EU/G7/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Great discussions with European Union Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and EU Council President Donald Tusk at the #G7Summit in Canada last week. https://t.co/kGxXe50459“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 15, 2018 5:32 pm […]
6/15/2018
MIKE POMPEO/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s assertion Friday [6-15-18] that he has ‘solved’ the North Korean nuclear weapons threat again diverged from how Secretary of State Mike Pompeo depicted the outcome of this week’s summit between Mr. Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. Mr. Pompeo, in meetings in South Korea and […]
6/15/2018
G7/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Fake News Media said that I did not get along with other Leaders at the #G7Summit in Canada. They are once again, WRONG! https://t.co/I6eEKEZV6z“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 15, 2018 5:23 pm […]
6/15/2018
NORTH KOREA/SINGAPORE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump said on Friday [6-15-18] that his historic meeting with Kim Jong-un gave credibility to the North Korean leader, whom critics call a brutal dictator. The president also called Mr. Kim ‘the strong head’ of the communist country, adding: “He speaks and his people sit up at attention. I want […]
6/15/2018
GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/PAUL RYAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump said on Friday [6-15-18] that he would not sign a compromise immigration bill worked out by Republican lawmakers in the House, severely damaging its prospects ahead of a vote planned for next week. Speaker Paul D. Ryan is planning to hold votes on two immigration measures: a […]
6/15/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TWITTER: “President Trump went on offense on Friday [6-15-18] with a withering series of attacks on the F.B.I., congressional Democrats, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Canada’s prime minister, football players, the media, the special counsel and other favorite targets even as he hailed his relations with the leaders of North Korea, China and Russia. […]
6/15/2018
CALIFORNIA/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Calling for an end to the ‘media circus’ that has engulfed his numerous legal cases, Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s longtime personal fixer, has asked a judge in California to keep his adversary, the lawyer Michael Avenatti, from speaking about him in the news media. In a motion filed on Thursday […]
6/15/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump said on Friday [6-15-18] that a new internal Justice Department report proved there had been F.B.I. bias against him ahead of the 2016 presidential election, citing ‘vicious’ texts between investigators and findings that he said illustrated ‘criminal’ behavior by the bureau’s former director. In a wide-ranging interview on […]
6/15/2018
COURT/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A federal judge revoked Paul Manafort’s bail and sent him to jail on Friday [6-15-18] to await trial, citing new charges that Mr. Manafort had tried to influence the testimony of two of the government’s witnesses after he had been granted bail. Mr. Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, had posted […]
6/15/2018
GERMANY/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I have a great relationship with Angela Merkel of Germany, but the Fake News Media only shows the bad photos (implying anger) of negotiating an agreement – where I am asking for things that no other American President would ask for! https://t.co/Ib97nN5HZt“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 15, 2018 5:03 pm […]
6/15/2018
GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Friday [6-15-18] upended delicate House negotiations over immigration legislation by suggesting he wouldn’t sign a compromise measure, prompting a clarifying tweet from the president and leaving Republicans uncertain about how to proceed. In a morning interview with Fox News, Mr. Trump had indicated he wouldn’t sign […]
6/15/2018
GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “House Republicans were in full-on damage control Friday [6-15-18] morning as they sought to downplay President Donald Trump’s comments that he wouldn’t support the GOP compromise bill. After toiling away for weeks on a hard-fought compromise bill that tackled border security and even delivered Trump his campaign promise of a border wall, […]
6/15/2018
CHINA/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration said on Friday [6-15-18] that it would move ahead with tariffs on $50 billion of Chinese products, drawing a vow of retaliation from Beijing and escalating a trade war between the world’s two largest economies. President Trump’s decision to impose the penalties is the latest twist by a […]
6/15/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The US government has separated at least 2,000 children from parents at the border since implementing a policy that results in such family separations, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed Friday [6-15-18]. From April 19 through May 31 of this year, 1,995 minors traveling with 1,940 adults who said they were the […]
6/15/2018
