CAMPAIGN/JOE BIDEN: “He’s [Joe Biden] a sleepy guy. Did you see he did a lid this morning? Again, lid, lid. You know what a lid is? A lid is when you put out word you’re not going to be campaigning today. So he does the lid all the time. I’m working my ass off. I’m […]
Category: Campaign
9/24/2020
2020 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Sleepy Joe Biden just closed down his campaign for the day (Again). Wants to rest! He is a very LOW ENERGY INDIVIDUAL, and our Country cannot make it in these exciting, but complex and competitive times, with a Low Energy President !!!“ ––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 24, 2020 4:34 am […]
9/23/2020
2020 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/JOE BIDEN: “Asking for money isn’t my favorite part of running for president. But we’re coming up on our final end-of-quarter deadline of the campaign and need your help to hit our goal. If you’re able, please chip in today: https://t.co/H1rd6fUATL?amp=1″ ––Joe Biden, Twitter.com, September 23, 2020 6:20 am […]
9/22/2020
CAMPAIGN/MELANIA: “Did you see the crowd we had last night? We were in a great place, Ohio. We had a crowd. We had a crowd. You couldn’t see the end of it. I said, ‘Turn around camera, turn around.’ But, they never liked doing that, you know? They don’t like spinning those cameras. They don’t […]
9/20/2020
2020 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN: “We have way greater enthusiasm. We have a great ground game. You saw that last night? I mean, you saw the people that showed up. We went to Wisconsin, and it was in incredible. Tonight I’m going to Minnesota, and I hear it’s like, people are already — for two days, they were […]
9/18/2020
2020 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/CHINA/CORRUPTION/JOBS/JOE BIDEN/UNION: “Joe Biden delivered remarks to union members after spending 47 years giving their jobs to China and foreign countries in exchange for campaign cash… …Biden is a corrupt globalist sellout who never missed a chance to stab American workers in the back. If Biden wins, China wins – it’s just that simple!“ […]
9/17/2020
2020 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/JOE BIDEN: “I really do view this campaign as a campaign between Scranton and Park Avenue, and I really mean it… All that Trump could see from Park Avenue is Wall Street. All he thinks about is the stock market and telling him, we’re going to do all right… now, in my neighborhood in […]
9/17/2020
2020 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/JOE BIDEN: “Folks, I just wrapped up my first CNN Town Hall of the general election. We’re in the home stretch of this campaign and your support matters more than ever. Chip in to help us keep tonight’s momentum going: https://t.co/J2E4dtxGEK?amp=1″ ––Joe Biden, Twitter.com, September 17, 2020 4:14 pm […]
9/17/2020
2020 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/VOTE BY MAIL/VOTING: “Want to register to vote? Request an Absentee Ballot or vote early – simply click the below link. My campaign has made it incredibly easy! #Vote #TrumpPence2020 https://t.co/u25yI5T7E8?amp=1″ ––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 17, 2020 8:39 am […]
9/16/2020
CAMPAIGN/CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN/TWITTER: “The Trump campaign on Tuesday asked Twitter to label a video posted by Joe Biden’s campaign as manipulated media over a clip that they say takes President Trump’s words out of context and has been repeatedly fact-checked as incorrect manipulation, but the company declined to do so, according to emails obtained by Fox […]
9/15/2020
2016 ELECTION/2020 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/FAKE NEWS/MEDIA/POLLS: “We are advertising all over the place, but as much as we do, the Fake News likes to say we aren’t. Just being smart. We have much more money than we had at same time in 2016. Also spending on other, and different, elements of the campaign. Starting to get great […]
9/14/2020
CAMPAIGN/MILITARY/RUSSIA: “A fundraising ad for President Trump’s reelection campaign reportedly used a stock photo featuring Russian fighter jets and weapons, as part of a call to ‘support our troops.’ Made by the Trump Make America Great Again Committee, the ad first appeared on Sept. 8 and ran until Sept. 12… The stock photo used is […]
9/14/2020
2020 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “50 days until Election Day. 50 days to do everything we can to make Donald Trump a one-term president. Chip in to power our campaign through this final stretch: https://t.co/6WkyWFXVpc?amp=1″ ––Joe Biden, Twitter.com, September 14, 2020 6:04 am […]
9/9/2020
ANTHONY FAUCI/CAMPAIGN/RALLY: “Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious diseases expert, said Wednesday that the lack of masks at President Trump’s campaign rallies is frustrating. ‘Is that frustrating to you?’ host Gayle King asked Fauci on ‘CBS This Morning,’ noting the lack of masks among some attendees at Trump’s rallies amid the coronavirus pandemic. ‘Well, yes […]
