CONGRESS/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Back before he controlled the GOP, before his endorsement seemed capable of swinging a primary, before he was President of the United States and before he’d won most Republican primaries in 2016, Donald Trump had very few friends in Congress. Just a handful of Republican lawmakers endorsed his campaign early on. […]
Category: A- Trump People
8/21/2018
CALIFORNIA/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/LEGAL/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A federal grand jury on Tuesday [8-21-18] indicted California GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter and his wife on charges of improperly using hundreds of thousands of campaign funds to pay for personal expenses, including family vacations and dental work. Hunter is also accused of filing false campaign reports and wire fraud. The […]
8/21/2018
CONGRESS/GOP/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Republicans who for years have represented some of the safest congressional seats in their party are suddenly under intense pressure in 2018, with Democratic challengers threatening to overwhelm them in suburban districts where President Donald Trump has struggled. One of those districts belongs to Rep. Steve Chabot, an 11-term Republican who has gone […]
8/21/2018
CALIFORNIA/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/LEGAL/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. Representative Duncan Hunter, a Republican of California, was indicted on charges that he and his wife used hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign funds to pay for vacations, video games and other personal expenses and filed false campaign finance reports, federal officials said on Tuesday [8-21-18]. Hunter, who was […]
8/21/2018
MICHAEL FLYNN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Special counsel Robert Mueller on Tuesday [8-21-18] sought to postpone a sentencing hearing for Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser…The court asked for an update on a sentencing timeline for Flynn by Aug. 24, but the parties asked for that date to be pushed back to Sept. 17. […]
8/21/2018
ABORTION/NOMINATION/SENATE/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh considers the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion to be settled law, Republican Senator Susan Collins said on Tuesday [8-21-18], but Democrats were deeply skeptical. Collins, a Republican who backs abortion rights and is considered a key vote on Kavanaugh’s nomination, […]
8/21/2018
ELECTION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “To the incredible people of the Great State of Wyoming: Go VOTE TODAY for Foster Friess – He will be a fantastic Governor! Strong on Crime, Borders & 2nd Amendment. Loves our Military & our Vets. He has my complete and total Endorsement!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 21, 2018 9:56 am […]
8/29/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team wants to review emails between Paul Manafort and one of his former lawyers — messages that would typically be protected by attorney-client privilege. Manafort’s emails are a special case, Mueller’s team argued in a court motion Wednesday [8-29-18]. Attorney-client privilege doesn’t apply when the client enlists […]
8/20/2018
POLLS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump repeatedly said during the 2016 election that he would ‘hire the best people’ for his administration, but a new poll Monday [8-20-18] shows that most Americans don’t think he delivered on that promise. The new Monmouth University Poll found that only 30 percent of respondents believe that Trump has hired […]
8/20/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The jury weighing more than a dozen bank and tax fraud charges against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort failed to return a verdict after its third day of deliberations on Monday [8-20-18], leading the defense team to sound a note of optimism after the weekslong trial. The 12-member jury, which […]
8/19/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Federal prosecutors are focused on over $20 million in loans obtained by U.S. President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen from taxi businesses owned by him and his family, the New York Times reported on Sunday [8-19-18]. The loans are part of an investigation into whether Cohen committed bank and tax […]
8/17/2018
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Federal authorities had cornered the man they suspected could be part of Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election — and they might have been more successful in their investigation in early 2017 if it had not been for George Papadopoulos, the special counsel alleged on Friday [8-17-18]. Special counsel prosecutors […]
8/17/2018
MEDIA/PUERTO RICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Only a few paragraphs of Omarosa Manigault Newman’s book are about Puerto Rico. But their claims are significant: that President Donald Trump lacked empathy in Hurricane Maria’s aftermath and that the President and Chief of Staff John Kelly referred to Puerto Ricans in derogatory terms. The result, the new book […]
8/17/2018
