BRETT KAVANAUGH/SENATE/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “The Senate testimony of Christine Blasey Ford and Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh unspooled over nearly nine hours on Thursday [9-27-18]— about the length of a prestige mini-series, binged Netflix-style in one wrenching, riveting sitting. The mini-series contained multitudes. It was a political drama that doubled as a reality show. It was […]
Category: Women
9/27/2018
GOP/NOMINATION/SEX ABUSE/SUPREME COURT/WOMEN: “A GoFundMe campaign set up on behalf of Christine Blasey Ford drew more than $200,000 in donations in the hours immediately after she mentioned it during her testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday [9-27-18], more money than it had gained in the past eight days. As of 5 p.m., the […]
9/27/2018
BRETT KAVANAUGH/HEARING/SEX ABUSE/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “She was nervous as anyone would be describing the worst moment of her life, choking up at the memory of a violent encounter that happened 36 years ago. Her voice at times was high, her manner deferential, even solicitous. He was bristling with outrage and grievance, fighting back tears, his […]
9/27/2018
BRETT KAVANAUGH/ME TOO/SENATE/SEX ABUSE/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Christine Blasey Ford began her testimony in front of a Senate committee by saying she was ‘terrified,’ and at times she looked it. But by the time she finished detailing her allegation that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were teenagers, Ford was being widely […]
9/27/2018
BRETT KAVANAUGH/GOP/SENATE/SEX ABUSE/SUPREME COURT/WOMEN: “Rachel Mitchell had a difficult mission as the lawyer hired by Republican senators to question the woman accusing U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault: test her memory, but treat her respectfully. At a dramatic Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday [9-27-18], Mitchell walked that fine line with accuser […]
9/27/2018
BRETT KAVANAUGH/HEARING/SENATE/SEX ABUSE/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “In a crowded lounge at Yale Law School, cheers erupted when the middle-aged woman on the TV screen told a Senate panel that she had no doubt that Brett Kavanaugh, the Yale graduate nominated to the Supreme Court, had sexually assaulted her when they were teens. Like millions of Americans […]
9/26/2018
NOMINATION/SEX ABUSE/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Trump is back to his standard playbook for sexual assault allegations: Deny, dismiss and blame the accuser. The tactic was on full display at a news conference in New York City this evening, in one of those vintage stream-of-consciousness appearances that the president rode into the White House. He […]
9/26/2018
NOMINATION/SEX ABUSE/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh was accused on Wednesday [9-26-18] by another woman of engaging in sexual misconduct at parties while he was a student at Georgetown Preparatory School in the 1980s. The allegation came from Julie Swetnick, 55, who like Judge Kavanaugh, 53, grew up in the Washington suburbs. In a […]
9/26/2018
DEMS/GOP/NOMINATION/SEX ABUSE/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh faced a whirlwind of new accusations on Wednesday [9-26-18] that threatened to derail his nomination to the Supreme Court as key Republican senators wavered in their support and President Trump, in a rambling and combative news conference, acknowledged that he might be persuaded by the testimony of […]
9/26/2018
NOMINATION/SEX ABUSE/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday [9-26-18] said ‘false charges’ made against him in the past have influenced how he views the allegations now facing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh…Kavanaugh has been accused by Christine Blasey Ford of sexually assaulting her when they were both in high school, charges she is […]
9/26/2018
NOMINATION/SEX ABUSE/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “President Trump said on Wednesday [9-26-18] that the accusations against Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, his Supreme Court nominee, ‘are all false,’ but also said that he ‘can always be convinced’ after watching the testimony of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused the judge of attempted rape. In a rambling and […]
9/25/2018
NOMINATION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday [9-25-18] questioned the credibility of the second woman to accuse Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, saying she admitted she was drunk at a party where the alleged behavior occurred. The woman, Deborah Ramirez, accused Kavanaugh in an article published in the New […]
9/25/2018
GOP/NOMINATION/SENATE/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Trump assailed the latest woman to accuse Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, saying on Tuesday that she ‘has nothing’ because she was ‘messed up’ at the time, even as a key Republican senator urged colleagues to take the accusations seriously. With pressure rising in advance of a make-or-break […]
9/25/2018
NOMINATION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN/WOMEN: “Just after 8 a.m. on Monday [9-24-18], President Trump set off from Trump Tower for his annual week on the diplomatic stage at the United Nations General Assembly. By the time he walked into the General Assembly building 10 minutes later for a session on the illicit global drug trade, domestic […]
9/25/2018
