Robert Mueller's Investigation is reportedly investigating Donald Trump's business dealings in Russia, and Trump's lawyer reportedly fears he could be indicted for perjury.

If you are a follower of President Donald Trump’s Twitter feed you are unlikely to have missed the fact that Trump has once again used the social media platform to attack Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign team. Yesterday, President Trump posted a flurry of messages linked to Mueller’s Russia investigation, making it clear, once again, that he believes the Mueller investigation is a political “witch hunt.” Trump wants you to believe that too.

The fact remains that Mueller has now indicted at least 18 people, five of whom were involved in his election campaign. As reported by Vox, three members of the Trump campaign team, Rick Gates, Michael Flynn, and George Papadopolous have already cut plea deals with Mueller. Paul Manafort, who was Trump’s campaign manager, now faces dozens of charges related to money laundering, false statements, failure to disclose foreign assets, and conspiracy against the United States.

The interesting aspect of Mueller’s charges against Manafort is that they are all related to his business dealings with pro-Russian elements in Ukraine. Mueller’s indictments show beyond doubt that his investigation is following the time-honored FBI tradition of “following the money.” There is every reason to believe that the Mueller investigation if doing exactly the same thing by examing the Russian business dealings of President Trump and those closest to him, particularly Jared Kushner and Donald Trump Jr.

As reported by CNN, President Trump has previously declared that any examination of his business dealings in Russia is a “red line” that Mueller must not cross. The CNN report claims that Trump’s red line has already been crossed. Citing three sources close to the Mueller investigation, they claim that Mueller’s investigation team has been probing witnesses about Trump’s business dealings in Russia. They claim that Mueller is trying to determine whether the Russians have information that would allow Russia to compromise President Trump.

Donald Trump’s Lawyers Are Working To Avoid The President Falling Into A ‘Perjury Trap’

As previously reported by the Inquisitr, President Trump had declared that he was willing to be interviewed under oath by the Mueller investigation. It seems that Trump’s lawyers are trying to avoid that happening because they fear that Mueller could catch Trump in a “perjury trap.” According to Vanity Fair, President Trump’s lawyer, Ty Cobb, has “been engaged in discussions with Mueller’s team, weighing options that could mitigate the president’s legal risk.”

They report that former White House counsel, Robert Bennett, believes that Trump faces “tremendous risks” if he is interviewed under oath by Mueller. Bennett argues that it would be “easy” for Mueller to prove that President Trump made “false statements to the FBI,” and that could lead to President Trump facing perjury charges.

If the claims about Ty Cobb’s reluctance to allow President Trump to be interviewed by the Mueller investigation are accurate, it begs a question. Why does President Trump’s lawyer fear that Trump will perjure himself? Does this mean that the president’s own lawyer is not confident that President Trump will tell the truth?</s>WASHINGTON -- Harshly criticized yet again by his boss, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has abandoned his usual stony silence and pushed back against President Donald Trump for saying Sessions' response to Republican complaints about the FBI was "disgraceful."

Sessions gave no suggestion he would step down in light of Trump's charge Wednesday on Twitter and insisted he would "continue to discharge my duties with integrity and honour."

Trump's latest tirade stems from a comment Sessions made Tuesday, when he suggested the Justice Department's inspector general will evaluate whether prosecutors and FBI agents wrongly obtained a warrant under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to monitor the communications of a onetime Trump campaign associate. Sessions had asked the watchdog office to review the complaints in response to pressure from congressional Republicans, who, like Trump, have fumed about what they believe to be bias within the FBI.

Trump tweeted: "Why is A.G. Jeff Sessions asking the Inspector General to investigate potentially massive FISA abuse. Will take forever, has no prosecutorial power and already late with reports on Comey etc. Isn't the I.G. an Obama guy? Why not use Justice Department lawyers? DISGRACEFUL!"

Sessions answered hours later, saying his department had taken the appropriate step and "will continue to do its work in a fair and impartial manner according to the law and Constitution."

