MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Happy 243rd Birthday to our GREAT U.S. Marine Corps?? https://t.co/1cPtoMfmxP“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 10, 2018 9:09 am […]
11/10/2018
FRANCE/HOLIDAY/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WAR: “I am in Paris getting ready to celebrate the end of World War One. Is there anything better to celebrate than the end of a war, in particular that one, which was one of the bloodiest and worst of all time?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 10, 2018 3:17 am […]
11/10/2018
CALIFORNIA/NATURAL DISASTERS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor. Billions of dollars are given each year, with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forests. Remedy now, or no more Fed payments!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
11/9/2018
ATTORNEY GENERAL/JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump went out of his way on Friday [11-9-18] to distance himself from Matthew G. Whitaker, his choice to replace Jeff Sessions as attorney general, saying repeatedly that he did not know Mr. Whitaker and had not spoken to him and emphasizing that the new attorney […]
11/9/2018
ATTORNEY GENERAL/DEMS/FBI/TRUMP PEOPLE: “When Iowa state Sen. Matt McCoy learned Donald Trump had appointed Matthew Whitaker to be acting attorney general of the United States, he was aghast — he believes Whitaker was behind a politically motivated prosecution that was personally ‘devastating’ to him. It started in 2007, when McCoy was a rising Democrat in […]
11/9/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “….Mr. Whitaker is very highly thought of by @SenJoniErnst, Senator @ChuckGrassley, Ambassador @TerryBranstad, Leonard Leo of Federalist Society, and many more. I feel certain he will make an outstanding Acting Attorney General!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 9, 2018 11:04 pm […]
11/9/2018
JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Matthew G. Whitaker is a highly respected former U.S. Attorney from Iowa. He was chosen by Jeff Sessions to be his Chief of Staff. I did not know Mr. Whitaker. Likewise, as Chief, I did not know Mr. Whitaker except primarily as he traveled with A.G. Sessions. No social […]
11/9/2018
ATTORNEY GENERAL/JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “When things were particularly bad between President Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions, the attorney general’s chief of staff, Matt Whitaker, would attend White House meetings in his place. But Sessions did not know that Whitaker at the same time was angling for a promotion.Whitaker, who was installed at […]
11/9/2018
AFRICAN AMERICANS/MEDIA/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “During a rant on Friday [11-9-18] about CNN reporter Jim Acosta, President Donald Trump turned to another reporter, April Ryan. ‘You talk about somebody that’s a loser,’ Trump said of Ryan, a White House correspondent for American Urban Radio Networks who is African American. ‘She doesn’t know what the hell she’s […]
11/9/2018
FRANCE/INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WAR: “Every week, I offer a glimpse of the kind of intelligence assessments that are likely to come across the desk of the President of the United States. Modeled on the President’s Daily Briefing, or PDB, which the director of national intelligence prepares for the President almost daily, my Presidential Weekly Briefing focuses […]
11/9/2018
ELECTION/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VOTE BY MAIL/VOTER FRAUD: “President Donald Trump on Friday [11-9-18] floated the possibility that the race for the U.S. Senate in Arizona might need to be redone because of alleged ‘electoral corruption.’ The electoral contest between Democrat Kyrsten Sinema and Republican Martha McSally, both current members of the House, is one of the […]
11/9/2018
EU/FRANCE/MILITARY/NATO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Macron of France has just suggested that Europe build its own military in order to protect itself from the U.S., China and Russia. Very insulting, but perhaps Europe should first pay its fair share of NATO, which the U.S. subsidizes greatly!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 9, 2018 4:10 pm […]
11/9/2018
ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VOTER FRAUD: “Just out — in Arizona, SIGNATURES DON’T MATCH. Electoral corruption – Call for a new Election? We must protect our Democracy!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 9, 2018 3:33 pm […]
11/9/2018
ATTORNEY GENERAL/JEFF SESSIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump defended acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker as a ‘highly respected man’ on Friday [11-9-18], while also claiming he didn’t know him despite reports Whitaker had regularly visited the Oval Office in recent months…The New York Times reported in September that Whitaker, then the chief of staff […]
11/9/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/GOP/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VOTER FRAUD: “President Donald Trump fired off a series of agitated tweets on Friday [11-9-18] about the looming Florida recount, alleging ‘election theft’ in the Senate race and suggesting without evidence that Democrats were falsifying votes to undermine GOP candidates. Trump’s unloading began Friday morning as he spoke to reporters while leaving for […]
11/9/2018
ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VOTER FRAUD: “Thank you @marcorubio for helping to expose the potential corruption going on with respect to Election Theft in Broward and Palm Beach Counties. The WORLD is now watching closely!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 9, 2018 1:39 pm […]
11/9/2018
2016 ELECTION/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VOTER FRAUD: “In the 2016 Election I was winning by so much in Florida that Broward County, which was very late with vote tabulation and probably getting ready to do a ‘number,’ couldn’t do it because not enough people live in Broward for them to falsify a victory!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November […]
11/9/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Mayor Gillum conceded on Election Day and now Broward County has put him ‘back into play.’ Bill Nelson conceded Election – now he’s back in play!? This is an embarrassment to our Country and to Democracy!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 9, 2018 1:14 pm […]
11/9/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/VOTER FRAUD: “President Donald Trump and Republicans in key states are pushing the idea that Democrats are trying to steal the election from Republicans in Florida, Georgia and Arizona. Trump this time was taking a cue from Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who wants to maintain his lead in the Senate race there […]
11/9/2018
ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VOTER FRAUD: “Rick Scott was up by 50,000+ votes on Election Day, now they ‘found’ many votes and he is only up 15,000 votes. ‘The Broward Effect.’ How come they never find Republican votes?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 9, 2018 12:36 pm […]
11/9/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Jeff Flake(y) doesn’t want to protect the Non-Senate confirmed Special Counsel, he wants to protect his future after being unelectable in Arizona for the ‘crime’ of doing a terrible job! A weak and ineffective guy!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 9, 2018 12:10 pm […]
11/9/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VOTER FRAUD: “As soon as Democrats sent their best Election stealing lawyer, Marc Elias, to Broward County they miraculously started finding Democrat votes. Don’t worry, Florida – I am sending much better lawyers to expose the FRAUD!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 9, 2018 11:52 am […]
11/9/2018
ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “You mean they are just now finding votes in Florida and Georgia – but the Election was on Tuesday [11-6-18]? Let’s blame the Russians and demand an immediate apology from President Putin!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 9, 2018 10:58 am […]
11/9/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “.@BrianKempGA ran a great race in Georgia – he won. It is time to move on!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 9, 2018 10:55 am […]
11/9/2018
KELLYANNE CONWAY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday [11-9-18] took a jab at a conservative lawyer whose critical tweets and editorials have attracted an outsized following because he is married to a top aide to the president. ‘You mean, Mr. Kellyanne Conway?’ Trump said to reporters when asked about a Thursday [11-8-18] New […]
11/9/2018
EU/FRANCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/NATO: “Fresh off the loss of the Republican-controlled House and discord over firing his attorney general, President Donald Trump is trying to remind the world he’s still the boss. His two-day visit to France, which includes meetings and meals with French President Emmanuel Macron along with a ceremony to commemorate the end of […]
11/9/2018
AGRICULTURE/DEMS/ENTITLEMENTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congress comes back to town next week with House and Senate agriculture leaders pledging action on the farm bill in the lame-duck session. Hanging over negotiations is the question of just how dug in Trump is on stricter SNAP work requirements. Trump on Wednesday [11-7-18] blamed Democrats again for delaying the farm […]
11/9/2018
BORDER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’Presidential Proclamation Addressing Mass Migration Through the Southern Border of the United States’ https://t.co/9blzn1XGyS“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 9, 2018 9:54 am […]
11/9/2018
ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VOTER FRAUD: “U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday [11-9-18] he would send lawyers to expose what he said without evidence was ‘fraud’ in contested voting in Broward County, Florida. In Florida’s U.S. Senate race, Republican Governor Rick Scott, with his lead over Democratic incumbent Bill Nelson narrowing, filed lawsuits on Thursday [11-8-18] […]
11/9/2018
COURTS/ENVIRONMENT/OIL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal judge ordered both the Trump administration and TransCanada to stop any work on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline on Thursday [11-8-18], saying President Donald Trump’s approval of the project last year violated several key environmental and administrative laws by ignoring facts about climate change. Judge Brian Morris of the U.S. […]