9/8/2020
2020 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/DEMS/FAKE NEWS/JOE BIDEN/JOHN KELLY/MEDIA/QUOTE: “A FAKE story [that Trump referred American WWI casualties as ‘losers’ and ‘suckers’] made up by the Democrats in order to save Biden’s failing campaign. Thanks Zach! RT @Surabees BREAKING: Zach Fuentes, Top Aide to John Kelly, Denies Atlantic Story About Trump ‘Fuentes unequivocally denied @TheAtlantic‘s report…Fuentes personally briefed Trump […]
9/8/2020
2016 ELECTION/2020 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/FAKE NEWS: “Because of the China Virus, my Campaign, which has raised a lot of money, was forced to spend in order to counter the Fake News reporting about the way we handled it (China Ban, etc.). We did, and are doing, a GREAT job, and have a lot of money left over, […]
9/8/2020
2016 ELECTION/2020 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/FAKE NEWS/MEDIA/POLLS: “My Campaign spent a lot of money up front in order to compensate for the false reporting and Fake News concerning our handling of the China Virus. Now they see the GREAT job we have done, and we have 3 times more than we had 4 years ago – & are […]
9/3/2020
2020 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/POLLS: “We’re doing the hanger thing now because the arenas can’t do it because of the pandemic for a while, a little while. But in certain ways, I like this better. I don’t have to travel. I get off the plane. I make a speech. I get the hell out of here… But I […]
8/29/2020
2016 ELECTION/2020 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/FAKE NEWS/MEDIA: “My Campaign, despite all of the Fake News, Fake Books, and pathetic reporting written about me and it, has more spirit and enthusiasm than ever before, including the great and wonderful Campaign of 2016!“ ––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 29, 2020 2:01 am […]
8/17/2020
CAMPAIGN/PROTESTS/RALLY: “Wow! I don’t know what happened. Something happened. This was supposed to be just a quick little small gathering. This is what’s happening and we call it a peaceful protest. We’re supposed to have 50 people, right? So we have a little more and they turned away a lot of people outside. So we’ll […]
8/17/2020
CAMPAIGN/JOE BIDEN: “How many times by the way has he [Joe Biden] been up at a speech where he’ll say the wrong state, right? He’ll get up, ‘It’s great to be in the wonderful state of Ohio.’ ‘Sir, sir, you’re in Florida.’ That’s the bad one, when you see palm trees. Wonderful to be in […]
8/14/2020
FBI/JAMES COMEY/TRUMP CAMPAIGN: “Kevin Clinesmith, a corrupt FBI attorney who falsified FISA warrants in James Comey’s very corrupt FBI, is expected to plead guilty. You probably heard that. It just came out. So that’s just the beginning, I would imagine, because what happened should never happen again. So, he is pleading guilty. Terrible thing. Terrible […]
8/10/2020
CAMPAIGN/OBAMA: “Well, look, the Obama campaign spied on our campaign… This was a setup like we’ve never seen. I think it’s the political crime of the century, and they’ve been caught. So let’s see what happens to them all.” -Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | August 10, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 10, […]
8/6/2020
2020 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/JOE BIDEN: “Joe Biden’s policies put China first and America last, and that’s what he’ll continue to do, if he ever got this shot. And you will have a disruption in the market, the likes of which our country has never seen. You will have a crash in the markets, because he’s going double […]
8/6/2020
2020 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/JOE BIDEN: “We are running against a radical left ideology. Their messenger is Sleepy Joe. He doesn’t know it’s his message, he has no idea what the message is. But he’s going to do whatever they tell him to do, you know it, because he’s not all there.” -Donald Trump as quoted by C-SPAN, […]
8/5/2020
2020 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN: [Reporter: “You said earlier today that you are considering using the White House as the venue for your nomination speech. Senator John Thune questioned whether or not that’s actually legal given the Hatch Act.”] “Well, it is legal. There is no Hatch Act because it doesn’t pertain to the president. If I use […]
8/5/2020
2020 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/GOP: [Reporter: “There are reports that you’re considering possibly giving your acceptance speech [for the Republican nomination] from the White House lawn.”] “Well, we’re thinking about it, it would be the easiest from the standpoint of security… We’re thinking about doing it from the White House because there’s no movement, it’s easy. And I think […]
