IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump wants to be a provocateur again. Why else would he bring up his specious and repeatedly disproven claim that millions voted illegally in California, where he was walloped by Hillary Clinton? And why would he intentionally recall and brag about one of the single most controversial things he’s ever […]
4/6/2018
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump said on Thursday [4-5-18] he did not know about a $130,000 payment made to the adult film actress Stormy Daniels for her silence, his first public acknowledgment of the scandal surrounding an alleged sexual affair that has plagued him for months. ‘No,’ a terse Trump told reporters aboard Air […]
4/6/2018
BUSINESS/CHINA/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Stocks ended the week the way they began it: tumbling as investors worry that tariffs and harsh words between the U.S. and China will touch off a trade war that derails the global economy. That came with the U.S. considering duties on an additional $100 billion in goods imported from China. […]
4/6/2018
EPA/JOHN KELLY/SCOTT PRUITT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “White House Chief of Staff John Kelly told President Donald Trump last week that he is convinced Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt needs to step down after a series of negative reports about his spending habits and management style, a White House official said Friday [4-6-18]. Though Mr. […]
4/6/2018
RUSSIA/SANCTIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The United States punished dozens of Russian oligarchs and government officials on Friday [4-6-18] with sanctions that took direct aim at President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle, as President Donald Trump’s administration tried to show he’s not afraid to take tough action against Moscow. Seven Russian tycoons, including aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska, were […]
4/6/2018
CHINA/ECONOMY/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow apparently didn’t get much advance notice of President Donald Trump’s threat to impose an additional $100 billion in tariffs on Chinese imports. Asked by reporters Friday [4-6-18] when he first learned of the president’s decision to instruct his top trade official to consider the new […]
4/6/2018
CHINA/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “China vowed strong retaliation if the U.S. imposes newly threatened tariffs on Chinese goods and ruled out engaging in negotiations while Washington is escalating the pressure on Beijing over trade. President Donald Trump’s announcement late Thursday [4-5-18] that he was considering penalties on an additional $100 billion in Chinese goods brought […]
4/6/2018
BUSINESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “AMERICA IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS!” https://t.co/5jxdojPZmN –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 6, 2018 11:24 am […]
4/6/2018
CHINA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s tough policy on China trade took shape in a White House meeting last August—and at the center was an often-overlooked man. Decades of quiet negotiations had gotten nowhere, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer told senior White House advisers and cabinet officials gathered in the Roosevelt Room…U.S. Ambassador […]
4/6/2018
CHINA/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “When Liu He, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s top economic adviser, came to Washington in late February, he was expected to make arrangements for restarting trade talks that President Donald Trump had put on ice. But just as Liu arrived, the Trump administration announced global steel and aluminum tariffs aimed at […]
4/6/2018
BUSINESS/ECONOMY/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It might very well be that Donald Trump tweets himself into a one-term presidency. Following the President’s recent tweets about Amazon and news of a growing trade war with China, stocks slid on Tuesday [4-3-18] and Wednesday [4-4-18] morning. While the stock market rebounded on Wednesday afternoon, more rocky days are […]
4/6/2018
EPA/SCOTT PRUITT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt held 25-times more meetings with industry representatives than environmental advocates during his first seven months in office, according to a Reuters analysis of his schedule, reflecting the agency’s pro-business approach under his tenure. The newly released records, obtained by the Environmental Integrity Project watchdog group […]
4/6/2018
DEMS/NANCY PELOSI/SCOTT PRUITT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. Representative Nancy Pelosi, the top Democrat in the House of Representatives, on Friday [4-6-18] called for Scott Pruitt to resign as head of the Environmental Protection Agency amid a growing scandal involving a condo he rented at well-below-market rates from a lobbyist’s wife as well as his spending […]
4/6/2018
SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As a private citizen in 2016 Mitt Romney delivered a scathing rebuke of Donald Trump. But as a Senate candidate in 2018 the former Republican presidential nominee says he’s focused on looking ‘forward.’ Romney told audience members Thursday [4-5-18] at a community theater in Utah, where he is vying to replace retiring […]
