MIKE PENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Governor Henry McMaster is a truly fine man who loves the People of South Carolina. He was one of my very early supporters and truly helped me to a Big South Carolina Victory. I will see you all in S.C on Monday and Vice President Pence will be there for […]
Category: A- Trump People
6/22/2018
ELECTION/GOP/RELIGION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “He styles himself as America’s best-known pimp, a strip-club owner who runs multiple brothels and looks set to win a seat as a Republican in the Nevada legislature with the blessing of many conservative Christian voters. Meet Dennis Hof, whose political rise reflects fundamental changes in electoral norms that have roiled the Republican […]
6/22/2018
BORDER/ELECTION/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump urged Republican lawmakers on Friday [6-22-18] to drop their efforts to pass comprehensive immigration legislation until after the November elections, sending mixed signals to his party amid an ongoing crisis over his border policies. Trump, faced with a public outcry over his policy that separated children from their […]
6/21/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “At least one major advertiser has dropped Laura Ingraham’s Fox News show in the wake of her comments on Monday [6-18-18] about immigrant children separated from their parents. With advertising time on the conservative daily talk show down since Monday night, it’s possible that other companies have also bailed on ‘The Ingraham Angle.’ […]
6/21/2018
GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Days after President Donald Trump called Rep. Mark Sanford a ‘nasty guy’ behind closed doors at a GOP conference meeting in front of his colleagues, the South Carolina Republican says he fears Trump has fundamentally reshaped his party and that his fellow Republicans have let Trump get away with it…Sanford lost […]
6/21/2018
CHILDREN/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “House Republican leaders on Thursday [6-21-18] delayed a vote on a broad immigration bill that would provide a path to citizenship for young, unauthorized immigrants while keeping migrant families together at the border. The measure had appeared destined to fail as Republicans remained at odds over immigration. The bill, a compromise […]
6/21/2018
NATIONAL SECURITY/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “White House national security adviser John Bolton will travel to Russia this month to discuss a possible summit meeting between Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, the White House and Kremlin announced Thursday [6-21-18]…NSC spokesman Garrett Marquis confirmed the plans in a statement, saying Mr. Bolton in a trip from June 25 […]
6/21/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The White House is scrambling to fix the confusion and humanitarian concerns unleashed by President Donald Trump’s reversal on the separation of parents and children who come across the southern border as undocumented migrants. Trump’s hurried executive order designed to defuse a ballooning political crisis caused its own set of problems, […]
6/21/2018
TRUMP PEOPLE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Henry McMaster has done a great job as Governor of South Carolina. The state is BOOMING, with jobs and new industry setting records. He is tough on Crime and Strong on Borders, Healthcare, the Military and our great Vets. Henry has my full and complete Endrosement! #MAGA” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June […]
6/21/2018
TRUMP PEOPLE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Henry McMaster has done a great job as Governor of South Carolina. The State is BOOMING, with jobs and new industry setting records. He is tough on Crime and strong on Borders, Health Care, the Mititary and our great Vets. Henry has my full and complete Endorsement! #MAGA” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
6/20/2018
IMMIGRATION/MEDIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “We now know the sound it makes when human decency dies on live cable news: ‘Womp womp.’ That was the sound that the former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski made Tuesday night during a Fox News segment on the Trump administration policy of separating immigrant parents from their children at the border. He […]
6/20/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/RELIGION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Long one of President Trump’s most ardent defenders, the evangelist Franklin Graham voiced strenuous dissent this week about the practice of separating families at the border, even calling it ‘disgraceful.’ His comments, along with other criticism from the evangelical community, raised the possibility that the president’s support from conservative Christians might […]
6/20/2018
DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Just last month, Kirstjen Nielsen, the homeland security secretary, drafted a resignation letter after being berated by President Trump over what he saw as her tepid support for his tough immigration policies, according to two people familiar with the episode. She never sent it. This week, confronted by images of children in cages […]
6/20/2018
GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/PAUL RYAN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Speaker Paul Ryan’s carefully crafted immigration bill appears headed toward defeat after tensions boiled over in the House ahead of Thursday’s [6-21-18] vote. In a rare dispute on the House floor Wednesday [6-20-18], Ryan and House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows argued loudly with each other over what exactly was […]