8/5/2020
2020 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/GOP: “Senate Republican Whip John Thune (S.D.) on Wednesday raised possible legal concerns when asked about President Trump potentially accepting the Republican presidential nomination on the South Lawn of the White House. ‘Is that even legal?’ Thune asked when reporters queried him about Republican National Convention planners thinking about having Trump accept his party’s […]
8/4/2020
CAMPAIGN/CELEBS/RALLY: “Neil Young to Donald Trump: Not so fast rockin’ in the free world. On Tuesday, the legendary musician filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Trump’s campaign for playing his songs at campaign rallies… Young has been musing about suing Trump since his first presidential campaign, but he had a change of heart after previously […]
7/30/2020
2020 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/JOE BIDEN/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “At fund-raising events where he has pulled in more than $24 million for Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s campaign in the past two months, former President Barack Obama has privately unleashed on President Trump to party donors, bringing up past accusations of Mr. Trump’s “assaulting women” and warning of his efforts […]
7/30/2020
2020 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/VOTE BY MAIL/VOTING: “The President is just raising a question about the chaos Democrats have created with their insistence on all mail-in voting. They are using coronavirus as their means to try to institute universal mail-in voting, which means sending every registered voter a ballot whether they asked for one or not. Voter rolls […]
7/27/2020
2016 ELECTION/2020 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN: “When you look at Florida, as an example, you have thousands of boat out on — boats out in the ocean, out in the Intracoastal. You look at other states where, likewise, you have thousands of boats, and they’re all waving the Trump sign — Trump-Pence sign — and they’re so proud. […]
7/18/2020
CAMPAIGN/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/RALLY: “I’m thrilled to be with you and talking to you on the phone today. Normally, I’d do it through a rally, but because of COVID, where we’re doing a great job with ventilators and everything else, we’re going to beat it. A lot of areas of our country now are in great shape and […]
7/17/2020
CAMPAIGN/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/RALLY: “We have a COVID problem, COVID-19 problem. As you know, I call it the China virus. It shouldn’t have happened but it did. They could have stopped it, but I wanted to be with you, and this is really replacing our rallies that we all love so much. We had great rallies in Wisconsin […]
7/15/2020
2020 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN: “Brad Parscale’s abrupt demotion Wednesday night “shocked” some inside the Trump campaign, sources familiar with the move told Fox News, even as President Trump’s sliding poll numbers and the recent Tulsa rally debacle had raised questions about his future. The president announced on Facebook and later on Twitter Wednesday night that Parscale would […]
7/15/2020
2016 ELECTION/2020 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/ECONOMY/POLLS/VACCINES: “I am pleased to announce that Bill Stepien has been promoted to the role of Trump Campaign Manager. Brad Parscale, who has been with me for a very long time and has led our tremendous digital and data strategies, will remain in that role, while being a Senior Advisor to the… …campaign. […]
7/13/2020
2016 ELECTION/2020 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/POLLS: “We think we’re doing very well. We had some poll numbers a little while ago that are great. You know, it’s the same story: It’s suppression polls that we had in 2016. Phony polls. Fake news, phony polls. Same thing… And then they say I’m leading by one point in Texas. They […]
7/2/2020
2020 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN FINANCE/JOE BIDEN: “Democratic challenger Joe Biden outraised President Donald Trump by $10 million in June, marking the second straight month the former vice president posted a greater campaign fundraising haul than the Republican incumbent. Biden and the Democratic National Committee’s fundraising arm jointly raised more than $141 million in June, his campaign said […]
6/23/2020
2020 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/DEMS/JOE BIDEN/POLICE/RALLY: “[W]e’re not going to take moral lectures from the same left-wing ideologues who oppose school choice, who support deadly sanctuary cities, who want to defund our police — defund and abolish our police. Think of it: Defund and abolish is now their theme. And who preside over the violence and mayhem of […]
