The Daily Populous

Monday March 4th, 2019 morning edition

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Schiff added: “They offer that dirt.

There is an acceptance of that offer in writing from the president’s son, Don Jr., and there is overt acts and furtherance of that… That to me is direct evidence.”.

READ: MICHAEL COHEN'S PREPARED OPENING STATEMENT BEFORE HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE.

Schiff, however, stopped short of calling for impeachment.

"That is something that we will have to await Bob Mueller's report and the underlying evidence to determine.

Last month Schiff announced a broad new investigation looking not only at Russian interference, but also at Trump's foreign financial interests.

The committee interviewed Cohen in private on Thursday and will finish the interview this coming Wednesday. »

Trump ordered to pay legal fees after losing court battle over his Scottish golf course

Authored by thinkprogress.org
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President Donald Trump will have to pay the Scottish government’s legal fees after a lengthy court dispute over a wind power development project near his golf resort that ended in a victory for Scotland in 2015.

Judges in Scotland ruled last week that the Trump International Golf Club Scotland Ltd must pay the legal costs of the court case, which began when Trump sued the government while he was running for president.

The case eventually made its way to the U.K. Supreme Court in 2015, which rejected Trump’s case, allowing the Scottish government to move ahead with the project. »

Bernie Sanders: Trump is the most dangerous president in modern American history

Authored by irishtimes.com
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Bernie Sanders has begun his presidential campaign by proclaiming that he is the Democrat best prepared to beat US president Donald Trump in 2020.

Speaking just miles from the rent-controlled apartment where he grew up in Brooklyn, Mr Sanders forcefully made the case that he is nothing like fellow New Yorker Mr Trump.

Mr Sanders has never shied from attacking Mr Trump in stark terms, and during his speech at Brooklyn College he called the US leader “the most dangerous president in modern American history” and said Mr Trump wants to “divide us up”. »