LEGAL/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “The chief executive of the publisher of the National Enquirer was granted immunity by prosecutors investigating payments arranged by U.S. President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, to silence two women who said they had sex with Trump, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday [8-22-18]. Another AMI executive, […]
Category: A- Trump As President
8/23/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “https://t.co/3PAVDdfJJr“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 23, 2018 8:44 am […]
8/23/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Federal prosecutors reached an immunity deal with the tabloid executive David J. Pecker, a key witness in their monthslong investigation into payments during the 2016 campaign to two women who said they had affairs with Donald J. Trump, according to two people familiar with the investigation. Mr. Pecker is the chairman […]
8/23/2018
CHINA/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A restart of trade talks between the United States and China ended on Thursday [8-23-18] with little sign of progress as Washington moved ahead with additional tariffs and President Trump met with legislators to discuss a new law aimed at curbing Chinese investment. The bilateral talks, while low level, were the […]
8/23/2018
CONGRESS/CRIME/ELECTION/GOP/ICE/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump and congressional Republicans, who are eager to find an issue that can help minimize the losses they expect in the midterm elections, are leaning hard into crime, illegal immigration and public safety to paint a bleak picture of how the country would become less safe under a Democratic-controlled Congress. […]
8/23/2018
LEGAL/PARDONS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Amid a series of high-profile pardons and commutations by President Trump in recent months, his personal lawyers cautioned against even considering clemency for former aides under investigation by the special counsel until the inquiry was over, one of the lawyers, Rudolph W. Giuliani, said on Thursday [8-23-18]. Mr. Trump agreed […]
8/23/2018
CRIME/NEW YORK/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “For much of the 1980s and 1990s, ‘the Dapper Don’ and ‘the Donald’ vied for supremacy on the front pages of New York’s tabloids. The don, John J. Gotti, died in a federal prison in 2002, while Donald J. Trump went on to be president of the United States. Now, […]
8/23/2018
AFRICA/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Like so many of President Trump’s late-night tweets, this one was inspired by a segment on his favorite cable channel, Fox News. But when Mr. Trump announced Wednesday [8-22-18] night that he was directing his secretary of state to scrutinize what he said was the targeting of white farmers for land seizures […]
8/23/2018
JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump drew a sharp rebuttal from his attorney general on Thursday 8-23-18] after he gave a scathing assessment of Jeff Sessions as being unable to take control of the Justice Department. Trump intensified his criticism of the Justice Department in a Fox News interview aired on Thursday […]
8/23/2018
DEMS/ELECTIONS/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As both parties seek to make sense of the fallout from one of the lowest points of Donald Trump’s presidency, the two sides can agree on one thing: However momentous, even the conviction of Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, a guilty plea involving hush money by his personal lawyer and the indictment […]
8/22/2018
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump and his aides moved quickly Wednesday [8-22-18] to insulate themselves from the legal firestorm encircling the White House by writing their own version of reality and attacking anybody who contests it. In the president’s alternate universe, the campaign violations his former attorney pleaded guilty to are ‘not a crime’; […]
8/22/2018
MEDIA/PARDONS/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is not currently looking to pardon Paul Manafort after he was found guilty on eight felony charges, the White House said Wednesday [8-22-18]. But according to a Fox News reporter who asked the president earlier in the day, Trump is indeed considering letting his former campaign chairman off […]
8/22/2018
PARDONS/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani have talked about the potential political repercussions of pardoning former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, The New York Times reported Wednesday [8-22-18]. Giuliani told the Times that pardoning Manafort, who on Tuesday was found guilty on eight of 18 financial crimes, […]
8/22/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump asserted Wednesday [8-22-18] that former attorney Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to violations of campaign law which aren’t crimes. ‘Michael Cohen plead guilty to two counts of campaign finance violations that are not a crime,’ Mr. Trump tweeted. ‘President Obama had a big campaign finance violation and it was easily […]
8/22/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Trump on Wednesday [8-22-18] slammed his former longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen for striking a plea deal with federal prosecutors admitting to campaign finance violations and implicating the president…At the same time, the president tweeted in support of ex-campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who was found guilty on eight tax and […]
8/22/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Michael Cohen walked into a courthouse in Manhattan on Tuesday [8-21-18] and told a federal judge under oath that he committed a felony and that his former client, President Donald Trump, directed him to do so. In that moment, Cohen upended a months-long strategy by Trump to undermine the investigation […]
