ISIS/MILITARY/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WAR: “President Trump has ordered the withdrawal of 2,000 American troops from Syria, bringing a sudden end to a military campaign that largely vanquished the Islamic State but ceding a strategically vital country to Russia and Iran. In overruling his generals and civilian advisers, Mr. Trump fulfilled his frequently expressed desire to bring […]
Category: A- Trump As President
12/19/2018
DEMS/LAWSUIT/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “President Donald Trump lashed out Wednesday [12-19-18] at New York Democrats over their efforts to shut down his charitable foundation. Trump tweeted that his foundation has ‘done great work and given away lots of money.’ New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood announced Tuesday that the foundation would dissolve while it […]
12/19/2018
NATIONAL SECURITY/TARIFFS/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump has weaponized tariffs to upend the global rules of international trade — but can his policies withstand the peanut butter test? On Wednesday [12-19-18], a three-judge panel, deliberating in a federal courtroom in Lower Manhattan, considered the most far-reaching legal challenge to the president’s aggressive use of national […]
12/19/2018
ATTORNEY GENERAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “…sleazebag AG Eric Schneiderman, who has since resigned over horrific women abuse, when I wanted to close the Foundation so as not to be in conflict with politics. Shady Eric was head of New Yorkers for Clinton, and refused to even look at the corrupt Clinton Foundation……” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December […]
12/19/2018
DEMS/GOVERNMENT/SENATE/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Senate passed a stop-gap spending bill on Wednesday [12-19-18] night in an effort to keep the government funded and prevent a partial shutdown at the end of the week. A shutdown hasn’t been averted just yet: The measure will still need to be approved by the House of Representatives and signed […]
12/19/2018
ISIS/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 19, 2018 9:29 am […]
12/19/2018
BORDER/MEXICO/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday [12-19-18] said the U.S. military will construct his long-promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, insisting that it will be built ‘one way or the other’ while seemingly walking back threats to shut down the government if Congress fails to appropriate for the wall by the end of […]
12/19/2018
BORDER/MEXICO/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Mexico is paying (indirectly) for the Wall through the new USMCA, the replacement for NAFTA! Far more money coming to the U.S. Because of the tremendous dangers at the Border, including large scale criminal and drug inflow, the United States Military will build the Wall!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 19, 2018 8:43 […]
12/19/2018
CALIFORNIA/ENERGY/EPA/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “California and 12 other states, plus Chicago, are asking the Trump administration to stop rolling back an Obama rule requiring oil and gas companies to conduct frequent checks for methane leaks and upgrade technology to prevent the gas from escaping. They argue the move would constitute a direct violation of the federal […]
12/19/2018
BORDER/DEMS/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “In our Country, so much money has been poured down the drain, for so many years, but when it comes to Border Security and the Military, the Democrats fight to the death. We won on the Military, which is being completely rebuilt. One way or the other, we will win on the […]
12/19/2018
BORDER/DEMS/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “In our Country, so much money has been poured down the drain, for so many years, but the Democrats fight us like cats and dogs when it comes to spending on Boarder Security (including a Wall) and the Military. We won on the Military, it is being completely rebuilt. We will win…” […]
12/19/2018
ISIS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “After historic victories against ISIS, it’s time to bring our great young people home! https://t.co/xoNjFzQFTp“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 19, 2018 6:10 pm […]
12/19/2018
GOP/MILITARY/NATIONAL SECURITY/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WAR: “Seated at the head of his Situation Room conference table, President Donald Trump was adamant: American troops must come home from Syria. He had just announced as much to a crowd in Ohio. The assembled military and national security advisers told him the move was rash and unwise. So he gave […]
12/19/2018
BORDER/CONGRESS/DEMS/GOVERNMENT/POLLS/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “If parts of the federal government shut down later this week, most voters will blame President Donald Trump and Republicans over Democratic minorities in Congress, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll. The holiday brinkmanship in Washington comes as the government must approve a series of spending bills to stay open past […]
12/18/2018
GOVERNMENT/HOLIDAY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is giving the gift of time-off to federal employees, announcing Tuesday [12-18-18] he will excuse government workers from duty on Christmas Eve. Trump signed an executive order declaring that ‘all executive departments and agencies of the federal government shall be closed’ on Monday, continuing a loosely followed tradition when […]
