{"id":108,"date":"2022-11-05T00:22:32","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T00:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/russia-gate.net\/?post_type=te_announcements&#038;p=108"},"modified":"2022-11-05T00:22:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T00:22:32","slug":"05-09-2017-trump-hires-law-firm-to-fight-suggestions-of-russia-business-ties","status":"publish","type":"te_announcements","link":"https:\/\/russia-gate.net\/index.php\/announcement\/05-09-2017-trump-hires-law-firm-to-fight-suggestions-of-russia-business-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"05\/09\/2017 \u2013 Trump Hires Law Firm to Fight Suggestions of Russia Business Ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump has hired a Washington law firm to send a letter to a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee saying he has no connections to Russia, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement that Trump had retained a lawyer to deal with the Russia probe came just hours before the news broke that he\u2019d fired FBI Director James Comey, who was leading an investigation into the administration\u2019s Russian ties.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"timeline-express-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.russia-gate.net\/announcement\/05092017-trump-hires-law-firm-to-fight-suggestions-of-russia-business-ties\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"template":"","aioseo_notices":[],"announcement_date":"Announcement Date: May 9, 2017","announcement_image":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/russia-gate.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/announcement\/108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/russia-gate.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/announcement"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/russia-gate.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/te_announcements"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/russia-gate.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}