It was hardly the first time the president has aired his gripes against Sessions over the Russia probe. The former Alabama senator, an early supporter of Trump's candidacy, has endured a year's worth of Trump's wrath in order to hold onto the job he had long desired. But even for Trump, who once called the attorney general "beleaguered," Wednesday's volley elevated the rhetoric to a new level.

The exchange comes at a time of heightened tension between the Justice Department and the White House, which is mired in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Trump campaign ties to Russia and possible obstruction of justice. Trump has long viewed Sessions' decision to step aside from that investigation as leading to Mueller's appointment.

Sessions has become a Trump scapegoat, allowing the president to avoid some of the political consequences of directly attacking Mueller as his probe escalates.

Trump this time is angry that Sessions referred the allegations of employee misconduct to the inspector general, but that's exactly what that office is charged with doing. Its lawyers are part of the department and, contrary to Trump's claims, can and often do refer matters for prosecution.

The office has been working on a separate review of the FBI's handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation under former Director James Comey, but that report is not late and is expected to be released around March or April.

Inspector General Michael Horowitz's office has acknowledged receiving Sessions' request but hasn't said it is investigating. Horowitz was appointed to the post by President Barack Obama, as Trump noted. But years earlier, Horowitz was named in the Bush administration to a seat on the Sentencing Commission, suggesting he has more bipartisan bona fides than Trump acknowledges. Horowitz also launched the review of the FBI's handling of the Clinton case -- the stated reason by Trump and Sessions for the dismissal of Comey in May.

GOP Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, recently one of the FBI's toughest critics, defended Horowitz as "fair, fact-centric and appropriately confidential with his work."

Until now, Sessions had largely kept quiet in the face of Trump's verbal and social media volleys, faithfully executing the president's agenda on guns, drugs, violent crime and illegal immigration. Some within Sessions' own department had criticized that silence as straining morale and making him seem too eager to appease the president at the risk of dangerously politicizing the institution.

The two bonded early in Trump's campaign. But Trump has not been able to get over Sessions' withdrawal from the Russia investigation and has relentlessly belittled him and pressured him to investigate political rivals. The criticism was so harsh that Sessions offered last year to resign; Trump refused.

Sessions has since tried to get back into Trump's good graces. His request of the inspector general should have appeased Trump, as White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders suggested Tuesday it would.

"It's something that he's clearly had frustration over so I would imagine he certainly support the decision to look into what we feel to be some wrongdoing," she said. "I think that's the role of the Department of Justice and we're glad that they're fulfilling that job."</s>“We receive many invalid nominations each year in the sense that they don’t meet the deadline or the nominator is not in fact qualified to nominate,” Njolstad said. “But to my knowledge this is the first example of a forged nomination where someone has stolen the identity of another person.”

Njolstad said he discovered that the Trump nominations were forged when he called the person whose name was listed as the nominator, who confirmed that the nominations were a fraud. Njolstad declined to reveal the identity or gender of that person. He has filed a report with the Oslo Police District for investigation.

Oslo Inspector Rune Skjold, head of the economic crimes section, told The Post that police did not know the location of the person who sent the forged nominations when asked whether they came from the United States. However, he said Oslo police have contacted the FBI for assistance. The perpetrator, he said, had used the same false identity two years in a row.

The process for Nobel Prize nominations and selections is secretive and has been so since the prize’s inception in 1901. The names of the nominees and any information about how the winners were selected cannot be revealed for 50 years. Nominators must meet various criteria to qualify. They can be, among other things, members of national governments or heads of state, certain university professors, former Peace Prize winners, and current and former members or advisers of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

Njolstad said the committee routinely reviews nominations for authenticity, “and this time the routine check showed there was cause for concern.” He said he was limited in the details he could provide due to the ongoing police investigation.

This year, there are 329 candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize, the second-highest number of candidates ever, just behind 2016’s 376 candidates. Of the 329 candidates, 217 are individuals and 112 are organizations. Last year’s winner was the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, of Switzerland.

