JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, will not indict President Trump if he finds wrongdoing in his investigation of Trump campaign links to Russia, according to the president’s lawyers. They said Wednesday [5-16-18] that Mr. Mueller’s investigators told them that he would adhere to the Justice Department’s view […]
5/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/GOP/RUSSIA/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Republican at the helm of the Senate’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election backed on Wednesday the assessment by American intelligence agencies that Moscow favored Donald J. Trump in the race, contradicting both the president and fellow Republicans in the House. Senator Richard M. Burr of North […]
5/16/2018
DEMS/GOP/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Six months after the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower between Trump campaign officials and a self-described Kremlin informant, an intermediary contacted Donald J. Trump’s office asking for a follow-up, according to documents released on Wednesday [5-16-18] by a Senate committee…The follow-up overture is one of the kernels of new information contained […]
5/16/2018
FOREIGN POLICY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump will welcome President Shavkat Mirziyoyev of Uzbekistan to the White House on Wednesday [5-16-18], part of what his aides say is an effort to launch a new era of partnership with a country that is making its first fitful turns away from authoritarianism. Mr. Trump plans to raise issues […]
5/16/2018
EU/FOREIGN POLICY/IRAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’With friends like that, who needs enemies.’ That was how Donald Tusk, one of the European Union’s top officials, took President Trump to task on Wednesday [5-16-18], offering the latest look at how the Continent’s leaders are trying to come to terms with the United States’ shifting policy on issues like […]
5/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Within hours of opening an investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia in the summer of 2016, the F.B.I. dispatched a pair of agents to London on a mission so secretive that all but a handful of officials were kept in the dark. Their assignment, which has not been previously […]
5/16/2018
NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House brushed aside threats by North Korea on Wednesday [5-16-18] to cancel an upcoming summit meeting between President Trump and the North’s leader, Kim Jong-un, saying it was still ‘hopeful’ the meeting will happen — but that Mr. Trump would be fine if it did not. ‘The president is […]
5/16/2018
ATTORNEY GENERAL/DEMS/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Preet Bharara is seeing all the texts, phone calls and DMs urging him to run for New York attorney general, including from some top operatives and Democratic donors. He’s hearing it from people coming up to him on the street. And though Bharara is leaning against making a play for […]
5/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/GOP/ROBERT MUELLER/SENATE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A GOP-led Senate committee backed U.S. intelligence agencies’ finding that Moscow tried to boost Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign by hacking and spreading misinformation, a bipartisan conclusion that breaks with a House panel’s position and the president’s rejection of the notion that Russia wanted him to win. The Senate Intelligence […]
5/16/2018
DREAMERS/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Support grew in the House for an effort to force a vote on several immigration proposals, sparking some conservatives to consider using a coming vote on the farm bill as leverage to try to block them. GOP Reps. John Katko of New York and David Trott of Michigan on Wednesday [5-16-18] […]
5/15/2018
2016 ELECTION/CIA/RAND PAUL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Rand Paul has one last question for CIA director nominee Gina Haspel: Was she at all involved with any surveillance of President Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign? The Kentucky senator sent Haspel a letter on Tuesday [5-15-18] laying out his suspicions. The missive amounts to a last-minute effort […]
5/16/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump acknowledged for the first time that he repaid his lawyer Michael Cohen more than $100,000 for expenses Cohen incurred during the 2016 presidential election, according to a financial disclosure form released Wednesday [5-16-18]. The document did not explicitly state what the payments were for. But Trump’s lawyers have […]
5/16/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump’s newly filed financial disclosure notes a payment connected to an adult-film actress who alleged a relationship with him more than a decade ago. The payment is documented as a reimbursement to attorney Michael Cohen of between $100,001 and $250,000 for expenses in 2016. The Wall Street Journal previously […]
5/16/2018
HILLARY CLINTON/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Thousands of pages of interview transcripts with the participants of the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting shed new light on how eager Donald Trump Jr. and senior members of the Trump campaign were to obtain damaging information on Hillary Clinton — and how frustrated and angry they were that […]
