CDC/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention resigned on Wednesday [1-31-18], in the middle of the nation’s worst flu epidemic in nearly a decade, over financial investments that had posed potential conflicts of interest. In a statement, Alex Azar, the newly appointed secretary of Health and Human Services, announced the […]
Category: A- Trump People
1/29/2018
TRUMP PEOPLE: “Omarosa Manigault Newman, former White House director of communications for the Office of Public Liaison who left the administration in December, is a part of the cast for the latest season of ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ — marking what is likely the fastest move from the White House to reality television. CBS announced the […]
1/19/2018
LEGAL/STEVE BANNON/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The White House move this week to limit Steve Bannon’s congressional testimony while permitting a current administration official to speak freely reveals how precisely it is controlling what is shared with lawmakers. The White House told Bannon not to answer questions about his time working on the presidential transition and as chief […]
1/19/2018
RACISM/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Trump administration appointee Carl Higbie resigned Thursday [1-18-18] as chief of external affairs for the federal government’s volunteer service organization after a CNN KFile review of racist, sexist, anti-Muslim and anti-LGBT comments he made on the radio. ‘Effective immediately, Carl Higbie has resigned as Chief of External Affairs at CNCS,’ Samantha Jo Warfield, […]
1/18/2018
HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Hope Hicks’ highly anticipated testimony before the House Intelligence Committee was abruptly delayed Thursday [1-18-18] amid questions about whether the White House communications director would be able to respond to inquiries about topics after the campaign season, four sources told CNN. The surprise move came after Steve Bannon refused to answer […]
1/10/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “White House aides have been told to decide before the end of January whether they intend to leave the administration or stay through the November midterm elections, an official said, a deadline intended to help bring a sense of order to an anticipated staffing exodus. President Donald Trump is finding it […]
1/8/2018
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The #MeToo movement has created an atmosphere of zero tolerance for any claims of sexual harassment involving prominent men in entertainment, the media, business and Congress — but so far it seems that rule doesn’t apply in the Trump administration. Latest case in point: The White House is considering finding a […]
1/8/2018
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A former adviser to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign said Monday [1-8-18] that the decision to give White House access to the author of a bombshell book about the Trump administration was a mistake. Michael Caputo told CNN’s ‘New Day’ that Michael Wolff’s book, ‘Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White […]
1/7/2018
STEVE BANNON/TRUMP PEOPLE: “White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller unloaded on CNN host Jake Tapper on Sunday [1-7-18] — trashing Michael Wolff as a ‘garbage author of a garbage book,’ calling Steve Bannon an ‘angry and vindictive person’ and accusing CNN of ‘sticking knives’ into President Donald Trump’s allies. The explosive 12-minute interview on […]
1/7/2018
TRUMP PEOPLE: “She may be the most lasting legacy of Anthony Scaramucci’s 11-day stint in the White House. Professional stylist Katie Price, who previously worked as a hair and makeup artist for Russia Today and CNN, is now a full-time White House official with a desk in the press office and the title of production […]
1/3/2018
STEVE BANNON/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my Presidency. When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind. Steve was a staffer who worked for me after I had already won the nomination by defeating seventeen candidates, often described as the most talented […]
12/21/2017
TRUMP PEOPLE: “Rick Dearborn, one of President Donald Trump’s top aides, will step down early next year to pursue private-sector work, White House officials said, becoming the latest high-profile departure from the West Wing in recent weeks… A deputy chief of staff who oversaw the White House’s political operation, public outreach and legislative affairs, Mr. […]
12/15/2017
GOP/STEVE BANNON/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Both President Donald Trump and his former chief political strategist Steve Bannon are urging Roy Moore to concede, as the defiant Republican Senate candidate refuses to admit defeat to Democrat Doug Jones. Moore lost Alabama’s Tuesday [12-12-17] special Senate election by more than 20,000 votes… Bannon, the former White House chief strategist, […]
12/13/2017
TRUMP PEOPLE: “Thank you Omarosa for your service! I wish you continued success.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Dec. 13, 2017 06:58pm […]
12/13/2017
TRUMP PEOPLE: “White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman, a former contestant on ‘The Apprentice,’ plans to leave the White House next month, according to a statement from press secretary Sarah Sanders. Manigault Newman, one of Trump’s most high-profile African-American supporters, will leave one year to the day after Trump took office, Sanders said. ‘Omarosa Manigault […]
12/11/2017