11/9/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump said on Friday [11-9-18] that he might revoke the credentials of additional White House reporters if they did not ‘treat the White House with respect,’ lobbing another threat at the news media two days after his administration effectively blacklisted the CNN correspondent Jim Acosta…The removal of Mr. Acosta’s credential, after […]
11/9/2018
G20/RUSSIA/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Families of those killed when a Buk missile blew Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 out of the sky above Ukraine in 2014 have called on U.S. President Donald Trump to press his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to provide answers about the downing. In a letter to Trump published Friday [11-9-18] on Twitter, relatives […]
11/9/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Did you hear the one about President Trump? Or, more precisely, did you hear all 3,128 jokes? A think tank that has studied the content of late-night comedy for the past 26 years said Donald Trump was the butt of more jokes in 2017 than any other public figure has for a […]
11/9/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House is bracing for the probe of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign to fire up again. Trump’s advisers are privately expressing worries that the special counsel, who’s been out of the news for the past month, has been stealthily compiling information and could soon issue new indictments or a […]
11/9/2018
CHINA/ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “At a news conference, the president answered a question about healing national divides by saying, falsely, that he had forced China to back down from a plan to strengthen its manufacturing industry…This is exaggerated. It’s true that China’s growth is slowing. The economy expanded 6.5 percent in the three months that ended […]
11/9/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “They were the states that broke Democratic hearts the last time — and the ones where any political comeback would have to begin. So how did the Democrats do on Tuesday [11-6-18] in 2016 Trump country? They won. They also lost. And both experiences are instructive for the party’s future. This […]
11/9/2018
EU/FRANCE/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump wasted no time taking a poke at his French host Friday [11-9-18] as he arrived in Paris for events marking the 100th anniversary of the armistice that ended World War I, tweeting as he landed that President Emmanuel Macron had made an ‘insulting’ proposal to build up Europe’s military […]
11/9/2018
ELECTION/GOP/IMMIGRATION/MINORITIES/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s efforts to whip up fear around immigration in the closing days of the midterm cycle may have helped some Republicans clinch wins around the country. But in places like the diverse Denver suburbs, it had the opposite effect. ‘We are part of this country,’ said Saad Salim, who fled Iraq […]
11/9/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/LAWSUIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump proclaimed on Friday [11-9-18] that the illegal entry of immigrants across the southern border of the United States was detrimental to the national interest, spurring tough changes that will deny asylum to all migrants who do not enter through official border crossings. The proclamation, issued just moments before Mr. Trump […]
11/9/2018
EU/FRANCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump picked a fight with French President Emmanuel Macron over European defense just as Air Force One landed in France on Friday [11-9-18]…He is set to spend the weekend in Paris to commemorate the centennial of the end of World War I. Tuesday [11-6-18] on Europe 1 radio, Macron called […]
11/9/2018
MEDIA/OBAMA/OBAMA FAMILY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump pushed back at former first lady Michelle Obama and former President Barack Obama over a forthcoming memoir in which the former first lady said she would ‘never forgive’ Trump for his role in the ‘birther’ movement…The former first lady writes in her new memoir that she will never […]
11/8/2018
ATTORNEY GENERAL/JEFF SESSIONS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “There is a growing sense of concern inside the White House over the negative reaction to Matthew Whitaker being tapped as acting attorney general after Jeff Sessions’ abrupt firing. Whitaker, who was Sessions’ chief of staff, has faced criticism since Wednesday afternoon’s announcement for his previous comments on […]
11/8/2018
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California said she and President Donald Trump talked about finding common ground when he called her Tuesday [11-6-18], but added that it was difficult to hear the President over the loud celebrations. Pelosi is positioning herself to once again become House speaker following Democrats […]
11/8/2018
ELECTION/POLICE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Law Enforcement is looking into another big corruption scandal having to do with Election Fraud in #Broward and Palm Beach. Florida voted for Rick Scott!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 8, 2018 9:38 pm […]
11/8/2018
FRANCE/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump heads to Paris on Friday [11-10-18] to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the truce that ended World War One, surrounded by more than 100 heads of state, all of whom have followed with intense interest the outcome of Tuesday’s congressional midterm elections in the United States. And not everyone might […]
