ABORTION/GOP/OBAMA/SUPREME COURT/TRAVEL BAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The consequences of President Trump’s nomination of Neil M. Gorsuch to the Supreme Court — and the Republican blockade of President Obama’s nomination of Merrick B. Garland in 2016 for that seat — reverberated powerfully on Tuesday as the court’s conservative majority handed down major decisions on Mr. Trump’s travel […]
Category: Obama
6/26/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “’The most profound question of our era: Was there a conspiracy in the Obama Department of Justice and the FBI to prevent Donald Trump from becoming President of the U.S., and was Strzok at the core of the conspiracy?’ Judge Andrew Napolitano” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 26, 2018 8:30 am […]
6/25/2018
IMMIGRATION/MEDIA/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Such a difference in the media coverage of the same immigration policies between the Obama Administration and ours. Actually, we have done a far better job in that our facilities are cleaner and better run than were the facilities under Obama. Fake News is working overtime!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 25, 2018 […]
6/22/2018
BORDER/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We must maintain a Strong Southern Border. We cannot allow our Country to be overrun by illegal immigrants as the Democrats tell their phony stories of sadness and grief, hoping it will help them in the elections. Obama and others had the same pictures, and did nothing about it!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
6/18/2018
MEDIA/NORTH KOREA/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “If President Obama (who got nowhere with North Korea and would have had to go to war with many millions of people being killed) had gotten along with North Korea and made the initial steps toward a deal that I have, the Fake News would have named him a national hero!” […]
6/15/2018
JAMES COMEY/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘Why in the world didn’t Barack Obama fire this guy (Comey)?’ asks Mark Levin!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 15, 2018 6:53 am […]
6/13/2018
NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Before taking office people were assuming that we were going to War with North Korea. President Obama said that North Korea was our biggest and most dangerous problem. No longer – sleep well tonight!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 13, 2018 5:01 am […]
6/11/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Barack Obama has met with several Democrats considering running for president in 2020, a Democrat close to the former president tells CNN, offering them advice on running in the Trump era and discussing how to position the party going forward. The meetings come as the former president charts his future political life […]
6/8/2018
DEMS/IRAN/NORTH KOREA/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Obama, Schumer and Pelosi did NOTHING about North Korea, and now weak on Crime, High Tax Schumer is telling me what to do at the Summit the Dems could never set up. Schumer failed with North Korea and Iran, we don’t need his advice!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 8, 2018 5:06 […]
6/7/2018
IRAN/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Obama Administration is now accused of trying to give Iran secret access to the financial system of the United States. This is totally illegal. Perhaps we could get the 13 Angry Democrats to divert some of their energy to this ‘matter’ (as Comey would call it). Investigate!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June […]
6/1/2018
OBAMA/PARDONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Dinesh D’Souza, the conservative author and filmmaker pardoned by President Trump, claimed victory on Friday [6-1-2018] over what he characterized as a political prosecution by the administration of President Barack Obama. In terms that evidently resonated with Mr. Trump, who is aggrieved about investigations that he blames on his predecessor, Mr. […]
5/29/2018
DEMS/IMMIGRATION/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [5-29-18] taunted online activists who shared photos of children at immigration detention facilities as a means of criticizing his administration, noting that the photos had been taken during the tenure of his predecessor, Barack Obama…The photograph in question began to circulate online over the weekend, shared by […]
5/29/2018
BORDER/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Democrats mistakenly tweet 2014 pictures from Obama’s term showing children from the Border in steel cages. They thought it was recent pictures in order to make us look bad, but backfires. Dems must agree to Wall and new Border Protection for good of country…Bipartisan Bill!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 29, 2018 5:07 […]
5/25/2018
BUSINESS/CHINA/CHUCK SCHUMER/OBAMA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Senator Schumer and Obama Administration let phone company ZTE flourish with no security checks. I closed it down then let it reopen with high level security guarantees, change of management and board, must purchase U.S. parts and pay a $1.3 Billion fine. Dems do nothing….” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 25, […]
