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Judge in Paul Manafort trial says he has been threatened and is now under US Marshal protection : CNBC

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Getty Images Former Donald Trump presidential campaign manager Paul Manafort (CNBC.com) T.S. Ellis, the man presiding over the criminal trial of ex-Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort, said Friday that he has received threats about the case and now travels with protection from U.S. marshals. Ellis, speaking at a hearing outside of jurors' presence, also said he has no plan to release the names of those 12 people now deliberating Manafort's fate because he is worried about their safety if their identities become publicly known. The 12-person jury entered its second day of deliberations on Friday in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia, where Manafort is accused by special counsel Robert Mueller of bank fraud and tax crimes. (CNBC.com) Judge T.S. Ellis, the man presiding over the criminal trial of former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort, said Friday that he has received threats about the case — and now travels with protection from the U.S. Marshal Service...
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Clinton says false stories on Facebook helped Trump win election

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Hillary Clinton on Wednesday said hoaxes and false news stories on Facebook contributed to her loss in last year's U.S. presidential election, adding to a list of factors she blames for her defeat. The former Democratic candidate said earlier this month that interference by Russian hackers and then-FBI director James Comey helped tip the election to Republican President Donald Trump. Speaking at a technology conference near Los Angeles, Clinton on Wednesday mentioned Facebook by name and said that fake stories spread on the social network influenced the information that people relied on. "The other side was using content that was just flat-out false and delivering it in a very personalized way, both sort of above the radar screen and below," Clinton said during an on-stage interview at the Code conference. A representative for Facebook could not immediately be reached for comment. Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said just after the November e...
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White House sent Melania into Trump-Putin meeting in a failed effort to get Trump to stop talking

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Whatever went on behind the closed doors of Trump/Putin conference, it clearly didn’t just stretch out longer than expected, it went in a direction that deeply worried the other members of team Trump. How badly was it out of control? This bad, Hey, this is going so well that we should really send his wife in there to see if she can stop it … is a thing no one ever said. Just what was it that set off the “go find Melania” alarm? According to Tillerson, Trump did talk to Putin about hacking of the US election  … but Trump and Putin agreed that this subject was “a hindrance” to US/Russian relations. So,  according to Lavrov , Trump accepted Putin’s statements that Russia had not been involved. Tillerson says that Trump made no effort  to produce evidence  supporting Russian hacking. In fact, he did the opposite.  According to Lavrov,  “ Trump told Putin that some circles in the US are exaggerating the topic of Russian cyber me...
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