11/8/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democratic Sen. Jon Tester overcame President Donald Trump’s personal interest in his defeat to win a third term by holding on to his base and poaching voters who gave Trump a landslide victory in Montana in 2016. Tester beat Republican Matt Rosendale this week in a close race highlighted by Trump’s four […]
11/8/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration unveiled new rules on Thursday [11-8-18] to sharply limit migrant asylum claims by barring individuals who cross the U.S. southern border illegally from seeking asylum. Immigrant advocates denounced the move, saying it violated existing U.S. law that allows people fleeing persecution and violence in their home countries to apply […]
11/8/2018
BUSINESS/DEMS/TRUMP TAXES: “Beyond trying to get their hands on the Holy Grail of President Donald Trump’s business dealings — his tax returns — House Democrats are prepared to use their new majority and subpoena power to go after financial records that could back up their claims that he’s using his presidency to enrich himself and […]
11/8/2018
DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Democratic National Committee’s chairman says Democrats can ‘absolutely’ defeat President Donald Trump in 2020 and Democratic victories this week show they ‘can win everywhere.’ Asked what the party learned in 2018 that could be applied to the 2020 presidential campaign, Tom Perez said ‘we have to expand the electorate’ and ‘compete […]
11/8/2018
ATTORNEY GENERAL/JEFF SESSIONS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s pick for acting attorney general, Matt Whitaker, is a close friend of Trump’s 2016 election campaign co-chair, and a former government ethics chief said the friendship makes Whitaker unable to oversee impartially a politically charged investigation into the campaign. Matthew Whitaker, named on Wednesday [11-7-18] […]
11/8/2018
BRETT KAVANAUGH/MELANIA/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump has visited the Supreme Court for the ceremonial swearing-in of new Justice Brett Kavanaugh. The president and first lady Melania Trump also met privately with the justices before Thursday’s brief courtroom ceremony. Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker took part in the ceremony for an invitation-only crowd that […]
11/8/2018
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/JEFF SESSIONS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congressional Democrats on Thursday [11-8-18] demanded emergency hearings in the U.S. House of Representatives to investigate President Donald Trump’s ouster of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, calling the move an effort to undermine a federal probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. Trump forced the resignation […]
11/8/2018
NUCLEAR/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Alarmed at what they see as disintegrating curbs on nuclear weapons, a bipartisan array of American nonproliferation experts has urged President Trump to salvage a Cold War-era treaty with Russia that he has vowed to scrap. In letters sent to the White House this week that were seen by The New York […]
11/8/2018
ATTORNEY GENERAL/JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LABOR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump is considering former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to replace fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions, sources familiar with the matter said. Trump fired Sessions on Wednesday without immediately naming a replacement, instead installing Sessions’ chief of staff Matthew Whitaker […]
11/8/2018
GOP/JEFF SESSIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A fundamental question for President Donald Trump, as he moves forward after the midterms, is this: what role does he want to play? If he seeks to be the great negotiator he has always claimed to be, there could be an opportunity for him to cut the deal on immigration and […]
11/8/2018
MEDIA/RACISM/SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders seized on a misleading video apparently first posted by a far-right personality associated with fringe media organization InfoWars as a basis for indefinitely suspending the press credentials of CNN’s chief White House correspondent. On Wednesday [11-8-18] evening, Sanders released a statement announcing that the White House […]
111/8/2018
ECONOMY/IRAN/SANCTIONS/STEVE MNUCHIN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Thursday [11-8-18] that the financial messaging service that moves money around the global banking system will be cutting off Iran’s Central Bank..The decision by SWIFT means Iran’s Central Bank will be cut off from the international banking system and will cause significant economic pain, observers say. The […]
11/8/2018
ATTORNEY GENERAL/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “While special counsel Robert Mueller technically had a new boss at the Justice Department as of Wednesday [11-7-18] afternoon, the day-to-day work of the probe forged ahead on Thursday [11-8-18]. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s top deputy, Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Ed O’Callaghan, met with lawyers from the […]
11/8/2018
