FBI/JAMES COMEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/MICHAEL FLYNN: “Members of Congress from both parties escalated calls on Tuesday [5-16-17] for former F.B.I. director James B. Comey to appear before them after reports that President Trump had asked him to drop an investigation into Michael T. Flynn, the former national security adviser. Democrats were aggressive in seeking new […]
Category: A- Trump As President
5/16/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Some of President Trump’s advisers and staff are afraid to leave him alone in meetings with foreign leaders for fear he might say something untoward, The New York Times reported on Tuesday [5-16-17]. The Times’ report comes as Trump’s administration grapples with its latest controversy, in which it emerged that Trump disclosed […]
5/16/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TURKEY: “President Donald Trump, in hosting Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the White House Tuesday [5-16-17], extended his latest warm welcome to an authoritarian-style leader who had a strained relationship with the previous US administration. ‘We’ve had a great relationship and we will make it even better,’ Trump said in the […]
5/16/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/MCMASTER: “National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster faced the press Tuesday afternoon in hopes of quieting the storm caused by a Washington Post report that the president had shared classified information with two top Russian officials during a visit to the Oval Office last week. He might have made things worse. Asked a […]
5/16/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/MCMASTER: “H.R. McMaster, national security adviser to President Donald Trump, declined to say Tuesday [whether the Western Wall is in Israel, furthering a controversy over the site ahead of Trump’s visit to the country next week. McMaster, speaking to reporters to preview Trump’s first foreign swing, said questions about the location of […]
5/16/2017
LEAKS/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump and his aides shifted their damage control strategy on Tuesday [5-16-17], defending Trump’s conversation with Russian officials about allegedly classified information as ‘wholly appropriate’ and instead blaming leakers for wreaking havoc. Tuesday’s tone marked a shift from the tack taken Monday evening by the Trump administration, with multiple aides […]
5/16/2017
INTELLIGENCE/LEAKS/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Tuesday [5-16-17] morning to defend himself over reports he shared counterterrorism intelligence obtained from a U.S. ally at an Oval Office meeting with senior Russian officials last week. ‘I have the absolute right’ as president to share ‘facts pertaining to terrorism and airline safety,’ Mr. […]
5/16/2017
LEAKS/NATIONAL SECURITY/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s national security adviser again asserted that Trump didn’t jeopardize U.S. national security by sharing intelligence with Russian diplomats, and said the conversation in the Oval Office last week was ‘wholly appropriate.’ ‘I stand by my statement that I made yesterday,’ National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster told reporters at […]
5/16/2017
LEAKS/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Republicans in Congress barely had time to get their footing Monday [5-15-17], as another wild development, this time reports that President Donald Trump had revealed sensitive intelligence to Russia’s foreign minister and US ambassador, swept the Capitol. Senators mulled over the latest stunning news, first reported by The Washington Post, as they […]
5/16/2017
LEAKS/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As President I wanted to share with Russia (at an openly scheduled W.H. meeting) which I have the absolute right to do, facts pertaining… to terrorism and airline flight safety. Humanitarian reasons, plus I want Russia to greatly step up their fight against ISIS & terrorism.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 16, 2017 […]
5/16/2017
GUNS/POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A convergence of state and federal legislation could ease restrictions on carrying concealed firearms nationwide, a long-sought goal of gun-rights activists that their opponents say would threaten public safety. More states are giving their residents the right to carry a concealed handgun without permission from authorities—including two this year, bringing the total […]
5/15/2017
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Defense attorney and constitutional law scholar Alan Dershowitz said Monday [5-15-17] that President Donald Trump is now facing ‘the most serious charge ever made against a sitting president’ after reports that he shared highly classified information with Russia’s foreign minister and ambassador during a White House visit last week. Trump described details […]
5/15/2017
INTELLIGENCE/LEAKS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump boasted about highly classified intelligence in a meeting with the Russian foreign minister and ambassador last week, providing details that could expose the source of the information and the manner in which it was collected, a current and a former American government official said Monday [5-15-17]. The intelligence disclosed by […]
5/15/2017
POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As President Donald Trump grapples with the fallout from his firing of Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey, a House election here will test whether it is politically safer for Republicans to be with Mr. Trump than against him. Greg Gianforte, the GOP businessman running to fill Montana’s only House seat, […]
