JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump asserted on Monday [8-02-18] that he would be ‘totally allowed’ to take over Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe if he wanted to, in another thinly veiled broadside against an investigation he has repeatedly derided as a partisan ‘witch hunt.’ ‘I can go in, and I could do […]
8/20/2018
POLLS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump repeatedly said during the 2016 election that he would ‘hire the best people’ for his administration, but a new poll Monday [8-20-18] shows that most Americans don’t think he delivered on that promise. The new Monmouth University Poll found that only 30 percent of respondents believe that Trump has hired […]
8/20/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The jury weighing more than a dozen bank and tax fraud charges against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort failed to return a verdict after its third day of deliberations on Monday [8-20-18], leading the defense team to sound a note of optimism after the weekslong trial. The 12-member jury, which […]
8/20/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said he’s concerned about potential perjury charges that could be brought against him if he were to sit down with special counsel Robert Mueller. Trump told Reuters in an interview on Monday [8-20-18] that he was worried investigators would put his statements up against those who have […]
8/20/2018
CHINA/DRUGS/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It is outrageous that Poisonous Synthetic Heroin Fentanyl comes pouring into the U.S. Postal System from China. We can, and must, END THIS NOW! The Senate should pass the STOP ACT – and firmly STOP this poison from killing our children and destroying our country. No more delay!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August […]
8/20/2018
JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA INVESETIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump tweeted Monday [8-20-18] to ask why his attorney general had not fired a Justice Department official with ties to the firm behind a dossier alleging connections between Trump and Russia. ‘Will Bruce Ohr, whose family received big money for helping to create the phony, dirty and […]
8/20/2018
MEDIA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’Bruce Ohr is at the center of FALSE ALLEGATIONS which led to a multi-million dollar investigation into what apparently didn’t happen.’ Darrell Issa, House Oversight. We can take out the word ‘apparently.’ @FoxNews” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 20, 2018 9:46 am […]
8/20/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Will Bruce Ohr, whose family received big money for helping to create the phony, dirty and discredited Dossier, ever be fired from the Jeff Sessions ‘Justice’ Department? A total joke!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 20, 2018 9:36 am […]
8/20/2018
NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Everybody wants to keep their Security Clearance, it’s worth great prestige and big dollars, even board seats, and that is why certain people are coming forward to protect Brennan. It certainly isn’t because of the good job he did! He is a political ‘hack.’” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 20, 2018 9:23 […]
8/20/2018
CIA/LAWSUIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I hope John Brennan, the worst CIA Director in our country’s history, brings a lawsuit. It will then be very easy to get all of his records, texts, emails and documents to show not only the poor job he did, but how he was involved with the Mueller Rigged Witch Hunt. He […]
8/20/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Rudy Giuliani on Monday [8-20-18] attempted to clarify his weekend remark that ‘truth isn’t truth’ as part of his explanation for why he doesn’t believe that President Donald Trump should testify with special counsel Robert Mueller…Giuliani’s tweet came less than 24 hours after he sparred with NBC’s ‘Meet the […]
8/20/2018
RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Where’s the Collusion? They made up a phony crime called Collusion, and when there was no Collusion they say there was Obstruction (of a phony crime that never existed). If you FIGHT BACK or say anything bad about the Rigged Witch Hunt, they scream Obstruction!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 20, 2018 […]
8/20/2018
DEMS/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….looking for trouble. They are enjoying ruining people’s lives and REFUSE to look at the real corruption on the Democrat side – the lies, the firings, the deleted Emails and soooo much more! Mueller’s Angry Dems are looking to impact the election. They are a National Disgrace!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August […]
8/20/2018
DEMS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Disgraced and discredited Bob Mueller and his whole group of Angry Democrat Thugs spent over 30 hours with the White House Councel, only with my approval, for purposes of transparency. Anybody needing that much time when they know there is no Russian Collusion is just someone….” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August […]