12/18/2018
CRIME/LEGISLATION/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Senate on Tuesday [12-18-18] night overwhelmingly passed the biggest overhaul to the criminal justice system in decades, giving a win to President Donald Trump and a bipartisan group of advocates and lawmakers. Tuesday’s vote caps more than a year of negotiations to create more rehabilitation programs and ease mandatory minimum […]
12/18/2018
BORDER/BUDGET/GOVERNMENT/MITCH MCCONNELL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Mitch McConnell thinks he’s gotten President Donald Trump to back off his shutdown threat. And it’s looking increasingly likely to come with a short-term punt. The Senate majority leader emerged from a lengthy party lunch after a flurry of mixed signals from the White House to declare there will be no […]
12/18/2018
CONGRESS/DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/TREASURY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP TAXES: “House Democrats are carefully laying the groundwork to obtain President Donald Trump’s personal tax returns in the new Congress, hoping to build public support for their effort as they prepare to confront a defiant President. Incoming House Ways and Means Committee Chairmen Richard Neal, the only Democrat who has […]
12/18/2018
CHILDREN/HHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is reversing a controversial policy implemented this summer that immigration advocates say caused thousands of unaccompanied migrant children to remain in shelters for extended periods. The Department of Health and Human Services is no longer requiring fingerprint checks for all adult members of a sponsor’s household when the sponsor […]
12/18/2018
COURTS/MICHAEL FLYNN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former national security adviser Michael Flynn expected to be sentenced Tuesday [12-18-18] by a federal judge. But after almost two dramatic hours in a courtroom discussing his crimes, he asked to postpone his sentencing for several months so he can have more of an opportunity to cooperate in federal investigations […]
12/18/2018
COURTS/MICHAEL FLYNN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Michael Flynn’s sentencing for lying to the FBI was postponed on Tuesday [12-18-18] after a federal judge suggested all sides wait until President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser is finished cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe. The surprise outcome came after an unexpectedly contentious hearing, in which U.S. […]
12/18/2018
EDUCATION/GUNS/SCHOOL SHOOTINGS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A commission appointed by President Donald Trump listed more than 90 ‘best practices’ on Tuesday [12-18-18] to prevent mass shootings at schools, but played down the president’s controversialcall to arm teachers and administrators…The recommendations of the Federal Commission on School Safety ranged from long-discussed improvements to the instant background check system […]
12/18/2018
EDUCATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’President Donald J. Trump’s Commission on School Safety examined ways to make our schools safe for all students and teachers.’ Read more: https://t.co/Sj3T2B3cKW https://t.co/M0iiESm2fJ“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 18, 2018 5:42 pm […]
12/18/2018
DEMS/GOP/GOVERNMENT/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “The Senate’s top Republican said Tuesday [12-18-18] he’s confident that lawmakers and the White House will be able to avoid a government shutdown even though Democrats have rejected the GOP’s proposal for ending the impasse…Meanwhile, President Donald Trump is exploring ‘different’ sources to pay for his proposed wall along the Mexican border, […]
12/18/2018
BETSY DEVOS/GUNS/SCHOOL SHOOTINGS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A Trump administration school safety panel hardly touched on the role of guns in deadly school shootings in its wrap-up Tuesday [12-18-18]. Instead, the panel took a far less confrontational approach by sidestepping President Donald Trump’s call for trained teachers to carry guns and avoiding recommendations on age restrictions for […]
12/18/2018
ECONOMY/FOREIGN DIGNITARIES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump will travel to Davos, Switzerland, next month for a second straight appearance at the World Economic Forum – the annual gathering of financial, political and entertainment elites who are often in opposition to Trump policies…From the singer Bono to former presidents like Bill Clinton, Davos has tended […]
12/18/2018
ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Never shy about taking credit for the stock market when it soared, President Donald Trump has been characteristically quick to assign blame as Wall Street sputters. Whipsaw markets and a string of steep dives have spawned a pervasive anxiety in the White House, according to senior officials, where for the past two […]
12/18/2018
DEFENSE/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @VP: Today, @POTUS Trump will direct the @DeptofDefense to establish a Combatant Command that will oversee all of our military activitie…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 18, 2018 11:53 am […]
12/18/2018
MELANIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @FLOTUS: Merry Christmas from President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump. @POTUS & @FLOTUS are seen Saturday, December 15, i…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 18, 2018 11:36 am […]
