BUSINESS/TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA: “Trump-branded consumer products have suffered new blows, with U.S. retailers Sears Holdings Corp and Kmart Corp discontinuing online sales of 31 Trump Home items, while new details emerged showing sales of Ivanka Trump’s brand fell in the weeks before Nordstrom Inc stopped carrying her products. Sears and its wholly owned subsidiary, Kmart, disclosed […]
2/11/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/NATIONAL SECURITY/NORTH KOREA: “North Korea launched a ballistic missile toward the sea off its eastern coast on Sunday, in what South Korea called the North’s first attempt to test President Trump’s policy on the isolated country. A projectile believed to be a modified version of the North’s intermediate-range ballistic missile Musudan took off at […]
2/10/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/JAPAN: “Heading to Joint Base Andrews on #MarineOne with Prime Minister Shinz? earlier today.” – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 10, 2017 06:24pm […]
2/10/2017
CHINA/FAKE NEWS/MEDIA: “The failing @nytimes does major FAKE NEWS China story saying ‘Mr.Xi has not spoken to Mr. Trump since Nov.14.’ We spoke at length yesterday!” – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 10, 2017 08:35am […]
2/10/2017
LEGAL/TRAVEL BAN: “LAWFARE: ‘Remarkably, in the entire opinion, the panel did not bother even to cite this (the) statute.’ A disgraceful decision!” – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 10, 2017 08:15am […]
2/10/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/IRAN/ISRAEL: “Mr. Trump has also tacked to the center on Israel. After presenting himself as a stalwart defender of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who would buck the pressure campaign against Israeli settlements in the West Bank, Mr. Trump warned Israelis this week that he did not believe that ‘going ahead with these settlements is […]
2/10/2017
CHINA/FOREIGN POLICY/TAIWAN: “When President Trump took a phone call from the leader of Taiwan in December and asserted that the United States might no longer be bound by the ‘One China’ policy, his defenders hailed it as a show of strength — the latest delicate issue on which Mr. Trump was willing to challenge decades […]
2/10/2017
HEALTHCARE/PHARMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “At a recent meeting with pharmaceutical-industry bigwigs, President Trump declared that ‘we’re going to be cutting regulations at a level that nobody’s ever seen before.’ He also said that ‘we’re going to have tremendous protection for the people.’ It’s hard to see how he can do both. As with Trump’s proposed elimination […]
2/10/2017
EU/FOREIGN POLICY/RUSSIA: “The Trump administration and European officials agree on the need to keep sanctions in place against Russia until a two-year-old cease-fire agreement for the Ukraine conflict is fully implemented, the European Union’s foreign policy chief said Friday [2-10-17]. The EU’s high representative in charge of foreign policy Federica Mogherini, speaking to reporters after […]
2/10/2017
BANKING/FEDERAL RESERVE: “Daniel K. Tarullo, the Federal Reserve official who has led its efforts to strengthen financial regulation, announced on Friday that he would resign in early April. Mr. Tarullo’s departure from the Fed’s board of governors will leave three vacant seats on the seven-member board, offering President Trump an immediate opportunity to reshape the […]
2/10/2017
IMMIGRATION/TRAVEL BAN: “A federal judge here expressed deep concerns Friday about President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration, signaling she may issue a preliminary injunction blocking the administration’s efforts to restrict entry to the U.S. If U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema does so, it would add another judicial roadblock to the president that is similar […]
2/10/2017
CHINA/FOREIGN POLICY: “China’s wait-and-see approach to U.S. President Donald Trump’s periodic diplomatic outbursts has paid off with the president dropping his threat to upend a cornerstone of Beijing-Washington relations. After weeks of several phone run-ins with world leaders, Mr. Trump committed to a longstanding agreement that the U.S. won’t recognize Taiwan diplomatically in a phone […]
2/10/2017
2016 ELECTION/CYBERWAR/RUSSIA: “Democratic lawmakers demanded Friday that President Trump address a report that his national security advisor, retired Army Gen. Michael Flynn, discussed U.S. sanctions against Russia with that country’s ambassador in December, before Trump took office. The FBI has been examining Flynn’s contacts with Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, according to reports. At issue is whether […]
2/10/2017
IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/PROTESTS: “Influential Mexicans are pushing an aggressive and perhaps risky strategy to fight a likely increase in deportations of their undocumented compatriots in the U.S.: jam U.S. immigration courts in hopes of causing the already overburdened system to break down. The proposal calls for ad campaigns advising migrants in the U.S. to take their cases […]
2/10/2017
HEALTHCARE/PHARMA: “A drug to treat muscular dystrophy will hit the U.S. market with a price tag of $89,000 a year despite being available for decades in Europe at a fraction of that cost. Marathon Pharmaceuticals LLC’s pricing of the drug, which has been available in Europe, is the latest example of a business model that […]
2/10/2017
CABINET/MICHAEL FLYNN/NATIONAL SECURITY/RUSSIA: “White House National Security Adviser Mike Flynn discussed U.S. sanctions against Russia with that country’s ambassador to the U.S. before President Donald Trump took office, current and former American officials said, citing transcripts of intercepted communications that contradict his repeated assurances that the subject hadn’t come up in a series of phone […]
2/10/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/NATO: “The Trump administration is moving to back Montenegro’s bid to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, according to senior U.S. officials, a decision that could both bolster the Western alliance and antagonize Russia. The likely move would take place in a rapidly evolving political and diplomatic climate, in which President Donald Trump is […]
2/10/2017
FAA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump has suggested changes to a national air-traffic control system he described as ‘totally out of whack,’ taking on an issue that has foiled numerous previous efforts at modernization. ‘We want the traveling public to have the greatest customer service and with an absolute minimum of delays,’ Mr. Trump said […]
2/9/2017
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP EXEC ORDERS: ” ‘Providing an Order of Succession Within the Department of Justice’ Two weeks after Trump fired Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, this order changes the order of succession for Sessions, who won approval as attorney general last week. The sequence is: the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, the […]
2/9/2017
CRIME/NATIONAL SECURITY/POLICE/TRUMP EXEC ORDERS: ” ‘Enforcing Federal Law With Respect to Transnational Criminal Organizations and Preventing International Trafficking’ The order outlines the administration’s approach to cutting down on organized crime — including gangs, cartels and racketeering organizations — by enhancing cooperation with foreign governments and the ways in which federal agencies share information and data. […]
2/9/2017
CRIME/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/POLICE/TRUMP EXEC ORDERS: ” ‘Preventing Violence Against Federal, State, Tribal, and Local Law Enforcement Officers’ The order calls on the Justice Department to ‘enhance the protection and safety’ of law enforcement by increasing penalties for crimes committed against officers. The attorney general is also instructed to review and determine whether existing federal laws adequately […]
2/9/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/CRIME/DRUGS/TRUMP EXEC ORDERS: ” ‘Task Force on Crime Reduction and Public Safety’ The order directs Attorney General Jeff Sessions to create a task force that would propose new legislation to reduce crime, highlighting drug trafficking, illegal immigration and violent crime. The task force will submit yearly reports to the president. Throughout the campaign, Trump […]
2/9/2017
LEGAL/TRAVEL BAN/TRUMP EXEC ORDER: “SEE YOU IN COURT, THE SECURITY OF OUR NATION IS AT STAKE!” – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 9, 2017 06:35pm […]
2/9/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/JEFF SESSIONS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “It is with great pride, very great pride, that I say these words to you right now: Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Welcome to the White House… He’s a man of integrity, a man of principle, and a man of total, utter resolve.” -Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump at Swearing-In of […]
2/9/2017
JOHN MCCAIN/MEDIA/POLITICS: “Sen. McCain should not be talking about the success or failure of a mission to the media. Only emboldens the enemy! He’s been losing so…long he doesn’t know how to win anymore, just look at the mess our country is in – bogged down in conflict all over the place. Our hero…Ryan died […]
2/9/2017
FAKE NEWS/MEDIA: “Chris Cuomo, in his interview with Sen. Blumenthal, never asked him about his long-term lie about his brave ‘service’ in Vietnam. FAKE NEWS!” – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 9, 2017 08:19am […]
2/9/2017
NEIL GORSUCH/SUPREME COURT: “Sen.Richard Blumenthal, who never fought in Vietnam when he said for years he had (major lie),now misrepresents what Judge Gorsuch told him?” – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 9, 2017 06:57am […]