8/22/2018
AFRICA/AGRICULTURE/MEDIA/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I have asked Secretary of State @SecPompeo to closely study the South Africa land and farm seizures and expropriations and the large scale killing of farmers. ‘South African Government is now seizing land from white farmers.’ @TuckerCarlson @FoxNews” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 22, 2018 9:28 pm […]
8/22/2018
AFRICA/AGRIVULTURE/MEDIA/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I have asked Secretary of State @MikePompeo4USA to closely study the South Africa land and farm seizures and expropriations and the large scale killing of farmers. ‘South African Government is now seizing land from white farmers.’ @TuckerCarlson @FoxNews” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 22, 2018 9:18 pm […]
8/22/2018
CONGRESS/DEMS/ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A string of damaging legal developments rattled Republicans on Tuesday [8-21-18] and further heightened the stakes of the 2018 midterm elections less than three months away. The startling, coast-to-coast rat-a-tat-tat — a conviction in Virginia, a confession in New York and new charges in California — left the GOP off balance and […]
8/22/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The jury in the trial of Paul Manafort would have convicted the former Trump campaign chairman on all 18 criminal charges if not for one juror who had questions about the reasonable doubt standard of guilt, a juror told Fox News on Wednesday [8-22-18]…The jury on Tuesday [8-21-18] found Manafort […]
8/22/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I will be interviewed on @foxandfriends by @ainsleyearhardt tomorrow from 6:00 A.M. to 9:00 A.M. Enjoy!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 22, 2018 7:51 pm […]
8/22/2018
MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @Scavino45: Today, President Trump welcomed the family of @usairforce Tech. Sgt. John A. Chapman, Medal of Honor recipient, to the Oval…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 22, 2018 7:46 pm […]
8/22/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “https://t.co/15ibBbf34U“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 22, 2018 6:01 pm […]
8/22/2018
CRIME/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “For more than a month, Iowans have been gripped by the mysterious and highly publicized disappearance of a local college student who left for a run in her rural Iowa community and never returned. Now the case is poised to explode across the midterm election map. On Tuesday [8-21-18], authorities charged a […]
8/22/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “For 16 or so hours after Tuesday’s [8-21-18] double-barreled bombshell news, President Trump couldn’t even publicly say Michael Cohen’s name. That was the first signal he had been wounded by his former fixer’s guilty plea. He said he felt badly for Paul Manafort, his former campaign manager who had […]
8/22/2018
CAMPAIGN FINANCE/MICHAEL COHEN/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “The federal campaign finance and tax evasion case that is embroiling the White House began in the unlikeliest of places: the world of supermarket tabloids. It is populated by porn stars and Playboy models, shadowy ‘story brokers’ and the ultra rich and powerful, who can buy back their secrets on […]
8/22/2018
CHINA/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The video released by the Chinese state media thanks President Trump for helping make China stronger. It shows him in unflattering poses, his brow furrowed and his mouth agape. Its sarcastic title: ‘Thanks Mr. Trump, you are GREAT!’ As a trade war between China and the United States escalates, Chinese news outlets […]
8/22/2018
MICHAEL COHEN/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The trial of Paul Manafort was not about election conspiracy or presidential obstruction of justice. Michael D. Cohen pleaded guilty to crimes that had nothing to do with Russia’s campaign to sabotage the 2016 presidential race. Yet the deepening legal peril for both men could have significant implications for […]
8/22/2018
AGRICULTURE/IMMIGRATION/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “For the first three weeks of July, Peter Martens prayed for rain. At the end of the month the rain finally arrived, but by then it was too late for some of his crops. For others, it was too much water, too quickly. The lack of rain, Mr. Martens said, will […]
8/22/2018
BUSINESS/COMMERCE/TARIFFS/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s aluminum tariffs have rattled global businesses, set off retaliatory levies and started to eat into profits of some major American companies. But they have also provided a lifeline to other United States businesses, like Century Aluminum, the struggling smelter in Kentucky that is at the heart of Mr. Trump’s […]
8/22/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump on Wednesday [8-22-18] praised his just-convicted former campaign chairman for refusing to ‘break’ and cooperate with federal prosecutors investigating Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, expressing appreciation for the personal loyalty of a felon found guilty of defrauding the United States government. In a series of tweets the […]
8/22/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Senior Republican Party leaders began urging their most imperiled incumbents on Wednesday [8-22-18] to speak out about the wrongdoing surrounding President Trump, with Representative Tom Cole, a former House Republican campaign chairman, warning, ‘Where there’s smoke, and there’s a lot of smoke, there may well be fire.’ Democrats face their own pressure […]
