GUNS/NRA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I am looking into 3-D Plastic Guns being sold to the public. Already spoke to NRA, doesn’t seem to make much sense!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 31, 2018 7:03 am […]
Category: A- Trump As President
7/31/2018
DEMS/HILLARY CLINTON/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Collusion is not a crime, but that doesn’t matter because there was No Collusion (except by Crooked Hillary and the Democrats)!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 31, 2018 6:58 am […]
7/31/2018
BORDER/CRIME/DEMS/ICE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “One of the reasons we need Great Border Security is that Mexico’s murder rate in 2017 increased by 27% to 31,174 people killed, a record! The Democrats want Open Borders. I want Maximum Border Security and respect for ICE and our great Law Enforcement Professionals! @FoxNews” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 31, 2018 […]
7/31/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Rush Limbaugh is a great guy who truly gets it!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 31, 2018 5:50 am […]
7/31/2018
ITALY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @dougmillsnyt: .@realDonaldTrump walks with Giuseppe Conte, Prime Minister of the Italy following a joint news conference in the East Ro…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 31, 2018 5:30 am […]
7/31/2018
MIKE PENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VA: “RT @dougmillsnyt: .@realDonaldTrump pumps his fist after his new Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie is sworn-in by @VP Mike Pence…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 31, 2018 5:29 am […]
7/31/2018
2016 ELECTION/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump again attacked Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russia and the 2016 U.S. election on Tuesday [7-31-18], reiterating that his campaign did not collude with Moscow and saying collusion is not a crime anyway. Trump commented hours before his former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, was […]
7/31/2018
GOP/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday [7-31-18] slammed the powerful Koch-led political operation as ‘globalist’ and ‘a total joke,’ rejecting the conservative group amid signs of a growing public fissure between the president and business over trade. Trump’s comments follow news media reports that some officials within the Koch donor network […]
7/30/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump and the publisher of The New York Times, A. G. Sulzberger, engaged in a fierce public clash on Sunday [7-29-18] over Mr. Trump’s threats against journalism, after Mr. Sulzberger said the president misrepresented a private meeting and Mr. Trump accused The Times and other papers of putting lives at risk […]
7/30/2018
HHS/MEDICAID/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Hoping to head off a full expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, some senior officials in the Trump administration and Republican governors have been pushing hard for a smaller expansion to satisfy a growing political demand in their states. But President Trump decided on Friday [7-27-18] to shut down the […]
7/30/2018
2016 ELECTION/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In the days after the 2016 presidential election, Donald J. Trump’s advisers had an unequivocal message about contacts between Russians and members of the campaign team: There were none. In the ensuing months, as numerous such communications were revealed, the message changed: There was no collusion with Russia’s effort […]
7/30/2018
STEVE MNUCHIN/TAXES/TREASURY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is considering bypassing Congress to grant a $100 billion tax cut mainly to the wealthy, a legally tenuous maneuver that would cut capital gains taxation and fulfill a long-held ambition of many investors and conservatives. Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary, said in an interview on the sidelines of […]
7/30/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Sarasota County Republican fair and rally last Saturday [7-28-18] left little mystery about what is animating the party this year. There was a ‘Trump Shop’ outside the arena, selling T-shirts extolling the president’s dominance. There was a life-size cardboard cutout of Mr. Trump, both thumbs splayed skyward, greeting visitors inside. […]
7/30/2018
BORDER/CONGRESS/ELECTION/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Trump has been threatening to close down the government if Congress doesn’t meet his immigration priorities, but he has privately agreed to put off a potential shutdown or any fight over border wall funding until after the midterm elections, an administration official said Monday [7-30-18]. In recent days Mr. Trump has […]
7/30/2018
IRAN/MIKE POMPEO/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump said he would be willing to meet with his Iranian counterpart without first demanding diplomatic concessions, the latest public overture involving nations he has also condemned and called a threat to American safety and economic security. The remark by Mr. Trump, in response to a question at a White […]
7/30/2018
MICHAEL COHEN/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In a day of confusing statements, President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani first startled observers with a public claim of a previously unknown meeting involving top Trump associates and Kremlin-linked Russians — then recanted the claim and said the meeting ‘never happened.’ During a nearly 45-minute interview on CNN […]
7/30/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, said Monday [7-30-18] that he’s not sure collusion with Russia would be considered a crime. But legal experts have repeatedly said that anyone found collaborating with Russia on the 2016 election could be charged with other crimes, such as conspiracy — and special […]