GOP/NOMINATION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump sought to discredit one of the women accusing Judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct by saying she was ‘messed up’ and ‘drunk’ at the time of the alleged incident. He also said he believes Democrats are masterminding ‘a con game’ against his Supreme Court nominee. Trump paused before […]
9/25/2018
DEMS/NOMINATION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [9-25-18] lambasted Deborah Ramirez, the second woman to accuse Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of wrongdoing, saying ‘she was totally inebriated’ and ‘all messed up’ when the alleged incident occurred and that Democrats were playing a ‘con game’ by taking such accusations seriously. Ramirez told the […]
9/25/2018
DEMS/NOMINATION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday [9-25-18] questioned the credibility of the second woman to accuse Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, saying she admitted she was drunk at a party where the alleged behavior occurred. The woman, Deborah Ramirez, accused Kavanaugh in an article published in the […]
9/25/2018
GOP/NOMINATION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Republicans aren’t waiting for Brett Kavanaugh’s main accuser to have her say. With a generational conservative goal of a Supreme Court majority in sight, Senate GOP leaders are sketching a voting timetable that could see him confirmed within days even as they brace for a crucial hearing on Thursday [9-27-18] on which […]
9/25/2018
GOP/NOMINATION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh said on Monday [9-24-18] he would not step aside after a second woman accused him of sexual misconduct decades ago, with President Donald Trump and fellow Republicans showing no signs of relenting in their push for his Senate confirmation…The allegations, dating back to the 1980s, have […]
9/24/2018
LEGAL/NOMINATION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Michael Avenatti said Monday [9-24-18] night that he has new information regarding allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Avenatti, the lawyer also representing adult film star Stormy Daniels who is suing President Donald Trump, said on CNN’s ‘Cuomo Prime Time’ that he has multiple clients and ‘at least one’ is prepared […]
9/24/2018
NOMINATION/RALLY/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “As the fate of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, his Supreme Court nominee, teetered over a sexual assault allegation from decades ago, President Trump vented his frustration about his own party’s unwillingness to aggressively hit back. Speaking to thousands of supporters at a rally in Missouri on Friday [9-23-18], Mr. Trump recounted […]
9/24/2018
DEMS/GOP/NOMINATION/SENATE/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Trump on Monday [9-24-18] said the sexual misconduct allegations against Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, which are slowing proceedings on his nomination to be the newest Supreme Court justice, could be one of the ‘single most unfair, unjust things to happen to a candidate for anything.’ The president said he continues […]
9/24/2018
NOMINATION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, facing new allegations of sexual impropriety and growing doubts over his confirmation to the Supreme Court, mounted an aggressive defense of himself on Monday [9-24-18], vowing to fight the ‘smears’ and declaring that he will not withdraw his nomination. With President Trump publicly backing him, and senior Senate […]
9/24/2018
NOMINATION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Brett Kavanaugh looked less like a Supreme Court justice than an ordinary political candidate whose campaign is on the skids, mired in scandal as he battles to keep his hopes of high office alive. With his wife Ashley by his side, Kavanaugh seized control of his own defense against allegations […]
9/23/2018
NOMINATION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “The leader of a prominent conservative research organization who suggested that Christine Blasey Ford mistakenly accused Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her while in high school, and who built a case against one of his classmates, will take a leave of absence from the organization, its board announced on Sunday […]
9/21/2018
NOMINATION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “President Ronald Reagan’s daughter Patti Davis wrote about her own sexual assault experience to defend Christine Blasey Ford, the woman accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault. Davis’ story was published in an op-ed in The Washington Post on Friday [9-21-18], in which she alleged that she was raped by […]
9/21/2018
NOMINATION/SENATE/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski told CNN on Friday [9-21-18] she plans to wait until after Judge Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, the woman accusing President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee of sexual assault, testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee before deciding whether to back Kavanaugh’s nomination…Republicans can confirm Kavanaugh without any […]
9/21/2018
GOP/NOMINATION/SENATE/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Sen. Susan Collins is ‘appalled’ by President Donald Trump’s tweet attacking the woman who accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, she told reporters in her home state Maine on Friday [9-21-18]. The moderate Republican senator, who is a key swing vote on Kavanaugh’s nomination, said that the president downplayed […]