8/22/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “https://t.co/wYCNmkkaNR“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 22, 2018 5:24 pm […]
8/22/2018
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/MICHAEL COHEN/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “White House press secretary Sarah Sanders maintained Wednesday [8-22-18] that President Donald Trump ‘did nothing wrong’ relating to the hush money payments made to women who claimed affairs with him during the 2016 campaign…Sanders declined to answer additional questions about what the President knew about the payments and […]
8/22/2018
CONGRESS/DEMS/DHS/ELECTION/RUSSIA/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A battle between U.S. President Donald Trump and Democrats over federal funding to help secure November’s U.S. elections stymied legislation in Congress on Wednesday, at least for now, that is aimed at thwarting Russian meddling by strengthening states’ voting procedures. The Senate Rules Committee unexpectedly canceled a work session that was intended […]
8/22/2018
GOP/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Twenty-four hours after one of the most damaging days for Donald Trump’s presidency, the Republican wall of support around him shows no signs of crumbling. Though some GOP senators expressed discomfort with the the plea deal reached by Trump lawyer Michael Cohen and the guilty verdict rendered on former Trump campaign […]
8/22/2018
CONGRESS/DEMS/ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democrats accused congressional Republicans on Wednesday [8-22-18] of enabling a growing culture of corruption under U.S. President Donald Trump and planned to use the issue to bolster their push to retake control of Congress in November’s elections. The conviction and guilty plea on Tuesday [8-21-18] of two former members of Trump’s inner […]
8/22/2018
ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Longest bull run in the history of the stock market, congratulations America!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 22, 2018 3:07 pm […]
8/22/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “https://t.co/mJtO0AFLus“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 22, 2018 3:05 pm […]
8/22/2018
CAMPAIGN FINANCE/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday [8-22-18] defended hush money payments made during the 2016 campaign to silence two women who claimed affairs with him, saying the payments did not violate campaign finance laws because they were not funded by his campaign. His attorney, Michael Cohen, pleaded guilty Tuesday […]
8/22/2018
DEMS/GOP/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Mounting legal problems confronting President Trump and the GOP are rattling the political map nationwide, forcing Democratic and Republican candidates alike to rethink election strategies just weeks before the midterm. And the debate around impeachment — or as many Democrats prefer to frame it, the ‘culture of Republican corruption’ in […]
8/22/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “https://t.co/OGqKufBeHn“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 22, 2018 11:13 am […]
8/22/2018
CAMPAIGN FINANCE/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday [8-22-18] he found out only after the fact about payments his then-lawyer Michael Cohen made to silence two women who said they had had affairs with Trump, adding that the money came from him and not his campaign..Cohen, in pleading guilty to eight […]
8/22/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “After 19 tumultuous months in office, President Trump is being squeezed by legal assaults on two fronts, each of which could imperil his White House tenure. How those cases intersect is at the heart of the high-stakes legal threat, and the answer may rely on one man — Michael […]
8/22/2018
HURRICANE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Everyone in the path of #HurricaneLane please prepare yourselves, heed the advice of State and local officials, and follow @NWSHonolulu for updates. Be safe! https://t.co/kCwtL8UxNI“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 22, 2018 10:05 am […]
8/22/2018
DEMS/NAZI/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Thank you to Democrat Assemblyman Dov Hikind of New York for your very gracious remarks on @foxandfriends for our deporting a longtime resident Nazi back to Germany! Others worked on this for decades.” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 22, 2018 8:52 am […]
8/22/2018
CAMPAIGN FINANCE/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Michael Cohen plead guilty to two counts of campaign finance violations that are not a crime. President Obama had a big campaign finance violation and it was easily settled!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 22, 2018 8:37 am […]
8/22/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A large number of counts, ten, could not even be decided in the Paul Manafort case. Witch Hunt!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 22, 2018 8:34 am […]
8/22/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I feel very badly for Paul Manafort and his wonderful family. ‘Justice’ took a 12 year old tax case, among other things, applied tremendous pressure on him and, unlike Michael Cohen, he refused to ‘break’ – make up stories in order to get a ‘deal.’ Such respect for a brave man!” […]
8/22/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “The White House pushed back forcefully on Wednesday [8-22-18] against suggestions that a plea deal struck by President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen implicated Trump in a crime…Cohen on Tuesday [8-21-18] pleaded guilty to eight criminal charges of tax evasion, bank fraud and campaign finance violations. He told a […]
