DEMS/GOP/INTELLIGENCE/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Top Senate and House party leaders and Intelligence Committee leaders from both parties will be briefed Thursday [5-24-18] on whether an informant was embedded in President Donald Trump’s campaign, according to a person familiar with the matter. The briefing comes after complaints from Senate Democrats and some Republicans about the adminstration’s […]
5/24/2018
MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Today, it was my great honor to present the #MedalOfHonor to @USNavy (SEAL) Master Chief Special Warfare Operator Britt Slabinski in the East Room of the @WhiteHouse. Full ceremony: https://t.co/2UldFozRh1 https://t.co/R3ACmkWsqJ“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 24, 2018 4:18 pm […]
5/24/2018
MIKE POMPEO/NORTH KOREA/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Secretary of State Mike Pompeo suggested on Thursday [5-24-18] new sanctions could be in the works for North Korea, even as he expressed hope the country would return to the negotiating table for direct talks following President Donald Trump’s decision to cancel the summit with Kim Jong Un that had […]
5/24/2018
NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/SOUTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Latest on President Donald Trump canceling his planned summit with North Korea (all times local): 5 p.m. South Korean President Moon Jae-in says he’s ‘very perplexed’ that the U.S.-North Korea summit won’t go ahead as planned. Yonhap news agency cited Moon as urging direct talks between President Donald Trump […]
5/24/2018
NORTH KOREA/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump has pulled out of a summit with North Korea next month, and Americans are likely not going to be pleased. Unlike a lot that has happened during the Trump administration, Americans were actually happy with the direction Trump was taking on North Korea. Earlier this month, a CNN […]
5/24/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Stormy Daniels’ lawyer has renewed efforts to depose President Donald Trump in the porn actress’ legal fight to invalidate a confidentiality agreement she signed days before the 2016 presidential election, according to court documents filed Thursday [5-24-18]. Attorney Michael Avenatti argues that U.S. District Judge S. James Otero should reconsider […]
5/24/2018
LAWSUIT/MEDIA/MIDDLE EAST/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A fundraiser for U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday [5-24-18] added several defendants to a lawsuit claiming the Persian Gulf state of Qatar hacked his email accounts and shared the contents with news organizations. Elliott Broidy, whose access to Trump has been the subject of press coverage in the United States […]
5/24/2018
BANKING/ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Today, it was my honor to sign #S2155, the “Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act.” Read more: https://t.co/sYZ4PzzxxW https://t.co/gi0qGe6ukX“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 24, 2018 12:54 pm […]
5/24/2018
RACISM/SPORTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump praised NFL team owners for doing the ‘right thing’ in requiring NFL players to stand during the National Anthem this season, and suggested those who don’t stand maybe ‘shouldn’t be in the country…’ NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced the new policy Wednesday [5-23-18], requiring players and personnel to stand […]
5/24/2018
COMMERCE/NAFTA/NATIONAL SECURITY/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is casting the widest possible net in considering whether imported autos should be subject to tariffs based on national security grounds, worrying auto exporters from Mexico to Germany and generating complaints from Republican lawmakers. The Commerce Department, which is directing the probe into whether a national security trade […]
5/24/2018
LAWSUIT/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Michael Avenatti, the lawyer representing Stormy Daniels, filed new paperwork in federal court on Thursday [5-24-18] asking a judge to allow Daniels’ lawsuit against President Donald Trump to move forward — the latest move in Avenatti’s legal campaign to depose the President. Avenatti’s request comes several weeks after a California judge […]
5/24/2018
NORTH KOREA/SINGAPORE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I have decided to terminate the planned Summit in Singapore on June 12th. While many things can happen and a great opportunity lies ahead potentially, I believe that this is a tremendous setback for North Korea and indeed a setback for the world… https://t.co/jT0GfxT0Lc“ – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 24, 2018 […]
5/24/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/DEVIN NUNES/FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Senior Justice Department and FBI officials are set to brief lawmakers Thursday [5-24-18] afternoon about a confidential informant used in the early stages of an investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, scrambling to accommodate Democrats who had complained that the briefing would be a GOP-only affair. Late Wednesday […]
5/24/2018