6/20/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “In the three years since Donald J. Trump began his presidential bid by maligning Mexican immigrants, Representative Will Hurd, a Texas Republican in a Democratic-leaning district, has faced voters of all stripes who were angry about Mr. Trump’s divisive style. But Mr. Hurd, who represents a heavily Hispanic region that stretches […]
6/20/2018
LEGAL/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Federal authorities have subpoenaed the publisher of the National Enquirer for records related to its $150,000 payment to a former Playboy model for the rights to her story alleging an affair with Donald Trump, according to people familiar with the matter. The subpoena from Manhattan federal prosecutors requesting information from the publisher, […]
6/20/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/GOP/IMMIGRATION/SENATE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “GOP Sen. Thom Tillis announced legislation from a group of Republican senators that would stop the separation of immigrant children from their parents, according to a statement from his office that came right as Trump signed an executive order reversing the practice. The bill would allow undocumented immigrant families to stay together during […]
6/20/2018
ELECTION/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Rudy Giuliani’s love life is causing trouble for the White House. In a move that blindsided the West Wing and sent Hill Republicans into a tizzy, the president’s personal attorney is throwing his support behind an obscure House candidate in Louisiana trying to take out incumbent GOP Rep. Clay Higgins. […]
6/20/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former longtime lawyer, resigned from his post as national deputy finance chairman at the Republican National Committee Wednesday [6-20-18], according to an RNC official, saying the investigations into his contacts with Russia and his business dealings were proving too great a distraction. In a letter […]
6/20/2018
GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Had a great meeting with the House GOP last night at the Capitol. They applauded and laughed loudly when I mentioned my experience with Mark Sanford. I have never been a fan of his!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 20, 2018 03:04 pm […]
6/20/2018
COMMERCE/TARIFFS/TRUMP PEOPLE/WILBUR ROSS: “The Trump administration has completed its review of a handful of the thousands of requests filed seeking exemptions from its steel and aluminum tariffs, granting exclusions to 42 types of imports, and denying 56 such requests. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced the decisions on Wednesday [6-20-18] morning in testimony delivered before the […]
6/20/2018
ELECTION/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump is ramping up his political travel ahead of the midterm elections, eying November as the most potent referendum on his presidency even as he faces widespread condemnation over his administration’s ‘zero tolerance’ immigration policy. Trump’s focus on the midterms, which Republicans believe will come with an invigoration of […]
6/20/2018
HUMAN RIGHTS/NIKKI HALEY/TRUMP PEOPLE/UN: “US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley announced the United States is withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council Tuesday, accusing the body of bias against US ally Israel and a failure to hold human rights abusers accountable. The move, which the Trump administration has threatened for months, came down […]
6/19/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump and two members of his cabinet mounted an aggressive defense on Monday [6-18-18] of his policy of separating children from their parents at the border in response to a growing outcry from members of both parties…Attorney General Jeff Sessions also defended the practice, while insisting that ‘we do not […]
6/19/2018
BORDER/DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Homeland Security @SecNielsen did a fabulous job yesterday at the press conference explaining security at the border and for our country, while at the same time recommending changes to obsolete & nasty laws, which force family separation. We want “heart” and security in America!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 19, 2018 08:06 pm […]
6/19/2018
BORDER/DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Homeland Security @SecNielsen did a fabulous job yesterday at the press conference explaining security at the border and for our country, while at the same time recommending changes to obsolete & nasty laws, which force family separation. We want “heart” and security in America!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 19, 2018 08:06 pm […]
6/19/2018
TRUMP PEOPLE: “Joe Hagin, the White House official who orchestrated logistics for the summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, will depart the administration next month, according to officials. A veteran of every Republican administration since President Ronald Reagan, Hagin will return to the private sector…Hagin initially told people in […]
6/19/2018
DEMS/DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Democratic Sen. Mazie Hirono on Tuesday [6-19-18] called for the resignation of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, accusing her of lying for President Donald Trump over US immigration policies. Hirono’s comments come as the administration has been put under increased pressure to answer for the policy that has led to separating […]
