MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump again raised a threat to the broadcast licenses of TV stations that air news programming he dislikes. ‘NBC FAKE NEWS, which is under intense scrutiny over their killing the Harvey Weinstein story, is now fumbling around making excuses for their probably highly unethical conduct,’ Trump wrote on Twitter Tuesday […]
Category: A- Trump As President
9/4/2018
MEDIA/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump wanted to have Syrian President Bashar al-Assad assassinated last year but his defense secretary ignored the request, according to a new book that depicts top Trump aides sometimes sidestepping instructions to limit what they see as his damaging and dangerous behavior. Excerpts from the book, entitled ‘Fear’ and written […]
9/4/2018
IRAN/MIDDLE EAST/NIKKI HALEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “U.S. President Donald Trump will chair a U.N. Security Council meeting on Iran this month to spotlight its ‘violations of international law’ during the annual gathering of world leaders in New York, U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley said on Tuesday [9-4-18]. The United States, which holds the council presidency for September, […]
9/4/2018
CANADA/CONGRESS/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “TRUMP SLAMS CANADA AFTER TALKS FALTER: President Donald Trump blasted Canada on Saturday [9-1-18], one day after his administration failed to conclude talks with the United States’ northern neighbor on the terms of a NAFTA agreement. He also warned Congress not to ‘interfere’ with the negotiations and repeated his threat to terminate […]
9/4/18
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “NBC FAKE NEWS, which is under intense scrutiny over their killing the Harvey Weinstein story, is now fumbling around making excuses for their probably highly unethical conduct. I have long criticized NBC and their journalistic standards-worse than even CNN. Look at their license?” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 4, 2018 9:58 am […]
9/4/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Yes, it’s as bad as you thought it was. Maybe worse. That’s the unmistakable message about President Donald Trump and his administration from the early pieces of Bob Woodward’s chronicle — titled ‘Fear: Trump in the White House’ — of the first year of the billionaire businessman’s presidency. The image Woodward […]
9/4/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump has become increasingly exasperated in recent weeks that he wasn’t interviewed by Bob Woodward ahead of the publication of his upcoming book, three sources with knowledge of the President’s concern tell CNN. Trump’s irritation reflects a heightened sense of unease in the West Wing about next week’s release […]
9/4/2018
CHINA/TARIFFS/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The United States could impose tariffs on roughly half of all Chinese goods entering the country by the end of the week. President Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods could go into effect as soon as Friday [9-7-18] when a public comment period on the taxes concludes. […]
9/4/2018
LEGAL/MEDIA/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “One veteran lawyer who recently represented President Donald Trump believes he is a ‘liar’ and told Trump he could end up in ‘an orange jump suit’ if he testifies before special counsel Robert Mueller, according to a new book from legendary journalist Bob Woodward. The 448-page opus from the Pulitzer […]
9/4/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s closest aides have taken extraordinary measures in the White House to try to stop what they saw as his most dangerous impulses, going so far as to swipe and hide papers from his desk so he wouldn’t sign them, according to a new book from legendary journalist Bob […]
9/4/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, eased up slightly on his demands to question President Trump in the Russia investigation, a shift that came as the president’s lawyers, who have advised him against sitting for an interview, are fighting his desire to answer investigators’ queries. Mr. Mueller will accept […]
9/4/2018
IRAN/RUSSIA/STATE/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “US President Donald Trump has warned the Syrian government and its Russian and Iranian allies against ‘recklessly’ attacking rebel-held Idlib province. In a tweet he warned of “a grave humanitarian mistake” in which hundreds of thousands of people could be killed. Syrian government forces are said to be preparing a huge offensive […]
9/4/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A Bob Woodward expose book has been a rite of passage for presidential administrations since the storied investigative reporter first made a name for himself by breaking Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal. Now it’s Donald Trump’s turn under the microscope. The picture revealed – of an administration having a ‘nervous breakdown of executive […]
9/4/2018