9/21/2018
FBI/LEGAL/NOMINATION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “The radical left lawyers want the FBI to get involved NOW. Why didn’t someone call the FBI 36 years ago?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 21, 2018 8:29 am […]
9/21/2018
BEN CARSON/HUD/NOMINATION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson on Friday [9-21-18] tied the sexual assault allegation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh to a century-old plot by socialists…Carson’s mention of ‘Fabians’ likely refers to the Fabian Society, a British socialist group founded in 1884 that is now affiliated with the United Kingdom’s […]
9/21/2018
NOMINATION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “I have no doubt that, if the attack on Dr. Ford was as bad as she says, charges would have been immediately filed with local Law Enforcement Authorities by either her or her loving parents. I ask that she bring those filings forward so that we can learn date, time, […]
9/20/2018
CONGRESS/NOMINATION/SENATE/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Christine Blasey Ford opened the possibility she would testify before Congress about her accusation of sexual assault against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. An email her lawyers sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee said Ford ‘would be prepared to testify next week’ if the senators offer her ‘terms that are fair and […]
9/19/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/NOMINATION/SENATE/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill said Wednesday [9-19-18] she is voting no on Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, citing concerns over his stance on anonymous political contributions. McCaskill’s position is significant given that she is running for re-election this year in a state President Donald Trump won in 2016, […]
9/19/2018
FBI/NOMINATIONS/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “The White House could order the FBI to investigate the sexual assault allegation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, several former senior White House and Justice Department officials from both parties said Wednesday [9-19-18], contradicting President Donald Trump’s claims that doing so would exceed the FBI’s mandate. Trump continued to insist on […]
9/19/2018
LEGAL/NOMINATION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “An attorney for Christine Blasey Ford said Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley is unnecessarily rushing toward a hearing by pushing for her to testify about her allegation of sexual assault against President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee. Ford has accused Judge Brett Kavanaugh, Trump’s choice for the nation’s highest court, of sexually […]
9/19/2018
NOMINATIONS/SENATE/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump said on Wednesday [9-18-19] it was up to the U.S. Senate how to handle a sexual assault allegation brought by a woman against his Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump said it would be unfortunate if Kavanaugh’s accuser, university professor Christine Blasey […]
9/19/2018
GOP/NOMINATIONS/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “The scramble to save the Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination is the first real test of whether President Donald Trump can work in lockstep with Republican members of Congress and conservative activists under crisis conditions. Trump’s commitment to stacking the judiciary with conservative jurists may be his top selling point among traditional […]
9/18/2018
DEMS/NOMINATIONS/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Trump falsely charged on Tuesday [9-18-18] that Democrats had sought to time a sexual assault allegation against his Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, to obstruct his confirmation, siding with the judge as he called for a swift process for airing the accusation on Capitol Hill…Judge Kavanaugh has flatly […]
9/18/2018
DEMS/NOMINATIONS/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump sided with his embattled Supreme Court nominee, defending Judge Brett Kavanaugh against allegations of sexual assault as the White House walked a fine line in addressing accusations that revived memories of the president’s own #MeToo moments. Time and again, Trump has defended powerful men against the claims […]
9/18/2018
DEMS/NOMINATIONS/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump continued to stand behind his Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Tuesday [9-18-18], even as senators grapple with how to move forward after a woman has accused the judge of a decades-old sexual assault…Kavanaugh has denied the allegations. Trump also criticized Democrats and California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, […]
9/18/2018
FBI/GOP/NOMINATIONS/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Republican leaders are preparing a controversial push to install Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court after a frenetic night of legal and political maneuvering in Washington that could reverberate for years to come. In a major twist to his confirmation saga, attorneys for Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused Kavanaugh of sexually […]
9/18/2018