7/30/2018
JOHN KELLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congratulations to General John Kelly. Today we celebrate his first full year as @WhiteHouse Chief of Staff! https://t.co/JWCaJ3GhHV“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 30, 2018 4:20 pm […]
7/30/2018
BORDER/CONGRESS/IMMIGRATION/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump reiterated his threat Monday [7-30-18] to shut down the government if Congress fails to pass new border security and immigration measures, but he declined to draw a line in the sand. Trump stuck to broad strokes as he warned he is willing to shut down the government if Congress […]
7/30/2018
IRAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TWITTER: “President Trump said he would be willing to meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani without conditions…The U.S. and Iranian leaders swapped taunts last week, escalating security concerns between the two nations when Mr. Rouhani warned the Trump administration against continuing hard-line policies against Iran…Mr. Trump responded with his own threat, posting on […]
7/30/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “???? https://t.co/1SSUCRtMEE” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 30, 2018 2:31 pm […]
7/30/2018
ITALY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It is my great honor to welcome Prime Minister @GiuseppeConteIT of Italy to the @WhiteHouse! Join us at 2:00pmE for our joint press conference: https://t.co/XAchZ3zUSe https://t.co/5t4QVsKKqH“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 30, 2018 12:22 pm […]
7/30/2018
IRAN/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday [7-30-18] he would be willing to meet Iran’s leader without preconditions to discuss how to improve ties after he pulled the United States out of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, saying, ‘If they want to meet, we’ll meet’…No U.S. president has met with an Iranian […]
7/30/2018
GUNS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Several U.S. states on Monday [7-30-18] said they would jointly sue the Trump administration for allowing the public to download blueprints for 3-D printable guns in a last-ditch effort to block the designs from becoming available on Wednesday [8-1-18]. Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson said at a news conference in Seattle […]
7/30/2018
BORDER/CONGRESS/IMMIGRATION/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “U.S. President Donald Trump threatened again on Monday [7-30-18] to shut down the federal government over his demands for a border wall and other changes in immigration policy, but said he remains open to talks with Congress on the issue…Congress must pass a spending bill by the end of September to avert […]
7/30/2018
EU/IMMIGRATION/ITALY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump praised Italy’s increasingly hard-line approach to immigration on Monday [7-30-18], at the start of a meeting with Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte at the White House…Conte took office last month promising to bring radical change to Italy, including more generous welfare provision and a crackdown on immigration. Immigration […]
7/30/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TWITTER: “Donald Trump is giving Americans a glimpse of the fury raging inside him as a pivotal moment nears for special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, and different strands of political and legal vulnerability swirling around the President become ever more threatening. Trump launched his most personal attack to date against […]
7/30/2018
BUSINESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @GOPChairwoman: ‘David Burritt, U.S. Steel’s president and CEO, said the company was experiencing a ‘renaissance’ and credited @realDona…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 30,2018 7:06 am […]
7/29/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “After a week of revelations that suggest Michael Cohen may have turned on Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, the President’s current lawyer, argued that Trump’s former attorney wasn’t credible and has ‘lied all his life.’ That’s a stark reversal from what Giuliani once said about Cohen, whom he described as truthful […]
7/30/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “We must have Border Security, get rid of Chain, Lottery, Catch & Release Sanctuary Cities – go to Merit based Immigration. Protect ICE and Law Enforcement and, of course, keep building, but much faster, THE WALL!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 30, 2018 6:57 am […]
7/30/2018
BUSINESS/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Some of the biggest winners from President Donald Trump’s new tax law are corporate executives who have reaped gains as their companies buy back a record amount of stock, a practice that rewards shareholders by boosting the value of existing shares. A POLITICO review of data disclosed in Securities and Exchange Commission […]
7/30/2018
ECONOMY/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump has come to the end of another difficult political week for himself and the Republican party. The fallout from his Helsinki news conference continues to shake the administration while the release of one of Michael Cohen’s secretly recorded audio tapes opened up new questions about the alleged payouts and […]
7/29/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump’s allies sought to discredit his former attorney, Michael Cohen, after a week of escalating clashes that raised the question of how much Mr. Cohen may be prepared to divulge about his former boss. Rudy Giuliani, Mr. Trump’s lawyer, called Mr. Cohen a ‘pathological manipulator’ and ‘a liar’ […]
7/29/2018
