BORDER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Border rancher: ‘We’ve found prayer rugs out here. It’s unreal.’ Washington Examiner People coming across the Southern Border from many countries, some of which would be a big surprise.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 18, 2019 8:22 am […]
1/18/2019
2016 ELECTION/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election disputed on Friday [1-18-19] a report that said President Trump had directed Michael D. Cohen, his longtime lawyer and fixer, to lie to Congress about his role in negotiations to build a skyscraper in Moscow. The rare public statement […]
1/17/2019
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Nearly 400 migrants burrowed under a fence on the US-Mexico border earlier this week and crossed into the United States, four sources familiar with the matter told CNN. US Border Patrol officers stationed in the Yuma, Arizona, sector took about 375 migrants into custody on Monday after they had made it into […]
1/17/2019
RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Gregg Jarrett: ‘Mueller’s prosecutors knew the ‘Dossier’ was the product of bias and deception.’ It was a Fake, just like so much news coverage in our Country. Nothing but a Witch Hunt, from beginning to end!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 17, 2019 10:03 pm […]
1/17/2019
BORDER/DRUGS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’In 2018 alone, 20,000 illegal aliens with criminal records were apprehended trying to cross the Border, and there was a 122% increase in fentanyl being smuggled between ports of entry. Last month alone, more than 20,000 minors were smuggled into the U.S.’ @seanhannity” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 17, 2019 9:42 pm […]
1/17/2019
JOBS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Thank you to Amy Kremer, Women for Trump Co-Founder, for doing such a great interview with Martha MacCallum…and by the way, women have the lowest unemployment numbers in many decades – at the highest pay ever. Proud of that!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 17, 2019 8:36 pm […]
1/17/2019
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @realDonaldTrump: ….I am doing exactly what I pledged to do, and what I was elected to do by the citizens of our great Country. Just a…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 17, 2019 8:18 pm […]
1/17/2019
BORDER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @realDonaldTrump: For decades, politicians promised to secure the border, fix our trade deals, bring back our factories, get tough on Ch…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 17, 2019 8:18 pm […]
1/17/2019
AGRICULTURE/BORDER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Facing people who have felt the full force of the partial government shutdown, President Donald Trump told a farmers convention Monday [1-14-19] that he is insisting on a border wall because of a ‘humanitarian crisis’ at the border…Telling the farmers ‘we’re going to have a wall, we’re going to have a barrier,’ […]
1/17/2019
BORDER/CHILDREN/HHS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration separated thousands more migrant kids at the border than it previously acknowledged, and the separations began months before the policy was announced, according to a federal audit released Thursday morning…HHS officials involved in caring for the separated children and reunifying families estimated ‘thousands’ of additional children are separated at […]
1/17/2019
MILITARY/NATO/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Unveiling a revamped missile defense plan, President Donald Trump said Thursday [1-17-19] that the United States is prepared to make use of space as a potential battleground…While providing few details, Trump again spoke of developing a ‘space force’ as a new branch of the military, saying that ‘we will recognize that […]
1/17/2019
CONGRESS/DEMS/ETHICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The ascension of Democrats to control of the House of Representatives in 2019 should bring renewed attention to the financial conflicts of interest that have plagued the Trump presidency for the past two years. Prior to Donald Trump, every other president in the modern era divested investments that conflict with official duties […]
1/17/2019
HOUSE OF REPS/RUSSIA/SANCTIONS/TREASURY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Thursday [1-17-19] to block the Trump administration from lifting sanctions on a Russian oligarch with deep ties to Vladimir Putin. The effort, a joint resolution of disapproval, would overturn the Treasury Department’s December decision to ease sanctions on companies tied to Oleg Deripaska, […]
1/17/2019
MILITARY/NATO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Thursday [1-17-19] said the United States is ‘100 percent’ with NATO, days after a report alleged that the president privately discussed withdrawing from the military alliance multiple times over the past year…Trump privately said several times past year that he wanted to withdraw from NATO because of the […]
1/17/2019