5/25/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Over the last 72 hours, the President of the United States has leaned into a conspiracy theory that goes like this: During the 2016 presidential race, President Barack Obama — via the FBI — placed a ‘spy’ within Trump’s campaign for purely political reasons…There’s a tendency to write this latest Trump […]
5/25/2018
DEMS/OBAMA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Funny to watch the Democrats criticize Trade Deals being negotiated by me when they don’t even know what the deals are and when for 8 years the Obama Administration did NOTHING on trade except let other countries rip off the United States. Lost almost $800 Billion/year under ‘O’” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
5/25/2018
DHS/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration moved on Friday [5-25-18] to end a program that aimed to attract foreign entrepreneurs to the United States, saying the Obama-era effort did not adequately protect American workers and was an inappropriate use of government authority. The Department of Homeland Security’s formal proposal to rescind the international entrepreneur rule, […]
5/23/2018
JAMES CLAPPER/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “@foxandfriends ‘New Bombshell in the Obama Spying Scandal. Did other Agencies SPY on Trump Campaign?’ Even Clapper, worlds dumbest former Intelligence Head, who has the problem of lying a lot, used the word SPY when describing the illegal activities!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 23, 2018 5:45 am […]
5/21/2018
MEDIA/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Wall Street Journal asks, ‘WHERE IN THE WORLD WAS BARACK OBAMA?’ A very good question!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 21, 2018 7:51 am […]
5/12/2018
IRAN/MILITARY/NUCLEAR/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Iran’s Military Budget is up more than 40% since the Obama negotiated Nuclear Deal was reached…just another indicator that it was all a big lie. But not anymore!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 12, 2018 5:02 pm […]
5/10/2018
CHUCK SCHUMER/IRAN/JAMES COMEY/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Senator Cryin’ Chuck Schumer fought hard against the Bad Iran Deal, even going at it with President Obama, & then Voted AGAINST it! Now he says I should not have terminated the deal – but he doesn’t really believe that! Same with Comey. Thought he was terrible until I fired […]
5/9/2018
IRAN/NORTH KOREA/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “So much of the Trump presidency to this moment has been about undoing President Barack Obama. Announcing the US would leave the Iran nuclear deal, President Donald Trump was still more concerned with how badly he said it was negotiated than with what would come next. He called it flawed, horrible, […]
5/8/2018
IRAN/JOE BIDEN/NUCLEAR/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former President Barack Obama on Tuesday [5-8-18] criticized President Donald Trump’s decision to exit the Iran deal, a pillar of Obama’s legacy on foreign policy…Trump announced on Tuesday afternoon that he was withdrawing the US from the nuclear agreement with Iran and said he would impose new sanctions. In his statement […]
5/7/2018
IRAN/NUCLEAR/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “For years, opponents of the nuclear deal with Iran have accused Benjamin J. Rhodes, a top national security aide to President Barack Obama, of scheming to sell the diplomatic agreement on false pretenses to the American people. Now, just as President Trump appears likely to announce his decision to withdraw from the […]
4/29/2018
OBAMA/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Just got recent Poll – much higher than President O at same time….Well, much more has been accomplished!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 29, 2018 6:54 am […]
4/24/2018
DREAMERS/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A third federal judge has ruled against the Trump administration’s decision to cancel an Obama-era program protecting young undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children. The decision, issued Tuesday [4-24-18] evening by U.S. District Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee in Washington, D.C., is in one respect the […]
4/23/2018
AFRICA/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former President Barack Obama will deliver a high-profile address in July marking the 100th anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s birth as he continues to shape his post-White House platform. Like all of Obama’s public appearances since leaving the White House, the lecture in Johannesburg isn’t likely to raise his successor, President Donald Trump, […]
4/16/2018
CONGRESS/DRUGS/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Deep within President Donald Trump’s plan to combat opioid abuse, overshadowed by his call for the death penalty for some drug traffickers, is a push to expand the use of medication to treat addiction. It’s a rare instance in which Trump isn’t trying to dismantle Obama administration policies, and where fractious Republicans […]
4/15/2018
MEDIA/OBAMA/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Just hit 50% in the Rasmussen Poll, much higher than President Obama at same point. With all of the phony stories and Fake News, it’s hard to believe! Thank you America, we are doing Great Things.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 15, 2018 9:44 am […]
