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Ana CeballosFebruary 17, 2018

Thirteen Russian nationals who posed as Americans in social media and courted pro-Trump political groups in Florida are accused of criminally interfering with the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, according to an indictment unsealed Friday. The Justice Department’s special counsel announced the indictment against the group of Russian social media trolls and operatives on Friday. But […]

Associated PressApril 13, 2017

President Donald Trump likes to boast that he hires only the best people. But his personnel choices keep coming back to haunt him. One of the people Trump hired for the White House was working as a foreign agent while advising him during the election. His campaign chairman caught the Justice Department’s attention for similarly […]

Associated PressMarch 2, 2017

Attorney General Jeff Sessions talked twice with Russia’s ambassador to the United States during the presidential campaign, the Justice Department confirmed, communications that spurred calls in Congress for him to recuse himself from an investigation into Russian interference in the U.S. election. Sessions, an early supporter of President Donald Trump‘s candidacy and a policy adviser […]

A.G. GancarskiFebruary 17, 2017

Bob Graham chaired the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee as it dealt with the events of Sept. 11, 2001, helming the Joint Congressional Inquiry into that sequence of terror attacks. On Friday, he called for the same type of investigation into the events of Nov. 8, 2016. Graham’s concern: Russian involvement in the 2016 United States […]

A.G. GancarskiJuly 28, 2016

Sen. Marco Rubio traveled throughout Florida Thursday reinforcing the U.S. Chamber of Commerce endorsement in local markets. Try as he might to ignore it, however, Donald Trump is a topic that keeps coming up in press gaggles, as it did in Jacksonville. The first question Rubio got, after an endorsement from the local and federal Chambers, had to […]

Blake DowlingJuly 27, 2016

Debbie Wasserman Schultz got to “Feel the Bern” from a hostile crowd of Florida delegates at the Democratic National Committee. Why were these Bern Victims so fired up? The email scandal, of course, which led to Schultz’s resignation. The pro-Clinton digital documentation revealed in this breach and scandal is a mess. There are several old school […]

Jac VerSteegApril 11, 2016

I confess I was delighted when I first saw the viral video of a woman berating Florida Gov. Rick Scott in a Gainesville Starbucks. This was an instance, I thought, of the underdog amateur defeating the villainous professional. It was the 1980 U.S. Hockey team beating the Russians. It was Jamie Lee Curtis escaping Michael […]

Jac VerSteegApril 10, 2016

I confess I was delighted when I first saw the viral video of a woman berating Florida Gov. Rick Scott in a Gainesville Starbucks. This was an instance, I thought, of the underdog amateur defeating the villainous professional. It was the 1980 U.S. Hockey team beating the Russians. It was Jamie Lee Curtis escaping Michael […]

Tag: Russians

Indicted Russians to pro-Trump groups: ‘If we lose Florida, we lose America’

Donald Trump boasts of hiring only the best, but picks haunt him

Jeff Sessions spoke with Russian envoy in 2016, Justice Dept says

Bob Graham: Investigate the Russians!

Marco Rubio talks Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and hacked DNC emails

Blake Dowling: Consumers can avoid feeling the ‘email Bern’ by hackers

Jac VerSteeg: Starbucks encounter wasn’t Everywoman vs. Voldemort

Jac VerSteeg: Starbucks encounter wasn’t Everywoman vs. Voldemort