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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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 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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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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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 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 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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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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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.




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Mueller team indicts 12 Russian agents for hacking Clinton campaign

A dozen Russian intelligence officers are facing new U.S. federal indictments alleging they hacked into American computers with the intention of interfering with the 2016 election.




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Roger Stone says he's the 'U.S. person' mentioned in Mueller's indictment of 12 Russian agents

News of the indictments was announced at the Justice Department in Washington, DC during a press conference held by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.




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Russian gun activist 'infiltrated US political organizations'

Maria Butina, 29, was arrested in Washington D.C. and charged with acting as a foreign agent on orders from the Kremlin - a direct allegation of election interference.




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Trump's intelligence chief slams president's doubt on Russia meddling

Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats is countering his boss, President Donald Trump, and doubling down on the assertion that Russia interfered in the 2016 election.




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Putin offers to interrogate his spies accused of election meddling

President Vladimir Putin has offered to have 12 Russians spies accused of interfering in the presidential election interrogated but in Russia and by Russians.




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Trump defends himself on Putin in emergency statement

Trump in a major retreat that administration said that he misspoke at his Helsinki summit when he said that he did not have 'any reason' to think that Russia meddled in the 2016 election.




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Trump claims he confronted Putin on meddling in the 2016 election

President Donald Trump is taking a much tougher line on Russian President Vladimir Putin in a new television interview than he did just days ago in Helsinki at Putin's side.




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Jane Fonda slams Trump for denying Putin played a part in election

US President Trump has faced criticism after he refused to confront Russian President Vladimir Putin over meddling in the US election at their Helsinki summit earlier this week.




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Trump told about Putin's election meddling weeks before inauguration

Weeks before President Donald Trump took office, the nation's top spy chiefs, pictured., warned him they information that Russian President Vladimir Putin had directed his nation's election hacking effort.




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Hillary Clinton had dinner with Harvey Weinstein after election loss

Photos of Hillary Clinton having dinner with longtime pal Harvey Weinstein weeks after her election loss have emerged.




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Giuliani says his team negotiating with Mueller on possible interview

Special Counsel Robert Mueller has offered to limit the number of obstruction-related questions Trump would be asked by investigators but doesn't want him to just provide written answers.




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Trump's top evangelical ally Falwell Jr attacks Sessions as a 'phony'

Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr. joined President Trump's attack on Attorney General Jeff Sessions, calling him a 'phony' and even slamming his visit to the school.




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Brennan: Trump revoked security clearance to hide Russia collusion

Answering charges that he is only targeting a list of his political opponents, Trump claimed he 'would put a Republican on, too, if I thought they were incompetent or crazy.'




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Lawyer says Cohen has information that may interest Robert Mueller

Lanny Davis, lawyer for former Trump fixer Michael Cohen, said during an interview on CNN Tuesday that his client may have information related to Russian meddling.




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Trump tweets 'no collusion' after Cohen and Manafort are brought down

President Trump penned the tweet after what many had called the darkest day of his presidency following the guilty verdict against Paul Manafort and the guilty plea by Michael Cohen.




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Bolton warns Russia over election meddling before heading to Kiev

John Bolton met with Russian counterpart Nikolai Patrushev in Geneva on Thursday, when the pair discussed election meddling, Syria, Iran, North Korea and nuclear weapons.




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Thiel: Trump was the only Republican candidate who wasn't a 'zombie'

Speaking at an event on entrepreneurship in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Monday, Peter Thiel claimed Trump was a 'very healthy corrective' to the problem of political correctness in politics.




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Mueller snubs Trump attorneys' letter setting out interview conditions

Mueller has not responded to a weeks-old letter from Trump's legal team, suggesting the president's testimony isn't needed or investigators are tracking down new leads.




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George Papadopoulos says his testimony could help prove collusion between Trump campaign and Russia

George Papadopoulos. who tired to arrange a meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, said his testimony could help prove collusion.




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Trump touts strong economic growth and says Dems would have tanked it

President Trump is using the strong performance of the American economy as a weapon against Democrats, claiming growth would not be so high if they had won the 2016 election.