MIKE PENCE/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “North Korea has not taken ‘concrete steps’ to dismantle its nuclear weapons program, Vice President Mike Pence told a group of U.S. diplomats on Wednesday [1-16-19]. Speaking to about 180 U.S. ambassadors at a conference in the State Department, Pence said Pyongyang has not yet begun to fulfill its pledge […]
1/17/2019
MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “President Donald Trump’s former fixer and personal attorney Michael Cohen paid a technology expert to rig online polls in Trump’s favor, according to The Wall Street Journal. John Gauger, the owner of Red Finch Solutions and chief information officer at Liberty University, said Cohen offered him $50,000 to manipulate two […]
1/17/2019
2016 ELECTION/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “In a stunning interview on CNN Wednesday [1-16-19] evening, President Donald Trump’s attorney, Rudy Giuliani, said there may have been ‘collusion’ between members of the Trump campaign and Russia – but the president wasn’t involved. ‘I never said there was no collusion between the campaign. Or between people in […]
1/17/2019
IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @Lrihendry: @realDonaldTrump They are eaten alive by hate for our President & his voters! They care more about illegal immigrants than…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 17, 2019 10:29 am […]
1/17/2019
GARY COHN/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WALL: “Gary Cohn, the former Goldman Sachs executive and ex-top economic adviser to President Donald Trump, denounced the partial government shutdown as ‘completely wrong’ in an interview published by the Boston Globe on Thursday [1-17-19]. The shutdown, which entered its 27th day Thursday and is the longest in history, shows no […]
1/17/2019
CHUCK SCHUMER/JAMES COMEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “So funny to watch Schumer groveling. He called for the firing of bad cop James Comey many times – UNTIL I FIRED HIM!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 17, 2019 10:04 am […]
1/17/2019
DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Left has become totally unhinged. They no longer care what is Right for our Countrty!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 17, 2019 9:04 am […]
1/17/2019
ELIZABETH WARREN/NATIVE AMERICANS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “On Sunday [1-13-18], President Donald Trump took aim at one of his favorite targets: Senator Elizabeth Warren, who is hoping to unseat him in 2020. Responding to a video Warren posted on Instagram in which she drinks a beer in her kitchen and introduces her husband, Trump tweeted: ‘If Elizabeth […]
1/17/2019
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP FAMILY: “You probably think you know who Donald Trump is. Most Americans do. For decades, he’s been in the public eye—first as a flamboyant real estate developer, then a reality TV star, then a political performer—and has been branding himself upon the public imagination throughout that entire time. Who is Donald […]
1/17/2019
BORDER/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WALL: “Along the 2,000-mile border with Mexico, which sprawls across four states and nine House districts, a single seat is held by a Republican: Representative Will Hurd of Texas. And Mr. Hurd, a former undercover C.I.A. officer who barely won re-election in Texas’ 23rd District, the largest of the nine, […]
1/17/2019
PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani backtracked on Thursday [1-17-19] from a surprising assertion he had made a night earlier that left open the possibility that Trump campaign aides might have coordinated with Russia in its election interference in 2016…Mr. Giuliani was seeking to clarify an interview […]
1/17/2019
DEMS/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/RUSSIA/SANCTIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In what was most likely a largely symbolic vote, 136 House Republicans joined with Democrats on Thursday [1-17-19] in an overwhelming show of disapproval of the Trump administration’s policy toward three Kremlin-aligned companies. The House voted 362 to 53 to block the Treasury Department from lifting sanctions against the companies, […]
1/17/2019
GOP/LEGISLATION/TARIFFS/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A Republican lawmaker plans to introduce legislation on Thursday [1-17-19] that would embolden President Trump’s trade war by granting him sweeping new executive powers to increase tariffs on imports. The proposal, by Representative Sean P. Duffy of Wisconsin, is unlikely to pass Congress, but it has alarmed conservative advocacy groups and […]
1/17/2019
AFGHANISTAN/CONGRESS/MILITARY/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A bus emblazoned with the United States Air Force logo was idling outside the Capitol on Thursday [1-17-19], members of Congress on board, ready to depart for Joint Base Andrews and a waiting military aircraft. Inside, Speaker Nancy Pelosi was in her office making final preparations to lead the congressional delegation […]
1/17/2019
CHINA/NUCLEAR/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Trump vowed on Thursday [1-17-19] to reinvigorate and reinvent American missile defenses in a speech that recalled Cold War-era visions of nuclear adversaries — though he never once mentioned Russia or China, the two great-power threats to the United States. While the president infused the new missile efforts with his ambitions […]
