Trump Campaign Manager Hires Crisis Communications Firm Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort has hired a crisis communications firm. The move by Manafort to hire a crisis communications firm comes one day after the FBI Director revealed the existence of a counter intelligence investigation into the Trump campaign for collusion with the Russian government. Manafort has faced scruteny over his ties to Russian-linked groups including the pro-Russian former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych. According to the Hill Manafort’s new spokesperson Jason Maloni said, “Paul retained me recently because he was getting a lot of media inquiries. Having some support in...

Jake Tapper Smacks Down Fox News On Twitter CNN host Jake Tapper on Tuesday smacked down Fox News’s morning show Fox and Friends for downplaying FBI Director James Comey’s congressional testimony Monday during which he disclosed that the FBI is investigating the Trump campaign’s connections to the Russian government. The “Fox & Friends” Twitter account earlier Tuesday suggested Comey’s appearance before the House Intelligence Committee wasn’t very consequential. “If you missed yesterday’s congressional hearing with FBI Dir. James Comey, you didn’t miss much…,” the tweet reads. Well Jake Tapper shut that down pretty quickly by saying, “False. Quite consequential. FBI confirmed it...

FBI Obtained Wiretap For Trump Tower In 2013 Russian Mob Case: Report The FBI obtained a court-approved wiretap for two years starting in 2011 and ending in 2013 to surveil a Russian organized crime network that was operating out of Trump Tower. According to an ABC News report, ABC News reported that the FBI’s investigation into the Russian mobsters led “to a federal grand jury indictment of more than 30 people, including one of the world’s most notorious Russian mafia bosses, Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov.” Tokhtakhounov was able to evade arrest in 2013, however he did appear publicly Donald Trump’s Miss Universe pageant in...

Rachel Maddow Beats Fox News For Second Straight Week The Rachel Maddow Show finished first in the ratings among the cable news shows for a second straight week in the key 25 to 54 year old demo. The Rachel Maddow Show averaged 756,000 in the coveted demo for the week of March 13 to 17. Maddow’s show delivered an average 2.92 million total viewers for the week, which is the most for The Rachel Maddow Show since 2008. On Tuesday March 14, when Maddow unveiled Donald Trump’s 2005 tax return her show achieved 4.1 total million viewers and 1.4...

Marine Corps Knew About Nude Photos In 2014 It turns out that the nude photo scandal the Marine Corps is facing reaches all the way back to 2014 when the Marines were first informed about the photos. According to a report in Task & Purpose, the Marine Corps knew about the websites dating back to 2014. “Virtually every day for the past few years, pictures of women in the military have been posted on public Facebook pages. “Smash or pass?” the caption will usually read, asking the fans of the page to comment on the attractiveness of the woman...

Trump Campaign Manager Laundered Money From Russia-Backed Party In Ukraine: Report Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort laundered payments from the from a Russian-backed Ukrainian political party using offshore accounts, according to a new report by the Washington Post. Manafort is being accused of using offshore accounts in Belize and Kyrgystan to launder $750,000 from the party of the former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych who fled to Russia after being forced to leave office. According to the Washington Post, “The new documents, if legitimate, stem from business ties between the Trump aide, Paul Manafort, and the party of former Ukrainian president Viktor...

Seth Meyers Makes Hilarious Game Of Thrones Joke About Trump’s ‘Crazy’ Tweets In The Middle Of Comey Hearing Seth Meyers slammed Donald Trump for his “crazy” Twitter behavior in the middle of the FBI Director’s Congressional Testimony today. “The FBI, as part of our counterintelligence mission, is investigating the Russian government’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election—and that includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian government, and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and Russia’s efforts,” Comey told Congress.” “That is a huge, huge deal,...

Tillerson To Skip NATO Meeting Next Month, Visiting Russia Instead Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will be skipping next month’s NATO meeting in Brussels it was reported Monday night. Tillerson will be staying stateside to attend Donald Trump’s get-together with Chinese President Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago. Tillerson will then head to Russia at the end of April, Reuters reported. The Reuters report noted, “The decisions to skip the NATO meeting and to visit Moscow risked feeding a perception that Trump may be putting U.S. dealings with big powers before those of smaller nations that depend on Washington for their security,...

Dan Rather: Time To Start Praying For The Future Of Your Country Legendary journalist Dan Rather posted on his Facebook page Monday evening that it is time to start praying for the future of your country. Rather’s post comes after it was revealed during congressional testimony that the FBI is investigating collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government in the 2016 election interference efforts. Rather said that he has seen a lot over the years but that he has not seen anything like what he saw today. Rather also marveled at the statements by FBI Director Comey...

FBI Investigating Whether Right Wing News Websites Contributed To Russia’s Interference Efforts: Report The FBI is investigating whether right wing news websites helped contribute to Russia’s 2016 election interference, according to a new report. The investigation is focused on discovering whether Russian operatives used conservative outlets to help spread stories favoring Donald Trump, McClatchy reported on Monday. According to the McClatchy, Russian operatives times the use of bots to blitz social media with pro-Trump stories when Donald Trump “was on the defensive in his race against Democrat Hillary Clinton, these sources said.” The Russian bots created millions of posts on Twitter...