4/14/2018
ISIS/OBAMA/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘Welcome to the NBA.’ That was Barack Obama’s Inauguration-Day message to Donald Trump, when the outgoing president laid out the particularly nasty policy dilemma his successor faced in war-ravaged Syria. The question was whether to arm Kurdish fighters battling ISIS in eastern Syria, a seemingly arcane but hugely sensitive question with major […]
4/11/2018
DEMS/OBAMA/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Much of the bad blood with Russia is caused by the Fake & Corrupt Russia Investigation, headed up by the all Democrat loyalists, or people that worked for Obama. Mueller is most conflicted of all (except Rosenstein who signed FISA & Comey letter). No Collusion, so they go crazy!” -Donald Trump, […]
4/3/2018
EPA/OBAMA/SCOTT PRUITT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “It should have been Scott Pruitt’s finest moment. Mr. Pruitt, the chief of the Environmental Protection Agency, has sought to make his name as the Trump administration’s most effective eraser of regulations on American industry. On Tuesday [4-3-18], he formally announced his most sweeping regulatory rollback to date: a plan to weaken […]
4/3/2018
MEDIA/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Thank you to Rasmussen for the honest polling. Just hit 50%, which is higher than Cheatin’ Obama at the same time in his Administration.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 3, 2018 6:08am […]
3/23/2018
GUNS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/OBAMA: “Obama Administration legalized bump stocks. BAD IDEA. As I promised, today the Department of Justice will issue the rule banning BUMP STOCKS with a mandated comment period. We will BAN all devices that turn legal weapons into illegal machine guns. –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Mar. 23, 2018 6:01pm […]
3/8/2018
OBAMA/OBAMA FAMILY: “Former President Barack Obama is in advanced negotiations with Netflix to produce a series of high-profile shows that will provide him a global platform after his departure from the White House, according to people familiar with the discussions. Under terms of a proposed deal, which is not yet final, Netflix would pay Mr. […]
2/20/2018
FAKE NEWS/OBAMA/RUSSIA: “I have been much tougher on Russia than Obama, just look at the facts. Total Fake News!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 20, 2018 08:38am […]
2/20/2018
GOP/OBAMA: “Matt Schlapp and CPAC are getting ready for another exciting event. Big difference from those days when President Obama held the White House. You’ve come a long way Matt!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 20, 2018 08:03am […]
2/20/2018
2016 ELECTION/OBAMA/VOTING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: ” ‘There is no serious person out there who would suggest somehow that you could even rig America’s elections, there’s no evidence that that has happened in the past or that it will happen this time, and so I’d invite Mr. Trump to stop whining and make his case to get […]
2/19/2018
2016 ELECTION/OBAMA/RUSSIA: “Obama was President up to, and beyond, the 2016 Election. So why didn’t he do something about Russian meddling?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 19, 2018 02:55pm […]
2/18/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/HILLARY CLINTON/OBAMA/RUSSIA: “Now that Adam Schiff is starting to blame President Obama for Russian meddling in the election, he is probably doing so as yet another excuse that the Democrats, lead by their fearless leader, Crooked Hillary Clinton, lost the 2016 election. But wasn’t I a great candidate?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 18, 2018 […]
2/7/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/OBAMA/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A text message between two FBI employees from September 2016 released by a Republican senator Wednesday [2-7-18] says that then-President Barack Obama ‘wants to know everything we’re doing.’ What exactly the text refers to isn’t specified in the exchange. Associates of the FBI employees said it refers to preparation to brief […]
1/31/2018
OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump delivered his first State of the Union address on Tuesday [1-30-18] night, a (very) lengthy speech in which he largely revisited his accomplishments over his first year in office and offered a handful of proposals he’d like to see considered in the coming year. While it’s important not to […]
1/18/2018
OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump, after years of slamming former President Barack Obama for golfing, comes to the end of a year in office having spent close to 100 days at a golf club that bears his name. The President’s favorite haunts are International Golf Club in Palm Beach County, Florida, Trump National Golf […]
1/11/2018
OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UK: “Reason I canceled my trip to London is that I am not a big fan of the Obama Administration having sold perhaps the best located and finest embassy in London for ‘peanuts,’ only to build a new one in an off location for 1.2 billion dollars. Bad deal. Wanted me to cut […]
