TEXAS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Going to Dallas (the GREAT State of Texas) today. Leaving soon!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 4, 2018 5:57 am […]
5/4/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “NBC NEWS is wrong again! They cite ‘sources’ which are constantly wrong. Problem is, like so many others, the sources probably don’t exist, they are fabricated, fiction! NBC, my former home with the Apprentice, is now as bad as Fake News CNN. Sad!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 4, 2018 5:45 am […]
5/4/2018
MEDIA: “Andy McCarthy will be on @LouDobbs tonight. 7:00 P.M. , @FoxBusiness.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 4, 2018 5:37 am […]
5/4/2018
ECONOMY/JOBS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Because Jobs in the U.S. are doing so well, Americans receiving unemployment aid is the lowest since 1973. Great!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 4, 2018 5:28 am […]
5/4/2018
BORDER/CONGRESS/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Our Southern Border is under siege. Congress must act now to change our weak and ineffective immigration laws. Must build a Wall. Mexico, which has a massive crime problem, is doing little to help!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 4, 2018 5:22 am […]
5/3/2018
IRAN/ISRAEL/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Iran’s foreign minister took to YouTube on Thursday [5-3-18] to criticize President Donald Trump’s threat to withdraw from the nuclear deal, saying Iran will not ‘renegotiate or add onto’ the atomic accord. Mohammad Javad Zarif’s video, which was also posted to Trump’s favorite social media platform, Twitter, appeared to be taking his […]
5/3/2018
LEGAL/RELIGION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump celebrated the National Day of Prayer by announcing a White House initiative that he said would underpin policies recognizing the ‘vital role’ of religion in the country. ‘America is a nation of believers,’ he said. Shortly before the Rose Garden event Thursday [5-3-18], Trump acknowledged reimbursing his personal attorney […]
5/3/2018
EPA/ETHICS/LOBBYING/SCOTT PRUITT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Since moving to Washington, Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, has attracted the attention of federal investigators because of his unusual association with lobbyists, including his rental of a condominium last year owned by the wife of a lobbyist with business before the E.P.A. As a state senator in […]
5/3/2018
COURTS/DEMS/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democrats learned the hard way in 2016 that the right is much more animated by judicial fights after Republicans’ refusal to consider the Supreme Court nomination of Merrick B. Garland helped rally conservative voters behind Donald J. Trump so he could fill a vacancy held open for nearly a year. Now a […]
5/3/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “President Trump on Thursday [5-3-18] directly contradicted his earlier statements that he knew of no payment to Stormy Daniels, the pornographic film actress who says she had an affair with Mr. Trump. Mr. Trump said he paid a monthly retainer to his former lawyer and fixer, Michael D. Cohen, and […]
5/3/2018
EDUCATION/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “National Teacher of the Year award winner Mandy Manning came to the White House with one goal in mind: to elevate the profile of her refugee and immigrant students with President Donald Trump. In a phone interview with CNN, Manning said she had done just that, delivering handwritten letters from her students […]
5/3/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUDY GUILANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump hatched with Rudy Giuliani the high-risk plan to disclose on live television that he had reimbursed his longtime attorney for buying a porn actress’s silence, leaving senior aides in the White House and the rest of his legal team stunned. Mr. Giuliani, the former New York City […]
5/3/2018
ELECTION/HOUSE OF REPS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump likes to keep negotiating partners on their toes. But workers like Charles Cesmat have been just as unnerved by the president’s recent moves on trade. Mr. Cesmat is a parts manager at a Boeing plant in Renton, Wash., just south of Seattle. One of every four planes […]
5/3/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Trump’s new legal team made a chaotic debut as Rudolph W. Giuliani, who was tapped recently to be one of the president’s lawyers, potentially exposed his client to legal and political danger by publicly revealing the existence of secret payments to Michael D. Cohen, the president’s personal lawyer. After […]
5/3/2018
EPA/ETHICS/SCOTT PRUITT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The top spokeswoman for Environmental Protection Agency is leaving the agency, the third departure this week of an aide close to Administrator Scott Pruitt, who is facing investigations into management and spending practices. Liz Bowman’s announcement follows the exit of two other top EPA officials—Mr. Pruitt’s head of security and the administrator […]
5/3/2018
