DEMS/DREAMERS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “DACA was abandoned by the Democrats. Very unfair to them! Would have been tied to desperately needed Wall.” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Mar. 23, 2018 7:26am […]
3/23/2018
2016 ELECTION/CYBERWAR/DEMS/GOP/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Friday [3-23-2018] promoted the House Intelligence Committee’s findings on Russian meddling in the 2016 election as a way to vindicate himself from the investigation into potential collusion between his campaign and Russia…The committee voted along party lines Thursday [3-22-18] to release the Republican report on Russian meddling, […]
3/23/2018
HOUSE OF REPS/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “House Intelligence Committee votes to release final report. FINDINGS: (1) No evidence provided of Collusion between Trump Campaign & Russia. (2) The Obama Administrations Post election response was insufficient. (3) Clapper provided inconsistent testimony on media contacts.” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Mar. 23, 2018 5:07am […]
3/23/2018
CONSUMER PROTECTION/LEGAL/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The top cop for U.S. consumer finance has decided not to sue a payday loan collector and is weighing whether to drop cases against three payday lenders, said five people with direct knowledge of the matter.The move shows how Mick Mulvaney, named interim head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) by […]
3/23/2018
LEGAL,TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “The question now is whether President Donald Trump can hold his tongue — or his tweets — amid a gathering storm of televised allegations and court gambits about his sexual conduct. Stunning comments in an exclusive CNN interview by former Playboy model Karen McDougal on Thursday [3-23-18] put the unusual seeming vow […]
3/23/2018
CHINA/ECONOMY/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Stocks around the world plunged Friday [3-23-18] as investors feared that a trade conflict between the U.S. and China, the biggest economies in the world, would escalate. A second day of big losses pushed U.S. stocks to their worst week in two years. As of Friday afternoon, China’s only response to […]
3/22/2018
IRAN/MCMASTER/NORTH KOREA/REX TILLERSON/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump is replacing national security adviser H.R. McMaster with the former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, injecting a hawkish foreign policy voice into his administration ahead of key decisions on Iran and North Korea. Trump tweeted Thursday [3-22-18] that McMaster has done ‘an outstanding job & will always remain my […]
3/22/2018
DEMS/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Trump has called for a wall along the border with Mexico to stop undocumented immigrants and drugs from entering the United States. But Border Patrol agents on the front lines say they need more technology and additional personnel to curb the illegal traffic, according to a report released on Thursday [3-22-18] […]
3/22/2018
FOREIGN POLICY/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The United States trade representative, Robert Lighthizer, said on Thursday [3-22-18] that several American allies would initially be exempt from the steel and aluminum tariffs that are to take effect shortly. Speaking at a meeting of the Senate Finance Committee, Mr. Lighthizer said that the European Union, along with Argentina, […]
3/22/2018
JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump threatened former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Thursday [3-22-18], saying in a tweet that Mr. Biden “would go down fast and hard” if the two men ever physically fought. Mr. Trump was responding to Mr. Biden’s comments on Tuesday [3-20-18] about how, if he was in high […]
3/22/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The president’s lead lawyer for the special counsel investigation, John Dowd, resigned on Thursday [3-22-18], according to two people briefed on the matter, days after the president called for an end to the inquiry. Mr. Dowd, who took over the president’s legal team last summer, had considered leaving several times in […]
3/22/2018
ELECTION/GOP/PENNSYLVANIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump said on Thursday [3-22-18] that although he knows he’s popular with voters, he doesn’t know whether his success will carry over to Republicans running for office in 2018. Trump described the energy at some of his recent events, saying that the ‘level of love’ during a recent speech […]
3/22/2018
MIKE POMPEO/REX TILLERSON/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Outgoing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called Washington a ‘very mean-spirited town’ in his goodbye address to State Department staff on Thursday [3-22-18]. ‘This can be a very mean spirited town,’ Tillerson said, as staff present at his remarks laughed and clapped. ‘But you don’t have to choose to participate in […]
3/22/2018
DEMS/SENATE/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A Democratic senator urged fellow lawmakers to stop blocking votes on Trump administration ambassadorial nominees, arguing that the absence of ambassadors in key countries is hurting American diplomacy. Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, specifically called for a confirmation vote on Richard Grenell, the Trump […]
3/22/2018
NATIONAL SECURITY/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As a candidate, I pledged that if elected I would use every lawful tool to combat unfair trade, protect American workers, and defend our national security. Today, we took another critical step to fulfill that commitment. https://t.co/7NBI0Dibmx https://t.co/nmzqos3BUA“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Mar. 22, 2018 1:40pm […]