1/4/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration on Thursday [1-4-18] will free federal prosecutors to more aggressively enforce marijuana laws, effectively threatening to undermine the legalization movement that has spread to six states, most recently California. The Justice Department is expected to rescind an Obama-era policy of discouraging federal prosecutors from bringing charges of marijuana-related […]
1/2/2018
IRAN/OBAMA/PROTESTS: “The people of Iran are finally acting against the brutal and corrupt Iranian regime. All of the money that President Obama so foolishly gave them went into terrorism and into their ‘pockets.’ The people have little food, big inflation and no human rights. The U.S. is watching!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 2, 2018 07:09am […]
12/29/2017
FAKE NEWS/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “While the Fake News loves to talk about my so-called low approval rating, @foxandfriends just showed that my rating on Dec. 28, 2017, was approximately the same as President Obama on Dec. 28, 2009, which was 47%…and this despite massive negative Trump coverage & Russia hoax!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Dec. 29, […]
12/8/2017
OBAMA: “Former President Barack Obama urged voters this week to stay engaged in democracy, warning that complacency was responsible for the rise of Nazi Germany… During the event, the former President mentioned similar themes of responding to a changing political landscape, mentioning examples from America’s history… Obama also defended the necessity of a free press… […]
10/24/2017
BANKING/CONSUMER PROTECTION/MIKE PENCE/OBAMA/TREASURY: “Congress overturned a rule by an Obama-appointed financial regulator that would have made it easier for consumers to sue banks in groups, with Vice President Mike Pence casting a tiebreaking vote in the Senate. The 51-50 vote handed the financial industry its most significant legislative victory since President Donald Trump took office […]
10/23/2017
OBAMA/VOTING: “Organizing for Action, the progressive group born out of Barack Obama’s old campaign apparatus, is joining the redistricting effort that Obama has made a central cause of his post-presidency. On Monday, OFA will officially launch a partnership with the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, chaired by former Attorney General Eric Holder. OFA officially runs independently […]
10/20/2017
OBAMA: “Former President Barack Obama, returning to the campaign trail on Thursday for the first time since leaving the White House, issued an unexpectedly stinging attack on the immigration-focused campaign of the Republican candidate for Virginia governor. Seeking to lift the candidacy of Lt. Gov. Ralph S. Northam, the Democratic nominee for governor, Mr. Obama […]
10/18/2017
OBAMA: “President Barack Obama will hit the campaign trail on Thursday [10-19-17] to rally black voters behind candidates for governor in Virginia and New Jersey amid stern warnings that African Americans may not come out in force on an Election Day that is just three weeks away… Phillip E. Thompson, the president of the N.A.A.C.P. […]
10/5/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “The Trump administration is poised to roll back the federal requirement for employers to include birth control coverage in their health insurance plans, vastly expanding exemptions for those that cite moral or religious objections. The new rules, which could be issued as soon as Friday [10-6-17], fulfill a campaign promise by President […]
9/14/2017
EPA/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Federal regulators will reconsider Obama -era rules governing waste from coal-fired power plants, accepting a request from utility companies that were faced with possibly closing dozens of coal-ash dumps nationwide. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the decision Thursday [9-14-17], putting into question rules from 2015 that one trade group estimated would […]
8/31/2017
CRISIS/EPA/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Explosions and fires at a Houston-area chemical plant triggered an evacuation Thursday [8-31-17] in a region still in chaos from Hurricane Harvey — and generated new criticism of President Donald Trump’s efforts to repeal the industry’s safety rules. Thursday morning’s blasts at the plant came just a day after a federal court […]
8/29/2017
JOBS/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House on Tuesday [8-29-17] said it will halt a planned Obama-era rule that would have required businesses to begin collecting data about how much they pay workers of different genders, races and ethnic groups, saying it posed a burden to employers. The data-collection requirement was proposed by the Obama administration […]
8/28/2017
OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VA/VETS: “VA Secretary David Shulkin has proved to be something unique in President Donald Trump’s Washington: an Obama appointee nominated by Trump who is beloved by almost everyone and getting stuff done. By tweaking regulations, he has managed to fire hundreds of allegedly incompetent employees, publicized waiting times at Veterans Affairs clinics, gotten […]
8/14/2017
OBAMA/RACISM: “Former president Barack Obama still knows how to find the right words after a national tragedy. With more than 2.4 million likes and counting, Obama’s tweet Saturday [8-12-17] quoting Nelson Mandela in the wake of white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Va., is the third-most liked tweet since Twitter launched. One woman was killed and […]