5/16/2018
HILLARY CLINTON/RUSSIA/SANCTIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Documents released Wednesday [5-16-18] shed new light on how a group of Russians promised associates of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign incriminating information on Hillary Clinton but instead presented their case for rolling back a U.S. sanctions law targeting Russian human-rights abusers. Testimony by those who attended a June 9, 2016 […]
5/16/2018
ETHICS/REX TILLERSON/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Wednesday [5-16-18] appeared to offer an implicit rebuke of his old boss, as he warned of a ‘growing crisis in ethics and integrity’ during a commencement address at the Virginia Military Institute…The ex-diplomat — who did not mention President Donald Trump by name […]
5/16/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/PENNSYLVANIA/SENATE/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “…and voted against the massive Tax Cut Bill. He’s also weak on borders and crime. Sadly, our great Military and Vets mean nothing to Bobby Jr. Lou Barletta will win! #MAGA” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 16, 2018 1:40 pm […]
5/16/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/PENNSYLVANIA/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Lou Barletta will be a great Senator for Pennsylvania but his opponent, Bob Casey, has been a do-nothing Senator who only shows up at election time. He votes along the Nancy Pelosi, Elizabeth Warren lines, loves sanctuary cities, bad and expensive healthcare…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 16, 2018 1:40 pm […]
5/16/2018
FOREIGN AFFAIRS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Today, it was my great honor to welcome President Mirziyoyev of Uzbekistan to the @WhiteHouse! https://t.co/3EkHChjnYA” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 16, 2018 12:50 pm […]
5/16/2018
GOP/RUSSIA/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A Republican-led Senate committee backed U.S. intelligence agencies’ finding that Moscow attempted to boost Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, breaking with a GOP-led House panel that examined the same material. The conclusion on the January 2017 intelligence finding was part of the committee’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election, which […]
5/16/2018
DREAMERS/GOP/IMMIGRATION/PAUL RYAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “House Speaker Paul Ryan in a closed-door meeting on Wednesday [5-16-18] sought to discourage fellow Republicans from signing a measure that would force an immigration vote, members leaving the meeting said. The pitch from Ryan to his party colleagues came as he faces an uprising from moderate GOP members who say […]
5/16/2018
NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/SOUTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Amid fresh uncertainty over his planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, President Donald Trump Wednesday [5-16-18] said that he is committed to pressing for the country to abandon its nuclear program as part of any meeting. North Korea threatened earlier in the day to scrap the historic […]
5/16/2018
HOLIDAY/HOUSE OR REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VA: “House votes today on Choice/MISSION Act. Who will stand with our Great Vets, caregivers, and Veterans Service Organizations? Must get Choice passed by Memorial Day!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 16, 2018 12:21 pm […]
5/16/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TWITTER: “U.S. Justice Department Special Counsel Robert Mueller has issued two subpoenas to a social media expert who worked for longtime Donald Trump adviser Roger Stone during the 2016 presidential election campaign. The subpoenas were delivered late last week to lawyers representing Jason Sullivan, a social media and Twitter specialist Stone hired […]
5/16/2018
BUSINESS/CHINA/COMMERCE/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump says there has been ‘no folding’ in his trade negotiations with China, as he addresses his efforts to help a Chinese telecommunications company that violated U.S. sanctions. Trump tweeted on Wednesday [5-16-18], ‘Nothing has happened with ZTE except as it pertains to the larger trade deal…’ Trump tweeted […]
5/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/DONALD JR/RUSSIA/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump Jr. struck an unapologetic tone during hours of congressional questioning last year, saying he didn’t think there was anything wrong with meeting a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower ahead of the 2016 presidential election or that the get-together might have been part of a Russian government effort to […]
5/16/2018
ETHICS/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump acknowledged for the first time that he repaid his attorney Michael Cohen for a payment of at least $100,001 made to a ‘third party’ in 2016, according to ethics disclosures signed by the president that were released by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics on Wednesday. Cohen made […]
5/16/2018