8/22/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/PARDONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “U.S. President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen would not accept a presidential pardon, his attorney said on Wednesday [8-22-18], a day after Cohen pleaded guilty to eight criminal charges and said he acted at the direction of Trump. In a round of television interviews, Cohen’s attorney, Lanny Davis, said […]
8/22/2018
JOBS/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Corey Southard steers red-hot molten steel slabs all day. And he’s worried about his job. The 48-year-old assistant roller at NLMK Pennsylvania says President Donald Trump’s steel tariffs have driven up costs for his company and left everyone at his western Pennsylvania plant — deep in the heart of Trump country […]
DEMS/ELECTION/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Phil Bredesen wants Tennesseans to know one thing: He won’t be the one to flip the Senate for Democrats. It’s not pessimism but self-preservation that tinges Bredesen’s assessment of the Senate landscape. An upset win in Tennessee could, in fact, put Bredesen’s party in the majority if Democrats were to run the […]
8/21/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been found guilty on eight counts of financial crimes, a major victory for special counsel Robert Mueller. But jurors were unable to reach a verdict on 10 charges, and Judge T.S. Ellis declared a mistrial on those counts. Manafort was found […]
8/21/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Michael Cohen’s lawyer on Tuesday [8-21-18] asked why President Donald Trump isn’t also facing criminal charges over the hush payments that his client pleaded guilty to executing. Lanny Davis — who is representing Cohen, Trump’s longtime personal lawyer — lashed out in a statement after Cohen struck a plea deal on […]
8/21/2018
DEMS/GOP/MICHAEL COHEN/PAUL MANFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Two courtroom decisions within minutes of each other, each with eight convictions, against President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer and campaign chairman engulfed Capitol Hill on Tuesday [8-21-18], where Republicans downplayed the connection of both cases to the White House while Democrats seized on the President’s potential role and […]
8/21/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Lanny Davis, the attorney representing President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen, said Tuesday [8-21-18] his client has information on Trump that would interest special counsel Robert Mueller in his investigation…Cohen pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court Tuesday to eight criminal counts and admitted he acted to keep […]
8/21/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In two courtrooms 200 miles apart on Tuesday [8-21-18], President Trump’s almost daily attempts to dismiss the criminal investigations that have engulfed his White House all but collapsed. Mr. Trump has long mocked the investigations as ‘rigged witch hunts,’ pursued by Democrats and abetted by a dishonest news media. […]
8/21/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s former lawyer, made the extraordinary admission in court on Tuesday [8-21-18] that Mr. Trump had directed him to arrange payments to two women during the 2016 campaign to keep them from speaking publicly about affairs they said they had with Mr. Trump. Mr. Cohen acknowledged […]
8/21/2018
DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump invoked on Tuesday [8-21-18] fears of immigrant crime and angry mobs as he began a weekslong push to try to preserve the Republican majority in Congress as the party braces for midterm losses amid a cascade of scandals involving members of his inner circle…In a wide-ranging, more than hourlong […]
8/21/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, was convicted on Tuesday [8-21-18] in his financial fraud trial, bringing a dramatic end to a politically charged case that riveted the capital. The verdict was a victory for the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, whose prosecutors introduced extensive evidence that […]
8/21/2018
HISPANICS/ICE/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It was supposed to be a White House salute to the heroism of immigration agents who put their lives on the line to protect Americans. But on Monday [8-20-18], President Trump appeared to have something else on his mind: the ethnicity of one of the men he was honoring. ‘Speaks perfect English,’ […]
8/21/2018
CONGRESS/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Back before he controlled the GOP, before his endorsement seemed capable of swinging a primary, before he was President of the United States and before he’d won most Republican primaries in 2016, Donald Trump had very few friends in Congress. Just a handful of Republican lawmakers endorsed his campaign early on. […]
8/21/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is planning to spend at least 40 days on the road campaigning for Republicans before the midterm elections in November, the President’s top White House political advisers said on Tuesday [8-21-18]…DeStefano said the midterm campaign travel they are planning for Trump would put him on the road more than […]
8/21/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump briefly slammed the investigation into Russian interference during the 2016 campaign during his rally in West Virginia on Tuesday [8-21-18], hours after his campaign chairman Paul Manafort was convicted on charges stemming from that investigation…Trump largely avoided the topic of the investigation during the first […]
8/21/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court Tuesday [8-21-18] to eight criminal counts, admitting that ‘in coordination and at the direction of a candidate for federal office’ he acted to keep information that would have been harmful to the candidate and the campaign […]