4/6/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Do you believe that the Fake News Media is pushing hard on a story that I am going to replace A.G. Jeff Sessions with EPA Chief Scott Pruitt, who is doing a great job but is TOTALLY under siege? Do people really believe this stuff? So much of the media is […]
4/6/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/MILITARY/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “After days of President Donald Trump’s aggressive rhetoric against immigration via Mexico, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto delivered a stern response to his US counterpart, telling him that ‘nothing and no one stands above the dignity of Mexico.’ The five-minute-long speech was delivered in Spanish and posted in a video on the […]
4/6/2018
CHINA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WTO: “China, which is a great economic power, is considered a Developing Nation within the World Trade Organization. They therefore get tremendous perks and advantages, especially over the U.S. Does anybody think this is fair. We were badly represented. The WTO is unfair to U.S.” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 6, 2018 9:32 am […]
4/6/2018
JEFF SESSIONS/SCOTT PRUITT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump floated replacing Attorney General Jeff Sessions with Scott Pruitt as recently as this week, even as the scandal-ridden head of the Environmental Protection Agency has faced a growing list of negative headlines, according to people close to the President. ‘He was 100% still trying to protect […]
4/6/2018
CHINA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We are not in a trade war with China, that war was lost many years ago by the foolish, or incompetent, people who repr…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 6, 2018 6:29 am […]
4/6/2018
JOBS/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Despite the Aluminum Tariffs, Aluminum prices are DOWN 4%. People are surprised, I’m not! Lots of money coming into U.S. coffers and Jobs, Jobs, Jobs!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 6, 2018 6:11 am […]
4/5/2018
CALIFORNIA/EPA/SCOTT PRUITT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Officials from the Trump administration and the State of California, who have been negotiating behind the scenes on car emissions standards, are expected to reopen talks that could preserve rules targeted by the Environmental Protection Agency for elimination, according to people briefed on the talks. Scott Pruitt, the E.P.A. administrator, announced […]
4/5/2018
DEMS/IMMIGRATION/MILITARY/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump dispensed on Thursday [4-5-18] with what he called a ‘boring’ speech on tax reform here, tossing his text to his fans before launching into a lengthy tirade against immigration that included an accusation that Democrats were embracing dangerous policies to secure immigrant votes. Mr. Trump traveled to West Virginia to […]
4/5/2018
CANADA/CHINA/MEXICO/NAFTA/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “After months of fraught negotiations and stalled talks, the Trump administration is aiming to announce a preliminary deal on the North American Free Trade Agreement this month, moving to resolve one trading conflict as a separate clash with China looms. A final agreement is far from guaranteed, but the White House is […]
4/5/2018
2016 ELECTIONS/CONGRESS/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Corey Lewandowski had a blunt message for Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee: He wasn’t going to answer their ‘fucking’ questions. Lewandowski, President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, was the final witness in the yearlong House investigation that descended into vitriol and back-biting — ultimately resulting in two separate partisan […]
4/5/2018
EPA/SCOTT PRUITT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, is under increased White House scrutiny over his housing and travel arrangements as some of his own senior staff are expressing growing frustration with the public criticism of their boss, according to four people, including an E.P.A. official, who have spoken with […]
5/5/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel investigating Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, transformed this week what has appeared to be a weakness — his relative lack of independence — into a strength. Since he was appointed in May by Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, the […]
4/5/2018
CALIFORNIA/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration and California are fighting a furious multifront legal war, and every week seems to bring a new courtroom battle… The state has filed 29 lawsuits against the federal government since President Trump took office, on issues including immigration, the environment and voting rights…That same day, Mr. Sessions filed suit […]
4/5/2018
CHINA/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “China’s leaders sound supremely confident that they can win a trade war with President Trump. The state news media has depicted him as a reckless bully intent on undermining the global trading system, while presenting the Chinese government as a fair-minded champion of free trade. And China’s leader, Xi Jinping, has […]
4/5/2018
DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “According to President Donald Trump, the mightiest, richest country in the world is under a threat so huge and scary that it will require the deployment of military forces — as many as 2,000 to 4.000, Trump said Thursday [4-5-18]– along its 2,000-mile southern border. The danger consists of a ragtag caravan […]
4/5/2018
POLITICAL FIGURES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Thank you @WVGovernor Jim Justice. It was my great honor to be with the amazing people of West Virginia today! #MAGA” https://t.co/IwPuQNadMM -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 5, 2018 3:28 pm […]
4/5/2018
TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Thanks to our historic TAX CUTS, America is open for business, and millions of American workers are seeing more take-home pay through higher wages, salaries and bonuses!” https://t.co/0u3dpLJiV2 -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 5, 2018 3:12 pm […]
4/5/2018
CHINA/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration’s tit-for-tat with Beijing over potential tariffs has ushered in a high-stakes standoff over the future of trade between the world’s two largest economies. The combatants will now follow a timeline stretching over the next half year, during which the two sides will seek to negotiate a new normal. President […]
4/5/2018
MILITARY/TRANSGENDER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The largest association of doctors in the United States is arguing that there is ‘no medically valid reason’ to bar transgender individuals from serving in the military, countering President Donald Trump’s policy issued in March…The letter, signed by AMA CEO James Madara, argues that Mattis’ recommendations to the President ‘mischaracterized and rejected […]
4/5/2018
EPA/LEGAL/SCOTT PRUITT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “An Environmental Protection Agency lawyer said he wasn’t provided the full facts when he ruled there was no ethics violation in Administrator Scott Pruitt’s lease of a bargain-priced Capitol Hill condo with ties to a fossil fuels lobbyist. In the meantime, White House officials sounded increasingly doubtful Thursday [4-5-18] about […]
4/5/2018
CONGRESS/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “The number of women running for seats in the U.S. House of Representatives set a record Thursday [4-5-18], the vast majority of them Democrats motivated by angst over President Donald Trump and policies of the Republican-controlled Congress. Their ranks will continue to grow in the weeks ahead, with filing deadlines still to […]
4/5/2018
DEVIN NUNES/FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The House Intelligence Committee may have concluded its Russia investigation, but the panel’s Republican chairman, Devin Nunes, is not finished grilling the FBI over its probe into Kremlin election meddling. In a letter to the Justice Department, Nunes is demanding an unredacted copy of the document that initiated the FBI’s investigation […]
4/5/2018
JOHN KELLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When President Donald Trump made a congratulatory phone call to Russian leader Vladimir Putin, White House chief of staff John Kelly wasn’t on the line. When Trump tapped John Bolton to be his next national security adviser, Kelly wasn’t in the room. And when Trump spent a Mar-a-Lago weekend chafing over […]
4/5/2018
JEFF SESSIONS/LEGAL/MINORITIES/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The city of San Francisco filed a lawsuit against U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday [4-5-18], asking a federal court to overturn his December decision to revoke legal guidance designed to protect minorities, the indigent and disabled. City Attorney Dennis Herrera said in a statement that his lawsuit focuses on six […]
4/5/2018
CONGRESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: The White House said late Thursday [4-5-18] that President Donald Trump intends to nominate a top auto-safety agency official to run the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration as regulators debate reducing planned fuel efficiency increases through 2025. Heidi King, who was named deputy administrator in September, is slated to run the […]
4/5/2018
MILITARY/NATIONAL SECURITY/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump grew irritated with his top military brass and national security team on Tuesday [4-3-18] when they advised him an immediate withdrawal of US troops from Syria would be unwise and could not provide a timeline for when American forces could exit, people familiar with the matter said. In […]
4/5/2018
BUSINESS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Fake News Washington Post, Amazon’s ‘chief lobbyist,’ has another (of many) phony headlines, ‘Trump Defiant As China Adds Trade Penalties.’ WRONG! Should read, ‘Trump Defiant as U.S. Adds Trade Penalties, Will End Barriers And Massive I.P. Theft.’ Typically bad reporting!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 5, 2018 8:10 am […]
4/5/2018
EPA/SCOTT PRUITT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump said on Thursday [4-5-18] he has confidence in Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, even as the White House investigates whether a condo rental by Pruitt was ethical… Pruitt is facing a White House probe for renting a room in a high-end Washington neighborhood for $50 […]