12/18/2018
GUNS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MASS SHOOTINGS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration moved Tuesday [12-18-18] to officially ban bump stocks, which allow semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like automatic firearms, and has made them illegal to possess beginning in late March. The devices will be banned under a federal law that prohibits machine guns, according to a senior Justice […]
12/18/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL FLYNN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump sent a supportive message Tuesday [12-18-18] to former national security adviser Michael Flynn, hours before Flynn’s sentencing for lying to the FBI in the Russia investigation…Flynn is scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday morning, more than a year after he pleaded guilty to lying to FBI agents […]
12/18/2018
MUSLIMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TURKEY: “U.S. President Donald Trump told his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan that Washington ‘would take a look at’ the possibility of extraditing a U.S.-based Muslim cleric who Ankara suspects of being behind a 2016 coup attempt, but he made no commitment, the White House said on Tuesday…Turkey’s foreign minister said on Sunday that […]
12/18/2018
BORDER/CONGRESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump and leaders in Congress appear to be pulling back from a government shutdown over his $5 billion request for border wall funds. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders indicates that Trump doesn’t want to shut down the government, though just last week he said he’d be ‘proud’ to […]
12/18/2018
ECONOMY/FOREIGN DIGNITARIES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump will be attending the World Economic Forum next month in Davos, Switzerland. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters on Tuesday that Trump will be at the event, which will take place next month. The annual Davos event courts high-profile businesspeople and political figures, plus […]
12/18/2018
CYBERWAR/EU/IRAN/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Hackers infiltrated the European Union’s diplomatic communications network for years, downloading thousands of cables that reveal concerns about an unpredictable Trump administration and struggles to deal with Russia and China and the risk that Iran would revive its nuclear program. In one cable, European diplomats described a meeting between President Trump and […]
12/18/2018
RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Michael Isikoff was the first to report Dossier allegations and now seriously doubts the Dossier claims. The whole Russian Collusion thing was a HOAX, but who is going to restore the good name of so many people whose reputations have been destroyed?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 18, 2018 8:32 am […]
12/18/2018
DEMS/HILLARY CLINTON/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “….WILL NEVER BE PROVEN AND ARE LIKELY FALSE.’ Thank you to Michael Isikoff, Yahoo, for honesty. What this means is that the FISA WARRANTS and the whole Russian Witch Hunt is a Fraud and a Hoax which should be ended immediately. Also, it was paid for by Crooked Hillary […]
12/18/2018
CHINA/ECOMONY/FEDERAL RESERVE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [12-18-18] warned that the Federal Reserve would be making a ‘mistake’ if it moves to hike interest rates when the Federal Open Market Committee meets on Wednesday [12-19-18], weighing in once again on an issue that presidents have typically kept at arm’s length…Trump has railed against […]
12/18/2018
RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Russia Dossier reporter now doubts dopey Christopher Steele’s claims! ‘When you get into the details of the Steele Dossier, the specific allegations, we have not seen the evidence to support them. There’s good grounds to think that some of the more sensational allegations…..” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 18, 2018 8:14 am […]
12/18/2018
BUDGET/DEMS/GOP/GOVERNMENT/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Senate Republicans are drafting a stopgap spending bill to extend the funding deadline for approximately 25% of the federal government until February 8, according to three sources. The decision to move forward on the short-term plan hasn’t been finalized, the sources said. There are still senators who are urging GOP leaders to […]
12/18/2018
IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Illegal immigration costs the United States more than 200 Billion Dollars a year. How was this allowed to happen?” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 18, 2018 7:55 am […]
12/18/2018
DEMS/SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Facebook, Twitter and Google are so biased toward the Dems it is ridiculous! Twitter, in fact, has made it much more difficult for people to join @realDonaldTrump. They have removed many names & greatly slowed the level and speed of increase. They have acknowledged-done NOTHING!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 18, 2018 […]
12/18/2018
FED/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I hope the people over at the Fed will read today’s Wall Street Journal Editorial before they make yet another mistake. Also, don’t let the market become any more illiquid than it already is. Stop with the 50 B’s. Feel the market, don’t just go by meaningless numbers. Good luck!” –Donald Trump, […]
