LEGAL/TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA/JARED KUSHNER: “First daughter and presidential adviser Ivanka Trump and her husband and fellow White House adviser Jared Kushner were hit with a lawsuit Sunday [12-17-17] alleging illegal omissions on their public financial disclosure forms. Washington lawyer Jeffrey Lovitky contends that Trump and Kushner failed to identify the assets owned by 30 investment funds […]
Category: A- Trump Family
12/15/2017
TRUMP FAMILY/MELANIA: “First lady Melania Trump’s popularity continues to climb, according to a new poll out Friday [12-15-17]. The first lady’s favorability rating now stands at 54%, up from 37% favorable in January 2017, per a Gallup poll conducted last week. Her unfavorable rating is down slightly from 37% to 33%, with 13% having no […]
12/13/2017
TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA: “Like nearly every senior staffer in a White House infamous for backstabbing, Ivanka Trump spent her early months immersed in the drama of competing power centers. She just didn’t know where the daggers were coming from. Anecdotes quickly emerged of Ivanka pleading with her father to moderate his positions — or at least […]
12/12/2017
LEGAL/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR: “A lawyer for Donald Trump Jr. , President Donald Trump’s eldest son, on Tuesday [12-12-17] asked the House Intelligence Committee to open a ‘formal inquiry’ into what he said were leaks by committee members or staff following the younger Mr. Trump’s interview with the panel earlier this month. The lawyer, Alan Futerfas, […]
12/12/2017
TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA/MELANIA/VOTE BY MAIL: “A couple of members of President Donald Trump’s family got rocked by the vote in last month’s New York City mayoral election. Absentee votes cast by the president’s wife, Melania, and daughter Ivanka Trump were not counted by city officials after both made mistakes with their ballots, a spokeswoman for the […]
12/11/2017
ISRAEL/PALESTINE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/TRUMP PEOPLE/JARED KUSHNER: “European Union officials warned the Trump administration not to go it alone in its Middle East peace efforts as the bloc’s foreign ministers said they wouldn’t follow the U.S. decision to recognize Jerusalem as the Israeli capital. EU foreign ministers on Monday [12-10-17] morning met with Israeli Prime Minister […]
12/8/2017
HOLIDAY/TRUMP FAMILY/MELANIA: “Tonight, @FLOTUS Melania and I were thrilled to welcome so many wonderful friends to the @WhiteHouse – and wish them all a very #HappyHanukkah https://t.co/wyPkpTsP1i https://t.co/XhNXZSBEC8” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Dec. 8, 2017 12:36am […]
12/7/2017
LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR: “President Donald Trump’s eldest son on Wednesday [12-6-17] refused to discuss with congressional investigators a father-son conversation earlier this year about how to handle fallout from revelations that he met with a Russian attorney during the 2016 campaign, according to people familiar with the matter. During the more than seven-hour […]
12/6/2017
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR: “President Donald Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., returned to Congress on Wednesday [12-6-17] to face questions from lawmakers about alleged Russian efforts to influence the 2016 U.S. election and possible collusion with Moscow by his father’s presidential campaign. Trump arrived shortly before 10 a.m. EST (1500 GMT) for what was […]
12/5/2017
MIKE PENCE/TRUMP FAMILY/MELANIA: “On Wednesday [12-6-17] morning, first lady Melania Trump will make a return visit to Texas, accompanied by second lady Karen Pence, according to the White House. Landing in Corpus Christi, Trump and Pence are scheduled to get an update on recovery efforts in the region, which in August was devastated by Hurricane […]
12/2/2017
TRUMP FAMILY/MELANIA: “Great job First Lady Melania! https://t.co/TRuvaftPcD” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Dec. 2, 2017 08:50pm […]
12/2/2017
MICHAEL FLYNN/RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/JARED KUSHNER: “Jared Kushner is the ‘very senior member’ of President Donald Trump’s transition team who directed incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn to contact the Russian ambassador to the United States and other countries about a UN Security Council vote on Israeli settlements, sources familiar with the matter tell CNN. The filings […]
11/29/2017
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/JARED KUSHNER: “President Trump’s son-in-law and adviser, Jared Kushner, met this month with investigators working for Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, and answered questions about a meeting with a Russian ambassador during the presidential transition, according to a person briefed on the investigation. The questions focused on a meeting in December […]
11/29/2017
TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA/WOMEN: “Ivanka Trump has a suggestion for India to get its economy booming again — get more women to work. Speaking at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, President Trump’s daughter and senior adviser said increasing the number of women in the workforce could boost growth… It’s a problem […]
11/28/2017
TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA: “Great work Ivanka! https://t.co/AQL4JLvnDh” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 28, 2017 10:30pm […]
11/28/2017