1/17/2019
2016 ELECTION/MICHAEL COHEN/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Michael D. Cohen, the former personal lawyer and fixer for President Trump, acknowledged on Thursday [1-17-19] that he had paid the owner of a technology services company to help doctor results of an online poll to help Mr. Trump as he considered a run for president. In a post on […]
1/17/2019
MICHAEL COHEN/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s former ‘fixer’ Michael Cohen said Thursday [1-17-19] that he paid the head of a small technology company thousands in 2015 to rig online polls at ‘the direction of and for the sole benefit of’ Trump. Cohen was responding to a report in The Wall Street Journal that he […]
1/17/2019
MILITARY/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “North Korea’s lead negotiator in nuclear talks with the US, Kim Yong Chol, arrived in Washington Thursday [1-17-19], just hours after President Donald Trump rolled out a new missile defense strategy that appears to contradict his own claim that Pyongyang is no longer a nuclear threat. Kim arrived at Washington Dulles […]
1/17/2019
CENSUS/CITIZENSHIP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “On Tuesday [1-15-19], Judge Jesse Furman ruled against the Trump administration and secretary of commerce Wilbur Ross’s decision to add a question about citizenship to the 2020 US census questionnaire. (In the interests of transparency, Judge Furman and I were colleagues in the US Attorney’s Office in Manhattan during his time […]
1/17/2019
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration was drafting policy to separate families apprehended at the US-Mexico border as early as December 2017, according to a draft memo released Thursday [1-17-19] night, despite later claims that no such policy existed. Sen. Jeff Merkley released a 2017 memo drafted by senior officials in the Department of Homeland […]
1/16/2019
MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration’s long-awaited missile defense review that will be released Thursday [1-17-19] recommends additional deployments of anti-missile systems at home, abroad and possibly in space, according to a senior administration official. The two-year review, which was ordered by President Donald Trump just days after he took office, calls for a third […]
1/16/2019
TRUMP BUSINESS: “The federal agency that had leased a prime property in Washington to the Trump Organization failed to grapple fully after the 2016 election with the politically fraught question of whether Donald J. Trump’s victory left the deal in violation of the Constitution, according to an inspector general’s report released on Wednesday [1-16-19]. The […]
1/16/2019
2016 ELECTION/HOUSE OF REPS/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The House Judiciary Committee chairman said Wednesday [1-16-19] that his panel would subpoena special counsel Robert Mueller’s final report if William Barr, President Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general, does not release it to the public…Mueller is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 campaign and possible collusion between […]
1/16/2019
GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Federal employees who have been forced to take unpaid leave because of the partial government shutdown will get back pay. President Donald Trump signed legislation Wednesday [1-16-19] guaranteeing that furloughed workers will be paid retroactively. The legislation, which cleared both the House and the Senate last week, does not spell out specifically […]
1/16/2019
SPORTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former NFL running back and college star Reggie Bush called President Donald Trump’s gesture of serving the national champion Clemson Tigers fast food during their White House visit on Monday ‘disrespectful on so many levels’ and a ‘huge slap in the face.’ Trump provided the Clemson players and staff a buffet that […]
1/16/2019
GOVERNMENT/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday [1-16-18] asked President Donald Trump to reschedule his State of the Union address — or deliver it in writing — as long as the government remains shut down. The president was set to give his annual speech to Congress on Jan. 29. But Pelosi said the […]
1/16/2019
TRUMP BUSINESS: “Federal officials who leased the Old Post Office Building to President Donald Trump were aware of constitutional provisions that could breach the lease, but ‘decided not to address those issues,’ according to a government watchdog report Wednesday [1-16-19]. The lease for the Trump International Hotel a few blocks down Pennsylvania Avenue from the […]
1/16/2019
BUSINESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “A day after telecom giant T-Mobile announced a $26 billion merger with rival Sprint, nine of T-Mobile’s top executives — including its CEO, John Legere — checked into President Donald Trump’s Washington hotel, according to internal VIP arrivals lists obtained by The Washington Post. The merger between the third and fourth […]
1/16/2019