Over the past 10 years, Nobel Peace Prize winners have included Malala Yousafzai in 2014, who had been attacked by the Taliban after campaigning for girls’ education in Pakistan; Liu Xiaobo in 2010, the Chinese dissident who was imprisoned by China at the time he was awarded the prize, and President Obama in 2009, whose selection was controversial given he had just sent more than 30,000 troops to Afghanistan a week before accepting it and it was only months into his presidency. Obama is one of four U.S. presidents who have been awarded the prize. The others were Jimmy Carter, Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.

The 2018 winner will be announced in October, followed by a ceremony in Oslo on Dec. 10.

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Mennonite woman jailed for refusing on religious grounds to testify in death-penalty case</s>WASHINGTON (AP) — Harshly criticized yet again by his boss, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has abandoned his usual stony silence and pushed back against President Donald Trump for saying Sessions’ response to Republican complaints about the FBI was “disgraceful.”

Sessions gave no suggestion he would step down in light of Trump’s charge Wednesday on Twitter and insisted he would “continue to discharge my duties with integrity and honor.”

Trump’s latest tirade stems from a comment Sessions made Tuesday, when he suggested the Justice Department’s inspector general will evaluate whether prosecutors and FBI agents wrongly obtained a warrant under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to monitor the communications of a onetime Trump campaign associate. Sessions had asked the watchdog office to review the complaints in response to pressure from congressional Republicans, who, like Trump, have fumed about what they believe to be bias within the FBI.

Trump tweeted: “Why is A.G. Jeff Sessions asking the Inspector General to investigate potentially massive FISA abuse. Will take forever, has no prosecutorial power and already late with reports on Comey etc. Isn’t the I.G. an Obama guy? Why not use Justice Department lawyers? DISGRACEFUL!”

Sessions answered hours later, saying his department had taken the appropriate step and “will continue to do its work in a fair and impartial manner according to the law and Constitution.”

It was hardly the first time the president has aired his gripes against Sessions over the Russia probe. The former Alabama senator, an early supporter of Trump’s candidacy, has endured a year’s worth of Trump’s wrath in order to hold onto the job he had long desired. But even for Trump, who once called the attorney general “beleaguered,” Wednesday’s volley elevated the rhetoric to a new level.

The exchange comes at a time of heightened tension between the Justice Department and the White House, which is mired in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Trump campaign ties to Russia and possible obstruction of justice. Trump has long viewed Sessions’ decision to step aside from that investigation as leading to Mueller’s appointment.

Sessions has become a Trump scapegoat, allowing the president to avoid some of the political consequences of directly attacking Mueller as his probe escalates.

Trump this time is angry that Sessions referred the allegations of employee misconduct to the inspector general, but that’s exactly what that office is charged with doing. Its lawyers are part of the department and, contrary to Trump’s claims, can and often do refer matters for prosecution.

The office has been working on a separate review of the FBI’s handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation under former Director James Comey, but that report is not late and is expected to be released around March or April.

Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s office has acknowledged receiving Sessions’ request but hasn’t said it is investigating. Horowitz was appointed to the post by President Barack Obama, as Trump noted. But years earlier, Horowitz was named in the Bush administration to a seat on the Sentencing Commission, suggesting he has more bipartisan bona fides than Trump acknowledges. Horowitz also launched the review of the FBI’s handling of the Clinton case — the stated reason by Trump and Sessions for the dismissal of Comey in May.

GOP Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, recently one of the FBI’s toughest critics, defended Horowitz as “fair, fact-centric and appropriately confidential with his work.”

Until now, Sessions had largely kept quiet in the face of Trump’s verbal and social media volleys, faithfully executing the president’s agenda on guns, drugs, violent crime and illegal immigration. Some within Sessions’ own department had criticized that silence as straining morale and making him seem too eager to appease the president at the risk of dangerously politicizing the institution.

The two bonded early in Trump’s campaign. But Trump has not been able to get over Sessions’ withdrawal from the Russia investigation and has relentlessly belittled him and pressured him to investigate political rivals. The criticism was so harsh that Sessions offered last year to resign; Trump refused.

Sessions has since tried to get back into Trump’s good graces. His request of the inspector general should have appeased Trump, as White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders suggested Tuesday it would.

