Facebook announced on Tuesday that it has identified a political campaign on its platform made of fake accounts. The social media giant said that the campaign was targeting the midterm elections. Over 32 pages and fake accounts were linked to this campaign.
House Speaker Paul Ryan says that he will not back the effort of his conservative house colleagues to impeach Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Rosenstein is overseeing Mueller’s investigation into the Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
President Donald Trump met on Monday with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki. Trump publicly sided with Putin against US intelligence agencies refusing to condemn Moscow for its interference in the 2016 election. Trump said that he sees no reason to believe that Russia was behind the hacking of the DNC servers.
President Donald Trump has nominated Brett Kavanaugh for the United States Supreme Court. The nomination is the beginning of a seemingly acrimonious political battle in the Senate ahead of Kavanaugh’s confirmation.
Trump’s long-time lawyer Michael Cohen, who’s at the center of multiple legal battles, told ABC News that he will “put his family and country” first before his loyalty to President Trump.