8/20/2018
CIA/INTELLIGENCE/NATIONAL SECURITY/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “More than 175 former U.S. State Department and Pentagon officials added their names to a statement signed by former national security officials criticizing President Donald Trump’s decision to cancel the security clearance of former CIA director John Brennan. New signatories to the statement, initially issued last week by 15 former directors […]
8/20/2018
DRUGS/HHS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said it was within his agency’s power to eliminate rebates on prescription drug purchases, a key element of the Trump administration’s plan to lower prescription medicine costs. Such rebates are negotiated in the United States by pharmacy benefits managers (PBMs) to lower the cost […]
8/20/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The jury in the bank and tax fraud trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort ended its third day of deliberations on Monday [8-20-18] without reaching a verdict. The judge said the jury would reconvene on Tuesday [8-218-18] morning. The case is the first to go to […]
8/19/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Federal prosecutors are focused on over $20 million in loans obtained by U.S. President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen from taxi businesses owned by him and his family, the New York Times reported on Sunday [8-19-18]. The loans are part of an investigation into whether Cohen committed bank and tax […]
8/19/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Study the late Joseph McCarthy, because we are now in period with Mueller and his gang that make Joseph McCarthy look like a baby! Rigged Witch Hunt!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 19, 2018 7:24 am […]
8/19/2018
MEDIA: “Some members of the media are very Angry at the Fake Story in the New York Times. They actually called to complain and apologize – a big step forward. From the day I announced, the Times has been Fake News, and with their disgusting new Board Member, it will only get worse!” –Donald Trump, […]
8/19/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Failing New York Times wrote a story that made it seem like the White House Councel had TURNED on the President, when in fact it is just the opposite – & the two Fake reporters knew this. This is why the Fake News Media has become the Enemy of the People. […]
8/19/2018
DEMS/HILLARY CLINTON/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “No Collusion and No Obstruction, except by Crooked Hillary and the Democrats. All of the resignations and corruption, yet heavily conflicted Bob Mueller refuses to even look in that direction. What about the Brennan, Comey, McCabe, Strzok lies to Congress, or Crooked’s Emails!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 19, 2018 6:30 […]
8/19/2018
DEMS/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….and have demanded transparency so that this Rigged and Disgusting Witch Hunt can come to a close. So many lives have been ruined over nothing – McCarthyism at its WORST! Yet Mueller & his gang of Dems refuse to look at the real crimes on the other side – Media is […]
8/19/2018
LEGAL/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The failing @nytimes wrote a Fake piece today implying that because White House Councel Don McGahn was giving hours of testimony to the Special Councel, he must be a John Dean type ‘RAT.’ But I allowed him and all others to testify – I didn’t have to. I have nothing to hide……” […]
8/18/2018
LEGAL/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I allowed White House Counsel Don McGahn, and all other requested members of the White House Staff, to fully cooperate with the Special Counsel. In addition we readily gave over one million pages of documents. Most transparent in history. No Collusion, No Obstruction. Witch Hunt!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 18, 2018 […]
8/18/2018
LEGAL/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I allowed White House Counsel Don McGahn, and all other requested members of the White House Staff, to fully cooperate with the Special Councel. In addition we readily gave over one million pages of documents. Most transparent in history. No Collusion, No Obstruction. Witch Hunt!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 18, 2018 […]
8/18/2018
MIDDLE EAST/MILITARY/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The United States has ended the ridiculous 230 Million Dollar yearly development payment to Syria. Saudi Arabia and other rich countries in the Middle East will start making payments instead of the U.S. I want to develop the U.S., our military and countries that help us!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 18, […]
8/18/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “https://t.co/TfRmZA8RWQ“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August18, 2018 2:39 pm […]
8/18/2018
ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Economy is stronger and better than ever before. Importantly, there remains tremendous potential – it will only get better with time!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 18, 2018 8:39 am […]