TRUMP FAMILY/MELANIA: “Melania, our great and very hard working First Lady, who truly loves what she is doing, always thought that ‘if you run, you will win.’ She would tell everyone that, ‘no doubt, he will win.’ I also felt I would win (or I would not have run) – and Country is doing great!” […]
11/25/2017
TRUMP FAMILY/JARED KUSHNER: “Few in the opening days of the Trump administration dared to challenge Mr. Kushner’s power to design his job or steer the direction of the White House as he saw fit. But 10 months after being given free rein to tackle everything from the federal government’s outdated technology to peace in the […]
11/25/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/REX TILLERSON/STATE/TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA/WOMEN: “Days ahead of what should be a major moment for Ivanka Trump on the world stage, CNN has learned Secretary of State Rex Tillerson isn’t sending a high-level delegation to support her amid reports of tensions between Tillerson and the White House. Multiple State Department officials, as well as a source […]
11/21/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/JARED KUSHNER/UN: “Robert Mueller’s investigators are asking questions about Jared Kushner’s interactions with foreign leaders during the presidential transition, including his involvement in a dispute at the United Nations in December, in a sign of the expansive nature of the special counsel’s probe of Russia’s alleged meddling in the election, according to […]
11/21/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA: “Ivanka Trump is India-bound, traveling to Hyderabad just after the Thanksgiving holiday. Building on a series of international visits and meetings here in the United States with world leaders, Trump will lead the US delegation to the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, which is being cohosted by the United States and India. The first […]
11/21/2017
HOLIDAY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/MELANIA: “President Donald J. Trump and @FLOTUS Melania Participate in the Pardoning of the National Thanksgiving Turkey at the White House. https://t.co/Zauqz4jfWv” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 21, 2017 01:25pm […]
11/14/2017
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR: “Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.) said Tuesday [11-14-17] that he is still deciding whether to hold a public hearing with Donald Trump Jr. as part of the panel’s probe into whether any associates of the president colluded with Russians in the 2016 election… Hearing from President Donald Trump’s eldest […]
11/13/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR: “Donald Trump Jr. was in communication during the 2016 campaign with WikiLeaks, the online operation that last year published a trove of damaging Democratic emails that the U.S. intelligence community concluded were stolen by Russian hackers, according to an email obtained by The Wall Street Journal. On Sept. 20, […]
11/9/2017
CHINA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/MELANIA: “I am leaving China for #APEC2017 in Vietnam. @FLOTUS Melania is staying behind to see the zoo, and of course, the Great WALL of China before going to Alaska to greet our AMAZING troops.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 9, 2017 08:17pm […]
11/8/2017
CHINA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/MELANIA: “On behalf of @FLOTUS Melania and I, THANK YOU for an unforgettable afternoon and evening at the Forbidden City in Beijing, President Xi and Madame Peng Liyuan. We are looking forward to rejoining you tomorrow morning! https://t.co/ma0F7SHbVU” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 8, 2017 09:27am […]
11/6/2017
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR: “The Russian lawyer who met last year with senior members of the Trump campaign said Donald Trump Jr. told her at the meeting that a Trump administration would be willing to review a 2012 sanctions law. Natalia Veselnitskaya, the lawyer who attended the meeting, made her comments from Moscow in an […]
11/3/2017
TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA/WOMEN: “Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter and adviser, was the much-heralded guest at a government-sponsored conference on women’s empowerment in Tokyo on Friday [11-3-17], just two days before President Trump’s scheduled arrival here on his first stop of an Asia tour. Yet Ms. Trump spoke to a room with so many empty seats that […]
11/2/2017
LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR: “US prosecutors have objected to an entry request for Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, who became known for attending the June 2016 meeting with Donald Trump Jr. at Trump Tower. Veselnitskaya, an attorney for Cyprus-based company Prevezon Holdings and its Russian owner, Denis Katsyv, asked for immigration parole, an alternative to […]
10/31/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR: “Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, who met with Donald Trump Jr. during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, wants permission to return to the United States to defend a claim by prosecutors that her client’s company has failed to pay a $6 million settlement in an international money laundering case. Veselnitskaya represented Prevezon […]
10/30/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/SAUDI ARABIA/TRUMP FAMILY/JARED KUSHNER: “Jared Kushner and other senior White House advisers traveled to Saudi Arabia last week to continue discussions on Middle East peace, a White House official told CNN. Deputy national security adviser Dina Powell and Jason Greenblatt, special representative for international negotiations, joined Kushner on the trip. Kushner, President Donald Trump’s […]