8/7/2017
INTERIOR/OBAMA/RYAN ZINKE: “Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has ordered his agencies to begin implementing a revised management plan to protect the greater sage grouse, a move that could undo some protections created under the Obama administration. Among other things, the recommendations compiled by an Interior task force at Mr. Zinke’s request call for potential loosening of […]
8/3/2017
OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In mid-August 2011, then-non-politician Donald Trump levied a critique of President Barack Obama. ‘@BarackObama played golf yesterday. Now he heads to a 10 day vacation in Martha’s Vineyard. Nice work ethic.’ This was one of dozens of tweets criticizing Obama for playing golf… It was one of a handful that also dinged […]
7/1/2017
EPA/OBAMA/TRUMP PEOPLE/SCOTT PRUITT: “In the four months since he took office as the Environmental Protection Agency’s administrator, Scott Pruitt has moved to undo, delay or otherwise block more than 30 environmental rules, a regulatory rollback larger in scope than any other over so short a time in the agency’s 47-year history, according to experts in […]
7/1/2017
CLIMATE CHANGE/OBAMA: “Former President Barack Obama on Saturday [7-2-17] indirectly criticized President Trump in a speech delivered in Indonesia for withdrawing “American leadership” on climate change by abandoning the Paris accord. ‘In Paris, we came together around the most ambitious agreement in history about climate change, an agreement that even with the temporary absence of […]
6/28/2017
2016 ELECTION/OBAMA/RUSSIA/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former US Ambassador to NATO and Bush administration State Department official Nicholas Burns accused President Donald Trump of a ‘dereliction of the basic duty to defend the country’ for his apparent disinterest in Russia’s meddling in the 2016 US election. Testifying before the Senate intelligence committee Wednesday, Burns criticized both the […]
6/26/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMA/OBAMACARE(ACA): “RT @WhiteHouse: FACT: when #Obamacare was signed, CBO estimated that 23M would be covered in 2017. They were off by 100%. Only 10.3M people are covered.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 26, 2017 08:30pm […]
6/26/2017
DONALD ON DONALD/OBAMA/RUSSIA: “The real story is that President Obama did NOTHING after being informed in August about Russian meddling. With 4 months looking at Russia… under a magnifying glass, they have zero ‘tapes’ of T people colluding. There is no collusion & no obstruction. I should be given apology!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 26, […]
6/26/2017
2016 ELECTION/OBAMA/RUSSIA: “The reason that President Obama did NOTHING about Russia after being notified by the CIA of meddling is that he expected Clinton would win …and did not want to ‘rock the boat.’ He didn’t ‘choke,’ he colluded or obstructed, and it did the Dems and Crooked Hillary no good.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June […]
6/24/2017
2016 ELECTION/OBAMA/RUSSIA: “Obama Administration official said they ‘choked’ when it came to acting on Russian meddling of election. They didn’t want to hurt Hillary?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 24, 2017 03:44pm […]
6/24/2017
2016 ELECTION/OBAMA/RUSSIA: “Since the Obama Administration was told way before the 2016 Election that the Russians were meddling, why no action? Focus on them, not T!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 24, 2017 03:28pm […]
6/23/2017
2016 ELECTION/OBAMA/RUSSIA: “Just out: The Obama Administration knew far in advance of November 8th about election meddling by Russia. Did nothing about it. WHY?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 23, 2017 07:43pm […]
6/22/2017
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/DHS/OBAMA/RUSSIA: “By the way, if Russia was working so hard on the 2016 Election, it all took place during the Obama Admin. Why didn’t they stop them?…Why did Democratic National Committee turn down the DHS offer to protect against hacks (long prior to election). It’s all a big Dem HOAX!…Why did the DNC REFUSE […]
6/12/2017
JOHN MCCAIN/OBAMA/POLITICS: “Sen. John McCain — who once called former President Barack Obama’s foreign policy ‘feckless’ — insisted that his 2008 presidential rival still provided more American global leadership than the current president. The Arizona Republican was asked in an interview published Sunday if America’s standing on the global stage was better under Obama than […]
6/1/2017
OBAMA: “The big story is the ‘unmasking and surveillance’ of people that took place during the Obama Administration.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 1, 2017 06:05am […]
5/12/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/CRIME/DRUGS/OBAMA/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered federal prosecutors late Thursday [5-11-2017] to pursue the toughest possible charges and sentences against crime suspects, reversing Obama administration efforts to ease penalties for some nonviolent drug violations. The dramatic shift in criminal justice policy, foreshadowed during recent weeks, is Mr. Sessions’s first major stamp on […]
5/8/2017