12/18/2018
MICHAEL FLYNN/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Good luck today in court to General Michael Flynn. Will be interesting to see what he has to say, despite tremendous pressure being put on him, about Russian Collusion in our great and, obviously, highly successful political campaign. There was no Collusion!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 18, 2018 6:41 am […]
12/18/2018
RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Biggest outrage yet in the long, winding and highly conflicted Mueller Witch Hunt is the fact that 19,000 demanded Text messages between Peter Strzok and his FBI lover, Lisa Page, were purposely & illegally deleted. Would have explained whole Hoax, which is now under protest!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 18, 2018 […]
12/18/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is planning to roll out an unprecedented structure for his 2020 reelection, a streamlined organization that incorporates the Republican National Committee and the president’s campaign into a single entity. It’s a stark expression of Trump’s stranglehold over the Republican Party: Traditionally, a presidential reelection committee has worked in tandem […]
12/17/2018
BORDER/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump is testing the patience of the GOP. Increasingly, what he thinks is best for himself and his base — like shutting down the federal government over his demands for a border wall — is not necessarily what is in the long- or short-term interest of his party. Until now, […]
12/17/2018
OBAMACARE/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A Texas judge’s stunning declaration that Obamacare is unconstitutional not only kneecaps the health care law, it would also cripple President Donald Trump’s entire health care agenda. Trump wants lower drug prices, drastic action on the opioid crisis and protection for people with pre-existing conditions. Those are the parts of the […]
12/17/2018
AGRICULTURE/CHINA/TARIFFS/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said Monday [12-17-18] that he would release a second round of payments to farmers hurt by tariffs, even after China resumed buying US soybeans last week…Soybean growers have been hit especially hard. China, their biggest foreign market, stopped buying US soybeans in July in retaliation for new American […]
12/17/2018
BUDGET/GOP/GOVERNMENT/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Senate Republicans are searching for a way out of the impending partial government shutdown. But they are waiting for President Donald Trump to weigh in before making a move, and he appears to be in no rush to help them out. Roughly one-fourth of the federal government is scheduled to shutter on […]
12/17/2018
AGRICULTURE/TARIFFS/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “More financial assistance is on the way for farmers and ranchers hurt by retaliation from foreign governments in trade disputes with the United States. President Donald Trump said Monday [12-17-18] he has authorized Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to launch the second and final round of payments from a $12 billion aid […]
12/17/2018
CYBERWAR/RUSSIA/SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “An all-out social media push by Russia to elect Donald Trump tricked 30 million people into sharing posts and aimed to convince blacks and Latinos not to vote. That’s according to Senate-issued reports that found a ‘sweeping and sustained’ effort to boost Trump’s candidacy at key moments — think debates, conventions […]
12/17/2018
MIKE PENCE/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump will order in the coming days the establishment of a new military space command, a move that comes as Vice President Mike Pence plans two high-profile visits related to the US space program, three US officials tell CNN. Pence will visit Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral […]
12/17/2018
BUDGET/GOVERNMENT/POLLS/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Americans have a clear message to Washington as the government hurtles toward a partial shutdown Friday [12-21-18]: Don’t. By a double-digit margin, 54 percent to 29 percent, those surveyed in a new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll say they oppose the shutdown that President Donald Trump threatened if Congress doesn’t agree to his […]
12/17/2018
AGRICULTURE/ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Today I am making good on my promise to defend our Farmers & Ranchers from unjustified trade retaliation by foreign nations. I have authorized Secretary Perdue to implement the 2nd round of Market Facilitation Payments. Our economy is stronger than ever–we stand with our Farmers!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 17, 2018 4:14 […]
12/17/2018
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Russia’s disinformation campaign during and after the 2016 presidential election touched nearly every top social media platform as it sought to sway U.S. voters, according to a pair of reports prepared for the Senate Intelligence Committee that offer the most detailed look yet at the Kremlin’s interference effort. The reports, […]
12/17/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @WhiteHouse: On December 17, 1903, the first successful flight of Wilbur and Orville Wright’s handcrafted biplane ushered in the age of…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 17, 2018 12:02 pm […]