FBI/NOMINATIONS/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday [9-18-18] that the FBI should not investigate a California professor’s allegations of sexual assault against Trump’s pick for U.S. Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, adding that he wants his nominee confirmed quickly…U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee members had been scheduled to vote on Thursday on the […]
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 […]
9/13/2018
DEMS/FBI/GOP/NOMINATION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “The Republican-led Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday [9-13-18] set a vote for next week on President Donald Trump’s U.S. Supreme Court pick while a Democratic senator sent unspecified new information about nominee Brett Kavanaugh to the FBI. Senator Dianne Feinstein, the committee’s top Democrat, said she received the information about Kavanaugh from […]
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 […]
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 […]
9/7/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Michael Cohen’s shell company, Essential Consultants, filed a status report Friday [9-7-18] evening agreeing to tear up the original 2016 agreement with adult film star Stormy Daniels, in which Cohen arranged to pay her $130,000 to stay silent about her alleged affair with President Donald Trump. This so-called ‘hush agreement’ has […]
8/30/2018
2016 ELECTION/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Federal investigators have provided ample evidence that President Trump was involved in deals to pay two women to keep them from speaking publicly before the 2016 election about affairs that they said they had with him. But it turns out that Mr. Trump wanted to go even further. He and […]
8/28/2018
GOP/RELIGION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “US President Donald Trump, facing scrutiny for hush money payments to a porn star and a former Playboy model, pleaded with evangelical leaders for political help during closed-door remarks on Monday, warning of dire consequences to their congregations should Republicans lose in November’s midterm elections…”It’s not a question of like or dislike, […]
8/25/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/NEW YORK/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A week that began with bad news closed with worse news for President Donald Trump. According to the New York Times, the Manhattan district attorney’s office is currently investigating the Trump Organization. In particular, they are examining the source of the payment to porn star Stormy Daniels, and […]
8/23/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “As his fixer pleads guilty and the White House says President Donald Trump has not been implicated in any crime, the President can’t seem to keep his story straight about alleged hush payments. Trump’s story has continued to change as the President’s own words contradict claims he and his aides have made […]
8/24/2018
LEGAL/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A former Trump World Tower doorman who says he has knowledge of an alleged affair President Donald Trump had with an ex-housekeeper, which resulted in a child, is now able to talk about a contract he entered with American Media Inc. that had prohibited him from discussing the matter with anyone, according […]
8/23/2018
MICHAEL COHEN/NEW YORK/TRUMP BUSINESS/WOMEN: “The Manhattan district attorney’s office in New York City may push for criminal charges against the Trump Organization and two senior officials at the company over hush money that former Trump attorney Michael Cohen paid to an adult-film actress, according to a report. Investigators led by District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance […]
8/23/2018
LEGAL/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “The chief executive of the publisher of the National Enquirer was granted immunity by prosecutors investigating payments arranged by U.S. President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, to silence two women who said they had sex with Trump, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday [8-22-18]. Another AMI executive, […]
8/23/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Federal prosecutors reached an immunity deal with the tabloid executive David J. Pecker, a key witness in their monthslong investigation into payments during the 2016 campaign to two women who said they had affairs with Donald J. Trump, according to two people familiar with the investigation. Mr. Pecker is the chairman […]
8/22/2018
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump and his aides moved quickly Wednesday [8-22-18] to insulate themselves from the legal firestorm encircling the White House by writing their own version of reality and attacking anybody who contests it. In the president’s alternate universe, the campaign violations his former attorney pleaded guilty to are ‘not a crime’; […]
8/22/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Trump on Wednesday [8-22-18] slammed his former longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen for striking a plea deal with federal prosecutors admitting to campaign finance violations and implicating the president…At the same time, the president tweeted in support of ex-campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who was found guilty on eight tax and […]
8/22/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Michael Cohen walked into a courthouse in Manhattan on Tuesday [8-21-18] and told a federal judge under oath that he committed a felony and that his former client, President Donald Trump, directed him to do so. In that moment, Cohen upended a months-long strategy by Trump to undermine the investigation […]