6/23/2020
AFRICAN AMERICANS/CAMPAIGN/RALLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “So think of it: I did criminal justice reform. We did a lot of work on prison — on prison reform. We did Opportunity Zones. Think of this. Think of all we’ve done. And we’ve taken care of the black colleges and universities. And nobody talks about it, but I have […]
6/23/2020
2020 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/COURTS/RALLY/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “By the end of my first term, we will have close to 300 federal judges appointed and approved. Three hundred. If you get 10, it’s a lot. Three hundred. An all-time record. And very importantly, we confirmed two great Supreme Court justices. And we have to win because obviously we […]
6/23/2020
CAMPAIGN/DEMS/JOE BIDEN/PROTESTS/RALLY: “The left-wing mob is trying to demolish our heritage so they can replace it with a new repressive regime that they alone control. They’re tearing down statues, desecrating monuments, and purging dissenters. It’s not the behavior of a peaceful political movement; it’s the behavior of totalitarians and tyrants and people that don’t love […]
6/23/2020
CAMPAIGN/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/RALLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “But I said the other night, ‘There’s never been anything where they have so many names.’ I could give you 19 or 20 names for that, right? It’s got all different names. ‘Wuhan.’ ‘Wuhan’ was catching on. ‘Coronavirus,’ right? [Audience member: ‘Kung flu!’] ‘Kung flu,’ yeah. Kung flu. ‘COVID.’ ‘COVID-19.’ ‘COVID.’ I said, […]
6/22/2020
2020 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/JOE BIDEN/TWITTER/VOTE BY MAIL/VOTING: “Today, he [President Trump] has unfurled tweet after tweet pushing baseless conspiracy theories meant to discredit vote-by-mail. Our campaign has sent letters to Twitter and Facebook demanding that this disinformation, which seeks to undermine faith in our electoral process, gets taken down immediately.” -Joe Biden Campaign Manager Jen O’Malley Dillon […]
6/22/2020
2020 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/RALLY: “Users on the social media app TikTok are claiming some credit for the disappointing turnout at the president’s rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, over the weekend, after a weeks-long campaign to artificially inflate the number of people registered to attend. The prank may have helped lead the Trump campaign to boast about more than […]
6/21/2020
2020 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/RALLY: “The Trump campaign on Sunday sought to blame concerns about protesters for the lower-than-expected turnout at the president’s Tulsa rally, even though the campaign itself had raised expectations about attendance by touting the number of people who had signed up for tickets online… There were just under 6,200 people in the arena, the […]
6/20/2020
2020 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/RALLY: “You know, all of the sudden you go from campaign, and we had it going. We were, you know that better than anybody. All of a sudden we’re sitting around, we’re sitting in the White House for three months without leaving. And it’s a tough, it’s a tough thing. Because we had momentum… […]
6/20/2020
CAMPAIGN/DACA/IMMIGRATION/RALLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “People don’t understand, but we actually won on DACA yesterday. We actually won because they basically said, ‘You won, but you have to come back and redo it.’ It’s almost like, ‘Gee, come on back, your paperwork was no good.’ But we’re going to be refiling, but don’t let it get you. […]
6/20/2020
2020 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/DEMS/JOE BIDEN/RALLY: “Biden remains silent in his basement in the face of this brutal assault on our nation and the values of our nation. Joe Biden has surrendered to his party and to the left-wing mob. He has no control. Does anybody honestly think he controls these radical maniacs?… If Biden is elected, he […]
6/20/2020
CAMPAIGN/RALLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I have to make the commencement speech at West Point… You have to understand I left early in the morning to get there. Now it’s sort of late in the afternoon… I’m wearing leather bottom shoes which is good if you’re walking on flat surfaces. It’s not good for ramps and if […]
6/20/2020
CAMPAIGN/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/RALLY: “By the way, it’s [coronavirus] a disease [that] without question, has more names than any disease in history. I can name, ‘Kung flu.’ I can name, 19 different versions of names. Many call it a virus, which it is. Many call it a flu, what difference? I think we have 19 or 20 versions […]
6/20/2020