12/17/2018
BORDER/DHS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “The U.S. Department of Homeland Security launched a new webpage Wednesday titled ‘Walls Work.’ The four-page document stresses that, under President Donald Trump, federal officials are committed to ‘building wall and building wall quickly.’ It promises that DHS will be able to erect an additional 330 miles of barrier if Congress approves […]
12/17/2018
BORDER/SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We all make typos, but, fairly or not, President Donald Trump’s textual slipups draw more attention than most. That is especially true when he stumbles writing about one of his defining political issues: border security. Or, as the president called it in a tweet on Monday [12-17-18], ‘Boarder Security’…Trump deleted the […]
12/17/2018
BORDER/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Anytime you hear a Democrat saying that you can have good Border Security without a Wall, write them off as just another politician following the party line. Time for us to save billions of dollars a year and have, at the same time, far greater safety and control!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December […]
12/17/2018
DEMS/FBI/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s use of the word ‘rat’ to attack his former personal attorney and fixer Michael Cohen is more evocative of a ‘mob boss’ than of a president, a Democratic senator said Monday [12-17-18]. Sen. Chris Coons, a Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, painted Trump’s claims that the FBI […]
12/17/2018
ECONOMY/FEDERAL RESERVE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump exerted more pressure on the Federal Reserve on Monday [12-17-18], saying it’s ‘incredible’ that the Fed would consider another interest rate hike given the current economic and political situation…Trump has continually pestered the Fed to hold off on rate hikes, breaking from past presidents who sought to maintain […]
12/17/2018
CHINA/ECONOMY/FED/FRANCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It is incredible that with a very strong dollar and virtually no inflation, the outside world blowing up around us, Paris is burning and China way down, the Fed is even considering yet another interest rate hike. Take the Victory!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 17, 2018 8:27 am […]
12/17/2018
BORDER/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Anytime you hear a Democrat saying that you can have good Boarder Security without a Wall, write them off as just another politician following the party line. Time for us to save billions of dollars a year and have, at the same time, far greater safety and control!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December […]
12/17/2018
DEMS/OBAMACARE/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The DEDUCTIBLE which comes with ObamaCare is so high that it is practically not even useable! Hurts families badly. We have a chance, working with the Democrats, to deliver great HealthCare! A confirming Supreme Court Decision will lead to GREAT HealthCare results for Americans!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 17, 2018 8:02 […]
12/17/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “This weekend, President Donald Trump raged against Michael Cohen, calling his former lawyer and accuser a ‘rat’ for cooperating with federal prosecutors. Cohen has accused Trump of directing him to make secret hush-money payments to two women so that they wouldn’t tell their stories before the November 2016 election. […]
12/17/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Last week the nation witnessed a courtroom spectacle that included the president’s former personal lawyer and ‘fixer,’ Michael Cohen, groveling for mercy at a sentencing hearing while his daughter watched, a crutch at her side. Future historians might view the maudlin scene as the beginning of the end of the […]
12/17/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A special counsel investigation into possible collusion between Russia and the 2016 presidential campaign of Donald Trump has already secured more than 30 indictments and guilty pleas and has spawned at least four federal probes. But that is not all that Trump needs to worry about. With less than […]
12/17/2018
ECOMONY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Forget Robert Mueller. The greatest threat to President Donald Trump’s re-election bid may not be the slew of investigations closing in on his Oval Office but a possible economic slowdown. And the president knows it. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell again Monday [12-17-18], the latest dip in the roller coaster markets […]
12/17/2018
MICK MULVANEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WHITE HOUSE STAFF: “Incoming White House acting-chief of staff Mick Mulvaney once said Donald Trump’s past words and actions would disqualify him from becoming president in an ‘ordinary universe.’ Mulvaney made the comments in a previously unreported October 2016 radio interview in which he also said Trump is not a role model […]
12/17/2018
BUSINESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “What’s eating American C.E.O.s? We have some insight, thanks to the Yale C.E.O. Summit with Jeffrey Sonnenfeld last week in New York. The event was strictly off the record, but DealBook has the results of a survey of 134 business leaders who were there: President Trump. Three in four C.E.O.s said they […]
12/17/2018