5/15/2017
FBI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. lawmakers on Sunday [5-14-17] called on President Donald Trump to turn over any tapes of conversations with fired FBI chief James Comey, potentially setting up a showdown with the White House as Democrats considered a boycott of the vote on Comey’s replacement. In a highly unusual move, Trump last week appeared […]
5/15/2017
IMMIGRATION/LABOR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said he would seek to keep his tough immigration enforcement policies from harming the U.S. farm industry and its largely immigrant workforce, according to farmers and officials who met with him. At a roundtable on farm labor at the White House last month, Trump said he did not want […]
5/15/2017
JAMES CLAPPER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Sunday that he thinks US institutions are under assault from President Donald Trump. ‘I think in many ways our institutions are under assault both externally — and that’s the big news here is the Russian interference in our election system — and I […]
5/15/2017
IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRAVEL BAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “For the second time in President Donald Trump’s young administration, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals will listen to lawyers battle over the legality of his executive order temporarily blocking foreigners from traveling to the US. Two months ago, a federal judge in Hawaii halted the core portions of Trump’s […]
5/15/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/REINCE PRIEBUS: “White House chief of staff Reince Priebus issued a stern warning at a recent senior staff meeting: Quit trying to secretly slip stuff to President Donald Trump. Just days earlier, K.T. McFarland, the deputy national security adviser, had given Trump a printout of two Time magazine covers. One, supposedly from […]
5/14/2017
FBI/POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Senate Republicans, increasingly unnerved by President Trump’s volatility and unpopularity, are starting to show signs of breaking away from him as they try to forge a more traditional Republican agenda and protect their political fortunes. Several Republicans have openly questioned Mr. Trump’s decision to fire the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, and […]
5/14/2017
FBI/JAMES COMEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump, who has reportedly been isolated and frustrated by the negative coverage engulfing his administration in recent days, may be considering a major reorganization of his White House staff, according to report from Mike Allen of the news website Axios on Sunday [5-14-17]. Trump is said to have […]
5/14/2017
FBI/JAMES COMEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The calls for an impeachment investigation into President Trump have continued to mount in the wake of his controversial dismissal of FBI Director James Comey. In an op-ed released by the Washington Post on Saturday, Harvard constitutional law professor Laurence H. Tribe states that ‘The time has come for Congress to […]
5/12/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “#WeeklyAddress?? ➡️https://t.co/uT4K4fh88Y https://t.co/1iW7tVVNCH” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 12, 2017 07:47pm […]
5/12/2017
ECONOMY/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump says the perfect medicine for the economy’s sluggish growth is a big tax cut. Mr. Trump and his advisers say that leaving more money in the hands of businesses and consumers will lead to more spending and investment, lifting economic growth, which has been stuck in a 2-percent-a-year rut. Indeed, […]
5/12/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A tweet from President Donald Trump on Friday [5-12-17]suggesting that he might have taped phone conversations from the White House made waves in Washington, but some former employees and a former associate said it wasn’t a surprise to them that he would mention taped conversations. As a businessman, Mr. Trump sometimes taped […]
5/12/2017
FBI/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A growing number of legal experts say President Trump has opened himself up to a charge of obstruction of justice this week when he said ‘this Russia thing with Trump’ was on his mind when he fired FBI Director James B. Comey. The federal law against obstruction of justice, a felony, is […]
5/12/2017
FBI/JAMES COMEY/LEAKS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Friday [5-12-17] warned former FBI Director James Comey not to leak information to the news media while dismissing criticism that his aides gave contradictory accounts of how the White House handled Mr. Comey’s firing. ‘James Comey better hope that there are no ‘tapes’ of our conversations before […]
5/12/2017
2016 ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VOTER FRAUD: “The man Donald Trump appointed Thursday [5-11-17] to be vice chair of a commission to investigate voter fraud repeatedly backed Trump’s unfounded charge that millions voted illegally in the 2016 election. President Trump signed an executive order creating the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity and named Kansas Secretary of […]
5/12/2107