ISIS/MIKE PENCE/SYRIA/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A suicide bombing in Syria killed four Americans and wounded three more on Wednesday [1-16-19], raising questions about the terror group’s resilience and reviving the pitched debate around Donald Trump’s plan to withdraw American forces from the country. The Islamic State, also known as ISIS, claimed credit for the attack in […]
1/16/2019
AMBASSADOR/GOVERNMENT/MIKE PENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Vice President Mike Pence tried to enlist America’s ambassadors in the shutdown fight on Wednesday [1-16-19], telling the diplomats they each have ‘a role to play as we take the battle forward on Capitol Hill to secure our border.’ But even as Pence urged the embassy chiefs to defend President Donald […]
1/16/2019
BORDER/DRUGS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “In their ongoing push for $5.7 billion to expand the border wall, Trump administration officials have repeatedly pointed to the flow of drugs across the southern border as proof that such a wall is needed. President Donald Trump has used that line. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders has, too. But an […]
1/16/2019
FBI/FOREIGN POLICY/GOP/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Sen. James Risch, the new chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, says he has disagreed with President Donald Trump on ‘many, many occasions.’ But in an exclusive interview with USA TODAY, Risch defended the president’s controversial approach to North Korea and Syria. He downplayed reports that Trump wants to withdraw […]
1/16/2019
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Rudy Giuliani said Wednesday [1-16-19] that he never denied President Donald Trump’s campaign colluded with the Russian government during the 2016 campaign, only that the President himself was not involved in collusion. In an interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo on ‘Cuomo Prime Time,’ Giuliani, a former New York mayor […]
1/16/2019
DEMS/ELECTION/JOBS/LEGISLATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “House Democrats, pressing ahead on one of their more ambitious agenda items, introduced a bill Wednesday [1-16-19] to more than double the federal minimum wage. The legislation, which would phase in a $15 hourly minimum over a period of six years, enunciates a policy difference with Republicans ahead of the 2020 presidential […]
1/16/2019
MEDIA/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Top Kremlin officials are scoffing at the idea that President Donald Trump is working as a Russian agent, dismissing the notion as ‘nonsense’ and blasting U.S. journalists for their attention to the issue…The White House was hit with a pair of bombshell reports over the weekend that involve Trump and Putin, including […]
1/16/2019
BORDER/DEMS/ELECTION/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump suggested Wednesday [1-16-19] that he could turn the ongoing government shutdown into a political issue in next year’s presidential election, labeling ‘Radical Democrats’ as a ‘party of open borders and crime.’ Trump’s White House is in the midst of stalled efforts to reopen portions of the federal government that […]
1/16/2019
BORDER/DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It is becoming more and more obvious that the Radical Democrats are a Party of open borders and crime. They want nothing to do with the major Humanitarian Crisis on our Southern Border. #2020!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 16, 2019 7:49 am […]
1/16/2019
BORDER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “There are now 77 major or significant Walls built around the world, with 45 countries planning or building Walls. Over 800 miles of Walls have been built in Europe since only 2015. They have all been recognized as close to 100% successful. Stop the crime at our Southern Border!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
1/16/2019
DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Stacey Abrams and Andrew Gillum — two of the Democratic Party’s breakout candidates of 2018, despite losing their elections for governor of Georgia and Florida, respectively — are looking to parlay their near success into the defeat of Donald Trump in 2020. The pair of young, progressive African-American pols amassed so much […]
1/16/2019
IMPEACHMENT/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “On Thursday [1-17-19], The Atlantic is coming out with a magazine cover that’s going to stand out on the newsstand. Editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg emailed subscribers on Wednesday [1-16-19] night to give them ‘the opportunity to read it first.’ The cover story, authored by Yoni Appelbaum, is titled ‘The Case for […]
1/16/2019
FBI/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Every day, it seems, brings another load of disturbing information about President Donald Trump’s interactions with Russian President Vladimir Putin. A few days ago, we learned that Trump’s behavior was so troubling that the FBI opened a counter-intelligence investigation to find out if Trump was working, ‘on behalf of Russia against […]
1/16/2019
MILITARY/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The deaths of four Americans in Syria raise questions about the timing and scale of President Donald Trump’s directive to pull troops from the war-torn country. The White House said Wednesday [1-16-19] that there are no plans to reverse Trump’s decision to withdraw from Syria. But the suicide blast, claimed by ISIS, […]