6/19/2018
IMMIGRATION/JEFF SESSIONS/RELIGION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “More than 600 members of the United Methodist Church have issued a formal complaint against Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a fellow church member, charging that his ‘zero tolerance’ policy on immigration violates church rules and may constitute child abuse. Officially, the complaint charges Sessions with violating the United Methodist Church’s Book of […]
6/19/2018
COURT/FBI/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Attorneys for a former Senate staff member accused of lying to federal investigators said President Donald Trump’s remarks on the case were ‘highly prejudicial,’ and asked a judge to order him and other executive branch officials to keep quiet about the case in public. In federal district court in Washington, D.C., […]
6/19/2018
EPA/ETHICS/SCOTT PRUITT/SENATE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt will testify before the Senate’s environment committee in August, panel chairman Senator John Barrasso said on Tuesday [6-19-18], where he will face questions about spending and ethics controversies. Barrasso said previously that he would call Pruitt to testify about Pruitt’s spending on first class travel, […]
6/19/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s aides are struggling to defend their talking points on the furor over the administration’s practice of separating families who enter the U.S. illegally, with officials and spokespeople engaging in heated exchanges with little backing from congressional Republicans. As the outcry has grown over the family separations, Trump officials […]
6/19/2018
HUMAN RIGHTS/IMMIGRATION/MIKE POMPEO/NIKKI HALEY/TRUMP PEOPLE/UN: “The United States withdrew from the United Nations Human Rights Council on Tuesday [6-19-18] accusing it of a ‘chronic bias against Israel,’ a move that activists warned would make advancing human rights globally even more difficult. Standing with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Haley slammed Russia, China, Cuba and […]
6/18/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/DHS/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Republicans are growing anxious over President Donald Trump’s policy to break up families at the border — and now even his closest allies are trying to help find a way out of a growing political crisis. With the White House refusing to reverse the practice and demanding Congress step into the […]
8/18/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/ELECTIONS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Top aides to President Donald Trump are planning additional crackdowns on immigration before the November midterms, despite a growing backlash over the administration’s move to separate migrant children from parents at the border. Senior policy adviser Stephen Miller and a team of officials from the Justice Department, Department of Labor, Department of Homeland […]
6/18/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/DEMS/DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “California Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris on Monday [6-18-18] called for the resignation of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen as a result of immigration policy that has resulted in family separations at the US border…The Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policy at the border has resulted in thousands of family separations. The policy hasn’t […]
6/18/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/JEFF SESSION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions defended the Trump administration’s separation of children from their parents who cross into the U.S. illegally and suggested the policy could be ended as part of broader immigration legislation that may be voted on this week. Mr. Sessions in May announced a ‘zero-tolerance’ policy of detaining adults attempting […]
6/17/2018
RACISM/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Speaking to a racially mixed audience in August 2016, Corey Stewart, the far-right provocateur who won the Republican Senate nomination in Virginia last week, hailed the renaming of a middle school to honor a local black philanthropist instead of a former governor with segregationist roots…But six months later, he was singing a notably […]
6/15/2018
COURT/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A federal judge revoked Paul Manafort’s bail and sent him to jail on Friday [6-15-18] to await trial, citing new charges that Mr. Manafort had tried to influence the testimony of two of the government’s witnesses after he had been granted bail. Mr. Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, had posted […]
6/15/2018
TRUMP PEOPLE: “White House officials are struggling to fill vacancies in the West Wing and beyond as a handful of senior aides map out their exits ahead of what could become a mass staff exodus around the midterm election. Marc Short, the White House legislative director, is planning to leave in the weeks ahead, two […]
6/15/2018
IMMIGRATION/PENNSYLVANIA/JEFF SESSIONS/SANCTUARY CITIES/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, in a speech at a local college on Friday [6-15-18], criticized Philadelphia and its mayor over the city’s ‘sanctuary’ status, one that limits its cooperation with U.S. immigration authorities. Sessions accused the city of coddling dangerous criminals and refusing to turn them over to U.S. Immigrations […]
