LAWSUIT/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In the three years that Donald Trump rocketed from candidate to president, the PEN American Center has criticized him as a bully, an autocrat, a user of hate speech and an enemy of free expression. It has published studies, organized petitions and established a Press Freedom Incentive Fund. Now the literary and […]
Category: Media
10/16/2018
MEDIA/MIKE POMPEO/SAUDI ARABIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TURKEY: “The Trump administration pushed back on Tuesday [10-16-18] against rising condemnation of Saudi Arabia and showed support for its crown prince, who has been linked to the disappearance and possible murder of a leading dissident journalist inside a Saudi consulate in Turkey. In his strongest language to date over the […]
10/16/2018
MEDIA/MIKE POMPEO/SAUDI ARABIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TURKEY: “Just spoke with the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia who totally denied any knowledge of what took place in their Turkish Consulate. He was with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 16, 2018 1:40 pm […]
10/16/2018
MEDIA/SAUDI ARABIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “…during the call, and told me that he has already started, and will rapidly expand, a full and complete investigation into this matter. Answers will be forthcoming shortly.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 16, 2018 1:40 pm […]
10/16/2018
MEDIA/SAUDI ARABIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [10-16-18] denied having any personal financial interest in Saudi Arabia as his relationship with the country comes under scrutiny amid the disappearance of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi…Trump had said Monday [10-15-18] that Saudi King Salman ‘firmly denied any knowledge of’ Khashoggi’s disappearance in a call […]
10/16/2018
MEDIA/SAUDI ARABIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TURKEY: “A Saudi mission that resulted in the apparent death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul was organized by a high-ranking officer with the General Intelligence Presidency, Saudi Arabia’s main intelligence service, three sources familiar with the case told CNN. One of those sources described the officer as close to the inner […]
10/15/2018
MEDIA/SAUDI ARABIA/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TURKEY: “President Donald Trump Tuesday [10-16-18] criticized rapidly mounting global condemnation of Saudi Arabia over the case of missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi, warning of a rush to judgment. In an interview with The Associated Press, Trump compared the situation to the allegations of sexual assault leveled against Supreme Court Justice Brett […]
10/15/2018
MEDIA/SAUDI ARABIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In a comment that could give Saudi officials a route to climb down from outright denials, President Donald Trump suggested Monday [01-15-18] that ‘rogue killers’ could be responsible for the disappearance and presumed murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who hasn’t been seen since entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul two weeks […]
10/14/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @realDonaldTrump: I will be interviewed on ’60 Minutes’ tonight at 7:00 P.M., after NFL game. Enjoy!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 14, 2018 5:44 pm […]
10/14/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Thank you to NBC for the correction! https://t.co/L2mX3vREOl“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 14, 2018 2:54 pm […]
10/14/2018
MEDIA/SPORTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I will be interviewed on ’60 Minutes’ tonight at 7:00 P.M., after NFL game. Enjoy!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 14, 2018 2:39 pm […]
10/14/2018
MEDIA/SPORTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Will be interviewed tonight by @LesleyRStahl on @60Minutes @CBSNews at 7:30 P.M. Eastern. Enjoy! https://t.co/eUTAP0u0Uh“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 14, 2018 1:06 pm […]
10/14/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “NBC News has totally and purposely changed the point and meaning of my story about General Robert E Lee and General Ulysses Grant. Was actually a shoutout to warrior Grant and the great state in which he was born. As usual, dishonest reporting. Even mainstream media embarrassed!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 14, […]
10/13/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Congratulations to Tucker Carlson on the great success of his book, ‘Ship of Fools.’ It just went to NUMBER ONE!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 13, 2018 10:53 pm […]
10/13/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TURKEY: “’From a Turkish prison to the White House in 24 hours.’ Kristin Fisher of @FoxNews Very cool!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 13, 2018 12:03 pm […]
10/13/2018
