BIDEN-HARRIS ADMIN/NSA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The National Security Agency is moving forward with hiring a Trump administration loyalist, the agency said on Sunday, after the acting defense secretary ordered he be made the spy agency’s top lawyer… Mr. Ellis’s allies had pushed for him to be installed before President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. is inaugurated. While it […]
Category: A- Trump People
1/18/2021
MIKE POMPEO/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has doubled down on his defense of Trump, criticizing those who have broken ranks and ingratiating himself with the president’s followers, who will be vital for his own presidential ambitions… Pompeo’s close alignment with Trump defined his tenure as America’s top diplomat. Both his supporters and critics […]
1/18/2021
IMPEACHMENT/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, will not be taking part in the president’s defense in the Senate trial for his second impeachment… He told ABC News on Sunday [Jan. 17, 2021] that he would not be part of the defense, noting that he is a potential witness since he gave […]
1/11/2021
REX TILLERSON/TRUMP PEOPLE: “I think the other challenge that I came to realize early on is there were so many people who had access to his [Donald Trump’s] ear who were telling him things, most of which were untrue, and then he began to listen to those voices and form a view that had no […]
1/11/2021
REX TILLERSON/TRUMP PEOPLE: “His [Donald Trump’s] understanding of global events, his understanding of global history, his understanding of U.S. history was really limited. It’s really hard to have a conversation with someone who doesn’t even understand the concept for why we’re talking about this… If I could put a photo or a picture in front […]
1/7/2021
ATTORNEY GENERAL/TRUMP PEOPLE/WILLIAM BARR: “Former Attorney General William Barr says President Donald Trump’s conduct as a violent mob of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol was a ‘betrayal of his office and supporters.’ In a statement to The Associated Press, Barr said Thursday [Jan. 7, 2021] that ‘orchestrating a mob to pressure Congress is inexcusable.’ […]
1/7/2021
MICK MULVANEY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Mick Mulvaney, President Donald Trump’s former chief of staff, told CNBC on Thursday he has resigned as special U.S. envoy to Northern Ireland… ‘Those who choose to stay, and I have talked with some of them, are choosing to stay because they’re worried the president might put someone worse in,’ Mulvaney said. […]
12/28/2020
BIDEN-HARRIS ADMIN/BIDEN TRANSITION/JOE BIDEN/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Right now, my team isn’t getting all the information that we need from the outgoing administration in key national security areas. It’s nothing short of irresponsible.“ ––Joe Biden, Twitter.com, December 28, 2020 1:05 pm […]
12/23/2020
2016 ELECTION/PARDONS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former Trump 2016 campaign adviser George Papadopoulos celebrated the pardon President Trump granted to him while noting that he may not be done with his accusers. Papadopoulos served a 14-day prison sentence after pleading guilty to providing false statements to investigators about the timing of his meeting a professor with supposed ties […]
12/22/2020
NOMINATIONS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump is naming a who’s who of close allies and confidantes to high-profile boards on his way out the door. He tapped Pam Bondi, a former Florida attorney general and key impeachment adviser, to serve on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Hope Hicks, a close aide during his […]
12/22/2020
INVESTIGATIONS/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday lashed out against federal prosecutors investigating him, suggesting they are acting as ‘secret police’ and serving the political interests of President-elect Joe Biden… Giuliani’s Twitter rant against the Department of Justice came a day after NBC News reported that federal prosecutors in New […]
12/21/2020
BIDEN PEOPLE/TRUMP PEOPLE/WILLIAM BARR: “Breaking with President Donald Trump, outgoing Attorney General William Barr said Monday [Dec. 21, 2020] he saw ‘no reason’ to appoint a special counsel to look into the president’s claims of election fraud or the tax investigation into the son of President-elect Joe Biden. In his final press conference, Barr also […]
12/18/2020
CORONAVIRUS/MIKE PENCE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “From early on, President Trump gave the White House Coronavirus Task Force one mission, and that was to save lives. And in the midst of one of the most challenging years in the life of this nation, I truly do believe that, despite the heartbreak and hardship that we have endured as […]
12/18/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/MIKE PENCE/VACCINES: “Vice President Mike Pence received a televised COVID-19 vaccination Friday morning [Dec. 18, 2020], making him the highest-profile government official to do so publicly. Second lady Karen Pence and Surgeon General Jerome Adams also received a vaccination… ‘Make no mistake about it: it’s a medical miracle,’ Pence said about the vaccine, which began […]
12/15/2020