6/15/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A judge on Friday [6-15-18] sent longtime Republican political operator and businessman Paul Manafort to jail pending trial after a charge of witness tampering, the latest episode in a slow fall from grace of a man who was President Donald Trump’s campaign chairman in 2016. Manafort, a target of Special Counsel […]
6/14/2018
SPORTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “On a Wednesday afternoon late last month, at a ceremony on the White House South Lawn, President Trump introduced several new members of the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition. Former Yankees great Mariano Rivera, the former running back Herschel Walker and the gold-medalist beach volleyball player Misty May-Treanor were […]
6/14/2018
IMMIGRATION/MEDIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Weeks of escalating strain between press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and reporters boiled over in the White House briefing room on Thursday [6-14-18], as press members tussled with Sanders over immigration issues, she insulted the intelligence of one reporter and another interrupted the proceedings with a dramatic outburst. Reporters have been growing frustrated […]
6/14/2018
LEAKS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The White House’s top liaison to Capitol Hill will leave the job as early as this summer, lamenting to colleagues the ‘diminishing returns’ of pushing President Donald Trump’s agenda through the Republican-controlled Congress as the midterm elections approach, according to people familiar with the conversations. Legislative affairs director Marc Short told White House […]
6/13/2018
ELECTION/GOP/RACISM/SENATE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Corey Stewart, the bombastic conservative who built his public image on championing Confederate symbols, won the Republican Senate nomination in Virginia. Stewart, a member of the Prince William County Board of Supervisors, defeated state House member Nick Freitas and minister E.W. Jackson in Tuesday’s [6-12-18] primary. Freitas conceded the race Tuesday night, according […]
6/13/2018
ELECTION/GOP/SENATE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Congratulations to @KevinCramer on his huge win in North Dakota. We need Kevin in the Senate, and I strongly endorse him. Heidi voted NO on our Tax Cuts, and always will vote no when we need her. Kevin is strong on Crime & Borders, big on Cutting Taxes!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 13,2018 […]
6/13/2018
DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/PAUL RYAN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Speaker Paul D. Ryan told a closed-door meeting of House Republicans on Wednesday [6-13-18] that his plan to bring two immigration bills up for a vote next week had the approval of President Trump, who is enthusiastic about the effort, according to a person who attended the meeting. Whether either bill can […]
6/13/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s longtime personal fixer, will soon be parting from the lawyers who are representing him in a potentially damaging and wide-ranging federal investigation into his business dealings, according to two people familiar with the case. Mr. Cohen has not yet been approached by the prosecutors conducting the inquiry […]
6/13/2018
MIKE POMPEO/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday [6-13-18] that the Trump administration hopes to complete ‘major disarmament’ of North Korea within the next 2½ years, even as conflicting accounts of discussions between the two sides left unclear what had actually been agreed to. A day after President Trump’s landmark meeting […]
6/13/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Congratulations to Danny Tarkanian on his big GOP primary win in Nevada. Danny worked hard an got a great result. Looking good in November!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 13, 2018 3:17 pm […]
6/13/2018
ELECTION/GOP/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Senate Republican campaign arm doesn’t plan to get behind the party’s newly nominated candidate in Virginia, the group’s leader said, after a Tuesday primary that threatens to put the party on the defensive in several key races in the state..Corey Stewart, who won Tuesday’s primary, has repelled GOP leaders over […]
6/13/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. Representative Mark Sanford is the latest Republican to learn a tough lesson – challenging President Donald Trump can be political suicide. The South Carolina Republican congressman’s upset loss on Tuesday [6-12-18] to a primary opponent who questioned his commitment to Trump, along with a recent setback for Trump critic Martha […]
6/13/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Senator Claire McCaskill of the GREAT State of Missouri flew around in a luxurious private jet during her RV tour of the state. RV’s are not for her. People are really upset, so phony! Josh Hawley should win big, and has my full endorsement.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 13, 2018 3:11 pm […]
6/13/2018
GOP/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker ramped up his criticism of his Republican colleagues Wednesday [6-13-18], railing on GOP leadership for not wanting to take on President Donald Trump on core Republican issues like trade. ‘We’re in a strange place. It’s becoming a cultish thing, isn’t it?’ the Tennessee Republican told […]