CAMPAIGN/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/RALLY: “And with testing, you know, [COVID-19] testing is a double edged sword. We’ve tested now 25 million people. It’s probably 20 million people more than anybody else… Here’s the bad part. When you do testing to that extent, you’re going to find more people, you’re going to find more cases. So I said to […]
6/20/2020
CAMPAIGN/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/POLICE/RALLY: “Americans have watched left wing radicals burn down buildings, loot businesses, destroy private property, injure hundreds of dedicated police offices. These police officers, they get injured, they don’t complain. They’re incredible. And injure thousands upon thousands of people only to hear the radical fake news say what a beautiful rally it was. And they […]
6/20/2020
2020 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/DEMS/RALLY/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We passed the largest tax cuts in the history of our country. The Democrats want to raise your taxes. Tell me about that. Tell me about that. I guess I’m old fashioned. All my life, all my life, I heard politicians want to lower taxes, not raise them. If you could […]
6/20/2020
AFRICAN AMERICANS/CAMPAIGN/JOE BIDEN/RALLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Biden is a very willing Trojan horse for socialism. When Biden first ran for president over 33 years ago, remember I used to call him 1% Joe, he never got more than 1% until Obama took him off the trash heap… Virtually every policy that has hurt black Americans for […]
6/10/2020
2020 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/RALLY: “We’re going to start our rallies back up now. We’ve had a tremendous run at rallies. I don’t think there’s been an empty seat in — since we came down in the escalator with the First Lady. That was with the future First Lady, at that point. It’s been an amazing thing to behold. […]
4/29/2020
CAMPAIGN/MEDIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Just told that Fake News @CNN is falsely reporting that I was recently shouting at my campaign manager over made up nonsense. Actually, he is doing a great job, I never shouted at him (been with me for years, including the 2016 win), & have no intention to do so. Just FAKE NEWS!” […]
4/17/2020
CAMPAIGN/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/RALLY: “I hope we can do rallies. It’s great for the country. It’s great spirit. It’s great for a lot of things. It’s a — for me, it’s a tremendous way of getting the word out. If you look at our success rate, we’ve had tremendous success. We win where we have rallies, including endorsements of […]
3/26/2020
2020 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/GOP: “We’re going to have our convention. You know, we have our convention in North Carolina in Charlotte. And we are, you know, definitely planning it. It’s toward the end of August. And somebody was asking today, will you cancel the convention. I said, no way I’m going to cancel the convention. We’re not […]
2/6/2020
CABINET/CAMPAIGN/ELECTION/IOWA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Dispatching Cabinet secretaries across the country to woo Iowa voters. Using private cash to finance an official made-for-TV moment. Delivering a State of the Union address that doubled as a campaign kickoff speech. Holding an impeachment acquittal victory rally in the White House East Room. President Donald Trump made clear this week […]
2/5/2020
CAMPAIGN/ELECTION/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump emerged confident and ready to press on with his re-election effort on Wednesday [2-5-20] after the Democratic-led impeachment drive that he denounced as illegitimate crashed to a halt in the Republican-led Senate. Trump plans to speak about the issue at the White House on Thursday [2-6-20]. A source close […]
2/3/2020
CAMPAIGN/ELECTION/MELANIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Melania Trump is slated to headline a pair of spring fundraisers for her husband’s reelection campaign, a move that represents a dramatic step into the political spotlight for the famously private first lady. The first lady is listed as the host of a March 18 fundraiser in Beverly Hills and also for […]
9/18/2019
CAMPAIGN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @Jim_Jordan: .@CLewandowski_ worked with the Trump campaign for nearly 2 years. He testified they did not collude or coordinate with Rus…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 18, 2019 6:32 am […]
7/23/2019
CAMPAIGN/CRIME/LEGAL/LOBBYING/MICHAEL FLYNN/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A federal jury on Tuesday [7-22-19] convicted Bijan Rafiekian, a former business partner of Michael Flynn, on a pair of foreign-agent felony charges stemming from work the two men did for Turkish interests during the final months of the Trump presidential campaign in 2016. The verdicts, returned by jurors in Alexandria, […]