2/9/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/CORRUPTION/CRIME/DHS/DNI/DRUGS/SECRETARY OF STATE/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Purpose. Transnational criminal organizations and subsidiary organizations, including transnational drug cartels, have spread throughout the Nation, threatening the safety of the […]
2/9/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/CRIME/DOJ/DRUGS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to reduce crime and restore public safety to communities across the Nation, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Policy. It shall be the policy of the […]
2/9/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/DOJ/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998, 5 U.S.C. 3345 et seq., it is hereby ordered that: Section 1. Order of Succession. Subject to the provisions of section 2 of […]
2/9/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/CRIME/DOJ/POLICE/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Policy. It shall be the policy of the executive branch to: (a) enforce all Federal laws in order to enhance the protection and […]
2/9/2017
RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE/ROGER STONE: ” ‘The New York Times reported that you’re among a couple of Trump associates under federal investigation for alleged ties to Russia. Is there any truth to those reports–have you been contacted by anyone in the intelligence community?’ ‘I have not been contacted by anybody in law enforcement. There is absolutely no […]
2/9/2017
BUSINESS/ETHICS/TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA: “Ivanka Trump seems to be caught in the jaws of this divide. It’s hard to separate her clothing line from her father’s hard-line politics. Millennial women are less inclined to shop Ivanka’s look as an ugly election turns into an even more divisive presidency. And the campaign to boycott all Trump-related businesses aren’t […]
2/9/2017
RELIGION/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump promised last week that he would ‘totally destroy’ the Johnson Amendment, a 1954 provision of the tax code that allows the Internal Revenue Service to police the speech of churches and other nonprofits. But Congress doesn’t have to repeal the amendment to make good on Mr. Trump’s pledge. The Free […]
2/9/2017
JOHN MCCAIN/MEDIA/POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Thursday criticized Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.) for publicly discussing the outcome of a special operations raid in Yemen last month, a day after a White House spokesman declared the mission a success. ‘Sen. McCain should not be talking about the success or failure of a mission […]
2/9/2017
CABINET/HHS/TRUMP PEOPLE/TOM PRICE: “The Senate is expected to confirm House Budget Chairman Tom Price (R., Ga.), President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, in a party-line vote in the early-morning hours Friday, placing him atop a sprawling agency tasked with dismantling the Affordable Care Act. His confirmation would boost […]
2/9/2017
FAKE NEWS/MEDIA/POLITICS: “For several months, President Donald Trump has continued to hammer media outlets… saying they report fake news. A shocking new poll finds that voters may agree…some that they trust Trump more so than the media. The Emerson College poll found 49 percent of registered voters trusted Trump’s team. Meanwhile only 39 percent found […]
2/9/2017
BORDER/WALL: “President Donald Trump’s ‘wall’ along the U.S.-Mexico border would be a series of fences and walls that would cost as much as $21.6 billion, and take more than three years to construct, based on a U.S. Department of Homeland Security internal report seen by Reuters on Thursday [2-9-17]. The report’s estimated price-tag is much […]
2/9/2017
CONFLICT OF INTERESTS/TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA/TRUMP PEOPLE/KELLYANNE CONWAY: “In Thursday’s [2-9-17] episode of ‘QVC: White House Edition,’ Kellyanne Conway, a top adviser to President Trump, hawked his daughter’s fashion line on national television. ‘Go buy Ivanka’s stuff, is what I would tell you,’ Ms. Conway said in an interview on ‘Fox & Friends.’ ‘I’m going to give […]
2/9/2017
CABINET/STEVE MNUCHIN/TREASURY: “The newly christened ‘Mnuchin rule’ — the assurance given by the Treasury nominee Steven T. Mnuchin that ‘there would be no absolute tax cut for the upper class’ — seems as if it was made to be broken. Mr. Mnuchin initially made the statement during an interview on CNBC in November, after President […]
2/9/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/JEFF SESSIONS/TRUMP PEOPLE/TRUMP EXEC ORDERS: “At an Oval Office ceremony for the swearing in of Jeff Sessions as attorney general, President Trump announced that he was also going to sign three executive orders ‘designed to restore safety in America,’ to ‘break the back’ of cartels and ‘stop as of today’ violence against the police.” […]
