December 2, 2020 7:21 am
By Adrienne Cobb
Pardon-palooza President Trump pardoned his former national security adviser Michael Flynn on Wednesday, excusing him from charges of lying to the FBI in 2017. While Flynn’s flip-flop plea change and AG Barr’s intervention got the most news coverage, we should focus on the origin of the case itself: the lie. Flynn lied about […]
November 25, 2020 7:25 am
By Adrienne Cobb
Transition After weeks of delay, General Services Administration (GSA) chief Emily Murphy authorized the start of the presidential transition. However, in a letter to Biden, Murphy does not address him as “president-elect” and does not explicitly express “ascertainment” that Biden and Harris won the election. Instead, Murphy skips over that standard part […]
November 17, 2020 7:52 am
By Adrienne Cobb
Post-election On Saturday, Trump announced on Twitter that he has put his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani in charge of his campaign’s long-shot post-election legal challenges. Other people on the team include Joseph diGenova, Victoria Toensing, Sidney Powell, and Jenna Ellis. Giuliani worked with a Russian agent to smear Biden. diGenova and Toensing tried […]
November 12, 2020 6:44 am
By Adrienne Cobb
What’s next Each state will “certify” its results — between now and December 8. The Electoral College meets to “vote” on December 14. Congress meets in joint session to “count” the Electoral College’s votes on January 6. Emily Murphy, administrator of the General Services Administration, is refusing to sign a […]
November 3, 2020 9:48 am
By Adrienne Cobb
Trump money and properties Deutsche Bank is reportedly seeking to cut ties with President Donald Trump after the election. According to Reuters, bank executives are tired of “the negative publicity stemming from the ties” to the Trump family. Deutsche Bank could seek to sell or demand repayment of about $340 million in […]
November 2, 2020 2:42 pm
By Scott Stedman
President Trump’s personal attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani quietly met with a Kremlin-insider days after being informed that the Russian authorities had obtained damaging information on Hunter Biden, Forensic News can reveal. Lev Parnas, Giuliani’s former confidant and partner in the search for material on the Bidens, confirmed to Forensic News […]
October 26, 2020 9:31 am
By Adrienne Cobb
Trump’s hit job fizzles Emails and photos purportedly belonging to Hunter Biden were circulating in Ukraine last year at the same time that Rudy Giuliani was in the country searching for dirt on Joe Biden. Two people said they were approached with Hunter’s alleged emails, first in May 2019 and second in September […]
October 22, 2020 1:31 pm
By Scott Stedman
Senator Ron Johnson recently accepted a packet of information from disgraced former Ukrainian prosecutor Kostiantyn Kulyk, in what appears to be the most recent example of a Russian-backed disinformation campaign targeting Johnson’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. In the files sent to Johnson and exclusively obtained by Forensic News, […]