BORDER/DEMS/GANGS/POLICE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It was my great honor to host a roundtable re: MS-13 yesterday in Bethpage, New York. Democrats must abandon their resistance to border security so that we can SUPPORT law enforcement and SAVE innocent lives! https://t.co/pxe9Z4efyZ“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 24, 2018 11:24 am […]
5/24/2018
NORTH KOREA/SINGAPORE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Sadly, I was forced to cancel the Summit Meeting in Singapore with Kim Jong Un. https://t.co/rLwXxBxFKx” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 24, 2018 11:18 am […]
5/24/2018
MEDIA/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @FoxNews: WATCH: @POTUS on his decision to cancel the planned North Korea summit. https://t.co/UlzBnkOdzs https://t.co/LTKbqNDfNU” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 24, 2018 11:18 am […]
5/24/2018
CONGRESS/ENTITLEMENTS/GOP/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Welfare beneficiaries would have to work or get job training under legislation approved by a U.S. Congress committee on Thursday [5-24-18], part of a broader Republican effort to impose work rules on Americans getting public assistance. The House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee voted along party lines to approve the changes to […]
5/24/2018
CHINA/CONGRESS/GOP/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Some of President Donald Trump’s fellow Republicans in the U.S. Congress said on Thursday [5-24-18] that his administration’s national security investigation of car and truck imports amid a trade spat with China is being pursued under false pretenses and could hurt U.S. consumers. Trump said on Wednesday that ongoing U.S.-China […]
5/24/2018
NORTH KOREA/SINGAPORE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Sadly, I was forced to cancel the Summit Meeting in Singapore with Kim Jung Un. https://t.co/qEoi9ymUEz“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 24, 2018 10:03 am […]
5/24/2018
BANKING/DODD-FRANK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump signed into law on Thursday [5-24-18] a bill that would ease rules on most banks for the first time since the 2007-2009 financial crisis. The legislation eases regulations on all but a handful of the nation’s largest banks, and marks a significant victory in Trump’s efforts to cut […]
5/24/2018
POLICE/RACISM/SPORTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said National Football League players who don’t want to stand for the national anthem perhaps ‘shouldn’t be in the country,’ and spoke approvingly of a new league rule aimed at curbing protests on the field, in an interview that aired Thursday [5-24-18] morning. Mr. Trump taped remarks for Fox […]
5/24/2018
ANDREW MCCABE/FBI/JAMES COMEY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Not surprisingly, the GREAT Men & Women of the FBI are starting to speak out against Comey, McCabe and all of the political corruption and poor leadership found within the top ranks of the FBI. Comey was a terrible and corrupt leader who inflicted great pain on the FBI! #SPYGATE” -Donald […]
5/24/2018
2016 ELECTION/JAMES CLAPPER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Clapper has now admitted that there was Spying in my campaign. Large dollars were paid to the Spy, far beyond normal. Starting to look like one of the biggest political scandals in U.S. history. SPYGATE – a terrible thing!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 24, 2018 7:21 am […]
5/24/2018
MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/ROGER STONE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump worries that his lawyer, Michael Cohen, might cut a plea deal and turn against him. But an even greater threat may be creeping up on Trump: Roger Stone. Although Cohen is considered the keeper of Trump’s most private secrets, Stone has known the president for much […]
5/24/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/FBI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Senior U.S. lawmakers attended classified briefings on Thursday [5-24-18] on the FBI’s probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election after President Donald Trump made unsubstantiated claims about a ‘spy’ being used against his campaign, and a top Democrat said afterward he heard nothing to support Trump’s allegation. The briefings […]
5/24/2018
CHINA/FOREIGN POLICY/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “There’s been a whole lot of winning so far during the Trump presidency — for China. After accusing China of ‘raping’ American workers and stealing their jobs in his White House campaign, Donald Trump has found it harder to hold Beijing to account as President. In fact, his unpredictable policy […]
5/23/2018
FBI/JARED KUSHNER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, has been granted his permanent security clearance, a person briefed on the matter said on Wednesday [5-23-18], ending a period of uncertainty that had fueled questions about whether Mr. Kushner was in peril in the special counsel investigation. Mr. Kushner is a senior presidential […]
5/23/2018
CHINA/ECONOMY/JAPAN/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump’s plan to make the American economy great again is deceptively simple: wrestle jobs, market share and indeed the future back from China. But what if the U.S. president, in the process, morphs America into Japan? Three decades ago, Trump the real estate mogul railed against Japan-style tariffs and a […]