ETHICS/FBI/JAMES COMEY/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s statement that he discussed the FBI’s Russia investigation with former Director James Comey has raised red flags among legal experts who said such conversations would be improper. ‘There generally shouldn’t be communications about pending investigations and if you need an explanation why, see: Watergate, basically,’ said Kathleen Clark, […]
5/12/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As a very active President with lots of things happening, it is not possible for my surrogates to stand at podium with perfect accuracy!… Maybe the best thing to do would be to cancel all future ‘press briefings’ and hand out written responses for the sake of accuracy???” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May […]
5/11/2017
FBI/JAMES COMEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said he was planning to fire former FBI Director James Comey regardless of any advice from the Justice Department, because Mr. Comey was a ‘showboat’ who he claimed had lost the faith of his employees. In an interview with NBC News on Thursday [5-11-17], Mr. Trump offered his […]
5/11/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The federal agency that administers the nation’s presidential libraries criticized a viral tweet sent by the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum that appeared to poke fun at President Trump and his decision to fire James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director. The tweet, posted Tuesday, sought to snidely distinguish between Mr. Trump’s […]
5/11/2017
FBI/JAMES COMEY/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House said Thursday [5-11-17] that removing FBI Director James Comey from his post may hasten the agency’s investigation into Russian meddling. ‘We want this to come to its conclusion, we want it to come to its conclusion with integrity,’ said deputy press secretary Sarah Sanders, referring to the FBI’s […]
5/11/2017
FBI/JAMES COMEY/MIKE PENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Vice President Mike Pence has once again delivered the White House line, in the face of growing contradictory evidence, on a charged topic related to Russia’s possible connections to the Trump campaign. In meetings on Capitol Hill and in interviews, Pence has said this week that Trump fired FBI director […]
5/11/2017
2016 ELECTION/DAN COATS/INTELLIGENCE/LEAKS/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The highest-ranking intelligence official in Donald Trump’s administration disagrees with him: There’s no doubt that Russia was behind the series of hacks and leaks against Democrats that helped get Trump elected, he said. In the first annual report to the Senate Intelligence Committee, Trump-appointed Dan Coats, the new Director of […]
5/10/2017
FBI/JAMES COMEY/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump weighed in publicly for the first time on his firing of James Comey, saying on Wednesday [5-10-17] that the FBI director ‘wasn’t doing a good job.’ His comments were part of an effort by the White House to explain and elaborate on the reason the president abruptly fired […]
5/11/2017
FBI/INTELLIGENCE/JAMES COMEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House just can’t get its story straight about why President Trump decided to fire FBI Director James Comey. When the move was initially announced — just before 6 p.m. ET on Tuesday [5-9-17] night — the White House pointed to a memo written by deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein […]
5/11/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House did not anticipate that the Russian government would allow its state news agency to post photographs of an Oval Office meeting between President Donald Trump, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russia’s ambassador to the US, a White House official said. Photos of Wednesday’s [5-10-17] meeting, taken by […]
5/11/2017
2016 ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VOTER FRAUD: “President Trump planned to order a voter fraud investigation Thursday [5-11-17], thrusting back into the spotlight an issue that few other Republican leaders want to tackle as he tries to divert attention from the controversy over his firing of FBI Director James Comey. A White House official said Trump would […]
5/11/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s first three months in office have been a wild ride that has captivated the nation. But overseas, one of America’s diplomats has taken the rare step of breaking cover to bemoan how the current situation in Washington affects America’s dealings abroad. Dana Shell Smith, ambassador to the Arab […]
5/10/2017
FBI/INTELLIGENCE/JAMES COMEY/POLITICS/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s stunning firing of the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, injected another volatile ingredient into the partisanship already engulfing the capital and threatened to overwhelm Republican efforts to turn their government control into legislative success. The decision to replace Mr. Comey also increased the prospect of another contentious confirmation fight […]
5/10/2017
FBI/INTELLIGENCE/JAMES COMEY/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Days before he was fired, James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, asked the Justice Department for a significant increase in money and personnel for the bureau’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the presidential election, according to three officials with knowledge of his request. Mr. Comey asked for the resources during […]
5/10/2017