CHINA/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Beijing retaliated against planned U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods by targeting high-value American exports—including farm products, cars, and crude oil—stepping up the potential for a trade war between the world’s two biggest economies. Shortly after the Trump administration unveiled plans Friday to impose tariffs of 25% on $50 billion in Chinese […]
6/15/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump and his allies seized Friday [6-15-18] on the Justice Department inspector general’s report into the Hillary Clinton email investigation to claim special counsel Robert Mueller’s sprawling probe is corrupt and must end. Try telling that to Mueller. Hours after the president thundered from the White House […]
6/15/2018
TRUMP PEOPLE: “White House officials are struggling to fill vacancies in the West Wing and beyond as a handful of senior aides map out their exits ahead of what could become a mass staff exodus around the midterm election. Marc Short, the White House legislative director, is planning to leave in the weeks ahead, two […]
6/15/2018
FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/JAMES COMEY/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump rejected a Justice Department watchdog’s conclusion that there was no political bias in the Hillary Clinton email investigation, saying ‘the scum on top’ of the FBI were shown to be ‘plotting against my election.’ Appearing first on the Fox News program ‘Fox & Friends’ and later […]
6/15/2018
IMMIGRATION/PENNSYLVANIA/JEFF SESSIONS/SANCTUARY CITIES/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, in a speech at a local college on Friday [6-15-18], criticized Philadelphia and its mayor over the city’s ‘sanctuary’ status, one that limits its cooperation with U.S. immigration authorities. Sessions accused the city of coddling dangerous criminals and refusing to turn them over to U.S. Immigrations […]
6/15/2018
BUSH FAMILY/CLINTONS/MEDIA/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I’ve had to beat 17 very talented people including the Bush Dynasty, then I had to beat the Clinton Dynasty, and now I have to beat a phony Witch Hunt and all of the dishonest people covered in the IG Report…and never forget the Fake News Media. It never ends!” -Donald […]
6/15/2018
HILLARY CLINTON/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Wow, what a tough sentence for Paul Manafort, who has represented Ronald Reagan, Bob Dole and many other top political people and campaigns. Didn’t know Manafort was the head of the Mob. What about Comey and Crooked Hillary and all of the others? Very unfair!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 15, […]
6/15/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Democrats are forcing the breakup of families at the Border with their horrible and cruel legislative agenda. Any Immigration Bill MUST HAVE full funding for the Wall, end Catch & Release, Visa Lottery and Chain, and go to Merit Based Immigration. Go for it! WIN!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 15, 2018 […]
6/15/2018
HUMAN RIGHTS/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Friday [6-15-18] defended his warm praise of Kim Jong Un, saying his newfound affinity for the North Korean dictator was making Americans safer. At the same time, Trump expressed esteem for the forced deference North Koreans show for their leader and joked he wished ‘my people’ […]
6/15/2018
GARY COHN/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s former economic adviser Gary Cohn warned that a trade war with US allies could wipe out the benefits of the tax cuts Trump worked to pass…Asked if a trade war could erase the benefits of the tax reform bill passed last December, Cohn said, ‘Yes, it could.’ […]
6/15/2018
CABINET/NOMINATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VA: “The last two secretaries of the Department of Veterans Affairs were private-sector outsiders intent on bringing expertise from beyond Washington’s Capital Beltway into the VA. But Robert Wilkie, President Donald Trump’s presumptive nominee to head the department, is the opposite—a long-serving public official steeped in federal bureaucracy. Mr. Wilkie has decades of […]
6/15/2018
RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday [6-15-18] it was possible he could meet Russian President Vladimir Putin this summer, and Moscow did not rule out a meeting. Asked whether he was planning to meet with Putin this summer, Trump said it was possible. ‘It’s possible that we’ll meet, yeah,’ Trump told […]
6/15/2018
JAMES COMEY/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘Donald Trump was 100% right to fire James Comey.’ Mark Levin” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 15, 2018 7:03 am […]
6/15/2018
FBI/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘RT @foxandfriends: This is one of the most damning rebukes of the FBI that I think we’ve ever seen.” -@jasoninthehouse https://t.co/9DoTim…’” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 15, 2018 6:56 am […]
6/15/2018
FBI/MEDIA/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @foxandfriends: IG REPORT BOMBSHELL: Anti-Trump FBI agent Peter Strzok texted his lover Lisa Page ‘we’ll stop’ Trump from becoming presi…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 15, 2018 6:56 am […]