BETSY DEVOS/EDUCATION/GUNS/MINORITIES/OBAMA ADMIN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Trump administration is planning to roll back Obama-era policies aimed at ensuring that minority children are not unfairly disciplined, arguing that the efforts have eased up on punishment and contributed to rising violence in the nation’s schools, according to documents obtained by The New York Times. The decision culminates a […]
12/17/2018
COURTS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “The Justice Department asked a federal appeals court on Monday [12-17-18] to throw out or at least temporarily halt a lawsuit that accuses President Trump of illegally benefiting from his family’s business, seeking to block more than three dozen subpoenas for documents from the Trump Organization, the president’s trust and […]
12/16/2018
RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….The Russian Witch Hunt Hoax, started as the ‘insurance policy’ long before I even got elected, is very bad for our Country. They are Entrapping people for misstatements, lies or unrelated things that took place many years ago. Nothing to do with Collusion. A Democrat Scam!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 16, […]
12/16/2018
JEFF SESSIONS/MEDIA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….a persecution of the President.’ Daniel Henninger, The Wall Street Journal. Thank you, people are starting to see and understand what this Witch Hunt is all about. Jeff Sessions should be ashamed of himself for allowing this total HOAX to get started in the first place!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December […]
12/16/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “’It looks here as though General Flynn’s defenses are incidental to something larger which is for the prosecution to figure out if it can find a path to Donald Trump without quite knowing what that crime might be. It stops looking like prosecution and more looking like……” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December […]
12/16/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Required television watching is last weeks @marthamaccallum interview with the wonderful wife of Rod Blagojevich and the @trish_regan interview with a Jerome Corsi. If that doesn’t tell you something about what has been going on in our Country, nothing will. Very sad!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 16, 2018 3:29 pm […]
12/16/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Required television watching is last weeks @marthamaccallum interview with the wonderful wife of @RodBlagojevich and the @trishregan interview with a Jerome Corsi. If that doesn’t tell you something about what has been going on in our Country, nothing will. Very sad!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 16, 2018 3:21 pm […]
12/16/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Democrats policy of Child Seperation on the Border during the Obama Administration was far worse than the way we handle it now. Remember the 2014 picture of children in cages – the Obama years. However, if you don’t separate, FAR more people will come. Smugglers use the kids!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
12/16/2018
RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Judge Ken Starr, former Solicitor Generel & Independent Counsel, just stated that, after two years, ‘there is no evidence or proof of collusion’ & further that ‘there is no evidence that there was a campaign financing violation involving the President.’ Thank you Judge. @FoxNews” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 16, 2018 10:20 […]
12/16/2018
MILITARY/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “At the request of many, I will be reviewing the case of a ‘U.S. Military hero,’ Major Matt Golsteyn, who is charged with murder. He could face the death penalty from our own government after he admitted to killing a Terrorist bomb maker while overseas. @PeteHegseth @FoxNews” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 16, […]
12/16/2018
DEMS/FBI/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Remember, Michael Cohen only became a ‘Rat’ after the FBI did something which was absolutely unthinkable & unheard of until the Witch Hunt was illegally started. They BROKE INTO AN ATTORNEY’S OFFICE! Why didn’t they break into the DNC to get the Server, or Crooked’s office?” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 16, […]
12/16/2018
FBI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “So where are all the missing Text messages between fired FBI agents Peter S and the lovely Lisa Page, his lover. Just reported that they have been erased and wiped clean. What an outrage as the totally compromised and conflicted Witch Hunt moves ever so slowly forward. Want them!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
12/16/2018
DEMS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A REAL scandal is the one sided coverage, hour by hour, of networks like NBC & Democrat spin machines like Saturday Night Live. It is all nothing less than unfair news coverage and Dem commercials. Should be tested in courts, can’t be legal? Only defame & belittle! Collusion?” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December […]
12/15/2018
HOLIDAY/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump, who has expressed regret for skipping a visit to Arlington National Cemetery on Veterans Day, made an unscheduled stop at the site Saturday [12-15-18] under drizzling skies to observe the thousands of Christmas wreaths left each year at military grave sites. In rainy, 53-degree weather, Trump traveled to the […]
