IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP EXEC ORDERS: “President Trump has set the wheels in motion for H-1B visa reform. On Tuesday [4-18-17], Trump signed an executive order that directed federal agencies to implement a “Buy American, Hire American” strategy. The order included a section geared at immigration reform. The order tasked four department heads (including the Secretary […]
4/18/2017
DONALDISM: “#BuyAmericanHireAmerican?? Watch➡️https://t.co/AUqYcrgeyn https://t.co/rf9aivVb7g” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 18, 2017 03:56pm […]
4/18/2017
POLITICS: “Just learned that Jon @Ossoff, who is running for Congress in Georgia, doesn’t even live in the district. Republicans, get out and vote!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 18, 2017 03:38pm […]
4/18/2017
POLITICS: “Despite major outside money, FAKE media support and eleven Republican candidates, BIG ‘R’ win with runoff in Georgia. Glad to be of help!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 18, 2017 11:09pm […]
04/18/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/MILITARY/NORTH KOREA/SOUTH KOREA: “The US and South Korean militaries are teaming up for a massive 11-day exercise featuring a large portion of their fighter aircraft fleet. On Monday [4-17-17], Exercise Max Thunder kicked off to ‘enhance interoperability’ between the US and South Korean forces, according to US Pacific Command. The event goes until Apr. […]
04/18/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “In the decade leading up to Donald Trump’s election as president, his company added 15 golf courses and 13 hotels. Keeping up such a rate of expansion won’t be easy, according to Eric Trump, the president’s son, who with brother Donald Trump Jr. took over running the Trump Organization after the […]
04/18/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/JAPAN/MIKE PENCE/NORTH KOREA: “U.S. Vice President Mike Pence assured Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday [4-18-17] that the United States stands ‘100 percent’ behind its anchor ally in Asia in working to defuse risks from North Korea’s nuclear program. Pence struck a stern tone as he began talks with Abe and other Japanese […]
4/18/2017
POLITICS: “Republicans must get out today and VOTE in Georgia 6. Force runoff and easy win! Dem Ossoff will raise your taxes-very bad on crime & 2nd A.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 18, 2017 05:46am […]
4/18/2017
POLITICS: “Democrat Jon Ossoff would be a disaster in Congress. VERY weak on crime and illegal immigration, bad for jobs and wants higher taxes. Say NO” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 18, 2017 05:38am […]
4/18/2017
DONALD ON DONALD: “I will be interviewed on @foxandfriends by @ainsleyearhardt starting at 6:00 A.M. Enjoy!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 18, 2017 04:48am […]
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 […]
4/18/2017
DEFENSE/ECONOMY/IMMIGRATION/JOBS/MANUFACTURING/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to ensure the faithful execution of the laws, it is hereby ordered as follows… Sec. 2. Policy. It shall be the policy of the executive branch to buy American and […]
04/17/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Just as a grim-faced Vice President Mike Pence was alighting from his Blackhawk helicopter a mile from the Korean Demilitarized Zone on Sunday, his boss, President Donald Trump — fresh from Florida — was at home, tweeting. Ensconced with his family inside the White House after three nights at Mar-a-Lago, […]
04/17/2017
TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP TAXES: “President Trump’s promise to enact a sweeping overhaul of the tax code is in serious jeopardy nearly 100 days into his tenure, and his refusal to release his own tax returns is emerging as a central hurdle to another faltering campaign promise. As procrastinators rushed to file their tax returns by […]
4/17/2017
POLITICS: “With eleven Republican candidates running in Georgia (on Tuesday) for Congress, a runoff will be a win. Vote ‘R’ for lower taxes & safety!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 17, 2017 09:18pm […]
04/17/2017
ECONOMY/IMMIGRATION/JOBS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump will sign an executive order in Wisconsin on Tuesday [4-18-17] directing a government-wide review aimed at putting new teeth back into decades-old ‘Buy American’ and ‘Hire American’ directives. The 220-day review process, which could lead to additional executive orders and possibly legislation, will focus on preventing foreign workers with […]
4/17/2017
KEYSTONE/OIL/PIPELINES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The fight seemed over. Plans to bury an oil pipeline in the Nebraska dirt, through hilly grazing land near the Elkhorn River and flat expanses of corn farther south, had been halted. Farmers and ranchers who spent years opposing the project moved on with their lives. But suddenly the pipeline from Canada […]
4/17/2017
SUPPORTERS: “See you tomorrow Wisconsin! ‘Trump spurs small-business optimism in Milwaukee area’ https://t.co/JUxhO3oqjO” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 17, 2017 05:41pm […]
4/17/2017
DONALD ON DONALD/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “TRUMP APPROVAL HITS 50% https://t.co/vjZkGTyQb9” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 17, 2017 05:38pm […]