DEMS/ELECTIONS/GOP/LEGAL/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “With two months left before the midterm elections, Republicans are scrambling to prepare for an onslaught of oversight investigations that Democrats will likely launch if they retake the House in November. The White House is considering adding a whole roster of new attorneys to handle the caseload. Rudy Giuliani, the president’s […]
9/4/2018
ARIZONA/LAWSUIT/POLICE/RALLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Two advocacy groups alleged in a lawsuit Tuesday [9-4-18] that police in Phoenix violated the free-speech rights of protesters outside a rally by President Donald Trump by firing tear gas as they were about to confront Trump supporters. The excessive force lawsuit against the Phoenix Police Department says police didn’t try […]
9/4/2018
RUSSIA/SYRIA/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Kremlin dismissed U.S. President Donald Trump’s warning to Syria not to launch an offensive in the rebel-held enclave of Idlib, saying on Tuesday [9-4-18] that the area was a ‘nest of terrorism’. Trump on Monday [9-3-18] warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his allies Iran and Russia not to ‘recklessly attack’ […]
9/4/2018
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller will accept written answers from President Donald Trump on whether his campaign conspired with Russia to interfere in the 2016 U.S. election, but Mueller is not ruling out a follow-up interview on that issue, a person familiar with the matter said on Tuesday [9-4-18]. […]
9/4/2018
CONGRESS/GOP/JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Latest on President Donald Trump’s attacks on Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the Department of Justice (all times local): 2:35 p.m. President Donald Trump’s attack on his own Justice Department for pursuing cases against two GOP congressmen is drawing fire from his fellow Republicans. Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake says […]
9/4/2018
JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Latest on President Donald Trump and a new book by journalist Bob Woodward (all times local): 11:10 p.m. President Donald Trump is denying that he called Attorney General Jeff Sessions ‘mentally retarded’ and ‘a dumb southerner.’ Trump is reacting on Twitter to one of the more incendiary claims in […]
9/4/2018
JAMES MATTIS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump so alarmed his defense secretary, Jim Mattis, during a discussion last January of the nuclear standoff with North Korea that an exasperated Mr. Mattis told colleagues ‘the president acted like — and had the understanding of — a ‘fifth or sixth grader.’’ At another moment, Mr. Trump’s aides […]
9/4/2018
CONGRESS/GOP/JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump encountered bipartisan criticism on Tuesday [9-4-18] for complaining that his own Justice Department’s indictments against two Republican congressmen were endangering the GOP’s midterm election prospects, with one Republican senator saying of Trump’s attack, ‘We can’t normalize that.’ Trump’s tweet was his latest effort to press the government’s […]
9/4/2018
COURTS/SENATE/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump is racking up federal judicial appointments, and not just to the Supreme Court, where his second nominee, Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, is set for confirmation hearings this week. So far, he has filled 60 seats on the federal district courts, the courts of appeals and the Supreme Court. Mr. […]
9/3/2018
CONGRESS/JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump on Monday [9-3-18] blasted his Attorney General Jeff Sessions and lamented the indictments of two lawmakers who were his earliest supporters in Congress during the 2016 election, suggesting they should not have been charged because they are Republicans…A decision by the Justice Department to hold off […]
9/3/2018
IRAN/RUSSIA/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Bashar al-Assad of Syria must not recklessly attack Idlib Province. The Russians and Iranians would be making a grave humanitarian mistake to take part in this potential human tragedy. Hundreds of thousands of people could be killed. Don’t let that happen!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 3, 2018 05:20 pm […]
9/3/2018
FBI/MEDIA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “According to the Failing New York Times, the FBI started a major effort to flip Putin loyalists in 2014-2016. ‘It wasn’t about Trump, he wasn’t even close to a candidate yet.’ Rigged Witch Hunt!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 3, 2018 2:21 pm […]
9/3/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I see that John Kerry, the father of the now terminated Iran deal, is thinking of running for President. I should only be so lucky – although the field that is currently assembling looks really good – FOR ME!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 3, 2018 1:55 pm […]
9/3/2018