5/23/2018
2016 ELECTION/CONGRESS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump accused federal investigators of using a spy inside his campaign, repeating unconfirmed claims and saying it could be one of the ‘biggest political scandals in history!’ The president also gave the scandal a name: ‘SPYGATE.’ But hours later, Mr. Trump slightly backed off the accusations, telling reporters, ‘I […]
5/23/2018
FBI/JAMES CLAPPER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump tweeted on Wednesday [5-23-18] that Mr. Clapper, the former director of national intelligence, said he ‘should be happy that the F.B.I. was spying on his campaign.’ Mr. Clapper did not say that. False. Mr. Trump is referring to comments by James R. Clapper Jr., who was the director of […]
5/23/2018
NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is predicting that U.S. automakers and auto workers will be ‘very happy’ with the outcome of talks over the North American Free Trade Agreement. He tells reporters on the South Lawn at the White House that ‘you’ll be seeing very soon what I’m talking about.’ The president was asked […]
5/23/2018
COURTS/LAWSUIT/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TWITTER: “A federal judge in New York on Wednesday [5-23-18] ruled that President Donald Trump may not legally block Twitter users because doing so violates their rights under the First Amendment of the Constitution. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald in Manhattan came in response to a lawsuit filed […]
5/23/2018
MIKE POMPEO/NORTH KOREA/SINGAPORE/SOUTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday [5-23-18] he would know next week whether his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un would take place on June 12 in Singapore as scheduled, casting further doubt on plans for the unprecedented meeting. White House aides are preparing to travel […]
5/23/2018
2016 ELECTION/MEDIA/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special counsel Robert Mueller is fighting a drive by media organizations to unseal secret court filings relating to searches and surveillance efforts undertaken as part of the investigation into possible coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia in the 2016 election. While lawyers for President Donald Trump have suggested in […]
5/23/2018
BUSINESS/CHINA/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Lawmakers are moving to thwart Trump administration efforts to ease restrictions on Chinese telecommunications giant ZTE Corp. and other sensitive technology, citing fears the positions would compromise national security in the latest twist in trade negotiations between the world’s largest economies. The Senate Banking Committee unanimously approved legislation on Tuesday […]
5/23/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said Wednesday [5-23-18] he wanted to cut aid for the home countries of illegal immigrants to the U.S. based on the number of their citizens who crossed the border, expanding on an earlier threat to reduce foreign aid for Central American countries…He then proposed making aid deductions on a […]
5/23/2018
GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A top House ally of President Donald Trump said Wednesday [5-23-18] he expects the Justice Department will refuse to share the information that House Republicans have sought regarding an FBI informant that made contact with the Trump campaign. ‘They’re not going to see any documents tomorrow, so it doesn’t […]
5/23/2018
JARED KUSHNER/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, had his White House security clearance restored Wednesday [5-23-18], a person familiar with the matter said, after months of uncertainty stemming in part from his role in the ongoing investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller. Kushner was stripped of his interim clearance […]
5/23/2018
CONGRESS/DEMS/GANGS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Crippling loopholes in our laws have enabled MS-13 gang members and other criminals to infiltrate our communities – and Democrats in Congress REFUSE to close these loopholes, including the disgraceful practice known as Catch-and-Release. Democrats must abandon their resistance… https://t.co/VkMCIzwt8v“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 23, 2018 2:35 pm […]
5/23/2018
CIA/MIKE POMPEO/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday 5[5-23-18] that he ‘does not believe there is a deep state’ at the State Department or the CIA — contradicting President Donald Trump’s repeated assertion that there are forces within the government conspiring against him. Just hours after Trump tweeted about the existence of […]
5/23/2018
GANGS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Today on Long Island, we were all moved to be joined by families who have suffered unthinkable heartbreak at the hands of MS-13. I was truly honored to be joined again by the courageous families who were my guests at the State of the Union… https://t.co/Gs0CGJYqXU“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 23, 2018 […]
4/23/2018
FBI/JAMES COMEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former FBI Director James Comey pushed back on President Donald Trump’s spying claims on Wednesday [5-23-18], warning that attacking the FBI ‘will do lasting damage to our country.’ In a tweet that did not address the President by name, the former FBI director wrote, ‘Facts matter. The FBI’s use of Confidential […]