2020 ELECTION/PRESS SECRETARY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Tuesday [Dec. 15, 2020] again declined to acknowledge that President-elect Joe Biden won the 2020 election… ‘The president is still involved in ongoing litigation related to the election,’ McEnany deflected. ‘Yesterday’s [Electoral College] vote was one step in the constitutional process so I will […]
12/14/2020
TRUMP PEOPLE/WILLIAM BARR: “Attorney General William Barr will leave office before Christmas, President Donald Trump said Monday… The shake-up, in the twilight of Trump’s tenure in the White House, also followed weeks of public clashes between Barr and the president. But Barr’s resignation letter, shared on Twitter by Trump as he made the announcement, elaborately praised […]
12/10/2020
BIDEN PEOPLE/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP PEOPLE/WILLIAM BARR: “Attorney General William Barr has known about a disparate set of investigations involving Hunter Biden’s business and financial dealings since at least this spring, a person familiar with the matter said, and worked to avoid their public disclosure during the heated election campaign… One investigation became public this week after federal […]
12/9/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, has revealed in a call to his own radio show that he is being treated for coronavirus with the same drug cocktail his boss received when he was ill with Covid-19… Mr Giuliani, 76, told the show he expects to leave hospital on Wednesday [Dec. […]
12/9/2020
COVID-19/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP PEOPLE: Rudolph W. Giuliani, the latest member of President Trump’s inner circle to contract Covid-19, has acknowledged that he received at least two of the same drugs the president received. He even conceded that his ‘celebrity’ status had given him access to care that others did not have. ‘If it wasn’t me, I […]
12/8/2020
JUDGE SULLIVAN/MICHAEL FLYNN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A federal judge on Tuesday [Dec. 8, 2020] dismissed the criminal case against former Trump administration national security adviser Michael Flynn but pointedly noted that a pardon Flynn received from the president last month does not mean that he is innocent. The order from U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan was expected […]
12/2/2020
COVID-19/PRESS SECRETARY/TRUMP PEOPLE: President Donald Trump’s spokeswoman defended White House plans to hold numerous holiday season receptions and parties despite the pandemic, saying that if it’s safe for Americans to ‘loot businesses’ then it’s safe for them to celebrate indoors. “If you can loot businesses, burn down buildings, engage in protests, you can also go […]
12/1/2020
2020 ELECTION/DOJ/RUDY GIULIANI/WILLIAM BARR: “With all due respect to the Attorney General [Bill Barr], there hasn’t been any semblance of a Department of Justice investigation. We have gathered ample evidence of illegal voting in at least six states, which they have not examined. We have many witnesses swearing under oath they saw crimes being committed […]
12/1/2020
2016 ELECTION/TRUMP PEOPLE/WILLIAM BARR: “Attorney General William Barr appointed Connecticut US Attorney John Durham to act as special counsel investigating whether intelligence and law enforcement violated the law in investigating the 2016 Trump presidential campaign. Barr made the appointment on October 19 and kept it secret so as not to interfere in the election, according […]
12/1/2020
2020 ELECTION/TRUMP PEOPLE/WILLIAM BARR: “Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday the Justice Department has not uncovered evidence of widespread voter fraud that would change the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. His comments in an interview with The Associated Press come despite President Donald Trump’s repeated baseless claims that the election was stolen, Trump’s effort […]
11/30/2020
CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Dr. Scott Atlas, President Trump’s special adviser on the coronavirus pandemic, formally resigned from his post on Monday [Nov. 30, 2020], Fox News has learned. Atlas, who spoke with the president on Monday, joined the administration in August, and was considered a Special Government Employee (SGE), serving a 130-day detail. Atlas’ role is […]
11/20/2020
TRUMP FAMILY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Trump campaign adviser Lara Trump and White House chief of staff Mark Meadows are both considering running for Senate in North Carolina after Sen. Richard Burr announced he would not seek reelection in 2022, Fox News has learned… Trump, who is married to Trump Organization executive vice president Eric Trump, was born […]
11/20/2020
2020 ELECTION/MEDIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Far-right Fox News primetime host Tucker Carlson on Thursday lashed out at a lawyer on President Donald Trump’s election legal team for refusing to provide any evidence of Trump’s false claim that he won the presidential election by a ‘landslide.’ Carlson said that when his team reached out to the attorney, Sidney […]
11/19/2020
CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s top medical adviser on the coronavirus pandemic, Dr. Scott Atlas, has not attended White House task force meetings in person since late September, according to two administration officials, as he continues to spread misinformation about the worsening health crisis… Atlas, who became the group’s newest member in August and frequently […]