GOP/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Republican fundraiser Elliott Broidy is under federal investigation for allegedly telling foreign officials he could influence the Trump administration to take certain actions in exchange for tens of millions of dollars, The Washington Post reported Friday [8-17-18]. The Post reported that two sources said Broidy is being investigated by the Justice Department […]
8/17/2018
DHS/IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A Justice Department employee who heckled DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen at a Washington restaurant and criticized the administration’s immigration policy online did not violate rules against political activity by government workers, a watchdog agency found. In a letter dated this week, the chief of the US Office of Special Counsel’s […]
8/17/2018
GOP/MITCH MCCONNELL/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “As the Senate convened for a rare August work period, the late-summer session serves as a reminder of how much has changed in the partnership between Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and President Donald Trump. This time last year, the two men were barely on speaking terms. Trump bashed the […]
8/16/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Special Counsel’s Office has almost three times the number of exhibits it wants to show a jury in Paul Manafort’s next criminal trial compared with what it used in his Virginia case. The evidence for the two trials largely doesn’t overlap, according to a court filing Thursday [8-16-18] from Manafort’s […]
8/16/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The jury in the trial of former Donald Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort did not reach a verdict after its first full day of deliberations. Just before 5 p.m. ET, jurors sent a note to Judge T.S. Ellis with four questions, including one asking him if he could ‘redefine’ for them […]
8/16/2018
IMMIGRATION/JEFF SESSIONS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday [8-16-18] sought to speed up the deportation of illegal immigrants, telling immigration judges they should only postpone cases in removal proceedings ‘for good cause shown.’ Sessions, in an interim order that was criticized by some lawyers, said the ‘good-cause’ standard ‘limits the discretion of immigration […]
8/16/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Omarosa Manigault Newman’s publisher has responded to President Donald Trump’s campaign’s ‘legal threats’ over her tell-all book, saying Trump is fully able to use his ‘bully pulpit’ to refute anything they take issue with — but that the book will be published. The Trump campaign also filed an arbitration action Tuesday […]
8/16/2018
TRUMP FAMILY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Lara Trump tore into her old friend Omarosa Manigault Newman on Thursday [8-16-18] after she released a tape of the president’s daughter-in-law offering her a job on the 2020 campaign shortly after being fired from the White House…She fired back after Manigault Newman appeared on MSNBC and aired excerpts from a tape […]
8/16/2018
TRUMP PEOPLE: “Thank you for the kind words Omarosa! https://t.co/PMmNG6iIsi“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 16, 2018 1:55 pm […]
8/16/2018
TRUMP PEOPLE: “Great @Cabinet meeting today at the @WhiteHouse! https://t.co/RwOhQF9SEv“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 16, 2018 1:43 pm […]
8/16/2018
IRAN/MIKE POMPEO/SANCTIONS/STATE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday [8-16-18] named senior policy adviser Brian Hook as Washington’s special representative for Iran. The move came as the Trump administration prepared to increase economic pressure on Iran by restoring sanctions to force Tehran to end its nuclear weapons program and support for militant groups […]
8/16/2018
DEMS/LAWSUIT/SENATE/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Democrats in the U.S. Senate said on Thursday [8-16-18] they were prepared to sue the National Archives if it does not honor their request for information on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. The threat ratcheted up the Democrats’ fight with Republicans over documents on the conservative federal judge nominated by President Donald […]
8/16/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP FAMILY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Omarosa Manigault Newman released a secret recording on Thursday [8-16-18] that she said backed her claim that President Trump’s daughter-in-law had offered her a $15,000-a-month contract in exchange for her silence about her time as a White House adviser. The audio, released during an interview on MSNBC, is the latest in the […]
8/16/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Greg D. Andres looked like any ordinary guest at the Westin hotel here, standing near the valet in flip-flops and a white Notre Dame boxing T-shirt, waiting for a Postmates delivery from Shake Shack. The moment would be unremarkable save for Mr. Andres’s role as the lead prosecutor for the special […]
8/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The jury in the bank and tax fraud trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort ended its first day of deliberations on Thursday [8-16-18] without reaching a verdict but with several questions, including how to define ‘reasonable doubt.’ The six men and six women considered the charges against […]
