G7/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Looking forward to straightening out unfair Trade Deals with the G-7 countries. If it doesn’t happen, we come out even better!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 8, 2018 5:25 am […]
6/8/2018
AGRICULTURE/CANADA/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Canada charges the U.S. a 270% tariff on Dairy Products! They didn’t tell you that, did they? Not fair to our farmers!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 8, 2018 5:16 am […]
6/8/2018
DEMS/IRAN/NORTH KOREA/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Obama, Schumer and Pelosi did NOTHING about North Korea, and now weak on Crime, High Tax Schumer is telling me what to do at the Summit the Dems could never set up. Schumer failed with North Korea and Iran, we don’t need his advice!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 8, 2018 5:06 […]
6/7/2018
CONGRESS/COURTS/GOP/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/OBAMACARE/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Justice Department won’t defend major provisions in the Affordable Care Act and is asking a federal court to strike down key elements of the law, a new blow to the health law and the stability of the individual insurance market. The department, in a brief it filed Thursday [6-7-18] […]
6/7/2018
PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The special counsel’s accusation this week that Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, tried to tamper with potential witnesses originated with two veteran journalists who turned on Mr. Manafort after working closely with him to prop up the former Russia-aligned president of Ukraine, interviews and documents show. The two […]
6/7/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Republican Senate candidate Mitt Romney bluntly predicted here on Thursday [6-7-18] evening that President Donald Trump would win reelection in 2020. Addressing a group of major GOP donors, Romney — who bitterly collided with Trump during the 2016 campaign and implored his party to nominate someone else — also said Trump would easily […]
6/7/2018
G7/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump will skip most of the second day of a summit meeting with allies this weekend, the White House said late Thursday [6-7-18], as he engaged in a contentious war of words over trade on the eve of a gathering that will underscore his isolation from the leaders of the world’s […]
6/7/2018
DREAMERS/HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/PAUL RYAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Republicans in the U.S. Congress on Thursday [6-7-18] struggled to agree on immigration legislation that could be voted on before November’s congressional elections, as party members disagreed on key issues such as the future of illegal ‘Dreamer’ immigrants. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan convened the closed-door meeting for […]
6/7/2018
CANADA/NAFTA/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When President Ronald Reagan visited Quebec three decades ago, he was so friendly with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney they sang a song together. Expect no duets when President Donald Trump makes his first presidential visit to Canada on Friday for a summit in a picturesque Quebec town with the leaders of the […]
6/7/2018
BUSINESS/CHINA/SANCTIONS/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. senators planned legislation on Thursday [6-7-18] that would roll back an agreement President Donald Trump’s administration announced to ease sanctions on Chinese telecommunications company ZTE Corp. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said on Thursday the U.S. government had reached a deal with ZTE that reverses a ban on it buying parts from […]
6/7/2018
G7/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump will travel to a sleepy village in Quebec on Friday [6-8-18] to meet with the leaders of America’s closest allies for a summit meeting that usually ends with a moment of global camaraderie — the ‘family photo’ that captures presidents and prime ministers smiling for the camera. This year […]
6/7/2018
ECONOMY/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A White House economic analysis of President Trump’s trade agenda has concluded that Mr. Trump’s tariffs will hurt economic growth in the United States, according to several people familiar with the research. The findings from the White House Council of Economic Advisers have been circulated only internally and not publicly released, […]
6/7/2018
EPA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Trump administration, after heavy lobbying by the chemical industry, is scaling back the way the federal government determines health and safety risks associated with the most dangerous chemicals on the market, documents from the Environmental Protection Agency show. Under a law passed by Congress during the final year of the Obama administration, […]
6/7/2018
FOREIGN POLICY/MIKE POMPEO/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Just weeks after John Bolton’s hardline rhetoric infuriated North Korea and nearly derailed a planned summit between Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump, the U.S. national security adviser appears to have taken a back seat to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for the historic meeting. While the hawkish Bolton […]