8/18/2018
MEDIA: “Great Job Rachel Campos-Duffy on @foxandfriends.” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 18, 2018 8:34 am […]
8/18/2018
CIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Has anyone looked at the mistakes that John Brennan made while serving as CIA Director? He will go down as easily the WORST in history & since getting out, he has become nothing less than a loudmouth, partisan, political hack who cannot be trusted with the secrets to our country!” –Donald Trump, […]
8/18/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “https://t.co/5kIR5EggBp“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 18, 2018 8:06 am […]
8/18/2018
CHINA/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “All of the fools that are so focused on looking only at Russia should start also looking in another direction, China. But in the end, if we are smart, tough and well prepared, we will get along with everyone!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 18, 2018 6:46 am […]
8/18/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….Too many voices are being destroyed, some good & some bad, and that cannot be allowed to happen. Who is making the choices, because I can already tell you that too many mistakes are being made. Let everybody participate, good & bad, and we will all just have to figure it out!” […]
8/18/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “…..Censorship is a very dangerous thing & absolutely impossible to police. If you are weeding out Fake News, there is nothing so Fake as CNN & MSNBC, & yet I do not ask that their sick behavior be removed. I get used to it and watch with a grain of salt, or […]
8/18/2018
SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Social Media is totally discriminating against Republican/Conservative voices. Speaking loudly and clearly for the Trump Administration, we won’t let that happen. They are closing down the opinions of many people on the RIGHT, while at the same time doing nothing to others…….” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 18, 2018 6:23 am […]
8/17/2018
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Federal authorities had cornered the man they suspected could be part of Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election — and they might have been more successful in their investigation in early 2017 if it had not been for George Papadopoulos, the special counsel alleged on Friday [8-17-18]. Special counsel prosecutors […]
8/17/2018
MEDIA/PUERTO RICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Only a few paragraphs of Omarosa Manigault Newman’s book are about Puerto Rico. But their claims are significant: that President Donald Trump lacked empathy in Hurricane Maria’s aftermath and that the President and Chief of Staff John Kelly referred to Puerto Ricans in derogatory terms. The result, the new book […]
INTELLIGENCE/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said Friday [8-17-18] that he would likely strip the security clearance of a Justice Department official ‘very quickly,’ opening a new front in his battle with figures related to the special counsel investigation into his campaign and Russian election interference. The official, Bruce Ohr, is a longtime […]
8/17/2018
GOP/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Republican fundraiser Elliott Broidy is under federal investigation for allegedly telling foreign officials he could influence the Trump administration to take certain actions in exchange for tens of millions of dollars, The Washington Post reported Friday [8-17-18]. The Post reported that two sources said Broidy is being investigated by the Justice Department […]
8/17/2018
JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….financial gain is a Federal Gratuity Statute Violation, Bribery Statute Violation, Honest Services Violation….all Major Crimes….because the DOJ is run by BLANK Jeff Sessions……’ Gregg Jarrett. So when does Mueller do what must be done? Probably never! @FoxNews” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 17, 2018 8:47 pm […]
8/17/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’Bruce Ohr of DOJ is in legal jeopardy, it’s astonishing that he’s still employed. Bruce & Nelly Ohr’s bank account is getting fatter & fatter because of the Dossier that they are both peddling. He doesn’t disclose it under Fed Regs. Using your Federal office for personal…….” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
8/17/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’Bruce Ohr of DOJ is in legal jeopardy, it’s astonishingthat he’s still employed. Bruce & Nelly Ohr’s bank account is getting fatter & fatter because of the Dossier that they are both peddling. He doesn’t disclose it under Fed Regs. Using your Federal office for personal…….” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August […]
8/17/2018
HUD/SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration today charged Facebook Inc. with violating housing discrimination laws. The social media company allows advertisers to divert housing listings away users who mention terms such as ‘assistance dog’ and ‘mobility scooter,’ or who live in certain zip codes, in violation of the Fair Housing Act, HUD alleged. In […]