12/15/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump celebrated the folding of the Weekly Standard, a once-influential conservative magazine that has been sharply critical of his administration, writing on Twitter that the publications was ‘pathetic’…In another post on Saturday [12-15-18] morning, Trump attacked the news media as ‘dishonest’ and argued that positive stories always ended up with […]
12/15/2018
FBI/MEDIA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Wow, 19,000 Texts between Lisa Page and her lover, Peter S of the FBI, in charge of the Russia Hoax, were just reported as being wiped clean and gone. Such a big story that will never be covered by the Fake News. Witch Hunt!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 15, 2018 11:45 […]
12/15/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The pathetic and dishonest Weekly Standard, run by failed prognosticator Bill Kristol (who, like many others, never had a clue), is flat broke and out of business. Too bad. May it rest in peace!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 15, 2018 11:15 am […]
12/15/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Never in the history of our Country has the ‘press’ been more dishonest than it is today. Stories that should be good, are bad. Stories that should be bad, are horrible. Many stories, like with the REAL story on Russia, Clinton & the DNC, seldom get reported. Too bad!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
12/15/2018
INTERIOR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “…….The Trump Administration will be announcing the new Secretary of the Interior next week.” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 15, 2018 9:18 am […]
12/15/2018
CALIFORNIA/ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VIETNAM: “Anti-Trump sentiment helped Democrats topple every Republican House member in Orange County last month in the storied California conservative stronghold. Now, a Trump administration push to deport Vietnamese nationals is compounding the party’s problems, possibly cementing the loss of a coastal county that had long been the epicenter of Republican power in […]
12/14/2018
FBI/JAMES COMEY/OBAMA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The FBI released for the first time Friday [12-14-18] night a two-page summary former FBI Director James Comey used to brief President-elect Donald Trump nearly two years ago on a so-called dossier about Trump’s ties to Russia. The version made public Friday could reignite previous criticism from Republicans and Trump […]
12/14/2018
COURTS/OBAMACARE/TEXAS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Wow, but not surprisingly, ObamaCare was just ruled UNCONSTITUTIONAL by a highly respected judge in Texas. Great news for America!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 14, 2018 9:16 pm […]
12/14/2018
MICK MULVANEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WHITE HOUSE STAFF: “Mick Mulvaney will become the acting White House chief of staff at the end of the year, President Donald Trump announced in a tweet on Friday [12-14-18]. Mulvaney will not resign as director of the Office of Management and Budget while he is acting White House chief of staff, […]
12/14/2018
CONGRESS/COURTS/OBAMACARE/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As I predicted all along, Obamacare has been struck down as an UNCONSTITUTIONAL disaster! Now Congress must pass a STRONG law that provides GREAT healthcare and protects pre-existing conditions. Mitch and Nancy, get it done!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 14, 2018 9:07 pm […]
12/14/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LAWSUIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “President Donald Trump’s personal lawyers are trying to pause evidence collection in a fight over the constitutionality of the revenue of his Washington hotel, according to a new request to a federal court to stay the case. Previously, the DC and Maryland lawsuit alleging the President had received illegal gifts […]
12/14/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team continues to be interested in interviewing the President Donald Trump, two sources familiar with the matter tell CNN. Mueller’s stance on interviewing the President has been constant for a year and a half, one of the sources said…The President’s legal team has resumed some discussion […]
12/14/2018
AUTO INDUSTRY/CHINA/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “China said Friday [12-14-18] it will temporarily reduce tariffs on imports of American-made cars as it tries to negotiate a trade deal with the United States. Citing the meeting earlier this month between US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping, the Chinese Finance Ministry said in a statement […]
12/14/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WHITE HOUSE STAFF: “For the record, there were MANY people who wanted to be the White House Chief of Staff. Mick M will do a GREAT job!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 14, 2018 7:31 pm […]
12/14/2018
JOHN KELLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WHITE HOUSE STAFF: “I am pleased to announce that Mick Mulvaney, Director of the Office of Management & Budget, will be named Acting White House Chief of Staff, replacing General John Kelly, who has served our Country with distinction. Mick has done an outstanding job while in the Administration….” -Donald Trump, […]