Sam Nunberg, who helped launch Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in 2015, embarked on a surreal, daylong media blitz in which he defiantly dared special counsel Robert Mueller to arrest him, called the president “stupid” and suggested Trump colluded with Russia to undermine the 2016 election.
A right-wing conspiracy theory that suggests the Florida school shooting last weeks was an FBI plot to seize more power is gaining in popularity.
BuzzFeed has hired a former top FBI and White House cybersecurity expert to lead a team trying to verifying parts of the controversial, disputed Steele dossier that suggested Russia had compromising information on President Trump.
A suburban Detroit man was arrested on felony charges after police say he threatened to carry out a mass shooting at CNN headquarters over what he considered fake news, echoing President Trump’s relentless attacks on the network and other media outlets.
The campaign to discredit the special counsel investigation into potential ties between Donald Trump’s presidency and Russia has intensified as the probe reaches the president’s inner circle.
The FBI incensed news organizations after reporters discovered the bureau used special agents to impersonate a journalist to help capture a suspect in a string of anonymous bomb threats in 2007 by creating fake news.
The FBI does not have to publicly reveal how it hacked into an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino, Calif., terrorists in an attack that killed 14 people, a federal judge has ruled.
President Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, is urging the Justice Department’s inspector general to investigate who leaked to the media information about the FBI conducting several wiretap probes of him, Bloomberg reports.