8/17/2018
CIA/INTELLIGENCE/NATIONAL SECURITY/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Sixty former CIA officials warned President Donald Trump in a statement on Friday [8-17-18] that ‘the country will be weakened if there is a political litmus test applied before seasoned experts are allowed to share their views.’ The letter, which comes after Trump’s decision to revoke former CIA Director John […]
8/17/2018
DHS/IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A Justice Department employee who heckled DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen at a Washington restaurant and criticized the administration’s immigration policy online did not violate rules against political activity by government workers, a watchdog agency found. In a letter dated this week, the chief of the US Office of Special Counsel’s […]
8/17/2018
JAMES COMEY/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’Fox News has learned that Bruce Ohr wrote Christopher Steele following the firing of James Comey saying that he was afraid the anti-Trump Russia probe will be exposed.’ Charles Payne @FoxBusiness How much more does Mueller have to see? They have blinders on – RIGGED!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August […]
8/17/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “https://t.co/TmICRUV9uo“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 17, 2018 4:25 pm […]
8/17/2018
DEMS/HILLARY CLINTON/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Which is worse, Hightax Andrew Cuomo’s statement, ‘WE’RE NOT GOING TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, IT WAS NEVER THAT GREAT” or Hillary Clinton’s ‘DEPLORABLES’ statement…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 17, 2018 2:25 pm […]
8/17/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “…I say Andrew’s was a bigger and more incompetent blunder. He should easily win his race against a Super Liberal Actress, but his political career is over!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 17, 2018 2:25 pm […]
8/17/2018
DEFENSE/HOLIDAY/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump announced Friday [8-17-18] that he has canceled plans for a military parade in Washington, and ignited a feud with the D.C. mayor after accusing ‘local politicians’ of price gouging…CNBC reported Thursday [8-16-18] that the expected cost of Trump’s planned parade had ballooned to $92 million, significantly higher than previous […]
8/17/2018
DEMS/GOP/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “After two days of Republican attacks, Gov. Andrew Cuomo admitted he was ‘inartful’ when he said Wednesday [8-15-18] that America was ‘never that great.’ But the Democratic New York governor, who is seeking a third term and positioning himself for a possible 2020 presidential bid, unleashed a new salvo of attacks […]
8/17/2018
CIA/INTELLIGENCE/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Friday [8-17-18] said he ‘never respected’ former CIA Director John Brennan and warned that he may strip security clearances from other current and former officials ‘very quickly.’ While speaking with reporters on the South Lawn Friday, Trump doubled down on his action to remove Brennan’s clearance, which […]
8/17/2018
CYBERWAR/INTELLIGENCE/MILITARY/OBAMA ADMIN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration this week took a major step toward empowering the military to conduct more cyberattacks. President Donald Trump rescinded Presidential Policy Directive 20, an Obama-era document that required high-level discussions between many agencies before the military could conduct significant cyber operations. The change gives the military freer rein to […]
8/17/2018
SEC/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday {8-17-18] that he wanted the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to explore doing away with quarterly corporate reports, replacing them with filings every six months. In a tweet, he argued a longer time frame would ‘allow greater flexibility & save money.’ But any such policy change […]
8/17/2018
DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When a politician admits that ‘We’re not going to make America great again,’ there doesn’t seem to be much reason to ever vote for him. This could be a career threatening statement by Andrew Cuomo, with many wanting him to resign-he will get higher ratings than his brother Chris!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
8/17/2018
DEMS/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Wow! Big pushback on Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York for his really dumb statement about America’s lack of greatness. I have already MADE America Great Again, just look at the markets, jobs, military- setting records, and we will do even better. Andrew ‘choked’ badly, mistake!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 17, […]
8/17/2018
DEMS/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Wow! Big pushback on Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York for his really dumb statement about America’s lack of greatness. I have already MADE America Great Again, just look at the markets, jobs, military- setting records, and we will do even better. Andrew ‘chocked’ badly, mistake!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 17, […]