BORDER/CONGRESS/ELECTION/GOP/IMMIGRATION/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Congressional Republicans, already facing a difficult election landscape, confronted a prospect on Sunday [7-29-18] they had worked feverishly to avoid: a threat by President Trump to shut down the government over funding for a border wall…Last week, Republican leaders thought they had reached a deal with Mr. Trump to delay a confrontation […]
7/29/2018
AGRICULTURE/EU/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A top Trump administration official said Sunday [7-29-18] the U.S. will ‘immediately’ start negotiating with the European Union to forge trade agreements on farm and energy products, promising ‘an actual transaction’ right away to sell more soybeans, beef and liquefied natural gas to European countries. Larry Kudlow, President Trump’s chief economic […]
7/29/2018
ICE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @Scavino45: “@realDonaldTrump tells @ICEgov agents: ‘We always will stand with you’” https://t.co/o1P17H7IVq“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 29, 2018 6:04 pm […]
7/29/2018
DEMS/HILLARY CLINTON/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….Also, why is Mueller only appointing Angry Dems, some of whom have worked for Crooked Hillary, others, including himself, have worked for Obama….And why isn’t Mueller looking at all of the criminal activity & real Russian Collusion on the Democrats side-Podesta, Dossier?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 29, 2018 3:20 […]
7/29/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Is Robert Mueller ever going to release his conflicts of interest with respect to President Trump, including the fact that we had a very nasty & contentious business relationship, I turned him down to head the FBI (one day before appointment as S.C.) & Comey is his close friend..” -Donald […]
7/29/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “There is No Collusion! The Robert Mueller Rigged Witch Hunt, headed now by 17 (increased from 13, including an Obama White House lawyer) Angry Democrats, was started by a fraudulent Dossier, paid for by Crooked Hillary and the DNC. Therefore, the Witch Hunt is an illegal Scam!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
7/29/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When the media – driven insane by their Trump Derangement Syndrome – reveals internal deliberations of our government, it truly puts the lives of many, not just journalists, at risk! Very unpatriotic! Freedom of the press also comes with a responsibility to report the news…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 29, 2018 2:09 […]
7/29/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “…dying newspaper industry. No matter how much they try to distract and cover it up, our country is making great progress under my leadership and I will never stop fighting for the American people! As an example, the failing New York Times…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 29, 2018 2:09 pm […]
7/29/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “…accurately. 90% of media coverage of my Administration is negative, despite the tremendously positive results we are achieving, it’s no surprise that confidence in the media is at an all time low! I will not allow our great country to be sold out by anti-Trump haters in the…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July […]
7/29/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “…and the Amazon Washington Post do nothing but write bad stories even on very positive achievements – and they will never change!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 29, 2018 2:09 pm […]
7/29/2018
BORDER/CONGRESS/ELECTION/IMMIGRATION/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Trump renewed a threat to shut down the government unless Congress provides money for a wall at the southern border and enacts new curbs on immigration, reviving a battle he said last month should wait until Republicans gained more solid majorities after the November elections…The threat adds a new headache for […]
7/29/2018
BORDER/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “I would be willing to ‘shut down’ government if the Democrats do not give us the votes for Border Security, which includes the Wall! Must get rid of Lottery, Catch & Release etc. and finally go to system of Immigration based on MERIT! We need great people coming into our Country!” – […]
7/29/2018
ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The biggest and best results coming out of the good GDP report was that the quarterly Trade Deficit has been reduced by $52 Billion and, of course, the historically low unemployment numbers, especially for African Americans, Hispanics, Asians and Women.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 29, 2018 7:42 am […]
7/29/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Had a very good and interesting meeting at the White House with A.G. Sulzberger, Publisher of the New York Times. Spent much time talking about the vast amounts of Fake News being put out by the media & how that Fake News has morphed into phrase, ‘Enemy of the People.’ Sad!” -Donald […]
7/29/2018
BORDER/CRIME/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @realDonaldTrump: Democrats, who want Open Borders and care little about Crime, are incompetent, but they have the Fake News Media almos…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 29, 2018 6:59 am […]
7/29/2018
CHUCK SCHUMER/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @realDonaldTrump: The only things the Democrats do well is ‘Resist,’ which is their campaign slogan, and ‘Obstruct.’ Cryin’ Chuck Schume…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 29, 2018 6:59 am […]
7/29/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Please understand, there are consequences when people cross our Border illegally, whether they have children or not – and many are just using children for their own sinister purposes. Congress must act on fixing the DUMBEST & WORST immigration laws anywhere in the world! Vote ‘R’” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 29, 2018 […]