10/25/2017
TRUMP FAMILY/JARED KUSHNER: “Back in December 2016, the Chinese foreign minister traveled to Manhattan to meet privately with Jared Kushner for emergency discussions after President-elect Donald Trump’s unorthodox phone call with the president of Taiwan… It was a sign of the lead role that Kushner occupied as Trump’s chief diplomatic contact for the Chinese. But […]
10/25/2017
TAXES/TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA: “After months of meetings behind closed doors on Capitol Hill, Ivanka Trump took the podium Wednesday [10-25-17] in the Capitol’s Lyndon Baines Johnson Room to make a public pitch on tax reform, which she called ‘critically important.’ ‘Today, the vast majority of American homes are dual income. Our tax code has to recognize […]
10/23/2017
TRUMP FAMILY/MELANIA: “First lady Melania Trump is making good on a promise she made earlier this year to combat childhood bullying, taking a surprise trip Monday to a middle school in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a Detroit suburb. Trump is bringing awareness to a problem that many children are confronted with on a daily basis. She […]
10/22/2017
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/JARED KUSHNER: “In a secured room in the basement of the Capitol in July, Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, fielded question after question from members of the House Intelligence Committee. Though the allotted time for the grilling had expired, he offered to stick around as long as they wanted. But […]
10/19/2017
TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA/WOMEN: “Ivanka Trump is heading to Japan next week, where she will deliver a speech at the invitation of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. On Friday, November 3, the first daughter and adviser to President Donald Trump will discuss women’s participation in the economy and women’s entrepreneurship at the World Assembly for Women 2017, […]
10/13/2017
NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP FAMILY/JARED KUSHNER: “The head of a government bureau responsible for clearing background checks told lawmakers Wednesday [10-18-17] he has ‘never seen that level of mistakes’ when asked about numerous omissions in Jared Kushner’s security clearance application. Charles Phalen, the director of the National Background Investigations Bureau, a newly created division within the Office […]
10/9/2017
DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA: “Ivanka Trump on Monday [10-9-17] night publicly waded into the immigration debate for the first time, calling the plight of Dreamers a ‘very complicated issue that needs a long-term congressional fix.’ Addressing the Obama-era executive action that protected from deportation about 800,000 young, undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children […]
10/9/2017
LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR: “Newly disclosed emails shed light on the period leading up to a June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower between a Russian lawyer linked to the Kremlin and top campaign aides to President Donald Trump. The new information appears to bolster lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya’s position that she wanted the meeting to argue her […]
10/9/2017
TAXES/TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA: “Ivanka Trump wants a win. More than six months since she formally joined President Donald Trump’s administration in March, the first daughter has yet to make her mark on any of the administration’s major policy decisions. Now she’s staking her reputation in Washington on making sure her father’s tax reform plan includes an […]
10/9/2017
LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR: “An attorney for the Russian billionaire who allegedly pushed for the June 2016 meeting between senior members of Trump’s team and a Russian lawyer says he has documents showing the meeting wasn’t really about dirt on Hillary Clinton. An email exchange and talking points provided to CNN are the latest indication of […]
10/6/2017
CONFLICT OF INTERESTS/ETHICS/POLITICS/TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA/JARED KUSHNER: “A state assemblyman wants state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to investigate Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance’s decision to drop a case against two of President Trump’s kids. Vance received a $31,000 donation from Trump’s personal lawyer in 2013 after deciding not to prosecute Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. Vance […]
10/5/2017
LEGAL/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR/JARED KUSHNER: “Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley signaled Thursday [10-5-17] that Donald Trump Jr. will ultimately have to testify publicly before his panel, something Democrats have been demanding for weeks. Grassley and the committee’s top Democrat, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, are moving closer to reaching an agreement on a range of actions as part […]
10/4/2017
LEGAL/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR/IVANKA: “According to the joint investigative story, Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. narrowly dodged indictment on felony fraud charges in 2012 for allegedly lying to prospective buyers at the Trump SoHo ‘condo-hotel’—claiming units were selling like hotcakes when in fact the property was struggling to survive. (It went into foreclosure in 2014.) In […]