3/22/2018
CHINA/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said the U.S. is planning to levy tariffs on about $60 billion of imports from China, as well as impose restrictions on technology transfers and acquisitions by Beijing to pressure China to curtail what the U.S. considers unfair trading and investment practices… Mr. Trump made the announcement Thursday […]
3/22/2018
DEMS/GOP/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The House Intelligence Committee voted along party lines Thursday [3-22-18] to release the Republican report on Russian meddling, which concludes the committee found no evidence of collusion between Donald Trump’s team and Russian officials. The Republican report also disagrees with the intelligence community’s assessment that Russian President Vladimir Putin was trying to […]
3/22/2018
ECONOMY/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “The $1.3 trillion spending bill that would fund the government through September — and has President Donald Trump’s support — has the first money to build new border fencing under the Trump administration, but also puts a piece of the border in Texas off limits. A provision would block construction through the […]
3/22/2018
CONGRESS/DEMS/GUNS/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “With large protests for stricter gun laws planned nationwide on Saturday [3-24-18], the U.S. Congress is expected to approve a massive spending bill this week with grants to help schools prevent gun violence, improvements to background checks and an assurance that a key government agency can conduct related research.The provisions are Congress’ […]
3/22/2018
EU/IRAN/NUCLEAR/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A disagreement between Washington and Europe over a key Trump administration concern about the Iran nuclear agreement threatens to scuttle efforts to preserve the international accord, U.S. officials said, as talks continue on a supplemental agreement. The State Department has been leading discussions with Germany, the U.K. and France since January, with […]
3/22/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. House Intelligence Committee voted on Thursday [3-22-18] to release a Republican report on the panel’s Russia probe, the leader of the investigation said, a decision that formally ends its examination of Russia and the 2016 U.S. election.The Republican report found no evidence of collusion between President Donald […]
3/22/18
CONGRESS/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UNION: “The main U.S. coal miners’ union is set to endorse two Democrats running for Congress in West Virginia, two sources familiar with the matter said on Thursday [3-22-18]- a boost for Democrats trying to win over a constituency that voted heavily for Republican Donald Trump in 2016.The United Mine Workers of America […]
3/22/2018
HILLARY CLINTON/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Remember when they were saying, during the campaign, that Donald Trump is giving great speeches and drawing big crowds, but he is spending much less money and not using social media as well as Crooked Hillary’s large and highly sophisticated staff. Well, not saying that anymore!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Mar. 22, […]
3/22/2018
JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Crazy Joe Biden is trying to act like a tough guy. Actually, he is weak, both mentally and physically, and yet he threatens me, for the second time, with physical assault. He doesn’t know me, but he would go down fast and hard, crying all the way. Don’t threaten people Joe!” […]
3/22/2018
GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. House Republicans’ conservative Freedom Caucus said on Thursday it would not vote for the $1.3 trillion government spending bill before Congress, citing the measure’s “massive price tag,” the group said in statement. The group, which includes about three dozen lawmakers in the House of Representatives, also said the bill […]
3/21/2018
DEMS/DREAMERS/MILITARY/WALL: “Democrats refused to take care of DACA. Would have been so easy, but they just didn’t care. I had to fight for Military and start of Wall.” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Mar. 21, 2018 10:04pm […]
3/21/2018
BUDGET/DEMS/WALL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Got $1.6 Billion to start Wall on Southern Border, rest will be forthcoming. Most importantly, got $700 Billion to rebuild our Military, $716 Billion next year…most ever. Had to waste money on Dem giveaways in order to take care of military pay increase and new equipment.” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Mar. 21, 2018 […]
3/21/2018
CDC/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Trump administration will appoint prominent HIV/AIDS researcher Robert Redfield to lead the CDC, administration officials announced Wednesday [3-21-18] amid new scrutiny of controversies surrounding his earlier research and views. Redfield, a clinical scientist and former Army doctor who co-founded the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland School […]
3/21/2018
CHINA/GOP/NAFTA/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s ‘America First’ trade policies took a bashing Wednesday [3-21-18] from free-trade House Republicans, angry and fearful about the prospect of global retaliation and how the policies are playing back home. From the uncertainty caused by NAFTA renegotiations, to his imposition of tariffs on steel and aluminum, to his […]
3/21/2018
JAMES COMEY/MICHAEL FLYNN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team has so far discussed with President Donald Trump’s lawyers four main topics they want to talk about with the President. According to two sources, the areas that the special counsel investigators have indicated they want to pursue with Trump are the President’s role in […]