DEMS/JAMES COMEY/JEFF SESSIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….The Democrats, none of whom voted for Jeff Sessions, must love him now. Same thing with Lyin’ James Comey. The Dems all hated him, wanted him out, thought he was disgusting – UNTIL I FIRED HIM! Immediately he became a wonderful man, a saint like figure in fact. Really sick!” […]
9/3/2018
CONGRESS/ELECTION/GOP/JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Two long running, Obama era, investigations of two very popular Republican Congressmen were brought to a well publicized charge, just ahead of the Mid-Terms, by the Jeff Sessions Justice Department. Two easy wins now in doubt because there is not enough time. Good job Jeff……” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 3, […]
9/3/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. is respected again! https://t.co/NtQ4vsoqnk“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 3, 2018 12:50 pm […]
9/3/2018
LABOR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @WhiteHouse: In July, President Trump announced the Pledge to America’s Workers. In little more than a month since, MILLIONS of new oppo…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 3, 2018 12:50 pm […]
9/3/2018
DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UNION: “Richard Trumka, the head of the AFL-CIO, represented his union poorly on television this weekend. Some of the things he said were so against the working men and women of our country, and the success of the U.S. itself, that it is easy to see why unions are doing so poorly. A […]
9/3/2018
IRAN/MIKE POMPEO/MILITARY/RUSSIA/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump warned Syria and its allies Russia and Iran on Monday [9-3-18] against attacking the last major rebel stronghold of Idlib province in the country’s northwest…Hours after the tweet, Russian planes struck parts of western Idlib, according to an activist media group and Syrian rescue group the White Helmets. […]
9/3/2018
JAMES COMEY/JEFF SESSIONS/MEDIA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump couldn’t wait to launch into the fall political season, an intense 10-week conflagration that marks a hugely consequential chapter in his turbulent presidency. He spent Labor Day, when campaign politicking goes into overdrive, unleashing a raging tweet storm blasting his beleaguered Attorney General Jeff Sessions […]
9/3/2018
IRAN/MILITARY/RUSSIA/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday [9-3-18] warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his allies Iran and Russia not to ‘recklessly attack’ Syria’s rebel-held Idlib province, warning that hundreds of thousands of people could be killed. ‘The Russians and Iranians would be making a grave humanitarian mistake to take part in this […]
9/3/2018
LABOR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UNION: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Labor Day hit back at Richard Trumka, president of the United States’ largest federation of labor unions, after Trumka said on Sunday [9-2-18] that the president’s policies had hurt American workers. Trumka, who is head of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), […]
9/3/2018
DEFENSE/ICE/TECHNOLOGY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Alex Karp grew up in a liberal household and considers himself a progressive. He voted for Hillary Clinton, and he lives and works in Silicon Valley. Yet Mr. Karp, the chief executive of Palantir, has found himself increasingly at odds with his peers in the technology industry as it publicly distances itself […]
9/3/2018
ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The prosperity is apparent on the way into town: the 21-floor casino resort and spa on one side of the interstate, and on the other a freshly built retail quarter of boutiques, a brand-new Hilton hotel and a P.F. Chang’s. It unfolds from there along the highways heading west with more […]
9/3/2018
HOLIDAY/LABOR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Worker in America is doing better than ever before. Celebrate Labor Day!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 3, 2018 7:23 am […]
9/3/2018
HOLIDAY/JOBS/LABOR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Happy Labor Day! Our country is doing better than ever before with unemployment setting record lows. The U.S. has tremendous upside potential as we go about fixing some of the worst Trade Deals ever made by any country in the world. Big progress being made!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 3, 2018 6:28 […]
9/3/2018
DEMS/LABOR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UNION: “Richard Trumka, the head of the AFL-CIO, represented his union poorly on television this weekend. Some of the things he said were so againt the working men and women of our country, and the success of the U.S. itself, that it is easy to see why unions are doing so poorly. A […]
9/3/2018
HOLIDAY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “RT @CoreyStewartVA: About 200,000 #Virginia residents are federal workers; as I travel the state this #LaborDay weekend, Virginians are say…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 3, 2018 6:05 am […]
9/3/2018
SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “RT @CoreyStewartVA: In the U.S. Senate I’ll be working WITH @realDonaldTrump on his #MAGA agenda — and that includes having the backs of A…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 3, 2018 6:05 am […]
9/3/2018
NATO/TRUMP PEOPLE: “RT @SecPompeo: On behalf of the American people, special thank you to @Commander_RS GEN Nicholson for his 2+ years of service leading @NATO…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 3, 2018 6:01 am […]
9/2/2018
ELECTION/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @realDonaldTrump: .@Rasmussen_Poll just came out at 48% approval rate despite the constant and intense Fake News. Higher than Election D…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 2, 2018 9:10 am […]
9/2/2018
DEMS/JOBS/MINORITIES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….The fact is that African/American unemployment is now the lowest in the history of our country. Same with Asian, Hispanic and almost every other group. The Democrats have been all talk and no action. My Administration has already produced like no other, and everyone sees it!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 2, 2018 […]
9/2/2018
AFRICAN AMERICANS/SPORTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Tiger Woods showed great class in the way he answered the question about the Office of the Presidency and me. Now they say the so-called ‘left’ is angry at him. So sad, but the ‘center & right’ loves Tiger, Kanye, George Foreman, Jim Brown & so many other greats, even more…….” […]
9/1/2018
GOVERNMENT/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @CoreyStewartVA: Federal workers endured 8 years of hell under Obama, with several rounds of pay freezes and benefit cuts. @realDonald…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 1, 2018 8:43 pm […]
9/1/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @realDonaldTrump: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 1, 2018 8:23 pm […]
9/1/2018
MILITARY/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @realDonaldTrump: We shouldn’t have to buy our friends with bad Trade Deals and Free Military Protection!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 1, 2018 8:23 pm […]
9/1/2018
DEMS/DONALD JR/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’There is no possible way the Trump Tower meeting between Don Trump jr and a couple of Russians, who have very deep connections to both the Clintons & Fusion GPS, & where no information on the Clintons was exchanged, is a crime. Dems are blinded by their hatred of Trump.’ Bongino” […]
9/1/2018
HILLARY CLINTON/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’No information was ever given by the Trump Team to Russia, yet the Hillary Clinton campaign paid for information from Kremlin sources and just washed it through an intermediary, Christopher Steele.’ Jesse Waters” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 1, 2018 8:01 pm […]
9/1/2018
FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….positions of power. That’s part of the story of the Russia Hoax. Christopher Steele is on the payroll of Hillary Clinton & the FBI, & when they fired him for lying, they continued to use him. Violation of FBI regulations. Kept trying to verify the unverifiable.’ @GreggJarrett” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
9/1/2018
DEMS/HILLARY CLINTON/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “’There’s no fairness here, if you’re a Democrat or a friend of Hillary you get immunity or off scott free. If you’re connected to Donald Trump, you get people like Robert Mueller & Andrew Weissman, and his team of partisans, coming after you with a vengeance and abusing their….” […]
9/1/2018
MILITARY/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We shouldn’t have to buy our friends with bad Trade Deals and Free Military Protection!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 1, 2018 5:55 pm […]
9/1/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 1, 2018 5:53 pm […]
9/1/2018
CANADA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “No Deal! Trade Talks with Canada Conclude for the Week with No Agreement | Breitbart https://t.co/87vi7OqopY via @BreitbartNews” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 1, 2018 5:51 pm […]
9/1/2018
NAFTA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….Remember, NAFTA was one of the WORST Trade Deals ever made. The U.S. lost thousands of businesses and millions of jobs. We were far better off before NAFTA – should never have been signed. Even the Vat Tax was not accounted for. We make new deal or go back to pre-NAFTA!” […]
9/1/2018
CANADA/CONGRESS/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “There is no political necessity to keep Canada in the new NAFTA deal. If we don’t make a fair deal for the U.S. after decades of abuse, Canada will be out. Congress should not interfere w/ these negotiations or I will simply terminate NAFTA entirely & we will be far better off…” […]
9/1/2018