11/19/2020
ISRAEL/MIKE POMPEO/TRUMP PEOPLE: “[T]he Trump administration is capping its revisions of U.S. Middle East policy with another full-throated show of support for Israel. On Thursday [Nov. 19, 2020], Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced a series of measures expressly aimed at countering the international movement to boycott, divest from or sanction Israel, also known as […]
11/17/2020
CORONAVIRUS/MICHIGAN/TRUMP ADMIN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Stanford University appeared to distance itself from Dr. Scott Atlas, a prominent member of the Trump administration’s coronavirus task force, following his remarks that residents of Michigan should ‘rise up’ against the state’s new coronavirus restrictions… Atlas is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a conservative-leaning think tank based at the […]
11/17/2020
FED/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Judy Shelton’s nomination as a member of the Federal Reserve Board is stalled. The Senate failed to advance President Trump’s controversial pick to the powerful central bank on Tuesday [Nov. 17, 2020] after Republicans Mitt Romney of Utah and Susan Collins of Maine joined the Senate’s Democrats in blocking Shelton’s appointment. The 47-50 […]
11/17/2020
2020 ELECTION/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP PEOPLE/VOTER FRAUD/VOTING: “The recent statement by Chris Krebs on the security of the 2020 Election was highly inaccurate, in that there were massive improprieties and fraud – including dead people voting, Poll Watchers not allowed into polling locations, ‘glitches’ in the voting machines which changed… …votes from Trump to Biden, late voting, […]
11/16/2020
CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “[T]he idea that the President’s… remaining advisor on COVID [Scott Atlas] is saying that they should resist [coronavirus prevention efforts]. What the hell is the matter with these guys? What is the matter with them? Resist? You know, every major individual of any consequence in the health field is saying, ‘We can save […]
11/16/2020
CORONAVIRUS/MICHIGAN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says she will not be bullied after a top coronavirus adviser to President Donald Trump tweeted Sunday [Nov. 15, 2020] that opponents of the governor’s new restrictions should ‘rise up.’ Shortly after Whitmer’s administration announced the new measures aimed at combating a surge in COVID-19 cases in the state, […]
11/16/2020
2020 ELECTION/NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s National Security Council is preparing for ‘a very professional transition,’ because it looks like Joe Biden has won the election, national security adviser Robert O’Brien said in comments that aired Monday [Nov. 16, 2020]. His remarks stood in stark contrast to those of the president, who tweeted […]
11/16/2020
BETSY DEVOS/COVID-19/EDUCATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos just got to the official end of the line with her efforts to divert $16 million in public school COVID-relief funding to private schools. U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of California James Donato signed a permanent injunction–made public Monday [Nov. 16, 2020] – that will […]
11/13/2020
2020 ELECTION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said Friday [Nov. 13, 2020] that the Trump administration is operating as if it will extend into a second term, attempting to stiff-arm the reality of last week’s election and dismissing talk that the incoming Biden administration might unwind many of President Donald Trump’s policies… The […]
2020 ELECTION/LAWSUIT/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump has put his personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, in charge of his campaign lawsuits related to the outcome of the election, as well as all public communications related to them, four people familiar with the move said on Friday [Nov. 13, 2020]… Mr. Trump turned to Mr. Giuliani earlier […]
11/11/2020
2020 ELECTION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “There is a growing expectation among President Donald Trump’s advisers that he will never concede that he lost re-election, even after votes are certified in battleground states over the coming weeks, according to multiple people familiar with the president’s thinking… Allies caution that no final decision has been made on where Trump […]
11/10/2020
2020 ELECTION/MIKE POMPEO/SECRETARY OF STATE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Secretary of State Mike Pompeo battled reporters over President Trump’s refusal to accept the results of the presidential election, predicting ‘there will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration’ despite the fact that former Vice President Joe Biden is the projected winner of the race. The comment […]
11/9/2020
DOJ/TRUMP PEOPLE/WILLIAM BARR: “Attorney General William P. Barr, wading into President Trump’s unfounded accusations of widespread election irregularities, told federal prosecutors on Monday that they were allowed to investigate ‘specific allegations’ of voter fraud before the results of the presidential race are certified… Mr. Barr’s directive ignored the Justice Department’s longstanding policies intended to keep […]