8/22/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “For 16 or so hours after Tuesday’s [8-21-18] double-barreled bombshell news, President Trump couldn’t even publicly say Michael Cohen’s name. That was the first signal he had been wounded by his former fixer’s guilty plea. He said he felt badly for Paul Manafort, his former campaign manager who had […]
8/22/2018
CAMPAIGN FINANCE/MICHAEL COHEN/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “The federal campaign finance and tax evasion case that is embroiling the White House began in the unlikeliest of places: the world of supermarket tabloids. It is populated by porn stars and Playboy models, shadowy ‘story brokers’ and the ultra rich and powerful, who can buy back their secrets on […]
8/22/2018
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/MICHAEL COHEN/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “White House press secretary Sarah Sanders maintained Wednesday [8-22-18] that President Donald Trump ‘did nothing wrong’ relating to the hush money payments made to women who claimed affairs with him during the 2016 campaign…Sanders declined to answer additional questions about what the President knew about the payments and […]
8/22/2018
CAMPAIGN FINANCE/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday [8-22-18] defended hush money payments made during the 2016 campaign to silence two women who claimed affairs with him, saying the payments did not violate campaign finance laws because they were not funded by his campaign. His attorney, Michael Cohen, pleaded guilty Tuesday […]
8/22/2018
CAMPAIGN FINANCE/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday [8-22-18] he found out only after the fact about payments his then-lawyer Michael Cohen made to silence two women who said they had had affairs with Trump, adding that the money came from him and not his campaign..Cohen, in pleading guilty to eight […]
8/22/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “The White House pushed back forcefully on Wednesday [8-22-18] against suggestions that a plea deal struck by President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen implicated Trump in a crime…Cohen on Tuesday [8-21-18] pleaded guilty to eight criminal charges of tax evasion, bank fraud and campaign finance violations. He told a […]
8/22/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/PARDONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “U.S. President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen would not accept a presidential pardon, his attorney said on Wednesday [8-22-18], a day after Cohen pleaded guilty to eight criminal charges and said he acted at the direction of Trump. In a round of television interviews, Cohen’s attorney, Lanny Davis, said […]
8/21/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Michael Cohen’s lawyer on Tuesday [8-21-18] asked why President Donald Trump isn’t also facing criminal charges over the hush payments that his client pleaded guilty to executing. Lanny Davis — who is representing Cohen, Trump’s longtime personal lawyer — lashed out in a statement after Cohen struck a plea deal on […]
8/21/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s former lawyer, made the extraordinary admission in court on Tuesday [8-21-18] that Mr. Trump had directed him to arrange payments to two women during the 2016 campaign to keep them from speaking publicly about affairs they said they had with Mr. Trump. Mr. Cohen acknowledged […]
8/21/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court Tuesday [8-21-18] to eight criminal counts, admitting that ‘in coordination and at the direction of a candidate for federal office’ he acted to keep information that would have been harmful to the candidate and the campaign […]
8/21/2018
2016 ELECTION/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “U.S. President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen testified on Tuesday [8-21-18] that Trump had directed him to commit a crime by arranging payments ahead of the 2016 presidential election to silence two women who said they had affairs with Trump. Cohen’s voice cracked several times as he pleaded […]
8/20/2018
CLINTONS/NOMINATIONS/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Brett M. Kavanaugh, President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, urged prosecutors investigating President Bill Clinton to question him in graphic detail about his sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky, a White House intern, according to a memorandum released on Monday [8-20-18] by the National Archives. Mr. Kavanaugh spent more than three years working […]
8/19/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Federal prosecutors are focused on over $20 million in loans obtained by U.S. President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen from taxi businesses owned by him and his family, the New York Times reported on Sunday [8-19-18]. The loans are part of an investigation into whether Cohen committed bank and tax […]
8/12/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TWITTER/WOMEN: “When President Trump took to Twitter to complain about two women with connections to the Russia investigation, he affixed special descriptions to both. ‘Beautiful,’ he said of Nellie Ohr, the wife of a Justice Department official who worked for Fusion GPS, the research firm that commissioned a dossier that made salacious claims […]
8/9/2018