5/23/2018
FBI/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A federal judge expressed skepticism on Wednesday [5-23-18] toward a request by lawyers for President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort to suppress evidence seized by FBI agents working for Special Counsel Robert Mueller. The hearing before U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson gave Manafort another opportunity to hinder the […]
5/23/2018
MIKE POMPEO/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told the House Foreign Affairs Committee Wednesday [5-23-18] that the denuclearization of North Korea is the top U.S. national security priority and that economic prosperity was a clear incentive for Pyongyang to give up its weapons. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was candid about his […]
5/23/2018
GANGS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump warned on Wednesday [5-23-18] he was working on a plan to reduce U.S. aid to countries he says are doing nothing to stop MS-13 gang members from crossing into the United States illegally…Trump has made the fight against MS-13 a major part of his drive to stem the flow […]
5/23/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UKRAINE: “U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, received a secret payment of at least $400,000 to arrange talks between Trump and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko last year, the British Broadcasting Corp reported on Wednesday [5-23-18]. The payment was arranged by intermediaries acting for Poroshenko who wanted to open a back […]
5/23/2018
COURTS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The nation’s chronically overburdened immigration courts are becoming even more crowded as a wave of undocumented immigrants enters the system and fewer are able to exit it. The 334 immigration judges working nationwide each juggle dockets of some 2,000 cases. The backlog has reached nearly 700,000, more than double what it was […]
5/23/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Thank you @SBAList! #SBAGala https://t.co/mPKwukX08o“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 23, 2018 11:19 am […]
5/23/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A New York federal judge has postponed to next week a hearing in the case brought by President Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen to limit prosecutors’ review of documents seized from his home and office. The hearing, which had been scheduled to take place Thursday [5-24-18], is expected to […]
5/23/2018
BANKRUPTCY/COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A US bankruptcy court judge on Tuesday [5-22-18] ordered the law firm of Stormy Daniels’ attorney Michael Avenatti to pay a $10 million judgment to an attorney who once worked for the firm, according to court documents. The judgment comes after Avenatti’s firm, Eagan Avenatti LLP, failed to make the first payment on […]
5/23/2018
RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “WITCH HUNT!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 23, 2018 8:34 am […]
5/23/2018
BUSINESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “There will be big news coming soon for our great American Autoworkers. After many decades of losing your jobs to other countries, you have waited long enough!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 23, 2018 8:18 am […]
5/23/2018
CHINA/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/SINGAPORE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s spur-of-the-moment decision to agree to a face-to-face meeting with North Korea leader Kim Jong Un represented an unprecedented opportunity, but also a huge risk, most recently highlighted by a case of cold feet on both sides. Anticipation about the June 12 meeting in Singapore is turning to pessimism, […]
5/23/2018
DODD-FRANK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Big legislation will be signed by me shortly. After many years, RIGHT TO TRY and big changes to DODD FRANK.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 23, 2018 6:58 am […]
5/23/2018
CHINA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Our Trade Deal with China is moving along nicely, but in the end we will probably have to use a different structure in that this will be too hard to get done and to verify results after completion.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 23, 2018 6:55 am […]
5/23/2018
FBI/JAMES CLAPPER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Trump should be happy that the FBI was SPYING on his campaign’ No, James Clapper, I am not happy. Spying on a campaign would be illegal, and a scandal to boot!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 23, 2018 6:33 am […]
5/23/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Everybody is with Tomi Lahren, a truly outstanding and respected young woman! @foxandfriends” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 23, 2018 6:22 am […]
5/23/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “SPYGATE could be one of the biggest political scandals in history!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 23, 2018 6:12 am […]