6/7/2018
JAPAN/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Thursday [6-7-18] said he doesn’t feel a need to prepare for his historic meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, arguing that the delicate and high-stakes negotiations over denuclearization will be based more on ‘attitude’ than legwork. In extensive remarks during a visit from Japanese Prime […]
6/7/2018
JAPAN/NORTH KOREA/SANCTIONS/SINGAPORE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said Thursday [6-7-18] he may invite North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to the United States if their meeting in Singapore next week goes well…Trump also said he could envision a normalization of ties between the US and North Korea if a deal is reached with Kim…Trump also […]
6/7/2018
CANADA/EU/FRANCE/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Please tell Prime Minister Trudeau and President Macron that they are charging the U.S. massive tariffs and create non-monetary barriers. The EU trade surplus with the U.S. is $151 Billion, and Canada keeps our farmers and others out. Look forward to seeing them tomorrow.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 7, 2018 3:04 pm […]
6/7/2018
MILITARY/NATO/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U. S. military allies have increased their defense spending by 3.82% over the past year, since President Donald Trump called for more contributions, according to figures released by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Thursday [6-7-18]. The size of national defense budgets was the main irritant at a NATO summit last year and […]
6/7/2018
JAPAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Great day of meetings with Prime Minister @AbeShinzo of Japan! https://t.co/uKcdA8RxoN“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 7, 2018 3:02 pm […]
6/7/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Justice Department on Thursday [6-7-18] offered lawmakers an additional classified briefing about the FBI’s use of a confidential informant during its investigation into potential coordination between the Trump campaign and Russian meddling in the 2016 election. The invitation came a day after House Speaker Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) disputed President […]
6/7/2018
JAPAN/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “PM Abe and I are also working to improve the trading relationship between the U.S. and Japan, something we have to do. The U.S. seeks a bilateral deal with Japan that is based on the principle of fairness and reciprocity. We’re working hard to reduce our trade imbalance… https://t.co/pnqEHoplk0“ -Donald Trump, […]
6/7/2018
JAPAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Today, I am greatly honored to welcome my good friend, PM Abe of Japan to the @WhiteHouse. Over the past 16 months the Prime Minister and I have worked closely together to address common challenges, of which there are many… https://t.co/sNlmdd6fgm“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 7, 2018 2:51 pm […]
6/7/2018
DREAMERS/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A leader of House Republican moderates said Thursday [6-7-18] that a tentative deal with conservatives is being discussed to help young ‘Dreamer’ immigrants stay in the U.S. legally. It was unclear if the offer was a potential breakthrough in the GOP’s long-running schism over immigration or would devolve into another failed […]
6/7/2018
POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s approval has moved to 44% among registered voters, according to a new poll from NBC/WSJ, an improvement from the 39% approval he saw in April among all adults. The number of those who say they ‘strongly approve’ of Trump has improved as well, moving from 22% to 26%. While […]
6/7/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A series of seemingly authoritative assertions in recent weeks about the shape and scope of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian election interference has helped define it in the public eye, generating countless headlines and cable chyrons about the ongoing saga that has shadowed President Donald Trump’s White House. […]
6/7/2018
NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When President Donald Trump sits down on Tuesday [6-12-18] with Kim Jong Un, his top priority will be wresting a firm commitment that the North Korean leader is finally prepared to give up his nuclear weapons program in exchange for security guarantees. And that may be the easy part. Even if […]
6/7/2018
CONGRESS/ELECTIONS/GOP/MEXICO/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Mexican tariffs are roiling U.S. congressional campaigns in states where U.S. exporters could take a hit and President Donald Trump’s Republicans face tough races in November congressional elections. Mexico announced the levies this week in retaliation to Trump’s decision to slap tariffs on metal imports from Mexico and other countries. They fall […]
6/7/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/JAMES COMEY/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT: “Former FBI Director James Comey is about to get dinged in an internal Justice Department review of the agency’s Clinton email probe, and President Donald Trump says he can’t wait. The Justice Department informed the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday the report will be released on June 14. How both […]