INTELLIGENCE/OBAMA/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/MICHAEL FLYNN: “Then-President Barack Obama warned President-elect Donald Trump in November against hiring retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn as his national security adviser, former Obama administration officials confirmed to CNN. Obama warned Trump about Flynn during their Oval Office meeting on November 10, days after Trump was elected president. Obama’s concerns, which […]
5/8/2017
OBAMA/TRUMP PEOPLE/MICHAEL FLYNN: “General Flynn was given the highest security clearance by the Obama Administration – but the Fake News seldom likes talking about that.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 8, 2017 06:57am […]
5/1/2017
OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WIRETAPPING: “President Donald Trump suggested Monday [5-1-17] he still believes his unsubstantiated allegations that President Barack Obama illegally tapped his phones during the 2016 campaign. ‘I think our sides been proven very strongly and everybody’s talking about it, and frankly, it should be discussed — I think that is a very big surveillance […]
4/26/2017
CLIMATE CHANGE/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s aggressive rollback of the Obama administration’s climate policies is already changing the trajectory of the world’s efforts on global warming, with some analysts estimating it will mean billions more tons of greenhouse gases entering the atmosphere during the next decade and a half. It could be one of […]
4/18/2017
IMMIGRATION/OBAMA: “The weak illegal immigration policies of the Obama Admin. allowed bad MS 13 gangs to form in cities across U.S. We are removing them fast!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 18, 2017 04:39am […]
04/14/2017
NATIONAL SECURITY/OBAMA/SECRET SERVICE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump Administration will not disclose logs of those who visit the White House complex, breaking with his predecessor, the White House announced Friday [4-14-17]. The decision, after nearly three months of speculation about the fate of the records, marks a dramatic from the Obama Administration’s voluntary disclosure of more […]
04/12/2017
INTELLIGENCE/OBAMA/POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WIRETAPPING: “After a review of the same intelligence reports brought to light by House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes, both Republican and Democratic lawmakers and aides have so far found no evidence that Obama administration officials did anything unusual or illegal, multiple sources in both parties tell CNN. Their private assessment contradicts President Donald […]
04/11/2017
DODD-FRANK/OBAMA/POLITICS/SEC: “A key House lawmaker on Tuesday [4-11-17] unveiled changes to his proposal to roll back Obama-era financial rules, promising regulatory relief for banks if they hold enough capital and provisions aimed at spurring more companies to go public. The summary of proposed legislation from House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R., Texas) shows […]
04/11/2017
OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump received an urgent warning in February, informing him of a crucial date he was about to miss. ‘FYI manufacturing deadlines for the Easter eggs are near,’ said a Twitter post directed at Mr. Trump; the first lady, Melania Trump; and the president’s daughter Ivanka Trump. ‘Please reach out!’ The message […]
04/10/2017
FCC/NET NEUTRALITY/OBAMA: “A federal regulator’s plan to roll back Obama -era net-neutrality rules is sparking another battle that is expected to rival or exceed the epic political clashes over internet regulation in recent years. The dispute intensified last week when Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai held a closed-door meeting with telecommunications groups to sketch […]
04/04/2017
INTELLIGENCE/NATIONAL SECURITY/OBAMA/RUSSIA/SUSAN RICE: “The House Intelligence Committee wants Susan Rice, a top aide in the Obama administration, to testify in a probe of alleged Russian election interference, as the investigation widens to include allegations that Obama officials improperly used intelligence information involving President Donald Trump or his associates. Two officials familiar with the matter said […]
4/1/2017
FAKE NEWS/OBAMA/WIRETAPPING: “When will Sleepy Eyes Chuck Todd and @NBCNews start talking about the Obama SURVEILLANCE SCANDAL and stop with the Fake Trump/Russia story?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 1, 2017 07:43am […]
3/28/2017
CABINET/CLIMATE CHANGE/EPA/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/SCOTT PRUITT: “Scott Pruitt’s first weeks leading the Environmental Protection Agency have been marked by infighting among competing factions, three sources tell CNN, including a group that believes Pruitt may not go far enough to reshape the agency and pare back regulations. Some conservatives both inside and outside the agency are […]
3/26/2017
INTELLIGENCE/OBAMA/WIRETAPPING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/REINCE PRIEBUS: “Fox News anchor Chris Wallace pressed White House chief of staff Reince Priebus on Sunday over President Donald Trump’s baseless claim that President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower during the 2016 presidential campaign. In an interview on ‘Fox News Sunday,’ Wallace asked Priebus whether Trump accepted the conclusion from law […]
3/23/2017