CANADA/CONGRESS/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “There is no political necessity to keep Canada in the new NAFTA deal. If we don’t make a fair deal for the U.S. after decade of abuse, Canada will be out. Congress should not interfere with these negotiations or I will simply terminate NAFTA entirely & we will be far better off..” […]
9/1/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….Donald Trump, and now we find out that there wasn’t even a hearing – that Donald Trump’s 4th Amendment right to privacy was signed away…and someone in there is swearing that this stuff is true, when it wasn’t? This is the scandal here – a police state.’ Dan Bongino” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
9/1/2018
HILLARY CLINTON/OBAMA/SPYGATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’You have a Fake Dossier, gathered by Steele, paid by the Clinton team to get information on Trump. The Dossier is Fake, nothing in it has been verified. It then filters into our American court system in order to spy on Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton’s political opponent……” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
9/1/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….of the DOJ & FBI are completely out to lunch in terms of exposing and holding those accountable who are responsible for that corruption.” @TomFitton @JudicialWatch” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 1, 2018 7:32 am […]
9/1/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/SPYGATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Report: There were no FISA hearings held over Spy documents.’ It is astonishing that the FISA courts couldn’t hold hearings on Spy Warrants targeting Donald Trump. It isn’t about Carter Page, it’s about the Trump Campaign. You’ve got corruption at the DOJ & FBI. The leadership….” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 1, […]
9/1/2018
CANADA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I love Canada, but they’ve taken advantage of our Country for many years!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 1, 2018 6:21 am […]
9/1/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’I think today what has happened is that news reporting has become part of the adversary system.’ Alan Dershowitz It has become tainted and corrupt! DJT” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 1, 2018 6:19 am […]
8/31/2018
HURRICANE/PUERTO RICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Nearly a year later, they’re still numbers. Puerto Rican officials admitted this week that the death toll from Hurricane Maria, which hit the US territory last September, is 46 times higher than they’d previously said. Not 64 dead, as was the official line. An estimated 2,975 deaths. Yet that’s just a […]
8/31/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Still can’t believe that Bloomberg violated a firm OFF THE RECORD statement. Will they put out an apology?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 31, 2018 9:40 pm […]
8/31/2018
ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Great day in North Carolina where Republicans will do very well!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 31, 2018 9:36 pm […]
8/31/2018
POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The ABC/Washington Post Poll was by far the least accurate one 2 weeks out from the 2016 Election. I call it a suppression poll – but by Election Day they brought us, out of shame, to about even. They will never learn!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 31, 2018 9:35 pm […]
8/31/2018
MEDIA/OBAMA/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “.@Rasmussen_Poll just came out at 48% approval rate despite the constant and intense Fake News. Higher than Election Day and higher than President Obama. Rasmussen was one of the most accurate Election Day polls!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 31, 2018 9:25 pm […]
8/31/2018
RALLY/SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump told a campaign-style rally in Indiana on Thursday [8-30-18] that his administration is standing up for free-speech rights, warning that large social media companies could not be allowed to ‘control what we can and cannot see.’ ‘You look at Google, Facebook, Twitter and other social media giants and […]
8/31/2018
2016 ELECTION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A Justice Department lawyer whose ties to the infamous dossier about President Donald Trump and Russia has drawn the ire of Republicans told House lawmakers that he was told Russian intelligence thought they had the then-candidate ‘over a barrel’ during the 2016 campaign, a source with knowledge of the testimony […]
8/31/2018
JOHN MCCAIN/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump and Arizona Republican Gov. Doug Ducey spoke by phone this week — a conversation in which the subject of the state’s vacant Senate seat arose, according to four people familiar with the discussion. The discussion came as Ducey weighs whom to appoint to the seat following the […]
8/31/2018
PALESTINE/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “The United States is ending its decades of funding for the U.N. agency that helps Palestinian refugees, the State Department announced Friday [8-31-18], a week after slashing bilateral U.S. aid for projects in the West Bank and Gaza. The U.S. supplies nearly 30 percent of the total budget of the U.N. Relief […]