2016 ELECTION/CALIFORNIA/LEGAL/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A New York federal judge has ordered Stormy Daniels’ defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump be transferred to a California federal court. Daniels, an adult film actress whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, offered her consent on Wednesday [8-8-18] to transfer the lawsuit despite having previously opposed the move by […]
8/8/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Lawyers for Paul Manafort accused his longtime deputy Rick Gates of having four extramarital affairs and lying about them, a last attempt by the defense to undermine the credibility of the government’s star witness at the fraud trial of Mr. Manafort on Wednesday [8-8-18]. Kevin Downing, the lead lawyer for Mr. Manafort, […]
8/8/2018
CONGRESS/DEMS/ELECTION/MUSLIMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A Michigan Democrat poised to become the first Muslim woman in Congress says that the election of President Donald Trump could be a reason for the historic number of women running for office across the country. In an interview with CNN’s Brooke Baldwin on ‘Newsroom’ Wednesday [8-8-18], Rashida Tlaib discussed how progressive […]
8/7/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/NEW YORK/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Throughout President Trump’s term, it has sometimes seemed as if the world chronicled in the tabloids has invaded the corridors of power in Washington. Mr. Trump’s alleged affairs with a pornographic film star and a former Playboy bunny have become national news, joined by figures from publications typically more […]
8/7/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Kevin Downing, the lead defense lawyer, began cross-examination Tuesday [8-7-18] by hammering at Mr. Gates’s credibility, demanding an exact accounting of when he lied to the government and pleaded guilty to the charge of doing so. Mr. Gates seemed to struggle to articulate that timeline, prompting Judge T. S. Ellis […]
8/7/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Rick Gates, the star witness in the federal case against ex-Trump campaign adviser Paul Manafort, on Tuesday [8-7-18] acknowledged having an extramarital relationship in London while working for Manafort as the defense accused him of leading a ‘secret’ and ‘second’ life. For the last two days in court, Gates has testified that […]
8/7/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “The star witness in the trial against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort faced tough questioning on cross-examination on Tuesday [8-7-18] about a ‘secret life’ that included an extramarital affair and stealing funds from his former boss. Rick Gates, who served as a right-hand man to Manafort in his political […]
7/27/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A federal judge expressed skepticism on Friday [7-27-18] at a request for a gag order from the former personal lawyer for U.S. President Donald Trump against the lawyer for adult film actress Stormy Daniels, who is suing the president. At a hearing in Los Angeles, U.S. District Judge S. James Otero […]
7/27/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Michael Avenatti, the attorney representing porn actress Stormy Daniels in her lawsuits against President Donald Trump, now also represents three other women who claim to have had affairs with Trump who say they were paid to stay silent about. The Associated Press reported Thursday that Avenatti announced his new clients […]
7/25/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL CHOEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Lanny J. Davis’s client list, like his quintessentially Washington career as an all-purpose lawyer, lobbyist, crisis consultant and television-talker, is lengthy, international — and more than occasionally contradictory. Mr. Davis has represented Harvey Weinstein and Penn State, a Ukrainian oligarch with links to President Trump’s indicted former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, […]
7/25/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Just before Election Day, when The Wall Street Journal uncovered a secret deal by the National Enquirer to buy the silence of a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with Donald J. Trump, his campaign issued a flat denial. ‘We have no knowledge of any of this,’ Mr. […]
7/25/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “President Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, escalated his dispute with the president on Tuesday [7-24-18] by releasing a secret recording of a conversation in which Mr. Trump appears to have knowledge about hush money payments to a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with […]
7/25/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump said on Wednesday [7-25-18] that it is ‘so sad’ that his longtime personal attorney recorded their private conversations, suggesting that audio released Tuesday [7-24-18] has been doctored to exclude ‘positive things’ that he was ‘presumably’ saying…In an interview with POLITICO, Davis scoffed at the president’s suggestion about the […]
7/25/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump blasted his former attorney Michael Cohen on Wednesday [7-25-18], the morning after CNN aired the audio of a recording Cohen made of the two…In the audio aired first on CNN’s ‘Cuomo Prime Time,’ Trump and Cohen can be heard discussing how they would buy the rights to […]
7/25/2018