6/15/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @foxandfriends: DOJ IG report finds that an FBI lawyer told a bureau employee ‘Viva le resistance’ after President Trump was elected htt…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 15, 2018 6:56 am […]
6/15/2018
FBI/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @foxandfriends: .@jasoninthehouse: Anything Mueller is doing with his investigation is tainted by the anti-Trump FBI agents https://t.co…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 15, 2018 6:55 am […]
6/15/2018
HILLARY CLINTON/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘RT @foxandfriends: .@jasoninthehouse: All of this started because Hillary Clinton set up her private server https://t.co/rLzjDRxxxm‘” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 15, 2018 6:55 am […]
6/15/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘RT @foxandfriends: .@jasoninthehouse: The DOJ IG report is 562 pages of nothing but bias and animus https://t.co/7IeXfmvo1M‘” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 15, 2018 6:55 am […]
6/15/2018
JAMES COMEY/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘Why in the world didn’t Barack Obama fire this guy (Comey)?’ asks Mark Levin!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 15, 2018 6:53 am […]
6/15/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Wow, the highest rated (by far) morning show, @foxandfriends, is on the Front Lawn of the White House. Maybe I’ll have to take an unannounced trip down to see them?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 15, 2018 6:50 am […]
6/15/2018
ECONOMY/JOBS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S.A. Jobs numbers are the BEST in 44 years. If my opponent (the Democrats) had won the election, they would have raised taxes substantially and increased regulations – the economy, and jobs, would have been a disaster!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 15, 2018 6:45 am […]
6/15/2018
SPORTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Thank you for all of the compliments on getting the World Cup to come to the U.S.A., Mexico and Canada. I worked hard on this, along with a Great Team of talented people. We never fail, and it will be a great World Cup! A special thanks to Bob Kraft for excellent […]
6/15/2018
FBI/JAMES COMEY/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The IG Report is a total disaster for Comey, his minions and sadly, the FBI. Comey will now officially go down as the worst leader, by far, in the history of the FBI. I did a great service to the people in firing him. Good Instincts. Christopher Wray will bring it […]
6/15/2018
FBI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “FBI Agent Peter Strzok, who headed the Clinton & Russia investigations, texted to his lover Lisa Page, in the IG Report, that ‘we’ll stop’ candidate Trump from becoming President. Doesn’t get any lower than that!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 15, 2018 5:35 am […]
6/15/2018
CABINET/MIKE POMPEO/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “After his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, President Donald Trump repeatedly singled out one person for helping put the historic meeting together: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Since the Senate confirmed Mr. Pompeo in April, the president has relied on his secretary of state—who backed the decision […]
6/15/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen has indicated to family and friends he is willing to cooperate with federal investigators to alleviate the pressure on himself and his family, according to a source familiar with the matter. Cohen has expressed anger with the treatment he has gotten from the […]
6/15/2018
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A judge on Friday [6-15-18] sent longtime Republican political operator and businessman Paul Manafort to jail pending trial after a charge of witness tampering, the latest episode in a slow fall from grace of a man who was President Donald Trump’s campaign chairman in 2016. Manafort, a target of Special Counsel […]
6/14/2018
SPORTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “On a Wednesday afternoon late last month, at a ceremony on the White House South Lawn, President Trump introduced several new members of the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition. Former Yankees great Mariano Rivera, the former running back Herschel Walker and the gold-medalist beach volleyball player Misty May-Treanor were […]
6/14/2018
ASIA/MIKE POMPEO/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/SANCTIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Asian powers on Thursday [6-14-18] that President Trump was sticking to demands that North Korea surrender its nuclear weapons, as he sought to hold together a fragile consensus on maintaining tough sanctions against the North despite Mr. Trump’s declaration that it was ‘no longer […]
6/14/2018
ECONOMY/SENATE/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Two senators have asked President Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers to turn over an analysis that shows the administration’s tariffs would slow economic growth. The internal analysis, which was first reported by The New York Times last week, contradicts the public statements of several Trump administration officials who have said that Mr. […]
6/14/2018
