CONGRESS/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Rep. Joaquin Castro said Tuesday [1-29-19] that he believes no topics are off limits for the expected hearing next week with President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen…Cohen agreed on Monday [1-28-19] to a closed-door hearing with the House Intelligence Committee, of which Castro is a member, on February 8. Among […]
1/29/2019
INTERIOR/LAWSUIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A Trump administration proposal that would limit the public’s access to Interior Department records is drawing the ire of open-government and environmental groups, who are preparing to challenge it with a lawsuit. The proposal says it is designed to address ‘exponential increases in requests and litigation’ under the Freedom of Information Act […]
1/29/2019
DEMS/ELECTION/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “With the Iowa caucuses a year away, a new poll finds a majority of Americans would ‘definitely not vote’ to re-elect President Donald Trump, while most Democratic voters do not know who they want to nominate to challenge him. According to a Washington Post-ABC News poll, 56 percent of Democratic voters and […]
1/29/2019
BORDER/LATINOS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump’s new favorite talking point is a claim that his recent crusade for a southern border wall, which draws furious accusations of xenophobia and racism, has made him more likable to Hispanics…It was at least the third time Trump has publicly referenced the surprising number, including in a Jan. 27 […]
1/29/2019
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROGER STONE/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The main takeaway from informal presidential adviser Roger Stone’s arraignment Tuesday [1-29-19] is that the Russian collusion narrative has collapsed. If there were anything there, we’d know about it by now. Stone was hauled in to federal court Friday [1-25-19] morning after a theatrical, televised arrest that should be […]
1/29/2019
DEMS/TREASURY/TRUMP TAXES: “House Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal of Massachusetts is carefully deliberating the best way to request President Donald Trump’s tax returns amid building pressure from activists on the left. Requesting presidential tax returns has become a key mobilizing issue for the Democratic base, but it carries with it both political and legal […]
1/29/2019
ISIS/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Amid ongoing discussions and confusion about the future of the US presence in Syria, President Donald Trump had words of comfort for a representative of a key ally in the fight against ISIS on Monday [1-28-19] night. ‘I love the Kurds,’ Trump told Kurdish Leader Ilham Ahmed in an unconventional diplomatic meeting […]
1/29/2019
CHRIS CHRISTIE/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie wants people to know that the Trump administration’s problems are not his – or even President Donald Trump’s – fault. In his new book published Tuesday [1-29-19], Christie said he believes the president has many leadership qualities but has been surrounded by the wrong people. […]
1/29/2019
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “After President Donald Trump leveled a rare Twitter attack against Fox News – a network he normally praises for its favorable coverage of him – one of the conservative channel’s anchors lambasted the president for ‘bullying journalists.’ Fox News anchor Julie Banderas was outraged after Trump posted a tweet Sunday night complaining […]
1/29/2019
DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Michael Bloomberg made his second visit to New Hampshire Tuesday [1-29-19], using the opportunity to step up his criticisms of President Donald Trump. But he didn’t stop there. Bloomberg also trashed fellow billionaire Howard Schultz for considering an independent presidential bid, and dismissed Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s proposed wealth tax as ‘probably unconstitutional’…The […]
1/29/2019
STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VENEZUELA: “The Trump administration is warning U.S. citizens not to travel to Venezuela as Washington tries to pressure the regime of Nicolás Maduro to give up power. The State Department has raised its travel advisory for Venezuela to level four, its highest. That places Venezuela in the same category as countries such as […]
1/29/2019
ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is not getting a lot of positive feedback since indicating on Sunday [1-27-19] that he was seriously considering a 2020 presidential run…Although most have not used profanity, many political figures and media pundits have echoed the heckler’s sentiments. Schultz’s fellow billionaire, Michael Bloomberg, warned him against running, […]
1/29/2019
ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’Our economy, right now, is the Gold Standard throughout the World.’ @IngrahamAngle So true, and not even close!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 29, 2019 11:00 am […]
1/29/2019
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WHITE HOUSE STAFF: “President Donald Trump did a little book promoting Tuesday [1-29-19], attacking a former aide for writing the latest tell-all tome about the fractious Trump administration…Published Tuesday, Sims – a communications aide with both the Trump campaign and the White House – writes about the back-stabbing among the president and his […]