MEDIA/SAUDI ARABIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TURKEY: “U.S. President Donald Trump said in a CBS interview on Saturday [10-13-18] that there would be ‘severe punishment’ for Saudi Arabia if it turns out that missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist, is a prominent critic of the Saudi authorities and […]
10/13/2018
GUNS/MEDIA/SANCTIONS/SAUDI ARABIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TURKEY: “President Donald Trump says he doesn’t want a $110 billion arms deal he brokered with Saudi Arabia to unravel over allegations the Gulf kingdom murdered a journalist at its consulate in Turkey. But his comments are missing the mark on a key fact: Saudi Arabia has so far only followed through […]
10/12/2018
MEDIA/MELANIA: “RT @realDonaldTrump: Don’t miss our GREAT @FLOTUS, Melania, on @ABC @ABC2020 tonight at 10pmE. Enjoy!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 12, 2018 8:17 pm […]
10/12/2018
MEDIA/SAUDI ARABIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TURKEY: “Donald Trump may be positioning himself, and by extension the American people, yet again, on the wrong side of another profound moral divide — defending an utterly criminal regime in the Middle East to which he plighted his troth from the earliest days of his presidency — the kingdom of Saudi […]
10/12/2018
MEDIA/MELANIA: “Don’t miss our GREAT @FLOTUS, Melania, on @ABC @ABC2020 tonight at 10pmE. Enjoy!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 12, 2018 2:10 pm […]
10/12/2018
MEDIA/SAUDI ARABIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TURKEY: “President Donald Trump told reporters on Friday [10-12-18] that he has not talked to Saudi Arabia’s King Salman but will call the royal leader soon, as questions mount about the disappearance of prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. A delegation from Saudi Arabia has now arrived in Turkey as part of a […]
10/12/2018
CONGRESS/MEDIA/SAUDI ARABIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TURKEY: “Sword dancers. Gleaming palaces. Military jets streaming red, white and blue trails. President Donald Trump soaked up the grandeur of Saudi Arabia on his first foreign stop as president last year and envisioned huge benefits for the United States in building closer ties with the repressive and oil-rich desert kingdom. Now, […]
10/12/2018
CELEBS/HURRICANE/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Kanye West’s visit to the White House on Thursday [10-11-18] became punchlines galore for the late-night TV hosts. As Jimmy Kimmel put it, ‘The jokes do not write themselves — or should I say, they did not write themselves until today, when Kanye West visited the White House.’ In the televised Oval […]
10/11/2018
GOP/MEDIA/SAUDI ARABIA/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A leading Republican senator said Thursday [10-11-18] that he believes Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered and that ‘there is no question the Saudis did this.’ Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker told CNN that the ‘intel points directly’ to Saudi Arabia for the disappearance of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi […]
10/11/2018
MEDIA/RALLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Fox News Channel has recently pulled back from airing President Donald Trump’s campaign-style rallies during prime time, a move that could put a crimp in Republican efforts to reach voters in the weeks before midterm elections. During much of the late summer, Fox would pre-empt its lucrative nightly lineup of Tucker […]
10/11/2018
CHINA/ECONOMY/GOP/MEDIA/RUSSIA/SAUDI ARABIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday [10-11-18] he saw no reason to block Saudi Arabian investments in the United States despite concern over a missing Saudi journalist, saying the Gulf nation would then just move its money into Russia and China. Trump, speaking to reporters at the White House, also […]
10/11/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MEDIA/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is suggesting he would ‘do what is necessary’ to bring the Russia probe to a conclusion, including potentially sitting down for an interview. Trump, in a wide-ranging interview with Fox & Friends on Thursday [10-11-18], said of the investigation into possible ties between his campaign and […]
10/11/2018
GOP/MEDIA/SAUDI ARABIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TURKEY: “The suspected murder of a prominent Saudi journalist exposed a growing rift on Thursday [10-11-18] between the White House and Congress over American policy on Saudi Arabia, as Republican lawmakers demanded an investigation of Jamal Khashoggi’s whereabouts even as President Trump declared his relations with Riyadh ‘excellent.’ The Saudi-led, United States-backed […]
10/11/2018
FOREIGN POLICY/JARED KUSHNER/MEDIA/MIDDLE EAST/SAUDI ARABIA/TURKEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump and Jared Kushner are learning that hyper-personalized family diplomacy and throwing in their lot with foreign strongmen can come at a damaging political price. The disappearance and possible murder of the US-based dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul is primarily a […]
10/10/2018