LAWSUIT/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The New York State attorney general’s office filed a scathingly worded lawsuit on Thursday [6-14-18] taking aim at the Donald J. Trump Foundation, accusing the charity and the Trump family of sweeping violations of campaign finance laws, self-dealing and illegal coordination with the presidential campaign. The lawsuit, which seeks to dissolve […]
6/14/2018
LAWSUIT/NEW YORK/TRUMP BUSINESS: “On Thursday [6-14-18], the New York State attorney general sued the Donald J. Trump Foundation, charging it with ‘improper and extensive political activity, repeated and willful self-dealing transactions, and failure to follow basic fiduciary obligations or to implement even elementary corporate formalities required by law.’ The lawsuit follows years of scrutiny of […]
6/14/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/JAMES COMEY/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The former F.B.I. director James B. Comey was ‘insubordinate’ in his handling of the investigation of Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential election, a critical Justice Department report has concluded, according to officials and others who saw or were briefed on it. But the report, by the department’s inspector […]
6/14/2018
IMMIGRATION/MEDIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Weeks of escalating strain between press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and reporters boiled over in the White House briefing room on Thursday [6-14-18], as press members tussled with Sanders over immigration issues, she insulted the intelligence of one reporter and another interrupted the proceedings with a dramatic outburst. Reporters have been growing frustrated […]
6/14/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/PAUL RYAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Speaker Paul Ryan on Thursday [6-14-18] said he’s not comfortable with the Trump administration’s push to separate migrant children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, even as he refused to blame President Donald Trump on the issue. ‘We don’t want kids to be separated from their parents,’ Ryan told reporters, […]
6/14/2018
RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House and the Kremlin are ‘exploring’ a possible meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to a White House aide. Richard Hooker, a senior director for Europe and Russia on the National Security Council, told the Russian news agency TASS Wednesday [6-13-18] that the idea is […]
6/14/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/JAMES COMEY/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Justice Department’s internal watchdog found that former FBI Director James Comey’s actions in the Hillary Clinton email investigation were ‘extraordinary and insubordinate’ and flouted the department’s norms but that Comey was not motivated by political bias. The inspector general released a sweeping report Thursday detailing a series […]
6/14/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/JAMES COMEY/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The report that had much of Washington buzzing on Thursday [6-14-18] required 500 pages to outline its findings, but to President Trump, three words mattered most — ‘we’ll stop it.’ Those were the words that a senior F.B.I. agent texted in August 2016 to a colleague who was […]
6/14/2018
CHILDREN/HHS/IMMIGRATION/TEXAS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration has selected federal land in Texas as a place to temporarily house unaccompanied immigrant children, as the agency seeks more capacity amid the increasing number of families separated at the border because of the administration’s policies. In a statement, the office that handles child settlement within the Health and […]
6/14/2018
MILITARY/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Thursday [6-14-18] President Donald Trump was using ‘common courtesy’ when he returned a military salute from a North Korean general during Tuesday’s [6-12-18]summit in Singapore. ‘It’s a common courtesy when a military official from another government salutes, that you return that,’ Sanders told CNN’s […]
6/14/2018
CANADA/G7/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Discussions on the North American Free Trade Agreement will continue into the summer, Canada’s Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said following a face-to-face meeting in Washington with the Trump administration’s chief trade envoy on Thursday [6-14-18]. The pledge to carry on with Nafta renegotiations comes on the heels of a tumultuous Group of […]
6/14/2018
NORTH KOREA/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Republican Senate leaders on Thursday [6-14-18] voiced no objections to President Donald Trump’s apparent defense of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un’s strong-arm tactics, instead highlighting their hopes for peace on the Korean Peninsula. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told CNN that Trump’s eyebrow-raising defense of Kim’s authoritarian tactics is fine […]
6/14/2018
LEAKS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The White House’s top liaison to Capitol Hill will leave the job as early as this summer, lamenting to colleagues the ‘diminishing returns’ of pushing President Donald Trump’s agenda through the Republican-controlled Congress as the midterm elections approach, according to people familiar with the conversations. Legislative affairs director Marc Short told White House […]