6/13/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Rep. Mark Sanford, a South Carolina Republican who’s a critic of President Donald Trump, will lose his GOP primary to his conservative challenger, state Rep. Katie Arrington, CNN projects. The outcome — one that national Republicans working on House races said as recently as Tuesday [6-12-18] morning they did not anticipate […]
6/12/2018
CANADA/G7/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Peter Navarro, one of President Trump’s top trade advisers, said on Tuesday [6-12-18] that it was a mistake to suggest that ‘there is a special place in hell’ for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada, offering a rare apology from a White House that almost never walks back heated rhetoric…He said he was […]
6/12/2018
TRUMP PEOPLE: “Larry Kudlow, the director of President Trump’s National Economic Council, spent Tuesday [6-12-18] morning calling friends who said they expected him to return to his White House job after recovering from a mild heart attack that landed him in the hospital on Monday [6-11-18]. Mr. Kudlow, 70, seemed to be back to his […]
6/12/2018
CONGRESS/GOP/TARIFFS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. Senator Bob Corker accused his fellow Republicans of being afraid to stand up to President Donald Trump on Tuesday [6-12-18], as his legislation to block the president’s ability to impose tariffs on national security grounds hit a roadblock in Congress. “‘We might poke the bear’ is the language I have been hearing […]
6/12/2018
DREAMERS/GOP/IMMIGRATION/PAUL RYAN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Negotiations in the U.S. House of Representatives on immigration legislation were on the verge of collapse on Tuesday [6-12-18] as Republicans fought over how much protection to give undocumented ‘Dreamer’ immigrants and as President Donald Trump ramped up his war against illegal and legal immigrants. High-level talks were set for later on […]
6/11/2018
TRUMP PEOPLE: “Our Great Larry Kudlow, who has been working so hard on trade and the economy, has just suffered a heart attack. He is now in Walter Reed Medical Center.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 11, 2018 7:35 pm […]
6/11/2018
ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The crowded and expensive South Carolina GOP gubernatorial primary is coming down to whether voters want a veteran politician who is personally close to President Donald Trump or one of two political outsiders—one who resembles him in tone, the other in professional experience. The June 12 primary is unusual because the […]
6/10/2018
DRUGS/JEF SESSIONS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions vowed to use federal law to get tough on marijuana, announcing in January he was ending Obama-era protections for the nascent pot industry in states where it is legal. Six months into his mission, he is largely going it alone. Mr. Sessions’ own prosecutors have yet to bring […]
6/9/2018
MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Henry McMaster loves the people of South Carolina and was with me from the beginning. He is strong on Crime and Borders, great for our Military and our Vets. He is doing a fantastic job as your Governor, and has my full endorsement, a special guy. Vote on Tuesday!” -Donald Trump, […]
6/8/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Prosecutors have filed a new indictment against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort that also names as a defendant Konstantin Kilimnik, a close business colleague of Manafort’s who prosecutors have said has close ties to Russian intelligence. The indictment includes two new charges against both Manafort and Kilimnik: a count of […]
6/8/2018
BEN CARSON/CONGRESS/HUD/TRUMP PEOPLE: “HUD Secretary Ben Carson is backing off plans to triple the minimum rent paid by some of the country’s poorest households, citing Congress’ move to defy the administration and boost his agency’s budget. The proposal to increase the minimum rent paid by rental assistance beneficiaries is no longer ‘urgent,’ due to the […]
6/7/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Republican Senate candidate Mitt Romney bluntly predicted here on Thursday [6-7-18] evening that President Donald Trump would win reelection in 2020. Addressing a group of major GOP donors, Romney — who bitterly collided with Trump during the 2016 campaign and implored his party to nominate someone else — also said Trump would easily […]
6/7/2018
EPA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Trump administration, after heavy lobbying by the chemical industry, is scaling back the way the federal government determines health and safety risks associated with the most dangerous chemicals on the market, documents from the Environmental Protection Agency show. Under a law passed by Congress during the final year of the Obama administration, […]
6/7/2018
FOREIGN POLICY/MIKE POMPEO/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Just weeks after John Bolton’s hardline rhetoric infuriated North Korea and nearly derailed a planned summit between Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump, the U.S. national security adviser appears to have taken a back seat to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for the historic meeting. While the hawkish Bolton […]
6/7/2018
DREAMERS/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A leader of House Republican moderates said Thursday [6-7-18] that a tentative deal with conservatives is being discussed to help young ‘Dreamer’ immigrants stay in the U.S. legally. It was unclear if the offer was a potential breakthrough in the GOP’s long-running schism over immigration or would devolve into another failed […]
6/7/2018