8/15/2018
ELECTIONS/STEVE BANNON/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Steve Bannon is attempting a political resurrection, launching a 25-person pro-Trump rapid-response and polling operation that is framing the midterms as an up-or-down vote on the president’s impeachment. The former White House chief strategist has started Citizens for the American Republic, an outside political group that intends to advise surrogates, generate talking […]
8/15/2018
AFRICAN AMERICANS/JOBS/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “White House press secretary Sarah Sanders issued a rare correction Tuesday [8-14-18] night after falsely declaring that President Donald Trump has created three times as many jobs for African-American workers as former President Barack Obama did during his two terms in office…During the briefing, as she sought to defend the […]
8/15/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “When former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty announced last year that he was leaving his cushy DC lobbying job to try to reclaim his old job, establishment Republicans cheered. Pawlenty, who spent eight years as the state’s governor last decade, was seen as the party’s only chance of winning the governor’s mansion […]
8/15/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The winners of Tuesday [8-14-18] night’s Republican primaries across the country are ‘the team we want’ heading into November’s midterm elections, President Donald Trump wrote online Wednesday morning, throwing his support behind several GOP winners…Tuesday’s primaries were especially busy in Wisconsin, where Leah Vukmir bested Kevin Nicholson in a tense GOP […]
8/15/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Being a billionaire president sometimes means confronting doubts that you understand the lives of regular people. That’s especially true for President Trump, who has built a political reputation for caring about working-class people despite decades of gold-plated living arrangements. On Wednesday [8-15-18], the question was put to Corey Lewandowski, the president’s […]
8/15/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Prosecutors urged jurors in the trial of Paul Manafort to focus on financial records and Manafort’s ‘lies’ — and to set aside personal feelings about a tainted star witness — as the government offered its closing argument on Wednesday [8-15-18]. Pushing back, lawyers for the former Trump campaign chairman argued that […]
8/15/2018
ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “It is about time that Connecticut had a real and talented Governor. Bob Stefanowski is the person needed to do the job. Tough on crime, Bob is also a big cutter of Taxes. He will win in November and make a Great Governor, a major difference maker. Bob has my total […]
8/15/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “.@PeteStauber won big last night in Minnesota. A big star in Hockey, he will be an even bigger star in politics. It all begins with a win in November. Pete has my complete and total Endorsement!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 15, 2018 8:31 am […]
8/15/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Congratulations to Bryan Steil on a wonderful win last night. You will be replacing a great guy in Paul Ryan, and your win in November will make the entire State of Wisconsin very proud. You have my complete and total Endorsement!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 15, 2018 8:14 am […]
8/15/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Jeff Johnson of Minnesota had a big night in winning the Republican nomination for Governor against a very strong and well known opponent! Thanks for all of the support you showed me. You have my complete and total Endorsement. You will win in November!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 15, 2018 8:12 […]
8/15/2018
KELLYANNE CONWAY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The husband of White House adviser Kellyanne Conway appeared to hammer President Donald Trump for making false statements and attacking allies, adding to a long list of criticisms he’s lobbed against the President online. Since last year, George Conway, a prominent attorney whom Trump considered nominating for solicitor general, has […]
8/15/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Scott Walker is very special and will have another great win in November. He has done a fantastic job as Governor of Wisconsin and will always have my full support and Endorsement!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 15, 2018 8:07 am […]
8/15/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Congratulations to Bryan Steil on a wonderful win last night. Your will be replacing a great guy in Paul Ryan, and your win in November will make the entire State of Wisconsin very proud. You have my complete and total Endorsement!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 15, 2018 8:02 am […]
8/15/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Congratulations to Leah Vukmir of Wisconsin on your great win last night. You beat a very tough and good competitor and will make a fantastic Senator after winning in November against someone who has done very little. You have my complete and total Endorsement!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 15, 2018 7:54 […]