2/9/2017
SEAN SPICER/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE/NEIL GORSUCH: “White House officials insisted on Thursday that Judge Neil M. Gorsuch, President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, was not referring to Mr. Trump’s recent denigration of judges when he said privately that he was disheartened by attacks on the courts. Mr. Trump said on Twitter that the nominee’s remarks had been […]
2/9/2017
2016 ELECTION/IMMIGRATION: “Jeff Marchini and others in the Central Valley here bet their farms on the election of Donald J. Trump. His message of reducing regulations and taxes appealed to this Republican stronghold, one of Mr. Trump’s strongest bases of support in the state. As for his promises about cracking down on illegal immigrants, many […]
2/9/2017
CONFLICT OF INTERESTS/KELLYANNE CONWAY/TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA: “The White House on Thursday ‘counseled’ Kellyanne Conway, one of President Trump’s top advisers, in an unusual show of displeasure after she urged consumers to buy fashion products marketed by Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter. Legal experts said Ms. Conway might have violated a federal ethics rule against endorsing products […]
2/9/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/ISRAEL: “President Trump and his advisers, venturing for the first time into the fraught world of Middle East peacemaking, are developing a strategy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that would enlist Arab nations like Saudi Arabia and Egypt to break years of deadlock. The emerging approach mirrors the thinking of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of […]
2/9/2017
IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRAVEL BAN: “A federal appeals panel on Thursday [2-9-17] unanimously rejected President Trump’s bid to reinstate his ban on travel into the United States from seven largely Muslim nations, a sweeping rebuke of the administration’s claim that the courts have no role as a check on the president. The three-judge panel, suggesting that the […]
2/9/2017
CHINA/FOREIGN POLICY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump told President Xi Jinping of China on Thursday [2-9-17] evening that the United States would honor the ‘One China’ policy, reversing his earlier expressions of doubt about the longtime diplomatic understanding and removing a major source of tension between the United States and China since shortly after he was […]
2/9/2017
CONFLICT OF INERTEST/TRUMP PEOPLE/KELLYANNE CONWAY: “The Office of Government Ethics [OGE] said Thursday that it has received a flood of messages from citizens concerned about ‘recent events,’ purportedly referring to comments by President Donald Trump’s White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, who urged consumers to buy Ivanka Trump’s products. ‘OGE’s website, phone system and email system […]
2/9/2017
IMMIGRATION/TRAVEL BAN: “Silicon Valley technology firms, worried about their ability to bring foreign workers to the U.S. under President Donald Trump, are distancing themselves from Indian outsourcing firms, which are heavy users of the same visa program that U.S. tech firms rely on. U.S. tech companies hope that any new restrictions on the H-1B visa […]
2/8/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS: “Congratulations to our new Attorney General, @SenatorSessions! https://t.co/e0buP1K83z” – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 8, 2017 08:05pm […]
2/8/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/IMMIGRATION: “Big increase in traffic into our country from certain areas, while our people are far more vulnerable, as we wait for what should be EASY D!” – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 8, 2017 12:41pm […]
2/8/2017
BUSINESS/TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA: “My daughter Ivanka has been treated so unfairly by @Nordstrom. She is a great person — always pushing me to do the right thing! Terrible!” – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 8, 2017 10:51am […]
2/8/2017
BUSINESS/ECONOMY/JOBS: “Thank you Brian Krzanich, CEO of @Intel. A great investment ($7 BILLION) in American INNOVATION and JOBS! #AmericaFirst????????” – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 8, 2017 10:23am […]
2/8/2017
POLICE: “Thank you to our great Police Chiefs & Sheriffs for your leadership & service. You have a true friend in the @WhiteHouse. We support you!” – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 8, 2017 10:23am […]
2/8/2017
NATIONAL SECURITY/POLITICS: “If the U.S. does not win this case as it so obviously should, we can never have the security and safety to which we are entitled. Politics!” – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 8, 2017 07:03am […]
2/8/2017