ISRAEL/PALESTINE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/TRUMP PEOPLE/JARED KUSHNER: “European Union officials warned the Trump administration not to go it alone in its Middle East peace efforts as the bloc’s foreign ministers said they wouldn’t follow the U.S. decision to recognize Jerusalem as the Israeli capital. EU foreign ministers on Monday [12-10-17] morning met with Israeli Prime Minister […]
12/6/2017
INTELLIGENCE/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Congressional investigators are scrutinizing trips to Europe taken last year by several associates of President Donald Trump, amid concern they may have met with Kremlin-linked operatives as part of Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election. Several people close to then-candidate Trump visited Europe during and after the campaign, including his […]
12/4/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, and an associate with ties to Russian intelligence drafted an op-ed article last week about Mr. Manafort’s work for Russia-aligned interests in Ukraine, according to a court document filed Monday [12-4-17] by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III. The filing seeks tougher […]
12/3/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/TRUMP PEOPLE/JARED KUSHNER: “The man who would bring peace to the Middle East strode onto the stage and peered out at a room full of people who have tried and failed. Tall and thin, confident and calm, Jared Kushner, rookie negotiator, made his debut in front of the world of veteran diplomatic hagglers on […]
12/3/2017
POLITICAL FIGURES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Donald Trump is going all out to persuade seven-term Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch to seek reelection — a push aimed in no small part at keeping the president’s longtime nemesis, Mitt Romney, out of the Senate. Romney has been preparing to run for Hatch’s seat on the long-held assumption that […]
12/3/2017
NATIONAL SECURITY/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Virginia Democratic Sen. Mark Warner said on CNN’s ‘State of the Union’ that KT McFarland, a former Trump transition official and deputy national security adviser, needs to provide testimony to Congress and special counsel Robert Mueller… The comments from Warner, as well as his colleague, California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein, indicate […]
12/1/2017
JOHN KELLY/REX TILLERSON/STATE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The relationship between White House chief of staff John Kelly and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has soured in recent months, leaving the former Exxon CEO without a single top ally in the White House as talk has ramped up of him being replaced at the State Department. Kelly, once Tillerson’s […]
12/1/2017
REX TILLERSON/STATE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Friday [12-11-17] dismissed reports that the White House is weighing a plan under which he would be replaced by CIA Director Mike Pompeo as ‘laughable.’ Media reports on Thursday, first published by the New York Times, cited U.S. officials as saying that Trump has a […]
11/30/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The White House is facing the prospect of another round of senior departures in the coming weeks as President Donald Trump approaches his one-year anniversary in office, according to several administration officials. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, the former Exxon chief executive who has struggled to mesh with Mr. Trump during […]
11/27/2017
ETHICS/LEGAL/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The ranks of former White House ethics lawyers available to comment on the ongoing controversies engulfing President Donald Trump’s administration has just grown by one — an attorney who’s certain to offer a much different perspective than the most prominent figures now ensconced as seemingly permanent fixtures on cable news. After almost a […]
11/22/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Here is a look, by the numbers, at all the known contacts between Trump associates and Russians. From meetings to emails, to text messages and Skype sessions, these lists have been growing throughout the year as more details drip out in the investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 US […]
11/16/2017
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team is preparing to interview the woman who’s seen it all: Hope Hicks. She’s been part of Donald Trump’s inner circle for years, first at Trump Tower and then as an omnipresent gatekeeper and fixer who could get emails or other communications directly to the boss during […]
11/10/2017
TRUMP PEOPLE: “The White House is bracing for another staff shakeup upon President Donald Trump’s return from Asia, with senior-level staff moves that could further consolidate chief of staff John Kelly’s power in the West Wing. Deputy chief of staff Rick Dearborn — a former top aide to Jeff Sessions in the Senate who played […]
11/9/2017
RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s long-time confidant Keith Schiller privately testified that he rejected a Russian offer to send five women to then private-citizen Trump’s hotel room during their 2013 trip to Moscow for the Miss Universe pageant, according to multiple sources from both political parties with direct knowledge of the testimony. Schiller, Trump’s former […]