10/3/2017
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY: “The Justice Department has released a trove of decades-old internal legal memos concluding the President should be legally barred from appointing a relative to a position in the White House, shedding new light on just how sharp a departure the department’s more recent interpretation of federal law under the Trump […]
10/2/2017
ETHICS/LEGAL/TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA/JARED KUSHNER: “White House officials have begun examining emails associated with a third and previously unreported email account on Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s private domain, according to three people familiar with the matter. Hundreds of emails have been sent since January from White House addresses to accounts on the Kushner family domain, these […]
9/30/2017
CRISIS/PUERTO RICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/MELANIA: “I will be going to Puerto Rico on Tuesday with Melania. Will hopefully be able to stop at the U.S. Virgin Islands (people working hard).” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 30, 2017 06:55am […]
9/29/2017
DRUGS/TRUMP FAMILY/MELANIA: “First lady Melania Trump on Thursday [9-29-17] led her first roundtable discussion on a policy issue, signaling she is adding the opioid crisis and its effects on families and children to her portfolio… Some of the invitees’ lives were directly affected by opioid abuse and others work in the drug recovery field. Other […]
9/28/2017
INTELLIGENCE/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/JARED KUSHNER: “In his closed interview with the staff of the Senate intelligence committee, White House senior adviser and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner did not share the existence of his personal email account, which he has used for official business, CNN has learned. CNN has also learned that the chair and vice chair of […]
9/28/2017
NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP FAMILY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The White House has launched an internal probe of private email use, pulling batches of emails on the White House server to and from private accounts of senior aides, according to four officials familiar with the matter. The effort began this week after POLITICO reported that Jared Kushner and a number […]
9/27/2017
TRUMP FAMILY/JARED KUSHNER/VOTING: “Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, was registered as a woman when he voted in November’s election, according to a report on Wednesday [9-27-17]. Records from the New York State Board of Elections show Kushner’s gender is listed as ‘female’ on the registration dated Nov. 24, 2009, and that he […]
9/25/2017
LEGAL/TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA: “Ivanka Trump, the first daughter and adviser to the president, used a personal email address to communicate with a government official after her father took office, according to documents that the nonprofit American Oversight obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and shared exclusively with Newsweek. The documents show that on February […]
9/24/2017
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/JARED KUSHNER: “President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner has used a personal email account to correspond with colleagues in the White House, his attorney confirmed Sunday [9-24-17]. Mr. Kushner exchanged fewer than 100 emails from his personal account with White House colleagues, said Abbe Lowell, his lawyer. Mr. Kushner sent […]
9/23/2017
TRUMP FAMILY/MELANIA: “Very proud of our incredible First Lady (@FLOTUS.) She is a truly great representative for our country! https://t.co/yFv0WIjgby” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 23, 2017 04:16pm […]
9/22/2017
TRUMP FAMILY/MELANIA: “It’s harvest time for Melania Trump. The first lady, more at home in Manhattan than among rows of crops, hosted local schoolchildren at the White House on Friday [9-22-17] to harvest and replant the vegetable garden Michelle Obama rooted in the South Lawn — carrying on a symbolic piece of the Obamas’ food […]
9/20/2017
TRUMP FAMILY/MELANIA: “First lady Melania Trump assumed the spotlight in New York Wednesday [9-20-17], hosting a luncheon at the US Mission to the United Nations, where she delivered a speech focused on a variety of issues facing children across the globe and hinted at her forthcoming platform… Trump, hosting the other spouses of world leaders, […]
9/19/2017
TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA/UN: “Ivanka Trump delivered an anti-human trafficking speech Tuesday [9-19-17] at the United Nations General Assembly, calling it ‘the greatest human rights issue of our time.’ ‘This is a call for action, a call for global unity,’ Trump said at a panel event hosted by Great Britain and Northern Ireland, noting that her father, […]
9/18/2017
KELLYANNE CONWAY/SECRET SERVICE/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR: “Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, has elected to forgo protection by the Secret Service, according to a senior administration official, and another top White House official is losing hers. The agency ceased protecting Mr. Trump, who lives in New York City and is an executive at the Trump […]
9/15/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/MELANIA: “Frank ‘FX’ Giaccio- On behalf of @FLOTUS Melania & myself, THANK YOU for doing a GREAT job this morning! @NatlParkService gives you an A+! https://t.co/135DxuapUI” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 15, 2017 11:49am […]