04/17/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The President’s tax returns and White House visitor logs — both public information under the previous administration — will remain private under President Donald Trump. White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Monday dealt another blow to transparency advocates, announcing that Trump’s 2016 tax returns are under audit and therefore would not […]
04/17/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/CABINET/DHS/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS/JOHN KELLY: ” ‘Yeah, marijuana is not a factor in the drug war.’ That’s the blunt assessment of Department of Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly, speaking on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’ yesterday. It marks an evolution from statements Kelly made last year, when he said the ‘hypocrisy’ of legalizing pot in the […]
04/17/2017
CLIMATE CHANGE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA: “As President Donald Trump contemplates whether to make good on his campaign promise to yank the United States out of the Paris climate accord, an unlikely lobbying force is hoping to talk him out of it: oil and coal producers. A pro-Paris bloc within the administration has recruited energy companies […]
04/04/2017
POLITICS/SEC/TRUMP PEOPLE/JAY CLAYTON: “The Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday approved Jay Clayton to head the Securities and Exchange Commission in the Trump administration, sending the nominee to the Senate floor for a final vote. Mr. Clayton has called for scaling back regulations to prod more companies to go public while expressing skepticism that large corporate […]
04/17/2017
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When Donald Trump called in to Alex Jones’s radio show, during the Republican presidential primary, he told the host known as a leading 9/11 ‘truther’ that his reputation is ‘amazing.’ When Trump accused the media of covering up terrorist attacks, in February, the president appeared to be echoing a conspiracy theory promoted […]
04/17/2017
FAKE NEWS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump has a history of labeling any number of topics, reports, and media outlets as ‘fake news,’ and, on Monday morning, he continued with that line of attack. He tweeted, ‘The Fake Media (not Real Media) has gotten even worse since the election. Every story is badly slanted. We have […]
04/17/2017
POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump has weighed in ahead of Tuesday’s [4-18-17] surprisingly close special election in Georgia, a race seen by many as an early referendum on his presidential performance thus far. ‘The super Liberal Democrat in the Georgia Congressioal (sic) race tomorrow wants to protect criminals, allow illegal immigration and raise taxes!’ […]
04/17/2017
AIR FORCE/FOREIGN POLICY/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UK: “The US Air Force’s newest stealth fighters arrived in the UK over the weekend as part of the Pentagon’s effort to reassure European allies in the face of Russian aggression on the continent. The F-35A jets from Hill Air Force Base in Utah landed at RAF Lakenheath on Saturday for […]
4/17/2017
DONALD ON DONALD/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @DRUDGE_REPORT: TRUMP APPROVAL HITS 50% https://t.co/TruX3WzR3U” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 17, 2017 08:35am […]
4/17/2017
POLITICS: “The super Liberal Democrat in the Georgia Congressioal race tomorrow wants to protect criminals, allow illegal immigration and raise taxes!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 17, 2017 08:31am […]
04/17/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “With North Korean soldiers standing less than 100 feet behind him at the Korean Demilitarized Zone [DMZ], Vice President Mike Pence told CNN that Pyongyang should understand that the Trump administration’s approach toward the regime will be different than that of past US presidents. ‘We’re going to abandon the failed […]
4/17/2017
DONALDISM: “A great book for your reading enjoyment: ‘REASONS TO VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS’ by Michael J. Knowles.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 17, 2017 07:13am […]
4/17/2017
DONALD ON DONALD/FOREIGN POLICY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: ” ‘The first 90 days of my presidency has exposed the total failure of the last eight years of foreign policy!’ So true. @foxandfriends” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 17, 2017 07:07am […]
04/17/2017
DONALD ON DONALD: “President Trump has not been seen frequenting church services since his assuming office, but his outward rhetoric on God has changed as of late. The president and first lady Melania Trump attended Easter service at Bethesda-by-the-Sea Church in Florida on Sunday [4-17-17], making it the fourth official religious appearance for the commander […]
4/16/2017
POLITICS: “The recent Kansas election (Congress) was a really big media event, until the Republicans won. Now they play the same game with Georgia-BAD!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 16, 2017 07:45pm […]
04/16/2017
PROTESTS/TRUMP TAXES: “Giving no ground, President Donald Trump dismissed protests calling for him to disclose his tax returns as the work of political opponents unhappy about his election victory. ‘Someone should look into who paid for the small organized rallies yesterday,’ Mr. Trump tweeted Sunday morning. ‘The election is over!’ With Americans’ tax returns due […]
04/16/2017