ASIA/CHINA/MILITARY/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Thursday ‘there will be near-term and long-term consequences’ in response to a reported build-up of defense systems in the South China Sea. Sanders said the Trump administration has ‘raised concerns’ about the measures ‘directly’ with Chinese authorities. The remarks came in response to […]
5/3/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump and Robert Mueller look ready to go to war. It was always theoretically possible that the Russia investigation could end with the President and the special counsel on either side of a constitutional showdown. But a breakneck sequence of events over the last two days may have made the […]
5/3/2018
MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Give Rudy Giuliani this: He knows how to make an entrance. The former New York City mayor, 2008 presidential candidate and longtime pal of President Donald Trump has been on the job as a legal adviser to the President for exactly two weeks. But, in that fortnight, he has managed […]
5/3/2018
MIKE PENCE/RELIGION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump proclaimed the U.S. ‘a nation of believers’ Thursday [5-3-18] and cited his administration’s support of religious rights in a Rose Garden gathering with faith leaders. Marking the National Day of Prayer, Mr. Trump described his backing for the annual March for Life antiabortion rally, steps his administration has […]
5/3/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump and his aides are ‘panicking,’ the attorney for porn actress Stormy Daniels said Thursday [5-3-18] afternoon, and are ‘just making it up as they go along’ as they deal with Trump’s mounting legal challenges. Rudy Giuliani, who joined the president’s legal team last month, disclosed Wednesday [5-2-18] […]
5/3/2018
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Rudy Giuliani may have added to the legal headaches of his new law client and old friend, President Donald Trump, when he drew a link Thursday [5-3-18] between a hush money payment to a porn actress and the potential fallout if her allegations of a tryst with Trump had gone public […]
5/3/2018
RELIGION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “#NationalDayOfPrayer https://t.co/nFUc3uyQL8“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 3, 2018 1:20 pm […]
5/3/2018
FBI/JAMES COMEY/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former FBI Director James Comey defended the bureau on Thursday [5-3-18] after Rudy Giuliani compared FBI agents to ‘stormtroopers’ over last month’s raid on President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen…The term ‘stormtroopers’ originated during World War I to describe German assault troops, but it’s also been applied to enforcers of […]
5/3/2018
ELECTION/GOP/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Luke Messer says President Donald Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize. Todd Rokita is introducing a resolution to end special counsel Robert Mueller’s ‘witch hunt’ into Trump’s campaign. Mike Braun wants Indiana voters to know he’s a convention-busting businessman — ‘just like President Trump.’ The bloody Republican primary in one of […]
5/3/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Republicans are increasingly unnerved by the rift between retiring Sen. Bob Corker and Marsha Blackburn, the GOP congresswoman vying to replace him, saying it could cost them a must-win seat in Tennessee. The duo’s chilly relationship has spilled into the open after Corker praised Blackburn’s Democratic opponent and refused to even utter her […]
5/3/2018
CONGRESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VA: “This spring marks 4yrs since the Phoenix VA crisis. We won’t forget what happened to our GREAT VETS. Choice is vital, but the program needs work & is running out of $. Congress must fix Choice Program by Memorial Day so VETS can get the care they deserve. I will sign immediately!” […]
5/3/2018
MIKE POMPEO/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/SOUTH KOREA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani said the administration has reached an agreement with North Korea leader Kim Jong Un to release three detained U.S. citizens, including a 62-year-old Virginian who has been held for two years…The White House declined to provide any additional details. Mr. Trump signaled on Twitter […]
5/3/2018
RELIGION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Today, it was my great honor to celebrate the #NationalDayOfPrayer at the @WhiteHouse, in the Rose Garden! Proclamation: https://t.co/4jAxJnBJoq https://t.co/AsWTfpu290“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 3, 2018 11:27 am […]
5/3/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump on Thursday [5-3-18] said his longtime lawyer was reimbursed for a payment he made to a former adult film star to keep her quiet about an alleged sexual encounter with Mr. Trump. The president said the agreement with Stephanie Clifford, known professionally as Stormy Daniels, was made […]
5/3/2018
FBI/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Federal investigators wiretapped the phone lines of U.S. President Donald Trump’s longtime lawyer Michael Cohen before the FBI seized records and documents in a raid last month on his offices, hotel room and home, NBC News reported on Thursday [5-3-18]. NBC, citing sources familiar with legal proceedings involving Cohen, […]
5/3/2018