7/29/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Do you think the Fake News Media will ever report on this tweet from Michael? https://t.co/kXLCKZO5Fr“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 29, 2018 6:52 am […]
7/29/2018
POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Wow, highest Poll Numbers in the history of the Republican Party. That includes Honest Abe Lincoln and Ronald Reagan. There must be something wrong, please recheck that poll!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 29, 2018 6:44 am […]
7/29/2018
BORDER/ICE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Tom Homan, fmr ICE Director: ‘There is nobody that has done more for border security & public safety than President Trump. I’ve worked for six presidents, and I respect them all, but nobody has done more than this Administration & President Trump, that’s just a stone cold fact!’” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July […]
7/28/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “https://t.co/E3xvdUGZqa“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 28, 2018 11:37 am […]
7/27/2018
ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump said Friday [7-27-18] that he plans to spends almost all of his time this fall campaigning for the most vulnerable Republican congressional candidates in the midterm elections, a strategy that would have him in many districts where endangered lawmakers in his own party regard him as a liability. In […]
7/27/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/GOP/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “His Republican opponent doesn’t say much publicly about the Trump tax cuts, but on a warm night in a small-town union hall an hour outside Columbus, Danny O’Connor was happy to talk about them — a lot. ‘We just saw, this last December, a $2 trillion swipe of the national credit card, […]
7/27/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Just two days after the White House postponed plans to have President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia visit Washington in the fall, the Russian leader said on Friday [7-27-18] that he had invited President Trump to visit him in Moscow. Praising Mr. Trump as a leader ‘who seeks to keep his […]
7/27/2018
RELIGION/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “With a lineup of prayer meetings, humanitarian forums and religious panels, the National Prayer Breakfast has long brought together people from all over the world for an agenda built around the teachings of Jesus. But there on the guest list in recent years was Maria Butina, looking to meet high-level American officials […]
7/27/2018
COMMERCE/ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump exulted in data on Friday [7-27-18] that showed economic growth accelerated in the second quarter, reeling off a list of statistics to make a case, during a midterm election year, that his administration should get the credit for the humming economy…The Commerce Department estimated that growth in the second quarter […]
7/27/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Becky von Zastrow often votes Republican in her affluent central Ohio suburb – but her dissatisfaction with U.S. President Donald Trump has convinced her to back the Democrat in a special-election test for both parties next month. Her change of heart, reinforced by Trump’s handling of last week’s Helsinki summit with Russian […]
7/27/2018
JOBS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Private business investment has surged from 1.8 percent the year BEFORE I came into office to 9.4 percent this year — that means JOBS, JOBS, JOBS! https://t.co/evO63CpqPP“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 27, 2018 2:23 pm […]
7/27/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A furious President Donald Trump and his allies are launching a campaign to undermine the credibility of Trump’s former personal lawyer and confidant, Michael Cohen, in response to Cohen’s dramatic public turn against his longtime patron. Trump, who has privately fumed about Cohen for days, trashed his former lawyer […]
7/27/2018
MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The @USNavy’s first female Admiral, Alene Duerk once said: ‘It was a nice distinction to have, and to be recognized as the first, but I wanted to make certain that I used that notoriety to do as much positive as I could.’ Alene did just that, and America is forever grateful! https://t.co/tOqkzqGVG7“ […]
7/27/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/DHS/HHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “For months, federal immigration officials along the 268-mile stretch of border that separates New Mexico and West Texas from Mexico had been testing a policy of separating migrant parents from their children. What they didn’t plan for was how to reunite them. When a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to reconnect […]
7/27/2018
ISRAEL/NATO/RELIGION/TURKEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “US President Donald Trump asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to assist in the release of an American pastor detained in Turkey, Israeli and US officials told CNN on Friday [7-27-2018]. The Israeli official would not divulge details of their conversation, or when the request took place, but the two leaders spoke […]
7/27/2018
RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump is open to an invitation from Vladimir Putin to visit Moscow, a White House spokeswoman said Friday [7-27-18], days after his invitation to the Russian leader to visit Washington prompted bipartisan criticism. Following his return from a summit with Mr. Putin in Helsinki last week, where Mr. Trump drew widespread […]
7/27/2018
ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We have accomplished an economic turnaround of HISTORIC proportions! https://t.co/vnmMtPv0kk“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 27, 2018 11:20 am […]
7/27/2018
ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I am thrilled to announce that in the second quarter of this year, the U.S. Economy grew at the amazing rate of 4.1%! https://t.co/xeAPwAAOXN“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 27, 2018 11:12 am […]
7/27/2018
ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Friday [7-27-18] seized on a strong GDP growth rate for the second quarter of the year to tout the economic gains made during his presidency and argued the US is experiencing an economic boom. The US economy grew at a 4.1% annual rate in the second quarter of […]
7/27/2018
CONSUMER PROTECTION/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Democratic lawmakers stepped up pressure on President Trump’s pick to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, demanding more information on her role in the administration’s immigration policies and her stance on consumer finance issues, according to letters seen by Reuters on Friday [7-27-18]. The requests for information filed with the […]
7/27/2018
DONALD JR/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump on Friday [7-27-18] said he had no prior knowledge of a June 2016 meeting his eldest son had with a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower, disputing an account that a person familiar with the matter says his former lawyer Michael Cohen is planning to tell the special […]
7/27/2018
2016 ELECTION/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, claims that then-candidate Trump knew in advance about the June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower in which Russians were expected to offer his campaign dirt on Hillary Clinton, sources with knowledge tell CNN. Cohen is willing to make that assertion to […]
7/27/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Immigrant advocacy groups are gearing up to track down more than 400 parents who were separated from their children and deported without them. The challenge is so daunting that government attorneys have bristled every time it’s come up in court. And now a number of nonprofit groups say they’re prepared to join […]
7/27/2018
CYBERWAR/ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “With the midterm election only a few months away, government officials working to counter election interference from Russia have been operating with no strategy from the top, including from President Donald Trump’s fractured National Security Council, leaving each agency to fend for itself without White House support or direction, according […]
7/27/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A federal judge expressed skepticism on Friday [7-27-18] at a request for a gag order from the former personal lawyer for U.S. President Donald Trump against the lawyer for adult film actress Stormy Daniels, who is suing the president. At a hearing in Los Angeles, U.S. District Judge S. James Otero […]
7/27/2018
ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “GREAT GDP numbers just released. Will be having a news conference soon!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 27, 2018 8:17 am […]
7/27/2018
RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday he wanted U.S. President Donald Trump to be his guest in Moscow, an idea that the White House welcomed despite lingering criticism over the Helsinki summit. The Russian leader said on a visit to South Africa for an economic conference that ‘appropriate conditions’ were required […]
7/27/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Michael Avenatti, the attorney representing porn actress Stormy Daniels in her lawsuits against President Donald Trump, now also represents three other women who claim to have had affairs with Trump who say they were paid to stay silent about. The Associated Press reported Thursday that Avenatti announced his new clients […]
7/27/2018
DONALD JR/HILLARY CLINTON/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “…..I did NOT know of the meeting with my son, Don jr. Sounds to me like someone is trying to make up stories in order to get himself out of an unrelated jam (Taxi cabs maybe?). He even retained Bill and Crooked Hillary’s lawyer. Gee, I wonder if they helped […]
7/27/2018
CYBERWAR/ELECTION/NATIONAL SECURITY/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump will convene his national security advisers on Friday [7-27-18] for a high-level meeting on election security, less than four months until Americans vote to determine whether his fellow Republicans maintain control of Congress. The White House meeting comes amid new accusations of Russian meddling in U.S. elections. […]
7/27/2018
DEMS/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TWITTER: “….,the only Collusion with Russia was with the Democrats, so now they are looking at my Tweets (along with 53 million other people) – the rigged Witch Hunt continues! How stupid and unfair to our Country….And so the Fake News doesn’t waste my time with dumb questions, NO,….” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
7/27/2018
DEMS/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Arrived back in Washington last night from a very emotional reopening of a major U.S. Steel plant in Granite City, Illinois, only to be greeted with the ridiculous news that the highly conflicted Robert Mueller and his gang of 13 Angry Democrats obviously cannot find Collusion…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 27, […]
7/27/2018
SPORTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Way to go Jerry. This is what the league should do! https://t.co/yEP1jK57xi“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 27, 2018 5:56 am […]
7/27/2018