“It’s something that he’s clearly had frustration over so I would imagine he certainly support the decision to look into what we feel to be some wrongdoing,” she said. “I think that’s the role of the Department of Justice and we’re glad that they’re fulfilling that job.”</s>The FBI is investigating Ivanka Trump's business dealings, and has taken a particular interest in the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Vancouver, according to an exclusive report at CNN.

The news network said the FBI is looking into the "negotiations and financing" surrounding the $360-million hotel and condo tower, which opened amid protests a year ago. It's unclear why this deal caught federal investigators' attention, but CNN suggests the "timing of the deal — as one of the few Trump-branded properties to open since Trump took office — could be of interest."

Ivanka Trump is currently seeking full security clearance for her role as senior adviser to her father, President Donald Trump, and CNN reports that it's standard procedure to look into foreign contacts and business dealings during these security clearances.

Trump's husband, Jared Kushner, had his own White House security clearance severely downgraded this week. Investigators are looking into hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of loans that Kushner secured after meetings in the White House, according to a report in the New York Times.

Ivanka Trump served as executive vice-president of development and acquisitions at the Trump Organization starting in 2005, but stepped away from that role shortly before the Vancouver Trump Tower opened in February 2017.

The Trump Organization didn't develop the Vancouver tower. Like with many other Trump-branded projects, including the Toronto Trump tower, it licensed the Trump name name to a third-party developer. In the case of the Vancouver tower, that developer is Holden Group, a Vancouver-based company controlled by Joo Kim Tiah, a member of one of Malaysia's wealthiest families.

HuffPost Canada has reached out to Holden Group for comment.

THE CANADIAN PRESS Dignitaries including Malaysian tycoon Tony Tiah (second from left), his son, developer Joo Kim Tiah (third from left) Donald Trump Jr., his wife Vanessa Trump, Eric Trump and his wife Lara Trump cut the ceremonial ribbon at the grand opening of the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Vancouver, B.C., on Tuesday, Feb.28 2017.

The FBI may also be looking at the flow of foreign money into the project from international condo buyers, CNN reported. Investigators are trying to determine whether any of the Trumps' business dealings could leave them vulnerable to pressure from foreign entities.

The Vancouver Trump Tower, including an Ivanka Trump-branded spa, opened in February, 2017, with an appearance by President Trump's sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump. They were met with protesters who objected to the Trump name on a building in Vancouver.

THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck A man dressed as U.S. President Donald Trump jokes with protesters outside the official opening of the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Vancouver, B.C., on Tuesday February 28, 2017.

Some elected officials in the city have been calling for the building to be renamed.

Unlike the Toronto Trump Tower — which struggled with poor condo sales, went into receivership and was eventually sold off and rebranded —​​​​​​​ the Vancouver Trump Tower has largely been seen as a commercial success.

It set a record for the highest prices per square foot for condo space in the city, the Globe and Mail reported last year.</s>(Newser) – President Trump is (or was) apparently up for the Nobel Peace Prize that will be announced this fall, a surprise revelation since who's in the running is usually kept under wraps by the Norwegian Nobel Committee. But the New York Times explains Trump's candidacy was divulged because of something fishy going on with his nomination, a matter that Oslo police are looking into. It seems the person who allegedly nominated the president, when contacted, said the nomination wasn't authentic—and the forgery happened last year as well; police say the same person is behind both false nominations. The fraud regarding 2017's nomination, which was put through the same comprehensive forensic scrutiny that this year's will undergo, wasn't reported to the public until now. Trump was said to have been nominated for his "ideology of peace by force," per the BBC.

The Week explains that nominations can come only from certain parties, including a head of state, someone who's already won a Nobel, or a qualified lawmaker or university professor, among others. It's reported there are 329 nominations for this year's prize: 217 individuals and 112 groups. "We receive many invalid nominations each year in the sense that they don't meet the deadline or the nominator is not in fact qualified to nominate," Olav Njolstad, the head of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, says, per the Washington Post. "But to my knowledge this is the first example of a forged nomination where someone has stolen the identity of another person." The chief of the Oslo police's economic crimes division says that although they haven't yet been able to confirm where the forger is located, the FBI is assisting his team in investigating. (Read more President Trump stories.)

