2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Paul Manafort on Tuesday [7-31-18] will become the first of President Donald Trump’s former aides to go on trial, accused of bank and tax fraud by federal investigators probing Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Despite a focus on financial crimes, the trial could yield politically damaging headlines […]
Category: A- Trump People
7/29/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump’s allies sought to discredit his former attorney, Michael Cohen, after a week of escalating clashes that raised the question of how much Mr. Cohen may be prepared to divulge about his former boss. Rudy Giuliani, Mr. Trump’s lawyer, called Mr. Cohen a ‘pathological manipulator’ and ‘a liar’ […]
7/29/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Paul Manafort, the veteran Republican political operative and lobbyist who helped run President Trump’s 2016 campaign, is scheduled to go to trial on financial fraud charges starting on Tuesday [7-31-18] in United States District Court in Alexandria, Va. The main points to be aware of: It is the first trial stemming […]
7/29/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team will take President Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort to court in Alexandria, Va., on Tuesday [7-31-18], in a trial with implications reaching far beyond the immediate charges ranging from tax evasion to bank fraud. The outcome of the trial, which is expected to last three […]
6/29/2018
TRUMP PEOPLE/UN: “The UN migration agency on Friday [6-29-18] voted down Ken Isaacs, the Trump administration’s candidate to lead the International Organization for Migration, a US official told CNN, leaving it without an American at the helm for the first time since 1951. He was eliminated from contention after the second round of voting, a […]
7/29/2018
TRUMP PEOPLE: “RT @realDonaldTrump: Congressman David Kustoff has been a champion for the Trump Agenda – I greatly appreciate his support. David is strong…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 29, 2018 7:00 am […]
7/28/2018
EPA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The lawyer nominated to run the Superfund toxic cleanup program is steeped in the complexities of restoring polluted rivers and chemical dumps. He spent more than a decade on one of the nation’s most extensive cleanups, one involving Dow Chemical’s sprawling headquarters in Midland, Mich. But while he led Dow’s legal strategy there, […]
7/27/2018
ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump said Friday [7-27-18] that he plans to spends almost all of his time this fall campaigning for the most vulnerable Republican congressional candidates in the midterm elections, a strategy that would have him in many districts where endangered lawmakers in his own party regard him as a liability. In […]
7/27/2018
ELECTION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Congressman David Kustoff has been a champion for the Trump Agenda – I greatly appreciate his support. David is strong on crime and borders, loves our Military, Vets and Second Amendment. Get out and vote for David on Thursday, August 2nd. He has my full and total Endorsement!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 27, […]
7/27/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A furious President Donald Trump and his allies are launching a campaign to undermine the credibility of Trump’s former personal lawyer and confidant, Michael Cohen, in response to Cohen’s dramatic public turn against his longtime patron. Trump, who has privately fumed about Cohen for days, trashed his former lawyer […]
7/27/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP PEOPLE: “.@Troy_Balderson of Ohio is running for Congress – so important to the Republican Party. Cast you early vote or vote on August 7th. Troy is strong on crime and borders, loves our Military, our Vets and our Second Amendment. He has my full and total Endorsement!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 27, 2018 10:58 […]
7/27/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP PEOPLE: “.@JohnJamesMI, who is running in the Republican Primary in the great state of Michigan, is SPECTACULAR! Vote on August 7th. Rarely have I seen a candidate with such great potential. West Point graduate, successful businessman and a African American leader…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 27, 2018 10:53 am […]
7/27/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP PEOPLE: “…John is strong on crime and borders, loves our Military, our Vets and our Second Amendment. He will be a star. He has my full and total Endorsement!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 27, 2018 10:53 am […]
7/27/2018
CONSUMER PROTECTION/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Democratic lawmakers stepped up pressure on President Trump’s pick to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, demanding more information on her role in the administration’s immigration policies and her stance on consumer finance issues, according to letters seen by Reuters on Friday [7-27-18]. The requests for information filed with the […]
7/27/2018
EPA/SCOTT PRUITT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Environmental Protection Agency will now enforce an Obama-era rule that limits diesel truck emissions, reversing one of the final decisions made under former agency chief Scott Pruitt…Without referring to Pruitt by name, Wheeler noted the decision made earlier this month was both proposed and approved by EPA offices on the same […]
