CONGRESS/INVESTIGATIONS: “House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said on Monday [June 27, 2022] that everything is good between him and Donald Trump as the former president publicly questions whether it was wise to keep more Republicans off of the House January 6 committee… McCarthy repeated his long-held defense of the decision, arguing that House Speaker Nancy […]
Category: Political Figures
1/16/2022
2024 ELECTION/POLITICAL FIGURES: “Donald Trump is trashing Ron DeSantis in private as an ingrate with a ‘dull personality’ and no realistic chance of beating him in a potential 2024 showdown, according to sources who’ve recently talked to the former president about the Florida governor. Why it matters: The two are among the most popular Republicans […]
12/1/2021
GEORGIA/POLITICAL FIGURES: “Stacey ‘The Hoax’ Abrams has just announced that she’s running for Governor of Georgia. I beat her single-handedly, without much of a candidate, in 2018. I’ll beat her again, but it will be hard to do with Brian Kemp, because the MAGA base will just not vote for him after what he did […]
11/30/2021
MEDIA/POLITICAL FIGURES: “Great news for television viewers, they have just suspended Chris Cuomo indefinitely! The big question is, was it because of his horrendous ratings, which in all fairness have permeated CNN and MSDNC, or was it because his brother is no longer Governor? Probably both. In any event, Fredo is gone!” -Donald Trump, “Statement […]
10/19/20201
POLITICAL FIGURES: “Wonderful to see Colin Powell, who made big mistakes on Iraq and famously, so-called weapons of mass destruction, be treated in death so beautifully by the Fake News Media. Hope that happens to me someday. He was a classic RINO, if even that, always being the first to attack other Republicans. He made […]
10/7/2021
JOHN BOLTON/POLITICAL FIGURES: “Fiona Hill was terrible at her job… She was very close to one of the dumbest and most ‘crazed’ people in Washington, John Bolton… Fiona Hill was a Deep State stiff with a nice accent. Books are being written by people like her who had virtually no access to me, and who […]
9/8/2021
AFGHANISTAN/CIVIL WAR/POLITICAL FIGURES: “Robert E. Lee is considered by many Generals to be the greatest strategist of them all. President Lincoln wanted him to command the North, in which case the war would have been over in one day. Robert E. Lee instead chose the other side because of his great love of Virginia, and […]
5/12/2021
GOP/POLITICAL FIGURES: “A guy named Miles Taylor, who I have no idea who he is, don’t remember ever meeting him or having a conversation with, gets more publicity pretending he was in the inner circle of our Administration when he was definitely not. Some people refer to him as ‘absolutely nothing.’ I hear he is […]
5/3/2021
LIZ CHENEY/WYOMING: “Heartwarming to read new polls on big-shot warmonger Liz Cheney of the great State of Wyoming. She is so low that her only chance would be if vast numbers of people run against her which, hopefully, won’t happen. They never liked her much, but I say she’ll never run in a Wyoming election […]
4/29/2021
2024 ELECTION/FLORIDA/POLITICAL FIGURES: “Former President Trump on Thursday [Apr. 29, 2021] said he would consider tapping Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) as his running mate should he make a comeback presidential bid in 2024… Trump has not yet definitively said if he will run for president again, keeping a slew of possible GOP presidential hopefuls […]
9/26/2020
ADAM SCHIFF/CONGRESS/POLITICAL FIGURES: “I’ll tell you what, we got to get back to Congress and go after these people. These people are sick. They’re sick. It was a whole big con job with shifty Schiff and the whole group. Shifty Schiff, he gets up and says a totally different thing than what I said, totally […]
9/25/2020
2020 ELECTION/POLITICAL FIGURES: “We are in a battle for the soul of our nation and the stakes of this election could not be higher. Congressman John Lewis understood that part of being an American means doing what we can, with the time we have, to achieve the promise of our nation — that we are […]
9/23/2020
POLITICAL FIGURES/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Letters exchanged between President Trump and former President Nixon during Trump’s early years as a New York real estate developer were revealed Wednesday. The correspondence, apparently initiated by Trump, shows the two men expressing their respect for each other, as well as Trump’s desire to have the Nixons join a list of […]
9/22/2020
