Former President Donald Trump responded to new allegations that he deliberately misled his own attorneys as they dealt with investigations into his handling and retention of classified documents after leaving the White House. ABC News reported on Friday, based on unnamed sources, that outgoing D.C. Federal Judge Beryl Howell had ruled in a sealed filing […]
Special Counsel Jack Smith, the special appointee investigating former President Donald Trump, has been seeking the communications records of various Republican lawmakers in a broader investigation into the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Smith was appointed as special counsel in November of last year. He was primarily tasked with investigating Trump’s […]
Robert K. Hur, the special counsel appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland to lead the probe into President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents, is a former federal prosecutor with a “long and distinguished career,” according to Garland. “As U.S. Attorney, [Hur] supervised some of the Department’s more important national security, public corruption, and other […]
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the appointment of a special counsel on Thursday after lawyers for President Joe Biden found potentially classified documents at his former office space at the Penn Biden Center in November and in his Deleware home in December. The Biden White House disclosed the discovery of documents at the Penn Biden […]
Former President Donald Trump has branded as a “sham” a Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation into his handling of classified documents and the Jan. 6 breach. And he won’t cooperate with it, Trump spokesperson Liz Harrington said in an interview that aired on NTD’s Newsmakers on Nov. 23. On Nov. 15, Trump announced his candidacy […]
President Donald Trump spokeswoman Liz Harrington tells Newsmakers about the Department of Justice special counsel chosen to investigate Trump, and the likely role the special counsel will try to play regarding Trump’s campaign for president. She also talks about why she thinks Trump is the best candidate to run in 2024.
Concerns are growing about the legality and potential conflict of interest surrounding the Justice Department’s appointment of a special counsel into investigations of Former President Donald Trump. NTD spoke to Mike Davis, the former Chief Counsel for Nominations to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley and the founder and president of the Article III Project, for […]
The Biden administration has appointed a special counsel for a probe into former President Donald Trump. Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who appointed special counsel Robert Muller, calls it a “discretionary decision,” not an obvious necessity. Concerns are surfacing that the appointment is an attempt to eat up Trump’s time he would otherwise use […]
More than 30 Republican senators have called on Attorney General Merrick Garland to give the federal prosecutor investigating Hunter Biden special counsel protections, arguing that such a move would help assure the American people that the probe is free from political influence amid widespread allegations of bias at the Department of Justice (DOJ). The president’s […]
News Analysis A supplemental court filing by special counsel John Durham confirms previous reporting that Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General Michael Horowitz concealed crucial information from Durham in connection with two separate investigations—the ongoing prosecution of former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann and the criminal leak investigation of former FBI General Counsel James Baker. […]