11/7/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A former Trump campaign adviser told Congress he had a private conversation with a Russian deputy prime minister during the 2016 presidential campaign and that at least two members of the president’s team were aware, providing more details to what is publicly known about Moscow’s access to President Trump’s circle, […]
11/7/2017
ETHICS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “One Saturday in early April, Omarosa Manigault caused a stir in the White House. The Apprentice villain turned senior White House official brought members of her 39-person bridal party to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for an extended wedding photo shoot, catching fellow senior aides and some security officials by surprise in her bridal attire. […]
11/7/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/CARTER PAGE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s campaign team was briefed before and after foreign-policy adviser Carter Page’s trip to Moscow last year, with Mr. Page saying upon his return that he had gotten ‘incredible insights and outreach’ from senior members of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s administration, newly released testimony reveals. Mr. Page, […]
11/5/2017
RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The group behind the release of last year’s Panama Papers has published a new collection of documents about offshore finance that touches the Trump administration. The so-called Paradise Papers show financial connections between wealthy Russians and two members of President Donald Trump’s administration, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and White House adviser […]
11/2/2017
TRUMP PEOPLE: “Billionaire conservative megadonor Robert Mercer, a generous financial backer of President Donald Trump, is stepping down from his position as co-CEO of hedge fund Renaissance Technologies, according to a notice the company sent to investors on Thursday [11-2-17]. Mercer also announced that he will sell his stake in Breitbart News to his daughters […]
10/31/2017
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s longtime aide and current communications director, Hope Hicks, is scheduled to speak with special counsel Robert Mueller’s team in mid-November, following the president’s trip to Asia, multiple people familiar with the schedule told POLITICO. Mueller’s team is also expected to interview three or four other current White House officials […]
10/31/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The White House on Tuesday [10-31-17] sought to take credit for the arrest of a former Trump campaign aide who had repeated contacts with Russia-linked officials offering ‘dirt’ on Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton — marking the latest damage control move as the Russia probe intensifies. President Donald Trump and other […]
10/31/2017
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A former senior adviser on President Donald Trump’s campaign team, Sam Clovis, sought to distance himself on Tuesday [10-31-17] from George Papadopoulos, an ex-campaign aide who has pleaded guilty in the probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. Papadopoulos pleaded guilty earlier this month to lying to Federal […]
10/31/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/LOBBYING/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “An industry group for lobbyists on Tuesday [10-31-17] called on Congress to overhaul the transparency laws that govern their activity in the wake of indictments of two lobbyists, including Paul Manafort, a former campaign manager for U.S. President Donald Trump. Charges filed by Justice Department Special Counsel Robert Mueller alleged Manafort […]
10/31/2017
JOHN KELLY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “White House Chief of Staff John Kelly’s comment that the U.S. Civil War was sparked by a lack of ‘compromise’ drew criticism and reignited a debate over Confederate monuments and the role of slavery. In an interview on Monday [10-30-17] night with Fox News, Kelly was asked whether a Virginia church should […]
10/30/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The indictment Monday [10-30-17] of Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, and his associate, Rick Gates, begins a new phase in special counsel Robert Mueller’s sprawling investigation whose ultimate outcome remains unknown but that will consume the White House for months to come. True, Mueller’s 12-count indictment of Paul Manafort […]
10/30/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/FBI/LEGAL/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Rick Gates followed Paul Manafort to Eastern Europe, Africa, the Trump presidential campaign, and now a federal building where he surrendered on Monday to the F.B.I. Mr. Gates, 45, is a former business associate of Mr. Manafort, the ousted chairman of Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign who also turned himself in to the […]
10/30/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The indictments of two former Trump campaign officials and emergence of a third ex-Trump adviser who appears to be cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election could throw a wrench into Congress’ parallel Russia probes. That’s in part because neither of Congress’ intelligence committees […]
10/30/2017
FBI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A foreign-policy adviser to the Trump campaign pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with a professor connected to Russian government officials, according to court documents unsealed on Monday [10-30-17]. George Papadopoulos admitted he misled the FBI in a January interview by telling agents that he had only […]