AFRICAN AMERICANS/POLITICAL FIGURES: “Nobody has done more for the Black community than any president, I would say, with the exception of Abraham Lincoln. And people sort of say, ‘I guess he’s right about that.’” -Donald Trump, “Trump discusses expected female Supreme Court nominee, civil unrest in exclusive FOX TV Stations interview,” fox2detroit.com, Sep. 22, 2020 […]
9/18/2020
2016 ELECTION/POLITICAL FIGURES/STATUES: “You know, I came to Washington [after winning the 2016 election]… And all of a sudden I’m riding down Pennsylvania Avenue and I’m with a beautiful woman on my right named Melania. Think of this. And I had about 400 motorcycles in front of me. And we’re in a cavalcade of about […]
9/14/2020
GOP/POLITICAL FIGURES: “It’s a beautiful thing to see what’s happening with the Republican Party. And remember it’s the party of Abraham Lincoln. A lot of people forget that. Abraham Lincoln was a Republican. The other side likes to try and claim him, big disinformation, but they can’t get away with that one.” -Donald Trump via […]
9/12/2020
HOUSING/KAMALA HARRIS/POLITICAL FIGURES: “I ended a rule, a regulation where low income housing has been forced into the suburbs and this has been going on for a long time, but especially so under Biden and Obama. I ended it, I terminated it. Not going to happen anymore unless I’m not here, in which case they’re […]
9/8/2020
POLITICAL FIGURES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “And nobody has been through what I’ve been through as president of the United States, nobody. They used to say Abraham Lincoln got the worst press. I said, ‘There’s no way he got worse than me.’ But Lincoln was very, very badly treated by the fake news. Maybe in his case, […]
8/27/2020
AFRICAN AMERICANS/POLITICAL FIGURES: “I say very modestly that I have done more for the African-American community than any president since Abraham Lincoln, our first Republican president. And I have done more in three years for the Black community than Joe Biden has done in 47 years.” -Donald Trump in an Aug. 27, 2020 speech, “Full […]
8/20/2020
JOE BIDEN/POLITICAL FIGURES: “John Lewis was a dear friend. He was the best of who we are and what we can become. And he held onto the promise of this country until his final breath. We miss you, John. #DemConvention” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Aug. 20, 2020 9:33 pm […]
8/18/2020
OBAMA/POLITICAL FIGURES: [Reporter: “Do you want to respond to Michelle Obama’s speech last night, where she said that you’re in over your head and the ‘wrong President’?”] “Yeah, no, she was over her head. And, frankly, she should have made the speech live, which she didn’t do; she taped it. And it was not only […]
8/18/2020
PARDONS/POLITICAL FIGURES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “While I am President, America will always honor its heroes, and we will always celebrate the patriots who secured women’s right to vote… And I wanted to just add something because this was brought up a week ago, and I was so surprised that it was never done before. Because later […]
8/17/2020
CIVIL RIGHTS/JOE BIDEN/VOTING: “John Lewis, one of the great civil rights leaders, used to say the vote is the most powerful nonviolent tool you have.” -Joe Biden, “Cardi B In Conversation With Joe Biden,” elle.com, Aug. 17, 2020 […]
8/3/2020
CONGRESS/POLITICAL FIGURES: “[Y]ou see that with certain of our politicians that ran for office. I say, ‘I don’t think they like our country too much. All they do is complain.’ And you would never tell them to go back to their own country because that would be inappropriate, wouldn’t it? But all they do is […]
7/29/2020
MILITARY/POLITICAL FIGURES/RUSSIA: [Reporter: “Are you confident that Russia did not place bounties on U.S. troops?”] “I don’t — I told you, I certainly read about it, and since then, I’ve talked about it. Colin Powell says it’s not true. Colin Powell is not exactly somebody that I’m a big fan of. Colin Powell says it’s […]
7/28/2020
CIVIL RIGHTS/POLITICAL FIGURES: “I don’t know John Lewis. He chose not to come to my inauguration… I never met John Lewis, actually, I don’t believe. He should’ve come. I think he made a big mistake by not showing up… He was a person that devoted a lot of energy and a lot of heart to civil […]
7/10/2020
GOP/POLITICAL FIGURES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It’s true the Republican party has grown incredibly from where it was and we have a whole different group of people in the Republican party. People don’t remember, nobody ever heard of it until I came along. Nobody remembered it for a long time or they didn’t use it, at least […]