8/21/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Thank you West Virginia. I love you! https://t.co/K1OQ98wOh4“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 21, 2018 7:45 pm […]
8/21/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! https://t.co/gZqP81bclE“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 21, 2018 7:38 pm […]
8/21/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Just landed in West Virginia. Big crowd, looking forward to seeing everyone soon! #MAGA” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 21, 2018 4:32 pm […]
8/21/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “An attorney for Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer who pleaded guilty in New York on Tuesday [8-21-18] to campaign finance violations and other charges, said Trump directed Cohen to commit a crime. ‘Today he stood up and testified under oath that Donald Trump directed him to commit […]
8/21/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Federal charges against former Trump attorney Michael Cohen contain no allegation of wrongdoing against President Donald Trump and demonstrate a “pattern of lies and dishonesty” by Cohen over a long period, a counsel for the president said on Tuesday [8-21-18]. Cohen pleaded guilty earlier on Tuesday to campaign finance violations […]
8/21/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “White House counsel Don McGahn’s 30 hours of conversations with special counsel Robert Mueller’s team have unnerved President Donald Trump, who didn’t know the full extent of McGahn’s discussions, two people familiar with his thinking said. The meetings only add complications to the already-fraught relationship between the President […]
8/21/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Join me tonight at the Charleston Civic Center in West Virginia at 7:00pmE! Tickets: https://t.co/OX8gGhdmg9“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 21, 2018 10:22 am […]
8/21/2018
DEMS/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Bill DeBlasio, the high taxing Mayor of NYC, just stole my campaign slogan: PROMISES MADE PROMISES KEPT! That’s not at all nice. No imagination! @foxandfriends” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 21, 2018 9:15 am […]
8/21/2018
2016 ELECTION/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “U.S. President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen testified on Tuesday [8-21-18] that Trump had directed him to commit a crime by arranging payments ahead of the 2016 presidential election to silence two women who said they had affairs with Trump. Cohen’s voice cracked several times as he pleaded […]
8/21/2018
ENERGY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Big Rally tonight in West Virginia. Patrick Morrisey is running a GREAT race for U.S. Senate. I have done so much for West Virginia, against all odds, and having Patrick, a real fighter, by my side, would make things so much easier. See you later. CLEAN COAL!!!!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 21, […]
8/21/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I am sorry to have to reiterate that there are serious and unpleasant consequences to crossing the Border into the United States ILLEGALLY! If there were no serious consequences, our country would be overrun with people trying to get in, and our system could not handle it!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 21, […]
8/21/2018
MEDIA/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Fake News, of which there is soooo much (this time the very tired New Yorker) falsely reported that I was going to take the extraordinary step of denying Intelligence Briefings to President Obama. Never discussed or thought of!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 21, 2018 6:10 am […]
8/21/2018
NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Even James Clapper has admonished John Brennan for having gone totally off the rails. Maybe Clapper is being nice to me so he doesn’t lose his Security Clearance for lying to Congress!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 21, 2018 5:55 am […]
8/21/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A Blue Wave means Crime and Open Borders. A Red Wave means Safety and Strength!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 21, 2018 5:38 am […]
8/21/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was convicted on Tuesday [8-21-18] of eight counts of financial wrongdoing, giving Special Counsel Robert Mueller a victory in the first trial arising from his investigation of Russia’s role in the 2016 U.S. election. After almost four days of deliberations, a 12-member jury found […]
8/20/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Law enforcement authorities are searching for a man who’s suspected of threatening to shoot President Donald Trump. Shawn Richard Christy, of McAdoo, Pennsylvania, was last seen in Cumberland, Maryland, Sunday night driving a stolen vehicle, according to the authorities. The US Marshals Service is offering $20,000 for information leading to Christy’s arrest. […]
8/20/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said on Monday [8-20-18] that he could ‘run’ the special counsel’s Russia investigation if he wanted to, but that he had decided to ‘stay out’ for now…Legal experts disagree on the exact process, but there is some agreement that Trump has power over the inquiry, including the […]
8/20/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “https://t.co/PeF12D2IqJ“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 20, 2018 6:49 pm […]
8/20/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “After three full days of deliberations, the jury in the trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort still has not returned a verdict. Jurors will return Tuesday [8-21-18] at 9:30 a.m. ET. Manafort is charged with 18 counts of tax evasion, bank fraud and hiding foreign bank accounts in […]