4/5/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Caravan is largely broken up thanks to the strong immigration laws of Mexico and their willingness to use them so as not to cause a giant scene at our Border. Because of the Trump Administrations actions, Border crossings are at a still UNACCEPTABLE 46 year low. Stop drugs!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
4/5/2018
BUSINESS/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Amazon.com Inc. is best known for transforming the U.S. retail industry, a feat that President Donald Trump has recently attacked. But the company has quietly been cultivating a major customer in his own backyard: the federal government. In the past several years, the Seattle-based company has won much of the business to […]
4/5/2018
BUSINESS/ECONOMY/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. aluminum prices are falling despite a tariff aimed at boosting domestic production of the metal. That’s good news for manufacturers of products such as beer cans and car hoods, which are paying 3% less for aluminum than they were before the Trump administration announced the tariff on March 1. These manufacturers […]
4/5/2018
BUSINESS/REX TILLERSON/STATE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “It was one of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s core goals: radically reshaping the State Department to make it leaner, cheaper and modernized to the standards of a former private-sector CEO. Now that Tillerson has been fired, the vaunted ‘Redesign’ initiative he launched faces an uncertain future, but at least one […]
4/4/2018
Notice Regarding the Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to Somalia On April 12, 2010, by Executive Order 13536, the President declared a national emergency pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706) to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United […]
4/4/2018
Presidential Memorandum for the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Energy, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Director of National Intelligence By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 301 of title 3, United States Code, […]
4/4/2018
Presidential Memorandum for the Secretary of Defense, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of Homeland “Security 1. The security of the United States is imperiled by a drastic surge of illegal activity on the southern border. Large quantities of fentanyl, other opioids, and other dangerous and illicit drugs are flowing across our southern border and […]
4/4/2018
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/SANCTIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s administration is expected to sanction ‘several’ Russian oligarchs with ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin over 2016 election interference, according to two senior administration officials. The officials said the sanctions will likely come later this week. The planned sanctions would be the latest public step the US has […]
4/4/2018
ISIS/MILITARY/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House said on Wednesday [4-4-18] that the United States is committed to continuing to fight the Islamic State in Syria, signaling a retreat by President Trump from his insistence that the 2,000 American forces there quickly return home from the conflict…Mr. Trump met with military commanders to discuss the future […]
4/4/2018
BETSY DEVOS/EDUCATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Education Secretary Betsy DeVos held sessions with supporters and detractors of an Obama-era school-discipline policy on Wednesday [4-4-18] amid signs the department is weighing the rule’s repeal. The 2014 discipline policy, developed jointly by the Education and Justice departments, directed schools to ensure that they didn’t disproportionately punish black and Hispanic […]
4/4/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House said Wednesday [4-4-18] it would deploy National Guard troops to the border with Mexico and would consider building a wall along at least one military base set on the border. Administration officials also said they were hoping for a high-profile congressional debate this spring and summer over U.S. protections […]
4/4/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “The attorney who represented a porn star and Playboy model in deals that buried their allegations of sexual encounters with Donald Trump in exchange for six-figure payouts said the ‘whole truth’ about the now-public scandal has not been told. In exclusive interviews with CNN, attorney Keith M. Davidson said he believes […]
4/4/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/GOP/PAUL RYAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When dozens of high school students from across Wisconsin marched through his hometown, chanting his name and demanding new gun control laws, Paul D. Ryan, the House speaker, was not around to hear them, having just wrapped up a trip to the Czech Republic. But Randy Bryce was… Mr. Bryce is […]
4/4/2018
BORDER/DEFENSE/IMMIGRATION/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump will issue a proclamation on Wednesday [4-4-28] directing the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security to work with governors to deploy National Guard troops to the southwest border to assist the Border Patrol in combating illegal immigration…In recent days, and in anticipation of an annual increase in […]
4/4/2018