6/16/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/MIKE PENCE/POLITICAL FIGURES/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Recently the media has taken to sounding the alarm over a ‘second wave’ of COVID-19 cases. Such panic is overblown. Thanks to President @realDonaldTrump’s leadership & the courage of the American people, we’re winning the fight against the invisible enemy.” -Mike Pence, Twitter.com, June 16, 2020 2:29 pm […]
1/31/2020
CONGRESS/IMPEACHMENT/MITCH MCCONNELL/POLITICAL FIGURES: “A majority of the U.S. Senate has determined that the numerous witnesses and 28,000-plus pages of documents already in evidence are sufficient to judge the House Managers’ accusations and end this impeachment trial. There is no need for the Senate to re-open the investigation which the House Democratic majority chose to conclude […]
1/6/2020
IMPEACHMENT/JOHN BOLTON/POLITICAL FIGURES/TRUMP PEOPLE: “During the present impeachment controversy, I have tried to meet my obligations both as a citizen and as former National Security Advisor… Accordingly, since my testimony is once again at issue, I have had to resolve the serious competing issues as best I could, based on careful consideration and study. I […]
1/22/2019
JOHN KERRY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday [1-22-19] that if he could speak to President Donald Trump directly, he would tell him to ‘resign.’ Asked by CNBC’s Tania Bryer during a World Economic Forum panel in Davos, Switzerland, what he would convey to Trump, Kerry replied, “I can’t play that […]
9/14/2018
IRAN/JOHN KERRY/MIKE POMPEO/NUCLEAR/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blasted his predecessor John Kerry for ‘unseemly and unprecedented’ behavior after Kerry said he had met Iranian officials since leaving office…During interviews to promote his new book, Kerry told an interviewer that he has met with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif three or four times since […]
4/26/2018
AFRICAN AMERICANS/POLITICAL FIGURES: “People don’t realize, you know, if you go back to the Civil War, it was the Republicans that really did the thing. Lincoln was a Republican. I mean, somehow it changed over the years, and I will say I really believe it’s changing back. Remember, I was going to get no black […]
4/5/2018
POLITICAL FIGURES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Thank you @WVGovernor Jim Justice. It was my great honor to be with the amazing people of West Virginia today! #MAGA” https://t.co/IwPuQNadMM -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 5, 2018 3:28 pm […]
3/16/2018
DEMS/POLITICAL FIGURES: “Democratic U.S. Representative Louise Slaughter, a Kentucky blacksmith’s daughter who became a leading progressive voice in Congress from New York, died early on Friday, her chief of staff said. She was 88. Slaughter died at George Washington University Hospital in Washington after an injury sustained in her home last week, Liam Fitzsimmons said […]
3/13/2018
GOP/POLITICAL FIGURES/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell all but ruled out advancing legislation to undo President Donald Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs, saying that such an action would be unlikely to succeed… The stance taken by Mr. McConnell, who has expressed opposition to the tariffs, effectively puts an end to questions about […]
3/11/2018
DEMS/POLITICAL FIGURES/STEVE MNUCHIN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Sunday [3-11-18] defended President Donald Trump’s new comments about Rep. Maxine Waters, saying he ‘likes making funny names. During Saturday night’s campaign rally in Pennsylvania, Trump dismissed the California Democrat as a ‘very low-IQ individual.’ … ‘I’ve been with the president and at campaigns. You know, […]
3/9/2018
LGBTQ/POLITICAL FIGURES/RELIGION: “Sen. Mike Lee reintroduced a controversial bill Thursday [3-8-18] that aims to protect religious freedom but which critics argue could lead to discrimination against the LGBTQ community. The Utah Republican unveiled a new version of the ‘First Amendment Defense Act,’ which was initially introduced in 2015 but not taken up by committee in […]
3/9/2018
JOE BIDEN/POLITICAL FIGURES/POLITICS: “Joe Biden knows that winning in 2020 would require a shoot-the-moon set of circumstances and luck. So his team is on the hunt for a moon shot. Between stops on his book tour and in the ramp-up for what will be a heavy midterms campaign schedule, a tight circle of aides has […]
3/8/2018
POLITICAL FIGURES/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Arizona Republican Sen. Jeff Flake has threatened to introduce legislation to nullify the President’s tariffs if they are anything like what Donald Trump is predicting. ‘I’m going to — as soon as it comes out if it is anything approximating what he’s talked about — introduce legislation to nullify it. […]