RUSSIA/SANCTIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration levied additional sanctions Thursday [11-8-18] on Russia for human rights abuses and illegal economic activity in Crimea, just days before President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin head to Paris for a gathering of world leaders. The move is another example of the Trump administration’s willingness to at […]
11/8/2018
AGRICULTURE/CABINET/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said today that he did not plan to step down from his Cabinet duties, amid reports that the president is getting ready to make several changes by the end of the year that could reshape the character of his administration..As many as six Cabinet members could leave by […]
11/8/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump will spend much of the next two months outside of Washington, untethered from the strictures of daily White House life as he weighs a shakeup of his administration and faces new developments in the Russia investigation after Tuesday’s [11-6-18] election. Trump delights in decamping to his properties, especially Mar-a-Lago, […]
11/8/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Florida solidified its status as Trump Country this week, reinvigorating Republicans and dispiriting Democrats as the consummate swing state sets the stage for a possible three-peat in 2020…Isbell said a variety of factors that increasingly favor Republicans in Florida became clear Tuesday [11-6-18], chiefly the ‘consolidation of the conservative and white vote […]
11/8/2018
COURTS/CYBERWAR/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Lawyers for critics suing President Donald Trump’s campaign over its alleged involvement in the hacking of Democratic National Committee emails urged a federal judge in Virginia Thursday to reject a bid by the campaign to have the lawsuit thrown out. The Trump campaign met the suit earlier this year with an eyebrow-raising […]
11/8/2018
CABINET/INTERIOR/MEDIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has been exploring potential roles with Fox News, the energy industry or other businesses amid growing signs that he will leave President Donald Trump’s Cabinet as he faces investigations into his ethics, according to people knowledgeable about the discussions. The news comes just a day after Trump told reporters […]
11/8/2018
DEMS/JEFF SESSIONS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The ouster of Attorney General Jeff Sessions by President Donald Trump on Wednesday [11-7-18] drew sharp criticism from Democrats, who warned Trump against moving to squash a probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The probe, led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller under the supervision of […]
11/8/2018
ATTORNEY GENERAL/JEFF SESSIONS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s pick for acting attorney general, Matt Whitaker, is a close friend of Trump’s 2016 election campaign co-chair, and a former government ethics chief said the friendship makes Whitaker unable to oversee impartially a politically charged investigation into the campaign. Matthew Whitaker, named on Wednesday […]
11/8/2018
DEMS/GOP/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The dust has barely settled on the midterm elections, yet tax talk is already in the air thanks to President Donald Trump signaling openness to higher taxes, at least for some. Riffing at a post-election press conference at the White House, Trump said he’d be open to making an ‘adjustment’ to recent […]
11/8/2018
ABORTION/COURTS/HHS/OBAMACARE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “HHS on Wednesday [11-7-18] rolled out two regulations, one final and one proposed, that would further restrict access to reproductive health care procedures. — The move that was expected: HHS finalized a rule that would allow nearly any employer to claim a moral or religious exemption to Obamacare’s birth control mandate. The […]
11/8/2018
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/JEFF SESSIONS/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congressional Democrats on Thursday [11-8-17] demanded emergency hearings in the U.S. House of Representatives to investigate President Donald Trump’s ouster of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, calling the move an effort to undermine a federal probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. Trump forced the resignation of […]
11/8/2018
CALIFORNIA/MASS SHOOTINGS/POLICE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….Great bravery shown by police. California Highway Patrol was on scene within 3 minutes, with first officer to enter shot numerous times. That Sheriff’s Sergeant died in the hospital. God bless all of the victims and families of the victims. Thank you to Law Enforcement.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 8, 2018 […]
11/8/2018
CALIFORNIA/MASS SHOOTINGS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I have been fully briefed on the terrible shooting in California. Law Enforcement and First Responders, together with the FBI, are on scene. 13 people, at this time, have been reported dead. Likewise, the shooter is dead, along with the first police officer to enter the bar….” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November […]
10/8/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Looking over the aftermath of Tuesday [11-6-18] night’s bloodbath for the New Jersey GOP, Assembly Republican leader Jon Bramnick thinks he has a fix. The party, he said, needs to clearly and forcefully repudiate the kind of rhetoric on which President Donald Trump closed the election..The problem for Bramnick is that his sentiment […]