1/29/2019
ECONOMY/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Federal contractors still await approval to get back to work now that the partial shutdown is over. — The five-week impasse over $5.7 billion in funding for President Donald Trump’s border wall cost the economy $3 billion. — Asylum seekers will not be allowed access to attorneys during interviews determining whether they […]
1/29/2019
LEGAL/ROGER STONE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Roger Stone, a longtime Republican campaign adviser and confidant of President Donald Trump, pleaded not guilty Tuesday [1-29-19] morning to seven criminal charges of false statements, witness tampering and obstruction of justice. Special counsel Robert Mueller and the US attorney for the District of Columbia have accused Stone of lying to […]
1/29/2019
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VENEZUELA: “Last Wednesday [1-23-19], when hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans took the streets to back the opposition’s risky bid to return the country to democracy, the Trump administration was first in line to offer support. Just moments after opposition leader Juan Guaidó, the head of Venezuela’s Legislature, declared himself interim president, urging strongman […]
1/29/2019
ROGER STONE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Roger Stone I met for a drink in the bistro across the street from a Barnes & Noble bookstore was not the right-wing merry prankster, the con man, I expected. Yes, he looked like he’d stepped from the set of Guys and Dolls—with a spread collar, natty tie, pocket square […]
1/29/2019
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A low level staffer that I hardly knew named Cliff Sims wrote yet another boring book based on made up stories and fiction. He pretended to be an insider when in fact he was nothing more than a gofer. He signed a non-disclosure agreement. He is a mess!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January […]
1/29/2019
DEMS/INTELLIGENCE/IRAN/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VENEZUELA: “A new American intelligence assessment of global threats concluded that North Korea is ‘unlikely to give up’ all of its nuclear stockpiles and that Iran is not ‘currently undertaking the key nuclear weapons-development activity’ needed to make a bomb. Their conclusions challenged President Trump’s assertions on both countries. • As Senator […]
1/29/2019
DEMS/GOVERNMENT/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Democrats in the House offered a border security plan on Wednesday [1-30-19] that would not provide a penny for Donald Trump’s border wall, ignoring — for now — an early-morning warning from the president that they’d be ‘wasting their time’ if they don’t come up with wall money. The Democratic […]
1/29/2019
AFGHANISTAN/ISIS/NATIONAL SECURITY/NORTH KOREA/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “They think pulling out of Syria and Afghanistan would be a debacle. They think North Korea cannot be trusted. They think the Islamic State is still a threat to America. They think Russia is bad and NATO is good. The trouble is their president does not agree. More than two […]
1/29/2019
ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration’s rosy view of the economy is increasingly diverging from a decidedly more cautious outlook from other prognosticators, including economists at the Federal Reserve and elsewhere, who are warning that growth is slowing, in part because of the president’s own policies. The side that turns out to be correct could […]
1/29/2019
IMMIGRATION/TRUMP BUSINESS: “The Trump Organization said late Tuesday [1-29-19] that it was implementing a system to weed out undocumented immigrants who try to get jobs at its properties. The move followed reports in The New York Times last month that the president’s company was employing people at its flagship golf club in New Jersey who […]
1/29/2019
INTELLIGENCE/IRAN/ISIS/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump has previously declared that North Korea is no longer a nuclear threat, touted the defeat of ISIS, doubted the effects of climate change and railed against the Iran nuclear deal as ‘defective at its core.’ But the most senior intelligence officials in the Trump administration suggested Tuesday [1-29-19] […]
1/29/2019
ELECTION/GOP/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump likes to boast that he is the most popular Republican president among Republicans that has ever existed. ‘How do you impeach a president who has won perhaps the greatest election of all time, done nothing wrong (no Collusion with Russia, it was the Dems that Colluded), had the most […]
1/28/2019
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP TAXES: “House Democrats who have been itching to get their hands on President Donald Trump’s tax returns are growing impatient with leadership for not moving fast enough to access and release the documents. Digging into Trump’s personal finances was supposed to be one of the top priorities under the House […]
1/28/2019
SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “How does Da Nang Dick (Blumenthal) serve on the Senate Judiciary Committee when he defrauded the American people about his so called War Hero status in Vietnam, only to later admit, with tears pouring down his face, that he was never in Vietnam. An embarrassment to our Country!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January […]
1/28/2019
CLIMATE CHANGE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In the beautiful Midwest, windchill temperatures are reaching minus 60 degrees, the coldest ever recorded. In coming days, expected to get even colder. People can’t last outside even for minutes. What the hell is going on with Global Waming? Please come back fast, we need you!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 28, […]
1/28/2019
BORDER/GOP/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Senate Republicans can’t stomach another shutdown. After weathering 35 days of a partial government closure, the Senate GOP is dreading the possibility another one will hit in less than three weeks — a sentiment that could prevent President Donald Trump from closing the government again. Though House Republicans aren’t ruling out supporting […]
1/28/2019
DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Howard Schultz’s advisers have a message for the former Starbucks chief‘s critics: Schultz could be the fail-safe plan in the event Democrats nominate a far-left candidate in 2020. In the 24 hours since Schultz announced that he is considering running for president as an independent, he’s been besieged by Democrats fearful that […]
1/28/2019
ELECTION/GOVERNMENT/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s political team has concluded that shutting down the government hasn’t damaged his 2020 prospects — if anything, they’re convinced it’s bolstered his standing in key electoral battlegrounds. Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale commissioned a survey taken during the final days of the shutdown that was conducted by respected GOP […]
1/28/2019
SANCTIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VENEZUELA: “President Donald Trump on Monday [1-28-19] ratcheted up pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro by slapping sanctions on the country’s state-owned petroleum company, his latest move against a regime he has deemed illegitimate. Shortly after the release of an executive order, the Treasury Department said PdVSA has ‘long been a vehicle for […]
1/28/2019
EDUCATION/RELIGION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Monday [1-28-19] cheered on the controversial push to introduce Bible literacy classes to public schools…Trump’s tweet came half an hour after Fox News’ ‘Fox & Friends’ aired a segment on the subject, though his tweet is not quite accurate. A handful of states are making pushes to introduce […]
1/28/2019
BORDER/CONGRESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Trump will deliver his State of the Union address to Congress on Feb. 5, 10 days before the deadline for lawmakers in the House and the Senate to reach an agreement on a border security package to avert another government shutdown. Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent an invitation to the president on […]
1/28/2019
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’In the Media’s effort to destroy the President, they are actually destroying themselves. Given all of the tremendous headwinds this President has faced, it’s amazing he has accomplished so much.’ DEROY MURDOCK @foxandfriends I agree!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 28, 2019 8:50 am […]
1/28/2019
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Howard Schultz doesn’t have the ‘guts’ to run for President! Watched him on @60Minutes last night and I agree with him that he is not the ‘smartest person.’ Besides, America already has that! I only hope that Starbucks is still paying me their rent in Trump Tower!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 28, […]
1/28/2019
CONGRESS/GOVERNMENT/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump will deliver the annual State of the Union address next week after accepting an invitation from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who had postponed it due to the partial shutdown of the U.S. government. The nationally televised address from the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives, now set […]
1/28/2019
CHRIS CHRISTIE/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When Chris Christie first met Donald Trump, over dinner at the Manhattan restaurant Jean-Georges in 2002, the developer ordered for both of them. This power move has received insufficient study. When Zadie Smith met Jay-Z, he did this to her, too. ‘Apparently,”’ she wrote about the encounter, ‘I look like the […]
1/28/2019
CONGRESS/DEMS/ELECTION/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “• The longest government shutdown in history inflicted severe political damage on President Trump, dragging down his poll numbers and stirring concern about his ability to navigate a divided government. He now appears without a plan for mounting a strong campaign in 2020. • With the shutdown over for now, Congress will […]
1/28/2019
BORDER/CHINA/CONGRESS/DEMS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Trump this week will turn his attention from a fight with congressional Democrats to an even more formidable negotiating challenge, one with potentially higher stakes: China. Trade talks with Beijing begin on Wednesday [1-30-19] in Washington, kicking off a monthlong sprint of negotiations between the two nations that could prove […]