11/9/2020
DEFENSE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Monday [Nov. 9, 2020] became the first high-profile Cabinet member fired by President Trump in what is expected to be a purge of security officials following the election of former Vice President Joe Biden… Esper drew Trump’s ire after implicitly criticizing the president’s threat to use active-duty troops […]
11/6/2020
STEVE BANNON/TRUMP PEOPLE/TWITTER: “Twitter permanently suspended an account belonging to former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon after he suggested Thursday morning [Nov. 5, 2020] that Dr. Anthony Fauci and FBI Director Christopher Wray should be beheaded. His comments were made in a video posted to his Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter accounts. Bannon falsely claimed […]
11/5/2020
2020 ELECTION/STEVE BANNON/TRUMP PEOPLE/TWITTER: “Trump ally Stephen K. Bannon called for arresting Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey over his social media company stepping up to stop the spread of some of the president’s posts on its platform Wednesday [Nov. 4, 2020]. Mr. Bannon, President Trump’s former adviser, said he should direct Attorney General William P. Barr […]
11/2/2020
JARED KUSHNER/MIDDLE EAST/TRUMP PEOPLE: “I want to give the very special thank you also to Jared Kushner, who is in the process of negotiating a little thing called peace in the Middle East. Great guy. Great guy. They like that. They like the sound. Peace in the Middle East without blood all over the sand, […]
10/4/2020
TRUMP PEOPLE/TRUMP’S HEALTH: [Reporter: “Dr. Conley, why were you so reluctant until today to disclose that the president had been administered oxygen?”] “I was trying to reflect the upbeat attitude that the team, the president, that his course of illness has had. I didn’t want to give any information that might steer the course of […]
10/3/2020
CHRIS CHRISTIE/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) has tested positive for COVID-19, he announced Saturday [Oct. 3, 2020], making him the latest official in President Trump’s orbit to contract the virus… Christie was at the White House last Saturday for Trump’s announcement that he was nominating Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the […]
10/2/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP PEOPLE/TRUMP’S HEALTH: “As all of you know, the president and the first lady tested positive for COVID-19. They remained in good spirits. The president does have mild symptoms and as we look to try to make sure that not only his health and safety and welfare is good, we continue to look at that […]
10/2/2020
CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump went to a New Jersey fundraiser for his reelection campaign on Thursday, mingling with crowds and posing for photographs mere hours before he tweeted that he’d tested positive for the coronavirus. Trump appeared at his Bedminster golf club despite learning that one of his closest aides and advisers, […]
10/1/2020
CORONAVIRUS/MILITARY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “So, she [Hope Hicks] did test positive [for coronavirus]. I just heard about this. She tested positive. She’s a hard worker. A lot of masks. So, she wears masks a lot. But she tested positive. And I just went out with a test. I’ll see what — because we spend a lot of […]
9/29/2020
JUDGE SULLIVAN/MICHAEL FLYNN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A U.S. judge on Tuesday [Sep. 29, 2020] began examining the Justice Department’s bid to dismiss the criminal case against Michael Flynn, the former Trump national security adviser who pleaded guilty to lying to federal investigators. The hearing before U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan comes after an appeals court last […]
9/21/2020
JOHN BOLTON/JOHN MCCAIN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “I had some bad people — some stupid people. Like, John Bolton’s a stupid person. What I he did, I think is highly illegal. I mean the book is just crazy, it’s lot — it’s loaded up with confidential and classified information.. I will say this, John Bolton was a very […]
9/15/2020
DOJ/JOHN BOLTON/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into whether President Trump’s former national security adviser John R. Bolton unlawfully disclosed classified information when he published a memoir this summer, a case that the department opened after it failed to stop the book’s publication this summer, according to three people familiar with […]
9/14/2020
HHS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Michael Caputo, 58, the assistant secretary of public affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services, said without evidence that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was harboring a ‘resistance unit’ determined to undermine President Trump. Mr. Caputo… has faced criticism for leading efforts to warp C.D.C. weekly bulletins to fit […]
9/9/2020
OBAMA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Aside from exploring Trump’s handling of the pandemic, Woodward’s new book, ‘Rage,’ covers race relations, diplomacy with North Korea and a range of other issues that have arisen during the past two years… The book is based in part on 18 on-the-record interviews Woodward conducted with the president between December and July… ‘I […]