11/8/2018
GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The day after his party lost its lock on the U.S. Congress, President Donald Trump walked into a White House press conference ready for political combat, name-checking Republicans who he blamed for losing their seats and lashing out at reporters who challenged his assertions. Republicans lost control of the House […]
11/8/2018
DEMS/JEFF SESSIONS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Three presumptive Democratic committee chairman on Thursday [11-8-18] outlined on a call for Democratic lawmakers the steps they’re planning to take to investigate the firing of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and protect special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation following the appointment of acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker. On the call […]
11/7/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In a stunning break with protocol, the White House said Wednesday [11-7-18] night that it’s suspending the press pass of CNN’s Jim Acosta ‘until further notice.’ The move came just hours after Acosta, CNN’s chief White House correspondent, drew the ire of President Donald Trump and his allies by asking multiple questions […]
11/7/2018
JEFF SESSIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal said President Donald Trump’s firing of Attorney General Jeff Sessions is a ‘break the glass moment.’ Trump fired Sessions on Wednesday [11-7-18] and announced that Matthew Whitaker, who was Sessions’ chief of staff, will take over as acting attorney general…’It’s a kind of slow-motion ‘Saturday Night Massacre,’ […]
11/7/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “After nearly four years of improbable political momentum, President Donald Trump demonstrated Tuesday [11-6-18] his brand of race-baiting and fear-mongering politics — which inflamed his base voters but scorched the rest — can still win some big elections. That, it appeared, was proof enough to the President his dark impulses haven’t led […]
11/7/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democrats who hadn’t had much to celebrate over the past two years two-stepped and toasted their return to relevance on Capitol Hill in the basement of a Washington hotel on Tuesday [11-6-18] night. For the first time in eight years, they had regained the majority in the House of Representatives. […]
11/7/2018
ELECTION/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In an hour and 26 combative minutes on Wednesday [11-7-18], President Donald Trump declared CNN reporter Jim Acosta an ‘enemy of the people,’ said he didn’t much care for NBC reporter Peter Alexander, either, told American Urban Radio Networks correspondent April Ryan to ‘sit down,’ and accused Yamiche Alcindor of ‘PBS NewsHour’ […]
11/7/2018
BRETT KAVANAUGH/ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Republicans lost dozens of House seats and the majority in that chamber Tuesday [11-6-18], while simultaneously expanding their control of the Senate. At least one factor in those countervailing results is Brett Kavanaugh. While now-Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh, like Trump, was not popular in the country as a whole — […]
11/7/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democrats wanted a base of power in Donald Trump’s Washington and they got it. They also wanted to wake up Wednesday [11-7-18] morning to a radically changed country. They wanted permission to dismiss the past two years as a fluke of history, a hallucination now fading. And they wanted something more: to […]
11/7/2018
JEFF SESSIONS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A day after voters chose divided government by handing the House majority back to Democrats, President Donald Trump made the sort of I-do-what-feels-right-when-it-feels-right move that has become his hallmark over his past three years in political life: He fired Jeff Sessions. And in so doing, Trump appears to have […]
11/7/2018
CABINET/ELECTION/JEFF SESSIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions may have been the first Trump Cabinet-level member purged in the wake of the midterm elections — but he is unlikely to be the last. Several Trump Cabinet officials and senior aides are on the ropes and could be pushed out by the end of the […]
11/7/2018
JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “We are pleased to announce that Matthew G. Whitaker, Chief of Staff to Attorney General Jeff Sessions at the Department of Justice, will become our new Acting Attorney General of the United States. He will serve our Country well….” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 7, 2018 2:44 pm […]
11/7/2018
JEFF SESSIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….We thank Attorney General Jeff Sessions for his service, and wish him well! A permanent replacement will be nominated at a later date.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 7, 2018 2:44 pm […]
11/7/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/HOUSE OF REPS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Tuesday’s [11-6-18] Democratic victory for control of the House shouldn’t come as a surprise, given that many of these felled GOP candidates were in Hillary Clinton-won districts, and President Donald Trump lost the popular vote in 2016. But the Republican Senate gains and strong Florida and Georgia gubernatorial showings ran […]
11/7/2018