8/17/2018
GOP/MITCH MCCONNELL/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “As the Senate convened for a rare August work period, the late-summer session serves as a reminder of how much has changed in the partnership between Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and President Donald Trump. This time last year, the two men were barely on speaking terms. Trump bashed the […]
8/17/2018
DEFENSE/HOLIDAY/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump on Friday [8-17-18] officially surrendered his order for a massive military parade in the nation’s capital, as spiraling costs rendered his vision of a Veterans Day extravaganza too expensive to justify. Mr. Trump sought to blame local government officials in Washington for inflating the price of the parade ‘so ridiculously […]
8/17/2018
SEC/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to consider eliminating requirements that publicly traded companies post quarterly earnings reports, a move that could do away with a cornerstone of American capital markets. In a message posted on Twitter early Friday [8-17-18], the president wrote that he had directed the regulator to […]
8/17/2018
PARDONS/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump refused to say on Friday [8-17-18] whether he would pardon Paul Manafort as a federal jury in Alexandria ended its second day of deliberations without reaching a verdict in Mr. Manafort’s financial fraud trial. The jurors are weighing what prosecutors have called overwhelming evidence that Mr. Manafort, Mr. […]
8/17/2018
INTELLIGENCE/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/NATIONAL SECURITY/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump threatened on Friday [8-17-18] to quickly revoke the security clearance of Bruce Ohr, a little-known Justice Department official, for the first time seeking to apply his power to cut access to sensitive information to a midlevel government worker rather than a prominent former national security official. Departing […]
8/17/2018
MELANIA: “Hours after Melania Trump moved into the White House in June of last year, she peered out a window and took in a stunning view of the Washington Monument: ‘Looking forward to the memories we’ll make in our new home!’ the first lady cheerily wrote on Twitter in a snapshot of the tableau. But […]
8/17/2018
RELIGION/SANCTIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TURKEY: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday [8-17-18] said the United States was not going to take Turkey’s detention of U.S. Christian pastor Andrew Brunson ‘sitting down,’ a day after his Treasury chief said Washington could hit Ankara with further sanctions. ‘They should have given him back a long time ago, and Turkey […]
8/17/2018
CIA/INTELLIGENCE/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump faced an unprecedented outcry from former intelligence officials on Friday [8-17-18] after stripping the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan, but Trump defended his move and said he planned another one soon. The bipartisan group, which included Robert Gates, George Tenet, David Petraeus, James Clapper and […]
8/17/2018
ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. has more than double the growth rate than it had 18 months ago.” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 17, 2018 7:38 am […]
8/17/2018
JOBS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Just announced, youth unemployment is at a 50 year low! @foxandfriends” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 17, 2018 7:29 am […]
8/17/2018
HOLIDAY/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….attend the big parade already scheduled at Andrews Air Force Base on a different date, & go to the Paris parade, celebrating the end of the War, on November 11th. Maybe we will do something next year in D.C. when the cost comes WAY DOWN. Now we can buy some more jet […]
8//17/2018
HOLIDAY/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The local politicians who run Washington, D.C. (poorly) know a windfall when they see it. When asked to give us a price for holding a great celebratory military parade, they wanted a number so ridiculously high that I cancelled it. Never let someone hold you up! I will instead…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
8/17/2018
DEMS/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “How does a politician, Cuomo, known for pushing people and businesses out of his state, not to mention having the highest taxes in the U.S., survive making the statement, WE’RE NOT GOING TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, IT WAS NEVER THAT GREAT? Which section of the sentence is worse?” –Donald Trump, […]
8/17/2018
BUSINESS/SEC/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In speaking with some of the world’s top business leaders I asked what it is that would make business (jobs) even better in the U.S. ‘Stop quarterly reporting & go to a six month system,’ said one. That would allow greater flexibility & save money. I have asked the SEC to study!” […]
