By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Will Glaspy, who recently took charge of the DEA’s Houston office, is no stranger to the drug battle. Glaspy has spent more than decade battling drug traffickers along the Texas border, reports Click2Houston.com. He tells the station the Mexican cartels still have a strong presence in the Texas region. Below is…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The conservative media, including radio host Rush Limbaugh, is pushing back, trying to discredit special counsel Robert S. Mueller III and the indictments announced on Monday. “None of this is real,” Limbaugh told his radio on Monday, according to a report by NPR. When a listener suggested Mueller had “gone rogue”…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI has opened a preliminary inquiry into the $300 million Whitefish Energy Holdings contract secured by the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, which has ties to the Trump administration, CNN reports. The Montana energy firm was contracted to rebuild the damaged electrical grid that was destroyed by hurricanes that struck…
George Papadopoulos, a former foreign policy adviser to President Trump, is the first campaign aide to plead guilty as part of the special counsel’s widening investigation into possible collusion between the president’s associates and the Russian government.
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The federal investigation of President Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, began as far back as 2012 because of suspicions of money laundering and serious questions about his relationship with the Ukrainian regime close to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The probe centered on at least 13 wire transfers between 2012 and…
President Trump responded to news about an escalation in the special counsel investigation into possible collusion between his campaign and Russia by pointing the finger at Hillary Clinton, Democrats, “evil politics,” former FBI Director James Comey and the media.
President Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort surrendered to federal authorities, marking the first arrest as part of a special counsel investigation into possible collusion between Trump’s campaign and Russia to disrupt the presidential election.