3/2/2018
INTERIOR/POLITICAL FIGURES/RYAN ZINKE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Even before President Trump officially opened his high-profile review last spring of federal lands protected as national monuments, the Department of Interior was focused on the potential for oil and gas exploration at a protected Utah site, internal agency documents show. The debate started as early as March 2017, when […]
3/2/2018
GUNS/POLITICAL FIGURES: “Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s glide toward a potential U.S. Senate bid became far more complicated after a troubled 19-year-old killed 17 people, including 14-year-old students, last month at a school in Parkland, Fla. In more than seven years in office, the Republican governor signed bills cutting concealed-carry permit fees and a measure last […]
2/28/2018
2A/GUNS/MENTAL HEALTH/POLITICAL FIGURES: “In the wake of this month’s Florida school shooting, Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-Fla.) renewed his calls for a better background-check system to keep firearms away from the mentally ill, but said nothing of his two votes opposing restrictions on gun purchases by some people deemed unfit by the federal government. The Miami […]
2/27/2018
GUNS/POLITICAL FIGURES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House has invited lawmakers who represent the sites of two of the deadliest school shootings in recent years to discuss gun violence and school safety with President Donald Trump on Wednesday [2-28-18]. The White House invite list includes Rep. Elizabeth Esty, a Connecticut Democrat whose district includes Sandy Hook […]
2/27/2018
GOP/POLITICAL FIGURES: “Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) will not run for reelection after reconsidering his decision last fall to retire, his chief of staff said Tuesday [2-27-18]. After listening to some Tennessee Republicans and GOP senators who were privately urging him to run, the two-term senator and Foreign Relations Committee chairman decided that this will be […]
2/27/2018
POLITICAL FIGURES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: ” ‘We’ve seen NO EVIDENCE OF COLLUSION….I have seen nothing, the firing of James Comey and all of the aftermath, that suggests that the President has obstructed justice because he’s exercising his power as the President of the U.S. I just don’t see it.’ Judge Ken Starr” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. […]
2/27/2018
CALIFORNIA/FBI/GOP/POLITICAL FIGURES: “Rep. Duncan Hunter, already staring down an FBI investigation, is running into serious turbulence for reelection. Sensing that the five-term congressman is mortally wounded by a federal investigation into alleged misuse of campaign money and a recent POLITICO report about his freewheeling Washington lifestyle, Republicans in Hunter’s San Diego-area district are lining up […]
2/26/2018
GOP/POLITICAL FIGURES: “The devastating explosion in the Upper Big Branch coal mine killed 29 men in 2010 and scarred West Virginia like few events in modern memory. Don Blankenship, the head of the mining company, went to prison over it. Not many people would call that a springboard for a career in politics. Yet when […]
2/26/2018
GOP/POLITICAL FIGURES: “Voters sent Luther Strange back to Alabama last year, but the former senator is quietly plotting a return to Washington. Strange, who had been appointed to the seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions but was defeated by Roy Moore in the Republican primary in September, has been on the hunt for a […]
2/25/2018
CALIFORNIA/DEMS/POLITICAL FIGURES: “Senator Dianne Feinstein suffered a setback in her effort to win a sixth term representing California as the state Democratic Party declined this weekend to endorse her re-election bid. Ms. Feinstein is way ahead in most polls, and has a huge fund-raising advantage over her main opponent, Kevin de León, the California State […]
2/24/2018
POLITICAL FIGURES: ” ‘Congressman Schiff omitted and distorted key facts’ @FoxNews So, what else is new. He is a total phony!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 24, 2018 07:56pm […]
2/21/2018
2016 ELECTION/POLITICAL FIGURES/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA: “Bernie Sanders on Wednesday [2-21-18] blamed Hillary Clinton for not doing more to stop the Russian attack on the last presidential election. Then his 2016 campaign manager, in an interview with POLITICO, said he’s seen no evidence to support special counsel Robert Mueller’s assertion in an indictment last week that the […]