9/8/2020
ENDORSEMENT/RELIGION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Great new book out today, ‘Speaking for Myself: Faith, Freedom, and the Fight of Our Lives Inside the Trump White House’ by @SarahHuckabee Sanders. Make sure you get your copy today!“ ––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 8, 2020 3:33 pm […]
9/7/2020
MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP PEOPLE/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “In ‘Disloyal: A Memoir,’ [Donald Trump’s former] lawyer, Michael Cohen, writes that he believes his longtime client won’t leave office willingly if he is defeated in the November election… Cohen said Trump praised Russian President Vladimir Putin during the 2016 campaign because he assumed he would lose and wanted to make […]
9/4/2020
JOHN KELLY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “I know John Kelly; he was with me. Didn’t do a good job, had no temperament, and ultimately, he was petered out. He got — he was exhausted. This man was totally exhausted. He wasn’t even able to function in the last number of months. He was not able to function. He […]
8/27/2020
KELLYANNE CONWAY/PROTESTS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “We are so far beyond peaceful protests and this is why the president and the vice president last night are making a strong case for public safety… I guess Mayor Pete [Buttigieg] knows full stop that the more chaos and anarchy and vandalism and violence reigns, the better it is for the […]
8/27/2020
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Mr. Trump burns through staff faster than any president has in modern times. He has had four chiefs of staff, four national security advisers and four press secretaries in less than four years… Mr. Trump casts that as a failing of his former aides, not him. In looking back at what […]
8/20/2020
STEVE BANNON/TRUMP PEOPLE/WALL: “President Donald Trump distanced himself Thursday from Steve Bannon’s efforts to crowdsource private funds for a border wall, saying it was ‘done for showboating reasons’ and ‘inappropriate.’ Trump made the remarks after Bannon, his former senior adviser, was arrested Thursday morning for allegedly swindling donors on the project, run by the non-profit […]
8/20/2020
STEVE BANNON/TRUMP PEOPLE/WALL: “Steve Bannon, a former adviser to President Trump, was among four suspects arrested Thursday and indicted in connection with an online fundraising campaign that allegedly defrauded donors of hundreds of thousands of dollars, the Justice Department announced. According to the indictment, Bannon and co-defendant Brian Kolfage told the public that they were […]
8/18/2020
2016 ELECTION/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Members of the 2016 Trump campaign represented a major counterintelligence risk to the U.S. due to their frequent contacts with individuals with close ties to the Russian government, a bipartisan Senate investigation has concluded… A substantial portion of the report focuses on the connections of onetime Trump campaign chairman Paul […]
8/13/2020
MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Trump had colluded with the Russians, but not in the sophisticated ways imagined by his detractors. I also knew that the Mueller investigation was not a witch-hunt… Trump had cheated in the election, with Russian connivance, as you will discover in these pages, because doing anything — and I mean anything — […]
8/13/2020
2016 ELECTION/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “In an upcoming book, Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former attorney, alleges that Trump worked with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election… Cohen claims that Trump lied when he told the American public he had no dealings in Russia, because Cohen personally oversaw Trump’s efforts to secure a major real […]
8/8/2020
ALASKA/ENVIRONMENT/JOE BIDEN/SCOT PRUITT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Bristol Bay has been foundational to the way of life of Alaska Natives for countless generations… and is an economic powerhouse that supplies half of the world’s wild sockeye salmon. It is no place for a mine… [A]fter former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt met with a mining executive behind closed doors, […]
8/5/2020
MICHAEL FLYNN/SALLY YATES/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates told a Senate panel Wednesday that in the days before Donald Trump’s inauguration, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden made no attempt to target incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn for prosecution to undermine the new administration… At one point, Sen. John Kennedy, […]
7/30/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Let me begin by expressing our sadness at the passing of a wonderful man and a dear friend of mine, Herman Cain. He was a very special person. I got to know him very well. And unfortunately, he passed away from the thing called the China virus.” -Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump […]
7/30/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/RALLY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump paid tribute to Herman Cain, who died Thursday of coronavirus complications at 74… Cain spent nearly a month in the hospital with coronavirus before he succumbed to the disease. As co-chair of Black Voices for Trump, he attended President Trump’s controversial, indoor and largely maskless rally in Tulsa, Okla., in late […]