BRETT KAVANAUGH/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Despite so many positive events and victories, Media Reseach Center reports that 92% of stories on Donald Trump are negative on ABC, CBS and ABC. It is FAKE NEWS! Don’t worry, the Failing New York Times didn’t even put the Brett Kavanaugh victory on the Front Page yesterday-A17!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
10/10/2018
MEDIA/MIDDLE EAST/SAUDI ARABIA/TURKEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “After Jamal Khashoggi entered Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul a little over a week ago and disappeared, leaders and media worldwide demanded the kingdom explain Turkish claims that the journalist had been killed by the Saudi government. The US initially stayed relatively quiet — but pressure for a more robust […]
10/9/2018
MEDIA/SAUDI ARABIA/TURKEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday [10-9-18] he plans to speak with Saudi Arabian officials about the disappearance of prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who went missing a week ago. Trump, speaking at the White House, said he did not know details about Khashoggi’s disappearance. Asked if he had spoken […]
10/9/2018
MEDIA/MELANIA/SAUDI ARABIA/TURKEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s fiancée implored President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump ‘to help shed light on’ his disappearance in an op-ed published by The Washington Post Tuesday [10-9-18]. Khashoggi vanished on October 2 after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. As a columnist for the Post, he […]
10/6/2018
MEDIA/RALLY/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The crowd in front of the U.S. Supreme Court is tiny, looks like about 200 people (& most are onlookers) – that wouldn’t even fill the first couple of rows of our Kansas Rally, or any of our Rallies for that matter! The Fake News Media tries to make it look […]
10/5/2018
CONGRESS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump huddled Wednesday [10-3-18] with Fox News host Sean Hannity and former Speaker Newt Gingrich, according to two people familiar with the plans, a meeting that was originally set to discuss midterm strategy. The meeting took place at the White House as Trump prepares a four week push to […]
10/2/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/TRUMP TAXES: “President Trump on Wednesday [10-3-18] criticized a New York Times investigation into his and his family’s use of dubious tax schemes over the years and the origins of his own wealth, calling the article an ‘old, boring and often told hit piece.’ Referring to The Times as the ‘Failing New […]
10/3/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/TRUMP NETWORTH/TRUMP TAXES: “The president claims that his company was built solely through hard work. A 14,000-word investigation by the NYT begs to differ. It found that the Trump Organization owes its success to multimillion-dollar gifts from Fred C. Trump, President Trump’s father, and tax schemes that some experts say may have […]
10/3/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP FAMILY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP TAXES: “President Donald Trump has badmouthed his hometown newspaper’s reporting as ‘sick,’ ‘weak,’ and ‘nasty.’ He even tells its reporters they work for the ‘failing New York Times.’ But in moments of reflection, he’s allowed that it’s a ‘great, great American jewel.’ The Grey Lady has long occupied space in Trump’s […]
10/3/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/TRUMP NETWORTH/TRUMP TAXES: “U.S. President Donald Trump engaged in tax schemes that included cases of fraud in which he and his siblings helped their parents dodge millions of dollars in taxes, the New York Times reported on Tuesday [10-2-18]. The Times investigation, which the White House said was ‘misleading,’ showed Trump received […]
10/3/2018
TRUMP FAMILY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP TAXES/MEDIA: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday [10-3-18] criticized a New York Times investigation that alleged the president perpetuated a number of tax schemes and fraud during the 1990s to bolster the inheritance he received from his parents…The concept of time value of money is that money in the present time is […]
10/3/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP TAXES: “The Failing New York Times did something I have never seen done before. They used the concept of ‘time value of money’ in doing a very old, boring and often told hit piece on me. Added up, this means that 97% of their stories on me are bad. Never recovered […]
10/2/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/TRUMP TAXES: “The White House pushed back against an exhaustive investigation published by The New York Times on Tuesday [10-2-18] that alleged Donald Trump perpetrated various tax schemes and fraud during the 1990s to bolster the inheritance he received from his parents, calling the report a ‘misleading attack’ on the president’s family…The […]