6/14/2018
CALIFORNIA/EPA/TRANSPORTATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “White House officials will have a new round of meetings with an automakers trade group and California’s ‘clean air’ agency next week before unveiling a proposal to reverse rules aimed at increasing fuel efficiency, participants said on Thursday. The rules, negotiated with automakers by President Barack Obama’s administration in 2011, aimed to […]
6/14/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/DEMS/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Family separations at the border have become a political football. Lawmakers and party leaders in Congress are increasingly fighting over how best to address the issue — blaming each other for the heart-wrenching situation. House Speaker Paul Ryan argued Thursday [6-14-18] that Congress should step up and resolve the problem with a […]
6/14/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/JAMES COMEY/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT: “A long-awaited watchdog report sharply criticized top officials at the Justice Department and FBI, particularly former FBI Director James Comey, over how they handled the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server, but found no evidence that the probe’s conclusions were affected by bias or other political […]
6/14/2018
MILITARY/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/SOUTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Harry Harris, the Trump administration’s nominee to be ambassador to South Korea, said North Korea continues to be a nuclear threat and that major military exercises should be paused to give Kim Jong Un a chance to prove whether he is ‘serious.’ President Donald Trump announced in Singapore that the […]
6/14/2018
LAWSUIT/TRUMP FAMILY: “The New York state attorney general’s office on Thursday [6-14-18] sued President Donald Trump, three of his children and the family’s foundation, accusing the charity of wide-ranging illegal conduct including coordinating with Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign. The lawsuit, filed in state Supreme Court in Manhattan, calls Mr. Trump’s foundation ‘little more than an […]
6/14/2018
LEGAL/TRUMP FAMILY: “The New York state attorney general’s office on Thursday [6-14-18] sued President Donald Trump, three of his children and the family’s foundation, accusing the charity of wide-ranging illegal conduct including coordinating with Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign. The lawsuit, filed in state Supreme Court in Manhattan, calls Mr. Trump’s foundation ‘little more than an […]
6/14/2018
HOLIDAY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Happy #FlagDay?? https://t.co/KEUMfnoHIv “ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 14, 2018 12:34 pm […]
6/14/2018
MILITARY/DEMS/LAWSUIT/MILITARY/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Happy 243rd Birthday to the @USArmy! Thank you for your bravery, sacrifices, and dedication to the U.S.A. We love you! https://t.co/XlQYstu3Vo“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 14, 2018 11:33 am […]
6/14/2018
LAWSUIT/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “New York state’s highest court on Thursday [6-14-18] rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest bid to avoid potentially having to answer questions under oath in a defamation lawsuit by a former contestant on his television show ‘The Apprentice.’ The state’s Court of Appeals dismissed Trump’s request to halt Summer Zervos’ lawsuit […]
6/14/2018
DEMS/HILLARY CLINTON/LAWSUIT/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….Schneiderman, who ran the Clinton campaign in New York, never had the guts to bring this ridiculous case, which lingered in their office for almost 2 years. Now he resigned his office in disgrace, and his disciples brought it when we would not settle.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 14, 2018 […]
6/14/2018
DEMS/LAWSUIT/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The sleazy New York Democrats, and their now disgraced (and run out of town) A.G. Eric Schneiderman, are doing everything they can to sue me on a foundation that took in $18,800,000 and gave out to charity more money than it took in, $19,200,000. I won’t settle this case!…” –Donald Trump, […]
6/14/2018
DEMS/JAMES COMEY/MEDIA/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “So, the Democrats make up a phony crime, Collusion with the Russians, pay a fortune to make the crime sound real, illegally leak (Comey) classified information so that a Special Councel will be appointed, and then Collude to make this pile of garbage take on life in Fake News!” -Donald Trump, […]
6/14/2018
NORTH KOREA/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/SINGAPORE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Now that I am back from Singapore, where we had a great result with respect to North Korea, the thought process must sadly go back to the Witch Hunt, always remembering that there was No Collusion and No Obstruction of the fabricated No Crime.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 14, 2018 […]
6/14/2018