7/21/2020
TRUMP PEOPLE: [Reporter: “Ghislaine Maxwell is in prison, and so a lot of people want to know if she’s going to turn in powerful people… How do you see that working out?”] “I don’t know. I haven’t really been following it too much. I just wish her well, frankly. I’ve met her numerous times over […]
7/11/2020
MICHAEL FLYNN/PARDONS/ROGER STONE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Roger Stone was treated horribly. Roger Stone was treated very unfairly. Roger Stone was brought into this witch hunt, this whole political witch hunt and the Mueller scam — it’s a scam, because it’s been proven false. And he was treated very unfairly, just like General Flynn was treated […]
7/10/2020
PARDONS/ROGER STONE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Grant of Clemency commuting the unjust sentence of Roger Stone, Jr. Roger Stone is a victim of the Russia Hoax that the Left and its allies in the media perpetuated for years in an attempt to undermine the Trump Presidency. There was […]
7/9/2020
MICHAEL FLYNN/ROGER STONE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “As far as General Flynn, he’s a great hero. He’s a great gentleman. What they are doing to that man, they have destroyed that man. But he will come back. He’s going to come back. Roger Stone was treated very unfairly, unbelievably unfairly. And I watched that, and I thought it […]
7/3/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/DONALD JR/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Kimberly Guilfoyle, the girlfriend of President Trump’s eldest son and a top fund-raising official for the Trump re-election campaign, tested positive for the coronavirus on Friday before a Fourth of July event at Mount Rushmore, a person familiar with her condition said… As a routine precaution, people who come in close contact […]
6/25/2020
JOHN BOLTON/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “I have great people in the administration. You make some mistakes. Like, you know, an idiot like Bolton, all he wanted to do was drop bombs on everybody. You don’t have to drop bombs on everybody. You don’t have to kill people… But I’ll tell you, he was good for […]
6/23/2020
2020 ELECTION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Hogan Gidley will be leaving the White House on July 1 and heading over to my campaign to be the National Press Secretary. He is a strong, loyal and trusted member of the team that I know will do an outstanding job! We must WIN this election! Follow him at @JHoganGidley.“ –Donald […]
6/22/2020
JOHN BOLTON/TRUMP PEOPLE: “John Bolton was a stupid guy, and he was a guy with no heart. And he also had a statement that he would lie whenever he had to. He has that statement. It’s a well-known statement. And I fired him. And I didn’t think it was a big deal. And I didn’t — […]
6/22/2020
JOHN BOLTON/TRUMP PEOPLE: “I gave John Bolton, who was incapable of being Senate confirmed because he was considered a wacko, and was not liked, a chance. I always like hearing differing points of view. He turned out to be grossly incompetent, and a liar. See judge’s opinion. CLASSIFIED INFORMATION!!!“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 22, 2020 […]
6/21/2020
JOHN BOLTON/NORTH KOREA/NUKES/TRUMP PEOPLE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: [Martha Raddatz: “As we sit here today, would you say the threat from North Korea is greater today than when President Trump took office?”] “The threat from North Korea today is absolutely greater. Because while all these photo opportunities were taking place, there’s absolutely no doubt that North Korea’s […]
6/21/2020
JOHN BOLTON/TRUMP PEOPLE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Well, my experience was he very rarely read much. The intelligence briefings took place perhaps once or twice a week… It’s very unusual. They should take place every day. The president should read extensively the material he’s given. It’s not clear to me that he read much of anything. I […]
6/21/2020
JOHN BOLTON/TRUMP PEOPLE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “This is not a conservative administration nor is policy made in a coherent, competent way… There really isn’t any guiding principle — that I was able to discern other than– what’s good for Donald Trump’s reelection. Now, look, you can’t take the politics out of politics. It plays a role in […]
6/20/2020
COURTS/JOHN BOLTON/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Well, we had a very good decision in the John Bolton book case. And the judge was very powerful in his statements on classified information and very powerful also on the fact that the country will get the money — any money he makes. So I hope a lot of […]
6/19/2020
ATTORNEY GENERAL/TRUMP PEOPLE/VOTE BY MAIL/VOTING/WILLIAM BARR: “The thing we have going for us, especially when there’s intense division in the country, is that we have peaceful transfers of power and a way of resolving it is to have an election. But when state governments start adopting these practices like mail-in ballots, that open the floodgates of […]