9/13/2017
HILLARY CLINTON/RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR: “The scramble to obfuscate the true nature of Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting last summer with a Russian attorney with ties to the Kremlin is ‘ridiculous’ and ‘an absurd lie,’ former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said Wednesday [9-13-17] morning. Trump Jr. met last summer with a Russian attorney whom he had […]
9/12/2017
TRUMP FAMILY/ERIC TRUMP: “Congratulations to Eric & Lara on the birth of their son, Eric ‘Luke’ Trump this morning! https://t.co/Aw0AV82XdE” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 12, 2017 01:41pm […]
9/11/2017
LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/JARED KUSHNER: “Some of President Donald Trump’s lawyers earlier this summer concluded that Jared Kushner should step down as senior White House adviser because of possible legal complications related to a probe of Russia’s involvement in the 2016 presidential election and aired concerns about him to the president, people familiar with the […]
9/11/2017
JANET YELLEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA: “Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen met with Ivanka Trump in July, roughly a week before President Donald Trump said he was considering nominating the central bank chief to a second term. Ms. Yellen met the president’s eldest daughter and senior adviser for a one-hour breakfast July 17 in a room […]
9/11/2017
DEMS/LEGAL/TRUMP FAMILY/JARED KUSHNER: “Washington lawyer Abbe Lowell has represented high-profile clients on both sides of the political spectrum—a Republican governor, a conservative super-lobbyist and a former Democratic vice-presidential nominee—and even played a key role in defending President Bill Clinton during his impeachment proceedings. Now, he is simultaneously representing major players in separate cases that could […]
9/7/2017
LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR: “Donald Trump Jr. told Senate investigators on Thursday [9-7-17] that he set up a June 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer because he was intrigued that she might have damaging information about Hillary Clinton, saying it was important to learn about Mrs. Clinton’s ‘fitness’ to be president. But nothing came of the […]
9/7/2017
LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR: “President Donald Trump’s eldest son told congressional investigators Thursday [9-7-17] he agreed to meet a Russian lawyer last summer who he was told had damaging information about Hillary Clinton because he believed the meeting could shed light on the ‘fitness, character or qualifications of a presidential candidate.’ In a closed-door meeting with […]
9/6/2017
LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR: “Several congressional committees investigating Russian activity during the 2016 U.S. election are expected to hear this week from witnesses connected to the controversy, which has dominated the early months of Donald Trump’s presidency. Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, is scheduled to meet privately Thursday [9-7-17] with staff on the Senate […]
9/6/2017
LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR: “Donald Trump Jr. is scheduled to meet in private Thursday [9-7-17] with the Senate Judiciary Committee for a long-awaited interview to discuss a 2016 meeting he arranged with a Kremlin-linked lawyer who promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton during the height of last year’s presidential campaign, according to Trump Jr.s’ attorney. The […]
8/29/2017
LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR: “The Senate Judiciary Committee has reached an agreement and set a date for Donald Trump Jr. to testify behind closed doors to the panel, the committee confirmed on Tuesday [8-29-17]. The committee would not divulge the exact date, but another source familiar with the matter said the testimony would likely occur in […]
8/27/2017
BUSINESS/TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA: “His vendors call him a ‘career grifter.’ His father’s creditors claim he’s a fraud and a serial extortionist who shakes people down with trumped-up threats of criminal charges. With these and other allegations piling up in court records along with judgments—against him, his wife and his businesses—for millions of dollars, his lawyers are […]
8/25/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/TRUMP FAMILY/JARED KUSHNER: “The U.S. described Jared Kushner’s whistle-stop diplomatic tour of the Middle East as ‘productive’ as he tried to make progress with President Donald Trump’s plan to revive peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians. Mr. Kushner, who is also the president’s son-in-law, and other U.S. officials met with a number of regional […]
8/23/2017
EGYPT/PALESTINE/TRUMP FAMILY/JARED KUSHNER: “In his first solo trip to the broader Middle East as President Trump’s designated peacemaker, Jared Kushner has found both cause for optimism and reminders of just what a daunting task his father-in-law has given him. Over the course of two days, he met with leaders from several influential Arab countries and […]
8/23/2017
TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA/JARED KUSNER: “Crisis management consultant Risa Heller has dropped Kushner Cos., the family real estate company of President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, as a client, according to two sources familiar with the arrangement. Heller dropped the client earlier this week after representing the company for just over a year and a half. That’s […]