1/16/2019
DEMS/FOREIGN DIGNITARIES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “An internal U.S. government watchdog on Wednesday [1-16-19] found ‘serious shortcomings’ in federal officials’ handling of a lease by President Donald Trump’s company of a historic government building in Washington now home to a Trump International Hotel. Amid intensifying scrutiny of possible conflicts of interest involving Trump’s businesses, the inspector […]
1/16/2019
CHRIS CHRISTIE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WHITE HOUSE STAFF: “Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie sees the Trump White House as a rogues’ gallery of flawed people sidetracking the work of the U.S. president, according to excerpts of his forthcoming memoir posted on the news site Axios on Wednesday [1-16-19]. President Donald Trump employs a ‘revolving door […]
1/16/2019
DEMS/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump has insisted that he is not going to compromise with Democrats to end the government shutdown, and that he is comfortable in his unbendable position. But privately, it’s sometimes a different story. ‘We are getting crushed!’ Mr. Trump told his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, after watching some recent […]
1/16/2019
DEMS/RUSSIA/SANCTIONS/TREASURY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Senate Republicans on Wednesday [1-16-19] narrowly staved off an effort by Democrats to deal the Trump administration’s Russia sanctions policy an embarrassing rebuke. Eleven Republicans joined Democrats in a vote to enforce sanctions against the corporate empire of an influential ally of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, but the effort fell […]
1/16/2019
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The swirl of speculation surrounding the Russia investigation often assumes that the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, will release a report of his findings that will serve as the definitive explanation of how Russia interfered in the 2016 election and whether President Trump or his associates coordinated with […]
1/16/2019
GOP/RACISM/STEVE KING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “After years of turning a blind eye to Representative Steve King’s inflammatory statements and racist behavior, Republicans decided this week they had enough after Mr. King asked The New York Times when phrases like white supremacy and white nationalism had become offensive. But even as they piled on their condemnation, […]
1/16/2019
GOVERNMENT/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked President Trump on Wednesday [1-16-19] to scrap or delay his Jan. 29 State of the Union address amid the partial government shutdown, an extraordinary request that escalated the partisan battle over his border wall even as bipartisan groups of lawmakers pressed him to reopen the government and […]
1/15/2019
DEMS/GOP/SANCTIONS/SENATE/TREASURY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Eleven Senate Republicans joined Democrats on Tuesday [1-15-19] to on a measure intended to stop the Treasury Department from easing sanctions on an oligarch close to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The 57-42 vote, following a GOP lunch briefing by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, put a squeeze on Republicans torn between support for […]
1/15/2019
PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman, was working through mystery intermediaries in January 2017 to get people appointed in President Donald Trump’s new administration, according to a court filing released Tuesday [1-15-19]. Manafort described the hiring effort to Rick Gates, his longtime deputy, who in turn revealed the […]
1/15/2019
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is often called thin-skinned. It’s usually not meant literally. But the back of Trump’s right hand was covered with an adhesive bandage during a Thursday [1-10-19] trip to McAllen, Texas, with blood visibly seeping through the dressing. His hand was similarly bandaged again on Monday [1-14-19] as he departed […]
1/15/2019
JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/NOMINATIONS/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The president’s pick to replace Jeff Sessions at the helm of the Justice Department has known and admired the president’s bête noire, Robert Mueller, for 30 years — and somehow President Donald Trump seems fine with that. The relationship, which Barr described in public Tuesday [1-15-19] during his […]
1/15/2019
ELIZABETH WARREN/MITCH MCCONNELL/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Mitch McConnell harshly condemned Rep. Steve King this week for his racist comments. But he has no plans to extend that condemnation to any of President Donald Trump’s controversial remarks.The Senate majority leader said Monday that King ‘should find another line of work’ after the Republican lawmaker from Iowa […]
1/15/2019
CENSUS/CITIZENSHIP/COURTS/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal judge in Manhattan shot down the Trump administration’s attempt to ask about citizenship on the 2020 census Tuesday [1-15-19], potentially paving the way for the case to land before the Supreme Court. U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman found that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross violated the Administrative Procedures Act by […]
