Sentences with phrase «foreign policy campaign»

Key foreign policy campaign adviser Michael Mandelbaum refused to join the Administration in part because he realized that Clinton indeed would not support a major Western assistance effort to Russia.

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Trump's campaign said in a statement that U.S. trade policy constitutes «unilateral economic surrender» and needs complete change because it allows foreign competitors to shut out U.S imports, devalue their currencies and unfairly target U.S. industries.

On foreign policy, Petersen suggested Trump has strayed from his campaign platforms, but few lawmakers have been trying to resurrect those promises.

The Washington Post reported Thursday that PropOrNot and the nonpartisan Foreign Policy Research Institute both attribute the flood of so - called fake news, or hoax and misleading headlines, during the 2016 election to an elaborate Russian propaganda campaign aimed at sowing distrust in the American political system and undermining public consensus.

Mueller's team announced charges in October against three other Trump campaign officials, former chairman Paul Manafort and his business associate Rick Gates, and a former campaign foreign policy adviser, George Papadopoulos.

He previously served as part of the foreign policy team for the 2016 presidential campaign of Senator Ted Cruz.

It was reported previously that Sessions met in secret with Russia's ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak, at that hotel when President Donald Trump gave a foreign - policy speech during the campaign.

The move came after Miller was revealed to be a senior aide who had an email exchange with former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos, who mentioned «interesting messages» from Moscow.

The Office of the Special Counsel also revealed Monday that George Papadopoulos, formerly a foreign policy adviser to Trump's campaign, had pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI in a January 2017 interview about his contact with a Russian professor.

Carter Page, an early foreign - policy adviser to Trump's campaign, has also become a subject of FBI and congressional investigations.

George Papadopoulos, a former foreign - policy adviser to the campaign, pleaded guilty earlier this year to making false statements to the FBI about the nature and extent of his contacts with foreign nationals who he knew had ties to senior Russian government officials.

The first involved establishing personal contact with Americans perceived as sympathetic to Moscow — such as former Defense Intelligence Agency chief Michael Flynn, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and early Trump foreign - policy adviser Carter Page — and using them as a means to further Russia's foreign - policy goals.

An early foreign - policy adviser and aide to President Donald Trump's campaign team secretly pleaded guilty earlier this month to making false statements to the FBI about the nature and extent of his contacts with foreign nationals who he knew had ties to senior Russian government officials.

We still don't know (but presumably Mueller does) why Mike Flynn, Trump's chief foreign policy adviser during the campaign and his short - lived national security adviser, was talking during the transition to the Russian ambassador about lifting sanctions Obama had imposed in retaliation against Russia's meddling in the election.

And I don't mean that as a compliment, even though I served as a foreign policy adviser to Rubio's presidential campaign.

It also enabled the U.S. Government to wage foreign policy and military campaigns without much regard for the balance of payments.

Mueller's office has obtained a wealth of subpoenaed documents about the president's conduct and has taken secret testimony from cooperating witnesses — Michael Flynn, former foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos and former campaign aide Rick Gates — any one of whom would be in a position to contradict Trump and expose him to perjury charges.

Investors have every reason to be confused, given Harper's stance in favour of more openness to foreign takeovers during the 2008 election campaign, and the supposed influence on his policy of the Red Wilson panel, which basically dismissed fears that corporate Canada was being «hollowed out.»

Politico: «Corey Lewandowski, a former campaign manager for President Donald Trump, said Tuesday night his «memory has been refreshed» regarding his email exchange with Carter Page in which the former foreign policy adviser requested Lewandowski's permission to travel to Moscow.

A few minutes later, court documents were unsealed showing that George Papadopoulos, an unpaid foreign policy adviser on Trump's campaign, pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the FBI about his efforts to broker a relationship between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The premise of the Nunes memo is that the FBI and DOJ corruptly sought a FISA warrant on a former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser, Carter Page, and deliberately misled the court as part of a systematic abuse of the FISA process.

It argues that during the 2016 presidential election, the FBI used the so - called Steele dossier, a largely unconfirmed opposition research document alleging collusion between Trump and Russia, as the basis for a warrant to surveil former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page.

The latest problem for Sessions stems from news that George Papadopoulos, a foreign policy adviser to Trump's campaign, had pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russians.

The Nunes memo focuses on surveillance of Carter Page, a Trump campaign foreign policy adviser with business ties to Russia and open sympathies with the Kremlin's foreign policy.

His withdrawal is a casualty of this week's major developments in the Mueller probe — most notably, the revelation that George Papadopoulos, a foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign whom Clovis supervised as national co-chair, had recently pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI about his contacts with Russians.