CHINA/ELECTION/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s trade war with China didn’t end with the congressional elections this week. Despite losing Republican control of the House, Trump is unlikely to see anything in the outcome that will persuade him to drop his hardball tactics with Beijing…Few Democrats ran against Trump’s handling of trade relations with […]
11/7/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Around 40% of 2018 voters said they want President Donald Trump impeached, according to CNN’s national exit polls. It’ll become a key question as Democrats seize control of the House and all the investigative and procedural powers that come with that. But while CNN projects that Democrats will take the House, Republicans […]
11/7/2018
ELECTION/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Republicans rode a red wave in Trump country Tuesday [11-6-18] night, keeping control of the Senate and handing President Donald Trump a partial victory in his first midterm election even as Democrats won the House majority. A handful of Senate races broke decisively for Republicans, allowing them to defeat at least […]
11/7/2018
ELECTION/POLLS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump renewed his attacks on special counsel Robert Mueller and his Russia probe on Wednesday [11-7-18], less than 24 hours after Democrats won control of the House. ‘According to NBC News, Voters Nationwide Disapprove of the so-called Mueller Investigation (46%) more than they Approve (41%),’ Trump wrote on […]
11/7/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In New Jersey, voters slashed the number of Republicans in Congress from five down to two, and possibly only one. In New York, Democrats declared victory in three congressional races in President Trump’s home state, ejecting the last remaining Republican from New York City. And in the six other states […]
11/7/2018
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/JEFF SESSIONS/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump threatened on Wednesday [11-7-18] to adopt a ‘warlike posture’ against Democrats if they use their newly won control of the House to investigate his financial and political dealings, drawing a line at the start of a new era of divided government. The president began a postelection […]
11/7/2018
ELECTION/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump lashed out at journalists during a surly and contentious news conference at the White House on Wednesday [11-7-18], renewing his attacks on the news media as ‘the enemy of the people’ just moments after pledging an end to partisan politics in the wake of a grueling midterm election. In tense […]
11/7/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democrats didn’t catch a blue wave. But they managed the next best thing: Divided government in the Trump era. House Democrats won back the majority for the first time since the 2010 elections. Helped by President Donald Trump, Republicans captured Senate seats in Indiana, Missouri and North Dakota to maintain […]
11/7/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the highest-ranking House Democrat, declared on Wednesday [11-7-18] that she was confident that her newly ascendant colleagues would elect her speaker, as she moved aggressively to hold off a challenge to her leadership that could fracture the party. The day after midterm elections that handed her […]
11/7/2018
MIKE POMPEO/NORTH KOREA/SUMMIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The goal of a diplomatic meeting set for Thursday [11-8-18] seemed simple: Nail down a plan for a second summit between President Trump and the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un. But finalizing the meeting itself — between Mike Pompeo, the secretary of state, and one of Mr. Kim’s top compatriots […]
11/7/2018
POLLS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “According to NBC News, Voters Nationwide Disapprove of the so-called Mueller Investigation (46%) more than they Approve (41%). You mean they are finally beginning to understand what a disgusting Witch Hunt, led by 17 Angry Democrats, is all about!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 7, 2018 10:39 am […]
11/7/2018
DEMS/REGULATIONS/SOCIAL MEDIA/TECHNOLOGY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump said he would consider working with Democrats to regulate social media companies, after he and other conservatives accused companies such as Twitter Inc, Facebook Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google of allegedly stifling right wing views. In an extended news conference on Wednesday [11-7-18], Trump, however, urged caution […]
11/7/2018
MIKE POMPEO/NORTH KOREA/SANCTIONS/SUMMIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said on Wednesday [11-7-18] he expects to meet with North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un some time early next year and that an expected meeting between U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and officials from the reclusive Asian nation will be rescheduled. ‘We’re very happy how it’s […]
11/7/2018
ELECTION/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s intense focus on immigration in the run-up to the midterms appears to have stemmed GOP losses in Tuesday’s [11-6-18] election, according to a POLITICO analysis of 34 close House, Senate and gubernatorial races. Democrats took control of the House, as predicted, but Republicans were on track to expand their […]