8/15/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Great Republican election results last night. So far we have the team we want. 8 for 9 in Special Elections. Red Wave!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 15, 2018 7:30 am […]
8/15/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A low-profile Republican congressman from northeast Ohio has gone where few in his party have dared this campaign season: He has bragged to his constituents that he has stood up to President Trump. In an election year when many Republicans have slavishly courted the president’s validation and endorsement, and others have […]
8/15/2018
ELECTION/GOP/STEVE BANON/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Stephen K. Bannon, the former White House chief strategist, is forming a group to try to sell voters on a midterm message that they should support Republicans to defend the Trump agenda and save the president from impeachment. The group, Citizens of the American Republic, is Mr. Bannon’s new vehicle […]
8/15/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The evidence against Paul Manafort is ‘overwhelming,’ a prosecutor told jurors during closing arguments in his fraud trial on Wednesday, saying that he hid more than $16 million in income and fraudulently obtained $20 million in bank loans even though, as a trained lawyer, ‘Mr. Manafort knew the law.’ […]
8/14/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A daily trickle of revealing internal conversations between staffers. Growing anxiety about what one might have once said. No sense of how long it will go on. Omarosa Manigault Newman’s slow release of secretly taped conversations from inside the Trump campaign and White House is having the same effect on staffers […]
8/14/2018
ELECTIONS/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A fiery Donald Trump loyalist and a one-time Trump skeptic seized Republican nominations for governor in two states Tuesday [8-14-18], while Vermont Democrats picked the nation’s first transgender nominee for governor to represent them in November. The results came as voters across four states cast ballots and the 2018 midterm season […]
8/14/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “We’ve reached the end. Paul Manafort’s defense team has rested, presenting no evidence and calling no witnesses to testify, including President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman himself. Wednesday [8-15-18] morning, special counsel Robert Mueller’s team and Manafort’s defense lawyers will deliver their closing arguments — sure to be impassioned, detailed speeches […]
8/14/2018
LEGAL/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman declared Tuesday [8-14-18] that she ‘will not be silenced’ by President Donald Trump, remaining defiant as her public feud with her former boss appeared to shift to a possible legal battle. In an interview with The Associated Press, Manigault Newman, who is promoting her […]
8/14/2018
AFRICAN AMERICANS/BETSY DEVOS/EDUCATION/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Education Secretary Betsy DeVos allegedly said the students who booed her May 2017 commencement speech at a historically black college didn’t have the ‘capacity to understand’ what she wants to accomplish, according to the tell-all book by former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman. Manigault Newman describes DeVos’ comments […]
8/14/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Kansas Governor Jeff Colyer on Tuesday [8-14-18] conceded the closely contested Republican nomination for the state’s governor race to Kris Kobach, a candidate endorsed by President Donald Trump. Kobach, who serves as the Kansas secretary of state, in the latest tally for the Aug. 7 primary election, had received 128,543 votes, […]
8/14/2018
LEGAL/MEDIA/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s campaign said Tuesday [8-14-18] it has filed for arbitration, accusing Omarosa Manigault Newman, the former campaign aide and White House official, of breaching a 2016 nondisclosure agreement with the campaign. The move is the first legal action the Trump campaign has taken since Manigault Newman published a tell-all […]
8/14/2018
ELECTIONS/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/VOTE BY MAIL: “Incumbent Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer conceded to his opponent, Secretary of State Kris Kobach, in the state’s Republican primary Tuesday [8-14-18] night, one week after the extremely narrow vote. The latest vote tally put Kobach, whom President Trump had endorsed, just 345 votes over Colyer out of more than […]
8/14/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The defense rested its case Tuesday [8-14-18] morning in the trial against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort without calling any witnesses, setting the stage for closing arguments Wednesday [8-15-18] morning. Manafort spoke for the first time in court during the trial, saying he will not testify. Manafort told Judge T.S. […]
8/14/2018