3/21/2018
CABINET/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A few weeks after he was elected president of the United States, Donald Trump had an idea. In between meetings with future Cabinet secretaries and well-wishers in his office on the 26th floor of Trump Tower in New York, the President-elect decided he would require his White House staff to sign non-disclosure […]
3/21/2018
BUDGET/CONGRESS/GOP/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congress plans to unveil a massive bipartisan $1.3 trillion spending package Wednesday [3-21-18] that will keep the government funded until the end of September, and the White House and GOP leaders say the plan has President Donald Trump’s support. But questions remain whether the proposal can pass Congress without shutting down the […]
3/21/2018
FOREIGN POLICY/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration said it is in close talks with several allies and trading partners on exempting them from U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum, adding that some countries will face little threat of paying the duties while the negotiations are under way. U.S. trade representative Robert Lighthizer, in the Trump […]
3/21/2018
ETHICS/INTERIOR/RYAN ZINKE: “Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and his wife took security detail on their vacation to Greece and Turkey last year, official documents show, in what one watchdog group said could be a ‘questionable’ use of taxpayer resources. Zinke has faced questions for months over his travel expenses and use of official resources, as have […]
3/21/2018
ELECTION/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump was infuriated after it quickly leaked that he had been directly instructed by his national security advisers in briefing materials not to congratulate Russian President Vladimir Putin on his recent election victory during their call Tuesday [3-20-18] morning, a source familiar with the President’s thinking said. Trump was fuming […]
3/21/2018
ELECTION/FOREIGN POLICY/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I called President Putin of Russia to congratulate him on his election victory (in past, Obama called him also). The Fake News Media is crazed because they wanted me to excoriate him. They are wrong! Getting along with Russia (and others) is a good thing, not a bad thing…….They can help […]
3/21/2018
CYBERWAR/IRAN/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration announced criminal charges and sanctions Friday [3-23-18] against Iranians accused in a hacking scheme to pilfer sensitive information from hundreds of universities, private companies and American government agencies. The nine defendants, accused of working at the behest of the Iranian government-tied Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, hacked the computer […]
3/21/2018
GOP/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/ TRUMP PEOPLE: “White House officials this week told Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant that President Donald Trump did not plan to campaign for or endorse Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith if she was appointed to the state’s open Senate seat, saying they were worried that the former Democrat would lose. Bryant responded that he intended […]
3/21/2018
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The U.S. has made significant strides in better protecting the election system after a Russian campaign of hacking and misinformation during the 2016 election, the Trump administration’s Homeland Security chief Congress on Wednesday [3-21-18]. Kirstjen Nielsen, the secretary of Homeland Security, testified to the Senate Intelligence Committee that information sharing […]
3/21/2018
2016 ELECTION/CYBERWAR/DHS/NATIONAL SECURITY: “The Trump administration’s Homeland Security chief told Congress on Wednesday [3-21-18] that the U.S. government has made significant strides in better protecting the election system after a Russian campaign of hacking and misinformation during the 2016 election. Kirstjen Nielsen, the secretary of Homeland Security, testified to the Senate Intelligence Committee that information […]
3/21/2018
CHINA/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is looking at tariffs and investment restrictions as a way to pressure China to strengthen protection of American intellectual property, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer told House lawmakers worried about a brewing trade war. A decision on penalties will come in “the very near future,” Mr. Lighthizer said […]
3/21/2018
BUSINESS/CONFLICT OF INTEREST/ETHICS/TRUMP FAMILY/JARED KUSHNER: “Citigroup Inc. said in a letter sent Tuesday [3-20-18] to lawmakers that a loan made to Kushner Cos. shortly after the bank’s chief executive met with Jared Kushner last year was ‘completely appropriate.’ On March 3, 2017, Citi CEO Michael Corbat met with Mr. Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and […]
3/21/2018
POLICE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “AUSTIN BOMBING SUSPECT IS DEAD. Great job by law enforcement and all concerned!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Mar. 20, 2018 10:36am […]
3/21/2018
CHINA/CONGRESS/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs, along with his actions to crack down on China’s trade practices, are further scrambling traditional alliances in Congress, drawing praise from some leading Democrats but worrying many Republicans who are pressuring the president and his trade team to minimize the impact of the actions…During […]
3/21/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘Special Council is told to find crimes, wether crimes exist or not. I was opposed the the selection of Mueller to be Special Council, I still am opposed to it. I think President Trump was right when he said there never should have been a Special Council appointed because….. there was […]