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Issuing a rare response to criticism from Donald Trump, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has defended his decision to launch an internal probe of alleged surveillance abuses by the FBI.

The statement came hours after Mr Trump took to Twitter to lambaste Mr Sessions - whom he appointed and has the power to remove - for having the Department of Justice’s internal watchdog investigate allegations that officials had misused their authority in surveiling former Trump campaign associate Carter Page.

“We have initiated the appropriate process that will ensure complaints against this Department will be fully and fairly acted upon if necessary,” Mr Sessions said in a statement. “As long as I am the Attorney General, I will continue to discharge my duties with integrity and honor, and this Department will continue to do its work in a fair and impartial manner according to the law and Constitution”.

Mr Trump has seized on a Republican-authored memorandum that alleges FBI and Justice Department officials concealed critical information about their sources in asking a special court to authorise surveillance of Mr Page. Democrats and law enforcement officials have criticised the memo’s claims as misleading, saying it omitted needed context.

The exchange of duelling statements by Mr Trump and Mr Sessions offered a public window into a remarkable breach between a President and his top law enforcement official. The spectacle drew disbelief even from their own party, with former Republican Congressman Jason Chaffetz calling Mr Trump's online broadside “embarrassing” in an appearance on Fox News.

“It's kind of mind-boggling that he would call out his own Attorney General,” Mr Chaffetz said of the President. “He was the one who appointed him. If he's not up the job, get rid of him”.

With his longtime focus on law-and-order policies and stringent immigration laws, Mr Sessions made a natural ally for Mr Trump and was one of the first elected officials to endorse what was then considered a long-shot presidential bid.

But the relationship between the two has deteriorated as the White House continues to operate under the cloud of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian election interference and potential coordination with the Trump campaign.

Mr Sessions recused himself from investigating Russian meddling after it was revealed he had not disclosed prior contacts with the Russian ambassador, helping lead to Mr Mueller’s appointment and incurring Mr Trump’s fury. The President frequently denounces the investigation as politically tainted, saying there was no collusion between his campaign and Russia.

The President has repeatedly savaged his Attorney General on Twitter. Last year he called Mr Sessions “VERY weak” in handling allegations that Hillary Clinton misused a private server and questioned him for not replacing former FBI Director Andrew McCabe.

Earlier this month, after Mr Mueller unveiled charges against 13 Russian nationals for what an indictment described as a years-long campaign to disrupt American politics and buoy Mr Trump’s election bid, the President again lashed out.

“Why didn’t Obama do something about the meddling? Why aren’t Dem crimes under investigation? Ask Jeff Sessions!” Mr Trump said.

The probe has already produced multiple indictments of former Trump campaign officials. Former aides George Papadopoulos and Michael Flynn - who briefly served as Mr Trump’s national security adviser - pleaded guilty to lying to investigators about contacts with Russian surrogates.

Former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who faces charges related to allegedly concealing the proceeds from lobbying activity for Ukraine, has maintained his innocence. His associate Rick Gates has pleaded guilty to fraud and lying to government investigators.</s>For the love of President Donald Trump, a person appears to have stolen someone’s identity to nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize — for the second year in a row.

Olav Njolstad, director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute and secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, which awards the Peace Prize, told The Washington Post via email that it appears the same person is responsible for both forged nominations. The perpetrator had pretended to be someone else to make the nomination, Njolstad said — someone who was qualified.

“We receive many invalid nominations each year in the sense that they don’t meet the deadline or the nominator is not in fact qualified to nominate,” Njolstad said. “But to my knowledge this is the first example of a forged nomination where someone has stolen the identity of another person.”

Njolstad said he discovered that the Trump nominations were forged when he called the person whose name was listed as the nominator, who confirmed that the nominations were a fraud. Njolstad declined to reveal the identity or gender of that person. He has filed a report with the Oslo Police District for investigation.

Oslo Inspector Rune Skjold, head of the economic crimes section, told The Post that police did not know the location of the person who sent the forged nominations when asked whether they came from the United States. However, he said Oslo police have contacted the FBI for assistance. The perpetrator, he said, had used the same false identity two years in a row.