8/23/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/JARED KUSHNER: “President Donald Trump, who has pledged to broker the ‘ultimate deal’ between the Israelis and Palestinians, faces major obstacles to getting them to even negotiate as his son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner arrives in Israel this week. The White House says the discussions will focus on ‘the path to […]
8/23/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/TRUMP FAMILY/JARED KUSHNER: “Jared Kushner has spent eight months as his father-in-law’s point person in the Middle East, relying primarily on one envoy, former Trump Organization lawyer Jason Greenblatt, to do the diplomatic heavy lifting in the region. But just over a month ago, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster held a meeting in his […]
8/19/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/MELANIA: “The White House announced early Saturday [8-19-17] that President Trump and the first lady, Melania Trump, would not participate in this year’s Kennedy Center Honors, ‘to allow the honorees to celebrate without any political distraction.’ The decision was another episode in an already fraught week for the White House. Mr. Trump […]
8/17/2017
RACISM/RELIGION/TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA/JARED KUSHNER: “Sequestered on a brief holiday with her husband Jared Kushner in Vermont, Ivanka Trump, President Donald Trump’s eldest daughter — one of his senior advisers and the closest member of his family who is Jewish — has yet to comment on the events of her father’s Tuesday [8-16-17] afternoon press conference. In […]
8/16/2017
RACISM/RELIGION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA/JARED KUSHNER: “The rabbi who oversaw Ivanka Trump’s conversion to Judaism has released a letter to the congregation of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s longtime synagogue condemning President Trump’s widely criticized statements about the violent protests in Charlottesville. In a letter sent to members of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun this evening, Rabbi Emeritus […]
8/11/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/TRUMP FAMILY/JARED KUSHNER: “Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, will soon travel to the Middle East for yet another foray into trying to forge a peace deal between Israelis and Palestinians, one of the most difficult diplomatic assignments of the Trump administration. Mr. Kushner, who traveled to the region in June, will […]
8/11/2017
RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/JARED KUSHNER: “The Senate Judiciary Committee is calling on the White House to provide new details about President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner’s security clearance application, including whether he could be trusted with sensitive information after he initially failed to disclose meetings with Russian officials. The committee, led by Republican Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa, […]
8/10/2017
TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA/WOMEN: “.@IvankaTrump will lead the U.S. delegation to India this fall, supporting women’s entrepreneurship globally. #GES2017 @narendramodi” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 10, 2017 03:18pm […]
8/2/2017
ETHICS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP FAMILY/JARED KUSHNER: “Kushner Cos., the New York property development business owned by the family of White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, has been subpoenaed by New York federal prosecutors regarding its use of an investment-for-immigration program, according to people familiar with the matter. The subpoena concerns at least one Jersey City, N.J., development financed […]
8/1/2017
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/JARED KUSHNER: “White House senior adviser Jared Kushner offered an explanation to congressional interns earlier this week as to why it was not possible for the Trump campaign to collude with Russia during the election: It was too disorganized for such a conspiracy. Speaking at an off-the-record hourlong meeting at the Capitol Visitor […]
7/28/2017
TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA/UN: “Ivanka Trump, U.S. President Donald Trump’s daughter and informal adviser, met with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for lunch at U.N. headquarters in New York on Friday amid a push by the president to slash funding for the world body. Ivanka Trump is seen as an important influence on her father, and her […]
7/27/2017
TRUMP FAMILY/MELANIA: “In September, eight months into her tenure as first lady of the United States, first lady Melania Trump will make her first official solo trip to a foreign country. Trump announced in a statement Thursday that she will lead the US delegation to this year’s Invictus Games, being held in Toronto, Canada, September […]
7/26/2017
CRIME/TRUMP FAMILY/JARED KUSHNER: “President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, and some Republican lawmakers are discussing potential changes to the criminal justice system, including to mandatory minimum sentencing, that could conflict with Attorney General Jeff Sessions ’ tough-on-crime agenda. Mr. Kushner met this month with House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R., Va.), continuing a […]
7/25/2017
SUPPORTERS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/MELANIA: “Just arrived in Youngstown, Ohio with @FLOTUS Melania! #MakeAmericaGreatAgain?? ?https://t.co/A1mrxSksR3 https://t.co/jWX9yBlX8z” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 25, 2017 05:15pm […]