GOP/SENATE/TARIFFS/TRADE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Arizona Republican Senator Jeff Flake hit Donald Trump on trade Thursday [7-6-18], slamming the President for ‘acting on a whim to punish this country or that one,’ through trade tariffs…Flake joined Senate Foreign Relations Chair Bob Corker, a Tennessee Republican, and a bipartisan group of senators Wednesday [6-6-18] sponsoring legislation that […]
6/7/2018
DREAMERS/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/PAUL RYAN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Republicans in the U.S. Congress on Thursday [6-7-18] struggled to agree on immigration legislation that could be voted on before November’s congressional elections, as party members disagreed on key issues such as the future of illegal ‘Dreamer’ immigrants. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan convened the closed-door meeting for 235 […]
6/7/2018
LEAKS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The White House is poised to purge lower-level staffers from its communications office, multiple sources said, following weeks of uncertainty about the future of the embattled team. President Donald Trump has weighed in on the restructuring of an office he has increasingly rendered obsolete, a senior White House official said. Trump’s involvement, as […]
6/6/2018
DREAMERS/GOP/IMMIGRATION/PAUL RYAN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “House Republicans are bracing for a two-hour conference meeting Thursday [6-7-18] morning on immigration, which could determine the fate of moderate members’ efforts to force a vote on several immigration bills. ‘I think a lot of it hangs on that meeting tomorrow,’ said Rep. Mia Love, R-Utah, who has signed a House […]
6/6/2018
EPA/SCOTT PRUITT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt loves eating at the White House mess, an exclusive U.S. Navy-run restaurant open only to White House officials, Cabinet members and other dignitaries. But apparently he liked it too much, and the White House asked him to please eat elsewhere sometimes. In response to Pruitt’s recurring use of […]
6/6/2018
JOHN MCCAIN/MEDIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A White House communications aide who made headlines in May for cracking a macabre joke about the health of Senator John McCain has left the White House. The aide, Kelly Sadler, made off-the-cuff comments about the Republican senator’s opposition to President Trump’s nominee for C.I.A. director, Gina Haspel, saying that it did […]
6/6/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “The adult-film actress Stormy Daniels on Wednesday [6-6-18] accused her former attorney Keith Davidson of colluding with President Donald Trump’s onetime lawyer and fixer, calling Davidson a ‘puppet’ for Trump who ‘hatched a plan’ to put a lid on reports of his infidelities. Daniels made the complaint in a lawsuit […]
6/6/2018
GOP/PAUL RYAN/SPYGATE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Paul Ryan has spent much of the past year and a half biting his tongue as Donald Trump totally upended his party. Now, the outgoing House speaker is contradicting the president on the issue he obsesses over most: the Russia investigation. The Wisconsin Republican gingerly undercut a core Trump talking point during […]
6/6/2018
MELANIA/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Rudy Giuliani told an audience in Israel that he does not think first lady Melania Trump believes that President Donald Trump had an affair with Stormy Daniels. ‘She believes her husband, and she doesn’t think it’s true,’ Giuliani said at the ‘Globes’ Capital Market conference in Tel Aviv. The former GOP mayor […]
6/6/2018
GOP/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Sen. Bob Corker is facing the ire of the White House after forging ahead with his plan to curtail the President’s power on trade. President Donald Trump told the Tennessee Republican in a ‘lengthy’ call Wednesday [6-6-18] to back off legislation to rein in his power to levy huge tariffs on US […]
6/6/2018
FBI/GOP/PAUL RYAN/RUSSIA/SPYGATE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “In a break with President Donald Trump, House Speaker Paul Ryan said Wednesday [6-6-18] that he agrees there is no evidence that the FBI planted a ‘spy’ in Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign in an effort to hurt his chances at the polls. He also issued a careful warning about Trump’s recent assertion […]
6/6/2018
EPA/ETHICS/SCOTT PRUITT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday [6-6-18] praised the job being done by Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt, who is under fire over ethics and spending issues…Trump’s praise follows mounting ethics concerns about Pruitt. The EPA chief has been criticized for paying below-market rent on a lobbyist-owned condominium, for his routine […]
6/6/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Congratulations to Dana Rohrabacher on his big California win. We are proud of you Dana!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 6, 2018 2:37 pm […]
6/6/2018
GOP/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Republicans are finally reaching their breaking point with President Donald Trump on trade. One faction of GOP senators is pushing Sen. Bob Corker’s (R-Tenn.) legislation that would allow Congress to block Trump’s tariffs — which Trump is trying to kill before it comes to the Senate floor. Another group is […]
6/6/2018
NORTH KOREA/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, said North Korean leader Kim Jong Un got ‘on his hands and knees and begged’ for their summit to be held after Mr. Trump canceled it last month. Mr. Giuliani counseled a similar approach to Trump administration negotiations with Palestinian officials in a […]
