LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Juliegrace Brufke GOP Arizona Sen. John McCain said he doesn’t believe there are similarities between former President Ronald Reagan and President Donald Trump. During an appearance on CNN’s “The Axe Files,” host David Axelrod inquired on whether he saw a parallel between the two entertainer-turned-politicians. “No, I don’t,” McCain…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Richard Pollock John Podesta, national chairman of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, may have opened himself up to a Russian “influence campaign” designed to temper his views of the Kremlin, the Daily Caller News Foundation (TheDCNF) Investigative Group has learned. Influence campaigns are conducted by…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Saagar Enjeti Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort worked to advance Russian government interests for a billionaire as early as 2005, The Associated Press reports. Manafort was employed to the tune of 10 million dollars a year by Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch allied with Russian President Vladimir Putin…
by Grant M. Deltz Associate Editor Intercepted phone calls and phone records have surfaced showing proof that members of President Donald J. Trump’s 2016 campaign, as well as other Trump associates, had been in constant contact with senior Russian intelligence officials in the year prior to Trump’s election. The communication between the two parties was…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Russ Read President-elect Donald Trump plans to offer reduced sanctions on Russia in exchange for a nuclear arms reduction deal, but he also expressed criticism with Russia’s policies in the Middle East. Trump mulled the idea of ending sanctions placed on Russia due to its illegal annexation of Crimea…
By Russ Read Future Secretary of Defense Gen. James Mattis removed former Army Lt. Gen. and future National Security Advisor Mike Flynn from his intelligence role in Afghanistan, according to Army documents obtained by the Washington Post. Mattis removed Flynn from his position in 2010 after Flynn was investigated by Central Command (CENTCOM) for sharing classified…
by Russ Read Obama administration officials lobbied against a bill that would have sanctioned Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad for war crimes in order to salvage Secretary of State John Kerry’s failed ceasefire with Russia, according to reports. The Caesar Syria Protection Act, named after the Syrian defector who documented 55,000 pictures exhibiting Assad’s torture and…
by Saagar Enjeti Russian President Vladimir Putin is celebrating big wins by his party in recent parliamentary elections by placing all Russian security agencies under a next generation KGB prototype. The new agency will reportedly be called the “MGB.” The MGB will consolidate both domestic and foreign intelligence operations under the same roof, along with law…
by Saagar Enjeti Russian President Vladimir Putin denied culpability for the hacks of prominent Democrat organizations and called WikiLeaks dump of documents a public service, Bloomberg News reported Thursday. “There’s no need to distract the public’s attention from the essence of the problem by raising some minor issues connected with the search for who did it,”…
By Robert F. DeFinis Just when you thought that the election season had reached the pinnacle of nonsense, you have the DNC this week sending in the clowns. What was supposed to be a slam dunk for the donkeys, and most likely a significant convention bump based on the Republicans theatrical rendition of Dante’s Inferno last…