By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Yes, the ban on bump stocks is real. Hours before a federal rule banning the possession of bump stocks came into effect on Tuesday, Texas-based gun accessory retailer RW Arms announced it was voluntarily turning over its entire inventory of 60,000 unsold devices to ATF for destruction, the website The Trace reports. The…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos testified to Congress that the FBI asked him to wear a wire in 2017, but he refused, CNN reports. Papdopoulos told lawmakers of the wire last October. The FBI wanted him to record his conversations with a professor who had ties to Russia and claimed…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ah. The twists and turns inside the Beltway. Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham told CNN on Monday that once Sen. John McCain was given the controversial Steele dossier, he encouraged McCain to forward it to the FBI, Axios reports. Those remarks come in wake of President Donald Trump’s disparaging remarks about McCain and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos is attempting to clear his name in his new book, according to the Wall Street Journal. In “Deep State Target,” Papadopoulos writes in his interactions with special counsel Robert Mueller’s team of investigators that he was duped by FBI agents into admitting guilt for lying…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com This was the moment President Donald Trump was waiting for: The end of the Mueller probe and an opportunity to trash the investigation. “It was a complete and total exoneration,” he said. “It’s a shame that our country had to go through this. To be honest, it’s a shame your president…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Former FBI Assistant Director Frank Figliuzzi calls the Mueller report “perhaps the brightest day of the Trump Presidency so far.” Figliuzzi, who spent 25 years at the FBI and worked alongside Robert Mueller, tells News 4 Tucson’s Eric Fink he’s surprised by Mueller’s decision to let Attorney General William Barr make the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Robert S. Mueller III’s report concludes that President Trump nor any of his aides conspired or coordinated with the Russian government’s 2016 election interference, according to a summary of the special counsel’s key findings made public on Sunday by Attorney General William P. Barr, the New York Times reports. “[T]he investigation did not…