FBI/JAMES COMEY/POLITICS/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader, on Wednesday [5-10-17] defended President Trump’s firing of the director of the F.B.I., James B. Comey, resisting Democratic calls to challenge the president and support a broader inquiry of Russian interference in the election. ‘Today we’ll no doubt hear calls for […]
5/10/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/STATE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/REX TILLERSON: “President Donald Trump is set to meet with Russia’s foreign minister Wednesday [5-10-17] morning amid a political furor over Mr. Trump’s decision to fire the director of the FBI in the midst of an investigation into whether associates of Mr. Trump colluded with the Russian government to influence the […]
5/10/2017
FBI/INTELLIGENCE/JAMES COMEY/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/MICHAEL FLYNN: “Federal prosecutors have issued grand jury subpoenas to associates of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn seeking business records, as part of the ongoing probe of Russian meddling in last year’s election, according to people familiar with the matter. CNN learned of the subpoenas hours before President Donald Trump […]
5/10/2017
FBI/INTELLIGENCE/JAMES COMEY/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “After President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, questions immediately arose about the President’s motivations for his dismissal — and for the recent firings of two other then-President Barack Obama-appointees who were in the middle of conducting investigations linked to Trump. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Comey’s firing was […]
5/9/2017
FBI/INTELLIGENCE/JAMES COMEY/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump fired Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey on the recommendation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Mr. Rosenstein said in his letter recommending Mr. Comey’s dismissal that the FBI director shouldn’t have spoken publicly last summer after closing an investigation into former […]
5/9/2017
FBI/INTELLIGENCE/JAMES COMEY/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [5-9-17] fired FBI Director James Comey after his attorney general and deputy attorney general recommended his removal. ‘The FBI is one of our nation’s most cherished and respected institutions and today will mark a new beginning for our crown jewel of law enforcement,’ Trump said in […]
5/9/2017
FBI/INTELLIGENCE/JAMES COMEY/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s decision to fire the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the midst of the bureau’s probe into his campaign associates’ possible links to Russia added impetus to calls for a special counsel to handle the case. The sudden move by Mr. Trump on Tuesday galvanized Democrats, […]
5/9/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/MILITARY/NATO/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump approved plans to directly arm Kurdish fighters battling Islamic State in Syria, U.S. officials said Tuesday [5-9-17], paving the way for an offensive against the extremist group’s de facto capital but angering Turkish allies who view the Kurdish fighters as terrorists. The decision to arm the YPG, the […]
5/9/2017
CLIMATE CHANGE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “European officials have unleashed a diplomatic offensive to dissuade President Donald Trump from nixing the Paris Agreement, as the risk of a U.S. pullout threatens to derail the 2015 global deal against climate change. The push, spearheaded by the European Union, comes as thousands of government, environment and business representatives gathered […]
5/8/2017
INTELLIGENCE/OBAMA/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/MICHAEL FLYNN: “Then-President Barack Obama warned President-elect Donald Trump in November against hiring retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn as his national security adviser, former Obama administration officials confirmed to CNN. Obama warned Trump about Flynn during their Oval Office meeting on November 10, days after Trump was elected president. Obama’s concerns, which […]
5/8/2017
AFRICAN AMERICANS/BUDGET/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When President Trump signed a $1.1 trillion spending bill on Friday [5-5-17], he zeroed in on a tiny sliver of it, suggesting that he might disregard $20 million in funding for loan subsidies and other aid to historically black universities. Two nights later, after a storm of criticism, the White House […]
5/8/2017
CONFLICT OF INTERESTS/ETHICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/JARED KUSHNER: “It was the first major piece of legislation that President Trump signed into law, and buried on Page 734 was one sentence that brought a potential benefit to the president’s extended family: renewal of a program offering permanent residence in the United States to affluent foreigners investing money […]
5/8/2017
IMMIGRATION/TRAVEL BAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “On Monday [5-8-17] morning, President Trump’s campaign website featured his December 2015 statement about ‘preventing Muslim immigration.’ Later that afternoon, it did not. The deletion of the statement appeared to come after Cecilia Vega of ABC News asked at Monday’s White House press briefing about the statement: ‘If this White House […]
5/7/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Ohio Republican Gov. John Kasich slammed the GOP health care bill on CNN’s ‘State of the Union’ Sunday [5-7-17] morning, calling it ‘inadequate’ and saying his party was ‘trying to fulfill a campaign promise’ in pushing it through. The former presidential candidate said Medicaid covers 700,000 people in his state, a third […]
