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In the interview Monday, Trump Jr. said the session lasted 20 minutes, and maintained the central focus was on adoptions — even as he conceded the Clinton dirt was how the Russian lawyers secured the meeting in the first place. “(Adoptions) was the primary thing that we had spoken about in the meeting,” Trump Jr. […]

In stunning testimony, Gates stated he and Manafort had 15 foreign accounts they did not report to the federal government, and knew it was illegal. Gates said he did not submit the required forms “at Mr. Manafort’s direction.” Gates then admitted that he also turned the tables on Manafort — cheating him out of “several […]Read More

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In potentially the key moment of Manafort’s tax and bank fraud trial, special counsel Robert Mueller’s star witness, Rick Gates, took the stand Monday for 78 minutes of blockbuster testimony. He lifted the lid on what is claimed to be a web of financial crimes that mocked taxpayers and bankrolled Manafort’s life of opulence — […]Read More

1. The day the courtroom was waiting for Gates came out swinging from the witness box. Without smiling or pausing, he told the jury he had knowingly committed crimes “at Mr. Manafort’s direction.” This was the testimony that close watchers of Manafort’s troubles have been waiting for since Gates flipped in February. Murmurs ran through […]Read More

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Listen: Zuckerberg on Holocaust deniers Mark Zuckerberg’s sister Randi, weighing in on her brother’s controversial comments about Holocaust deniers, forcefully denounced such people and “their hateful, disgusting rhetoric.” But she said banning them from social media “will not make them go away,” and she emphasized the importance of a healthy debate over the role tech […]Read More