6/7/2018
GOP/SENATE/TARIFFS/TRADE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Arizona Republican Senator Jeff Flake hit Donald Trump on trade Thursday [7-6-18], slamming the President for ‘acting on a whim to punish this country or that one,’ through trade tariffs…Flake joined Senate Foreign Relations Chair Bob Corker, a Tennessee Republican, and a bipartisan group of senators Wednesday [6-6-18] sponsoring legislation that […]
6/7/2018
LEGAL/MIKE PENCE/SPORTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Colin Kaepernick’s legal team is expected to seek subpoenas for President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and other campaign officials relating to the quarterback’s collusion case against the NFL, a source familiar with the ongoing grievance process has told CNN. The new move intends to explore NFL owners’ ties with […]
6/7/2018
NORTH KOREA/SANCTIONS/SINGAPORE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said Thursday [6-7-18] next week’s planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was ‘ready to go’ but ‘subject always to change…’ Mr. Trump is set to travel to Singapore after this weekend’s Group of Seven summit in Canada for the meeting with Mr. Kim, which he […]
6/7/2018
JAPAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It’s my great honor to welcome Prime Minister @AbeShinzo back to the @WhiteHouse!???? https://t.co/6yCxud2jAN“ – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 7, 2018 12:20 pm […]
6/7/2018
CHINA/STEVE MNUCHIN/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump, fed up with hearing he was weak on China, assembled his senior trade team at the White House on May 22 and vented, according to officials who were involved. He wanted a tougher approach, including tariffs he could use as a weapon to force trade concessions. Treasury […]
6/7/2018
GOP/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’$3 billion payoff: 101 utilities cut rates, credit GOP tax cuts’ https://t.co/x1a1OJuRgd“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 7, 2018 10:50 am […]
6/7/2018
JOBS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’Total jobless claims running at lowest level in 44 years’” https://t.co/La9irHMTXM“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 7, 2018 10:49 am […]
6/7/2018
JOBS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘Total jobless claims running at lowest level in 44 years’ https://t.co/La9irHMTXM?” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 7, 2018 10:48 am […]
6/7/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! https://t.co/KppRUU5OZ3“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 7, 2018 10:42 am […]
6/7/2018
DREAMERS/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/PAUL RYAN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Republicans in the U.S. Congress on Thursday [6-7-18] struggled to agree on immigration legislation that could be voted on before November’s congressional elections, as party members disagreed on key issues such as the future of illegal ‘Dreamer’ immigrants. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan convened the closed-door meeting for 235 […]
6/7/2018
IRAN/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Obama Administration is now accused of trying to give Iran secret access to the financial system of the United States. This is totally illegal. Perhaps we could get the 13 Angry Democrats to divert some of their energy to this ‘matter’ (as Comey would call it). Investigate!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June […]
6/7/2018
JAMES COMEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When will people start saying, ‘thank you, Mr. President, for firing James Comey?’” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 7, 2018 10:10 am […]
6/7/2018
JAPAN/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday [6-7-18] held out the prospect of inviting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to the White House if he deemed next week’s summit a success while also signaling he was willing to walk away if he thought talks did not go well. At a White […]
6/7/2018
DEMS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Our Justice Department must not let Awan & Debbie Wasserman Schultz off the hook. The Democrat I.T. scandal is a key to much of the corruption we see today. They want to make a ‘plea deal’ to hide what is on their Server. Where is Server? Really bad!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
6/7/2018
JAPAN/NORTH KOREA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Looking forward to seeing my friend Prime Minister @AbeShinzo of Japan at noon. Will be discussing North Korea and Trade.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 7, 2018 9:01 am […]
6/7/2018
ARIZONA/GOP/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “How could Jeff Flake, who is setting record low polling numbers in Arizona and was therefore humiliatingly forced out of his own Senate seat without even a fight (and who doesn’t have a clue), think about running for office, even a lower one, again? Let’s face it, he’s a Flake!” -Donald Trump, […]