10/2/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “The White House on Tuesday [10-2-18] officially corrected the record on an insulting remark President Donald Trump uttered a day earlier in the Rose Garden. An official transcript distributed on Monday evening showed the President telling a female senior correspondent she wasn’t ‘thanking’ when he called on her, an odd construction that […]
9/30/2018
CELEBS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Like many, I don’t watch Saturday Night Live (even though I past hosted it) – no longer funny, no talent or charm. It is just a political ad for the Dems. Word is that Kanye West, who put on a MAGA hat after the show (despite being told “no”), was great. He’s […]
9/26/2018
CHINA/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “President Donald Trump, elaborating on his charge at the United Nations that Beijing is meddling in U.S. elections, said in a Twitter post on Wednesday [9-26-18] that China placed ‘propaganda ads’ made to look like news articles in an Iowa newspaper. ‘China is actually placing propaganda ads in the Des Moines Register […]
9/24/2018
MEDIA/NOMINATION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “RT @realDonaldTrump: Brett Kavanaugh and his wife, Ashley, will be interviewed tonight at 7pmE on @marthamaccallum @FoxNews. This is an out…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 24, 2018 5:53 pm […]
9/24/2018
MEDIA/NOMINATION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Brett Kavanaugh and his wife, Ashley, will be interviewed tonight at 7pmE on @marthamaccallum @FoxNews. This is an outstanding family who must be treated fairly!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 24, 2018 4:33 pm […]
9/21/2018
MEDIA/RALLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @RSBNetwork: President @realDonaldTrump absolutely packs the house at JQH Arena in Springfield, MO. #TrumpRally #RedWave https://t.co/1c…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 21, 2018 10:13 pm […]
9/21/2018
FBI/JAMES COMEY/MEDIA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Rod Rosenstein and his allies furiously pushed back Friday [9-21-18] against a bombshell New York Times report that the deputy attorney general considered wearing a wire to record President Donald Trump during a tumultuous period last year after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey. According to the report, Rosenstein […]
9/19/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Great new book by Jason Chaffetz appropriately called ‘The Deep State.’ Very interesting indeed!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 19, 2018 6:57 pm […]
9/19/2018
FBI/JAMES COMEY/MEDIA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s attorney Jay Sekulow claimed, without presenting evidence, that NBC edited a May 2017 interview in which the President said he was thinking of ‘this Russia thing’ when he decided to fire then-FBI Director James Comey. Speaking Wednesday [9-19-18] on CNN’s ‘Cuomo Prime Time,’ Sekulow said the […]
9/19/2018
MEDIA/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’North Korea recommits to denuclearization – we’ve come a long way.’ @FoxNews “ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 19, 2018 6:43 am […]
9/18/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Stormy Daniels, the adult film star who claims U.S. President Donald Trump paid her off to keep their tryst a secret, goes into uncomplimentary detail about their alleged sexual encounter in a new memoir, according to the Guardian newspaper. Daniels, 39, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, also told friends that Trump […]
9/18/2018
ANDREW MCCABE/FBI/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, warning that President Donald Trump is undermining U.S. security, has written a book on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s efforts to safeguard the United States, his publisher said on Tuesday [9-18-18]. ‘The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump,’ […]
9/26/2018
MEDIA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Watch @MariaBartiromo at 6:00 P.M. on @FoxBusiness. Russian Hoax the big topic! Mainstream Media, often referred to as the Fake News Media, hates to discuss the real facts!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 16, 2018 4:40 pm […]
9/16/2018
DEVIN NUNES/MEDIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “RT @FoxNews: .@DevinNunes: ‘I think full transparency is in order here.’ #SundayFutures @MariaBartiromo https://t.co/RmjFNRysWN“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 16, 2018 12:39 pm […]
9/16/2018
MEDIA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Just watched Sunday [9-16-28] Morning Futures with @MariaBartiromo on @FoxNews. This show is MANDATORY watching if you want to understand the massive governmental corruption and the Russian Hoax. It will be rebroadcast this evening at 6:00 P.M. on @FoxBusiness. A must see!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 16, 2018 11:25 am […]
9/14/2018
MEDIA/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When President Obama said that he has been to ’57 States,’ very little mention in Fake News Media. Can you imagine if I said that…story of the year! @IngrahamAngle” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 14, 2018 10:08 pm […]