MIKE POMPEO/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “For weeks, President Donald Trump has said he might walk away from a bad deal with North Korea. On Wednesday [5-16-18], Pyongyang signaled that it, too, might turn its back on talks. North Korea’s warnings that it would cancel a June summit if Washington insists on rapid disarmament highlight the […]
5/16/2018
LIBYA/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The White House on Wednesday [5-16-18] downplayed comments by national security adviser John Bolton, who recently invoked Libya’s decision to denuclearize during the Bush administration as a model for US policy on North Korea, potentially placing a planned US-North Korea summit in jeopardy. Hours earlier, a North Korean official said […]
5/16/2018
CHINA/MEDIA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Washington Post and CNN have typically written false stories about our trade negotiations with China. Nothing has happened with ZTE except as it pertains to the larger trade deal. Our country has been losing hundreds of billions of dollars a year with China…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 16, 2018 8:09 […]
5/16/2018
CHINA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “…We have not seen China’s demands yet, which should be few in that previous U.S. Administrations have done so poorly in negotiating. China has seen our demands. There has been no folding as the media would love people to believe, the meetings…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 16, 2018 8:09 am […]
5/16/2018
CHINA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “…haven’t even started yet! The U.S. has very little to give, because it has given so much over the years. China has much to give!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 16, 2018 8:08 am […]
5/16/2018
JOHN MCCAIN/LEAKS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The dustup over a White House aide’s crass remark about Sen. John McCain’s health has once again inflamed the White House’s frustration with staffers who reveal the inner workings of the West Wing to reporters outside the building. Despite active efforts to flush out administration leakers — including machines used […]
5/16/2018
ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congratulations to Deb Fischer. The people of Nebraska have seen what a great job she is doing – and it showed up at the ballot box! #MAGA” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 16, 2018 7:25 am […]
5/16/2018
ELECTION/PENNSYLVANIA/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congratulations to Lou Barletta of Pennsylvania. He will be a great Senator and will represent his people well – like they haven’t been represented in many years. Lou is a friend of mine and a special guy, he will very much help MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 16, 2018 […]
5/16/2018
CIA/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee voted on Wednesday [5-16-18] to approve President Donald Trump’s nominee to be CIA director, Gina Haspel, and she is expected to be confirmed by the full Senate as soon as next week. The panel voted 10-5 behind closed doors to approve the nomination, which was expected after two […]
5/16/2018
HILLARY CLINTON/RUSSIA/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A U.S. Senate committee on Wednesday [5-16-18] released hundreds of pages of transcripts and other details from its investigation of a meeting at Trump Tower in June 2016 with Russians who claimed to have damaging information about Hillary Clinton, President Donald Trump’s Democratic rival for the presidency. The Senate Judiciary Committee, […]
5/16/2018
JAMES COMEY/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s attorney has an unlikely new role model for special counsel Robert Mueller: James Comey. Frustrated by the open-ended nature of Mueller’s Russia probe, which hits its one-year mark on Thursday [5-17-18], Rudy Giuliani says Mueller should follow the example Comey set in 2016, when the then-FBI […]
5/15/2018
BORDER/DEFENSE/HHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is exploring holding children caught crossing the border on military bases, signaling the latest effort to move forward with plans to split up families who cross the border illegally. According to a Defense Department official, staffers from the Department of Health and Human Services have begun informally looking at […]
5/15/2018
EU/IRAN/NUCLEAR/SANCTIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The United States escalated its financial pressure on Iran Tuesday [5-15-18] by slapping terror sanctions on the head of its central bank and barring anyone around the world from doing business with him, underscoring President Donald Trump’s hard line after his withdrawal from the Iranian nuclear accord upset European allies. Valiollah Seif, […]
5/15/2018
DEMS/GOP/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump is the first American president to live his whole life in a city, but the war on American cities in his presidency so far has put him and congressional Republicans on the wrong side of a ‘moral battle,’ said Steve Benjamin, the new president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. […]
5/15/2018
HILLARY CLINTON/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The White House official had a startling assertion: He thought he had received an email in the first half of 2016 alerting the Trump campaign that Russia had damaging information about Hillary Clinton. Testifying behind closed doors on Capitol Hill in late March, the official, John K. Mashburn, said he remembered […]