CONGRESS/DREAMERS/GOP/IMMIGRATION/PAUL RYAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. Congress’s highest-ranking Republican on Thursday said he could not guarantee passage of legislation in coming days that some lawmakers hoped would address the uncertain status of hundreds of thousands of young ‘Dreamer’ immigrants…The Dreamers are hundreds of thousands of young people, mostly Hispanic, who illegally entered the country years […]
6/14/2018
ECONOMY/GOP/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Republican Party is starting to show very big numbers. People are starting to see what is being done. Results are speaking loudly. North Korea and our greatest ever economy are leading the way!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 14, 2018 7:34 am […]
6/14/2018
BUSINESS/CHINA/SUPREME COURT/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration and against China on Thursday [6-14-18] on a disputed aspect of their fraught trade relationship, throwing out a lower court ruling that had allowed two Chinese vitamin C makers to escape $148 million in damages for violating American antitrust law. In […]
6/14/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Rudy Giuliani insisted Wednesday [6-13-18] evening that Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, would not flip on his ex-boss by cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe. ‘I checked into this last night. It’s not so,’ Giuliani told Laura Ingraham of Fox News. The former New York […]
6/14/2018
EXPORT-IMPORT BANK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is moving to bring back to life a long-hobbled agency that smooths export deals between U.S. manufacturers and overseas buyers, potentially ending a three-year freeze that has held up more than $40 billion of export deals. The White House is expected to soon nominate Kimberly Reed to fill […]
6/13/2018
TRUMP FAMILY: “Ivana Trump was back at the Plaza Hotel on Tuesday [6-12-18], the hotel where she once had a say over everything from the wallpaper to the chandeliers, back when she was married to Donald J. Trump. But that was long ago. Now, she had come to promote a diet that promises followers they […]
6/13/2018
ELECTION/GOP/RACISM/SENATE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Corey Stewart, the bombastic conservative who built his public image on championing Confederate symbols, won the Republican Senate nomination in Virginia. Stewart, a member of the Prince William County Board of Supervisors, defeated state House member Nick Freitas and minister E.W. Jackson in Tuesday’s [6-12-18] primary. Freitas conceded the race Tuesday night, according […]
6/13/2018
CANADA/NAFTA/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said the US decision to slap tariffs against Canada on national security grounds was ‘absurd’ and that her country was moving forward ‘more in sorrow than in anger’ with retaliatory tariffs…Freeland was in Washington on a trip planned long before the relations between the two allies veered […]
6/13/2018
MIKE POMPEO/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday [6-13-18] that the U.S. hopes to achieve ‘major disarmament’ of North Korea’s nuclear arsenal during President Donald Trump’s first term in office and would resume joint military exercises with South Korea if the talks stall. ‘We’re hopeful that we can achieve that in […]
6/13/2018
BUSINESS/CHINA/SENATE/TECHNOLOGY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House moved to protect its deal with Beijing to rescue ZTE Corp, taking steps to head off a bipartisan effort to use a must-pass defense bill to reinstate a ban on sales of U.S. components to the Chinese telecommunication company. A senior White House official said Wednesday [6-13-18] that the […]
6/13/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/OBAMACARE/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Tens of millions of people who get health insurance through their job could face waiting periods for coverage or find that specific medical conditions aren’t immediately covered if the courts back a request by the Trump administration to toss key provisions of the Affordable Care Act. Most of the attention […]
6/13/2018
NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump declared Wednesday [6-13-18] that the North Korean regime no longer poses a nuclear threat following his summit with Kim Jong Un, even though the meeting produced no verifiable proof that the rogue regime will discontinue its nuclear program. In a series of tweets, Trump sought to take political […]
6/13/2018
CHINA/NORTH KOREA/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration, deepening its global trade offensive, is preparing to levy tariffs on tens of billions of dollars of Chinese goods in the coming week, perhaps as early as Friday [6-15-18]—a move that is likely to spark heavy retaliation from Beijing. Senior trade officials in the White House, the Commerce […]
6/13/2018
BUSINESS/CANADA/EU/FOREIGN POLICY/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s eager embrace of Kim Jong-un of North Korea this week, on the heels of an acrid falling-out with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada, raised an obvious, if confounding, question: Why would an American president offend allies and cozy up to adversaries? If there was an answer in […]
6/13/2018
ELECTION/GOP/SENATE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Congratulations to @KevinCramer on his huge win in North Dakota. We need Kevin in the Senate, and I strongly endorse him. Heidi voted NO on our Tax Cuts, and always will vote no when we need her. Kevin is strong on Crime & Borders, big on Cutting Taxes!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 13,2018 […]