7/12/2019
CAMPAIGN/PENNSYLVANIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We have a GREAT TEAM in Pennsylvania! I’m proud to say that our good friends Lawrence Tabas & Bernadette ‘Bernie’ Comfort will now be working together to run the @PAGOP. Lawrence will be Chairman & Bernie will Chair my Pennsylvania Campaign. We must have, & do, great UNITY in PA!” -Donald Trump, […]
7/8/2019
CAMPAIGN/ENVIRONMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Reviewing new polling data, consultants working for President Trump’s 2020 campaign discovered an unsurprising obstacle to winning support from two key demographic groups, millennials and suburban women. And that was his record on the environment. But they also saw an opportunity. While the numbers showed that Mr. Trump was ‘never going to […]
7/3/2019
CAMPAIGN/ELECTION/GOP/NRA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The National Rifle Association aired an avalanche of TV ads and pushed its 5 million-plus members to the polls for Donald Trump in 2016, propelling him in the Rust Belt states that delivered him the presidency. Now, the gun rights group is in total meltdown — and senior Republicans and Trump […]
7/1/2019
CAMPAIGN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I am excited to announce that @MercedesSchlapp will soon be joining our Campaign. She feels so strongly about our Country & its future. We are setting records in so many ways, & we will keep it going. Mercedes has done a fantastic job within the Administration & I am so thankful!” -Donald […]
7/1/2019
CAMPAIGN/ELECTION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Mercedes Schlapp, the White House director of strategic communications, announced on Monday [7-1-19] that she would leave her West Wing post to join President Trump’s re-election campaign, the latest move in a shuffle of the White House press shop. Ms. Schlapp said in an interview that she had discussed her departure with Jared […]
6/26/2019
CAMPAIGN/DEMS/ELECTION/SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As Democrats spar on the debate stage this week, the president’s campaign will be unleashing dozens of Donald Trump backers on the airwaves in 2020 swing states, blasting out any embarrassing moments on social media and dispatching talking points to ensure everyone stays on message. It’s all part of a robust […]
6/21/2019
CAMPAIGN/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “When Naples, Fla., resident Joseph Fogg III, a longtime GOP fundraiser, arrived last month at the Trump International Hotel in Washington for a donor conference benefiting the president’s reelection campaign, he was asked by the organizers to place his phone inside a lockable pouch. Only after leaving the hotel’s Presidential Ballroom, where […]
6/19/2019
CAMPAIGN/ELECTION/RALLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s campaign announced Wednesday [6-19-19] that he had raised $24.8 million over 24 hours as he kicked off his re-election bid, an enormous haul that punctuates the financial advantage he is expected to enjoy over his Democratic challengers in 2020. Mr. Trump’s one-day total was more than any Democratic presidential candidate […]
6/17/2019
CAMPAIGN/ELECTION/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As President Trump prepares to officially kick off his re-election campaign in Orlando Tuesday night, his numbers are, as he is fond of saying, ‘not good, folks.’ In a new poll of ruby red Texas, less than 40 percent of voters say they would ‘definitely’ re-elect Mr. Trump. Numbers released over the weekend […]
6/14/2019
CAMPAIGN/FBI/INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump on Friday [6-14-19] appeared to backtrack somewhat on accepting campaign help from Russia or other foreign governments without necessarily telling the F.B.I., saying that he would certainly inform law enforcement authorities if he were approached. Under fire for saying earlier in the week that ‘I’d take it’ and scoffing at the […]
6/13/2019
CAMPAIGN/DEMS/HILLARY CLINTON/SPYGATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….and other really bad people, SPIED ON MY CAMPAIGN! They even had an ‘insurance policy’ just in case Crooked Hillary Clinton and the Democrats lost their race for the Presidency! This is the biggest & worst political scandal in the history of the United States of America. Sad!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
5/23/2019
CAMPAIGN/DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump dropped the pretense of working with congressional Democrats on Wednesday [5-22-19] and sent a clear message that his re-election campaign will be centered on condemning overzealous investigations rather than advancing a robust domestic policy agenda. Both sides may have feigned surprise at Trump’s angry outburst, in which he said […]