5/15/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/PENNSYLVANIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A state representative, an Air Force veteran and two high-powered lawyers — all women — won Democratic House primaries on Tuesday [5-15-18] in Pennsylvania, where a record number of women ran for House seats in a year of intense political enthusiasm among female Democrats. It was a night of victories for at […]
5/15/2018
IRAN/SANCTIONS/TERRORISM/TREASURY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration designated the head of Iran’s central bank as a global terrorist on Tuesday [5-15-18] for funneling money to Hezbollah, placing further financial constraints on the nation a week after President Trump called for reimposing sanctions that were lifted as part of an Obama-era deal. The new designation is separate […]
5/15/2018
ISRAEL/PALESTINE/RELIGION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “While the opening of the American Embassy in Jerusalem has triggered violence and political debate this week, it also stands as a sharp reminder of the close ties between the Trump administration and evangelical Christians — and of the victories that Mr. Trump has delivered for his evangelical base. Against a backdrop […]
5/15/2018
COURT/DREAMERS/JEFF SESSIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal appeals court on Tuesday [5-15-18] questioned the Trump administration’s rationale for canceling an Obama-era initiative that offered deportation protections and work permits to undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children. During a roughly 75-minute oral argument in Pasadena, Calif., a three-judge panel on the Ninth U.S. Circuit […]
5/15/2018
CANADA/CONGRESS/MEXICO/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s plans to rewrite the North American Free Trade Agreement this year looked unattainable Tuesday [5-15-18] after negotiators appeared too far apart to strike a deal before a deadline this week. U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan had set this Thursday [5-17-18] as an informal deadline if the administration were to […]
5/15/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Thank you to the Washington Examiner and @CortesSteve on the great article – on WINNING! https://t.co/b5dfUABN5q“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 15, 2018 3:29 pm […]
5/15/2018
GOP/JOHN MCCAIN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A White House aide who made a rude joke about Sen. John McCain’s health last week should apologize, but Republican senators didn’t raise the issue with President Donald Trump at a lunch meeting, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday [5-15-18]. White House communications aide Kelly Sadler said in a […]
5/15/2018
POLICE: “#PeaceOfficersMemorialDay https://t.co/agxulpPyag” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 15, 2018 1:56 pm […]
5/15/2018
MIKE POMPEO/STATE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday [5-15-18] lifted a hiring freeze at the department, reversing an unpopular policy introduced by his predecessor, Rex Tillerson. A State Department official said the move applied to both foreign-service and civil-service job classifications and would allow hiring to resume at current funding levels…Under Mr. Tillerson, […]
5/15/2018
POLICE: “Today is one of the most important and solemn occasions of the year – the day we pay tribute to the Law Enforcement Heroes who gave their lives in the line of duty. They made the ultimate sacrifice so that we could live in safety and peace. We stand with our police (HEROES) 100%! […]
5/15/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/POLICE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump honored on Tuesday [5-15-18] the sacrifices of police officers killed in the line of duty, calling them ‘among the bravest Americans to ever live’ and vowing that his administration has a clear policy: ‘We will protect those who protect us…’ He shared a few stories of fallen officers, […]
5/15/2018
CIA/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The nominee to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, looking to shore up support before a confirmation vote this week, asserted that her agency shouldn’t have undertaken a program of detention and interrogation that many critics say amounted to torture. Gina Haspel wrote in a letter released Tuesday [5-15-18] that the post-9/11 program aimed […]
5/15/2018
DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Grappling with the realities of President Donald Trump’s reign, Democrats are trying to offer a counterweight to the president’s message — without making it all about Trump. An annual conference organized by a prominent Democratic think tank Tuesday [5-15-18] included an early glimpse at some of the Democrats plotting a challenge to […]
5/15/2018
ELECTION/GOP/POLLS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “PM Nebraska – make sure you get out to the polls and VOTE for Deb Fischer today! https://t.co/bDHVaGv2FS“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 15, 2018 12:30 pm […]
5/15/2018
