Michael Cohen Has Undoubtedly Changed. To Whose Benefit?
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Jack Quinn, Lobbyist and White House Counsel for Clinton, Dies at 74
Jack Quinn, a Washington insider who served as White House counsel during the Clinton administration, helped found a bipartisan lobbying firm and became embroiled in scandal after securing a last-minute presidential pardon for the fugitive financier Marc Rich, died on May 8 at his home in Washington, D.C. He was 74.
Trump’s Jet Clipped a Parked Plane in Florida
Former President Donald J. Trump landed in Cincinnati on Wednesday for a campaign fund-raiser, but without his ubiquitous Boeing 757, which had clipped a parked plane as it was taxiing at a Florida airport early on Sunday morning.
'Politics for profit': Prosecutor calls Sen. Bob Menendez 'corrupt' in opening statements of bribery case
Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., abused his position as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to "put greed first," a federal prosecutor told jurors Wednesday during opening statements in the senator's bribery trial.
Mitt Romney says Biden should have pardoned Trump as he rips ‘embarrassing’ Republicans flocking to trial
Senator Mitt Romney said Joe Biden should have pardoned Donald Trump after the Justice Department brought election-interference charges and pressured New York prosecutors to drop the case over alleged hush-money payments.
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'I'm really curious about the dog': Trump weighs in on Kristi Noem at a private fundraiser
Donald Trump told a room of wealthy donors in Manhattan on Tuesday night that he had questions about Cricket, the 14-month-old wirehaired pointer who was shot and killed by South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, an account that has haunted Noem as the race to be Trump’s running mate heats up.
Opening statements get under way in Bob ‘Gold Bar’ Menendez’s bribery trial
The corruption and bribery trial of embattled New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez officially got under on Wednesday afternoon with opening statements in the case.