MEDIA/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Aides to President Donald Trump questioned him during the 2016 campaign about the existence of an audio tape in which he purportedly said the N-word, a racial epithet, during production of his reality TV show ‘The Apprentice.’ But officials’ divergent accounts, shifting stories, and an overall dearth of credibility have combined […]
8/14/2018
GOP/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Republican Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona condemned President Donald Trump’s attacks against former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman as ‘unbecoming,’ just hours after Trump called the only African-American to have served in a senior role in the White House a ‘dog’…Trump’s reference on Tuesday [8-14-18] morning to Manigault Newman as […]
8/14/2018
RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “White House national security adviser John Bolton will meet Russian officials in Geneva next week as a follow-up to the summit meeting that President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin had in Helsinki last month, the White House said. Bolton, as part of his trip, will also visit Israel and […]
8/14/2018
DEMS/MEDIA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Lou Dobbs: ‘This cannot go forward…this Special Counsel with all of his conflicts, with his 17 Angry Democrats, without any evidence of collusion by the Trump Campaign and Russia. The Dems are the ones who should be investigated.’ Thank you Lou, so true!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 14, 2018 8:15 […]
8/14/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday [8-14-18] called former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman a ‘dog,’ and his campaign took legal action against her as the two former reality TV stars escalated their public feud. The intensifying spat came as Manigault Newman, a former contestant on Trump’s reality show ‘The […]
8/14/2018
JOHN KELLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “When you give a crazed, crying lowlife a break, and give her a job at the White House, I guess it just didn’t work out. Good work by General Kelly for quickly firing that dog!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 14, 2018 6:31 am […]
8/14/2018
LEGAL/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Trump campaign has filed a formal complaint against Omarosa Manigault Newman saying she breached a confidentiality agreement signed in 2016, in response to her newly released book and promotional tour…The move comes as the reality TV star’s explosive tell-all memoir is released, detailing her time at the White House and […]
8/14/2018
DEMS/MEDIA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Lou Dobbs: ‘This cannot go forward…this Special Councel with all of his conflicts, with his 17 Angry Democrats, without any evidence of collusion by the Trump Campaign and Russia. The Dems are the ones who should be investigated.’ Thank you Lou, so true!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 14, 2018 6:21 […]
8/14/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Attorneys for Paul Manafort rested their case on Tuesday [8-14-18] without calling any witnesses, including the former Trump campaign chairman himself, who told the judge he did not want to testify in his own defense against bank and tax fraud charges. The defense attorneys’ decision means that the closely watched case […]
8/14/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Paul Manafort’s lawyers declined Tuesday [8-14-18] to call any witnesses to defend him against charges of bank and tax fraud. Mr. Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, also told the judge that he did not want to testify, clearing the way for closing arguments from both sides and the start of […]
8/14/2018
AFRICAN AMERICANS/MEDIA/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump on Tuesday [8-14-18] added his former White House aide, Omarosa Manigault Newman, to the growing list of African-Americans he has publicly denigrated on Twitter, calling her ‘that dog’ and a ‘crazed, crying lowlife’ in the wake of her allegations against him of mental deterioration and racism. Even for […]
8/14/2018
DEMS/ELECTIONS/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “States such as Wisconsin helped drive Donald Trump’s surprising presidential win two years ago, and Tuesday’s [8-14-18] primaries there and in neighboring Minnesota could serve as a barometer of opposition strength headed into the November midterm elections. Voters were going to the polls in those states for party primaries, and Democrats […]
8/13/2018
AFRICAN AMERICANS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “None of President Donald Trump’s senior White House officials are black. Only a handful of his senior staff are of Latino, Asian or Arab descent, according to a CNN review of 48 senior White House officials. Instead, the President is being advised by a senior White House staff that is […]
8/13/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TREASURY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Special counsel Robert Mueller’s prosecutors rested their case against Paul Manafort on Monday [8-13-18] afternoon after calling more than two dozen witnesses in their tax- and bank-fraud case against the former Trump campaign chairman. The final round of testimony from Treasury Department senior special agent Paula Liss lasted only five questions. […]
