Trump’s Lawyer Facing Ethics Complaints For Telling White House Staffers Not To Hire Lawyers Trump’s Russia Lawyer Just Got Hit With Two Ethics Complaints.  Donald Trump’s longtime lawyer Marc Kasowitz, who is heading up the president’s defense in the Russia investigation, is now facing two ethics complaints in New York and Washington DC. The ethics complaints are reportedly over Kasowitz’s advice to White House staffers that it was “not yet necessary” for them to hire their own lawyers to represent them in the investigations led by Special Counsel Mueller as well as Congress. We learned this week that Donald...

Republican Governors Blast GOP Health Care Plan   Three Republican governors signed on to a letter to Senate leadership on Friday criticizing the proposed Republican Obamacare repeal bill. The governors were particularly unhappy with the proposed cuts to Medicaid. Instead, the governors are urging Senate Republicans to work to stabilize the private insurance market. “It calls into question coverage for the vulnerable and fails to provide the necessary resources to ensure that no one is left out, while shifting significant costs to the states,” the letter said. The House bill’s included deep cuts to Medicaid which accounts for roughly...

Donald Trump’s Lawyer Just Hired A Lawyer For Russia Probe Trump associates are freaking about the Russia investigation.  In a fresh sign the Russia investigation is ramping up and the Trump team is increasingly worried, several Trump associates have now hired lawyers. Last night we got news that Vice President Mike Pence has lawyered up. And now we learn that Donald Trump’s personal lawyer has hired a lawyer to represent him in the Russia investigation. NBC’s Katy Tur was first to report the news on Twitter saying, “Exclusive: Trump personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, has hired his own counsel: Stephen...

Trump Transition Ordered To Preserve Russia-Related Materials More Evidence Special Counsel Investigation Is Ramping Up, Bigly! The Trump transition team has been ordered to preserve any materials related to the Russia investigation, according to press reports. In a memo reported on by The New York Times and Politico, Trump transition team lawyer Kory Langhofer ordered team members to “preserve any physical and electronic records that may be related in any way to the subject matter of the pending investigations.” According to the reports, the records in question include any material related to Russia or Ukraine and any information on...

Republican Health Bill Would Cost 1 Million Jobs It’s not just health care that Americans will lose if the Republican health bill becomes law. According to a new study, the GOP Obamacare repeal plan would also result in the loss of 1 million jobs. A study by The Commonwealth Fund found that by 2026 the Republican bill would cost 1 million jobs and shrink state gross domestic product by $93 billion. Additionally, business would be hit with a $148 billion hit. “Coverage and spending-related policies are directly related to funding for health services (e.g., Medicaid, premium tax credits, high-risk...

Jared Kushner Finances Are Under Investigation By Special Counsel Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior advisor Jared Kushner is being investigated by the Special Counsel. According to a bombshell new report by the Washington Post, “Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller is investigating the finances and business dealings of Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, and adviser, as part of the probe into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election, according to officials familiar with the matter.” In addition to Kushner’s finances, the FBI is also looking at the business dealings of several other Trump associates including Flynn, Manafort and Carter Page....

Mike Pence Forced To Lawyer Up In Russia Investigation Vice President Mike Pence has hired outside legal counsel to represent him in the federal government’s expanding Russia probe, according to The Washington Post. Pence hired former U.S. Attorney Richard Cullen who is now with the firm McGuire Woods. Pence’s office told The Washington Post that his choice to hire outside counsel shows that he wants to cooperate with the government’s investigation. The vice president has claimed that he was misled by former national security advisor Michael Flynn regarding Flynn’s contacts with Russian officials — a lie that ultimately led...

Official Charged With Involuntary Manslaughter For Flint Water Crisis Some measure of justice is being delivered in the years long Flint water crisis. The leader of the Michigan health department Nick Lyon has been charged with involuntary manslaughter. Lyon is highest-ranking official to be charged in the Flint water crisis. The official is accused of failing to alert the public about an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in Flint. The outbreak was linked to poor water quality in 2014 and 2015. Lyon’s failure to act resulted in the death of at least one person, 85-year-old Robert Skidmore, according to testimony....

Vast Majority Think Trump Doesn’t Have Respect For Democratic Institutions Devastating New Poll Numbers For Donald Trump.  The Amerian people overwhelmingly believe that the President of the United States doesn’t have respect for the institutions of democracy. According to a new poll, 65 percent of Americans say that Trump has little or no respect for the country’s democratic institutions or traditions. Just 34 percent of Americans think Donald Trump has a great deal or a fair amount of respect for them. Trump’s job approval rating keeps falling The Associated Press/NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll also found that...

Russian Lobbyist Says He Attended Two Dinners With Jeff Sessions Russian Lobbyist Contradicts Sworn Testimony By Jeff Sessions A lobbyist that works for Russian interests attended two dinners hosted by Jeff Sessions during the height of the presidential campaign in summer 2016, according to a report by The Guardian. The claims by lobbyist Richard Burt contradict Sessions’s recent sworn testimony in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Sessions said that he “[didn’t] believe” he had been in contact with any Russian representative “including any American lobbyist or agent of any Russian company” during the presidential campaign. Sessions was a...