6/7/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When and where will all of the many conflicts of interest be listed by the 13 Angry Democrats (plus) working on the Witch Hunt Hoax. There has never been a group of people on a case so biased or conflicted. It is all a Democrat Excuse for LOSING the Election. Where is […]
6/7/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law Professor: ‘It all proves that we never needed a Special Counsel….All of this could have been done by the Justice Dept. Don’t need a multi-million dollar group of people with a target on someone’s back. Not the way Justice should operate.’ So true!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
6/7/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law Professor: ‘It all proves that we never needed a Special Councel….All of this could have been done by the Justice Dept. Don’t need a multi-million dollar group of people with a target on someone’s back. Not the way Justice should operate.’ So true!” – Donald Trump, […]
6/7/2018
IRAN/NUCLEAR/OIL/SAUDI ARABIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A day before U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal, one of his senior officials phoned Saudi Arabia to ask the world’s largest oil exporter to help keep prices stable if the decision disrupted supply. Riyadh, Tehran’s arch rival, has long been a close Washington ally, but direct […]
6/7/2018
FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/JAMES COMEY/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The highly anticipated report from the Justice Department’s inspector general is expected to yield an unvarnished account of multiple missteps by former top officials at the department and FBI for their failure to follow long-standing protocols in the handling of the Hillary Clinton email probe, according to sources familiar […]
6/7/2018
PARDONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Good luck to Alice Johnson. Have a wonderful life!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 7, 2018 7:07 am […]
6/7/2018
CANADA/G7/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/RUSSIA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Isn’t it Ironic? Getting ready to go to the G-7 in Canada to fight for our country on Trade (we have the worst trade deals ever made), then off to Singapore to meet with North Korea & the Nuclear Problem…But back home we still have the 13 Angry Democrats pushing […]
6/7/2018
LEAKS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The White House is poised to purge lower-level staffers from its communications office, multiple sources said, following weeks of uncertainty about the future of the embattled team. President Donald Trump has weighed in on the restructuring of an office he has increasingly rendered obsolete, a senior White House official said. Trump’s involvement, as […]
6/7/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/GOP/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democrats are showing considerably more interest in the fall elections than are Republicans, and voters overall are signaling they would like control of Congress to flip to the Democrats, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds. The Democratic advantages come at the same time President Donald Trump’s approval rating has improved […]
6/6/2018
DREAMERS/GOP/IMMIGRATION/PAUL RYAN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “House Republicans are bracing for a two-hour conference meeting Thursday [6-7-18] morning on immigration, which could determine the fate of moderate members’ efforts to force a vote on several immigration bills. ‘I think a lot of it hangs on that meeting tomorrow,’ said Rep. Mia Love, R-Utah, who has signed a House […]
6/6/2018
EPA/SCOTT PRUITT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt loves eating at the White House mess, an exclusive U.S. Navy-run restaurant open only to White House officials, Cabinet members and other dignitaries. But apparently he liked it too much, and the White House asked him to please eat elsewhere sometimes. In response to Pruitt’s recurring use of […]
6/6/2018
JOHN MCCAIN/MEDIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A White House communications aide who made headlines in May for cracking a macabre joke about the health of Senator John McCain has left the White House. The aide, Kelly Sadler, made off-the-cuff comments about the Republican senator’s opposition to President Trump’s nominee for C.I.A. director, Gina Haspel, saying that it did […]
6/6/2018
FBI/GOP/PAUL RYAN/RUSSIA/SPYGATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Speaker Paul D. Ryan agreed on Wednesday [6-6-18] that the F.B.I. did nothing wrong by using a confidential informant to contact members of the Trump campaign as it investigated its ties to Russia, contradicting President Trump’s assertions of a broad conspiracy by federal law enforcement. And he warned that Mr. Trump […]
6/6/2018
EU/IRAN/NUCLEAR/SANCTIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In a letter to senior Trump administration officials, European foreign and finance leaders this week tacitly acknowledged that their efforts to preserve the West’s nuclear deal with Iran were failing. In the letter, sent on Monday [6-4-18] to the Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the European leaders […]