1/28/2019
EDUCATION/RELIGION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Numerous states introducing Bible Literacy classes, giving students the option of studying the Bible. Starting to make a turn back? Great!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 28, 2019 8:21 am […]
1/28/2019
TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Tariffs on the ‘dumping’ of Steel in the United States have totally revived our Steel Industry. New and expanded plants are happening all over the U.S. We have not only saved this important industry, but created many jobs. Also, billions paid to our treasury. A BIG WIN FOR U.S.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
1/28/2019
HUMAN RIGHTS/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS/VENEZUELA: “By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, I, […]
1/27/2019
MILITARY/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “After all that I have done for the Military, our great Veterans, Judges (99), Justices (2), Tax & Regulation Cuts, the Economy, Energy, Trade & MUCH MORE, does anybody really think I won’t build the WALL? Done more in first two years than any President! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
1/27/2019
LATINOS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Never thought I’d say this but I think @johnrobertsFox and @GillianHTurner @FoxNews have even less understanding of the Wall negotiations than the folks at FAKE NEWS CNN & NBC! Look to final results! Don’t know how my poll numbers are so good, especially up 19% with Hispanics?” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 27, […]
1/27/2019
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Never thought I’d say this but I think @johnrobertsFox and @JillianTurner @FoxNews have even less understanding of the Wall negotiations than the folks at FAKE NEWS CNN & NBC! Look to final results! Don’t know how my poll numbers are so good, especially up 19% with Hispanics?” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 27, […]
1/27/2019
CRIME/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “BUILD A WALL & CRIME WILL FALL! https://t.co/yDdCG5DCxn” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 27, 2019 1:22 pm […]
1/27/2019
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “#HolocaustMemorialDay https://t.co/zBQjfUOdtj https://t.co/hgTBGoECUU“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 27, 2019 1:04 pm […]
1/27/2019
BORDER/DRUGS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @GOP: ‘300 people are dying from heroin overdoses a week in this country, 90% of it is coming over the southern border… We’ve got to sto…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 27, 2019 10:30 am […]
1/27/2019
VOTER FRAUD/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @KenPaxtonTX: VOTER FRAUD ALERT: The @TXsecofstate discovered approx 95,000 individuals identified by DPS as non-U.S. citizens have a ma…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 27, 2019 10:28 am […]
1/27/2019
EU/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Thank you to Brit. This is a very big deal in Europe. Fake News is the Enemy of the People! https://t.co/WX0o8gaiMC“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 27, 2019 10:27 am […]
1/27/2019
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @ChatByCC: Strong people stand up for themselves—but stronger people stand up for others. Thank you President @realDonaldTrump for stan…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 27, 2019 10:20 am […]
1/27/2019
MEDIA/NATO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General, just stated that because of me NATO has been able to raise far more money than ever before from its members after many years of decline. It’s called burden sharing. Also, more united. Dems & Fake News like to portray the opposite!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 27, […]
1/27/2019
IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We are not even into February and the cost of illegal immigration so far this year is $18,959,495,168. Cost Friday was $603,331,392. There are at least 25,772,342 illegal aliens, not the 11,000,000 that have been reported for years, in our Country. So ridiculous! DHS” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 27, 2019 8:44 am […]
1/27/2019
CALIFORNIA/TEXAS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VOTER FRAUD: “58,000 non-citizens voted in Texas, with 95,000 non-citizens registered to vote. These numbers are just the tip of the iceberg. All over the country, especially in California, voter fraud is rampant. Must be stopped. Strong voter ID! @foxandfriends” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 27, 8:43 am […]
1/27/2019
BORDER/CONGRESS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Trump came away empty-handed for now after the longest federal government shutdown in American history failed to pressure Congress into funding his long-promised border wall, purportedly to stop an inflow of drugs and crime from Mexico. But he is not done making his case on immigration. On Sunday [1-27-19] he rattled […]
1/26/2019