9/14/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “’They say all these people died in the storm in Puerto Rico, yet 70% of the power was out before the storm. So when did people start dying? At what point do you recognize that what they are doing is a political agenda couched in the nice language of journalism?’ @GeraldoRivera” –Donald Trump, […]
9/13/2018
BUSINESS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Amazon CEO and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos took aim at President Donald Trump over his criticism of journalists Thursday [9-13-18] night, saying his rhetoric calling the media the ‘enemy of the people’ erodes the freedom of the press the nation cherishes…Bezos bought the Post in 2013 with $250 million from his […]
9/13/2018
CHINA/MEDIA/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Wall Street Journal has it wrong, we are under no pressure to make a deal with China, they are under pressure to make a deal with us. Our markets are surging, theirs are collapsing. We will soon be taking in Billions in Tariffs & making products at home. If we meet, […]
9/13/2018
DEMS/ECONOMY/MEDIA/MIDDLE CLASS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’Middle-Class Income Hits All-Time High!’ @foxandfriends And will continue to rise (unless the Dems get in and destroy what we have built).” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 13, 2018 7:25 am […]
9/12/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Stormy Daniels, the adult film actress who claims she had a sexual encounter with President Donald Trump, revealed on Wednesday [9-12-18] that she has penned a tell-all book that will be released Oct. 2. Daniels made the announcement on ‘The View,’ telling the hosts that she will share more details about her […]
9/12/2018
MEDIA/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The unnamed insiders who claim to be working clandestinely to resist Donald Trump are not heroes. As a State Department whistleblower who lost his career to tell the truth about the Iraq war, I am burdened by how the interviewees in Bob Woodward’s new book, ‘Fear,’ and the anonymous writer of that […]
9/12/2018
MEDIA/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Following a week of brutal headlines for the White House, a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll shows that explosive allegations from journalist Bob Woodward’s new book and an anonymous New York Times op-ed are affecting voters’ opinions of President Donald Trump’s executive branch. The majority of those polled, 61 percent, say the Trump […]
8/12/2018
ELECTION/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “The latest and perhaps juiciest Trump tell-all to land this year isn’t from a disgruntled former White House staffer or a deeply sourced investigative journalist. It’s by Stephanie Clifford, better known as Stormy Daniels, the pornographic film star and unlikely feminist resistance hero, who has waged a legal battle over a nondisclosure […]
9/11/2018
GARY COHN/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “One of President Donald Trump’s former senior aides and his former chief economic adviser have issued statements claiming that Bob Woodward’s bombshell new book, ‘Fear,’ is inaccurate and misleading, after the book featured their statements and descriptions of the President’s actions in a negative light. The White House applied ‘a […]
9/11/2018
9/11/MEDIA/SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump marked the 17th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on Tuesday [9-11-18] by stepping back into the role of consoler-in-chief – but only after spending the morning tweeting as usual. Before traveling to the Shanksville, Pa., site where United Flight 93 crashed into a field, the […]
9/11/2018
GARY COHN/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former White House staff secretary Rob Porter on Tuesday [9-11-18] accused journalist Bob Woodward of presenting a ‘selective and often misleading portrait’ of the Trump presidency in his new book, ‘Fear,’ while also heaping praise on President Donald Trump. Porter, who departed the administration in February after his ex-wives leveled allegations […]
9/11/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “New Strzok-Page texts reveal ‘Media Leak Strategy.’ @FoxNews So terrible, and NOTHING is being done at DOJ or FBI – but the world is watching, and they get it completely.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 11, 2018 6:19 am […]
9/11/2018
DONALD JR/MEDIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump, a commander in chief with a well-known bunker mentality, has long doubted the ability of his aides to protect him from outside attacks. But his anxiety about whom he can trust has only increased in the days since anonymous administration members — a number of them in Bob Woodward’s book […]
9/10/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Call it the ‘Omarosa Effect.’ If you work in the White House, you now have to leave your phone in your office if you are going to a meeting in the Situation Room. That new policy comes on the heels of Manigault Newman releasing more secretly recorded audiotapes of conversations she had during […]