1/15/2019
GOVERNMENT/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “During the longest government shutdown in US history, President Donald Trump has been losing support among those who may be his strongest supporters — white Americans who don’t have college degrees. Among this group, only 45% said they approved of the job Trump is doing as President, according to a recent CNN […]
1/15/2019
SPORTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Great being with the National Champion Clemson Tigers last night at the White House. Because of the Shutdown I served them massive amounts of Fast Food (I paid), over 1000 hamburgers etc. Within one hour, it was all gone. Great guys and big eaters!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 15, 2019 11:11 am […]
1/15/2019
SPORTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congratulations @ClemsonFB! https://t.co/w8viax0OWY“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 15, 2019 10:18 am […]
1/15/2019
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort spoke to a federal grand jury last fall about his communications with Konstantin Kilimnik, including regarding an in-person meeting with the Russian associate and an email with him, special counsel Robert Mueller revealed Tuesday [1-15-19]. The 31-page filing gives an unprecedented window into Mueller’s […]
1/15/2019
NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Why is Nancy Pelosi getting paid when people who are working are not?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 15, 2019 8:25 am […]
1/15/2019
BORDER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “RT @TomFitton: For the first time in a generation, we have a president who is beginning to tell the truth about the crisis on the border. @…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 15, 2019 8:17 am […]
1/15/2019
RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “RT @TomFitton: We must stand with the rule of law against the coup targeting @RealDonaldTrump. https://t.co/wmox2XM7x8 https://t.co/8NY79Hv…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 15, 2019 8:17 am […]
1/15/2019
FBI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @paulsperry_: So…by the FBI’s post-Trump standards for C.I. investigations, would this off-mike exchange between Obama & Putin’s deput…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 15, 2019 8:13 am […]
1/15/2019
RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @paulsperry_: BREAKING: Inspector General Michael Horowitz still does NOT have all of Peter Strzok’s and Lisa Page’s texts, even though…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 15, 2019 8:05 am […]
1/15/2019
JOBS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @charliekirk11: GREAT AGAIN: Prior to 2018, unemployment has only been below 4% 5 times since 1970 Under Donald Trump, in 2018, unempl…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 15, 2019 8:04 am […]
1/15/2019
OBAMA/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @charliekirk11: No one accused Obama of being a Russian agent after he asked for ‘more flexibility’ until after the the election, or whe…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 15, 2019 8:03 am […]
1/15/2019
FBI/JAMES COMEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @MZHemingway: NYT Reveals FBI Retaliated Against Trump For Lawfully Firing Comey https://t.co/LwJ7w1ctom“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 15, 2019 8:02 am […]
1/15/2019
DONALD JR/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP FAMILY/WHITE HOUSE STAFF: “RT @DonaldJTrumpJr: Worth the read. I’m A Senior Trump Official, And I Hope A Long Shutdown Smokes Out The Resistance https://t.co/6ahfOl…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 15, 2019 8:02 am […]
1/15/2019
CRIME/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @DonaldJTrumpJr: Since January 1, neither CNN nor MSNBC has booked a single Angel Mom — mothers of children brutally murdered by illegal…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 15, 2019 8:02 am […]
1/15/2019
BORDER/CALIFORNIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @PARISDENNARD: I trust a rancher on the Southern border more than a liberal politician from Northern California https://t.co/mo4oWe1SnI“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 15, 2019 8:01 am […]
1/15/2019
SPORTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Great being with the National Champion Clemson Tigers last night at the White House. Because of the Shutdown I served them massive amounts of Fast Food (I paid), over 1000 hamberders etc. Within one hour, it was all gone. Great guys and big eaters!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 15, 2019 7:58 am […]
1/15/2019
BORDER/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Polls are now showing that people are beginning to understand the Humanitarian Crisis and Crime at the Border. Numbers are going up fast, over 50%. Democrats will soon be known as the Party of Crime. Ridiculous that they don’t want Border Security!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 15, 2019 7:49 am […]