2/21/2018
EDUCATION/GUNS/NRA/POLITICAL FIGURES: “Senator Marco Rubio and a spokeswoman for the National Rifle Association were repeatedly heckled at a nationally televised forum on Wednesday [2-21-18] night in Florida after they refused to back new gun control measures. The spokeswoman for the N.R.A., Dana Loesch, offering the group’s first public comments after a shooting last week at […]
2/19/2018
GOP/POLITICAL FIGURES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump Monday [2-19-18] night endorsed Republican Mitt Romney for a Utah Senate seat, backing a GOP candidate who is a favorite within the party but who has in the past been a vocal critic of the president… Mr. Romney, who was the Republic Party’s presidential candidate against incumbent Barack […]
2/19/2018
POLITICAL FIGURES: “.@MittRomney has announced he is running for the Senate from the wonderful State of Utah. He will make a great Senator and worthy successor to @OrrinHatch, and has my full support and endorsement!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 19, 2018 09:21pm […]
2/16/2108
POLITICAL FIGURES: “In a long-expected announcement, Mitt Romney said on Friday [2-16-18] that he would run for the United States Senate, pledging to bring Utah’s priorities of balanced budgets, strong economy and welcoming borders to Washington. Mr. Romney, a former governor of Massachusetts and the 2012 Republican nominee for president, made the announcement in a […]
2/16/2018
MARCO RUBIO/POLITICAL FIGURES: “Sen. Marco Rubio said Thursday [2-15-18] that gun restrictions would not have prevented the mass shooting at a high school in his home state. ‘I understand. I really do. You read in the newspaper that they used a certain kind of gun and therefore let’s make it harder to get those kinds […]
2/14/2018
POLITICAL FIGURES: “Senator Elizabeth Warren addressed questions about her racial heritage and vowed in a speech on Wednesday to a group of tribes to do more for Native Americans, using an unannounced appearance to confront a political liability before a potential bid for president. In remarks to the National Congress of American Indians, Ms. Warren […]
2/14/2018
2A/GUNS/POLITICAL FIGURES: “Sen. Chris Murphy said Wednesday [2-14-18] that Congress bears responsibility for the ‘epidemic of mass slaughter’ in the US, addressing the Senate floor while news of a school shooting unfolded in Florida… The Connecticut Democrat has been an outspoken supporter of gun control legislation for years, representing the state where the Sandy Hook […]
2/14/2018
POLITICAL FIGURES: “Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-South Carolina, said Wednesday [2-14-18] he’s retiring from Congress because he misses the justice system and prefers working in an environment ‘where facts matter.’… The former federal prosecutor who has served in Congress for seven years said he’s ‘more at peace in jobs that reward fairness and are fact-centric than […]
2/14/2018
POLITICAL FIGURES/WOMEN: “Sen. Tammy Duckworth has a problem: How can a senator who needs to vote take time off to care for her newborn? ‘I can’t technically take maternity leave,’ Duckworth said in the latest episode of the Women Rule podcast. ‘Because if I take maternity leave, then I won’t be allowed to sponsor legislation […]
2/13/2018
POLITICAL FIGURES: “Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee has been reconsidering his decision to retire this year, but Mr. Corker’s hopes for retaining his seat are running into a potentially insurmountable object: President Trump. Just over four months after Mr. Corker, upon declaring he would retire, unleashed a biting series of attacks on Mr. Trump, the […]
2/8/2108
LOBBYING/POLITICAL FIGURES/RUSSIA: “Wow! -Senator Mark Warner got caught having extensive contact with a lobbyist for a Russian oligarch. Warner did not want a ‘paper trail’ on a ‘private’ meeting (in London) he requested with Steele of fraudulent Dossier fame. All tied into Crooked Hillary.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 8, 2018 10:22pm […]
2/8/2018
DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/POLITICAL FIGURES: “Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) is preparing a fallback measure that would extend Obama-era legal protections for young undocumented immigrants paired with some border security funding if Congress fails to come up with a broader agreement on so-called ‘Dreamers.’ That result is one few on Capitol Hill want, yet may become reality as lawmakers […]
2/8/2018