9/10/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump vented over White House leaks Monday [9-10-18] as a new tell-all book commands attention, an anonymous writer detailing ‘resistance’ in the administration remains at large and a former staffer reveals more private recordings of the commander in chief. But while Trump continues to insist privately that he […]
9/10/2018
GARY COHN/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump has called journalist Bob Woodward’s book on his administration a work of ‘fiction’ and a ‘scam,’ claiming that quotes in the book are ‘made up’ and that the author is a ‘liar.’ At the same time, sources familiar with his thinking said he is livid at his […]
9/10/2018
KELLYANNE CONWAY/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Kellyanne Conway, for one, does not endorse Trump’s ‘enemy of the people’ rhetoric. In a new interview, this prompted CNN’s Christiane Amanpour to ask her, ‘Then do you try to weigh in with the President on this issue?’ Amanpour repeatedly pushed Conway about the president’s anti-media attacks in an interview for […]
9/10/2018
DEMS/ECONOMY/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Economy is soooo good, perhaps the best in our country’s history (remember, it’s the economy stupid!), that the Democrats are flailing & lying like CRAZY! Phony books, articles and T.V. ‘hits’ like no other pol has had to endure-and they are losing big. Very dishonest people!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 10, […]
9/10/2018
DEMS/MEDIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “’It is mostly anonymous sources in here, why should anyone trust you? General Mattis, General Kelly said it’s not true.’ @SavannahGuthrie @TODAYshow Bob Woodward is a liar who is like a Dem operative prior to the Midterms. He was caught cold, even by NBC.” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 10, 2018 7:36 am […]
9/10/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @realDonaldTrump: The Woodward book is a scam. I don’t talk the way I am quoted. If I did I would not have been elected President. These…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 10, 2018 7:11 am […]
9/10/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’I’m taking this book with a grain of salt & everyone should do the same. Multiple sources, but almost every one of them has come out and discredited the claims made by Woodward. You cannot take this book too seriously.’ Katelyn Caralle, Washington Examiner” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 10, 2018 6:46 am […]
9/10/2018
DEMS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Woodward book is a Joke – just another assault against me, in a barrage of assaults, using now disproven unnamed and anonymous sources. Many have already come forward to say the quotes by them, like the book, are fiction. Dems can’t stand losing. I’ll write the real book!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
9/7/2018
MEDIA/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @CalebJHull: ‘I complained plenty about Fox News, but I never threatened to shut them down.’ It’s probably a good time to remind you th…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 7, 2018 8:17 pm […]
9/7/2018
LEGAL/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “If Richard Nixon were alive today, he probably would not agree that ‘President Trump is facing a test to his presidency unlike any faced by a modern American leader.’ Leading with this sentence, the anonymous ‘Steady State’ op-ed that appeared in The New York Times this week followed that declaration with […]
9/7/2018
MEDIA/RALLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump on Thursday [9-6-18] appeared to make light of a Montana politician’s assault on a reporter. During a rally in Billings, Montana, Trump praised Greg Gianforte, a current House Republican lawmaker who, as a congressional candidate, assaulted a reporter from The Guardian last year during an interview on the […]
9/7/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday [9-7-18] called on the U.S. Justice Department to investigate the New York Times after the news outlet published a column this week by an anonymous administration official questioning his fitness for office. Trump also said he was considering taking action against the Times, whose […]
9/7/2018
MEDIA/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump on Friday [9-7-18] accused journalist Bob Woodward of using ‘made up’ quotes in his forthcoming book, insisting that the comments attributed to him in the book could not be accurate because ‘I don’t talk the way I am quoted’…Woodward’s book, which he has said was written using […]
9/7/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Woodward book is a scam. I don’t talk the way I am quoted. If I did I would not have been elected President. These quotes were made up. The author uses every trick in the book to demean and belittle. I wish the people could see the real facts – and […]