10/25/2017
TRUMP PEOPLE/REINCE PRIEBUS: “Congrats to @Reince Priebus, a really good and talented man. We’re proud of you Reince! https://t.co/7AsjAMrSnV” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 25, 2017 12:19pm […]
10/20/2017
MEDIA/JOHN KELLY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said something during her daily press briefing Friday [10-20-17] that actually took my breath away. CBS News’ Chip Reid asked Sanders about a factual inaccuracy in White House chief of staff and retired Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly’s attack on Florida Democratic Rep. Frederica Wilson on […]
10/18/2017
MEDIA/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Rep. Frederica Wilson’s conduct regarding President Donald Trump’s call with Myeshia Johnson, the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson, is ‘appalling and disgusting.’ ‘I think it is appalling what the congresswoman has done and the way she has politicized this issue and the way […]
10/17/2017
NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Rep. Tom Marino is the eleventh nominee to withdraw from consideration for a Trump administration post, according to CNN’s nomination tracker… Once he formally withdraws, Marino will become the twelfth recalled nomination by the Trump administration. This number is not unprecedented, according to the Partnership for Public Service, a nonpartisan nonprofit […]
10/5/2017
NATIONAL SECURITY/JOHN KELLY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “White House officials believe that chief of staff John Kelly’s personal cell phone was compromised, potentially as long ago as December, according to three U.S. government officials. The discovery raises concerns that hackers or foreign governments may have had access to data on Kelly’s phone while he was secretary of the […]
10/4/2017
ETHICS/KELLYANNE CONWAY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee wants the White House to provide details of private jet flights that counselor Kellyanne Conway took with former HHS Secretary Tom Price, who resigned last week in the wake of a scandal over his use of charter planes for official business. Conway took several […]
9/28/2017
NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP FAMILY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The White House has launched an internal probe of private email use, pulling batches of emails on the White House server to and from private accounts of senior aides, according to four officials familiar with the matter. The effort began this week after POLITICO reported that Jared Kushner and a number […]
9/27/2017
CRISIS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump’s inaugural committee, under fire for a delay in donating its remaining funds to charity, plans to give $3 million to three organizations involved in hurricane rescue efforts, officials said on Tuesday [9-26-17]. Thomas J. Barrack Jr., chairman of the private Presidential Inaugural Committee, said the money will be divided equally among […]
9/26/2017
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Special Counsel Robert Mueller is set to begin his interviews of current and former White House officials this week as part of his probe into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election, a White House official said Tuesday [9-26-17]. Mr. Mueller told the White House earlier this month that he […]
9/25/2017
ROGER STONE/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Roger J. Stone Jr., a self-proclaimed political ‘dirty trickster’ and an informal adviser to the president, will strongly deny to congressional investigators on Tuesday [9-26-17] that he worked with Russians to aid President Trump’s campaign… Mr. Stone is scheduled to be interviewed by the committee behind closed doors in its continuing investigation […]
9/25/2017
NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “At least six of President Trump’s closest advisers occasionally used private email addresses to discuss White House matters, current and former officials said on Monday [9-22-17]. The disclosures came a day after news surfaced that Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and adviser, used a private email account to send or receive about […]
9/22/2017
TRUMP PEOPLE: “A fast-growing number of White House staffers are starting to look for the exits, even though the one-year mark of President Donald Trump’s first term is still months away. Many who joined the administration in January did so with the explicit idea that they’d stay for at least a year, enough to credibly […]
9/19/2017
SEBASTIAN GORKA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Sebastian Gorka, a former adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump who quit after top White House political strategist Steve Bannon was ousted, has joined a nationalist pro-Trump campaign organization, the group announced on Tuesday [9-19-17]. The MAGA Coalition, dedicated to helping advance Trump’s ‘America First’ principles, said it had hired Gorka as […]
9/18/2017
JOHN KELLY/NAFTA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “White House trade adviser Peter Navarro has been increasingly sidelined during meetings and cut off from his once-regular access to the Oval Office as chief of staff John Kelly has moved to impose greater order on the West Wing. But Navarro, a hard-liner on trade who has clashed with his more […]
9/17/2017