IMMIGRATION/TRAVEL BAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “On Saturday [2-4-17], using his favorite 140-character medium, President Trump insulted the federal jurist who blocked his immigration order aimed at Muslim travelers, dismissing Judge James L. Robart as a ‘so-called judge.’ Democratic U.S. Rep. Adam B. Schiff of Burbank, also on Twitter, responded tartly: ‘This *so-called* judge was nominated by […]
2/8/2017
CABINET/LABOR/TRUMP PEOPLE/ANDREW PUZDER: “Labor secretary nominee Andy Puzder pledged that, if confirmed, he would divest his multimillion-dollar stake in CKE Restaurants Inc. — the fast food company he has headed since 2000 — and sell a wide array of other holdings, according to federal financial disclosure and ethics forms. Puzder also promised not to participate […]
2/7/2017
POLICE: “An honor having the National Sheriffs’ Assoc. join me at the @WhiteHouse. Incredible men & women who protect & serve 24/7/365. THANK YOU!!” – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 7, 2017 11:25am […]
2/7/2017
CABINET: “It is a disgrace that my full Cabinet is still not in place, the longest such delay in the history of our country. Obstruction by Democrats!” – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 7, 2017 08:04pm […]
2/7/2017
CONFLICT OF INTERESTS/OBAMA/RUSSIA/TERRORISM: “I don’t know Putin, have no deals in Russia, and the haters are going crazy – yet Obama can make a deal with Iran, #1in terror, no problem!” – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 7, 2017 07:11am […]
2/7/2017
CABINET/EDUCATION/TRUMP PEOPLE/BETSY DEVOS: “Phone calls jammed congressional switchboards. Two Republican senators defected. Democrats held a last-ditch, 24-hour Senate debate in hope of shaking loose one additional vote. But the effort was not enough to prevent Betsy DeVos from becoming U.S. secretary of Education. DeVos squeaked through the confirmation process Tuesday with the tie-breaking vote of […]
2/7/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump might not know too much about alcohol but he does know that KFC is Finger Lickin’ Good. The President doesn’t drink or smoke – but his eating habits are less than healthy. Trump loves his fast food – including KFC and McDonald’s. Last year he told the Daily Mail that […]
2/7/2017
POLITICS/TRUMP TAXES/TAXES: “President Trump doesn’t have to publicly disclose his tax returns, now or ever. But some members of Congress can, if they want. Thanks to a little-known and rarely used provision in the law, either the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, the Senate Finance Committee or the Joint Committee on Taxation […]
2/6/2017
JUSTICE DEPT/TERRORISM: “The threat from radical Islamic terrorism is very real, just look at what is happening in Europe and the Middle-East. Courts must act fast!” – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 6, 2017 09:49pm […]
2/6/2017
FAKE NEWS/MEDIA: “The failing @nytimes was forced to apologize to its subscribers for the poor reporting it did on my election win. Now they are worse!” – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 6, 2017 09:33pm […]
2/6/2017
FAKE NEWS/MEDIA: “The failing @nytimes writes total fiction concerning me. They have gotten it wrong for two years, and now are making up stories & sources!” – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 6, 2017 11:32am […]
2/6/2017
SPORTS: “What an amazing comeback and win by the Patriots. Tom Brady, Bob Kraft and Coach B are total winners. Wow!” – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 5, 2017 10:36pm […]
2/6/2017
FAKE NEWS/MEDIA: “I call my own shots, largely based on an accumulation of data, and everyone knows it. Some FAKE NEWS media, in order to marginalize, lies!” – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 6, 2017 07:07am […]
2/6/2017
FAKE NEWS/MEDIA: “Any negative polls are fake news, just like the CNN, ABC, NBC polls in the election. Sorry, people want border security and extreme vetting.” – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 6, 2017 07:01am […]
2/6/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): "Over the last few days, the Republicans’ campaign against the Affordable Care Act has undergone a subtle shift in branding. They’re no longer talking about a strategy of 'repeal and replace’: The new buzzword is 'repair.' Yet a package of three Republican bills reviewed last week by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce […]
2/6/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/IRAN/NATIONAL SECURITY: “Iran’s continued missile testing on Saturday has given President Trump one more reason to tear up his predecessor’s deal with the regime in Tehran. After Iran’s Jan. 29 [2017] ballistic-missile launch, the Trump administration responded with new sanctions and tough talk. But these alone won’t have a material effect on Tehran or […]