5/7/2019
CAMPAIGN/FBI/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “FBI Director Christopher Wray said on Tuesday [5-7-19] that if any 2020 presidential campaign is contacted by a foreign agent, it’s ‘something the FBI would want to know about.’ But would President Donald Trump’s campaign alert the feds if approached by a potential election meddler? It won’t say. The Trump campaign […]
4/30/2019
CAMPAIGN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Three watchdog groups on Tuesday [4-30-19] urged federal campaign regulators to pursue civil penalties against President Donald Trump’s campaign, saying special counsel Robert Mueller’s team had created a ‘roadmap’ for action. Mueller’s team did not charge Donald Trump Jr. and other campaign aides with breaking any laws by participating in a […]
4/17/2019
CAMPAIGN/POLLS/SPYGATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Nearly 4 in 10 voters believe Donald Trump’s presidential campaign was spied on during the 2016 election, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll. Thirty-eight percent of respondents said they believe the Trump campaign was spied on, compared with 28 percent who said they don’t believe the president’s campaign was spied on. […]
1/16/2019
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Rudy Giuliani said Wednesday [1-16-19] that he never denied President Donald Trump’s campaign colluded with the Russian government during the 2016 campaign, only that the President himself was not involved in collusion. In an interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo on ‘Cuomo Prime Time,’ Giuliani, a former New York mayor […]
12/7/2018
CAMPAIGN/ECONOMY/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s economic officials are reassuring investors about recent white-knuckle stock market volatility, while Trump’s political advisers are increasingly alarmed that the economy could present a stiff 2020 campaign headwind. Many of Trump’s political allies acknowledge that his reelection prospects hinge in large part on how Americans judge their economic prospects […]
12/6/2018
CAMPAIGN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s reelection aides have decided on a campaign structure with three main offices split between New York City and the Washington area. The campaign will again be headquartered at Trump Tower, according to two senior advisers to the president. But this time, the campaign will have a pair of satellite […]
11/26/2018
CAMPAIGN/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….hundreds of people closely involved with my campaign who never met, saw or spoke to a Russian during this period? So many campaign workers, people inside from the beginning, ask me why they have not been called (they want to be). There was NO Collusion & Mueller knows it!” -Donald Trump, […]
11/5/2018
CAMPAIGN/ELECTION/IMMIGRATION/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump on Monday [11-5-18] closed out an us-against-them midterm election campaign that was built on dark themes of fear, nationalism and racial animosity in an effort to salvage Republican control of Congress for the remaining two years of his term. Mr. Trump’s fiery, invective-filled campaigning produced what may be the most […]
10/31/2018
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/INTELLIGENCE/SENATE/STEVE BANNON/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee is pursuing a wide-ranging examination of former White House adviser Steve Bannon’s activities during the 2016 presidential campaign, three sources familiar with the inquiry told Reuters. The committee is looking into what Bannon might know about any contacts during the campaign between Moscow and two advisers […]
10/31/2018
CAMPAIGN/DEMS/ELECTION/GOP/SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “It used to take a fancy degree and political connections to become a presidential speechwriter. In the era of President Donald Trump, all you need is a tweet. On a Thursday morning earlier this month, a Twitter user in Georgia with 500 followers responded to a video of Trump touting the economy […]
10/8/2018
CAMPAIGN/INTELLIGENCE/ISRAEL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A top Trump campaign official requested online manipulation proposals by an Israeli intelligence firm in 2016 to help defeat Hillary Clinton and Republican primary opponents, The New York Times reports. There is no evidence Trump’s campaign acted on any of the proposals by Psy-Group, a company staffed by former Israeli intelligence […]
9/7/2018
CAMPAIGN/ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump is campaigning for Republican Rep. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota, who is seeking to unseat Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp. Trump urged state Republicans to get behind Cramer’s campaign during an event in Fargo. He says Cramer will help Republicans push for stronger borders and ‘no crime’ and help […]