7/26/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former White House aide and reality television star Omarosa Manigault Newman will chronicle her time in U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration in a memoir to be released Aug. 14, her publisher said Thursday [7-26-18]. Publisher Gallery Books said ‘Unhinged: An Insider’s Account of the Trump White House’ will recount Newman’s role in Trump’s […]
7/26/2018
TRUMP PEOPLE: “This is great – on my way, see you soon @IAGovernor Kim Reynolds! https://t.co/SXfkk12Uig“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 26, 2018 9:52 am […]
7/26/2018
TRUMP PEOPLE: “Heading to Dubuque, Iowa and then Granite City, Illinois. Looking forward to being with many great friends!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 26, 2018 9:11 am […]
7/26/2018
GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/PAUL RYAN/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan on Thursday [7-26-18] rejected a move by fellow Republicans to impeach Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the No. 2 Justice Department official, who oversees the federal probe of Russia’s role in the 2016 presidential election…A group of Republicans in the House of Representatives […]
7/26/2018
TARIFFS/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Rural voters helped President Donald Trump win Iowa in 2016. And despite rising concerns about the economic impact of several rounds of tariffs, they’ve been willing to endure the ill effects of his trade policies, trusting he’ll ultimately deliver. But the president’s sudden announcement this week that he’ll give $12 […]
7/25/2018
MIKE POMPEO/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “More than a week has passed since Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin met in Helsinki, Finland, but lawmakers still want answers to basic questions: What did they talk about? What, if anything, was agreed to? Mr. Trump was accompanied in the meeting only by an interpreter. Exactly what was said […]
7/25/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “President Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, escalated his dispute with the president on Tuesday [7-24-18] by releasing a secret recording of a conversation in which Mr. Trump appears to have knowledge about hush money payments to a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with […]
7/25/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump blasted his former attorney Michael Cohen on Wednesday [7-25-18], the morning after CNN aired the audio of a recording Cohen made of the two…In the audio aired first on CNN’s ‘Cuomo Prime Time,’ Trump and Cohen can be heard discussing how they would buy the rights to […]
7/25/2018
LEGAL/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Michael Cohen and the publisher of the National Enquirer forged an alliance over the years, looking out for the interests of Donald Trump and each other. Now, federal investigators are examining those ties as part of a wide-ranging probe into Mr. Cohen’s personal business dealings and his self-described role as […]
7/25/2018
RUSSIA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. President Donald Trump will postpone a second meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin until next year after the federal probe into Russian election meddling is over, national security adviser John Bolton said on Wednesday [7-25-18]…Trump weathered fierce criticism after his summit last week with Putin in Helsinki after he […]
7/25/2018
ELECTION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Congratulations to Brian Kemp on your very big win in Georgia last night. Wow, 69-30, those are big numbers. Now go win against the open border, crime loving opponent that the Democrats have given you. She is weak on Vets, the Military and the 2nd Amendment. Win!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 25, 2018 […]
7/25/2018
TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “When you have people snipping at your heels during a negotiation, it will only take longer to make a deal, and the deal will never be as good as it could have been with unity. Negotiations are going really well, be cool. The end result will be worth it!” –Donald […]
7/25/2018
TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Every time I see a weak politician asking to stop Trade talks or the use of Tariffs to counter unfair Tariffs, I wonder, what can they be thinking? Are we just going to continue and let our farmers and country get ripped off? Lost $817 Billion on Trade last year. […]
7/24/2018
HILLARY CLINTON/JEFF SESSIONS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions repeated the phrase ‘lock her up’ during a speech to conservative high school students on Tuesday [7-24-18], chuckling as the crowd began a chant that Trump supporters used during the 2016 campaign to call for jailing Hillary Clinton. Mr. Sessions, the country’s top law enforcement official, was […]
7/24/2018
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Early one morning in October, Rick Gates, a Washington lobbyist who had been a top official in the Trump campaign, emailed family and friends warning them that he was about to be indicted by the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election. He declared himself innocent of ‘collusion with […]
7/24/2018