2/6/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/NATO: “Before taking office, Donald Trump repeatedly questioned the role of the NATO military alliance, a bedrock of European stability and transatlantic relations since 1949, calling the security pact ‘obsolete’ as recently as last month. On Monday [2-6-17] he dialed back, adopting the far milder critique that President Obama and other presidents have used. […]
2/6/2017
RUSSIA: “Once again, President Trump has come to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s defense by throwing America under the bus. In a pre-taped interview with Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly, aired on Super Bowl Sunday, Trump was asked to explain his respect for Putin. ‘He is the leader of his country,’ Trump said, adding the usual boilerplate […]
2/6/2017
CABINET/EDUCATION/BETSY DEVOS: “Betsy DeVos lacks basic knowledge of American schools and should not be confirmed as secretary of Education, Sen. Kamala Harris said Monday night as Democrats made a last-ditch effort to sink DeVos’ nomination… After watching DeVos’ confirmation hearing, Harris said, ‘It was clear Ms. DeVos didn’t know the difference between two basic theories […]
2/6/2017
BUSINESS/IMMIGRATION/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRAVEL BAN: “Early Monday, two former secretaries of state — John F. Kerry and Madeline Albright — joined a six-page joint statement saying Trump’s [travel ban] order ‘undermines’ national security and will ‘endanger U.S. troops in the field.’ The rare declaration, addressed to the 9th Circuit, was also backed by top former national security […]
2/5/2017
IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRAVEL BAN: “I have instructed Homeland Security to check people coming into our country VERY CAREFULLY. The courts are making the job very difficult!” – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 5, 2017 03:42pm […]
2/5/2017
SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/NEIL GORSUCH: “When President Donald Trump introduced his Supreme Court pick on live television last week, he said Neil Gorsuch had ‘demonstrated a commitment to helping the less fortunate’ by working in the Harvard Prison Legal Assistance Project and the Harvard Defenders. His affiliation with these volunteer programs—which offer law school students […]
2/5/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “President Donald Trump downgraded expectations for his party’s swift repeal and replacement of the 2010 health law in an interview with Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly aired Sunday, saying ‘maybe it’ll take til some time into next year’ ‘Obamacare doesn’t work. So we are putting in a wonderful plan. It’s statutorily…takes a while to get. […]
2/5/2017
BANKING/DODD-FRANK/ECONOMY: “The six biggest U.S. banks could potentially return more than $100 billion in capital to investors over time through dividends and share buybacks if the Trump administration succeeds in a push to loosen bank regulation. President Donald Trump on Friday signed a memorandum ordering a review of the Dodd-Frank Act, the postfinancial-crisis regulatory overhaul […]
2/5/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/IRAN/RUSSIA/SYRIA: “The Trump administration is exploring ways to break Russia’s military and diplomatic alliance with Iran in a bid to both end the Syrian conflict and bolster the fight against Islamic State, said senior administration, European and Arab officials involved in the policy discussions. The emerging strategy seeks to reconcile President Donald Trump’s seemingly […]
2/5/2017
DODD-FRANK/ECONOMY/POLITICS: “Republicans in Congress are preparing to release plans to roll back the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial overhaul as early as this week, following an executive order by President Donald Trump seeking a broad review of the Obama-era law. House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R., Texas), who has been working on a package to […]
2/4/2017
IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRAVEL BAN: “The judge opens up our country to potential terrorists and others that do not have our best interests at heart. Bad people are very happy!” – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 4, 2017 07:48pm […]
2/4/2017
IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRAVEL BAN: “Why aren’t the lawyers looking at and using the Federal Court decision in Boston, which is at conflict with ridiculous lift ban decision?” – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 4, 2017 06:37pm […]
2/4/2017
IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRAVEL BAN: “Because the ban was lifted by a judge, many very bad and dangerous people may be pouring into our country. A terrible decision” – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 4, 2017 04:44pm […]
2/4/2017
IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRAVEL BAN: “What is our country coming to when a judge can halt a Homeland Security travel ban and anyone, even with bad intentions, can come into U.S.?” – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 4, 2017 03:44pm […]
2/4/2017
DONALDISM: “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 4, 2017 09:26am […]
2/4/2017
FAKE NEWS/MEDIA: “After being forced to apologize for its bad and inaccurate coverage of me after winning the election, the FAKE NEWS @nytimes is still lost!” – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 4, 2017 08:39am […]
2/4/2017
IMMIGRATION/TRAVEL BAN: “The opinion of this so-called judge, which essentially takes law-enforcement away from our country, is ridiculous and will be overturned!” – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 4, 2017 08:12am […]
2/4/2017
IMMIGRATION/TRAVEL BAN: “Interesting that certain Middle-Eastern countries agree with the ban. They know if certain people are allowed in it’s death & destruction!” – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 4, 2017 08:06am […]
2/4/2017
IMMIGRATION/TRAVEL BAN: “When a country is no longer able to say who can, and who cannot , come in & out, especially for reasons of safety &.security – big trouble!” – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 4, 2017 07:59am […]
2/4/2017
HEALTHCARE/PHARMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Next on the agenda- Donald Trump held a meeting with the bosses of America’s biggest drug companies, an industry that has found itself in the president’s crosshairs for ‘getting away with murder’ by charging sky-high prices for medicines in public health-care schemes.” – The Economist, “Business this week,” The Economist Magazine, Feb. 4, […]
2/4/2017
IMMIGRATION/SAUDI ARABIA: “W[ithin] hours of signing his executive order restricting travel from seven Muslim countries, President Donald Trump called King Salman of Saudi Arabia to discuss closer ties. ‘Trump reassures the allies…and the travel restrictions befuddle the world’, read the front-page banner of Asharq Al-Alawsat, a newspaper owned by the king’s son, on the following […]
2/4/2017
NEIL GORSUCH/SUPREME COURT: “E[leven] years ago, Neil Gorsuch, Donald Trump’s choice to replace Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, sailed through the Senate by a voice vote when George W. Bush appointed him to the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. This time, with the ideological tilt of America’s highest court hanging in the balance and […]
2/4/2017
NATIONAL SECURITY/NATO: “E[uropean] publishing saw a sensational hit in the 1840s with ‘The Mysteries of Russia’, a Frenchman’s take on the supposed brutality of Slavic life. Its most lurid tale described a Russian peasant fleeing wolves on a sled, who—unable to outpace the slavering pack—escaped by hurling her children, one by one, to their deaths. […]
2/4/2017
CHINA/FOREIGN POLICY/JAPAN/NATIONAL SECURITY: “The U.S. is putting regional stability in East Asia at risk, a Chinese spokesman said Saturday following remarks by President Trump’s Defense secretary that a U.S. commitment to defend Japanese territory applies to an island group that China claims. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang on Saturday called on the U.S. to […]
2/4/2017
LEGAL/TRAVEL BAN/TRUMP EXEC ORDER: “The Seattle federal judge whom President Trump derided on Twitter on Saturday after blocking Trump’s executive order restricting travel to the U.S. is known for his conservative legal views, for a record of helping disadvantaged children that includes fostering six of them, and for dramatically declaring ‘black lives matter’ during a […]
2/4/2017
INTELLIGENCE/MILITARY/TERRORISM: “It was past midnight on a moonless night in central Yemen, and Ahmad Jawfi was preparing to go to sleep when he heard the dull buzz of drones overhead. Drones were nothing new, so he and others paid little attention. But soon, a military operation unfolded that left 14 Al Qaeda fighters dead and […]
2/4/2017
RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Trump says that even though he doesn’t know how he’s going to get along with the Russian president, he doesn’t think that getting along with him would be bad for the country. ‘If Russia helps us in the fight against ISIS, which is a major fight — and Islamic terrorism all over […]
2/3/2017
LABOR/TRUMP MEMORANDA: “Presidential Memorandum on Fiduciary Duty Rule… The Department of Labor’s (Department) final rule entitled, Definition of the term ‘Fiduciary’; Conflict of Interest Rule-Retirement Investment Advice, 81 Fed. Reg. 20946 (April 8, 2016) (Fiduciary Duty Rule or Rule), may significantly alter the manner in which Americans can receive financial advice, and may not be […]
2/3/2017
TAXES/TRADE DEALS: “Countries charge U.S. companies taxes or tariffs while the U.S. charges them nothing or little.We should charge them SAME as they charge us!” – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 3, 2017 10:07pm […]