6/16/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/MIKE PENCE/POLITICAL FIGURES/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Recently the media has taken to sounding the alarm over a ‘second wave’ of COVID-19 cases. Such panic is overblown. Thanks to President @realDonaldTrump’s leadership & the courage of the American people, we’re winning the fight against the invisible enemy.” -Mike Pence, Twitter.com, June 16, 2020 2:29 pm […]
6/15/2020
JOHN BOLTON/TRUMP PEOPLE: “[T]he guy [John Bolton], I gave him a break. He couldn’t get Senate-confirmed. He was never Senate-confirmed the first time. I don’t think he’s supposed to even be calling himself an ambassador because he couldn’t get Senate-confirmed… I put him here [as National Security Advisor] because he couldn’t get Senate-confirmed. This was […]
6/12/2020
JUDGE SULLIVAN/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MICHAEL FLYNN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A divided federal appeals court on Friday seemed reluctant to order the judge presiding over former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s prosecution to dismiss the case ahead of scheduled arguments in the trial court next month… If a majority of the three-judge panel declines to intervene, then oral arguments over […]
6/10/2020
JUDGE GLEESON/JUDGE SULLIVAN/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MICHAEL FLYNN/TRUMP PEOPLE/WILLIAM BARR: Following the U.S. Department of Justice’s request under Attorney General Bill Barr to drop its criminal case against Michael Flynn, presiding U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan asked retired judge John Gleeson to write an amicus curiae brief opposing the decision. On June 10, 2020, Gleeson submitted an 82-page report […]
5/27/2020
PRESS SECRETARY/TRUMP PEOPLE/VOTE BY MAIL/VOTING: “Absentee voting has the word absent in it for a reason. It means you’re absent from the jurisdiction or unable to vote in person. President @realDonaldTrump is against the Democrat plan to politicize the coronavirus and expand mass mail-in voting without a reason, which has a high propensity for voter fraud. […]
5/8/2020
ATTORNEY GENERAL/JEFF SESSIONS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Jeff Sessions was a disaster. I didn’t want to make him attorney general, but he was the first senator to endorse me, so I felt a little bit of an obligation. He came to see me four times just begging me to be attorney general. He wasn’t, you know, to me […]
4/29/2020
CAMPAIGN/MEDIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Just told that Fake News @CNN is falsely reporting that I was recently shouting at my campaign manager over made up nonsense. Actually, he is doing a great job, I never shouted at him (been with me for years, including the 2016 win), & have no intention to do so. Just FAKE NEWS!” […]
4/29/2020
CONGRESS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Happy Birthday to three time Olympian and five term Congressman, @JimRyun!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 29, 2020 7:52 pm […]
4/29/2020
MEDIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “THANK YOU @MarkLevinShow! https://t.co/GJSNM0LUQH“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 29, 2020 9:42 am […]
4/28/2020
TRUMP PEOPLE: “THANK YOU MICHAEL! @bittyandbeaus https://t.co/KVXVcdO79E“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 28, 2020 9:39 pm […]
4/28/2020
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Thank you @BlueAngels and @AFThunderbirds! #AmericaStrong https://t.co/oZyFJBT90h https://t.co/bq0VOKYsmd“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 28, 2020 9:43 am […]
4/28/2020
TRUMP PEOPLE: “But I love Diamond & Silk, and so do millions of people! https://t.co/RBX9bmFIwH“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 28, 2020 8:57 am […]
4/26/2020
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Laura, just another Fake News Report! https://t.co/Kya7NViNRB“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 26, 2020 7:14 pm […]
4/26/2020
HHS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Reports that H.H.S. Secretary @AlexAzar is going to be ‘fired’ by me are Fake News. The Lamestream Media knows this, but they are desperate to create the perception of chaos & havoc in the minds of the public. They never even called to ask. Alex is doing an excellent job!” –Donald […]
4/26/2020
RELIGION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “.@CardinalDolan Thank you for a great call yesterday with Catholic Leaders, and a great Service today from @StPatsNYC!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 26, 2020 12:42 pm […]
4/23/2020
ENDORSEMENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Governor @JimJusticeWV is a tremendous fighter for the incredible people of West Virginia. Big Jim is strong on Life, the Second Amendment, and Building the Wall! With Governors like Jim, America will recover and get back to business. Jim has my Complete and Total Endorsement!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 23, 2020 6:54 pm […]
4/23/2020
ENDORSEMENT/OHIO/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Congressman @SteveStivers is doing a terrific job for the People of Ohio! He defends our Borders, Supports our Veterans, Strong on Crime, and the Second Amendment. Steve has my Complete and Total Endorsement! https://t.co/iX0VBJ44sT“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 23, 2020 6:35 pm […]