8/17/2018
GOP/PRISONS/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Criminal justice reform advocates are escalating their push to shake loose a bipartisan prisons bill backed by President Donald Trump that’s been stalled in the Senate — despite few signs that a long-running GOP rift on the issue has healed. Trump has stepped up his own calls for a deal on the […]
8/17/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In a break with convention, President Donald Trump weighed in on a criminal trial as the jury considered a verdict on Friday [8-17-18], calling the tax and bank fraud case against Paul Manafort ‘very sad’ and lauding his former campaign chairman as a ‘very good person.’ A federal court jury […]
8/16/2018
ECONOMY/RELIGION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TURKEY: “Turkey’s battered lira weakened 3 percent on Friday [8-17-18] after a Turkish court rejected an American pastor’s appeal for release, drawing a stiff rebuke from President Donald Trump, who said the United States would not take the detention ‘sitting down.’ The case of Andrew Brunson, an evangelical Christian missionary from North Carolina […]
8/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/ELECTION/GOP/TARIFFS/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Warren Bachman, a 72-year-old Iowa soybean farmer, is one of many who turned Clarke County into Donald Trump country, as the Republican president took 61 percent of the votes in 2016 in a county that went for Democrat Barack Obama four years earlier. But Bachman’s loyalty to Trump is wavering […]
8/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s decision to declassify competing congressional memos about the validity of the so-called Steele dossier means the FBI has lost its authority to rebuff Freedom of Information Act requests about the bureau’s efforts to verify the report’s intelligence linking Trump to Russia during the 2016 campaign, a federal judge […]
8/16/2018
DEFENSE/HOLIDAY/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Department of Defense says the military parade originally scheduled for Veterans Day will be postponed…The parade was scheduled for the day before the 100th anniversary of the armistice that ended the First World War. French President Emmanuel Macron is holding a gathering of world leaders in Paris on November 11 to […]
8/16/2018
INTELLIGENCE/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT : “…..released in 2017. If his statement is based on intelligence he has seen since leaving office, it constitutes an intelligence breach……’ Richard Burr (R-NC) Senate Intel Cmte Chair @LouDobbs” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 16, 2018 9:04 pm […]
8/16/2018
CIA/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’Director Brennan’s recent statements purport to know as fact that the Trump campaign colluded with a foreign power. If Director Brennan’s statement is based on intelligence he received while leading the CIA, why didn’t he include it in the Intelligence Community Assessment……” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 16, 2018 8:54 pm […]
8/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’….An incredibly corrupt FBI & DOJ trying to steer the outcome of a Presidential Election. Brennan has gone off the deep end, he’s disgraced and discredited himself. His conduct has been outrageous.’ Chris Farrell, Judicial Watch.” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 16, 2018 8:49 pm […]
8/16/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Special Counsel’s Office has almost three times the number of exhibits it wants to show a jury in Paul Manafort’s next criminal trial compared with what it used in his Virginia case. The evidence for the two trials largely doesn’t overlap, according to a court filing Thursday [8-16-18] from Manafort’s […]
8/16/2018
DEMS/MILITARY/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “How can ‘Senator’ Richard Blumenthal, who went around for twenty years as a Connecticut politician bragging that he was a great Marine war hero in Vietnam (then got caught and sobbingly admitted he was neither a Marine nor ever in Vietnam), pass judgement on anyone? Loser!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 16, 2018 […]
8/16/2018
CIA/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “.@TuckerCarlson speaking of John Brennan: “How did somebody so obviously limited intellectually get to be CIA Director in the first place?’ Now that is a really good question! Then followed by ‘Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut is a FAKE War Hero…’ So true, a total Fake!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 16, 2018 7:45 […]
8/16/2018
JAMES COMEY/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘Very concerned about Comey’s firing, afraid they will be exposed,’ said Bruce Ohr. DOJ’s Emails & Notes show Bruce Ohr’s connection to (phony & discredited) Trump Dossier. A creep thinking he would get caught in a dishonest act. Rigged Witch Hunt!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 16, 2018 6:53 pm […]
8/16/2018