BUDGET/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s revived enthusiasm for tackling health-care legislation before tax policy has highlighted the complicated interplay between Republicans’ health-care overhaul and their planned tax bill. Mr. Trump signaled last week that one of the reasons he has reprioritized health care is that he was relying on savings from the health bill […]
04/16/2017
CHINA/FOREIGN POLICY/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump defended reserving his position on labeling China a currency manipulator in a tweet early Easter Sunday [4-16-17]. ‘Why would I call China a currency manipulator when they are working with us on the North Korean problem?’ asked Trump. Supporters and detractors of the president have criticized his recent […]
4/16/2017
MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Our military is building and is rapidly becoming stronger than ever before. Frankly, we have no choice!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 16, 2017 08:41am […]
4/16/2017
PROTESTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Someone should look into who paid for the small organized rallies yesterday. The election is over!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 16, 2017 08:13am […]
4/16/2017
2016 ELECTION/DONALD ON DONALD/TRUMP TAXES: “I did what was an almost an impossible thing to do for a Republican-easily won the Electoral College! Now Tax Returns are brought up again?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 16, 2017 08:07am […]
4/16/2017
HOLIDAY: “Happy Easter to everyone!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 16, 2017 07:24am […]
4/16/2017
CHINA/NORTH KOREA: “Why would I call China a currency manipulator when they are working with us on the North Korean problem? We will see what happens!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 16, 2017 07:18am […]
04/16/2017
CAMPAIGN/LEGAL/PROTESTS/SUPPORTERS: “Donald Trump supporter Alvin Bamberger is accused of assaulting a protester at a 2016 campaign rally in Kentucky. But if the 75-year-old veteran lost his cool at the Louisville rally, he did so at the ‘urging and inspiration’ of his President, Bamberger alleges in a lawsuit against Trump. ‘Trump and/or the Trump campaign urged […]
04/14/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/MIKE PENCE/NATIONAL SECURITY/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR: “Vice President Mike Pence will leave Washington on Saturday for an 11-day trip overseas with his first stop in South Korea as North Korea appears to prepare for another nuclear test. White House officials said Pence’s trip is intended to reinforce that the U.S. is fully committed to its security […]
04/14/2017
CAMPAIGN/SUPPORTERS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As some on the right howled about a series of reversals by President Trump on a number of his campaign promises — conned, betrayed, sold out, they said — Rush Limbaugh asked his listeners on Thursday [4-13-17] whether any of that flip-flopping really mattered. ‘See what Jeff Sessions is doing?’ Mr. Limbaugh […]
04/14/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/POLITICS: “Republicans in Congress for the first time are lowering expectations for how much of Obamacare they can repeal and how quickly they can do it. As they meet constituents back home, GOP lawmakers seem trapped between the reality of their failed repeal effort and President Donald Trump’s renewed promises this week to finish off […]
4/14/2017
HOLIDAY/TRUMP FAMILY/MELANIA: “RT @FLOTUS: Looking forward to hosting the annual Easter Egg Roll at the @WhiteHouse on Monday! https://t.co/nz7vucugx9” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 14, 2017 04:46pm […]
4/14/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Weekly Address- https://t.co/tpZ7eqJLUH https://t.co/B2NQzj53ft” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 14, 2017 03:41pm […]
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 […]
04/14/2017
MILITARY/RUSSIA/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is getting a taste for pulling the trigger. In just the last week, the rookie commander in chief has presided over the use of some of the most powerful weaponry in the US arsenal, sending a signal that he is one President who relishes ordering the use of deadly […]
04/14/2017
ABORTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump privately signed a bill on Thursday [4-13-17] that allows states to withhold federal money from organizations that provide abortion services, including Planned Parenthood, a group frequently targeted by Republicans. The bill, which the usually camera-friendly President signed without any media present, reverses an Obama-era regulation that prohibited states from […]
04/14/2017
FEDERAL RESERVE/JANET YELLEN/POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “So Donald J. Trump tells The Wall Street Journal that he is no longer so sure he wants to replace Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen when her term is up in February. Why would he want to nominate her to for another four-year term? And would she accept? While understanding […]
04/12/2017
AFGHANISTAN/FOREIGN POLICY/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The dropping of a ‘mother of all bombs’ Thursday [4-13-17] by the United States on an ISIS cave and bunker complex in Achin district in eastern Afghanistan should be understood as part of an effort to reverse a war that is not going well for the Afghan government and, by extension, […]