8/31/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’President Donald J. Trump is Strengthening Retirement Security for American Workers’ https://t.co/cKeATuKXDe“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 31, 2018 5:07 pm […]
8/31/2018
CANADA/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday [8-31-18] that Canada had taken advantage of the United States on trade, as talks between the two countries, who are seeking to revamp the North American Free Trade Agreement, soured sharply. ‘I love Canada, but they’ve taken advantage of our country for many years,’ Trump […]
8/31/2018
ELECTION/RALLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump is planning a ‘major rally’ this fall for his onetime campaign foe, Sen. Ted Cruz, in the ‘biggest stadium’ he can find, the president announced on Twitter Friday afternoon. Cruz (R-Tx.) is gearing up for what has been billed as an increasingly competitive election against against Democratic challenger […]
8/31/2018
CANADA/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Wow, I made OFF THE RECORD COMMENTS to Bloomberg concerning Canada, and this powerful understanding was BLATANTLY VIOLATED. Oh well, just more dishonest reporting. I am used to it. At least Canada knows where I stand!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August Aug 31, 2018 1:37 pm […]
8/31/2018
CUBA/FOREIGN POLICY/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump is poised to promote an international finance official tied to Sen. Marco Rubio to lead Western Hemisphere Affairs at the National Security Council, making him the fourth member of an unofficial team of top pro-democracy Cuba hard-liners who are executing and advocating the administration’s Latin American policies. […]
8/31/2018
MIKE PENCE/SINGAPORE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump will skip summits with Asian leaders in Singapore and Papua New Guinea in November, sending Vice President Mike Pence in his place, the White House said on Friday [8-31-18], an announcement that will raise questions about his commitment to a regional strategy to counter China. Trump was invited […]
8/31/2018
CANADA/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Friday [8-31-18] confirmed off-record, hard-line comments he had made about the United States’ negotiating stance in trade talks with Canada, saying on Twitter: ‘At least Canada knows where I stand.’ The Toronto Star reported earlier on Friday that Trump had told Bloomberg News off the record that any […]
8/31/2018
JOHN MCCAIN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “John McCain’s last visit to Washington began with a military honor guard carrying the body of the late Arizona Republican into the Capitol, where his former colleagues paid their final respects to the longtime senator, GOP presidential nominee and war hero. With dozens of current and former senators and members and […]
8/31/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDET/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump is considering Washington litigator Pat Cipollone as a replacement for White House counsel Don McGahn, who will be leaving this autumn, a source familiar with situation said on Friday [8-31-18]. The source said it was unclear how serious a candidate the former Justice Department lawyer is. The […]
8/31/2018
POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Sixty percent of those polled in a new survey disapprove of President Donald Trump’s job performance, a new high for the president in polling conducted by The Washington Post and ABC News. The poll, released Friday [8-31-18] and conducted just days after special counsel Robert Mueller delivered a one-two punch to the […]
8/31/2018
LAWSUIT/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “U.S. President Donald Trump and his namesake foundation asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit by New York’s attorney general over the nonprofit’s activities, including in the 2016 presidential campaign, calling it a politically motivated attack. In Thursday [8-30-28] night court filings, a lawyer for Trump said Attorney General Barbara […]
8/31/2018
CANADA/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Friday [8-31-18] confirmed that he made inflammatory off-the-record remarks about Canada, as he blasted the leak while also saying, ‘At least Canada knows where I stand!’ The Toronto Star earlier Friday printed remarks Trump made during an interview with Bloomberg News the day before, in which he said […]
8/31/2018
AUTO INDUSTRY/CANADA/EU/MEXICO/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As the Trump administration sought trade concessions from Mexico in recent weeks, automakers and their suppliers feared that manufacturing costs could increase by billions of dollars. Now, they are breathing a sigh of relief. The auto industry is still waiting to learn details of the preliminary agreement that President Trump […]
8/31/2018