5/8/2017
CLIMATE CHANGE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Internal debates within the Trump administration are not uncommon. But an ongoing argument over the fate of the 2015 Paris climate accord has spilled into unusually public view as top advisers to the President near a decision on withdrawing from the landmark pact. In a string of heated West Wing […]
5/8/2017
IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRAVEL BAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s revised effort to suspend travel to the U.S. for people from six Muslim-majority countries faces its biggest legal test to date Monday [5-8-17], as a federal appeals court in Virginia considers whether the president’s executive order should remain on hold because of concerns about religious discrimination. The Fourth […]
5/8/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House pushed back Sunday [5-7-17] on questions about a signing statement President Donald Trump added to the latest government spending bill Friday that said his administration would treat minority spending programs — including one to help historically black colleges pay for construction — in a manner consistent with the Constitution. […]
5/7/2017
SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Having filled a Supreme Court vacancy, President Trump is turning his attention to the more than 120 openings on the lower federal courts. On Monday, he will announce a slate of 10 nominees to those courts, a senior White House official said, the first in what could be near monthly waves […]
5/7/2017
BORDER/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “One of the principal barriers to President Trump’s border wall begins in Aleida Garcia’s expansive backyard. She and her husband have built a small park alongside some scrubland on their 30 acres, and they enjoy a panoramic view of the Rio Grande Valley. They say they will fiercely resist any effort by […]
5/7/2017
ECONOMY/TAXES/TREASURY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Two of the most powerful economic forces in Washington could be aligning in coming years to put considerable upward pressure on long-term interest rates. President Donald Trump is flirting with tax and spending plans that could widen the budget deficit, just as the Fed flirts with plans to shrink its $4.5 trillion […]
5/7/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House is hoping to harness insurance-market woes in some states to help lift the GOP’s health-care measure over the remaining hurdles in Congress, a strategy that reflects President Donald Trump’s own high-stakes approach to deal-making. With the House GOP health bill now before the Senate, White House aides say their […]
5/7/17
BUDGET/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Pentagon has endorsed a plan to invest nearly $8 billion to bulk up the U.S. presence in the Asia-Pacific region over the next five years by upgrading military infrastructure, conducting additional exercises and deploying more forces and ships. The effort is seen by backers as one way to signal more strongly […]
5/6/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The reason I am staying in Bedminster, N. J., a beautiful community, is that staying in NYC is much more expensive and disruptive. Meetings!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 6, 2017 05:39pm […]
5/5/2017
BUDGET/CRIME/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When he was running for office, Donald J. Trump promised to rid America of the scourge of drugs, vowing to crack down on dealers and invest heavily in programs to get heroin and other opioids off the streets. But on Friday [5-5-17], President Trump’s administration revealed plans to gut the 2018 budget […]
5/5/2017
PAUL RYAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/REINCE PRIEBUS: “The Republican health care overhaul might never become law, but it has already changed the life of one American: Reince Priebus, who knew it was his best and perhaps last hope of becoming an empowered White House chief of staff. President Trump placed much of the blame for his […]
5/5/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “#WeeklyAddress?? https://t.co/4qckKpbtCR” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 5, 2017 02:43pm […]
5/5/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “US President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Friday to defend remarks he had made about healthcare during a meeting with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. During a photo shoot with Turnbull, Trump told the prime minister that he didn’t need to tell him about the US healthcare system under the […]
5/5/2017
BUDGET/SECRET SERVICE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said Friday that he’s working out of his New Jersey golf club to avoid causing a disruption in New York and to save taxpayers. ‘Rather than causing a big disruption in N.Y.C., I will be working out of my home in Bedminster, N.J. this weekend. Also saves country […]
5/5/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Rather than causing a big disruption in N.Y.C., I will be working out of my home in Bedminster, N.J. this weekend. Also saves country money!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 5, 2017 08:02am […]
5/5/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/NORTH KOREA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved legislation on Thursday [5-4-17] to tighten sanctions on North Korea by targeting its shipping industry and companies that do business with the reclusive state. The vote was 419 to 1. Supporters said the legislation was intended to send a strong message to […]