8/20/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump ‘has got a real problem’ after the latest revelations regarding White House counsel Don McGahn’s interviews with special counsel investigators, according to John Dean, who served in the same role for President Richard Nixon. CNN has reported McGahn’s lawyers did not give Trump’s lawyers a full debriefing on […]
8/20/2018
ECONOMY/FEDERAL RESERVE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Monday [8-20-18] said he would criticize the Federal Reserve if it continues to raise interest rates, setting up a potential clash next month when the central bank is expected to do just that…Powell was nominated by Trump in November and took the helm of the central bank […]
8/20/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A pivotal figure in the Watergate investigation, John W. Dean, was dragged back into the limelight on Sunday [8-19-18] with President Trump’s defense of the current White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II. On Saturday [8-18-18], The New York Times published an article online about Mr. McGahn’s extensive cooperation with the […]
8/20/2018
CHINA/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As the United States and China prepare to resume fractious trade talks this week, executives from American companies flocked to Washington on Monday [8-20-18] to warn the Trump administration that imposing tariffs on an additional $200 billion worth of Chinese goods would cripple their businesses and raise prices on everything from bicycles […]
8/20/2018
ECONOMY/FEDERAL RESERVE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump complained to wealthy donors at a fund-raiser in the Hamptons last week that the man he chose as chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome H. Powell, has disappointed him by raising interest rates, according to people who attended the event. In the midst of a long riff on the […]
8/20/2018
CIA/LAWSUIT/NATIONAL SECURITY/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump and Rudolph W. Giuliani, his personal lawyer, both taunted John O. Brennan, the former C.I.A. director, on Monday [8-20-18], apparently hoping that they could goad Mr. Brennan into filing a lawsuit against the president for revoking his security clearance. Mr. Giuliani tweeted that if Mr. Brennan failed […]
8/20/2018
CLINTONS/NOMINATIONS/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Brett M. Kavanaugh, President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, urged prosecutors investigating President Bill Clinton to question him in graphic detail about his sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky, a White House intern, according to a memorandum released on Monday [8-20-18] by the National Archives. Mr. Kavanaugh spent more than three years working […]
8/20/2018
BORDER/CRIME/DEMS/ICE/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump on Monday [8-20-18] criticized Democratic lawmakers who are against his proposed border wall, saying they are ‘people that don’t mind crime.’ The president delivered his criticism during an event at the White House saluting members of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Customs and Border Protection. Several Republican officials attended, […]
8/20/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump asserted on Monday [8-02-18] that he would be ‘totally allowed’ to take over Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe if he wanted to, in another thinly veiled broadside against an investigation he has repeatedly derided as a partisan ‘witch hunt.’ ‘I can go in, and I could do […]
8/20/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said he’s concerned about potential perjury charges that could be brought against him if he were to sit down with special counsel Robert Mueller. Trump told Reuters in an interview on Monday [8-20-18] that he was worried investigators would put his statements up against those who have […]
8/20/2018
CHINA/DRUGS/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It is outrageous that Poisonous Synthetic Heroin Fentanyl comes pouring into the U.S. Postal System from China. We can, and must, END THIS NOW! The Senate should pass the STOP ACT – and firmly STOP this poison from killing our children and destroying our country. No more delay!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August […]
8/20/2018
JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA INVESETIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump tweeted Monday [8-20-18] to ask why his attorney general had not fired a Justice Department official with ties to the firm behind a dossier alleging connections between Trump and Russia. ‘Will Bruce Ohr, whose family received big money for helping to create the phony, dirty and […]
8/20/2018
MEDIA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’Bruce Ohr is at the center of FALSE ALLEGATIONS which led to a multi-million dollar investigation into what apparently didn’t happen.’ Darrell Issa, House Oversight. We can take out the word ‘apparently.’ @FoxNews” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 20, 2018 9:46 am […]
8/20/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Will Bruce Ohr, whose family received big money for helping to create the phony, dirty and discredited Dossier, ever be fired from the Jeff Sessions ‘Justice’ Department? A total joke!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 20, 2018 9:36 am […]
8/20/2018
NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Everybody wants to keep their Security Clearance, it’s worth great prestige and big dollars, even board seats, and that is why certain people are coming forward to protect Brennan. It certainly isn’t because of the good job he did! He is a political ‘hack.’” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 20, 2018 9:23 […]