U.S. extracted top spy from inside Russia because of concern Trump mishandles classified intelligence (Updated)

The United States Intelligence Community is operating on the working presumption that Donald Trump is a national security risk who cannot be entrusted with highly classified national security information. The president of the United States is a national security risk to the United States. Period. Full stop. (If there truly was a “deep state” conspiracy … Read more

Grifters gotta grift: Trump wants the G-7 in 2020 at his struggling Trump National Doral Golf Resort (Updated)

Here is a direct challenge to the Emoluments Clause of the U.S. Constitution. Trump says his Miami resort would be ‘great location’ for next year’s G-7: President Donald Trump on Monday floated the possibility of holding next year’s G-7 summit at his golf resort in Miami. Miami is a “great location” for next year’s summit, … Read more

How Russia uses economic influence and leverage to undermine US national security

As I’ve said before, “At some point the Russians figured out that the best way to defeat America is by old-fashioned capitalism and corruption: find easily corruptible politicians in key positions of power and simply buy them, through bribery or with campaign contributions.” “Moscow Mitch” McConnell took a beating this week in investigative journalism from the … Read more