MILITARY/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump has agreed to keep U.S. troops in Syria, U.S. officials said on Wednesday [4-4-18], but only until the defeat of the Islamic State extremist group, a task he expects to be completed in a matter of months. Mr. Trump’s decision, at a White House meeting, was a recognition of […]
4/4/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Central American migrants stranded on a journey through Mexico because of U.S. President Donald Trump’s pressure on the Mexican government say they will struggle on toward the United States, even as their ‘caravan’ said it would disband in Mexico City. Fearful of the risks to children among the bedraggled and tired knot […]
4/4/2018
FOREIGN POLICY/MILITARY/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The leaders of three major players in Syria — Russia, Iran and Turkey — ended a summit Wednesday [4-4-18] with a commitment to achieving a ‘lasting ceasefire’ in Syria, even as the future role of US forces in the country remains in doubt. The meeting in the Turkish capital Ankara brought […]
4/4/2018
GOP/PAC/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump will attend a private dinner benefiting pro-Trump super PAC America First Action on Wednesday [4-4-18] night in Washington…Jeff Miller, a GOP strategist and lobbyist, will host Wednesday’s private dinner, according to a source with knowledge, the third of its kind with supporters of America First Action, the primary super […]
4/4/2018
CHINA/GOP/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WTO: “U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt, a Missouri Republican, is critical of the Trump administration’s tariffs… He says the tariffs could affect Missouri’s ability to export food abroad, and the U.S. should instead focus on pursuing trade cases it already has against China with the World Trade Organization. The American Soybean Association, a […]
4/4/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s legal team has been told in recent weeks that special counsel Robert Mueller does not consider Trump a target in his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, but he’s more than a witness, sources familiar with the matter tell CNN. The issue came up in […]
4/4/2018
ISIS/MILITARY/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The mission in Syria is ‘coming to a rapid end,’ the White House said Wednesday [4-4-18], amid calls by President Donald Trump to withdraw troops in Syria from the continuing war against Islamic State. The White House offered no timetable for the U.S. presence in Syria but said the Trump administration along […]
4/4/2018
INTELLIGENCE/SENATE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A former business associate of President Donald Trump who worked as an informant for U.S. government agencies met with representatives of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday [4-4-18], according to three people familiar with the meeting. The sources said committee officials spoke with Felix Sater, a long-time government informant and businessman who […]
4/4/2018
CHINA/STEVE BANNON/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist and 2016 campaign CEO, had a fiery response on Wednesday [4-4-18] to Wall Street’s dim view of Trump’s trade actions against China…Bannon, who maintains ties to the White House, said Trump’s recent moves to impose tariffs are a signal to the Chinese that […]
4/4/2018
CHINA/ECONOMY/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday [4-4-18] tried to tamp down economic anxieties over tariffs recently announced by China and the United States…On Tuesday [4-3-18], the Trump administration published a list of about 1,300 Chinese exports — worth about $50 billion annually — that it intends to target with 25% tariffs. China responded […]
4/4/2018
HOLIDAY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Today we honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on the 50th anniversary of his assassination. Earlier this year I spoke about Dr. King’s legacy of justice and peace, and his impact on uniting Americans. #MLK50 Proclamation:” https://t.co/XXtPO0VX5A https://t.co/SH0esMSyMT -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 4, 2018 10:05 am […]
4/4/2018
CALIFORNIA/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Our thoughts and prayers are with the four U.S. Marines from the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing who lost their lives in yesterday’s Southern California helicopter crash. We pray for their families, and our great @USMC.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 4, 2018 9:50 am […]
4/4/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump in recent days has decried ‘weak’ US border laws that he says leave the US vulnerable to unfettered immigration — but some of his policies could have the effect of worsening a Central American migrant crisis. Even as the Department of Homeland Security says the southern border ‘is more […]
4/4/2018
CHINA/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “China stepped up its trade fight with the U.S., retaliating against proposed tariffs on Chinese goods by targeting high-value American exports, from airplanes to soybeans, in a tactic Beijing officials say is meant to secure a truce. Hours after the Trump administration unveiled plans to impose tariffs of 25% on Chinese […]
4/4/2018
CHINA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When you’re already $500 Billion DOWN, you can’t lose!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 4, 2018 8:20 am […]
4/4/2018
