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President Donald Trump has fired the intelligence community’s chief watchdog, Michael Atkinson, who was the first to sound the alarm to Congress last September about an “urgent” complaint he’d received from an intelligence official involving Trump’s communications with Ukraine’s president. Trump formally notified the Senate and House intelligence committees of his intention to fire Atkinson and remove him from his duties, to take effect 30 days from Friday, according to two congressional officials and a copy of the letter obtained by POLITICO dated April 3. “This is to advise that I am exercising my power as President to remove from...

The Health and Human Services Department's watchdog will investigate the Trump administration's response to the coronavirus outbreak. A spokesperson for the HHS inspector general told the Washington Examiner that investigators will carry out at least five reviews “related to HHS’s planning and response of the COVID-19 outbreak.” The inquiries will scrutinize issues such as nationwide hospital responses, quarantine procedures, the training and protective gear provided to front-line health workers, nursing home standards amid a disease with an exponentially more deadly effect on the elderly and the already ill, and the ability to care for illegal border crossers and refugees during...

Former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone said that he met with a Russian man during the 2016 campaign who wanted President Trump to pay $2 million for damaging information on Hillary Clinton. The Washington Post reported Sunday that Stone met with the man in May 2016, in a meeting set up by Trump campaign aide Michael Caputo. The meeting was previously unreported. Stone told the Post that the man had requested Trump pay $2 million for dirt on Clinton, but that Stone rejected the offer. “You don’t understand Donald Trump,” Stone said he told the man. “He doesn’t pay for...

As shocking as the Justice Department inspector general’s report on the Hillary email investigation released earlier this week was, the truth is none of us should be surprised by it. I certainly wasn’t. Anyone who paid any attention at all to what was going on during the Obama years would know that what happened in the summer of 2016 within Obama’s Justice Department was the climax of an eight-year crescendo of partisan corruption, intent on protecting Obama’s legacy from Donald Trump. Eight years is a short time for the FBI to go from a respected institution to a partisan arm...

Tu August 16 - Trump hires Kellyanne Conway as new campaign manager F August 19 - Trump visits Louisiana flooding (both Hillary and Obama refuse to go) Su August 21 - In an interview, Rudy Giuliani mentions Hillary's health as an issue, after she does no campaigning at all in August M August 22 - Hillary's fake "pickle jar stunt" on Jimmy Kimmel Tu August 23 - new CNN meme starts, questioning Trump's health W August 24 - Hillary's bizarre "alt-right" speech (first time term is used) W August 31 - After being invited, Trump visits Mexican President Nieto for...