8/13/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Prosecutors rested their case Monday [8-13-18] afternoon in the trial against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. Prosecutor Greg Andres announced that the prosecution had finished witness presentation against Manafort after 10 days of testimony from 27 witnesses. The defense has not indicated if it will call any witnesses to the […]
8/13/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Secret tapes. Nondisclosure agreements. A lot of name calling. The revelations surrounding Omarosa Manigault Newman’s new memoir, and the ensuing fallout, are underscoring a level of dysfunction many now see as just part of life under President Donald Trump. On Monday [8-13-18], the former senior aide revealed a recording she’d made […]
8/13/2018
GOLF/TRUMP PEOPLE: “There’s an under-the-radar perk being offered to staffers in President Donald Trump’s administration — discounts on Trump-branded merchandise sold at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club. White House staffers who have a Secret Service hard pin identifying them as administration officials can flash it at the pro shop — where Trump-branded driver headcovers […]
8/13/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Pete Stauber is running for Congress in Minnesota. He will make for a great Congressman. Pete is strong on crime and borders, loves our Military, Vets and Second Amendment. Vote for Pete tomorrow. He has my full and total Endorsement!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 13, 2018 3:42 pm […]
8/13/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former White House aide Omarosa Manigault-Newman questioned President Trump’s physical and mental fitness in a forthcoming book about her time at The White House and claimed that he is ‘just this side of functionally illiterate.’ In her forthcoming tell-all ‘Unhinged,’ Manigault-Newman writes: ‘I’d come to understand that [Trump] read at an […]
8/13/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “RT @FrankLuntz: I’m in @Omarosa’s book on page 149. She claims to have heard from someone who heard from me that I heard Trump use the N-wo…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 13, 2018 12:14 pm […]
8/13/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “RT @MichaelCohen212: LTo the many dozens of #journalists who called me, questioning @OMAROSA claim in her new book that @POTUS @realDonaldT…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 13, 2018 12:14 pm […]
8/13/2018
GOLF/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Brooks Koepka just won his third Golf Major, and he did it not only with his powerful game, but with his powerful mind. He has been a man of steel on the Tour and will have many Victories, including Majors, ahead of him. Congrats to Brooks and his great team on a job […]
8/13/2018
TRUMP PEOPLE: “Wacky Omarosa already has a fully signed Non-Disclosure Agreement!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 13, 2018 11:13 am […]
8/13/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “While I know it’s ‘not presidential’ to take on a lowlife like Omarosa, and while I would rather not be doing so, this is a modern day form of communication and I know the Fake News Media will be working overtime to make even Wacky Omarosa look legitimate as possible. Sorry!” […]
8/13/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday [8-13-18] said he kept former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman on staff because she praised him even as she failed to do her job, the latest insult in the two former reality television stars’ public battle. Trump said the former ‘The Apprentice’ contestant had […]
8/13/2018
JOHN KELLY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “…really bad things. Nasty to people & would constantly miss meetings & work. When Gen. Kelly came on board he told me she was a loser & nothing but problems. I told him to try working it out, if possible, because she only said GREAT things about me – until she got […]
8/13/2018
TRUMP PEOPLE: “Wacky Omarosa, who got fired 3 times on the Apprentice, now got fired for the last time. She never made it, never will. She begged me for a job, tears in her eyes, I said Ok. People in the White House hated her. She was vicious, but not smart. I would rarely see […]
8/13/2018
TRUMP PEOPLE: “Wacky Omarosa, who got fired 3 times on the Apprentice, now got fired for the last time. She never made it, never will. She begged me for a job, tears in her eyes, I said Ok. People in the White House hated her. She was vicious, but not smart. I would rarely see […]
8/13/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump appeared to acknowledge on Monday [8-13-18] something his aides have declined to confirm for months: that his White House had aides sign nondisclosure agreements. The president made the statement in a post on Twitter about Omarosa Manigault Newman, a former contestant on ‘The Apprentice’ who became an assistant to […]
8/13/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. prosecutors on Monday [8-13-18] rested their case against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort after 10 days of testimony alleging how he avoided taxes on at least $16 million of income and lied to banks to maintain an extravagant lifestyle once his work for pro-Kremlin politicians in Ukraine dried up. […]