CHINA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Trade negotiators from the U.S. and China are digging in for the first round of what they expect to be recurring, difficult talks that don’t produce an immediate settlement. Beijing is bracing for lengthy sparring with Washington, though Chinese officials said that in recent weeks they had tried to get […]
5/3/2018
AFRICA/CHINA/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Chinese military personnel are targeting American flight crews in the skies over the east African nation of Djibouti using a high-powered laser in what amounts to a new show of Chinese harassment of the U.S. military at a time of heightened tensions between the nations, according to Pentagon officials. The incidents bolster […]
5/3/2018
FOREIGN POLICY/MIKE PENCE/NORTH KOREA/SOUTH AMERICA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. Vice President Mike Pence is postponing his plans to travel to Brazil this month in order to ensure foreign policy resources are focused on President Donald Trump’s coming talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Pence’s spokeswoman said on Thursday [5-3-18]…No exact date or location has been […]
5/3/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “…despite already having signed a detailed letter admitting that there was no affair. Prior to its violation by Ms. Clifford and her attorney, this was a private agreement. Money from the campaign, or campaign contributions, played no roll in this transaction.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 3, 2018 6:00 am […]
5/3/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “…very common among celebrities and people of wealth. In this case it is in full force and effect and will be used in Arbitration for damages against Ms. Clifford (Daniels). The agreement was used to stop the false and extortionist accusations made by her about an affair,……” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May […]
5/3/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Mr. Cohen, an attorney, received a monthly retainer, not from the campaign and having nothing to do with the campaign, from which he entered into, through reimbursement, a private contract between two parties, known as a non-disclosure agreement, or NDA. These agreements are…..” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 3, 2018 5:46 am […]
5/3/2018
LAWSUIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “The lawyer for one of the women suing President Donald Trump for defamation is seeking recordings of ‘The Apprentice’ from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Former ‘Apprentice’ contestant Summer Zervos filed a lawsuit against Trump in January 2017, in which she alleged that Trump defamed her in 2016 after she said he sexually assaulted her in […]
5/3/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump said on Thursday [5-3-18] his personal lawyer was paid back through a monthly retainer, not campaign funds, for the $130,000 given to adult-film star Stormy Daniels to stop ‘false and extortionist accusations’ she made about a sexual encounter with him. Trump, who in April told reporters he did […]
5/3/2018
LEGAL/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Rudy Giuliani’s cable rollout as a member of President Donald Trump’s legal team, and the torrent of statements he made Wednesday [5-2-18] night, caught many in the White House offguard and flat-footed, highlighting the continued chaotic nature of the President’s communications strategy. Giuliani told CNN Thursday [5-3-18] he and Trump are […]
5/3/2018
RELIGION/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to assist faith-based and other organizations in their efforts to strengthen the institutions of civil society and American families and communities, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Policy. Faith-based […]
5/2/2018
CHINA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Top Trump administration officials are arriving in China this week armed with tough talk about Beijing’s need to change its trade practices. But within the United States delegation there is little consensus about what concessions America should try to extract — or the best approach to getting the Chinese to agree. […]
5/2/2018
GUANTANAMO/SAUDI ARABIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Pentagon has transferred a Guantánamo Bay prisoner to the custody of Saudi Arabia, a spokeswoman announced on Wednesday [5-2-18]. The handoff is the first time a detainee has left the wartime prison under President Trump, who vowed to fill it back up but has now instead overseen a reduction in […]
5/2/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A soaring number of Democratic House candidates has also translated into a surge in fund-raising — particularly from small donors — which is similar to the energy that drove the Tea Party uprising against President Barack Obama in 2010…Most of the small donors — those giving less than $200 to a […]
5/2/2018
JOHN KELLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “When President Trump learned this week that his chief of staff, John F. Kelly, reportedly called him ‘an idiot’ on several occasions, he expressed little in the way of frustration or anger, an uncharacteristically low-key response from someone with little tolerance for slights. Attending a fund-raising dinner on Monday [4-30-18], […]
