Monday morning report by the president of the United States

Monday morning report by the president of the United States

by WorldTribune Staff, July 22, 2019 A new week is starting and President Donald Trump wants to clarify what’s going on in the world from his enlightened perspective. As usual he serves up tweets in his special style that delights followers and drives enemies to the fringes of sanity. Here are some of the highlights […]

Report: FBI used media leaks against Manafort after repeated warnings about ‘black cash ledger’

Report: FBI used media leaks against Manafort after repeated warnings about ‘black cash ledger’

by WorldTribune Staff, June 23, 2019 The FBI relied on a document known as the “black cash ledger”, which in the summer of 2016 precipitated Paul Manafort’s resignation as then-candidate Donald Trump’s campaign manager,  despite receiving multiple warnings that it was a fake, a June 19 report said. “In search warrant affidavits, the FBI portrayed […]

Trump takes off gloves in Hannity interview: Pelosi ‘hands out subpoenas like cookies’

Trump takes off gloves in Hannity interview: Pelosi ‘hands out subpoenas like cookies’

by WorldTribune Staff, June 20, 2019 President Donald Trump, in a June 19 interview on Fox News’s Hannity, railed against the ongoing “hoax” investigations of his campaign and administration, saying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, “hands out subpoenas like they’re cookies.” Trump said former Speaker Paul Ryan, Wisconsin Republican, was more cautious in issuing […]

‘False’: Nunes charges Mueller Report recycled partisan media allegations

‘False’: Nunes charges Mueller Report recycled partisan media allegations

by WorldTribune Staff, June 16, 2019 In his report on the Russia investigation, special counsel Robert Mueller cited scores of partisan corporate media reports that propagaged a false “central narrative” on Trump-Russia collusion, Rep. Devin Nunes said. “The Mueller dossier cites dozens of articles from the reporters and publications that were most responsible for perpetuating […]

Flynn takes off the gloves, hires fiery DOJ critic who targeted Enron judgments

Flynn takes off the gloves, hires fiery DOJ critic who targeted Enron judgments

by WorldTribune Staff, June 13, 2019 Conservative firebrand Sidney Powell, author of “Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice”, has been hired to represent former national security adviser Michael Flynn as he awaits sentencing for lying to U.S. investigators in the Russia investigation. Flynn’s decision to hire Powell “suggests he might return […]

Former prosecutors say Mueller statement violated American Bar Association rule

Former prosecutors say Mueller statement violated American Bar Association rule

by WorldTribune Staff, May 30, 2019 His final report and a statement on May 29 by Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller surrounded a key finding of “no Trump-Moscow conspiracy” with innuendo and loaded language, news analysts and prosecutors said. Rule 3.8(f) of the American Bar Association’s rules of professional conduct states: “The prosecutor in a criminal […]

‘Not another word’: President demands apology after Mueller statement, ‘Case closed’

‘Not another word’: President demands apology after Mueller statement, ‘Case closed’

by WorldTribune Staff, May 29, 2019 Any more talk about the Russia investigation and Robert Mueller should come in the form of an apology, President Donald Trump said in response to the special counsel’s May 29 statement. Mueller, who did not take questions, reiterated the conclusions of his report and said he was resigning from […]

Mueller report relied on uncritical media, cited 60 NY Times articles

Mueller report relied on uncritical media, cited 60 NY Times articles

by WorldTribune Staff, May 6, 2019 Special counsel Robert Mueller leaned heavily on unconfirmed corporate media accounts in compiling his 448-page report. In fact, Mueller cited The New York Times on 60 occasions “mostly through footnotes for articles that weave through the report’s main narrative,” Rowan Scarborough noted in a May 5 report for The […]

Flynn reforms exposed intel failures, triggered Trump investigation — analyst

Flynn reforms exposed intel failures, triggered Trump investigation — analyst

by WorldTribune Staff, April 18, 2019 The Mueller investigation “began on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan,” when Gen. Mike Flynn “changed the way we did intelligence against the likes of Zarqawi, bin Laden, the Taliban, and their allies,” an analyst contends. Flynn “saw that our battlefield intelligence was too slow. We collected information from […]

‘Disinformation’: Experts say ‘dossier’ should be focus of counter-intelligence investigation

‘Disinformation’: Experts say ‘dossier’ should be focus of counter-intelligence investigation

by WorldTribune Staff, April 1, 2019 A counter-intelligence investigation should be launched into the anti-Trump dossier authored by ex-British spy Christopher Steele, which was the linchpin of the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation, intelligence analysts say. “We have a concerted effort by a group of foreigners to mislead the U.S. intelligence community in the aid of a […]