9/7/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump declared Friday [9-7-18] that the Justice Department should investigate and unmask the author of a bitingly critical New York Times opinion piece purportedly written by a member of an administration ‘resistance’ movement straining to thwart his most dangerous impulses. Trump cited ‘national security’ as the reason for […]
9/7/2018
JEFF SESSIONS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As President Trump tries to rebut the portrayal in the latest attention-grabbing book, he has denied not only saying the things attributed to him, but also that he has ever said anything like them. The problem for Mr. Trump is that, in some cases at least, the record shows that he […]
9/7/2018
JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump intensified his attack Friday [9-7-18] on an anonymous Op-Ed essay published in The New York Times, declaring that he wanted Attorney General Jeff Sessions to investigate the source of the article, which he has condemned as an act of treason. Mr. Trump said he was also considering action […]
9/7/2018
KELLYANNE CONWAY/MEDIA/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump believes the author of an anonymous op-ed criticizing his leadership and detailing a ‘resistance’ within his administration is ‘somebody in national security,’ Kellyanne Conway said on Friday [9-7-18]…Conway said she doesn’t believe the unnamed senior administration official who wrote The New York Times op-ed is a White […]
9/6/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Are the investigative ‘journalists’ of the New York Times going to investigate themselves – who is the anonymous letter writer?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 6, 2018 6:12 pm […]
9/6/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Many senior officials in President Donald Trump’s administration have been working from within to frustrate parts of his agenda to protect the country from his worst impulses, an anonymous Trump official wrote in the New York Times on Wednesday [9-5-18]. In the column, the official described ‘early whispers’ among members of […]
9/6/2018
MEDIA/MELANIA: “Melania Trump on Thursday [9-6-18] said the anonymous author of an explosive New York Times op-ed alleging her husband is unfit for office is ‘sabotaging’ the country…Though the first lady asserted that a free press ‘is important to our democracy’ and called freedom of speech ‘an important pillar of our nation’s founding principles,’ she […]
9/6/2018
MEDIA/MIKE PENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Thursday [9-6-18] scolded the media for its ‘wild obsession’ with unmasking the anonymous author of The New York Times’ explosive editorial alleging a ‘quiet resistance’ within the Trump administration…A flood of senior administration officials, including Vice President Mike Pence and several cabinet […]
9/6/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump sought to heighten the sense of urgency for his base Thursday [9-6-18] when he told supporters that if he is impeached, ‘it’s your fault, ’cause you didn’t go out to vote.’ Trump has discussed the prospect of being impeached before, but his comments come after a whirlwind […]
9/6/2018
JAMES MATTIS/MEDIA/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Damaging portraits of President Donald Trump are drawing new attention to the options available to military commanders who feel they have been given an illegal or seriously ill-advised order by their commander in chief. A New York Times op-ed penned by a ‘senior official’ and excerpts from a new book by […]
9/6/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “ALONE. THAT IS WHAT PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP must be feeling this morning. In the last two days, the Washington establishment has pummeled him like no president has been pummeled before. BOB WOODWARD’s book ‘Fear’ has 400-plus pages drawn from hundreds of hours of interviews with people who work for and with the […]
9/6/2018
ECONOMY/JOBS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Deep State and the Left, and their vehicle, the Fake News Media, are going Crazy – & they don’t know what to do. The Economy is booming like never before, Jobs are at Historic Highs, soon TWO Supreme Court Justices & maybe Declassification to find Additional Corruption. Wow!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
9/6/2018
JAMES MATTIS/MEDIA/MIKE PENCE/MIKE POMPEO/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Top aides to Donald Trump scrambled on Thursday [9-6-18] to deny authorship of an anonymous New York Times opinion column that slammed the U.S. president’s leadership style and described ‘a quiet resistance’ to him within his own administration. By early afternoon, eight senior officials had disavowed the piece, including Vice […]
9/5/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Does the so-called ‘Senior Administration Official’ really exist, or is it just the Failing New York Times with another phony source? If the GUTLESS anonymous person does indeed exist, the Times must, for National Security purposes, turn him/her over to government at once!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 5, 2018 6:40 pm […]