04/14/2017
CAMPAIGN/INTELLIGENCE/POLITICS/RUSSIA/UK: “British and other European intelligence agencies intercepted communications between associates of Donald Trump and Russian officials and other Russian individuals during the campaign and passed on those communications to their US counterparts, US congressional and law enforcement and US and European intelligence sources tell CNN. The communications were captured during routine surveillance of Russian […]
04/13/2017
CAMPAIGN/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE/CARTER PAGE: “Carter Page, an early foreign-policy adviser to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, on Thursday [4-13-17] said he ‘can’t definitively say’ the issue of US sanctions on Russia ‘was never raised by anyone’ while he was in Moscow last July. Page’s conversations with Russian officials last summer have come under scrutiny since an unverified […]
04/13/2017
BUSH FAMILY/FOREIGN POLICY/IMMIGRATION/NATIONAL SECURITY/WALL: “Former President George W. Bush made the case for continuing to fund foreign aid programs and offering a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants in a recent interview with NPR. Although Bush refrained from directly criticizing President Donald Trump in his comments, they contrast with the current Oval Office occupant’s call […]
04/13/2017
CIA/POLITICS/MIKE POMPEO: “Mike Pompeo, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, slammed WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange in a full-throated public denunciation Thursday before an audience for foreign policy specialists in Washington, D.C. ‘WikiLeaks walks like a hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence service,’ he said in prepared remarks at the Center […]
04/13/2017
DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is taking steps to vastly increase its capacity to detain and deport undocumented immigrants, according to a draft internal memo prepared by the Department of Homeland Security on implementing President Donald Trump’s immigration policies. Measures include detaining virtually all undocumented immigrants apprehended, with guidance to officials to only release […]
04/13/2017
POLITICS/PROTESTS/SUPPORTERS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Republican Rep. Mike Coffman faced angry constituents at a town hall Wednesday [4-12-17] night, in an early sign of the political price he and his colleagues might pay for supporting President Donald Trump’s policies, including the repeal of Obamacare. A moderate hailing from a swing district, Coffman fielded more than 40 questions […]
04/13/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/MILITARY/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “An airstrike by the American-led coalition fighting the Islamic State killed 18 Syrian fighters allied with the United States, the military said on Thursday [4-13-17]. The strike, on Tuesday in Tabqah, Syria, was the third time in a month that American-led airstrikes may have killed civilians or allies, and it comes […]
04/13/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/POLITICS: “Democrats plan to tie money promised to health insurers to offset Obamacare costs to the coming showdown over keeping the government running, a Democratic source said, following a threat from President Donald Trump Wednesday [4-12-17]. The promise from Democrats comes a day after Trump told the Wall Street Journal he may stop “cost-sharing reduction” […]
4/13/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It was a great honor to welcome Atlanta’s heroic first responders to the White House this afternoon! https://t.co/ZtC14AJ0xs” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 13, 2017 02:21pm […]
04/13/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The US military has dropped an enormous bomb in Afghanistan, according to four US military officials with direct knowledge of the mission. A GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb, nicknamed MOAB, was dropped at 7 p.m. local time Thursday [4-13-17], the sources said. The MOAB is also known as the ‘mother […]
04/13/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Days before Japanese leader Shinzo Abe dined with President Trump at Mar-a-Lago, restaurant inspectors slapped the resort with 13 violations — including raw fish used in sushi, one of Japan’s signature dishes. Florida restaurant inspectors also found beef, duck, chicken and ham stored at unsafe temperatures higher than the law requires, […]
4/13/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/RUSSIA: “Things will work out fine between the U.S.A. and Russia. At the right time everyone will come to their senses & there will be lasting peace!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 13, 2017 08:16am […]
4/13/2017
CHINA/FOREIGN POLICY/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I have great confidence that China will properly deal with North Korea. If they are unable to do so, the U.S., with its allies, will! U.S.A.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 13, 2017 08:08am […]
04/13/2017
CLIMATE CHANGE/EPA/LEGAL/LOBBYING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Fossil fuel lobbyists and environmentalists are set for a legal battle over whether the Trump administration will defend regulations on chemical plant safety. The Union for Concerned Scientists, Sierra Club and Earthjustice plan to jointly file a motion Wednesday [4-12-17] to intervene in a lawsuit filed by fossil fuel groups in […]