CONGRESS/ELECTION/GOP/ROBERT MUELLER/ROGER STONE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s defeat in his border-wall standoff with Congress has clouded his already perilous path to a second term in 2020, undercutting Mr. Trump’s cherished image as a forceful leader and deft negotiator, and emboldening alike his Democratic challengers and Republican dissenters who hope to block his re-election. The longest […]
1/26/2019
RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “WITCH HUNT!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 26, 2019 8:51 pm […]
1/26/2019
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….about all of the one sided Fake Media coverage (collusion with Crooked H?) that I had to endure during my very successful presidential campaign. What about the now revealed bias by Facebook and many others. Roger Stone didn’t even work for me anywhere near the Election!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 26, 2019 […]
1/26/2019
HILLARY CLINTON/ROGER STONE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “CBS reports that in the Roger Stone indictment, data was ‘released during the 2016 Election to damage Hillary Clinton.’ Oh really! What about the Fake and Unverified ‘Dossier,’ a total phony conjob, that was paid for by Crooked Hillary to damage me and the Trump Campaign? What…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
1/26/2019
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’Ax falls quickly at BuzzFeed and Huffpost!’ Headline, New York Post. Fake News and bad journalism have caused a big downturn. Sadly, many others will follow. The people want the Truth!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 26, 2019 4:37 pm […]
1/26/2019
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Only fools, or people with a political agenda, don’t want a Wall or Steel Barrier to protect our Country from Crime, Drugs and Human Trafficking. It will happen – it always does!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 26, 2019 3:52 pm […]
1/26/2019
CRIME/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “BUILD A WALL & CRIME WILL FALL! https://t.co/a0G7GWi74k“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 26, 2019 11:42 am […]
1/26/2019
OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “’We absolutely need a physical barrier or Wall, whatever you want to call it. The President yesterday laid all that out. We need to do it all, including the Wall. I provided the same information to the previous administration, & it was ignored.’ Mark Morgan, Border Chief for ‘O’” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
1/26/2019
ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Thank you to the Republican National Committee, (the RNC), who voted UNANIMOUSLY yesterday to support me in the upcoming 2020 Election. Considering that we have done more than any Administration in the first two years, this should be easy. More great things now in the works!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 26, 2019 […]
1/26/2019
CRIME/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “We have turned away, at great expense, two major Caravans, but a big one has now formed and is coming. At least 8000 people! If we had a powerful Wall, they wouldn’t even try to make the long and dangerous journey. Build the Wall and Crime will Fall!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January […]
1/26/2019
DEMS/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “21 days goes very quickly. Negotiations with Democrats will start immediately. Will not be easy to make a deal, both parties very dug in. The case for National Security has been greatly enhanced by what has been happening at the Border & through dialogue. We will build the Wall!” –Donald Trump, […]
1/26/2019
BORDER/DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’I like the fact that the President is making the case (Border Security & Crime) to the American people. Now we know where Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer & the Democrats stand, which is no Border Security. Will be big 2020 issue.’ Matt Schlapp, Chair, ACU. Bigger than anyone knows!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
1/26/2019
CONGRESS/FBI/ROGER STONE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “If Roger Stone was indicted for lying to Congress, what about the lying done by Comey, Brennan, Clapper, Lisa Page & lover, Baker and soooo many others? What about Hillary to FBI and her 33,000 deleted Emails? What about Lisa & Peter’s deleted texts & Wiener’s laptop? Much more!” –Donald Trump, […]
1/26/2019
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “During the 2016 presidential campaign and transition, Donald J. Trump and at least 17 campaign officials and advisers had contacts with Russian nationals and WikiLeaks, or their intermediaries, a New York Times analysis has found. At least 10 other associates were told about interactions but did not have any themselves. Knowledge […]
1/25/2019
GOP/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Less than four months ago, the staid Metropolitan Republican Club in Manhattan became an unlikely battleground between anti-fascism activists and a far-right group known as the Proud Boys. After the Proud Boys’ founder, Gavin McInnes, spoke at the club, vandalism and violence ensued, as people associated with the group squared off […]
1/25/2019