MEDIA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’While Steele shopped the document to multiple media outlets, he also asked for help with a RUSSIAN Oligarch.’ Catherine Herridge of @FoxNews @LouDobbs In other words, they were colluding with Russia!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 16, 2018 6:45 pm […]
8/16/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The jury in the trial of former Donald Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort did not reach a verdict after its first full day of deliberations. Just before 5 p.m. ET, jurors sent a note to Judge T.S. Ellis with four questions, including one asking him if he could ‘redefine’ for them […]
8/16/2018
CHILDREN/ICE/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump White House is planning an event next week to honor federal immigration agents — even as more than 500 migrant children remain separated from their parents after being separated at the border. The ‘Salute to the Heroes of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs [and] Border Protection’ is scheduled […]
8/16/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’The FBI received documents from Bruce Ohr (of the Justice Department & whose wife Nelly worked for Fusion GPS).’ Disgraced and fired FBI Agent Peter Strzok. This is too crazy to be believed! The Rigged Witch Hunt has zero credibility.” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 16, 2018 6:37 pm […]
8/16/2018
RELIGION/TURKEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Turkey has taken advantage of the United States for many years. They are now holding our wonderful Christian Pastor, who I must now ask to represent our Country as a great patriot hostage. We will pay nothing for the release of an innocent man, but we are cutting back on Turkey!” -Donald […]
8/16/2018
INTELLIGENCE/MILITARY/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Retired Adm. William McRaven, the man who oversaw the 2011 Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden, issued a stunning rebuke of President Donald Trump’s decision to revoke the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan on Thursday [8-16-18], defending the former spy chief as ‘one of the finest […]
8/16/2018
IMMIGRATION/JEFF SESSIONS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday [8-16-18] sought to speed up the deportation of illegal immigrants, telling immigration judges they should only postpone cases in removal proceedings ‘for good cause shown.’ Sessions, in an interim order that was criticized by some lawyers, said the ‘good-cause’ standard ‘limits the discretion of immigration […]
8/16/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Omarosa Manigault Newman’s publisher has responded to President Donald Trump’s campaign’s ‘legal threats’ over her tell-all book, saying Trump is fully able to use his ‘bully pulpit’ to refute anything they take issue with — but that the book will be published. The Trump campaign also filed an arbitration action Tuesday […]
8/16/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Even in the West Wing, all politics is local. President Donald Trump — raised in Queens, made in Manhattan — in the past week is finding his latest targets back home, turning New York political leaders into liberal punching bags that offer him familiar and useful foils ahead of the midterm […]
8/16/2018
TRUMP FAMILY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Lara Trump tore into her old friend Omarosa Manigault Newman on Thursday [8-16-18] after she released a tape of the president’s daughter-in-law offering her a job on the 2020 campaign shortly after being fired from the White House…She fired back after Manigault Newman appeared on MSNBC and aired excerpts from a tape […]
8/16/2018
TRUMP PEOPLE: “Thank you for the kind words Omarosa! https://t.co/PMmNG6iIsi“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 16, 2018 1:55 pm […]
8/16/2018
TRUMP PEOPLE: “Great @Cabinet meeting today at the @WhiteHouse! https://t.co/RwOhQF9SEv“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 16, 2018 1:43 pm […]
8/16/2018
IRAN/MIKE POMPEO/SANCTIONS/STATE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday [8-16-18] named senior policy adviser Brian Hook as Washington’s special representative for Iran. The move came as the Trump administration prepared to increase economic pressure on Iran by restoring sanctions to force Tehran to end its nuclear weapons program and support for militant groups […]
8/16/2018
DEMS/LAWSUIT/SENATE/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Democrats in the U.S. Senate said on Thursday [8-16-18] they were prepared to sue the National Archives if it does not honor their request for information on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. The threat ratcheted up the Democrats’ fight with Republicans over documents on the conservative federal judge nominated by President Donald […]
8/16/2018
DEFENSE/HOLIDAY/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A military parade requested by U.S. President Donald Trump that had been planned for November in Washington has been postponed until at least next year, the Defense Department said on Thursday [8-16-18]…A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said it was unclear exactly what caused the postponement but the increased cost […]