CIA/GOP/JOHN MCCAIN/NORTH KOREA/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Last fall, when President Donald Trump headed to Capitol Hill for the Senate Republican lunch, he was feuding with the powerful chair of the foreign relations panel and tweeted that the man couldn’t get elected dog catcher. On Tuesday [5-15-18], he dropped in on the weekly GOP lunch entangled in […]
5/15/2018
LAWSUIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Stormy Daniels has raised nearly a half-million dollars to fund her lawsuit against President Donald Trump, relying on contributions from a crowdfunding site. Her lawyer has repeatedly pointed to the public site as evidence that he and his client aren’t bankrolled by Trump’s political foes. But the truth is, no one knows […]
5/15/2018
AMBASSADOR/ISRAEL/PALESTINE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said [5-15-18] Tuesday that the relocation of the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem was not to blame for deadly violence that erupted along the Gaza border, casting blame instead on Hamas and its backers in the Iranian government. Addressing the U.N. […]
5/15/2018
MIKE PENCE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Mike Pence’s official role is vice president of the United States. But, unofficially, he’s the president of a very important group within the White House: Donald Trump’s fan club. Trump likes to surround himself with people who adore him — and don’t mind speaking, sometimes at length, of their admiration and respect […]
5/15/2018
MELANIA: “The first lady’s office has declined to offer further details about Melania Trump’s kidney surgery and resulting extended hospital stay and asked for privacy…The notoriously private first lady underwent the procedure Monday [5-14-18] with no leaks beforehand from her small, close-knit East Wing staff…Melania Trump, who turned 48 last month, had been experiencing an […]
5/15/2018
LEAKS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The dustup over a White House aide’s crass remark about Sen. John McCain’s health has once again inflamed the White House’s frustration with staffers who reveal the inner workings of the West Wing to reporters outside the building. Despite active efforts to flush out administration leakers — including machines used to […]
5/15/2018
CIA/NOMINATIONS/TORTURE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s nominee to be CIA director, Gina Haspel, said the agency should not have undertaken a past harsh interrogation program, while asserting that the program yielded ‘valuable intelligence.’ The Senate Intelligence Committee is due to vote on Wednesday [5-116-18] on whether to approve Haspel. Despite criticism of her nomination because of […]
5/15/2018
MEDIA/POLLS/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Can you believe that with all of the made up, unsourced stories I get from the Fake News Media, together with the $10,000,000 Russian Witch Hunt (there is no Collusion), I now have my best Poll Numbers in a year. Much of the Media may be corrupt, but the People truly get […]
5/15/2018
PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former prosecutor Gene Rossi learned to expect lectures and humiliation when he appeared before U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis, who regularly ridiculed his arguments. But when Mr. Rossi returned several years ago from chemotherapy, Judge Ellis—after sternly summoning him to the bench—became tearful as he asked how Mr. Rossi was […]
5/15/2018
ENERGY [ALTERNATIVE]/EPA/GOP/SCOTT PRUITT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Republican Senator Chuck Grassley on Tuesday [5-15-18] said Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt must scale back the use of biofuels waivers for small refineries, or else he will join other lawmakers calling for Pruitt’s resignation. The demand ramps up pressure on the embattled EPA administrator, who is already under pressure […]
5/15/2018
CHINA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Trade negotiations are continuing with China. They have been making hundreds of billions of dollars a year from the U.S., for many years. Stay tuned!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 15, 2018 7:35 am […]
5/15/2018
MELANIA: “Our great First Lady is doing really well. Will be leaving hospital in 2 or 3 days. Thank you for so much love and support!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 15, 2018 7:26 am […]
5/15/2018
JOBS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @Scavino45: “Job openings hit record high of 6.6 million” https://t.co/BwDsLU6T4l” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 15, 2018 7:22 am […]
5/15/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @Scavino45: “Trump is putting the US back on top” https://t.co/tnYo2EAd2T“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 15, 2018 7:21 am […]
5/15/2018
ISRAEL/JARED KUSHNER/PALESTINE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Jared Kushner, the conspicuously quiet-in-public son-in-law and senior adviser to President Donald Trump, stepped up on Monday [5-14-18] to become the face of the administration’s decision to move the US Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to the country’s contested capital, Jerusalem…In his remarks, Kushner blamed the deadly violence on demonstrators the […]
5/15/2018