5/2/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “President Trump reimbursed Michael D. Cohen, his longtime personal lawyer, for a $130,000 payment that Mr. Cohen has said he made to keep a pornographic film actress from going public before the 2016 election with her story about an affair with Mr. Trump, according to Rudolph W. Giuliani, one of […]
5/2/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP POSITION CHANGES: “Trade clashes with Europe are brewing. Border tensions with Mexico are boiling. Negotiations with North Korea and Iran are murky as ever. What can Americans expect in these uncertain times? We’ll see what happens. President Trump, a new-to-the-game politician who once campaigned on a promise of ‘I alone can fix […]
5/2/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/GOP/OBAMACARE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A year ago Friday [5-4-18], Representative Claudia Tenney of New York stood among dozens of enthusiastic colleagues in the Rose Garden to celebrate passage of a bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. When President Trump made his way on stage, Ms. Tenney clapped and smiled. On this not-so-happy […]
5/2/2018
ENTERTAINMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Jane Chu, the chairwoman of the National Endowment for the Arts, announced that she would step down from her post in June, according to a statement released by the N.E.A. last week. Now, it will fall on President Trump to appoint the new head of an agency that he has tried and […]
5/2/2018
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump plans to hire Emmet T. Flood, the veteran Washington lawyer who represented Bill Clinton during his impeachment, to replace Ty Cobb, the White House lawyer who has taken the lead in dealing with the special counsel investigation, who is retiring, according to two people briefed on the matter. In […]
5/2/2018
MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I have been briefed on the U.S. C-130 ‘Hercules’ cargo plane from the Puerto Rico National Guard that crashed near Savannah Hilton Head International Airport. Please join me in thoughts and prayers for the victims, their families and the great men and women of the National Guard.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 2, […]
5/2/2018
FRANCE/IRAN/MIDDLE EAST/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump has all but decided to withdraw from the 2015 Iran nuclear accord by May 12 but exactly how he will do so remains unclear, two White House officials and a source familiar with the administration’s internal debate said on Wednesday [5-2-18]. There is a chance Trump might […]
5/2/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Ty Cobb, the top White House lawyer representing President Donald Trump in the Russia investigation, is leaving his role at the end of the month, the White House said Wednesday [5-2-18]. Mr. Cobb will be replaced on the legal team by Emmet Flood, according to a person familiar with the […]
5/2/2018
MIKE POMPEO/STATE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Congratulations @SecPompeo! https://t.co/ECrMGkXMQF“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 2, 2018 1:16 pm […]
5/2/2018
CHINA/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is considering executive action that would restrict some Chinese companies’ ability to sell telecommunications equipment in the U.S., based on national-security concerns, said several people familiar with the matter. The move, if it happens, would represent a significant escalation of a growing feud between the U.S. and China […]
5/2/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump threatened Wednesday [5-2-18] to ‘get involved’ with the Justice Department’s ongoing task of producing documents to lawmakers after accusations the agency has refused requests on a variety of topics. The message thrust the President deeper into an ongoing battle between conservatives and the Justice Department, and specifically with […]
5/2/2018
CIA/MIKE POMPEO/NORTH KOREA/STATE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump hailed newly minted Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as a ‘true American hero’ while alluding to a boost of energy at the State Department during a ceremony marking the agency leader’s swearing-in on Wednesday [5-2-18]. In his first remarks at the State Department since becoming president, Trump praised […]
5/2/2018
MUSLIMS/SUPREME COURT/TRAVEL BAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump has called courts unfair and political and repeatedly assailed the 9th Circuit, the U.S. court system’s westernmost division, where some of his key immigration policies have stalled. Other observers describe America’s judges as conservative or liberal, implying they bring an ideology to their decision-making that goes beyond […]
5/2/2018
GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The House Republican duo targeting senior leaders at the Justice Department have a new demand for Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein: They want to see an unredacted copy of the memo he sent to whom detailing the scope of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. The same lawmakers are […]
5/2/2018