5/4/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/ISRAEL/POPE FRANCIS/SAUDI ARABIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump will travel to Saudi Arabia and Israel this month, the White House announced on Thursday [5-4-17], making the two countries his first foreign destinations since taking office, as he seeks to intensify the war against the Islamic State, rally the region against Iran and negotiate Middle East […]
5/3/2017
BUDGET/POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The House voted overwhelmingly Wednesday [5-3-17] to approve a $1.1 trillion government funding bill that keep agencies operating through the end of September. The vote was 309 to 118. The Senate is expected to clear it Thursday and send to President Donald Trump for his anticipated signature before Friday’s deadline when the […]
5/3/2017
INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The former British spy behind the dossier alleging ties between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia insists his research was urgent enough to share with top American and British officials, but admits some of his work was not fully verified, according to court documents filed last month in London. In the new […]
5/2/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/RUSSIA/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke by phone on Tuesday [5-2-17] about resolving the conflict in Syria, in their first conversation since American airstrikes targeted the Assad regime in retaliation for an alleged chemical-weapons attack. The Kremlin described the conversation as ‘businesslike and constructive,’ while the White House […]
5/2/2017
MILITARY/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A Trump Cabinet member who was with the President the night he launched a military strike in Syria characterized the attack as a form of ‘entertainment’ on Monday. Reflecting on last month’s strike, ordered as Trump hosted Chinese President Xi Jinping at his Mar-a-Lago estate, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross said: ‘It […]
5/2/2017
CHINA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the U.S. ambassador to China took a tough line on Tuesday [5-2-17] on China’s development of ‘artificial islands’ in the South China Sea. ‘China cannot be allowed to use its artificial islands to coerce its neighbors or limit freedom of navigation or overflight,’ Iowa’s Republican […]
5/2/2017
LEGAL/SUPPORTERS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A pro-Donald Trump biker gang’s physical handling of protesters at a weekend rally could add to the president’s legal woes, with one attendee considering a fresh lawsuit as protesters already suing over violence at rallies last year plan to cite the recent events as proof of an ongoing pattern. Members of a […]
5/2/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP EXEC ORDER: “President Donald Trump has invited conservative leaders to the White House on Thursday [4-27-17] for what they expect will be the ceremonial signing of a long-awaited—and highly controversial—executive order on religious liberty, according to multiple people familiar with the situation… The signing would represent a major triumph for Vice President […]
5/2/2017
PROTESTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Labor unions and civil rights groups staged May Day rallies in several U.S. cities on Monday to denounce President Donald Trump’s get-tough policy on immigration, a crackdown they said preys on vulnerable workers in some of America’s lowest-paying jobs. Protests and marches challenging Trump’s efforts at stepping up the deportation of illegal […]
5/1/2017
BUDGET/OBAMA FAMILY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Hours after CNN reported on an internal document advising administration employees that former first lady Michelle Obama’s signature education initiative would not be maintained, the White House said the program had not changed. ‘There have been no changes to the program,’ said State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert, referring to the “Let […]
5/1/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump told Bloomberg News on Monday [5-1-17] that he’d be ‘honored’ to talk to Kim Jong-un, and while it’s not the first time he’s signaled a willingness to meet with perhaps the world’s most brutal dictator — it may provide an important glance into his North Korea strategy. […]
5/1/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “After puzzling comments about 19th Century abolitionist Frederick Douglass and marveling that no one knew Abraham Lincoln was a Republican, President Donald Trump has just unloaded another historical non sequitur. In the latest strange aside, Trump said that Andrew Jackson, the populist rabble-rousing President with whom he has begun to claim political […]
5/1/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/NORTH KOREA/PHILIPPINES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Monday defended President Donald Trump’s kind words for totalitarian leaders, saying the president is protecting the American people and U.S. allies through his seemingly warm relations with such men. In an interview with CBS’ John Dickerson, Trump said North Korean dictator Kim Jong […]
5/1/2017
OBAMA FAMILY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is discontinuing a signature girls education initiative championed by former first lady Michelle Obama, according to officials. The ‘Let Girls Learn’ program, which she and President Barack Obama started in 2015 to facilitate educational opportunities for adolescent girls in developing countries, will cease operation immediately, according to an […]