The memo Duncan is referring to is a four - page memo written by Republican Rep. Devin Nunes (R - CA), which allegedly details abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that the FBI used to wiretap Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser for President Trump's presidential caForeign Intelligence Surveillance Act that the FBI used to wiretap Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser for President Trump's presidential caforeign policy adviser for President Trump's presidential campaign.

Hours later, the Mueller team revealed that George Papadopoulos, a low - level foreign policy aide, had lied about his interactions with Russians during the campaign.

During a night of heavy drinking at an upscale London bar in May 2016, George Papadopoulos, a young foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, made a startling revelation to Australia's top diplomat in Britain: Russia had political dirt on Hillary Clinton.

Recall that in October the special counsel revealed that George Papadopoulos, a foreign policy aide in the Trump campaign, agreed to cooperate with Mueller's team.

1) George Papadopoulos, former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser, pleaded guilty in October to making false statements to the FBI.

According to a New York Times report published on January 28, Nunes's memo focuses on surveillance of Carter Page, a Trump campaign foreign policy adviser with business ties to Russia and open sympathies with the Kremlin's foreign policy.

The Trump adviser in question is George Papadopoulos — a foreign policy adviser to the campaign who, it was revealed in a document unsealed Monday, had been arrested back in July for making false statements to the FBI, and now appears to have made a deal to cooperate with Mueller's probe into Russian interference.

The Nunes memo alleges that FBI and Justice Department officials relied on an unsubstantiated dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele to get a warrant to conduct surveillance of Page, who served on the Trump campaign's foreign policy advisory team.

It specifically cites Flynn, former Trump campaign foreign policy advisers George Papadopoulos and Carter Page, and former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

In a speech launching her campaign to become Prime Minister in July 2016, May argued in favour of an industrial policy that was able to defend important sectors from foreign takeovers.

This identification, as the 1984 presidential campaign showed, allowed both sophisticated conservatives and anti-intellectual fundamentalists to brand any criticism of U.S. foreign policy as unpatriotic.

However, by consistently seeking «to restrict immigration, renegotiate trade deals, and transgress our current foreign policy consensus,» as promised in his campaign, Trump has displayed «more integrity than many politicians.»

It is for this reason that SPUC has launched The Mayisha Campaign (Mayisha meaning Life in Swahili) to raise awareness about maternal mortality, dispel the myths put about by abortion groups and lobby the Department for International Development to adopt an ethical foreign policy which respects the lives of both mothers and their babies.

The issue of foreign investment has made an explosive entry to the election campaign, with the agriculture minister, Joel Fitzgibbon, left scrambling to clarify Labor's foreign investment policy after Kevin Rudd's surprise comments that he was «a bit anxious» about an «open slather» approach to foreign investment.

In addition, George Papadopoulos, a foreign policy advisor to the Trump campaign, made misleading statements to FBI investigators, which is also illegal - statements made to FBI investigators are essentially the same as testimony in court, with the same penalties for not being honest.

And why has foreign policy been so neglected in this campaign?

So, in the current indictments, there is nothing regarding «collusion» between the Trump campaign and Russia, or any other foreign interest, other than a foreign policy advisor seeking but not getting dirt on a political opponent from a foreign country, which isn't necessarily illegal but is politically quite damaging.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said he believes former President Obama's foreign policy adviser Ben Rhodes was aware of a dossier about Trump that circulated during the 2016 presidential campaign.

When a Naval Academy grad and aspiring foreign - policy player named Carter Page asked New York Republican Party Chairman Edward Cox to help him gain entrée to the Trump presidential campaign, Cox was only too happy to oblige.

During the Labour leadership campaign, he described himself as a socialist, and spoke out against some of the actions of the Blair ministry, including criticising its record on civil liberties and foreign policy.

«If somebody wants to go hit ISIS, that's OK with me,» said Trump, whose campaign has been criticized for too much showmanship and too little specifics on foreign and domestic policy.

With Germany playing a larger international role, foreign policy and global security are major campaign issues.

A foreign policy exchange before the campaign turned to foreign policy.

«The Federal Election Campaign Act's prohibition on foreign contributions is the broadest prohibition in the entire statute,» said Brett Kappel, a partner in the government affairs and public policy practice of the law firm Ackerman in Washington, D.C.

The New York Times reported separately this past week that at least one government informant met several times with Carter Page and George Papadopoulos, both former foreign policy advisers for Trump's Republican campaign.