MIKE POMPEO/REX TILLERSON/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is trying to hit reset at the State Department on the eve of a critical decision on the Iran nuclear deal and a potential summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Trump made his first visit to the department on Wednesday [5-2-18] for the ceremonial swearing-in […]
5/2/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Can a president be forced to testify? While the Supreme Court has never definitively ruled on the subject, the answer appears to be yes. The question was tested during the Watergate scandal in 1974, when justices held unanimously that a president could be compelled to comply with a subpoena for tapes […]
5/2/2018
HHS/MUSLIMS/RACISM/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A political appointee at the Department of Health and Human Services has apologized and is now back at work at the department after it came to light that she spread conspiracy theories and shared an image that said ‘our forefathers would have hung’ Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for treason on social media. […]
5/2/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Rudy Giuliani, U.S. President Donald Trump’s lawyer, said on Wednesday [5-2-18] that any interview of Trump by U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller for a probe into alleged meddling by Russia in the 2016 election and possible collusion between Moscow and the Trump campaign would be limited in scope and length. ‘Some people […]
5/2/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Lawyer Emmet Flood, who advised President Bill Clinton in impeachment proceedings, will assist President Donald Trump with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 election, replacing Ty Cobb, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said on Wednesday [5-2-18]. The latest lawyer shuffle comes as the question of whether Trump […]
5/2/2018
CONGRESS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A Rigged System – They don’t want to turn over Documents to Congress. What are they afraid of? Why so much redacting? Why such unequal ‘justice?’ At some point I will have no choice but to use the powers granted to the Presidency and get involved!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 2, […]
5/2/2018
HHS/LAWSUITS/PLANNED PARENTHOOD/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Two organizations that support birth control filed lawsuits on Wednesday [5-2-18] seeking to block the Trump administration from shifting a federal family-planning grant program toward prioritizing groups that are faith-based and counsel abstinence.The lawsuits were filed in federal court in Washington, D.C. by Planned Parenthood and the National Family Planning & […]
5/2/2018
MEDIA/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “NEW BOOK – A MUST READ! ‘The Russia Hoax – The Illicit Scheme to Clear Hillary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump’ by the brilliant Fox News Legal Analyst Gregg Jarrett. A sad chapter for law enforcement. A rigged system!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 2, 2018 8:33 am […]
5/2/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Trump lawyer / fixer / organizer of Playboy model (alleged) mistress payoffs Michael Cohen graces the cover of the National Enquirer this week, pictured looking hangdog and droopy under the headline ‘PAYOFFS & THREATS EXPOSED: TRUMP FIXER’S SECRETS & LIES!’ It’s a particularly uncomfortable display, given that the Enquirer is owned […]
5/2/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TWITTER: “President Donald Trump suggested Wednesday [5-2-18] morning that questions by special counsel Robert Mueller’s team about whether he obstructed justice amount to a ‘setup & trap…’ Trump’s tweet comes after the New York Times published a leaked list of questions Mueller would like to ask the President, several of which were […]
5/2/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘The questions are an intrusion into the President’s Article 2 powers under the Constitution to fire any Executive Branch Employee…what the President was thinking is an outrageous…..as to the President’s unfettered power to fire anyone..’ Joe Digenova, former US Attorney” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 2, 2018 8:23 am […]
5/2/2018
BUSINESS/LAWSUIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump has again asked a U.S. court to dismiss a suit accusing him of flouting constitutional safeguards against corruption by refusing to separate himself from his business empire while in office, claiming ‘absolute immunity.’ The lawsuit, filed by the state of Maryland and the District of Columbia, accused Trump of […]
5/2/2018
TRUMP PEOPLE/VA: “President Donald Trump is considering the former chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Veterans Affairs Committee to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs after his previous pick withdrew under fire, a White House official said on Wednesday [5-2-18]. Trump will interview Jeff Miller, a fellow Republican from Florida who served in Congress […]
5/2/2018
CHINA/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/ROBERT MUELLER/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “There was no Collusion (it is a Hoax) and there is no Obstruction of Justice (that is a setup & trap). What there is is Negotiations going on with North Korea over Nuclear War, Negotiations going on with China over Trade Deficits, Negotiations on NAFTA, and much more. Witch […]