FOREIGN AFFAIRS/MCMASTER/NATIONAL SECURITY/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In his last public remarks as national security adviser, Lt. Gen. HR McMaster offered harsh words for Russia Tuesday [4-3-18] during a speech at the Atlantic Council in Washington DC. ‘We have failed to impose sufficient costs’ on Russia, McMaster said at the event, which also included a Q&A with […]
4/4/2018
CHINA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We are not in a trade war with China, that war was lost many years ago by the foolish, or incompetent, people who represented the U.S. Now we have a Trade Deficit of $500 Billion a year, with Intellectual Property Theft of another $300 Billion. We cannot let this continue!” -Donald […]
4/4/2018
BORDER/CANADA/DEMS/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Our Border Laws are very weak while those of Mexico & Canada are very strong. Congress must change these Obama era, and other, laws NOW! The Democrats stand in our way – they want people to pour into our country unchecked….CRIME! We will be taking strong action today.” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April […]
4/4/2018
CABINET/GOP/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump may be relishing the chance to shake up his administration. But the Senate is threatening to upend his plans. After using Twitter to abruptly oust his secretaries of state and veterans affairs and promote his CIA chief, the president is counting on the Senate GOP’s slim majority to […]
4/4/2018
MEXICO/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump, unable to get the U.S. Congress or Mexico to fully fund his border wall, will post National Guard troops along the Mexican frontier, officials said on Wednesday [4-4-18], in a move that was likely to escalate tensions with a key U.S. ally. The Trump administration was working with the […]
4/4/2018
CHINA/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TWITTER: “U.S. President Donald Trump denied on Wednesday [4-4-18] that the United States was in a trade war with China, hours after Beijing slapped tariffs on a list of U.S. imports in retaliation for similar duties levied by the White House one day earlier. ‘We are not in a trade war with […]
4/4/2018
CONGRESS/DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Before last month’s special congressional election in Pennsylvania, U.S. President Donald Trump, who ridiculed his rivals in the 2016 election as ‘Liddle Marco,’ ‘Lyin’ Ted,’ and ‘Crooked Hillary,’ tried it again, tagging Democratic candidate Conor Lamb as ‘Lamb the Sham.’ This time, the tactic failed. But it illustrated a penchant for often […]
4/4/2018
CHINA/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday [4-4-18] insisted the United States is ‘not in a trade war with China,’ even as the Chinese government moved to impose new tariffs on imports of U.S. soybeans, cars, aircraft and chemicals in retaliation for tariffs Trump slapped on China in late March. As worries grew […]
4/4/2018
CONGRESS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TWITTER: “Illegal immigration, the border wall, Democrats, ‘fake news’ and even ‘Cheatin’ Obama.’ These are the base-rallying call signs President Donald Trump has deployed on Twitter in the last week, just as he is facing a rare onslaught of criticism from pockets of his right-wing base over a $1.3 trillion spending measure he […]
4/3/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The office of special counsel Robert Mueller appears to be trying to entice President Donald Trump into an interview by assuring him last month that he is not a ‘target’ of its investigation and is only a ‘subject’ of the probe, at least for now, a source familiar with the discussions […]
4/3/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A federal judge tore into all of the legal arguments that a lawyer for President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort made on Wednesday [4-4-18] in his long-shot civil case to convince her that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation has run amok and should be reined in…Manafort filed a […]
4/3/2018
EPA/OBAMA/SCOTT PRUITT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “It should have been Scott Pruitt’s finest moment. Mr. Pruitt, the chief of the Environmental Protection Agency, has sought to make his name as the Trump administration’s most effective eraser of regulations on American industry. On Tuesday [4-3-18], he formally announced his most sweeping regulatory rollback to date: a plan to weaken […]
4/3/2018
FOREIGN AFFAIRS/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump has been commander in chief for 14 months, but to an uncanny degree, he still sounds like the armchair statesman who ran for the White House in 2016. ‘I want to get out,’ Mr. Trump said of the United States’ military engagement in Syria, at a news conference on […]
4/3/2018
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special counsel Robert Mueller’s office netted its first prison sentence on Tuesday [4-3-18] and disclosed a memo showing it had been explicitly authorized to look beyond the presidential election, bringing into sharper focus its wide-ranging probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 election. A lawyer who admitted to lying to […]