RACISM/TRUMP PEOPLE/VA: “A senior Trump administration appointee at the Department of Veterans Affairs spread birther conspiracy theories about then-President Barack Obama and made anti-Muslim comments on social media while working for the Trump campaign in Arizona. Thayer Verschoor, the VA’s executive director of intergovernmental affairs, is a former Arizona state Senate majority leader and longtime […]
7/24/2018
GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s top allies in the House are considering a last-ditch attempt to circumvent Republican leaders and punish Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who oversees Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus and a regular Trump confidant, said Tuesday [7-24-18] […]
7/24/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEVIN NUNES/INTELLIGENCE/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/SENATE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr told CNN Tuesday [7-24-18] he believed there were ‘sound reasons’ for judges to approve the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant on former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page, in yet another break between the Republican leaders of the House and Senate intelligence committees…Burr’s […]
7/24/2018
ELECTION/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/TAXES/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives unveiled an election-year tax plan on Tuesday [7-24-18] that is unlikely to become law but could energize party voters this autumn by promising permanent tax cuts for individuals and most business owners. Days before lawmakers head home for five weeks of summer campaigning before […]
7/24/2018
IRAN/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday [7-24-18] kept open the possibility of negotiating an agreement to denuclearize Iran, two days after he rattled his saber at the nation on Twitter…Iran on Monday [7-23-18] dismissed Trump’s angry warning that Tehran risked dire consequences ‘the like of which few throughout history have suffered […]
7/24/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Today is the day to vote for Brian Kemp. Will be great for Georgia, full Endorsement! https://t.co/yPND2bJ219“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 24, 2018 8:39 am […]
7/23/2018
TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “A lawyer for the pornographic film actress Stephanie Clifford said on Monday [7-23-18] that she and her husband had decided to end their marriage, days after Ms. Clifford, who goes by the stage name Stormy Daniels, was mistakenly arrested at an Ohio strip club. Ms. Clifford’s husband, Glendon Crain, also a pornographic film […]
7/23/2018
ABORTION/NOMINATIONS/POLLS/SENATE/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “As the Senate nears debate on a new Supreme Court nominee who could give the panel a conservative edge, a majority of voters say they are increasingly opposed to undermining a woman’s right to have an abortion and are becoming more likely to say they support abortion-rights candidates, a new poll shows. […]
7/23/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “…..’Carter Page wasn’t a spy, wasn’t an agent of the Russians – he would have cooperated with the FBI. It was a fraud and a hoax designed to target Trump.’ Tom Fitton @JudicialWatch A disgrace to America. They should drop the discredited Mueller Witch Hunt now!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
7/23/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, has granted the request for five witnesses to testify with immunity in the criminal trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. US District Judge T.S. Ellis is also ordering special counsel Robert Mueller’s team to tell Manafort’s team the nearly 30 witnesses it is […]
7/22/2018
RUSSIA/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “As the administration prepares for another summit meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, there is division within the U.S. ranks over Moscow’s intentions and whether the two sides will be able to cooperate on a range of issues including the conflict in Syria. Mr. Trump has expressed […]
7/22/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump claimed without evidence on Sunday [7-22-18] that his administration’s release of top-secret documents related to the surveillance of a former campaign aide had confirmed that the Justice Department and the F.B.I. ‘misled the courts’ in the early stages of the Russia investigation…In a series of early-morning tweets, […]
7/22/2018
FBI/GOP/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “When President Trump declassified a memo by House Republicans in February that portrayed the surveillance of a former campaign adviser as scandalous, his motivation was clear: to give congressional allies and conservative commentators another avenue to paint the Justice Department’s investigation into Russian election interference as tainted from the start. […]
TRUMP PEOPLE: “Happy Birthday @SenatorDole! https://t.co/MiVoB7qC6A“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 22, 2018 3:58 pm […]
7/22/2018
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “South Carolina Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy on Sunday [7-22-18] called on President Donald Trump to affirm wholeheartedly the intelligence community’s conclusion that Russia attempted to influence the 2016 presidential election. ‘The evidence is overwhelming,’ Gowdy said. ‘It can be proven beyond any evidentiary burden that Russia is not our friend and […]
7/21/2018
ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Troy Balderson of Ohio is running for Congress against a Nancy Pelosi Liberal who is WEAK on Crime & Borders. Troy is the total opposite, and loves our Military, Vets & 2nd Amendment. EARLY VOTING just started with Election Day on August 7th. Troy has my Full & Total Endorsement!” -Donald […]
7/21/2018
ELECTION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Brian Kemp, who is running for Governor of Georgia and has my full endorsement, is campaigning tonight with @MikePenceVP. Brian is very strong on Crime and Borders, LOVES our Military, Vets and the 2nd Amendment. He will be a GREAT Governor!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 21, 2018 6:00 pm […]
7/21/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/GOP/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Trump administration disclosed on Saturday [7-21-18] a previously top-secret set of documents related to the wiretapping of Carter Page, the onetime Trump campaign adviser who was at the center of highly contentious accusations by Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee that the F.B.I. had abused its surveillance powers. Democrats in […]
7/20/2018
LEGAL/MEDIA/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Bill Shine, a former co-president of Fox News hired this month as President Trump’s communications chief, brought conservative credentials and heavy baggage with him into the White House. President Trump embraced the former and ignored the latter. Mr. Shine, now struggling to limit the damage from Mr. Trump’s performance on Monday [7-16-18] with […]
7/20/2018
INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The post-Helsinki tension between President Donald Trump and his Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats appeared to have cooled after the President reaffirmed his support for the intelligence community and its assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 election. Then came Aspen. ‘Say that again?’ Coats said, incredulously, as he was […]
7/20/2018
NOMINATIONS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has raised concerns about indicting a sitting president and expressed his desire to overturn a ruling upholding the constitutionality of an independent counsel. And in newly unearthed video reviewed by CNN, Kavanaugh also implies that he believes there’s only one institution that […]
7/20/2018
NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Even as the Trump administration looks for further nuclear arms reductions with Russia and full denuclearization with North Korea, the Pentagon is making crucial changes in nuclear weapons employment and options after Defense Secretary James Mattis and Gen. Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recently called for classified […]
7/20/2018
ELECTION/GOP/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “One of Capitol Hill’s most outspoken backers of Moscow is facing a tough re-election fight, with President Donald Trump’s controversial comments on Russia now taking on a central role in the race. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, a Republican representing a coastal southern California district, has focused his campaign on tax issues, not foreign policy. […]
7/19/2018
2016 ELECTION/CONGRESS/DEMS/GOP/RUSSIA/SANCTIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Republicans in Congress on Thursday [7-19-18] blocked a series of measures put forward by lawmakers — largely Democratic — desperate to isolate Republican leaders and publicly rebuke President Trump over his summit meeting with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia this week. In the Senate, Republicans objected to two nonbinding […]
7/19/2018
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump plans to invite President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to visit Washington in the fall, the White House said Thursday [7-19-18] — an invitation that stunned the nation’s top intelligence official, who said he was still groping for details of what the two leaders had discussed in their […]
7/19/2018
DHS/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Thursday [7-19-18] declined to say she agrees that Russian election interference was designed to help President Donald Trump, though she said she accepts the US intelligence community’s assessment that concluded just that. Speaking at the Aspen Security Forum, Nielsen created some confusion when she seemed to deny that […]
7/19/2018
COURTS/NOMINATIONS/SENATE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Senate Republican leaders on Thursday [7-19-18] pulled the plug on one of President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees after lawmakers raised concerns about racially insensitive articles he wrote as a college student, marking the first time a Trump U.S. appeals court pick was not confirmed. The Republican-led Senate had been poised to vote on […]
7/19/2018
DHS/ELECTIONS/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Thursday [7-19-18] said the United States needed to be prepared for an attempt by Russia to interfere in elections in all 50 U.S. states this year, adding that there was no question Moscow interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential contest…President Donald Trump this week has struggled […]
7/19/2018
