Michael Isikoff
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George Conway: Republican Party has become a 'personality cult' under Trump
George Conway, the husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, said the GOP has become “a personality cult” under President Trump and that he would “move to Australia” rather than vote for Trump again.
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Scaramucci: I couldn't improve Trump's relations with press because 'the fish does stink from the head down'
President Trump’s former communications director said his attempts to smooth the White House’s relations with the media failed because of the tone set at the very top.
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'Skullduggery': Washington think tank says 'no' to Saudi funds
A prominent Washington think tank will stop taking money from Saudi Arabia as a result of the apparent murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, its chairman said.
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Khashoggi friend says journalist angered Saudi government with column during its 'charm campaign'
Jamal Khashoggi's friend Khaled Saffuri tells the Yahoo News podcast "Skullduggery" what the Washington Post columnist may have done to provoke the ire of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and the Saudi royal family.
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From Gary Hart to Donald Trump: How politics went tabloid
Three decades ago, a single news story about a presumed extramarital affair upended a U.S. presidential campaign.
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Russian plot to kill defector began with a false story of his death
The CIA's former Moscow chief believes the false story of a Russian defector's death was likely part of a plot to kill him.
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The go-between in the Trump Tower meeting offers clue to 'golden shower' claim in dossier
Rob Goldstone, who set up the 2016 meeting between a Kremlin-linked lawyer and Trump campaign officials, shares his theory.
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A Rosenstein departure could raise new conflict-of-interest issues for Justice Dept.
If Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein gets fired or resigns, the chain of command gets murky.
Yahoo NewsPublicist wonders if he was 'patsy' in Trump Tower meeting
Publicist Rob Goldstone wrote an email to Donald Trump Jr. that interested special counsel Robert Mueller's prosecutors.
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Ken Starr on Trump: We're in 'abuse of power' territory
The ex-Whitewater independent counsel during the Clinton presidency sees parallels with the current president's attacks on Robert Mueller.
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Democrat: Trump's 'deranged' behavior is boosting bill to create panel that could remove him from office
Rep. Jamie Raskin says he is gaining support for legislation to create a panel that could remove the president from office.
Yahoo NewsTrump aide's lawyers: He lied to FBI to protect 'his master'
Lawyers for George Papadopoulos say he lied to the FBI because he was seeking a job in the Trump administration.
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Top Dem Swalwell: Exiting White House counsel McGahn coached aides on testimony
If Democrats retake control of the House, White House counsel Don McGahn may be called to testify.
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Cohen’s lawyer says senators failed to ask the right ‘follow-up questions’ in collusion probe
Michael Cohen’s lawyer Lanny Davis says that members of the Senate Intelligence Committee failed to ask the right “follow-up questions” when his client appeared before the panel last year and therefore failed to elicit crucial answers about President Trump’s prior knowledge of Russian hacking of Democratic
Yahoo NewsOmarosa Manigault Newman says she's ready to testify at Trump's impeachment trial
The fired White House staffer says she is ready to appear as a witness against the president.
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Inside Bannon's next campaign: Keep the House to save Trump
Former Donald Trump campaign chief Steve Bannon is set to roll out a new political nonprofit aimed at rallying the president’s political base with the message that if Democrats capture control of the House in this fall’s midterms, “they’re going to impeach him,” says a Bannon associate.
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Former Trump official: No one 'minding the store' at White House on cyberthreats
“On cyber, there is no clear person and or clear driver, and there is no clear muscle memory,” said Tom Bossert, who served as White House homeland security adviser until last April, in an interview with the Yahoo News podcast Skullduggery.
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NRA-linked Russian aide arrested, charged as foreign agent
Just hours after the disastrous summit in Helsinki, the FBI arrested a Russian gun-rights activist with links to the NRA and the Trump campaign and charged her as a foreign agent.
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Justice Department lays out its case against 12 Russian officers accused of hacking Democrats in 2016
The long-awaited indictment reveals startling new details about Russia’s 2016 election efforts -- including the leasing of U.S. based servers paid for with bitcoin — and fills out key gaps in the story of how top officials of one of Vladimir Putin’s premier intelligence services, known as the GRU, plotted
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Brett Kavanaugh's ex-boss: It's 'preposterous' to demand his recusal from Mueller cases
Timothy Flanigan, a deputy White House counsel during the George W. Bush administration, told Yahoo News that he sees no reason Brett Kavanaugh should have to recuse himself from cases involving the president who nominated him to SCOTUS.
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Watergate prosecutor: Mueller should 'promptly' file a report on Trump
Watergate senior counsel Philip Lacovara tells Yahoo News that Robert Mueller should have more than enough evidence to act and that any testimony from President Trump would be irrelevant.
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In rebuke to Trump, key Senate panel endorses finding that Russia attacked 2016 election
The Senate Intelligence Committee, rejecting doubts conveyed by President Trump as recently as last week, has become the latest body to officially conclude that the Russian government conducted a wide-ranging campaign — including cyberattacks — to influence the 2016 presidential election.
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Trump SCOTUS pick should be grilled about Mueller probe 'before their rear end hits the chair,' says top Dem strategist
A senior Democratic strategist says the first question for President Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court — before “their rear end hits the chair” — should be whether he or she was asked to pledge loyalty to the president on key issues related to special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation
Yahoo NewsRussian pop singer linked to Trump says music video was 'satire'
A surreal new You Tube video released by a Russian pop singer who is a key figure in the investigations into ties between the Kremlin and the 2016 Trump campaign was a “satire” making fun of “some of the things I’ve been accused of,” the singer said Wednesday.
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Key Democrat: Trump advisers 'lied through their teeth' when testifying about Russia contacts
A top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee says he believes longtime Donald Trump adviser Roger Stone and an associate “lied through their teeth” when they testified before his panel and they both should be investigated for perjury. Swalwell focused on recent revelations that, at Caputo’s instigation