The process for Nobel Prize nominations and selections is secretive and has been so since the prize’s inception in 1901. The names of the nominees and any information about how the winners were selected cannot be revealed for 50 years. Nominators must meet various criteria to qualify. They can be, among other things, members of national governments or heads of states, certain university professors, former Peace Prize winners and current and former members or advisers of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

Njolstad said the committee routinely reviews nominations for authenticity, “and this time the routine check showed there was cause for concern.” He said he was limited in the details he could provide due to the ongoing police investigation.

This year, there are 329 candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize, the second-highest number of candidates ever, just behind 2016’s 376 candidates. Of the 329 candidates, 217 are individuals and 112 are organizations. Last year’s winner was the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, of Switzerland.
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Over the past 10 years, Nobel Peace Prize winners have included Malala Yousafzai in 2014, who had been attacked by the Taliban after campaigning for girls’ education in Pakistan; Liu Xiabo in 2010, the Chinese dissident who was imprisoned by China at the time he was awarded the prize; and President Obama in 2009, whose selection was controversial given he had just sent more than 30,000 troops to Afghanistan a week before accepting it and it was only months into his presidency. Obama is one of four U.S. presidents who have been awarded the prize. The others were Jimmy Carter, Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.

The 2018 winner will be announced in Oslo on Dec. 10.</s>Police in Norway have contacted the FBI as part of an investigation into a fake nomination for Donald Trump to win this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.

Norwegian police have contacted the FBI as part of a probe into a fake nomination of US President Donald Trump for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.

The Norway-based Nobel Committee earlier this week said it had made a police complaint.

Rune Skjold of the Oslo police force’s economic crimes unit on Thursday confirmed reports that the FBI was contacted for assistance.

“We are investigating possible forgery of documents,” Skjold said, adding that he could not offer details or name any suspects.

Forging documents can result in several years in prison, he added.

Skjold said the Nobel Committee had contacted Oslo police about a month ago. Police had also been alerted last year over a similar suspect nomination for Trump.

A meeting with FBI officials was due next week in Oslo, Skjold said.

Concerning “the nomination of the US president, I can say that we have good reason to believe it is a fake nomination,” Olav Njolstad, non-voting secretary of the Nobel Committee, had told Norwegian public broadcaster NRK earlier this week.

Njolstad, who is also head of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, which assists the five-strong award panel in vetting nominated candidates, declined to comment further.

This year the committee received 329 nominations, the second-highest number to date. Last year’s prize went to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN).</s>OSLO, Norway — President Donald Trump has been twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize — but both nominations appear to be fraudulent, The New York Times is reporting.

Olav Njolstad, the secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, which awards the prize, told the Times the committee had uncovered the forged nominations and raised the issue with the Oslo police.

The same person is responsible for both forged nominations and had pretended to be someone qualified to make the nomination, Njolstad told The Washington Post.

“We receive many invalid nominations each year in the sense that they don’t meet the deadline or the nominator is not in fact qualified to nominate. But to my knowledge this is the first example of a forged nomination where someone has stolen the identity of another person,” Njolstad said in an email to the Post.

According to the New York Times, the Oslo police has been in touch with the FBI. CNN has reached out to the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

A nomination for the prize is only valid if its submitted by someone who falls into a category that meets the committee’s criteria — like current heads of state, former Nobel Peace Prize winners and professors of history, law or philosophy, among others.

There are 328 candidates, including individuals and organizations, being considered for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, the second highest number of candidates ever, according to the organization. Since first awarding the prize in 1901, the committee has kept every candidate’s identity and its selection process secret, only divulging its secrets 50 years after the decision and for the purposes of research.

Four US Presidents have been Nobel laureates — Barack Obama (2009), Jimmy Carter (2002), Woodrow Wilson (1919) and Theodore Roosevelt (1906).

The Nobel Peace Prize is traditionally announced in early October and will be awarded this year on December 10 in Oslo.
Police in Oslo, Norway, say that the FBI is assisting in the investigation into two forged nominations of Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. The impersonator allegedly used the same stolen identity twice.