1/15/2019
BORDER/CHUCK SCHUMER/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “A big new Caravan is heading up to our Southern Border from Honduras. Tell Nancy and Chuck that a drone flying around will not stop them. Only a Wall will work. Only a Wall, or Steel Barrier, will keep our Country safe! Stop playing political games and end the Shutdown!” […]
1/15/2019
AUTO INDUSTRY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Volkswagen will be spending 800 million dollars in Chattanooga, Tennessee. They will be making Electric Cars. Congratulations to Chattanooga and Tennessee on a job well done. A big win!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 15, 2019 7:25 am […]
1/15/2019
JOBS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VETS: “Just announced that Veterans unemployment has reached an 18 year low, really good news for our Vets and their families. Will soon be an all time low! Do you think the media will report on this and all of the other great economic news?” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 15, 2019 7:16 am […]
1/15/2019
FBI/JAMES COMEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The rank and file of the FBI are great people who are disgusted with what they are learning about Lyin’ James Comey and the so-called ‘leaders’ of the FBI. Twelve have been fired or forced to leave. They got caught spying on my campaign and then called it an investigation. Bad!” […]
1/15/2019
ELECTION/LATINOS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It may be Donald Trump’s nightmare: a Latino is trying to take his job. Some may consider Julián Castro, who announced his 2020 presidential bid before a cheering crowd Saturday, a long shot. They could not be more wrong. Julián Castro is a hugely important candidate in the Trump era. For Mexican-Americans […]
1/15/2019
DEMS/GOP/LEGISLATION/RUSSIA/SANCTIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “At least one Republican senator will join with Democrats on a bill that would reverse the Trump administration’s plan to ease sanctions on three companies with ties to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, a close Kremlin ally…A key vote on the measure, which Minority Leader Chuck Schumer can force under the 2017 Russia […]
1/15/2019
CONGRESS/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “With this government shutdown now the longest in American history, it’s time to bring it to an end. The simplest way to end the shutdown is for the Senate to pass, as the House has already done, the six appropriations bills for the remainder of the fiscal year, along with a continuing […]
1/15/2019
BUSINESS/CHINA/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The reclusive founder of Huawei has denied allegations that his telecoms company spies for the Chinese government. Ren Zhengfei also praised President Donald Trump as a ‘great president,’ shrugging off allegations by Washington that Huawei is a threat to US national security. Speaking to foreign media for the first time in […]
1/15/2019
PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Paul Manafort, the convicted former chairman of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, told a business associate in January 2017 he was using middlemen to get people appointed to the Trump administration, according to a court filing on Tuesday [1-15-19]. U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller had been given until Monday [1-14-19] by […]
1/15/2019
ECONOMY/MIKE POMPEO/STEVE MNUCHIN/SUMMIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will lead the American delegation to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, next week, filling in for President Donald Trump, two senior administration officials said. Trump, who attended last year’s Davos event, had planned to go again […]
1/15/2019
SPORTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Burger King is needling President Donald Trump for his tweet about ordering more than 1,000 ‘hamberders’ for the Clemson University Tigers’ visit to the White House after winning the college football championship. The spelling error was quickly corrected. But Burger King jumped in with a tweet of its own: ‘Due to a […]
1/15/2019
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Rick Gates, a former senior campaign aide to President Donald Trump, will have to wait at least another two months for his sentencing date in the Russia investigation, prosecutors said Tuesday [1-15-19]. In a new court filing, special counsel Robert Mueller’s team said they’re not ready for Gates’ sentencing […]
1/15/2019
DEMS/GOP/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration said Tuesday [1-15-19] that it would summon tens of thousands of federal employees back to work without pay to get the government running amid a partial shutdown well into its third week, as the White House and increasingly agitated lawmakers on Capitol Hill cast about for a way to […]
1/15/2019
RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The first time they met was in Germany. President Trump took his interpreter’s notes afterward and ordered him not to disclose what he heard to anyone. Later that night, at a dinner, Mr. Trump pulled up a seat next to President Vladimir V. Putin to talk without any American witnesses at all. […]