BORDER/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Trump agreed on Friday [1-25-19] to reopen the federal government for three weeks while negotiations continued over how to secure the nation’s southwestern border, backing down after a monthlong standoff failed to force Democrats to give him billions of dollars for his long-promised wall. The president’s concession paved the way for […]
1/25/2019
GOP/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WALL: “Some of the most prominent voices in the conservative base were furious at President Trump on Friday [1-25-19] after he agreed to reopen the government without getting money for a border wall — the sort of terms he had spent more than a month rejecting. They derided the deal as a […]
1/25/2019
GOP/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump met last week with a delegation of hard-right activists led by Ginni Thomas, the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, listening quietly as members of the group denounced transgender people and women serving in the military, according to three people with direct knowledge of the events. For 60 minutes Mr. […]
1/25/2019
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The indictment unsealed this month charging Natalia V. Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer who met with Trump campaign officials in June 2016, with obstruction of justice in another case raises an interesting question: Why would the Justice Department pursue a case in which there is little likelihood of ever getting the defendant […]
1/25/2019
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/ROGER STONE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, revealed on Friday [1-25-19] the most direct link yet between parallel efforts by the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks to damage Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election using Democratic Party material stolen by Russians. A top Trump campaign official dispatched Roger J. Stone […]
1/25/2019
2016 ELECTION/FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/ROBERT MUELLER/ROGER STONE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Roger Stone, an informal political adviser to President Donald Trump, downplayed his Friday [1-25-19] indictment by a grand jury on charges brought by special counsel Robert Mueller as based on a ‘process crime’ that doesn’t show collusion with WikiLeaks or the Russian government…Stone denied ever speaking to the […]
1/25/2019
BORDER/DEMS/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump conceded Friday [1-25-19] to mounting pressure that he reopen the federal government, agreeing to a temporary funding measure that would allow federal employees to return to work but that does not include the billions of dollars in border wall funding he’s spent the past month demanding. The outcome of […]
1/25/2019
BORDER/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump signed a short-term spending bill into law Friday [1-25-19] night that does not include his requested $5.7 billion for a border wall. The White House announced late Friday that Trump had signed the measure, a three-week stopgap bill that will reopen shuttered parts of the government through February 15. […]
1/25/2019
BORDER/GOP/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump touted GOP unity for 33 days of a partial government shutdown. But by the 34th day, it was clearly gone — and so was the shutdown by the end of the 35th. Senate Republicans had finally had it and were struggling to continue to defend the president’s position and […]
1/25/2019
BORDER/GOVERNMENT/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “There’s no spinning what happened in Washington on Friday [1-25-19]: Donald Trump caved to Nancy Pelosi — and a compromise to reopen the government was struck. The bigger question is how. How, after 3+ years of Trump running roughshod on the political process, did Pelosi, the newly installed speaker of the […]
1/25/2019
GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As President Donald Trump reached a deal to reopen the government, some furloughed workers across the United States are relieved, while others are not feeling quite optimistic yet…Friday’s deal would soon return federal workers to their jobs, but it’s not immediately clear when are they going to get paid. About 800,000 federal […]
1/25/2019
ROBERT MUELLER/ROGER STONE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “On the day of his indictment by special counsel Robert Mueller, former Donald Trump adviser Roger Stone seems to have lost the support of one of his greatest heroes, former President Richard Nixon — or at least Nixon’s foundation. The Nixon Foundation sought to distance itself Friday from Stone after […]
1/25/2019
BORDER/GOVERNMENT/NANCY PELOSI/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WALL: “Before President Donald Trump finished speaking from the Rose Garden, putting a temporary end to the five-week government shutdown, a running group text between several of his former aides lit up with complaints…Bewildered by his decision to accept a deal without funding for a wall on the southern border […]
1/25/2019
CONGRESS/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “The president announced a deal on Friday [1-25-19] to temporarily end to the longest-ever government shutdown, teeing up three weeks of negotiations to end the stalemate over funding for a wall along the southern border. Trump, speaking from the White House, said the temporary relief would allow the 800,000 federal employees who […]