BUDGET/POLITICAL FIGURES: “Rand Paul and Nancy Pelosi have virtually nothing in common. But on Thursday [2-8-18] night, the conservative Kentucky firebrand and San Francisco Democratic leader teamed up to push Washington into what Capitol Hill dwellers are calling the dumbest shutdown fight ever. Incensed that a bipartisan budget deal would balloon the national debt, Paul […]
2/7/2018
DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/POLITICAL FIGURES/POLITICS: “Representative Nancy Pelosi, the House Democratic leader, took the House floor at 10:04 a.m. Eastern on Wednesday [2-7-18], intent on speaking about the young undocumented immigrants known as Dreamers. Eight hours and seven minutes later, she quit talking. Her marathon monologue — highly unusual for the House, which has no equivalent to the […]
2/7/2018
DEMS/DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/POLITICAL FIGURES: “House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has spoken over seven hours to oppose the spending deal to lift spending caps and avert a government shutdown — because the plan does not address immigration issues. The House Historian’s office told CNN that Pelosi’s speech is the longest on record on the House floor, according to […]
2/7/2018
CYBERWAR/POLITICAL FIGURES: “Equifax Inc. failed to disclose that hackers gained access to consumers’ passport numbers, according to a report from Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s office on Wednesday [2-7-18]. The company said that is because it didn’t happen. The Democratic senator from Massachusetts released the report following a four-month investigation by her office into the Equifax breach. […]
2/7/2018
POLITICAL FIGURES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former Vice President Joe Biden said President Donald Trump is a ‘joke’ in the wake of the President’s remarks that Democrats who didn’t clap for him during his State of the Union address are ‘treasonous’ and ‘un-American.’ White House press secretary Sarah Sanders attempted to clarify Trump’s comments by telling reporters […]
2/6/2018
POLITICAL FIGURES: “HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our 40th President of the United States of America, Ronald Reagan! https://t.co/JtEglBhm4c” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 6, 2018 07:48pm […]
2/6/2018
DEMS/POLITICAL FIGURES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Arizona Republican Sen. Jeff Flake, who is a frequent critic of President Donald Trump, sharply criticized the President on the Senate floor Tuesday for his remarks he made where he called Democrats ‘treasonous.’ Trump had accused stone-faced Democrats of treason for not standing and applauding during his State of the Union […]
2/6/2018
POLITICAL FIGURES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “An Illinois Democrat who was seriously wounded in Iraq derisively referred to President Donald Trump’s draft deferments after Trump called Democrats ‘treasonous’ for not clapping during his State of the Union speech. ‘We don’t live in a dictatorship or a monarchy. I swore an oath—in the military and in the Senate—to […]
2/5/2018
POLITICAL FIGURES: “Representative Devin Nunes, a man of tremendous courage and grit, may someday be recognized as a Great American Hero for what he has exposed and what he has had to endure!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 5, 2018 10:08am […]
2/5/2018
POLITICAL FIGURES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Little Adam Schiff, who is desperate to run for higher office, is one of the biggest liars and leakers in Washington, right up there with Comey, Warner, Brennan and Clapper! Adam leaves closed committee hearings to illegally leak confidential information. Must be stopped!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 5, 2018 07:39am […]
2/1/2018
POLITICAL FIGURES/STATE: “The State Department’s top career diplomat announced his resignation on Thursday [2-1-18], contributing to an exodus of senior diplomats during the Trump administration. Thomas A. Shannon Jr., the under secretary of state for political affairs, is the department’s third highest ranking official. He will serve until his successor is confirmed by the Senate, […]
1/31/2018
GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/POLITICAL FIGURES: “House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy said Wednesday [1-31-18] that he will leave Congress after this year, the latest House Republican to resign or announce he won’t stand for re-election. Mr. Gowdy (R., S.C.) is the second Oversight Committee chairman to quit in the past seven months. The post, one of […]
1/31/2018
