Adam Entous, national security reporter for The Washington
Post. Entous was one of the first reporters to break the news that Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner wanted to set up a secret back channel
communication between Trump and the Kremlin. According to the Post, Russia ’s ambassador to Washington , Sergey Kislyak told his superiors about Kushner’s proposal. The
proposal happened in a meeting with Kislyak in December of last year which
Michael Flynn also attended. The FBI has considered the meeting, along with a separate meeting with Russian banker, Sergey Gorkov, of interest to them. Later Reuters reported that there were at least 18 known contacts between Trump and the Kremlin before the election.. Terrorism analyst, Malcolm Nance said this is what the intelligence community calls "covert communications" and it would be considered espionage. Former acting CIA Director John McLaughlin also said this would be espionage. Former House Intelligence Committee staffer, Mieke Eoyang made the point that these kinds of leaks are coming from U.S. intelligence agencies because they could possibly be worried about people inside the Trump administration deleting evidence
Saturday, May 27, 2017
Thursday, May 25, 2017
Ben Jacobs
Ben Jacobs reporter for The Guardian. Jacobs became the story when he was assaulted by Trump-backed republican congressional candidate
for Montana ’s
house seat, Greg Gianforte. When Jacobs asked him about the CBO score given to
Donald Trump’s health care plan which would kick 23 million people off of their
health insurance Gianforte grabbed him by the neck and threw him to the ground according to witnesses at the scene. In an audio recording of the assault
Giamforte can be heard saying to Jacobs, “I’m sick and tired of you guys! The
last guy that came in here, you did the same thing! Get the hell out of here!” Jacobs
reported the assault to authorities however Gianforte wasn't arrested at the
scene. As it turns out the Gallatin County Sheriff, Brian Gootkin who was overseeing the assault is a supporter of Gianforte’s
who gave $250 to his campaign. It was only later that Gianforte was finally charged
with misdemeanor assault.
Gianforte released a
statement accusing Jacobs of assault and called him a “liberal journalist.” The narrative
on the right is that it shouldn’t be illegal or wrong to assault a person if
they are liberal. Tonight Gianforte won the election despite the assault charge. In normal times breaking the law would be disqualifying for any political candidate. But in the Trump-era America ’s
standards have sunk so low that this type of behavior has not only become
normalized, it’s celebrated on the right.
Saturday, May 20, 2017
Devlin Barrett
Friday, May 19, 2017
Neal Katyal
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Michael S. Schmidt
Michael S. Schmidt, Washington
Reporter for The New York Times. Schmidt was first to break the news that Trump asked F.B.I. director, James Comey, to shut down the federal investigation
of Mike Flynn.
Buried in the story: Trump said to Comey that he should
consider putting reporters in prison.
Meanwhile it’s been revealed that the intelligence Trump leaked to the Russians was from Israel .
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Greg Jaffe
Saturday, May 13, 2017
James Comey
Donald Trump fired FBI director, James Comey, who was
investigating him for collusion with Russia . Trump then threatened Comey on twitter saying he would release tapes of conversations they had if Comey leaked anything to the press.
Friday, May 12, 2017
Clint Watts
Thursday, May 11, 2017
Jane Mayer
Jane Mayer, staff writer for The New Yorker, Mayer recently wrote this outstandingly fascinating article about Donald Trump's elusive dark money donors.
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Steve Reilly
Steve Reilly, one of the investigative reporters for USA Today who exhaustively tracked down every property owned by Donald Trump's companies exposing his conflict of interest for America.
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