6/6/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. Democrats on Wednesday [6-6-18] said the results of nominating contests in California and New Jersey put them in a stronger position to gain control of Congress in November and oppose Republican President Donald Trump. The morning after the busiest day of the primary election season, when voters in eight states […]
6/5/2018
DEMS/DREAMERS/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Republicans edged closer Tuesday [6-5-18] to forcing a series of immigration votes, as some Democratic lawmakers who held out over policy and political concerns signed on to the effort. On Tuesday, two Democratic holdouts, Texas Reps. Filemon Vela and Vicente Gonzalez, announced they would sign, leaving three signatures needed to force a vote […]
6/5/2018
LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “White House press secretary Sarah Sanders refused again on Tuesday [6-5-18] to correct her August statement that President Donald Trump wasn’t involved in drafting a misleading statement about his son’s meeting with a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower…A day earlier, Sanders referred questions on the matter to the President’s outside counsel. The President’s […]
6/5/2018
DEMS/GOP/SENATE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) canceled much of the Senate’s August recess on Tuesday [6-5-18], saying the chamber would remain in session to work on spending bills and confirming nominees. The move is an unusual one during a midterm election year, when lawmakers typically spend more time in their home states […]
6/5/2018
DEMS/GOP/MITCH MCCONNELL/SENATE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday [6-5-18] he was cancelling most of the Senate’s August recess to give lawmakers time to pass spending bills before a Sept. 30 deadline and to confirm more of President Donald Trump’s appointees. A senior Senate Democratic aide said the move had less to […]
6/5/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Trump administration has put its search for the Justice Department’s No. 3 official on the back burner after failing to persuade several early candidates to take the challenging position, according to people familiar with the matter. The delay in filling the post is the latest sign of the […]
6/5/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Terrific new book out by the wonderful Harris Faulkner, ‘9 Rules of Engagement.’ Harris shares lessons from a military family. Enjoy!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 5, 2018 8:55 am […]
6/5/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Senator @RogerWicker of Mississippi has done everything necessary to Make America Great Again! Get out and vote for Roger, he has my total support!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 5, 2018 8:49 am […]
6/5/2018
GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Vote for Congressman Devin Nunes, a true American Patriot the likes of which we rarely see in our modern day world….he truly loves our country and deserves everyone’s support!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 5, 2018 8:44 am […]
6/5/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A federal judge on Tuesday [6-5-18] ordered U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, to respond by Friday [6-8-18] to the government’s bid to revoke or revise his release and set a June 15 hearing on the matter, according to a court filing. Special Counsel Robert Mueller said in […]
6/4/2018
MIKE PENCE/TRUMP PEOPLE/VENEZUELA: “The Trump administration renewed its call Monday [6-4-18] for the Organization of American States to suspend Venezuela and for other members to step up pressure on the country’s government to restore constitutional order. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told the Western Hemisphere bloc that President Nicolas Maduro’s government was in the process […]
6/4/2018
DEFENSE/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/VA: “The Pentagon’s inspector general is investigating President Donald Trump’s former personal physician, who was accused of unprofessional behavior while being considered to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs. Bruce Anderson, a spokesman for the Defense Department’s inspector general, said in a statement Monday [6-4-18] the watchdog has ‘initiated an investigation into […]
6/4/2018
EPA/ETHICS/SCOTT PRUITT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt had a top aide seek a used mattress from the Trump International Hotel and perform other personal chores for him, including house-hunting and booking personal travel, according to testimony released Monday [6-4-18]. Millan Hupp’s transcribed interview last month before a panel of House Oversight and Government […]
6/4/2018
GOP/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican, suggested Monday [6-4-18] that the President should hire a new lawyer if his current one is telling him that he can pardon himself. ‘If I were President of the United States and I had a lawyer that told me I could pardon […]
6/4/2018
JAMES COMEY/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Donald Trump and his lawyers are staking out a vision of an unrestrained and all-powerful presidency in a staggeringly audacious defense of his actions related to the Russia probe already shared with special counsel Robert Mueller. The assertions made by Trump’s former lawyer John Dowd and Jay Sekulow, who […]