8/12/2018
ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “.@GovMikeHuckabee ‘Your paycheck is bigger, your pension is stronger.’ @foxandfriends Unemployment numbers are better than they have been in 50 years, & perhaps ever. Our country is booming like never before – and it will get even better! Many companies moving back to the U.S.A.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 12, 2018 […]
8/12/2018
ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “.@GovMikeHuckabee ‘Your paycheck is bigger, your pension is stronger.’ @foxandfriends Unemployment numbers are better than they have been in 50 years, & perhaps ever. Our country is booming like never before – and it will get even better! Many companies moving back to the U.S.A.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 12, 2018 […]
8/12/2018
ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “.@GovMikeHuckabee ‘Your paycheck is bigger, your pension is stronger.’ @foxandfriends Unemployment numbers are better than they have been in 50 years, & perhaps ever. Our country is booming like never before – and it will get even better! Many companies moving back to the U.S.A.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 12, 2018 […]
8/12/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “.@JudgeJeanine ‘Bob Mueller, isn’t your whole investigation premised on a Fake Dossier, paid for by Hillary, created by a man who hates Donald Trump, & used to con a FISA Court Judge. Bob, I really think it’s time for you to give up your phony investigation.’ No Collusion!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August […]
8/12/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “.@JudgeJeanine ‘Bob Mueller, isn’t your whole investigation premised on a Fake Dossier, paid for by Hillary, created by a man who hates Donald Trump, & used to con a FISA Court Judge. Bob, I really think it’s time for you to give up your phony investigation.’ No Collusion!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 12, […]
8/12/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “.@JudgeJeanine ‘Bob Mueller, isn’t your whole investigation premised on a Fake Dossier, paid for by Hillary, created by a man who hates Donald Trump, & used to con a FISA Court Judge. Bob, I really think it’s time for you to give up your phony investigation.’ No Collusion!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August […]
8/12/2018
JOHN KELLY/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Omarosa Manigault Newman secretly taped John F. Kelly, the White House chief of staff, as he fired her in December in the Situation Room, a breach of security protocols, but one that revealed him suggesting that she could face damage to her reputation if she did not leave quietly. The […]
8/11/2018
TRUMP PEOPLE: “Hundreds of Bikers for Trump just joined me at Bedminster. Quite a scene – great people who truly love our Country!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 11, 2018 1:59 pm […]
8/11/2018
TRUMP PEOPLE: “Hundreds of Bikers for Trump just joined me at Bedminster. Quite a scene – great people who truly love our Country!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 11, 2018 1:59 pm […]
8/11/2018
TRUMP PEOPLE: “Bikers for Trump at Bedminster earlier today. Thank you! https://t.co/GWN56gYGT3“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 11, 2018 8:51 pm […]
8/11/2018
TRUMP PEOPLE: “Bikers for Trump at Bedminster earlier today. Thank you! https://t.co/GWN56gYGT3“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 11, 2018 8:51 pm […]
8/9/2018
G7/MILITARY/NATO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Senior American national security officials, seeking to prevent President Trump from upending a formal policy agreement at last month’s NATO meeting, pushed the military alliance’s ambassadors to complete it before the forum even began. The work to preserve the North Atlantic Treaty Organization agreement, which is usually subject to intense 11th-hour […]
8/9/2018
DEVIN NUNES/GOP/INTELLIGENCE/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “In a newly leaked audio recording, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, a California Republican, suggests that his party needs to retain control of the House of Representatives to protect President Donald Trump from special counsel Robert Mueller…The remarks appear to be a blunt assessment from Nunes, a top Trump […]
8/9/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A court-appointed official has finished reviewing which materials seized from U.S. President Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen can be used in a criminal investigation, according to a court filing on Thursday [8-9-18]. Lawyers for Cohen and Trump had said that some of the seized materials were protected by attorney-client privilege, […]
8/9/2018
DEFENSE/MIKE PENCE/MILITARY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Vice President Mike Pence laid out an ambitious plan Thursday [8-9-18] to put President Trump’s stamp on the U.S. military by creating a military command dedicated to space—the Space Force. If established by Congress, the Space Force would join the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard and become […]