2016 ELECTION/DONALD JR/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday [7-27-18] denied knowing about the 2016 meeting his son Donald Trump Jr. and other campaign staff held at Trump Tower with a group of Russians who offered damaging information about Democratic rival Hillary Clinton…CNN, citing unidentified sources with knowledge of the matter, said Cohen […]
7/26/2018
ENERGY/EU/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When President Trump met with Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission, at the White House, the two said they were entering a new phase in their relationship. Crucial to that will be natural gas. Demand for natural gas — a cleaner-burning fossil fuel than coal or oil — is rising […]
7/26/2018
EU/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When he arrived in the Oval Office for negotiations over their growing trade war, Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission, brought a small gift for President Trump, a renowned admirer of military commanders. It was a photograph of the cemetery in Luxembourg where Gen. George S. Patton is buried. […]
7/26/2018
CHINA/EU/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump plans to travel here later on Thursday [7-26-18] to visit a steel mill that the White House says benefited from his tough trade moves against China and other steel exporters, a day after he temporarily averted a trade war with the European Union. Mr. Trump’s visit to the Granite […]
7/26/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The federal government was rushing on Thursday [7-26-18] to reunite the last 1,634 migrant families separated at the Southwest border who have been deemed ‘eligible’ for reunification, in the final hours of a court-ordered scramble to reverse a contentious immigration policy that drew international condemnation. While the government appeared to be on […]
7/26/2018
JAMES COMEY/JEFF SESSIONS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TWITTER: “For years, President Trump has used Twitter as his go-to public relations weapon, mounting a barrage of attacks on celebrities and then political rivals even after advisers warned he could be creating legal problems for himself. Those concerns now turn out to be well founded. The special counsel, […]
7/26/2018
AGRICULTURE/BUSINESS/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump came to a newly revived steel mill here on Thursday to take credit for jobs created by American tariffs against China and other steel exporters. But his triumphal message was muddied by the woes of Midwestern soybean farmers, who have been caught in the crossfire of Mr. Trump’s multifront […]
7/26/2018
EU/OBAMA/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When President Trump called a truce with the European Union over trade, the general outlines of his plan sounded familiar. It echoed of earlier negotiations — the ones started under President Barack Obama and shelved by Mr. Trump last year. Mr. Trump, in many ways, is taking credit for solving a […]
7/26/2018
EU/TARIFFS/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration on Thursday [7-26-18] touted its truce with Europe to nervous lawmakers as evidence that its trade policies are starting to show results, but Republicans pushed the administration to accelerate efforts to find similar solutions on other trade fronts. President Trump flew to the agricultural and industrial Midwest Thursday […]
7/26/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “.@AlanDersh, a brilliant lawyer, who although a Liberal Democrat who probably didn’t vote for me, has discussed the Witch Hunt with great clarity and in a very positive way. He has written a new and very important book…” – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 26, 2018 5:48 pm […]
7/26/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “…called ‘The Case Against Impeaching Trump,’ which I would encourage all people with Trump Derangement Syndrome to read!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 26, 2018 5:48 pm […]
7/26/2018
GOP/JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/PAUL RYAN/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “House conservatives’ bid to oust Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein amid a fight over the Russia investigation lost steam Thursday [7-26-18] when top Republicans rejected the move, with Attorney General Jeff Sessions urging Congress to focus on other priorities. House Speaker Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) said he doesn’t […]
7/26/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “PROMISES KEPT! https://t.co/Vr2r5wxpvd“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 26, 2018 4:43 pm […]
7/26/2018
ECONOMY/TARIFFS/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is likely to get one of the best headlines of his presidency on Friday [7-27-18] with a highly tweetable report expected to show the U.S. economy grew at its fastest rate in years in the second quarter. But the big number risks becoming fool’s gold. Economists warn that […]
7/26/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Thank you @U_S_Steel and Granite City, Illinois! https://t.co/6RsUvGF6rg“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 26, 2018 4:12 pm […]
7/26/2018
AGRICULTURE/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Trade deficits aren’t a concern for America’s farmers … but you wouldn’t know it from what President Donald Trump has been saying. The US agriculture industry has long exported far more products than the nation has imported. Selling crops, nuts, meat and other goods abroad are vital part of the sector, […]
7/26/2018
JOHN KELLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “John Kelly is on the cusp of a milestone: surviving one year as chief of staff to President Donald Trump. The job comes with the luxury of the second-best piece of real estate in the West Wing, but the biggest headaches. But as Kelly on Saturday [7-28-18] marks his one-year anniversary, […]