6/6/2018
MEDIA/MELANIA/SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump, who has long reveled in conspiracy theories, spent at least part of Wednesday [6-6-18] morning lashing out at the news media about its coverage of the first lady, Melania Trump, while in the process repeating the kind of unfounded rumors about his wife that would normally attract legal action […]
6/6/2018
PARDONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump commuted the sentence on Wednesday [6-6-18] of a 63-year-old woman serving life in prison for a nonviolent drug conviction after her case was brought to his attention by the reality television star Kim Kardashian West. Although short of a full pardon, the decision will free Alice Marie Johnson, who has […]
6/6/2018
NORTH KOREA/SOUTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “He ordered his uncle executed and half brother assassinated. He spent millions developing and testing a hydrogen bomb and intercontinental ballistic missiles as his people suffered severe food shortages. He exchanged threats of nuclear annihilation with President Trump, calling the American leader a ‘mentally deranged U.S. dotard.’ That was last […]
6/6/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “The adult-film actress Stormy Daniels on Wednesday [6-6-18] accused her former attorney Keith Davidson of colluding with President Donald Trump’s onetime lawyer and fixer, calling Davidson a ‘puppet’ for Trump who ‘hatched a plan’ to put a lid on reports of his infidelities. Daniels made the complaint in a lawsuit […]
6/6/2018
GOP/PAUL RYAN/SPYGATE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Paul Ryan has spent much of the past year and a half biting his tongue as Donald Trump totally upended his party. Now, the outgoing House speaker is contradicting the president on the issue he obsesses over most: the Russia investigation. The Wisconsin Republican gingerly undercut a core Trump talking point during […]
6/6/2018
IMMIGRATION/JEFF SESSIONS/SANCTUARY CITIES/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal judge has once again rebuked the administration’s efforts to pressure so-called sanctuary cities, going further than any to date in using a recent Supreme Court decision to rule an existing federal law unconstitutional. The ruling Wednesday [6-6-18] from Judge Michael Baylson, a George W. Bush appointee, thus […]
6/6/2018
MELANIA/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Rudy Giuliani told an audience in Israel that he does not think first lady Melania Trump believes that President Donald Trump had an affair with Stormy Daniels. ‘She believes her husband, and she doesn’t think it’s true,’ Giuliani said at the ‘Globes’ Capital Market conference in Tel Aviv. The former GOP mayor […]
6/6/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Adult film actress Stormy Daniels on Wednesday [6-6-18] launched a new lawsuit against her former attorney, Keith Davidson, as well as President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, saying the two men ‘colluded’ and ‘acted in concert’ to ‘manipulate’ Daniels and to benefit Trump. The lawsuit, filed in the Superior Court […]
6/6/2018
FEMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Thank you to everyone at @FEMA HQ for today’s briefing on preparations for the upcoming hurricane season. Disaster response and recovery is best achieved when it’s federally supported, state managed, and locally executed – this is the successful model we will continue to build. https://t.co/xpm7IRiZwn“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 6, 2018 4:41 […]
6/6/2018
MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VA: “We must always protect those who protect us. Today, it was my great honor to sign the #VAMissionAct and to make Veterans Choice the permanent law of the land! https://t.co/VV3GdDISbD https://t.co/4OsUDWIzwo“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 6, 2018 4:41 pm […]
6/6/2018
DEMS/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VA: “President Donald Trump’s vendetta against Sen. Jon Tester took a snippy turn today when the Democratic senator from Montana was left off the invite list for a White House signing of a VA bill that he had co-written. Although the VA Mission Act passed 92-5 in the Senate and 347-70 in the […]
6/6/2018
GOP/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Sen. Bob Corker is facing the ire of the White House after forging ahead with his plan to curtail the President’s power on trade. President Donald Trump told the Tennessee Republican in a ‘lengthy’ call Wednesday [6-6-18] to back off legislation to rein in his power to levy huge tariffs on US […]
6/6/2018
CANADA/EU/JAPAN/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. allies Canada, Japan and the European Union are banding together to increase pressure on Washington following the Trump administration’s metals tariffs as they head to a meeting of Group of Seven industrialized countries in Quebec on Friday [6-8-18]. With trade likely to dominate the agenda of the summit, the U.S. […]
6/6/2018
MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Today we mark another milestone: the 74th anniversary of #DDay, the Allied invasion of Normandy. On June 6, 1944, more than 70,000 brave young Americans charged out of landing craft, jumped out of airplanes, and stormed into hell… https://t.co/zV8pqoVG9h“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 6, 2018 3:09 pm […]