04/13/2017
RUSSIA/SYRIA/TRUMP PEOPLE/UN/NIKKI HALEY: “The UN Security Council failed Wednesday [4-12-17] to so much as condemn last week’s chemical weapons attack that killed dozens of people in Syria. Russia vetoed a UN resolution condemning the killings, believed to have been carried out with sarin gas, and calling on Moscow ally Syria to cooperate with an international […]
04/12/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/NATO/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump, at a news conference with the head of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, described Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as ‘a butcher’ as a result of the chemical attack the US government has accused him of carrying out on his own civilians. ‘That’s a butcher. That’s a butcher,’ Trump […]
4/12/2017
FBI/TRUMP MEMORANDA: “Memorandum for the Director of the Federal Bureau Delegation of Authority under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby order as follows: I hereby delegate to the Director of […]
04/12/2017
RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE/UKRAINE/PAUL MANAFORT: “Aug. 19 was an eventful day for Paul Manafort. That morning, he stepped down from guiding Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign, after a brief tenure during which Mr. Trump won the Republican nomination, Democrats’ emails were hacked and the campaign’s contacts with Russia came under scrutiny. Dogged by revelations about past financial […]
04/12/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/RUSSIA/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A week ago, President Trump was accused of being a tool for the Russians, an unwitting agent of influence, so full of admiration that he defended President Vladimir V. Putin against critics who called him a killer. Now, Mr. Trump is in a diplomatic clash with Mr. Putin’s Russia, his administration […]
04/12/2017
CABINET/RUSSIA/STATE/TRUMP PEOPLE/REX TILLERSON: “Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson opened his first meetings in Moscow on Wednesday at a moment when relations between the United States and Russia are so tense that it was unclear whether President Vladimir V. Putin would even see the man he once gave a medal of friendship. In the 24 […]
04/12/2017
CHINA/FOREIGN POLICY/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “China warned on Friday [4-14-17] that tensions on the Korean Peninsula could run out of control, after North Korea said it could test a nuclear weapon whenever its top leader, Kim Jong-un, decided, and as an American naval group neared the peninsula in a show of resolve. ‘The United States […]
04/14/2017
BORDER/DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Trump administration has begun the detail work of stiffening the country’s immigration infrastructure, according to an internal memo from the Department of Homeland Security, moving to speed the hiring of border agents, to find space to detain thousands more immigrants and to hasten deportation cases. Even as the federal courts trip up […]
04/12/2017
CAMPAIGN/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE/WIRTAPPING/CARTER PAGE: “The Justice Department obtained a secret court-approved wiretap last summer on Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser to Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign, based on evidence that he was operating as a Russian agent, a government official said Wednesday [4-12-17]. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court issued the warrant, the official said, after […]
04/12/2017
CABINET/RUSSIA/STATE/TRUMP PEOPLE/REX TILLERSON: “Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson met with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia for nearly two hours Wednesday [4-12-17], but the two men appeared unable to agree on the facts involving the deadly chemical weapons assault on Syrian civilians or Russian interference in the American election — much less move toward […]
4/12/2017
IMMIGRATION: “Jobs are returning, illegal immigration is plummeting, law, order and justice are being restored. We are truly making America great again!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 12, 2017 07:32pm […]
4/12/2017
ECONOMY: “Economic confidence is soaring as we unleash the power of private sector job creation and stand up for the American Workers. #AmericaFirst” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 12, 2017 06:09pm […]
4/12/2017
NATO/POLITICS: “Great meeting w/ NATO Sec. Gen. We agreed on the importance of getting countries to pay their fair share & focus on… https://t.co/G9TdjWezmH” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 12, 2017 04:48pm […]
04/12/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/RUSSIA: “Two stories dealing with Russia’s meddling in the election broke Tuesday [4-11-17] night. And both were full of bad news for President Donald Trump. The first, an exclusive to CNN, revealed that a number of Democratic and Republican lawmakers on the House and Senate intelligence committees who have seen classified documents see no […]
04/12/2017
CAMPAIGN/FBI/TRUMP PEOPLE/CATER PAGE: “The FBI obtained a warrant to monitor President Donald Trump’s former campaign adviser, Carter Page, last summer on suspicions he knowingly engaged in clandestine intelligence activities on behalf of Moscow, The Washington Post is reporting. The FBI and Justice Department obtained a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant to monitor the communications of […]