6/13/2018
DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/PAUL RYAN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Speaker Paul D. Ryan told a closed-door meeting of House Republicans on Wednesday [6-13-18] that his plan to bring two immigration bills up for a vote next week had the approval of President Trump, who is enthusiastic about the effort, according to a person who attended the meeting. Whether either bill can […]
6/13/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s longtime personal fixer, will soon be parting from the lawyers who are representing him in a potentially damaging and wide-ranging federal investigation into his business dealings, according to two people familiar with the case. Mr. Cohen has not yet been approached by the prosecutors conducting the inquiry […]
6/13/2018
DEMS/GOP/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Lawmakers from both parties, deeply mistrustful of a leader who has brutalized his own country, greeted a joint agreement between the United States and North Korea coolly on Tuesday [6-12-18] , with top Republicans warning President Trump that any final accord on Kim Jong-un’s nuclear program should be submitted to the […]
6/13/2018
MIKE POMPEO/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday [6-13-18] that the Trump administration hopes to complete ‘major disarmament’ of North Korea within the next 2½ years, even as conflicting accounts of discussions between the two sides left unclear what had actually been agreed to. A day after President Trump’s landmark meeting […]
6/13/2018
NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/SOUTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A day after its leader’s historic talks with President Trump, North Korea wasted no time on Wednesday [6-13-18] spinning the results in its favor, claiming it had won major concessions from the United States. The authoritarian country’s state-controlled news media said that Mr. Trump had promised to eventually lift sanctions […]
6/13/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Congratulations to Danny Tarkanian on his big GOP primary win in Nevada. Danny worked hard an got a great result. Looking good in November!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 13, 2018 3:17 pm […]
6/13/2018
ELECTION/GOP/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Senate Republican campaign arm doesn’t plan to get behind the party’s newly nominated candidate in Virginia, the group’s leader said, after a Tuesday primary that threatens to put the party on the defensive in several key races in the state..Corey Stewart, who won Tuesday’s primary, has repelled GOP leaders over […]
6/13/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. Representative Mark Sanford is the latest Republican to learn a tough lesson – challenging President Donald Trump can be political suicide. The South Carolina Republican congressman’s upset loss on Tuesday [6-12-18] to a primary opponent who questioned his commitment to Trump, along with a recent setback for Trump critic Martha […]
6/13/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Senator Claire McCaskill of the GREAT State of Missouri flew around in a luxurious private jet during her RV tour of the state. RV’s are not for her. People are really upset, so phony! Josh Hawley should win big, and has my full endorsement.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 13, 2018 3:11 pm […]
6/13/2018
DREAMERS/HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Unless the U.S. House of Representatives can beat the legislative odds, America’s young ‘Dreamer’ immigrants will have to keep dreaming about living without fear of deportation. That was the gloomy outlook on Wednesday [6-13-18] in the House for an effort to solve the long-standing issue of the Dreamers that is […]
6/13/2018
GOP/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker ramped up his criticism of his Republican colleagues Wednesday [6-13-18], railing on GOP leadership for not wanting to take on President Donald Trump on core Republican issues like trade. ‘We’re in a strange place. It’s becoming a cultish thing, isn’t it?’ the Tennessee Republican told […]
6/13/2018
NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Just over half of all Americans say they approve of how President Donald Trump has handled North Korea, but only a quarter think that his summit this week with Kim Jong Un will lead to the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Wednesday [6-13-18]. […]
6/13/2018
MEDIA/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “So funny to watch the Fake News, especially NBC and CNN. They are fighting hard to downplay the deal with North Korea. 500 days ago they would have ‘begged’ for this deal-looked like war would break out. Our Country’s biggest enemy is the Fake News so easily promulgated by fools!” -Donald […]
6/13/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Rep. Mark Sanford, a South Carolina Republican who’s a critic of President Donald Trump, will lose his GOP primary to his conservative challenger, state Rep. Katie Arrington, CNN projects. The outcome — one that national Republicans working on House races said as recently as Tuesday [6-12-18] morning they did not anticipate […]