JARED KUSHNER/MIKE POMPEO/PALESTINE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “In January this year, the United States said it would withhold $65 million, from an initial installment of $125 million it was expected to hand over to UNRWA at the start of the year. The US said it wanted UNRWA to reform and believed other countries should increase the amounts […]
8/31/2018
FBI/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The FBI has charged a man accused of making threatening calls to a newspaper that criticised President Donald Trump’s attacks on the media. The FBI says Robert Chain, 68, called the Boston Globe about a dozen times and threatened to shoot reporters. He allegedly called journalists the ‘enemy of the people’, using […]
8/31/2018
TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WTO: “President Donald Trump has threatened to withdraw the US from the World Trade Organization (WTO), claiming it treats his country unfairly…The WTO was established to provide rules for global trade and resolve disputes between countries. Mr Trump says the body too often rules against the US, although he concedes it has […]
8/31/2018
ELECTION/GERRYMANDERING/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said Friday [8-31-18] that the prospect of North Carolina drawing new congressional districts just weeks before the November midterm elections is ‘unfair.’ A panel of federal judges this week struck down the state’s congressional map, saying Republican state legislators went too far in using political data to preserve GOP-held […]
8/31/2018
ELECTION/TEXAS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump says he’ll ride to the rescue of one-time bitter rival Sen. Ted Cruz this fall, the strongest indication yet that the Texas conservative firebrand is getting nervous about his challenger, a liberal darling with a growing national profile. Trump tweeted Friday [8-31-18] that he will headline ‘a major […]
8/31/2018
ETHICS/JOHN MCCAIN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “What’s lost when the president of the United States can’t — or won’t — show up? As the remembrances for the late Sen. John McCain shift from Arizona to Washington the rest of this week, President Donald Trump will be glaringly missing. The McCain family asked him to stay away from […]
8/31/2018
JOHN MCCAIN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Thursday [8-30-18] morning, in images carried live on every major cable news network, the body of Senator John McCain arrived at the North Phoenix Baptist Church in a hearse with the word ‘Dignity’ on the rear window. Inside, the Republican senator was remembered, by a man who ran on a ticket […]
8/31/2018
CHINA/MEDIA/SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “To the long list of reproachful replies to President Trump’s social media commentary, add an editorial from a Chinese state media outlet, which called his recent tweets on China ‘messages from some alternative universe.’ The China Daily, an English-language state-run publication, said in the editorial published late Thursday [8-30-18] that presidential […]
8/31/2018
JARED KUSHNER/PALESTINE/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “The Trump administration’s decision to end American funding to a United Nations agency that provides assistance to millions of Palestinian refugees was denounced broadly on Friday [8-31-18] by international officials, former United States diplomats and Palestinians who were reeling from the elimination of a decades-long policy of support. The State Department […]
8/31/2018
LAWSUIT/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Lawyers for President Trump’s charitable foundation pushed back aggressively against the New York State attorney general’s office in court papers on Thursday [8-30-18], calling a lawsuit against the charity a political attack motivated by the former attorney general’s ‘record of antipathy’ against Mr. Trump. The court papers, filed in State […]
8/31/2018
CONGRESS/GOVERNMENT/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump told lawmakers on Thursday [8-30-18] he wants to scrap a pay raise for civilian federal workers, saying the nation’s budget couldn’t support it. In a letter to House and Senate leaders, Trump described the pay increase as ‘inappropriate’…An across-the-board 2.1% pay increase for federal workers was slated to take […]
8/30/2018
GOVERMENT/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump ran for office as a populist. He swore to fight for the ‘forgotten men and women,’ a phrase he stole from FDR. But under his presidency, the middle class remains forgotten — hammered is more like it. President Trump’s announcement that he wants to cancel the 2.1% pay raise […]
8/30/2018
DEMS/GOP/JOHN MCCAIN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As Washington prepared a last hero’s welcome for Sen. John McCain Thursday [8-30-18] afternoon, President Donald Trump left town. The Air Force jet carrying the Republican senator’s casket lifted off for the nation’s capital with 200 Arizona National Guard soldiers and airmen on the tarmac paying silent tribute. Twenty minutes later, […]