stuttered and bluffed his way through a shocking Senate hearing.
By Oliver Willis - May 01, 2019In a cowardly move, Attorney General Bill Barr is now defying a request to appear before the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday.
By Emily Singer - May 01, 2019A former federal prosecutor called Barr out for shilling for Trump.
By Oliver Willis - May 01, 2019Attorney General William Barr ended his Wednesday hearing by trying to diminish special counsel Robert Mueller’s service, even calling Mueller’s work ‘snitty.’
By Emily Singer - May 01, 2019Attorney General William Barr was stumped when Sen. Chris Coons asked how campaigns should respond to foreign adversaries offering dirt on opponents.
By Dan Desai Martin - May 01, 2019‘You lied to Congress,’ Sen. Mazie Hirono told Attorney General Wiliam Barr. ‘You knew you lied. And now, we know.’
By Emily Singer - May 01, 2019Republicans are using Hillary Clinton and conspiracy theories about the FBI to try to distract from Trump’s wrongdoing and Attorney General Barr’s cover-up.
By Oliver Willis - May 01, 2019Attorney General William Barr made excuses for Trump asking the top White House lawyer to fire Robert Mueller and then lie about it.
By Dan Desai Martin - May 01, 2019MSNBC had to interrupt the hearing with Attorney General William Barr again to tell viewers that Barr was lying.
By Emily Singer - May 01, 2019Members of Congress are lining up to hold Attorney General William Barr accountable for lying to them and the public about the Mueller report.
By Dan Desai Martin - May 01, 2019MSNBC had to fact-check Sen. Lindsey Graham during a hearing with Attorney General Bill Barr.
By Emily Singer - May 01, 2019Attorney General William Barr ignored a demand from special counsel Robert Mueller to release summaries Mueller had written without ‘delay.’
By Emily Singer - May 01, 2019Attorney General William Barr lied to help Trump, and senators want him investigated for it.
By Oliver Willis - April 30, 2019Yet another member of Trump’s circle could find himself in legal trouble.
By Emily Singer - April 30, 2019Former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates said she has prosecuted people for obstruction of justice with far less evidence.
By Dan Desai Martin - April 29, 2019William Barr voluntarily agreed to talk to the House Judiciary Committee — but because the proposed format of the questioning is scaring him, now he might not show up.
By Lisa Needham - April 29, 2019Trump just won’t shut up, and his allies are cringing.
By Oliver Willis - April 26, 2019If Trump weren’t a sitting president, he’d probably be indicted right now.
By Dan Desai Martin - April 26, 2019Trump invents an imaginary coup and then brags that he stopped it.
By Emily Crockett - April 26, 2019Current and former White House aides who ignore congressional subpoenas do so at their own risk.
By Emily Singer - April 26, 2019Trump is desperately trying to attack the damning findings of the Mueller report, but he’s not getting any help from his former attorney general.
By Emily Singer - April 25, 2019The vice president refused to take a pledge not to use hacked information from Russian adversaries in the 2020 campaign.
By Emily Singer - April 25, 2019She has refused to face reporters for 45 days, but on Thursday held a fake briefing for Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day.
By Emily Singer - April 25, 2019Former White House counsel Don McGahn testified under oath that Trump ordered him to fire Robert Mueller. Now Trump insists that never happened.
By Dan Desai Martin - April 25, 2019The House Oversight Committee is warning Trump aides that it’s not in their best interests to ignore congressional subpoenas at Trump’s behest.
By Emily Singer - April 24, 2019Trump’s lawyer went on Fox News to suggest the Justice Department will be coming after Hillary Clinton as payback for the Mueller investigation.
By Emily Singer - April 24, 2019For all of his baseless insistence that he has been exonerated, Trump is clearly nervous that his crimes are catching up to him.
By Emily Singer - April 24, 2019Former Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen was told not to bring up Russian election hacking in front of Trump because it hurt Trump’s feelings.
By Emily Singer - April 24, 2019