BUSINESS/CHINA/SANCTIONS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said on Tuesday [5-15-18] it was far from certain what steps the U.S. government would take on China’s ZTE Corp, which he characterized as an enforcement, rather than trade, issue. U.S. President Donald Trump has directed the Commerce Department to revisit penalties for telecom equipment […]
5/15/2018
CANADA/MEXICO/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is facing stark choices as it seeks to fulfill promises to rewrite the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico ahead of a fast-approaching deadline. The administration’s goal is to have a deal cleared by the U.S. Congress by year-end. Given procedural hurdles, both House Speaker Paul […]
5/15/2018
ELECTION/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/PENNSYLVANIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Voters head to the polls on Tuesday [5-14-18] in crucial party primaries in Pennsylvania, a state that has become central to Democrats’ hopes of retaking control of the U.S. House of Representatives.The state offers Democrats the opportunity to pick up as many as five seats from Republicans in congressional elections […]
5/15/2018
INFRASTRUCTURE/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Purpose. The Federal Government spends more than $90 billion annually on information technology (IT). The vast majority of this sum is consumed in maintaining […]
5/14/2018
MELANIA: “Melania Trump underwent a procedure Monday [5-14-18] morning to treat a benign kidney condition and will likely be hospitalized for the rest of the week, the White House said. President Donald Trump was expected to visit his wife at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center just outside Washington later Monday, according to a White […]
5/14/2018
ISRAEL/MIKE POMPEO/PALESTINE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump and his top aides on Monday [5-14-18] hailed the opening of the new U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem as a ‘great day,’ a position that roiled the Arab world and fueled deadly protests along the Israel-Palestinian border. The move ends — at least for now — America’s chances of […]
5/14/2018
EU/ISRAEL/MIDDLE EAST/PALESTINE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Washington’s allies in Europe and the Middle East criticized the U.S. for opening a new embassy in Jerusalem on Monday [5-14-18] and called on Israel to restrain its forces after dozens of Palestinian protesters were killed in clashes. The episode marked the latest point of discord to emerge between the U.S. […]
5/14/2018
DRUGS/MEDICARE/PHARMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration hit back on Monday [5-14-18] against critics of President Trump’s plan to reduce prescription drug prices, saying his ideas would be far more effective than remedies championed by Democrats. Democrats have long supported two proposals that Mr. Trump endorsed during the 2016 presidential campaign. The government, they say, should […]
5/14/2018
FOREIGN POLICY/ISRAEL/MIDDLE EAST/PALESTINE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump and senior members of his administration exulted on Monday [5-14-18] over the opening of the United States’ new embassy in Jerusalem, dismissing the violence raging along the border with Gaza as the ceremony unfolded as ‘unfortunate propaganda.’ For Mr. Trump, the opening of the embassy was an opportunity […]
5/14/2018
JOHN MCCAIN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Missteps? This White House has made a few. But apologies? Almost never. White House officials reiterated their position on Monday [5-14-18] that a morbid joke an aide made about John McCain — an 81-year-old, six-term Republican senator with brain cancer — is not the sort of thing that warrants an apology […]
5/14/2018
MEDIA/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When President Trump tunes into ‘Fox & Friends’ on Monday [5-14-18] morning, he may see a familiar face delivering a gentle warning that tariffs are ‘B-A-D economics.’ In a last-ditch attempt to persuade Mr. Trump to back away from his trade approach, the National Retail Federation has enlisted Ben Stein, the […]
5/14/2018
MEDIA/RELIGION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “It was the morning after another breathtaking revelation about President Trump and a $130,000 payment to a pornographic film actress, and dozens of reporters crowded into the White House Rose Garden, seeking answers. When one of them shouted a question about the payment, the president simply walked away. Standing nearby, on […]
5/14/2018
BUSINESS/CHINA/TECHNOLOGY/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As the United States and China spar over trade, both sides are using a beleagured Chinese telecom company as a pawn in a geopolitical game, a strategy that could yield concessions in talks this week in Washington. Mr. Trump’s offer to throw a lifeline to the company, ZTE, found a receptive […]
5/14/2018
GOP/MIKE PENCE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Representative Jeb Hensarling of Texas needed a favor: Before retiring at the end of his term, Mr. Hensarling, a powerful conservative, wanted to anoint an activist named Bunni Pounds as his successor. He reached out to President Trump for help, but Mr. Trump and his aides hesitated to meddle in a House […]
5/14/2018