6/6/2018
FRANCE/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had a testy phone call on May 25 over new tariffs imposed by the Trump administration targeting steel and aluminum imports coming from Canada, including one moment during the conversation in which Trump made an erroneous historical reference, sources familiar with the discussion […]
6/6/2018
FBI/GOP/PAUL RYAN/RUSSIA/SPYGATE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “In a break with President Donald Trump, House Speaker Paul Ryan said Wednesday [6-6-18] that he agrees there is no evidence that the FBI planted a ‘spy’ in Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign in an effort to hurt his chances at the polls. He also issued a careful warning about Trump’s recent assertion […]
6/6/2018
FEMA/MELANIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Melania Trump’s disappearing act is over. The first lady showed herself in public Wednesday [6-6-18] for the first time in nearly a month, seated alongside her husband, President Donald Trump, for a briefing on the federal government’s preparedness for the hurricane season that began June 1. The routine meeting at Federal Emergency […]
6/6/2018
EPA/ETHICS/SCOTT PRUITT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday [6-6-18] praised the job being done by Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt, who is under fire over ethics and spending issues…Trump’s praise follows mounting ethics concerns about Pruitt. The EPA chief has been criticized for paying below-market rent on a lobbyist-owned condominium, for his routine […]
6/6/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Congratulations to Dana Rohrabacher on his big California win. We are proud of you Dana!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 6, 2018 2:37 pm […]
6/6/2018
FOREIGN POLICY/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “He hectored Mexico’s leader over border wall funding. Lobbed statistics at the Canadian leader without checking his facts. Cajoled the British prime minister to crack down on protesters. Had a tête-à-tête with Russia’s head of state on a whim. Bonded with France’s prime minister over military parades. President Donald Trump […]
6/6/2018
IMMIGRANTS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/PENNSYLVANIA/SANCTUARY CITIES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal judge ruled Wednesday [6-6-18] that the Trump administration cannot cut off grants to Philadelphia over the way the city deals with illegal immigrants. U.S. District Judge Michael Baylson issued a 93-page memo, saying the conditions placed on the city by the federal government in order to receive the […]
6/6/2018
CELEBS/PARDONS/PRISONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of Alice Marie Johnson, a first-time nonviolent drug offender, a week after Kim Kardashian West pleaded her case during an Oval Office meeting with Trump. Johnson has already served 21 years of a life sentence after she was convicted on charges of conspiracy to possess […]
6/6/2018
FBI/PAUL RYAN/RUSSIA/SPYGATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “House Speaker Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) sided with House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy in disputing President Donald Trump’s claims that ‘spies’ infiltrated his 2016 presidential campaign. Speaking with reporters, Mr. Ryan on Wednesday [6-6-18] said he had seen no evidence to contradict the assessment last week from Mr. Gowdy, a […]
6/6/2018
GOP/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Republicans are finally reaching their breaking point with President Donald Trump on trade. One faction of GOP senators is pushing Sen. Bob Corker’s (R-Tenn.) legislation that would allow Congress to block Trump’s tariffs — which Trump is trying to kill before it comes to the Senate floor. Another group is […]
6/6/2018
NORTH KOREA/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, said North Korean leader Kim Jong Un got ‘on his hands and knees and begged’ for their summit to be held after Mr. Trump canceled it last month. Mr. Giuliani counseled a similar approach to Trump administration negotiations with Palestinian officials in a […]
6/6/2018
GOP/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Many more Republican voters showed up yesterday than the Fake News thought possible. The political pundits just don’t get what is going on out there – or they do get it but refuse to report the facts! Remember, Dems are High Tax, High Crime, easy to beat!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 6, […]
6/6/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. Democrats on Wednesday [6-6-18] said the results of nominating contests in California and New Jersey put them in a stronger position to gain control of Congress in November and oppose Republican President Donald Trump. The morning after the busiest day of the primary election season, when voters in eight states […]
6/6/2018
MEDIA/MELANIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “…Four reporters spotted Melania in the White House last week walking merrily along to a meeting. They never reported the sighting because it would hurt the sick narrative that she was living in a different part of the world, was really ill, or whatever. Fake News is really bad!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