7/25/2017
RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY: “Jared Kushner did very well yesterday in proving he did not collude with the Russians. Witch Hunt. Next up, 11 year old Barron Trump!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 25, 2017 05:52am […]
7/24/2017
RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/JARED KUSHNER: “Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and a senior White House adviser, on Monday [7-24-17] released details of his contacts with Russian officials and businesspeople in the two years since Mr. Trump launched his presidential campaign, including a previously undisclosed, brief meeting with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. in April 2016. […]
7/23/2017
LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/JARED KUSHNER: “Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and a senior White House adviser, said on Monday [7-24-17] he ‘did not collude’ with Russia, as he prepared to appear before a Senate panel probing alleged Russian meddling in last year’s U.S. presidential election. Kushner said in a statement before the closed-door hearing that he […]
7/23/2017
LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR: “The president’s oldest son, Donald Trump Jr., has added a lawyer with congressional experience to his legal team, the lawyer told Reuters on Sunday [7-23-17]. Trump Jr. has hired Karina Lynch of the law firm Williams and Jensen, Lynch confirmed in an email to Reuters. She did not respond to queries about […]
7/22/2017
HILLARY CLINTON/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR: “My son Donald openly gave his e-mails to the media & authorities whereas Crooked Hillary Clinton deleted (& acid washed) her 33,000 e-mails!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 22, 2017 07:00am […]
7/21/2017
CONFLICT OF INTEREST/TRUMP FAMILY/JARED KUSHNER: “Potential conflicts of interest spring eternal in the Trump administration. There is the simple fact that the president never divested of his myriad business holdings nor did he release his tax returns. Foreign diplomats and officials continue to book banquets and hotel rooms at Trump-owned properties to court the president’s […]
7/21/2017
INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR: “The Russian lawyer who met Donald Trump Jr. after his father won the Republican nomination for the 2016 U.S. presidential election counted Russia’s FSB security service among her clients for years, Russian court documents seen by Reuters show. The documents show that the lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, successfully represented the FSB’s interests in […]
7/19/2017
IMF/TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA/WORLD BANK/WOMEN: “A billion-dollar World Bank initiative to advance women’s entrepreneurship, funded in part by Saudi Arabia and championed by Ivanka Trump, might seem a laughably easy target for reproach. There is Saudi Arabia’s treatment of women — they aren’t even allowed to drive alone — and the growing role of the ‘first daughter’ […]
7/19/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR/JARED KUSHNER/TRUMP PEOPLE/PAUL MANAFORT: “President Donald Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr., son-in-law Jared Kushner and former campaign manager Paul Manafort have been asked to appear before U.S. Senate committees next week to answer questions about the campaign’s alleged connections to Russia, officials said on Wednesday [7-19-17]. The three men are the closest […]
7/19/2017
FBI/TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA: “Democratic Rep. Don Beyer of Virginia assembled a group of more than 20 Democratic members of Congress to send a letter to the FBI on Wednesday [7-19-17] requesting the agency look into Ivanka Trump’s security clearance. In the letter, the Democrats ask that the FBI examine potential discrepancies in Trump’s SF-86 form, which […]
7/18/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Following the biggest legislative debacle of President Donald Trump’s first six months in office, the White House on Tuesday [7-18-17] was some hands on deck. The president’s most senior aides appeared eager to move on from the health care loss, busying themselves with their own pet projects. Counselor Kellyanne Conway […]
7/18/2017
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR: “Special counsel Robert Mueller has contacted an eighth attendee at a meeting arranged by Donald Trump Jr. between top campaign aides and a Russian lawyer, in the first public sign that Mr. Mueller’s probe will include the gathering last June at Trump Tower in New York. Mr. Mueller, who is investigating […]
7/18/2017
INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR: “Special counsel investigators are seeking information from the still-publicly unidentified eighth person who attended the June 2016 meeting with Donald Trump Jr. at Trump Tower, this person’s attorney Scott Balber said Tuesday [7-18-17]. ‘The eighth person has been identified by prosecutors and we are cooperating fully with prosecutors as a result of […]
7/17/2017
CAMPAIGN/POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR: “He ran on a promise to end politics as usual. But on Monday [7-17-17] morning, President Trump posted a defense on Twitter of his son’s meeting with a Russian lawyer promising sensitive government information that could be damaging to Hillary Clinton by saying that it was simply politics as usual. […]