04/12/2017
TRUMP PEOPLE/SEAN SPICER: “White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said Wednesday [4-12-17] that his gaffe about Adolf Hitler’s use of gas had distracted from President Donald Trump’s accomplishments. ‘I’ve let the president down,’ Spicer told MSNBC’s Greta Van Susteren during a forum at Washington, D.C.’s Newseum. Spicer said he has not spoken to the president […]
04/12/2017
TRUMP FAMILY/MELANIA: “U.S. first lady Melania Trump has accepted an apology and damages from the publisher of the Daily Mail newspaper for reporting rumors about her time as a model, the two parties in the lawsuit said Wednesday. In a joint statement, the parties said the Mail retracted its false statements that Trump “provided services […]
04/12/2017
TRUMP PEOPLE/STEVE BANNON: “White House chief strategist Steve Bannon appears to be fighting for his political life following stunningly lukewarm comments about him from President Donald Trump on Tuesday. ‘I like Steve, but you have to remember he was not involved in my campaign until very late,’ Trump told New York Post columnist Michael Goodwin. […]
04/12/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “North Korea is a country prepared for conflict. Still technically at war with its southern neighbor, ordinary North Koreans are warned to be in a state of constant vigilance to threats from the outside, particularly from the US. Those fears seemed to be confirmed this month, after US President Donald […]
4/12/2017
POLITICS: “Great win in Kansas last night for Ron Estes, easily winning the Congressional race against the Dems, who spent heavily & predicted victory!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 12, 2017 07:37am […]
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 […]
4/12/2017
CHINA/FOREIGN POLICY/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Had a very good call last night with the President of China concerning the menace of North Korea.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 12, 2017 07:22am […]
4/12/2017
DONALD ON DONALD/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “One by one we are keeping our promises – on the border, on energy, on jobs, on regulations. Big changes are happening!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 12, 2017 06:10pm […]
04/12/2017
DHS/IMMIGRATION: “Two hard-line opponents of illegal immigration have obtained high-level advisory jobs at federal immigration agencies in the Department of Homeland Security. Jon Feere, a former legal policy analyst for the Center for Immigration Studies, or CIS, has been hired as an adviser to Thomas D. Homan, the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, […]
4/11/2017
NATO/STATE/TRUMP MEMORANDA: “A Letter from the President to the President of the Senate Dear Mr. President: Consistent with the condition set forth in the Senate resolution of advice and consent to ratification of the Protocol to the North Atlantic Treaty on the Accession of Montenegro of March 28, 2017, and based on the recommendation of […]
4/11/2017
DONALD ON DONALD: “I will be interviewed by @MariaBartiromo at 6:00 A.M. @FoxBusiness. Enjoy!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 11, 2017 10:16pm […]
04/11/2017
BUDGET/CABINET/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/MIKE MULVANEY: “The Trump administration on Wednesday [4-12-17] will lift the hiring freeze that it had imposed on the federal work force, even as it directs agencies to submit plans for personnel cuts and other restructuring moves to fit the budget blueprint released by President Trump last month. The new guidance, to […]
04/11/2017
NANCY PELOSI/POLITICS/TRUMP PEOPLE/SEAN SPICER: “House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi called for the firing of White House press secretary Sean Spicer following his comments he made Tuesday [4-11-17] at his briefing related to Adolf Hitler and the use chemical weapons. ‘While Jewish families across America celebrate Passover, the chief spokesman of this White House is downplaying […]
04/11/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/RUSSIA/STATE/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/REX TILLERSON: “President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday [4-11-17] that Russia had information that the United States was planning to launch new missile strikes on Syria, and that there were plans to fake chemicals weapons attacks there. Putin was speaking hours before U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was due to […]
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
RUSSIA/SYRIA/TRUMP PEOPLE/SEAN SPICER: “White House press secretary Sean Spicer, in an effort to shame Russia’s alliance with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his use of chemical weapons, said Tuesday [4-11-17] Adolf Hitler ‘didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons’ during World War II. While Hitler did not use chemical weapons on the battlefield, Hitler and […]
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 […]
04/11/2017
CABINET/STATE/TRUMP PEOPLE/REX TILLERSON: “Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson said on Tuesday [4-11-17] that President Bashar al-Assad’s reign in Syria was “coming to an end” and warned that Russia was at risk of becoming irrelevant in the Middle East by continuing to support him. His remarks, five days after the United States carried out missile […]