CONSUMER PROTECTION/IMMIGRATION/NOMINATIONS/SENATE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s choice to lead the U.S. consumer watchdog survived aggressive questioning by lawmakers on Thursday [7-19-18] and looked on track to secure a confirmation vote that could come as soon as this month. There were heated exchanges in the Senate as Democratic lawmakers grilled Kathy Kraninger, a government official, on […]
7/19/2018
COURTS/GOP/NOMINATIONS/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The sprint by President Trump and Senate Republicans to install conservative judges to the nation’s courts hit an unexpected speed bump on Thursday [7-19-18] after a nominee for a key federal appeals court was pulled to avoid an embarrassing defeat on the Senate floor. The nomination of Ryan W. Bounds to […]
7/18/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP PEOPLE: “For Republicans running in competitive primaries this year, one question has loomed above all others: To embrace President Trump, or to oppose him? This choice can make or break a campaign. Already, repeatedly, it has. For pro-Trump insurgents, the scorecard is full of upsets — and for anti-Trump incumbents, startling defeats. Representative Martha […]
7/18/2018
DEMS/JARED/KUSHNER/LEGAL/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Democratic National Committee tried and failed three times to serve Jared Kushner with a lawsuit at his Manhattan apartment and was turned away by a US Secret Service agent when it attempted to deliver the packet to the White House senior adviser’s Washington, DC, home, according to court filings. After consulting with […]
7/18/2018
BORDER/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Thank you to Congressman Kevin Yoder! He secured $5 BILLION for Border Security. Now we need Congress to support. Kevin has been strong on Crime, the Border, the 2nd Amendment, and he loves our Military and Vets. @RepKevinYoder has my full and total endorsement!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 18, 2018 4:29 […]
7/18/2018
2016 ELECTION/ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “U.S. Representative Martha Roby, an Alabama Republican who spurned Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential race, has decisively won a runoff election against a former Democrat-turned-Trump supporter. With 65 of 67 counties reporting, the four-term incumbent in the House of Representatives got 68 percent of the vote compared with 32 percent for […]
7/18/2018
ELECTION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Brian Kemp is running for Governor of the great state of Georgia. The Primary is on Tuesday [7-24-18]. Brian is tough on crime, strong on the border and illegal immigration. He loves our Military and our Vets and protects our Second Amendment. I give him my full and total endorsement.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
7/18/2018
DHS/IMMIGRATION/INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Trump administration was warned by intelligence analysts that ending protections for hundreds of thousands of Central Americans living in the US would likely drive a spike in illegal immigration. They did it anyway. That intelligence assessment was made public late Tuesday [7-17-18] as part of an ongoing lawsuit against the […]
7/18/2018
SECRET SERVICE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “RT @SecretService: In Remembrance: Special Agent Nole E. Remagen. This week the U.S. Secret Service lost one of America’s finest. We ask fo…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 18, 2018 12:12 pm […]
7/18/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Judge Brett Kavanaugh two years ago expressed his desire to overturn a three-decade-old Supreme Court ruling upholding the constitutionality of an independent counsel, a comment bound to get renewed scrutiny in his confirmation proceedings to sit on the high court. Speaking to a conservative group in 2016, Kavanaugh bluntly […]
7/18/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Republican lawmakers denounced him. Newt Gingrich demanded a do-over. And the hosts of ‘Fox & Friends,’ President Donald Trump’s favorite morning television show, gave him a verbal slap on the wrist for his performance during a news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The mass desertion by some of the president’s stalwart allies […]
7/18/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/HHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, whose department has recently become entangled in the fight over separating undocumented children from their families, is pushing to keep focus on his agenda. Mr. Azar took office in January with a set of explicit goals after his predecessor, Dr. Tom Price, resigned under an ethics […]
7/18/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Congratulations to Martha Roby of The Great State of Alabama on her big GOP Primary win for Congress. My endorsement came appropriately late, but when it came the ‘flood gates’ opened and you had the kind of landslide victory that you deserve. Enjoy!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 18, 2018 5:44 am […]
7/17/2018
FBI/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Maybe it was the F.B.I.’s fault for unnerving him. Or maybe the White House staff had left President Trump ill-prepared before his stunning remarks in Helsinki Monday [7-17-18], when he sided with Russia over his own intelligence agencies. At a bar in central Pennsylvania, voters wondered if election meddling was really so terrible. […]
7/17/2018