DEMS/POLITICAL FIGURES: “Rep. Bob Brady, a longtime powerhouse in Philadelphia Democratic politics, won’t seek reelection to the House, according to a person close to the congressman. Brady has represented south Philadelphia in Congress since 1998, but he has long had a ruling hand in the city’s politics, serving as chairman of the Philadelphia Democratic Party […]
1/31/2018
GOP/POLITICAL FIGURES: “House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy said Wednesday [1-31-18] he is not running for re-election and plans to leave politics. Gowdy, a former federal prosecutor, issued a statement saying he planned to retire from Congress at the end of this term and would return to working in the justice system… Gowdy’s announcement makes […]
1/30/2018
POLITICAL FIGURES/POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump will deliver his first State of the Union address on Tuesday [1-30-18] night from the US Capitol, but not all of Congress will be in attendance. Trump’s tumultuous first year in office was marked by controversy, leading several Democratic lawmakers to announce that they plan to boycott the […]
1/29/2018
HOUSE OF REPS/POLITICAL FIGURES: “Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, Monday [1-29-18] said he wouldn’t seek re-election in 2018, making him the latest in a parade of senior House Republicans and committee leaders heading to the exits. The New Jersey congressman, who comes from a storied political family and whose father […]
1/25/2018
LEGAL/POLITICAL FIGURES/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR: “Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley said Thursday [1-25-18] he wants to release the transcript of the committee’s closed-door interview with Donald Trump Jr., joining Democrats on the committee who have pressed to make it public. Grassley said he will now move to release all of the panel’s interviews involving the June […]
1/25/2018
POLITICAL FIGURES/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Al Gore and President Donald Trump might disagree on many things, but the former vice president defended the Republican leader Thursday [1-25-18] on his administration’s recent decision to impose new tariffs on solar imports… Trump is also in Switzerland to participate in the annual gathering, which draws the world’s wealthiest […]
1/25/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/POLITICAL FIGURES: “The head of the U.S. Conference of Mayors said Thursday [1-25-18] that the Justice Department’s warning that sanctuary cities and states could be subject to federal subpoenas was a White House ‘stunt’ intended to turn a planned meeting between mayors and President Donald Trump into a ‘photo-op.’ Landrieu was among the mayors […]
1/25/2018
BUDGET/DEMS/GOP/POLITICAL FIGURES: “Every Democratic senator from a Republican-leaning state voted Monday [1-22-18] to reopen the government, from the liberal Sherrod Brown of Ohio to the conservative Joe Manchin of West Virginia. Every one, that is, except Jon Tester. Republicans are determined to make him pay. The plainspoken Montanan was on a glide path to a […]
1/24/2018
AMBASSADOR/GOP/POLITICAL FIGURES: “Gov. Sam Brownback of Kansas was narrowly confirmed to an ambassadorship on Wednesday [1-24-18] after a six-month wait that left Kansans increasingly confused about who was in charge of their state. The Senate split 49-49 along party lines on the nomination of Mr. Brownback, a Republican who has grown unpopular in Kansas, to […]
1/24/2018
GOP/POLITICAL FIGURES: “The chair of the Republican National Committee said Wednesday [1-24-18] it’s too early to determine whether the GOP will continue to support Rep. Patrick Meehan, who is the subject of an ethics investigation after he reportedly used taxpayer funds to settle a sexual harassment claim. ‘Right now, we’re going to let the investigations […]
1/23/2018
POLITICAL FIGURES/POLITICS: “Cryin’ Chuck Schumer fully understands, especially after his humiliating defeat, that if there is no Wall, there is no DACA. We must have safety and security, together with a strong Military, for our great people!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 23, 2018 11:07pm […]
1/23/2018
BUDGET/POLITICAL FIGURES/POLITICS: “The bipartisan group of senators who intervened to help end the government shutdown now faces an even more formidable task: freeing the Senate — and perhaps Washington — from its dysfunctional rut. In sidestepping Senate leaders of both parties, members of the group have taken it upon themselves to not only quickly resolve […]
1/23/2018
DEMS/POLITICAL FIGURES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democratic leaders have pressed Tom Steyer privately, urging him to tone down his campaign calling for President Trump’s impeachment. They have prodded him in public, declaring on television that they consider impeachment an impractical idea. And party strategists have pleaded with Democratic candidates for Congress not to join in. But Mr. […]