CLIMATE CHANGE/ECONOMY/GARY COHN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser is expected to outline the administration’s proposals to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions while restating that its stance on the Paris climate accord has not changed, White House officials said, following signals over the weekend that the U.S. was exploring ways to remain in the […]
9/17/2017
CAMPAIGN/ETHICS/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Some White House and Trump campaign officials caught up in investigations of Russia’s electoral meddling are struggling to pay their legal bills, prompting them to create legal defense funds, liquidate personal accounts and explore other sources of financing. Washington is one of the nation’s costliest legal jurisdictions, with many lawyers charging upward of […]
9/14/2017
JEFF SESSIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Shortly after learning in May that a special counsel had been appointed to investigate links between his campaign associates and Russia, President Trump berated Attorney General Jeff Sessions in an Oval Office meeting and said the attorney general should resign, according to current and former administration officials and others briefed […]
9/12/2017
NOMINATIONS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Hope Hicks, who was named interim White House communications director in August, will now hold the job on a permanent basis, a White House spokesperson told CNN Tuesday [9-12-17]. Hicks, a longtime aide to President Donald Trump who was one of the first staffers to join Trump’s 2016 campaign, became the interim communications […]
9/12/2017
LEGAL/ROBERT MULLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Lawyers representing Donald Trump’s current and former aides are giving their clients one simple piece of advice: Don’t lie to protect the president. As special counsel Robert Mueller and congressional investigators prepare to question high-ranking aides — including Hope Hicks, Reince Priebus and Sean Spicer — in the coming weeks, […]
9/7/2017
GARY COHN/STEVE BANNON/TRUMP PEOPLE: “White House economic adviser Gary Cohn ‘absolutely’ should have resigned instead of voicing his objections to President Donald Trump’s response to a deadly white supremacist rally in Virginia last month from inside the administration, former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon said in an interview broadcast Thursday morning… Bannon told CBS’ […]
9/6/2017
ECONOMY/FEDERAL RESERVE/GARY COHN/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump is unlikely to nominate Gary Cohn, his top economic adviser, as the next Federal Reserve chairman, according to people familiar with the president’s thinking, adding to the uncertainty over the U.S. central bank’s leadership and policies next year. Mr. Trump told The Wall Street Journal in July that […]
9/6/2017
NOMINATIONS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Conservative pundit Mercedes Schlapp, wife of American Conservative Union chairman Matthew Schlapp, is expected to join the White House in a senior role in the communications department, according to three White House officials with knowledge of the situation. The role for Mercedes Schlapp, a former Fox News contributor who served in the George […]
9/5/2017
DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The head of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce resigned from President Donald Trump’s National Diversity Council Tuesday over the administration’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. ‘I tried to work as hard as I could with this administration on this issue and I continue to want to […]
9/5/2017
TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s allies are worried that the most damaging of the many recent departures from his White House may be that of Keith Schiller, a little-known former bodyguard who’s one of the president’s closest confidants outside his family. Schiller is leaving the White House soon to return to the private security business, […]
9/1/2017
JOHN KELLY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “General John Kelly is doing a great job as Chief of Staff. I could not be happier or more impressed – and this Administration continues to… get things done at a record clip. Many big decisions to be made over the coming days and weeks. AMERICA FIRST!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 1, […]
8/30/2017
NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “When President Donald Trump asked Hope Hicks to step into the role of communications director, his longtime aide hesitated before taking on a management position overseeing more than 40 staffers who work in White House media relations… After a summer of distracting staff churn, the communications director job is just one […]
8/29/2017
ENERGY/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s appointee to a Department of Energy post says inflammatory comments that appeared to have been made by him online were the result of ‘cyber attacks and Internet crimes’ committed against him over the past several years by ‘imposters in social media.’ William C. Bradford, Trump’s appointee to head the Energy […]
8/28/2017
GARY COHN/STEVE MNUCHIN/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Gary D. Cohn and Steven Mnuchin have spent months behind closed doors with Republican congressional leaders sketching the contours of an elaborate and politically difficult tax overhaul that is President Trump’s top priority. Mr. Trump hopes to jump-start the process on Wednesday [8-30-17], traveling to Springfield, Mo., for a […]
8/28/2017
LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Michael Cohen, an attorney for the Trump Organization, discussed a prospective real-estate deal in Moscow with Donald Trump on three occasions during the presidential campaign, Mr. Cohen said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. In 2015, Mr. Cohen said, he informed the then-candidate that he was working on a licensing deal […]
8/25/2017
ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Gary Cohn, the White House’s economic policy director, said the Trump administration must do more to condemn hate groups and he did not defend President Donald Trump’s response to violence at a white-nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., two weeks ago. Mr. Cohn said he had come under ‘enormous pressure both to […]
8/24/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The White House’s revolving door has seen more out than in lately, as White House director of rapid response Andrew Hemming became the latest communications and former Republican National Committee staffer to depart the chaotic Trump administration Thursday [8-24-17]. The departure, first reported by Politico, was a mutual decision, a White […]
8/21/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “For some top figures in the Trump administration—the ones who occupy the more conventional space of the political world—last week was a tough one. They listened in distress as the president they work for appeared to defend a march marked by white-supremacist and anti-Semitic sentiments in Charlottesville. From the left, and […]
8/21/2017
TRUMP PEOPLE: “Jerry Falwell of Liberty University was fantastic on @foxandfriends. The Fake News should listen to what he had to say. Thanks Jerry!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 21, 2017 08:27am […]
8/20/2017
JOHN KELLY/STEVE BANNON/TRUMP PEOPLE: “John F. Kelly, the new White House chief of staff, told Stephen K. Bannon in late July that he needed to go: No need for it to get messy, Mr. Kelly told Mr. Bannon, according to several people with firsthand knowledge of the exchange. The two worked out a mutually amicable […]
8/19/2017
STEVE BANNON/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump seems intent on an amicable public breakup with his former chief strategist Steve Bannon. In a pair of tweets Saturday, the president lauded Mr. Bannon and wished him well upon his return to Breitbart News after a seven-month stint in the West Wing. ‘Steve Bannon will be […]
8/17/2017
RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The White House pulled the plug Thursday [8-17-17] on a planned council that was to advise President Donald Trump on rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure, acknowledging that the proposed members would come under pressure not to participate because of the controversy surrounding the president’s remarks amid the Charlottesville furor. ‘The President’s Advisory […]
8/16/2017
RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump’s personal lawyer on Wednesday [8-17-17] forwarded an email to conservative journalists, government officials and friends that echoed secessionist Civil War propaganda and declared that the group Black Lives Matter ‘has been totally infiltrated by terrorist groups.’ The email forwarded by John Dowd, who is leading the president’s legal team, […]
8/16/2017
MILITARY/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Trump administration plunged America’s Asian allies into new confusion Thursday over its strategy for countering North Korea’s nuclear threat, as the chief White House strategist and top general offered radically different approaches to the crisis… Stephen K. Bannon, the nationalist ideologue who is Mr. Trump’s chief strategist, said in an interview […]
8/16/2017
RACISM/RELIGION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Jewish members of President Trump’s administration remained largely silent Wednesday [8-16-17] after Mr. Trump came to the defense of nationalist and right-wing protesters in Charlottesville, Va., who had chanted anti-Semitic slogans and demeaned the president’s Jewish son-in-law. Gary D. Cohn, the director of the president’s National Economic Council, who is Jewish, was described […]
8/16/2017
TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump’s longtime aide Hope Hicks will serve as the interim White House director of communications and will help the president find a permanent person for the job, according to a senior administration official. However temporary it is, it was the latest reshuffling in the White House and comes at a time when […]
8/16/2017
FAKE NEWS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump, in his most comfortable element at the gilded Trump Tower on Tuesday [8-15-17] as he took questions from reporters, was surrounded by approving aides as he took jabs at the media. A few male aides who were gathered to the right side of the podium chuckled and […]
8/15/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Walmart’s chief executive has issued a strong rebuke of President Trump’s response to the protests that turned violent in Charlottesville, Va., saying the president ‘missed a critical opportunity to help bring our country together.’ The criticism came in a statement that the retailer’s chief executive, Doug McMillon, emailed to employees Monday […]
8/14/2017
ECONOMY/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump named Tomas Philipson, an economist at the University of Chicago who has specialized in health-care policy, to the three-member Council of Economic Advisers on Monday [8-14-17]. Mr. Philipson briefly served as an adviser to the Trump transition team last fall on health-care matters and was a senior economic […]