5/23/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It’s clear that they had eyes and ears all over the Trump Campaign’ Judge Andrew Napolitano” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 23, 2018 6:00 am […]
5/23/2018
RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Look how things have turned around on the Criminal Deep State. They go after Phony Collusion with Russia, a made up Scam, and end up getting caught in a major SPY scandal the likes of which this country may never have seen before! What goes around, comes around!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May […]
5/23/2018
JAMES CLAPPER/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “@foxandfriends ‘New Bombshell in the Obama Spying Scandal. Did other Agencies SPY on Trump Campaign?’ Even Clapper, worlds dumbest former Intelligence Head, who has the problem of lying a lot, used the word SPY when describing the illegal activities!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 23, 2018 5:45 am […]
5/23/2018
ELECTION/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The 2020 presidential election is still two and a half years away, but President Donald Trump’s path to a second term is littered with roadblocks, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll. Just 36 percent of voters say they would vote for Trump over a generic Democratic candidate in 2020, compared with […]
5/23/2018
ATTORNEY GENERAL/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The man aspiring to be the new face of the resistance is a practicing Sikh who likes to call attention to his turban and happens to have jurisdiction over 20 of President Donald Trump’s properties, including Bedminster. New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal says he sees an opening in the […]
5/23/2018
COURTS/LAWSUIT/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “U.S. President Donald Trump has asked New York state’s highest court to delay a defamation lawsuit by a former contestant on his reality television show ‘The Apprentice’ who said he sexually harassed her, claiming immunity and denying the allegations. Trump is challenging a March 20 ruling by Justice Jennifer Schecter of […]
5/22/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MEDIA/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s defense is going after one of special counsel Robert Mueller’s top deputies in a bid to persuade a federal judge to order a hearing into leaks to the media. In a court filing Monday [5-21-18] night, Manafort’s attorneys singled out prosecutor Andrew Weissmann over […]
5/22/2018
ABORTION/HHS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration will move ahead with restrictions on funding access for family planning providers that offer abortion services, the Department of Health and Human Services said Tuesday [5-22-18]. The announcement came shortly before President Donald Trump was addressed the annual gala of the Susan B. Anthony List, a group that supports […]
5/22/2018
LEAKS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump has demanded changes to his communications team — long seen as one of the most internally divided offices in his White House — in an effort to crack down on the leaks that have plagued his presidency since Day One. White House chief of staff John Kelly signed […]
5/22/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Lawyers for President Donald Trump are increasingly skeptical of letting him give an interview with prosecutors running the Russia investigation, but are thinking through how to prepare him for the possible high-stakes session nonetheless. Rudy Giuliani, one of the president’s outside lawyers, said in an interview Tuesday [5-22-18] that […]
5/22/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A New York taxi kingpin and business partner of President Donald Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen has agreed to cooperate with the government, The New York Times reported Tuesday [5-22-18]. The Times said the agreement for Evegny ‘Gene’ Freidman would allow him to avoid jail time and would have him work with […]
5/22/2018
HOUSE OF REPS/PRISONS/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The House of Representatives on Tuesday [5-22-18] passed a bill backed by the White House aimed at improving federal prisons that faces steep opposition in the Senate and among advocates of criminal justice revisions. The First Step Act, sponsored by Georgia’s GOP Rep. Doug Collins and New York’s Democratic Rep. […]
5/22/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump’s legal team is trying to narrow the scope of the President’s potential interview with special counsel Robert Mueller to questions on Russia-related matters that occurred before Trump’s election, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CNN. Trump’s lawyers, who are urging Mueller to wrap up his investigation, are looking […]
5/22/2018
DODD-FRANK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump pledged on the campaign trail to ‘do a big number’ on the Dodd-Frank Act. And now a Republican bill that offers the most sweeping changes to rules crafted following the 2008 financial crisis is now headed to his desk for his signature. In a final step on Tuesday [5-22-18], […]
5/22/2018
