Elections 2016

Conservatives are furious that 'American Horror Story' is portraying Trump fans as a violent cult

The seventh season of "American Horror Story" on the FX network has sent conservatives into a rage over its portrayal of President Donald Trump's supporters as a dangerous, violent cult.

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Facebook says Russian-based operation spent $150K on ads leading up to 2016 election: report

On Wednesday, Politico reported that an influence operation with suspected ties to Russia spent $150,000 promoting politically divisive posts for a two-year period that ended in May.

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Kellyanne Conway: Trump will 'unify' country by helping the hurricane victims who didn't vote for him

White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway said on Sunday that President Donald Trump is the unifying force who will bring the country together with his handling of the Hurricane Harvey disaster.

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Rex Tillerson orders Russia to close U.S. compounds after Trump 'thanks' Putin for expelling 100s of diplomats

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Thursday ordered Russia to close three buildings in the United States in response to Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision to expel hundreds of U.S. diplomats from his country.

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Trump tried unsuccessfully to open Moscow Trump Tower complex during 2016 election

Even as he campaigned for president, Donald Trump and his business associates were trying to open a Moscow Trump Tower, but they were unsuccessful, said The Washington Post on Sunday night.

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CNN rejects Trump 2020 campaign ad that says Anderson Cooper and Don Lemon are 'enemies'

CNN has reportedly refused to air an advertisement created by Donald Trump's 2020 campaign for president.

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FBI monitored social media on Election Day after suspecting Russian disinformation campaign

CNN has an explosive report that the FBI was watching in real time on social media (both Facebook and Twitter) as fake news stories flooded the sites.

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Grand jury issues subpoenas connected to Trump Jr.'s 2016 Russia meeting: report

Reuters is reporting that grand jury subpoenas have been issued in conjunction with a meeting in June of 2016 attended by President Donald Trump's son Donald Jr., Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

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'Sleazy': Trump blows up at top Dem investigating Russia minutes before Kushner speaks to committee

President Donald Trump on Monday lashed out at Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, just minutes before his son-in-law Jared Kushner was expected to speak to a congressional committee about Trump campaign contacts with Russia.

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Fox's Judge Jeanine: If the devil had dirt on an opponent I'd be 'on the first trolley to Hell'

Fox News host Jeanine Pirro said on Sunday made an interesting admission with regards to her morals around electoral help from hostile foreign powers or other unsavory sources.

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South Carolina's voter registration system was hit by 150,000 hack attempts on Election Day: report

Hackers made nearly 150,000 attempts to break into South Carolina's voter registration system on Election Day 2016, according to a report from that state's election commission.

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Ex-Clinton staffer recalls 'surreal' experience of trying to warn email-obsessed press about Russian meddling

A former staffer from Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign said it was "surreal" trying to get media outlets to care about Russian election meddling when all they wanted to talk about during the presidential race was hacked emails from the DNC and Clinton's use of a private email server during her time as U.S. Secretary of State.

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'You have no evidence': Trump lawyer Sekulow's Donald Jr. spin gets shot down on CNN

CNN's Chris Cuomo was relentless in calling out President Donald Trump's personal attorney Jay Sekulow for hypocrisy and diminishing the seriousness of a foreign power meddling in an American election on Wednesday's edition of CNN's "New Day."

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