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Top Democrats in the House and the Senate demanded on Tuesday [7-17-18] that Republican leaders stifle conservative attacks on the special counsel’s Russia investigation and compel President Trump’s senior national security advisers to testify to Congress about Monday’s [7-17-18] extraordinary summit meeting with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia…Republicans […]
7/17/2018
INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump hoped his hotly anticipated summit talks with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin would amount to a triumphant television event. Instead, he returns to Washington facing sharp rebukes even from allies as his stunned aides wonder what went wrong. For many of Trump’s advisers, Monday’s [7-16-18] performance amounted to a […]
7/17/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A federal judge in Virginia on Tuesday [7-17-18] denied a motion by former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort to move a trial set to start next week from the Washington suburb of Alexandria to the city of Roanoke, Virginia. Manafort had requested a change of venue on the grounds that […]
7/17/2018
GOP/RUSSIA/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump and Republican U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday [7-17-18] discussed another possible round of deficit-financed tax cuts, highlighting an initiative seen by some tax experts as an election-year effort with little chance of becoming law. Trump sat down at the White House with Kevin Brady, chairman of the House of […]
7/17/2018
RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Thank you @RandPaul. ‘The President has gone through a year and a half of totally partisan investigations – what’s he supposed to think?’” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 17, 2018 9:33 am […]
7/17/2018
ELECTION/GOP/POLICY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Heritage Action for America, the political arm of the Heritage Foundation, has spent years getting Republicans riled up in policy fights. Now the group is trying something new: getting GOP lawmakers elected. Founded in 2010, Heritage Action spent its early years stirring controversy as it pushed GOP leaders and lawmakers to take a […]
7/27/2018
RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Thank you @RandPaul, you really get it! ‘The President has gone through a year and a half of totally partisan investigations – what’s he supposed think?’” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 17, 2018 7:59 am […]
7/17/2018
ELECTIONS/GOP/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Alabama Republicans are set to decide Tuesday [7-17-18] whether they’ll tolerate a member of Congress criticizing President Donald Trump, even if Trump has since given his blessing to the candidate. Rep. Martha Roby faces a GOP primary runoff for her 2nd District seat against former Rep. Bobby Bright, an ex-Democrat who is basing […]
7/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/GOP/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Republicans across the ideological spectrum delivered pointed rebukes to President Trump after Monday’s [7-16-18] extraordinary news conference with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, with Speaker Paul D. Ryan admonishing Mr. Trump and declaring, ‘There is no moral equivalence between the United States and Russia.’ Mr. Ryan was joined […]
7/16/2018
SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “There is little doubt the Supreme Court will extend its turn to the right if Judge Brett Kavanaugh joins the bench this fall. But Judge Kavanaugh’s connection with nearly every justice, and his reputation as a straight-shooter even among those who disagree with him, suggests he would make the ride as smooth […]
7/16/2018
IRAN/OIL/SANCTIONS/STEVE MNUCHIN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The United States in certain cases will consider waivers for countries that need more time to wind down imports of oil from Iran as it seeks to avoid disrupting global oil markets while reimposing sanctions against Tehran, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said…Mnuchin spoke to reporters while en route from Mexico, where […]
7/16/2018
NOMINATIONS/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “When it became clear that President Donald Trump was seriously considering nominating Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court, the conservative judge’s former law clerks swung into action as among his most energetic public cheerleaders. But in making the case for him in the media on issues including his stance […]
7/16/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TAXES/TRUMP PEOPLE: “As November’s U.S. elections approach, Republicans in the House of Representatives and the Trump administration are planning another deficit-financed tax-cut plan, but one widely seen as a vote-getting exercise with little chance of becoming law. The plan, coming on the heels of deep tax cuts already approved in December, underscores both the Republican […]
7/15/2018
MIKE POMPEO/TRUMP PEOPLE: “RT @SecPompeo: Landed in #Finland for #helsinki2018 where @POTUS & Prez Putin are set to discuss US/Russian relations. POTUS meeting is in…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 15, 2018 11:28 pm […]
7/15/2018
MIKE PENCE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “RT @Scavino45: “Mike Pence op-ed: Trump White House phenomenally successful” https://t.co/L2WaPpxxgg“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 15, 2018 8:33 am […]