1/25/2019
BORDER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “I wish people would read or listen to my words on the Border Wall. This was in no way a concession. It was taking care of millions of people who were getting badly hurt by the Shutdown with the understanding that in 21 days, if no deal is done, it’s off to […]
1/25/2019
HILLARY CLINTON/ROBERT MUELLER/ROGER STONE/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Every criminal case brought against a senior member of the Trump campaign as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation has revealed a new attempt to conceal contacts with Russia or intermediaries linked to the Kremlin. Michael Cohen, the longtime personal attorney to President Donald Trump; Michael […]
1/25/2019
GOVERNMENT/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WALL: “President Trump announced Friday [1-25-19] his willingness to end the shutdown for three weeks. During that time, he will use the State of the Union and other events to build pressure for a wall. In the words of Bill O’Reilly, ‘Political chess game continues. President Trump reopens government — a […]
1/25/2019
BORDER/GOVERNMENT/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WALL: “Conservatives had a quick message for President Donald Trump after he announced a deal to end the government shutdown without funds for his border wall: You caved!…’Nancy Pelosi is alpha,’ tweeted conservative film maker Mike Cernovich. And right wing commentator Michael Malice opined: ‘Apparently a wall isn’t as good as […]
1/25/2019
CONGRESS/NATURAL DISASTERS/PUERTO RICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Call it Donald Trump’s second wall, only this time the president’s target is not migrants coming north but dollars going south to help storm-tossed Puerto Rico. Additional food aid for the island’s poor will soon be exhausted without supplemental funds opposed by the White House. At the same time, billions […]
1/25/2019
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump has donated his salary from the third-quarter of 2018 to the federal agency that researches alcoholism and alcohol-related problems. The White House says Trump donated $100,000 to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Alcoholism is a personal issue for the president. His older brother, Fred Jr., died […]
1/25/2019
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “https://t.co/RUFlgMxOUq“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 25, 2019 2:39 pm […]
1/25/2019
BORDER/CONGRESS/GOVERNMENT/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Seven percent of Americans against the border wall believe that Congress should fund President Donald Trump’s wall on the U.S.-Mexico border if that is the only way to end the government shutdown. That fact is an enormous opportunity to change the dynamic between this Congress and this president. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi […]
1/25/2019
BORDER/CONGRESS/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “The longest government shutdown in U.S. history came to an end Friday [1-25-19] after President Donald Trump and Congress agreed to temporarily reopen shuttered federal agencies without providing any money for the president’s border wall. Soon after Trump announced the deal Friday afternoon in the Rose Garden, the House and Senate quickly […]
1/25/2019
BORDER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Greatest Witch Hunt in the History of our Country! NO COLLUSION! Border Coyotes, Drug Dealers and Human Traffickers are treated better. Who alerted CNN to be there?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 25, 2019 11:16 am […]
1/25/2019
DEMS/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Michael Bloomberg came to Virginia on Friday [1-25-19] to deliver a message to Democrats: I told you so. The former New York City mayor delivered his most scathing remarks about Trump since he called then-candidate Donald Trump a ‘dangerous demagogue’ and knocked his business credentials in a speech at the 2016 Democratic […]
1/25/2019
MIKE POMPEO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VENEZUELA: “The Trump administration ordered all non-emergency U.S. diplomatic staff to leave Venezuela on Thursday [1-24-19] amid that country’s growing political turmoil. The decision marked an about-face for Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who defiantly declared Wednesday [1-23-19] night that he would keep American embassy staff in the country after embattled Venezuelan […]
1/25/2019
POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump’s midterm report card is in, and few voters are giving the president high marks after two years in office. A new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll asked voters to assign a letter grade to Trump at the halfway point of his term in the White House, and only a combined 34 percent […]
1/25/2019
DEMS/ELECTION/FLORIDA/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The nation’s biggest swing state looks even more like Trump Country heading into 2020. Newly released Florida voter data suggest President Donald Trump will begin his reelection campaign as the favorite in a state that offers a windfall of 29 electoral votes. The driving force: white voters who broke Republican and […]