1/23/2018
BORDER/POLITICAL FIGURES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Chuck Schumer is taking his big spending boost for Donald Trump’s border wall off the table. The Senate minority leader, through an aide, informed the White House on Monday [1-22-18] that he was retracting the offer he made last week to give Trump well north of the $1.6 billion in wall […]
1/22/2018
ETHICS/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/POLITICAL FIGURES: “Less than three days after he was removed from the U.S. House of Representatives Ethics Committee, Republican lawmaker Patrick Meehan asked the panel to investigate allegations he engaged in sexual harassment and misused official resources. The committee on Monday [1-22-18] said it had become aware of public allegations about the misconduct […]
1/22/2018
BUDGET/POLITICAL FIGURES/POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP POSITION CHANGES: “Lawmakers who have complained publicly that they are not sure what President Donald Trump wants out of a deal to end the ongoing government shutdown are “not paying attention,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Monday morning, accusing Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of being unable to […]
1/21/2018
FBI/GOP/HILLARY CLINTON/LEGAL/POLITICAL FIGURES: “The FBI is missing five months of text messages between two senior officials who Republicans on Capitol Hill have accused of political bias, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) revealed in a letter to the bureau made public on Sunday [1-21-18]. Republicans have been scrutinizing the text messages between senior counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok […]
1/20/2018
HOUSE OF REPS/LEGAL/POLITICAL FIGURES: “House Speaker Paul Ryan ordered an investigation into workplace harassment allegations against a Pennsylvania Republican on Saturday and removed him from the panel that investigates and adjudicates such complaints. The New York Times on Saturday reported that Rep. Patrick Meehan used taxpayer funds to settle a case brought against him by […]
1/19/2018
2016 ELECTION/HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/POLITICAL FIGURES: “House conservatives are demanding the public release of a memo spearheaded by Rep. Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, detailing allegations of FBI missteps during the 2016 election — a move that Democrats say is an effort to torpedo special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the Trump […]
1/19/2018
POLITICAL FIGURES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said their 90-minute talk at the White House on Friday [1-19-18] yielded progress but disagreements remain, as the deadline for a government shutdown loomed Friday night. The president referred to the meeting and called for a four-week funding extension in a tweet […]
1/19/2018
BUDGET/DEMS/POLITICAL FIGURES/POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘Shutting down the government is a very serious thing. People die, accidents happen. I don’t know how I would vote right now on a CR, OK?’ Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif) https://t.co/7xP3CBnv5j -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 19, 2018 11:28am […]
1/17/2018
DHS/POLITICAL FIGURES: “It was a made-for-TV moment, perfect for a presidential campaign advertisement. His fists clenched and his voice rising, Senator Cory Booker, Democrat of New Jersey, delivered a 10-minute verbal thrashing to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen this week, recalling his ‘tears of rage’ when he learned that President Trump had used vulgarities to […]
1/17/2018
BUDGET/POLITICAL FIGURES/POLITICS: “Sen. Lindsey Graham said Wednesday [1-17-18] he won’t vote for a short-term spending bill — also known as a continuing resolution or CR — that Republicans are attempting to pass by Friday night to avoid a government shutdown. The South Carolina Republican continued to push for the bipartisan proposal that he and five […]
1/16/2018
POLITICAL FIGURES/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Sen. Cory Booker slammed the homeland security secretary in a speech Tuesday [1-16-18] morning for claiming ignorance to the President’s slander of African countries. The impassioned remarks came toward the end of an often testy oversight hearing in which Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen denied hearing President Donald Trump […]