CONFLICT OF INTEREST/INTELLIGENCE/OBAMA/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WIRETAPPING: “House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes has reportedly apologized to committee members, one day after he went to the president and press, saying the Trump transition team may have been surveilled during former President Barack Obama’s administration… ‘Details about the U.S. persons involved in the incoming administration with little or no […]
3/23/2017
GOP/INTELLIGENCE/NATIONAL SECURITY/OBAMA/RUSSIA/WIRETAPPING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Representative Devin Nunes, the California Republican who is chairman of a House panel investigating Russian interference in the presidential election, may have dealt his own inquiry a fatal blow on Wednesday [3-22-17]. Armed with intelligence that some Republicans said bolstered President Trump’s widely disputed claim of being wiretapped by the Obama […]
3/21/2017
LEGAL/OBAMA/WIRETAPPING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In accusing former President Barack Obama of ordering Trump Tower wiretapped before last year’s presidential election, President Donald Trump compared the alleged behavior to ‘Nixon/Watergate.’ But John Dean, a former White House counsel under former President Richard Nixon who was charged with obstruction of justice for his role in Watergate, said it’s […]
3/21/2017
HUMAN RIGHTS/OBAMA/TRAVEL BAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP EXEC ORDERS: “The Trump administration did not attend a regional human rights hearing that examined how U.S. policies are hurting asylum claims or triggering other alleged immigration abuses. For decades, U.S. administrations have enthusiastically supported the Inter-American Human Rights Commission as it defended rights throughout the hemisphere, especially in repressive […]
3/21/2017
OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Let’s all agree that no other person ever elected President would have hurled a charge that his predecessor wiretapped him. Especially not in a tweet that referred to a former President this way: ‘This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!’ But as his supporters like to say, Donald Trump is no […]
3/20/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/FBI/OBAMA/RUSSIA: “Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey said publicly for the first time Monday [3-20-17] that the agency is investigating whether members of Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign collaborated with the Russian government to influence the presidential election. The Capitol Hill announcement by Mr. Comey divulged an active FBI investigation, a rare step by the […]
3/20/2017
OBAMA/SEAN SPICER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House got stuck in the rough Monday [3-20-17] after President Trump’s Press Secretary Sean Spicer defended his boss’s frequent golf outings by claiming the commander-in-chief uses the game differently than former President Barack Obama did. Trump, who just eight weeks into office has already made 10 trips to green, […]
3/16/2017
BUDGET/NIH/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In a budget blueprint that promises to ‘make America great again,’ the Trump administration has proposed to cut $5.8 billion from the National Institutes of Health’s budget for fiscal year 2018, reducing its total spending to $25.9 billion. That would represent a roughly 20% decrease from its 2017 spending on biomedical research, […]
3/16/2017
NATIONAL DEBT/OBAMA/POLITICS/TREASURY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. hit its debt limit again on Thursday [3-16-17]— a whopping $19.9 trillion this time — and the Treasury Department started using accounting maneuvers to buy Congress several months to raise it to avoid a potential federal government default. The statutory limit on borrowing has become a partisan flash point […]
3/15/2017
ECONOMY/EPA/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump is expected to announce a new review of federal auto fuel economy and emissions rules Wednesday [3-15-17] at an event in Michigan. A senior White House official said the administration plans to review standards approved by the Environmental Protection Agency just ahead of Trump’s inauguration, saying the regulations may not […]
3/13/2017
KELLYANNE CONWAY/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WIRETAPPING: “The Department of Justice is under pressure to provide any documents related to President Donald Trump’s accusation — presented so far without evidence — that the Obama administration wiretapped his phones at Trump Tower during the campaign. The House Intelligence Committee has set a Monday [3-13-17] deadline for the DOJ to […]
3/13/2017
OBAMA/TRUMP PEOPLE/WIRETAPPING/KELLYANNE CONWAY: “White House adviser Kellyanne Conway is denying she suggested there was wider surveillance of President Donald Trump during the campaign, telling CNN Monday that her comments in a recent interview were taken out of context. Sunday night, Conway appeared to expand Trump’s allegations that the Obama administration wiretapped his phones at Trump […]
3/12/2017
OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WIRETAPPING: “A top intelligence overseer in Congress said he doubts the administration will back up Donald Trump’s claim that former President Barack Obama ordered a wiretap on him during the 2016 campaign. ‘I don’t expect we’re going to see any evidence of this,’ Rep. Adam Schiff (D., Calif.), the top Democrat on the […]