Michael Schmidt

2 weeks ago | boston.com | Sarah Mervosh |Michael Schmidt |John Waller

As President Donald Trump and his team dialed up the pressure on Harvard University last month, threatening to bar its international students, the school issued what was at once a warning and a plea. “Without its international students, Harvard is not Harvard,” school officials wrote in a lawsuit asking a judge to stop the federal government’s actions. It left unsaid what Harvard, if it were no longer Harvard, would become.

Nov 21, 2024 | irishtimes.com | Michael Schmidt

US federal investigators established a trail of payments from Matt Gaetz, president-elect Donald Trump’s choice to be attorney general, to a group of women including individuals who testified that Mr Gaetz had hired them for sex, according to a document obtained by the New York Times and a lawyer representing some of the women.

Jul 7, 2023 | msn.com | Michael Schmidt

John F. Kelly, who served as former President Donald J. Trump’s second White House chief of staff, said in a sworn statement that Mr. Trump had discussed having the Internal Revenue Service and other federal agencies investigate two F.B.I. officials involved in the investigation into his campaign’s ties to Russia. Mr. Kelly said that his recollection of Mr. Trump’s comments to him was based on notes that he had taken at the time in 2018.

Jul 7, 2023 | tinyurl.com | Michael Schmidt

John Kelly, who served as then-President Donald Trump’s second White House chief of staff, said in a sworn statement that Trump had discussed having the IRS and other federal agencies investigate two FBI officials involved in the investigation into his campaign’s ties to Russia. Kelly said his recollection of Trump’s comments to him was based on notes that he had taken at the time in 2018.