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Trump hints DOJ spied on campaign but Giuliani says 'we don't know'

The president poured gasoline on an already roaring political bonfire, suggesting he believes the FBI planted 'at least one' spy in his campaign in order to derail his White Houe aspirations.




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Chris Christie: Trump's six months were a 's*** show'

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie thinks the first six months of Donald Trump's administration were a 's*** show,' and doesn't want him to sit down with special counsel Robert Mueller.




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Trump says a government spy infiltrated his 2016 election campaign

An FBI informant was acting as 'secret spy' in the Trump election campaign, but he was not planted. A retired professor working for the Government met with three Trump aides in 2016.




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Is this the FBI informant who 'spied' on the Trump campaign?

Former Cambridge University professor Stefan Halper met with two Trump advisers suspected of dealing with the Russians in 2016, prompting claims he was acting as an FBI agent.




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Trump demands look at whether FBI or DoJ 'infiltrated' his campaign

President Trump is demanding his Justice Department examine whether his 2016 presidential campaign was 'infiltrated or surveilled' by the FBI, he announced on Sunday.




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Roger Stone says he is 'prepared' for an indictment from Mueller

Roger Stone, the self-described Republican ‘political dirty trickster’ and supporter of President Donald Trump, says he is ‘prepared’ in case he is indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.




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Justice Department orders internal probe of 'political motivation' behind spying on Trump campaign

Following Trump's demand that the DOJ investigate his allegation that the Obama administration's FBI 'infiltrated or surveilled' his 2016 campaign, the agency said it will formally probe those claims.




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Trump meets with FBI director, Rosenstein & DNI after demand for probe

The planned sit-down is to discuss a response to congressional requests. Trump is expected to bring up his demand, however, that DOJ examine whether his campaign was 'infiltrated or surveilled'.




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GOP pays half a million dollars for law firm representing Hope Hicks

The Republican Party has paid half a million dollars to the law firm representing Hope Hicks, the former Trump aide who admitted she sometimes lied to help her then-boss Donald Trump.




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GOP: We need second special counsel to investigate FBI spying on Trump

Three members of the House Freedom Caucus will introduce a 12-page resolution on Tuesday calling for a new probe to run in parallel with one led by Robert Mueller.




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Kirstjen Nielsen was unaware Russia's election meddling was for Trump

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said she was unaware of intelligence assessments concluding that Russia favored President Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.




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There was another 'informant' trying to infiltrate Trump camp : Ex-aide

There was at least one additional 'informant' who tried to infiltrate Donald Trump's presidential campaign, it was revealed by a former aide Michael Caputo, who has long Russia ties.




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Intel chiefs will brief only GOP lawmakers on Trump campaign 'spying'

Top intelligence agency officials will brief Republican lawmakers on Thursday on a confidential FBI source who acted as an informant on the Trump presidential campaign.




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Lawyers to Mueller on Trump interview: No questions on post-election

President Donald Trump's legal team is trying to cut a deal on the president's potential interview with Mueller's team, pushing to keep any of Trump's actions after he won the presidency off the table.




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Trump claims 'spy' was embedded in 2016 presidential campaign

The tweets were the US President's latest attempt to use reports that an FBI informant met with three of his campaign advisers to accuse the bureau of pursuing political ends.




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Trump goes all-in on his Spygate claims saying he believes his campaign was snooped on by the FBI

'SPYGATE could be one of the biggest political scandals in history!' the president tweeted on Wednesday, gloating that it could be a comeuuppance for a partisan FBI that is investigating him.




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Trump goes after James Clapper for illegal 'spying' on his campaign

President Donald Trump volleyed another attack at former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, saying he was 'not happy' about what he termed 'spying' on his presidential campaign.




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Trump lauds Rod Rosenstein for combating MS-13

President Donald Trump lauded his deputy attorney general on Wednesday for combating a violent gang of criminal immigrants.




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White House will invite Democrats to top secret meeting 

Democratic leaders like Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi will be allowed inside the top secret White House meeting on the 2016 election




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Claim of second FBI spy in Trump campaign may be big misunderstanding

An impromptu conversation at a cocktail party could be behind the assertion from former Trump aide Michael Caputo that there was another informant sniffing around the campaign.




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Trump claims James Clapper 'admitted' spy was paid to target his campaign

'Clapper has now admitted that there was Spying in my campaign. Large dollars were paid to the Spy, far beyond normal,' Trump tweeted Thursday.




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Trump claims FBI is great but James Comey was a 'rotten apple'

Donald Trump hit back at James Comey again on Thursday morning as the fired FBI director entered a new war of words over the way the law enforcement agency operated under Comey's leadership.




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Dems insist they heard NOTHING in secret intel briefing that proves FBI snooped on Trump's campaign

Senior lawmakers attended classified briefings with intelligence officials on the FBI's probe of Russia's role in the 2016 election.




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Mueller bid for secrecy: Barest details risk blowing open Russia probe

Special counsel Robert Mueller is fighting for complete secrecy in his probe into Russia's role in the election and his arguments hint that his investigation is growing across multiple fronts.




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Roger Stone 'sought info on Hillary from Assange before election'

Longtime Trump adviser, Roger Stone (left), allegedly inquired about damaging information on Hillary Clinton from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (top right) before the 2016 election.