6/6/2018
MEDIA/MELANIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Fake News Media has been so unfair, and vicious, to my wife and our great First Lady, Melania. During her recovery from surgery they reported everything from near death, to facelift, to left the W.H. (and me) for N.Y. or Virginia, to abuse. All Fake, she is doing really well!” -Donald […]
6/6/2018
HOUSE OF REPS/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/SINGAPORE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Republican and Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives introduced a bill on Wednesday [6-6-18] that would require President Donald Trump’s administration to provide a detailed report on North Korea’s nuclear program to set a ‘baseline’ for progress on talks with Pyongyang. The bill, seen by Reuters before […]
6/6/2018
MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Gold Star father, Ceejay Metcalf, whose great son Michael was just honored at the White House, was fantastic this morning on @foxandfriends. He is a special man!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 6, 2018 8:37 am […]
6/6/2018
CALIFORNIA/ELECTIONS/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Great night for Republicans! Congratulations to John Cox on a really big number in California. He can win. Even Fake News CNN said the Trump impact was really big, much bigger than they ever thought possible. So much for the big Blue Wave, it may be a big Red Wave. Working hard!” […]
6/6/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VA: “President Donald Trump will sign into law this afternoon a sweeping measure to revamp the Department of Veterans Affairs’ health-care system, changing the way veterans get care in the private sector and empowering the VA secretary to make major administrative changes. But the VA secretary who helped craft the bill was recently […]
6/5/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Money laundering, tax evasion, acting as a foreign agent, now witness tampering. Special counsel Robert Mueller has turned up the heat on Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, threatening new criminal charges and asking a judge to put him in jail while he awaits trial…The Justice Department appointed […]
6/5/2018
MEXICO/NAFTA/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Mexico has published the tariffs it’s imposing on products imported from the United States in response to the Trump administration’s duties on Mexican steel and aluminum. Tuesday’s [6-5-18] list shows tariffs ranging from 15 to 25 percent include a host of pork products, apples, potatoes, cheeses, bourbon, inboard motor boats and some […]
6/5/2018
SPORTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump said on Tuesday [6-5-18] that the United States Marine Band would ‘proudly’ play the national anthem at the White House during an afternoon event that had originally been planned as a celebration of the Philadelphia Eagles’ Super Bowl victory.In early-morning tweets, Mr. Trump obliquely questioned the patriotism of the Eagles […]
6/5/2018
MEDIA/SPORTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Fox News apologized on Tuesday [6-5-18] for showing photos of Philadelphia Eagles players kneeling in prayer — not in protest — during a story about President Trump canceling a White House ceremony honoring the team for its Super Bowl victory. The 33-second report aired late Monday [6-4-18] with four still pictures of […]
6/5/2018
NAFTA/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration added another complication to already fractious talks with Canada and Mexico on Tuesday [6-5-18], suggesting that President Trump now wants to negotiate separate bilateral deals with those nations rather than continue three-country discussions to rewrite the North American Free Trade Agreement. ‘His preference now, and he asked me to […]
6/5/2018
GOP/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Republicans are ratcheting up their opposition to restrictive new tariffs that President Donald Trump advanced based on national security, with GOP lawmakers threatening legislation to rein in the White House. Sens. Bob Corker (R., Tenn.) and Pat Toomey (R., Pa.) are pushing to attach to a must-pass defense authorization bill a […]
6/5/2018
FRANCE/GERMANY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump may have just torched his last real friend in the Western alliance, someone he could have counted on when the going gets tough. In what was supposed to be a frank exchange of views, French President Emmanuel Macron apparently got the full Trump treatment the other day when he tried […]
6/5/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “https://t.co/4OjDqTMEIx“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 5, 2018 3:37 pm […]
6/5/2018
DEMS/DREAMERS/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Republicans edged closer Tuesday [6-5-18] to forcing a series of immigration votes, as some Democratic lawmakers who held out over policy and political concerns signed on to the effort. On Tuesday, two Democratic holdouts, Texas Reps. Filemon Vela and Vicente Gonzalez, announced they would sign, leaving three signatures needed to force a vote […]