7/13/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/MIKE POMPEO/NAFTA/NATO/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and other top US officials traveled to Mexico Friday [7-13-18] for talks with the country’s president-elect, the first high-level meeting between the Trump administration and incoming leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador amid heightened tensions between the two neighbors and calls from Mexican leaders for the US to […]
7/13/2018
IMMIGRATION/REFUGEES/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A White House official who supported higher numbers of refugee admissions to the United States and clashed with immigration hard-liners in the Trump administration left her position on Thursday, two U.S. officials with knowledge of the departure said. Jennifer Arangio, a senior director at the White House National Security Council for International Organizations […]
7/12/2018
FBI/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The embattled F.B.I. agent who oversaw the opening of the Russia investigation mounted an aggressive personal defense on Thursday [7-12-18], rejecting accusations that he let his private political views bias his official actions and labeling Republicans’ preoccupation with him ‘another victory notch in Putin’s belt…’ But in defending himself and […]
7/12/2018
GOP/SENATE/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “As Brett Kavanaugh makes the rounds on Capitol Hill to meet influential senators, he is being shadowed by Donald McGahn, the White House lawyer who is reshaping some of the most influential courts across the country, including the Supreme Court. Dressed in a navy suit and yellow tie, Mr. McGahn accompanied Judge […]
7/12/2018
FBI/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Peter Strzok tussled with GOP lawmakers at a contentious hearing Thursday [7-12-18], with the FBI agent denying that anti-Trump text messages he sent influenced his work and Republicans accusing him of epitomizing purported bias among federal investigators..Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R., Va.) said Mr. Strzok’s exchange of thousands of […]
7/12/2018
SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A top economic aide to President Donald Trump is taking over the White House’s legislative affairs shop as Marc Short, Trump’s current legislative director, prepares to leave the West Wing next week. The White House announced the appointment of Shahira Knight, deputy director of the National Economic Council, as Short’s replacement on […]
7/12/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Paul Manafort arrived at the jail in Alexandria, Virginia — the William G. Truesdale Adult Detention Center — Thursday [7-12-18] morning, according to a spokesperson for the Alexandria Sheriff’s Office. A mugshot released by the sheriff’s office shows an unsmiling Manafort with graying hair and light facial stubble four weeks after the […]
7/12/2018
FBI/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “An FBI agent who criticized then-presidential candidate Donald Trump in text messages during the 2016 election campaign vigorously defended himself at a raucous hearing on Thursday, describing Republican lawmakers’ attacks on him as helping America’s enemies. Republican and Democratic lawmakers shouted and swapped insults in the U.S. House of Representatives […]
7/11/2018
DEMS/ELECTIONS/HOUSE OF REPS/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS/SENATE/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Joe Donnelly knew his audience: Addressing a group of camouflage-clad union mine workers and retirees here last weekend, the Democratic senator trumpeted his efforts to protect their pensions and health care, asked attendees to raise their hands if they knew someone with a pre-existing health condition, and made not […]
7/11/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/NOMINATION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, has asked federal prosecutors to help review the government documents of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, according to a letter obtained by The New York Times on Wednesday [7-11-18]. Mr. Rosenstein’s request was an unusual insertion of politics into federal […]
7/11/2018
FOREIGN POLICY/NATO/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker bluntly warned Wednesday [7-11-18] that US influence around the world is ‘diminishing’ and said that President Donald Trump’s comments about NATO have been ‘damaging’ to American leadership in an apparent effort to ‘tear apart’ a critical alliance. Corker has grown increasingly unnerved about Trump’s […]
7/11/2018
EPA/ETHICS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “In his first public appearance since taking over as the acting head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Andrew Wheeler told employees gathered at agency headquarters Wednesday [7-11-18] that he was ‘proud’ of his work as a coal industry lobbyist. Wheeler, who took the agency’s helm on Monday [7-9-18], spoke to employees and the […]
7/11/2018
CHINA/ELECTIONS/MIKE PENCE/TRADE WAR/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Vice President Mike Pence begins a campaign swing through the Midwest on Wednesday [7-11-18] designed to fire up the base in three battleground House districts. But there’s also a secondary mission: damage control. In the face of a trade war that intensified just four days ago, Pence is quietly setting up […]