8/14/2017
TRUMP PEOPLE/STEVE BANNON: “Rupert Murdoch has repeatedly urged President Trump to fire him. Anthony Scaramucci, the president’s former communications director, thrashed him on television as a white nationalist. Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, the national security adviser, refused to even say he could work with him. For months, Mr. Trump has considered ousting Stephen K. […]
8/13/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Inside President Donald Trump’s White House, no one seems to be looking forward to September. Senior officials have described the coming month as ‘brutal,’ ‘bad’ or ‘really tough’ because of the confluence of complicated issues — but they also say it’s pivotal to getting the presidency back on course. Aides hope […]
8/11/2017
JOHN KELLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “White House chief of staff John Kelly spent this week in Bedminster, N.J., pondering changes in the West Wing, according to four White House officials. Kelly summoned aides to President Donald Trump’s golf club there to ask about their portfolios and make suggestions on how to make the West Wing […]
8/11/2017
AFRICAN AMERICANS/MEDIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The appearance of Omarosa Manigault-Newman, a White House aide, caused an uproar at a National Association of Black Journalists convention on Friday [8-11-17] after she refused to answer some questions about President Trump’s recent remarks encouraging the police to be rougher while arresting criminal suspects. Ms. Manigault-Newman, whose role in the Trump […]
8/11/2017
MCMASTER/NATIONAL SECURITY/STEVE BANNON/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The conservative news site Breitbart has waged a nonstop campaign against national security adviser H.R. McMaster, but so far it seems to have done the most damage to someone else: Steve Bannon. A Wall Street Journal editorial earlier this week accused Bannon of using the right-wing media to go after his […]
8/9/2017
NATIONAL SECURITY/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Senior American officials sent mixed signals on North Korea on Wednesday [8-9-17] as President Trump’s ‘fire and fury’ warning rattled allies and adversaries alike, a sign of his administration’s deep divisions as the outcast state once again threatened to wage nuclear war on the United States. The president’s advisers […]
8/9/2017
NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Texas megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress, one of President Trump’s evangelical advisers who preached the morning of his inauguration, has released a statement saying the president has the moral authority to ‘take out’ North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. ‘When it comes to how we should deal with evildoers, the Bible, […]
8/4/2017
NOMINATIONS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Senate on Thursday [8-3-17] cleared the way for dozens of Trump administration nominees across the government to take office, allowing the administration to round out its top staff and regulatory commissions and advance its agenda on a broad range of issues. Top officials at the State, Justice, Commerce, Treasury, Health and Human […]
8/3/2017
LEGAL/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Corey Lewandowski, a close political adviser to President Donald Trump who is facing scrutiny over his business interests, denied after a speech in Cleveland on Thursday [8-3-17] that he is actively working with an Ohio-based payday lending company. But the denial only came when Lewandowski was pressed by reporters — not by audience […]
8/2/2017
NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The White House has engaged in a slow-motion purge of hard-line officials at the National Security Council in recent weeks, angering conservatives who complain that the foreign policy establishment is reasserting itself over a president who had promised a new course. The latest to go was Ezra Cohen-Watnick, who ran […]
8/2/2017
TRUMP PEOPLE: “Longtime Donald Trump aide and White House Director of Scheduling and Advance George Gigicos is departing the White House. The decision for Gigicos to move on has been in the works for more than a month and is not a part of recent staff shake-ups, multiple sources told CNN. Gigicos said he will […]
8/2/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/KELLYANNE CONWAY: “Kellyanne Conway’s office has a different vibe than other corners of the West Wing. Unlike some of the drab work spaces belonging to her male counterparts, whose offices look as impersonal as the day they moved in, Conway’s office is decorated with colorfully framed, oversize family photos mounted on the […]
8/1/2017
ETHICS/INTERIOR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/RYAN ZINKE: “The recalcitrant senator kept crossing up the inexperienced new president on big-ticket legislation even though they represented the same party. Frustrated and angry, the White House fought back, threatening retaliation both petty and portentous, eyeing federal jobs and programs in the state of the rebellious lawmaker to force obedience. While […]
8/1/2017
TRUMP PEOPLE/SEAN SPICER: “Sean Spicer still plans to leave the White House in late August, a senior White House official said on Tuesday [8-1-17], ending speculation that he might stay on after the firing of former communications director Anthony Scaramucci. President Donald Trump’s decision to hire Scaramucci less than two weeks ago prompted Spicer to […]