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Trump says Democrats' campaign spying was 'illegal'

Trump claims Democrats are splitting hairs in the semantics of determining whether the FBI used a 'spy' or an 'informant' to keep tabs on his presidential campaign.




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Trump claims FBI told Obama about Russian meddling before election

President Donald Trump has launched a stinging attack on former President Barack Obama, criticising his predecessor's lack of action over 'so-called Russian meddling'.




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Ex Trump adviser: 'two and perhaps more' FBI spies approached him

A former adviser to Donald Trump claims that 'two and perhaps more' informants approached him prior to the presidential election with information that would have 'jammed up' the campaign in some way.




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Mueller's Russia investigation bill hits $17 million

According to the U.S Department of Justice, special counsel Robert Mueller's probe racked up nearly $10 million in expenditure from October to March, the latest six-month accounting period.




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Trump again derides Mueller's investigation as a 'hoax'

Trump said hopped on a report that put the tab for the investigation that he called the 'Russian hoax' at $17 million.




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Inside the mysterious Wikistrat firm that Mueller is investigating

Wikistrat, a company that pitches itself as a crowdsourced geopolitical research firm, may actually be involved in intelligence-gathering on behalf of foreign governments, it has been reported.




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Trump says 'Spygate' campaign 'made Watergate look like Keystone Cop'

Donald Trump renewed his 'spygate' attacks by parroting claims on Fox that shamed agents Strzok and Page were hiring 'spies' to work on his campaign as early as December 2015.




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Jeff Sessions defends firing Comey ahead of Clinton email report

Jeff Sessions was speaking ahead of the inspector general's report on the Clinton email investigation, which is expected to blame 'insubordinate' James Comey.




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FBI lawyer working on Mueller probe texted: 'Viva le Resistance'

An FBI lawyer exchanged messages after the election with another colleague and proclaimed: 'Vive la resistance.'




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Trump: Decision to revoke Manafort's bail is 'very unfair'

Donald Trump has called the decision to revoke Paul Manafort's bail 'tough' and 'very unfair' after a federal judge sent the former campaign manager to await trial behind bars.




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Paul Manafort is listed as 'VIP' in Virginia jail

Manafort was booked into Northern Neck Regional Jail in Warsaw, Virginia at 8.22pm on Friday, after a federal judge revoked his bond ahead of a trial scheduled for September.




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Paul Manafort could 'never see the outside of a prison cell'

Former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman said Manafort's advance age, and the hefty sentences he could face from a U.S. federal judge, mean he could be behind bars for the rest of his life.




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Texas tax fraud convict jailed for five years for illegally voting in 2016 election denied retrial

Crystal Mason, a 43-year-old tax fraud convict and mother-of-two, voted in the 2016 election while on supervised release - unaware that she was ineligible under a Texas law.




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Trump slams FBI agent Peter Strzok as a 'sick loser'

In his latest Twitter rant Trump slammed Peter Strzok, who worked briefly on the Russia investigation but was removed from the probe when a report revealed he had sent anti-Trump text messages.




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Trump mocks 'Crooked Hillary' for losing election amid dispute over immigration

Donald Trump swatted back at his former presidential rival Hillary Clinton on Tuesday after she said in a speech that he was wrong about Germany's crime rate.




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GOP lawmaker charges FBI with changing witness forms in Clinton probe

A Republican congressman claimed there is 'growing evidence' the FBI altered witness reports in their investigations into Clinton's email server and in the Russia probe.




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Republican suggests Flynn pleaded guilty after TAMPERED evidence

The head of the conservative 'Freedom Caucus' says government investigators may have 'tampered' with evidence that helped secure fired National Security Advisor Mike Flynn's guilty plea.




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NSA leaker Reality Winner reaches plea deal

Winner, 26, has been scheduled to plead guilty in US District Court on June 26. She allegedly leaked a document about Russia cyber-attacks to The Intercept.




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Majority of Republicans say Trump should not pardon himself

Democrats and Republicans agree presidents should not pardon themselves and majorities of Americans in both parties believe Congress should impeach that president, poll finds.




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Trump says he'll talk to Putin about election meddling

The U.S. president says he also plans to talk to Putin about the civil war in Syria and Russia's incursion into Crimea when they meet on July 16 Helsinki, Finland.




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Farage rubbishes claims he is being investigated over links to Moscow

The ex Ukip leader said reports that special prosecutor Robert Mueller was investigating him and Ukip donor Arron Banks over links to Moscow were 'hysterical'.




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Trump 'feels' Russia interfered following election meddling report

President Trump seemed to claim last week that Russia was not involved in a conspiracy to disrupt the election, but the White House says he 'feels' that Putin's government did and 'didn't question that.'




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Moscow pop star Emin Agalarov denies he was agent of Russian collusion

Russian pop star Emin Agalarov admits he was the force behind the infamous Trump Tower meeting with Donald Trump Jr. but he denies he was trying to influence the election for Donald Trump.




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Trump says he'll bring up election meddling with Putin

President Donald Trump said he would once again raise the sensitive issue of election meddling with Russian President Vladimir Putin – then predicted his counterpart 'may deny it.'




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Spicer says DHS told Trump campaign Russia couldn't rig the election

In his upcoming book The Briefing: Politics, the Press and the President, detailing his time White House, Sean Spicer says DHS officials made the comments when Clinton was expected to win.