BUSINESS/EU/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is weighing measures to cut European Union steel and aluminum exports to the U.S. by about 10%, in a sign the bloc’s concessions to secure tariff exemptions aren’t meeting White House demands, EU officials familiar with the talks said. Washington proposed two options for Brussels: a quota fixed […]
5/22/2018
DRUGS/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Patients with life-threatening conditions would get the right to try unproven drugs under legislation that passed Tuesday [5-22-18] in the House and now goes to President Donald Trump, who is expected to sign it. The passage of the so-called Right to Try bill, in a 250-169 vote, ends months of […]
5/22/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee is pointing to a recent agreement between Justice Department officials and the White House to investigate the use of a confidential source sent to speak with Trump campaign aides as an attack on the department’s independence…After a meeting at the […]
5/22/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When President Trump publicly demanded that the Justice Department open an investigation into the F.B.I.’s scrutiny of his campaign contacts with Russia, he inched further toward breaching an established constraint on executive power: The White House does not make decisions about individual law enforcement investigations…Almost since he took office, Mr. […]
5/22/2018
NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Amid growing doubts about whether President Trump will meet with North Korea’s leader on June 12, Kim Jong-un, the Trump administration came under criticism Tuesday over commemorative coins that were created to honor the planned meeting. The coins, issued by the White House Communications Agency, a military unit assigned to the […]
5/22/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A significant business partner of Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s personal lawyer, has quietly agreed to cooperate with the government as a potential witness, a development that could be used as leverage to pressure Mr. Cohen to work with the special counsel examining Russian interference in the 2016 presidential […]
5/22/2018
NORTH KOREA/SOUTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump said on Tuesday [5-22-18] that his planned summit meeting next month with North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, might be delayed…Mr. Trump expressed continued enthusiasm for the diplomatic encounter, saying he believed it could usher in a period of prosperity for North Korea. But he acknowledged that recent statements […]
5/22/2018
DREAMERS/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/PAUL RYAN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Paul Ryan is struggling to stop an immigration showdown in the House, as his Republican Conference degenerates into an all-out war that could put his speakership on the line. The Wisconsin Republican pleaded with his conference Tuesday [5-22-18] to come together after a tumultuous few days of infighting. The only […]
5/22/2018
BANKING/DODD-FRANK/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. House of Representatives passed on Tuesday [5-22-18] bipartisan legislation that would ease bank rules introduced in the wake of the 2007-2009 financial crisis, giving President Donald Trump a major legislative victory. Tuesday’s vote rolls back some of the 2010 Dodd-Frank rules that restricted operations by smaller banks and […]
5/22/2018
SPORTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It was my honor to welcome @NASCAR Cup Series Champion @MartinTruex_Jr and his team to the @WhiteHouse yesterday! https://t.co/5cr2oybrnQ“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 22, 2018 2:35 pm […]
5/22/2018
SOUTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Today, it was my great honor to welcome President Moon Jae-in of the Republic of Korea to the @WhiteHouse!???? https://t.co/yvOxNiA1DM“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 22, 2018 1:21 pm […]
5/22/2018
ASIA/NORTH KOREA/SINGAPORE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said a planned June 12 summit in Singapore with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ‘may not work out,’ adding if it doesn’t happen then ‘maybe it would in the future.’ Mr. Trump, speaking from the Oval Office as he greeted South Korean President Moon Jae-in, said he […]
5/22/2018
COMMERCE/GUNS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is preparing to publish on Thursday [5-24-18] long-delayed proposed rule changes for the export of U.S. firearms, a State Department official said on Tuesday [5-22-18]. The rule changes would move the oversight of commercial firearm exports from the U.S. Department of State to the Department of Commerce. The action […]
5/22/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/FBI/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Two Republican lawmakers, and no Democrats, are expected to attend a meeting scheduled for Thursday [5-24-18] to review classified information relating to U.S. President Donald Trump’s suggestion the FBI might have used an informant to gather information on his 2016 election campaign, the White House said on Tuesday [5-22-18]. Trump’s closest […]
5/22/2018