EPA/SCOTT PRUITT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Scott Pruitt’s unprecedented 24/7 security detail began at his own request and on his first day as Environmental Protection Agency administrator, according to a letter from the agency’s inspector general, contradicting his claim the around-the-clock protection was a response to an assessment of death threats against him. Pruitt ‘requested 24/7 protection once […]
5/14/2018
MELANIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Heading over to Walter Reed Medical Center to see our great First Lady, Melania. Successful procedure, she is in good spirits. Thank you to all of the well-wishers!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 14, 2018 4:09 pm […]
5/14/2018
LEAKS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The so-called leaks coming out of the White House are a massive over exaggeration put out by the Fake News Media in order to make us look as bad as possible. With that being said, leakers are traitors and cowards, and we will find out who they are!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May […]
5/14/2018
GUNS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Monday [5-14-18] morning called James Shaw Jr., who authorities say saved lives by disarming a gunman at a Waffle House in Tennessee last month, to praise his actions..Shaw, 29, has been labeled a ‘hero’ by Nashville police for confronting the shooter in the attack, which left four dead. […]
5/14/2018
BUSINESS/CHINA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “ZTE, the large Chinese phone company, buys a big percentage of individual parts from U.S. companies. This is also reflective of the larger trade deal we are negotiating with China and my personal relationship with President Xi.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 14, 2018 3:06 pm […]
5/14/2018
CHINA/SANCTIONS/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. and China are closing in on a deal that would give China’s ZTE Corp. a reprieve from potentially crippling U.S. sanctions in exchange for Beijing removing tariffs on billions of dollars of U.S. agricultural products, said people in both countries briefed on the deal. The negotiations would also ease roadblocks […]
5/14/2018
ISRAEL/MILITARY/PALESTINE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. opened a new embassy in Jerusalem as clashes between Palestinian protestors and Israel’s military left dozens dead, overshadowing a historic moment for Israeli-American relations and adding to the Trump administration’s challenges in Middle East. The ceremony, held in a large tent beside the new embassy site, was attended by top […]
5/14/2018
CENSUS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is downplaying concerns about a possible low participation in the 2020 Census over the addition of a citizenship question for the first time in 70 years…The question has been asked every year in the American Community Survey, which is sent to fewer than 3 percent of U.S. households. […]
5/14/2018
BUSINESS/CHINA/SANCTIONS/TECHNOLOGY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House on Monday [5-14-18] said President Donald Trump asked his commerce secretary to look into lifting or easing sanctions against a Chinese telecommunications company as part of a ‘give and take’ with China…In a surprising overture to China, Trump tweeted Sunday [5-13-18] that he would help ZTE Corp., a major […]
5/14/2018
FOREIGN POLICY/ISRAEL/JARED KUSHNER/PALESTINE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As the deadliest day of clashes between Israelis and Palestinians since the 2014 Gaza War unfolded on Monday [5-14-18], White House senior adviser Jared Kushner addressed a crowd at the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem and said he believes ‘peace is within reach…’Kushner’s remarks at the embassy opening […]
5/14/2018
FOREIGN POLICY/ISRAEL/MIDDLE EAST/PALESTINE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and promised last December to move the U.S. Embassy there, the predictions of violence came fast and furious…Despite visible anger and some localized violence after Trump unveiled his decision, the region did not go up in flames. No embassies were stormed. […]
5/14/2018
EU/IRAN/MIKE POMPEO/NUCLEAR/SANCTIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke to German, French and British counterparts in recent days to discuss cooperation over Iran, a State Department spokeswoman said on Monday 5-14-18] a week after U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal…The White House on Sunday [5-13-18] threatened to impose sanctions […]
5/14/2018
ISRAEL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “#USEmbassyJerusalem https://t.co/f1SFvrkcAH“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 14, 2018 10:16 am […]
5/14/2018
DEMS/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/NET NEUTRALITY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. Senate will vote on Wednesday [5-16-18] on whether to reverse a decision by the Trump administration to roll back Obama-era ‘net neutrality’ rules, Democratic senators said on Monday [5-14-18]. Advocates of keeping the 2015 open-internet rules have the backing of 50 U.S. senators, including Republican Susan Collins. […]
5/14/2018
ISRAEL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Big day for Israel. Congratulations!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 14, 2018 8:36 am […]