8/24/2018
CAMPAIGN/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is sticking with his ambitious midterm campaign schedule amid a cascade of scandal — a break from the typical pattern of politicians dropping out of sight in politically damaging moments. The president will visit Ohio on Friday [8-24-18] to speak at the state Republican Party dinner. He also is […]
8/24/2018
CAMPAIGN/DEMS/HILLARY CLINTON/JEFF SESSIONS/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….FISA abuse, Christopher Steele & his phony and corrupt Dossier, the Clinton Foundation, illegal surveillance of Trump Campaign, Russian collusion by Dems – and so much more. Open up the papers & documents without redaction? Come on Jeff, you can do it, the country is waiting!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
8/22/2018
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/MICHAEL COHEN/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “White House press secretary Sarah Sanders maintained Wednesday [8-22-18] that President Donald Trump ‘did nothing wrong’ relating to the hush money payments made to women who claimed affairs with him during the 2016 campaign…Sanders declined to answer additional questions about what the President knew about the payments and […]
7/24/2018
CAMPAIGN/GOP/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VA: “President Donald Trump urged the audience before him on Tuesday [7-24-18] to support a Missouri Republican’s Senate campaign, smeared Democrats and warned the crowd not to ‘believe the crap you hear from (the media.)’ The speech amounted to a typical political stump speech for Trump, all except for the setting. Instead of […]
3/17/2018
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/ROBERT MULLER/RUSSIA: “The Mueller probe should never have been started in that there was no collusion and there was no crime. It was based on fraudulent activities and a Fake Dossier paid for by Crooked Hillary and the DNC, and improperly used in FISA COURT for surveillance of my campaign. WITCH HUNT!” -Donald Trump, […]
3/13/2018
CAMPAIGN/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s personal assistant, John McEntee, was escorted out of the White House on Monday [3-12-18], two senior administration officials said. The cause of the firing was an unspecified security issue, said a third White House official with knowledge of the situation. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders declined […]
3/8/2018
CAMPAIGN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump dined at the ornate Georgetown home of a prominent Washington lawyer on Wednesday [3-7-18] night with wealthy donors who are expected to play crucial roles in financing his re-election campaign. The dinner was the latest in a series of donor events associated with a pair of independent groups — America […]
3/7/2018
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “One appointee went from ‘battleground states’ director for the Trump presidential campaign to a role at the State Department that sent him to South Africa to meet with health officials… And another, who spent four months on the campaign in New York after graduating from college, landed a job as […]
2/27/2018
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former Donald Trump campaign deputy Rick Gates is quickly discovering that cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller has its advantages. The lead Russia investigator asked a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia Tuesday [2-27-18] to dismiss a series of criminal charges against Gates, including tax and bank fraud, in exchange for his […]
2/26/2018
CAMPAIGN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign used a photo of a survivor of the Parkland, Florida, shooting in an email Saturday that asks its recipients to donate money to the campaign. The email contains a photo of 17-year-old Madeleine Wilford in a hospital bed surrounded by her family, Trump and the first lady. […]
2/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/RUSSIA: “Russia started their anti-US campaign in 2014, long before I announced that I would run for President. The results of the election were not impacted. The Trump campaign did nothing wrong – no collusion!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 16, 2018 03:18pm […]
2/1/2018
CAMPAIGN/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s re-election campaign raised $15.2 million in the last three months of last year, and spent $1.2 million on legal fees — with much of the cash going to law firms responding to investigations of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election — according to campaign finance reports. The reports, filed […]