BUSINESS/CHINA/CONGRESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday [5-22-18] floated a plan to fine ZTE Corp (000063.SZ) (0763.HK) and shake up its management as his administration considered rolling back more severe penalties that have crippled the Chinese telecommunications company. Trump’s proposal ran into immediate resistance in Congress, where Republicans and Democrats accused the president […]
5/22/2018
BUSINESS/CHINA/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. and China have agreed on the broad outline of a deal that would save imperiled Chinese telecom giant ZTE Corp., according to people with knowledge of the matter in both countries, as the two sides move closer to resolving their trade dispute. The details are still being hammered out, […]
5/22/2018
ELECTION/GOP/MITCH MCCONNELL/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump saw an opportunity to influence his party’s Senate primary in West Virginia earlier this month, but first he called to check in with Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell. The president, known for one of the quickest Twitter fingers in all of politics, wanted to make sure he and […]
5/22/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Special counsel Robert Mueller has no-commented his way through more than a year of the Russia probe. But he’s recently picked up an unwelcome spokesman of sorts: Rudy Giuliani. For better or worse, Donald Trump’s newest personal lawyer has in his first month on the job claimed to relay […]
5/21/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said he will ‘demand’ that the Justice Department investigate whether the FBI infiltrated his presidential campaign, an extraordinary order that came hours before his legal team said the special counsel indicated the investigation into the president could be concluded by September…Trump’s demand puts further pressure on the […]
5/21/2018
2016 ELECTION/CIA/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump hailed Gina Haspel on Monday [5-21-18] as he swore her in to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, honoring the ‘most elite intelligence professionals on the planet’ even as he accuses the C.I.A. of having orchestrated a conspiracy against him during the 2016 presidential campaign…Mr. Trump’s brief remarks were strikingly different […]
5/21/2018
IRAN/MIKE POMPEO/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Secretary of State Mike Pompeo used his first major policy address to deliver a hard-line speech on Monday [5-21-18], in which he demanded that Iran change just about everything regarding its behavior on the world stage. He insisted that Iran end all nuclear enrichment programs and close its heavy water reactor, […]
5/21/2018
CHINA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump defended his administration’s approach to resolving a trade war with China in a series of tweets Monday [5-21-18], following three-days of negotiations with the Chinese that ended with little clarity. Mr. Trump, in an early morning tweet, initially questioned why Democrats and the previous administration did not ‘do something […]
5/21/2018
CHINA/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “China has called President Trump’s bluff. Chinese negotiators left Washington this weekend with a significant win: a willingness by the Trump administration to hold off for now on imposing tariffs on up to $150 billion in Chinese imports. China gave up little in return, spurning the Trump administration’s nudges for a […]
5/21/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEVIN NUNES/FBI/GOP/ROBERT MULLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House brokered an agreement on Monday [5-21-18] with intelligence and law enforcement officials that will allow Republican congressional leaders to view some of the most highly classified information related to the Russia investigation, administration officials said. For months, a small group of lawmakers close to Mr. Trump […]
5/21/2018
GOP/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Frustrated and impatient, fed up with waiting and eager to fight back, President Trump has embarked on what amounts to a two-prong strategy to contain the threat and undercut the credibility of the escalating investigations targeting him and his associates. The blizzard of Twitter messages combined with a string […]
5/21/2018
CHINA/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “By the time American negotiators wrapped up high-level talks with a visiting Chinese delegation last week, President Trump’s ambitions for a multibillion-dollar trade agreement had, for the time being, shriveled into a blandly worded communiqué without any dollar figures. It was not clear that the talks set a path to success. […]
5/21/2018
CIA/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP AS PEOPLE: “Gina Haspel was sworn in Monday [5-21-18] as the first female director of the Central Intelligence Agency and said she wanted to improve the agency’s foreign language proficiency and station more officers overseas. President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Ms. Haspel’s predecessor, attended […]
5/21/2018
IRAN/MIKE POMPEO/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration escalated its demands on Iran, putting Tehran on notice that any new nuclear deal would require it to stop enriching all uranium and halt its support for militant groups in the region. The administration’s demands were outlined in a speech on Monday [5-21-18] by Secretary of State Mike […]