5/1/2017
OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WIRETAPPING: “President Donald Trump suggested Monday [5-1-17] he still believes his unsubstantiated allegations that President Barack Obama illegally tapped his phones during the 2016 campaign. ‘I think our sides been proven very strongly and everybody’s talking about it, and frankly, it should be discussed — I think that is a very big surveillance […]
5/1/2017
POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump, his legislative agenda largely stalled more than 100 days in office, is lamenting the ‘archaic’ rules of Congress. When defending why he wasn’t as productive as he promised his supporters he would be during his first 100 days, he told Fox News on Friday [4-28-17] that the process of […]
5/1/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/PHILIPPINES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump invited his polarizing Philippines counterpart to the White House during a phone call in which the two leaders discussed North Korea. Trump and President Rodrigo Duterte had a ‘friendly discussion’ Saturday that also addressed regional security in Southeast Asia and the Philippines’ drug war, the White House said […]
5/1/2017
BANKING/ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said he is actively considering breaking up giant Wall Street banks, giving a push to efforts to revive a Depression-era law separating consumer lending and investment banking. ‘I’m looking at that right now,’ Trump said Monday [5-1-17] in an interview with Bloomberg News in the Oval Office. ‘There’s some […]
4/30/2017
BUDGET/POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congressional leaders reached a bipartisan agreement on Sunday [4-30-17] to fund the government through September, effectively ending any suspense about the possibility of a government shutdown next weekend. The agreement, which still must be voted on by lawmakers, includes increased funding for the military and for border security. But it does not […]
4/30/2017
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s administration on Sunday [4-30-17] continued its assault on press freedom and attacks on the media, with Chief of Staff Reince Priebus reiterating Trump’s desire to make it easier to sue media outlets who publish stories unfavorable to the president. ‘I think it’s something we have looked at, and how […]
4/28/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/SAUDI ARABIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump complained on Thursday [4-27-17] that U.S. ally Saudi Arabia was not treating the United States fairly and Washington was losing a ‘tremendous amount of money’ defending the kingdom. In an interview with Reuters, Trump confirmed his administration was in talks about possible visits to Saudi Arabia and […]
4/28/2017
DONALD ON DONALD/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “He misses driving, feels as if he is in a cocoon, and is surprised how hard his new job is. President Donald Trump on Thursday [4-27-17 reflected on his first 100 days in office with a wistful look at his life before the White House. ‘I loved my previous life. […]
4/28/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “House Republicans’ second major push to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act came up short again this week, leaving President Donald Trump without a marquee legislative win during his first 100 days in office. House GOP leaders said late Thursday [4-27-17] that they would not bring a new version of their […]
4/28/2017
HHS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/CHARMAINE YOEST: “President Donald Trump on Friday [4-28-17] said he would name one of the most prominent anti-abortion activists in the nation to a top communications post at the Department of Health and Human Services. Charmaine Yoest, tapped to be to be assistant secretary of public affairs, is a senior fellow at […]
4/28/2017
BUDGET/POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congress gave itself one more week to agree on a spending bill to fund the U.S. government through September, leading into President Donald Trump’s 100th day in office Saturday [4-29-17] by keeping the lights on. The 382-30 House vote Friday was followed quickly by unanimous Senate passage of the stopgap spending bill […]
4/28/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/NORTH KOREA/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/REX TILLERSON: “The Trump administration’s top diplomat said the US is willing to engage in talks with North Korea, even as President Donald Trump warned about the possibility of armed conflict with the nuclear-armed regime. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told NPR Thursday [4-27-17] that the US would be willing […]
4/28/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/NATIONAL SECURITY/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/REX TILLERSON: “Secretary of State Rex Tillerson signaled on Friday [4-28-17] that the Trump administration may have finally accepted the one course of action that could stop North Korea’s nuclear threat to the world: direct talks. After months of US military posturing and shows of force met by North […]
4/27/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/MELANIA: “.@FLOTUS Melania and I were honored to welcome Argentina President @MauricioMacri and First Lady Juliana Awada to the @WhiteHouse today????” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 27, 2017 01:59pm […]