5/2/2018
DEFENSE/GUANTANAMO/ISIS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Pentagon has missed a deadline for coming up with new policies regarding detainees captured on the battlefield and the transfer of those individuals to Guantanamo Bay, a deadline set by a January 30 executive order signed by President Donald Trump…Trump’s executive order said Secretary of Defense James Mattis should ‘recommend […]
5/1/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team has given President Trump a list of questions for an interview, and the president—should he agree to sit for questioning—is in for the toughest exam of his life. By providing the president’s legal team with advance notice of these questions, Mueller has made clear that he […]
5/1/2018
DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/LAWSUIT/TEXAS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Opening another front in the battle over immigration policy, Texas and six other states sued the federal government on Tuesday [5-1-18] in an attempt to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The lawsuit — joined by Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, South Carolina and West Virginia — asserts that the Obama […]
5/1/2018
EU/IRAN/ISRAEL/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration on Tuesday [5-1-18] embraced Israel’s claims that Iran entered a nuclear deal with the world’s major powers under false pretenses, a stark divergence from its European allies, who said the disclosures broke little new ground and reinforced, rather than weakened, the case for the 2015 deal. The administration echoed […]
5/1/2018
CHINA/EU/TRADE DEALS/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration has set the stage for weeks of heightened tension between the U.S. and its trading partners as administration officials race to meet self-imposed deadlines to complete a series of high-stakes negotiations with China, Mexico, Canada and Europe. A U.S. trade delegation left Tuesday [5-1-18] for China hoping to […]
5/1/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump has insisted he is eager to make the case to the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, that he has done nothing wrong. But the questions that Mr. Mueller wants to ask show why the president’s lawyers have countered that an interview would be a minefield for Mr. Trump. […]
5/1/2018
ETHICS/MIKE PENCE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “As embattled Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens’ legal and political woes deepen, some White House officials are inquiring whether the controversy could also envelop the governor’s former top campaign adviser, Nick Ayers, who is now Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff. Multiple officials in President Donald Trump’s administration have privately put out […]
5/1/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When Dr. Harold Bornstein described in hyperbolic prose then-candidate Donald Trump’s health in 2015, the language he used was eerily similar to the style preferred by his patient. It turns out the patient himself wrote it, according to Bornstein. ‘He dictated that whole letter. I didn’t write that letter,’ Bornstein told CNN […]
5/1/2018
IVANKA/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “She was in Bedminster, New Jersey, with President Donald Trump the rainy May 2017 weekend when he decided to fire FBI Director James Comey. She was a passenger on the plane flying home from the G-20 conference in Germany the next month, strategizing about how to manage the fallout of her brother […]
5/1/2018
MEDIA/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “So disgraceful that the questions concerning the Russian Witch Hunt were ‘leaked’ to the media. No questions on Collusion. Oh, I see…you have a made up, phony crime, Collusion, that never existed, and an investigation begun with illegally leaked classified information. Nice!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 1, 2018 5:47 am […]
5/1/2018
GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “After months of conceding to demands from a small group of House Republicans for more visibility into continuing investigations, the deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, pushed back on Tuesday, declaring that the Justice Department ‘is not going to be extorted.’ His comment came the day after revelations that […]
5/1/2018
NAFTA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s top trade official wants to finish a renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement by the middle of the month to get a revised pact to a vote in Congress by the end of this year. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer told a gathering at the U.S. […]
5/1/2018
CIA/CONGRESS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “In a long career with the Central Intelligence Agency, Gina Haspel has held senior positions around the world supervising covert action, managing U.S. spies’ collection of human intelligence and working on counterterrorism efforts, according to biographical summary of her career declassified by the agency on Tuesday [5-1-18]. Ms. Haspel, who is President Donald […]
5/1/2018