LEGAL/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Michael Cohen and the publisher of the National Enquirer forged an alliance over the years, looking out for the interests of Donald Trump and each other. Now, federal investigators are examining those ties as part of a wide-ranging probe into Mr. Cohen’s personal business dealings and his self-described role as […]
7/25/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “On Tuesday [7-24-18] night at 9 sharp, any pretense that Michael Cohen might still be in President Donald Trump’s camp ended. That’s the moment when the previously secret recording of a 2016 conversation between Trump’s personal fixer and the then-presidential candidate aired on CNN’s ‘Cuomo Prime Time.’ The recording, in which […]
7/25/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday [7-25-18] expressed disbelief that his longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen would have taped conversations with him, a day after an audio recording of a conversation between the two men was aired on U.S. television. A lawyer for Cohen, Lanny Davis, released the recording of Trump […]
7/23/2018
TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “A lawyer for the pornographic film actress Stephanie Clifford said on Monday [7-23-18] that she and her husband had decided to end their marriage, days after Ms. Clifford, who goes by the stage name Stormy Daniels, was mistakenly arrested at an Ohio strip club. Ms. Clifford’s husband, Glendon Crain, also a pornographic film […]
7/23/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Twelve audio recordings seized from U.S. President Donald Trump’s onetime personal attorney, Michael Cohen, were turned over to federal prosecutors on Friday [7-20-18], according to a filing in federal court in Manhattan on Monday [7-23-18]. They include a recording of a conversation between Cohen and Trump two months before the […]
7/22/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump’s lawyers have waived attorney-client privilege on his behalf regarding a secretly recorded conversation he had in September 2016 with his former longtime lawyer Michael Cohen in which they discussed payments to an ex-Playboy model who says she had an affair with the President, according to sources familiar with […]
7/20/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI//LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Trump’s longtime lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, secretly recorded a conversation with Mr. Trump two months before the presidential election in which they discussed payments to a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with Mr. Trump, according to lawyers and others familiar with the recording. The F.B.I. […]
7/20/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “MIchael Cohen taped a conversation in person with Donald Trump in which the two men discussed buying the rights to a former Playboy Playmate’s story that she had an affair with Mr. Trump more than a decade ago, according to people familiar with the matter. The conversation, between the then-GOP presidential […]
7/20/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “U.S. President Donald Trump’s longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen, secretly recorded a conversation with Trump before the 2016 presidential election in which they discussed payments to a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with Trump, the New York Times reported on Friday [7-20-18]. The newspaper, citing lawyers and […]
7/18/2018
2016 ELECTION/ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “U.S. Representative Martha Roby, an Alabama Republican who spurned Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential race, has decisively won a runoff election against a former Democrat-turned-Trump supporter. With 65 of 67 counties reporting, the four-term incumbent in the House of Representatives got 68 percent of the vote compared with 32 percent for […]
7/12/2018
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “In the end, the arrest at an Ohio strip club of Stephanie Clifford, the pornographic film star who said she had an affair with Donald J. Trump before he became president, was quickly resolved because of one fact: she was not a regular employee of the club. Ms. Clifford, who performs under […]
7/9/2018
CHILDREN/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WHO/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump on Monday [7-9-18] attacked a New York Times story that reported how his administration attempted to weaken a World Health Assembly resolution to promote breastfeeding, saying women shouldn’t be denied access to formula. The president’s tweet was spillover from a feud over a proposed breastfeeding resolution earlier this year […]
7/9/2018
CHILDREN/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “The failing NY Times Fake News story today about breast feeding must be called out. The U.S. strongly supports breast feeding but we don’t believe women should be denied access to formula. Many women need this option because of malnutrition and poverty.’ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 9, 2018 12:04 pm […]
7/8/2018
HEALTHCARE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WHO/WOMEN: “A resolution to encourage breast-feeding was expected to be approved quickly and easily by the hundreds of government delegates who gathered this spring in Geneva for the United Nations-affiliated World Health Assembly. Based on decades of research, the resolution says that mother’s milk is healthiest for children and countries should strive to […]