4/3/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House said Tuesday [4-3-18] night that President Trump planned to deploy the National Guard to the southern border to confront what it called a growing threat of illegal immigrants, drugs and crime from Central America after the president for the third consecutive day warned about the looming dangers of unchecked […]
4/3/2018
BUSINESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TWITTER: “Amazon, you’re not alone. President Trump once accused Verizon of making ‘a STUPID deal’ for AOL. He ridiculed Coca-Cola as ‘garbage’ — but said he would keep drinking it. He called both H&R Block and Nordstrom ‘terrible.’ He said Sony had ‘really stupid leadership’ and described executives at S&P Global, a financial […]
4/3/2018
CALIFORNIA/GUNS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Was just briefed on the shooting at YouTube’s HQ in San Bruno, California. Our thoughts and prayers are with everybody involved. Thank you to our phenomenal Law Enforcement Officers and First Responders that are currently on the scene.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 3, 2018 4:49pm […]
4/3/2018
IRAN/NATIONAL SECURITY/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Anticipating an unpredictable president’s next moves, U.S. officials have started actively planning for the likelihood that Donald Trump will announce next month that the U.S. is withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal. But no one knows exactly what would happen next or how Iran would respond. Still, with less than […]
4/3/2018
EPA/SCOTT PRUITT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump and his chief of staff may be telling Scott Pruitt they have his back, but other White House officials are making it clear that the EPA leader’s future in the administration is still very much in doubt. It was a familiar mixed message for anyone following the daily […]
4/3/2018
RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [4-3-18] said he might get along quite well with Russian President Vladimir Putin — or that he might not. ‘I think I could have a very good relationship with President Putin,’ Trump said. ‘There is also a great possibility that that won’t happen. Who knows, OK?’ Speaking […]
4/3/2018
BORDER/ TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “WE WILL PROTECT OUR SOUTHERN BORDER!” https://t.co/Z7fqQKcnez -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 3, 2018 2:59pm […]
4/3/2018
BUSINESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Judging from his tweets, President Donald Trump appears to have the knives out for Amazon.com Inc. But inside the White House, there are no active discussions about turning the power of the administration against the company, according to five people familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity. None of […]
4/3/2018
CHINA/DRUGS/FDA/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration’s proposed tariffs on thousands of Chinese-manufactured products would target dozens of key products used by drugmakers, as well as medical devices including pacemakers and artificial joints. The 25 percent tariff would be placed on raw ingredients for drugs such as insulin used by diabetics, the anti-allergic-reaction drug epinephrine, as […]
4/3/2018
BUDGET/DEMS/GOP/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As Republicans run into a buzz saw of conservative criticism over a deficit-expanding new budget, GOP leaders and the White House are looking for ways to undo the damage by allowing President Donald Trump to rescind some of the spending he signed into law just 10 days ago. Rolling back the funds […]
4/3/2018
FOREIGN DIGNITARIES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Today, it was my honor to welcome Estonia President @KerstiKaljulaid, Lithuania President @Grybauskaite_LT, and Latvia President @Vejonis to the @WhiteHouse. Congratulations on your 100th anniversaries of independence! #BalticSummit:” https://t.co/XAchZ3zUSe https://t.co/RRftyTGEvb -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 3, 2018 2:15pm […]
4/3/2018
RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Is this America’s new face to the world? Ninety-one proud new White House interns face the camera, with their beaming new boss, President Donald Trump, in the center. These shining faces, shown in a photo the White House released Friday of the 2018 Spring cohort, are very much ‘his’ interns: Startlingly, it […]
4/3/2018
2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A lawyer who pleaded guilty to lying to federal investigators probing alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election was sentenced Tuesday [4-4-18] to 30 days in prison and a $20,000 fine. Alex van der Zwaan admitted in February he had misled investigators about his last contact with former Trump campaign aide […]
4/3/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [4-3-18] warned that the North American Free Trade Agreement was ‘in play’ and threatened to end aid to Honduras and other Central American countries if an organized protest march of 1,000 asylum seekers traveling through Mexico reaches the U.S. border…Mr. Trump’s threats on Nafta come as American, […]
4/3/2018
ANDREW MCCABE/FBI/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Jill McCabe on Monday [4-3-18] called President Donald Trump’s attacks on her family, culminating in her husband’s firing, a ‘nightmare.’ The wife of former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe called out the President for his public attacks, centered on her 2015 run for the state Senate in Virginia, in a Washington Post […]