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump on Tuesday [5-1-18] said it was ‘disgraceful’ that questions the special counsel would like to ask him were publicly disclosed, and he incorrectly noted that there were no questions about collusion. The president also said collusion was a ‘phony’ crime. While Mr. Trump is right that the word […]
5/1/2018
BETSY DEVOS/EDUCATION/PUERTO RICO/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Since Hurricane Maria’s deadly rampage last September, the Education Department has doled out tens of millions of taxpayer dollars in disaster relief to colleges and universities supposedly affected by last year’s hurricanes. Only a fraction has gone to institutions where the storm had its most profound impact: Puerto Rico. Instead, elite […]
5/1/2018
CALIFORNIA/EPA/LAWSUIT/SCOTT PRUITT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A coalition led by California sued the Trump administration over car emissions rules on Tuesday [5-1-18], escalating a revolt against a proposed rollback of fuel economy standards that threatens to split the country’s auto market. In a lawsuit filed in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, […]
5/1/2018
IRAN/MIKE POMPEO/NUCLEAR/STATE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Incoming U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo promised to restore the State Department’s ‘swagger’ in his first address to employees on Monday [4-30-18] after a whirlwind tour of Israel, Saudi Arabia and Jordan over the weekend. Mr. Pompeo was greeted in the State Department’s packed lobby with lengthy applause and cries of […]
5/1/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Today, it was my great honor to thank and welcome heroic crew members and passengers of Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 at the @WhiteHouse! https://t.co/fYYgWToddi“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 1, 2018 2:42 pm […]
5/1/2018
NORTH KOREA/SOUTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said his administration would likely announce ‘in the next couple of days’ a location and date for a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Mr. Trump made the remark in response to a question from a reporter in the Oval Office. A day earlier he […]
5/1/2018
DEMS/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “In any other political environment, headlines about the President of the United States’ alleged affair with a porn star and her bulldog attorney who is hellbent on publicizing the details would be radioactive for the President’s party. But this isn’t any other political environment. As Republicans awkwardly answer questions about Stormy Daniels’ […]
5/1/2018
SPORTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congratulations @ArmyWP_Football! https://t.co/rmaLoZMWtK” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 1, 2018 1:14 pm […]
5/1/2018
SPORTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Today I had the great honor of awarding the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy, for the first time in 21 years, to the @ArmyWP_Football Black Knights at the @WhiteHouse. Congratulations! https://t.co/KRQXR3xEES“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 1, 2018 11:57 am […]
5/1/2018
AFRICA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Yesterday, it was my great honor to welcome President @MBuhari of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to the @WhiteHouse!???? https://t.co/ApOC3CUSjV“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 1, 2018 10:23 am […]
5/1/2018
RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It would seem very hard to obstruct justice for a crime that never happened! Witch Hunt!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 1, 2018 6:34 am […]
5/1/2018
CHINA/NAFTA/NORTH KOREA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Delegation heading to China to begin talks on the Massive Trade Deficit that has been created with our Country. Very much like North Korea, this should have been fixed years ago, not now. Same with other countries and NAFTA…but it will all get done. Great Potential for USA!” -Donald Trump, […]
4/30/2018
AFRICA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump welcomed the first leader from sub-Saharan Africa to the White House on Monday [4-30-18] nearly 15 months into his term. The discussions with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari centered around security challenges, including the nearly decade-long insurgency by Boko Haram terrorists in Nigeria’s northeast. But the meeting’s tricky subtext was […]
4/30/2018
JOHN KELLY/TRUMP PEOPLE/VA: “The search for a new Veterans Affairs chief is wide open, with President Donald Trump considering as potential nominees a former Republican congressman, a hospital executive and his White House chief of staff, John Kelly, people familiar with the matter said. Dr. Ronny Jackson, the president’s doctor, pulled out of the running […]
4/30/2018
MIKE PENCE/TRUMP PEOPLE/VA: “Vice President Mike Pence’s physician privately raised alarms within the White House last fall that President Donald Trump’s doctor may have violated federal privacy protections for a key patient — Pence’s wife, Karen — and intimidated the vice president’s doctor during angry confrontations over the episode. The previously unreported incident is the […]