3/21/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Department of Justice should have urged the Supreme Court to at least hear the Drivers License case on illegal immigrants in Arizona. I agree with @LouDobbs. Should have sought review.” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Mar. 21, 2018 5:52am […]
3/21/2018
CYBERWAR/LEGAL/POLITICS: “The Senate on Wednesday [3-21-18] is expected to give final approval to landmark legislation aimed at curbing online sex trafficking by limiting federal immunity for internet platforms. The vote—which comes as public discontent rises over abuse of tech companies’ systems—would be a rare political defeat for the technology industry, which has become a powerful […]
3/20/2018
IRAN/NUKES/SAUDI ARABIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/YEMEN:“President Trump welcomed Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, to the White House on Tuesday [3-20-18], reaffirming his embrace of an ambitious young monarch bent on reforming his country and realigning the Middle East. The last time Mr. Trump played host to Prince Mohammed at the White House, a year ago, […]
3/20/18
MELANIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “First lady Melania Trump took advantage of an organized roundtable event with technology executives to address those who have criticized her for taking on a platform that includes cyberbullying…President Donald Trump often serves as an example of someone who uses social media for name-calling and negativity, and, as such, the first lady […]
3/20/2018
HOUSE OF REPS/PAUL RYAN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan on Tuesday [3-20-18] said he has been assured that fellow Republican President Donald Trump is not considering firing U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller. ‘The special counsel should be free to follow through his investigation to completion without interference, absolutely,’ Ryan said at a […]
3/20/2018
ECONOMY/STEVE MNUCHIN/TARIFFS/TREASURY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s plan to hit countries around the world with stiff tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum has dominated a gathering of world economic leaders amid fears that the United States is on the cusp of starting an international trade war. On Monday [3-19-20], Steven Mnuchin, the United States Treasury […]
3/20/2018
BETSY DEVOS/BUDGET/EDUCATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Education Secretary Betsy DeVos will go before a House panel on Tuesday [3-20-18] to defend her agency’s budget, including a sweeping overhaul of the Education Department that has strained relations within her agency and with Congress — and defies the White House’s budget office. In recent weeks, Ms. DeVos has clashed fiercely […]
3/20/2018
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A former Playboy model who claimed she had an affair with Donald J. Trump sued on Tuesday to be released from a 2016 legal agreement restricting her ability to speak, becoming the second woman this month to challenge Trump allies’ efforts during the presidential campaign to bury stories about extramarital relationships… The […]
3/20/2018
ABORTION/CALIFORNIA/SUPREME COURT: “Supreme Court justices on Tuesday [3-20-18] questioned the intent of a California law that the state says aims to inform pregnant women of their rights to reproductive health care, but antiabortion groups say forces them to promote abortion. The 2015 law requires facilities offering pregnancy-related services—including crisis pregnancy centers that seek to persuade […]
3/20/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Despite signs that Democrats are in a strong position, U.S. President Donald Trump vowed on Tuesday [3-20-18] to beat expectations and keep the House of Representatives in Republican control in the mid-term elections in November.Trump, who won an improbable victory in 2016 as an outsider, spoke at a National Republican […]
3/20/2018
2016 ELECTION/GOP/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Republican congressional leaders said Tuesday [3-20-18] that special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into meddling by Russia in the U.S. election should be allowed to continue unimpeded, after stepped-up attacks from President Donald Trump raised concerns he would move to end the probe. ‘The special counsel should be free to follow […]
3/20/2018
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A New York judge on Tuesday [3-20-18] ruled that President Donald Trump must face a defamation suit brought by a former contestant on ‘The Apprentice’ who accused him in 2016 of making unwanted sexual advances. The ruling came in a lawsuit brought by Summer Zervos in state court in Manhattan in January […]
3/20/2018
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Stormy Daniels was ‘truthful about having unprotected vaginal intercourse with Donald Trump in July 2006,’ according to a polygraph test report from 2011. The report states that the ‘probability of deception was measured to be less than 1%.’ It was given to CNN by Michael Avenatti, Daniels’ attorney and contains three pertinent questions: […]
3/20/2018
GOP/PAUL RYAN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan on Tuesday [3-20-18] stepped up their defense of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation amid attacks by President Donald Trump, though they stopped well short of calling for legislation to protect Mueller from being fired by the president. Ryan said Tuesday he’s […]
3/20/2018
RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT:“President Donald Trump congratulated Vladimir Putin on the Russian president’s Sunday [3-18-18] election victory, and predicted the two men will soon meet in person—but did not raise the subjects of Russian cyber-aggression or the recent nerve agent attack on British soil widely attributed to Moscow. ‘We had a very good call and I […]
3/20/2018
CONGRESS/DEMS/GOP/INFRASTRUCTURE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Congressional leaders are racing to finalize a spending bill by the end of Tuesday [3-20-18] but find themselves still at odds over a host of controversial issues — delaying plans to unveil the proposal. Democrats, Republicans and the White House battled late into the night Monday [3-19-18] and into Tuesday afternoon over […]
3/20/2018
JAMES COMEY/JEFF SESSIONS/MICHAEL FLYNN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As President Donald Trump’s reaction to special counsel Robert Mueller grows more irate by the day, attorneys on both sides sat down last week in a rare face-to-face discussion about the topics investigators could inquire of the President. It was the first in-person meeting after several weeks of […]
3/20/2018
APPRENTICE/LEGAL/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A New York state judge on Tuesday [3-20-18] said U.S. President Donald Trump must face a defamation lawsuit by a woman who accused him of sexually harassing her after she appeared on his former reality TV show. The decision by Justice Jennifer Schecter of the New York state court in Manhattan […]
3/20/2018
AGRICULTURE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Our Nation was founded by farmers. Our independence was won by farmers. And our continent was tamed by farmers. Our farmers always lead the way — we are PROUD of them, and we are DELIVERING for them! #NationalAgricultureDay” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Mar. 20, 2018 10:36am […]
3/20/2018
LGBTQ/MIKE PENCE/PROTESTS: “Guess who just managed to pull a best-selling book out of their hat? That’s right: it’s John Oliver and the staff of Last Week Tonight—specifically, writer Jill Twiss—whose picture book, the somewhat cumbersomely titled Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Presents A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo, is, as of this […]
3/20/2018
DRONES/MILITARY/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump will soon make it easier to export some types of lethal U.S.-made drones to potentially dozens more allies and partners, according to people familiar with the plan. Trump is expected to ease rules for such foreign sales under a long-delayed new policy on unmanned military aircraft due to […]
3/19/2018
MIKE POMPEO/REX TILLERSON/STATE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Outgoing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is meeting with CIA Director Mike Pompeo, the man President Donald Trump has chosen to replace him. A State Department official says that Tillerson and Pompeo were sitting down at the department’s headquarters in Foggy Bottom. The official wasn’t authorized to comment by name and […]
3/19/2018
2016 ELECTION/GOP/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT:“President Trump on Sunday [3-18-18] abandoned a strategy of showing deference to the special counsel examining Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election, lashing out at what he characterized as a partisan investigation and alarming Republicans who feared he might seek to shut it down. Mr. Trump has long suggested that […]
3/19/2018
TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WTO: “A global attempt to prevent large, multinational companies from shifting their profits to lower-tax jurisdictions is setting off a fight between the United States and Europe, as policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic spar over efforts to impose new taxes on foreign firms. On Wednesday [3-21-18], the European Commission is expected […]
3/19/2018
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s legal team was poised for a shake-up on Monday [3-19-18], according to two people briefed on the matter, as he openly discussed firing one of his lawyers, another considered resigning and a third — who pushed theories on television that Mr. Trump was framed by the F.B.I. — joined […]
3/19/2018
DEMS/DREAMERS: “The Democrats do not want to help DACA. Would be so easy to make a deal!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Mar. 19, 2018 07:28 […]
3/19/2018
DEMS/DREAMERS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WALL:“The Koch network has a rare message for President Donald Trump: Take the Democrats’ immigration deal. A trio of organizations supported by Charles and David Koch is urging Trump to accept congressional Democrats’ weekend offer, which would deliver $25 billion for a border wall and security in exchange for a pathway to […]
3/19/2018
DRUGS/PHARMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: RT @WhiteHouse: The opioid crisis has created stories of despair of shock, but also stories of recovery & hope. President Trump is asking every Americans to share their story to overcome stigma, & begin to fight against the Crisis Next Door. –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Mar. 19, 2018 05:38pm […]
3/19/2018
FOREIGN POLICY/TRUMP EXEC ORDER/VENEZUELA: “Executive Order on Taking Additional Steps to Address the Situation in Venezuela …I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, in order to take additional steps with respect to the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13692 of March 8, 2015, and relied upon for additional steps taken […]
3/19/2018
GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A former congressman from Hawaii said Monday he’s leaving the Republican Party because of President Donald Trump and the failure of fellow party members to stand up to him. Charles Djou, who represented Honolulu in the U.S. House from 2010 to 2011, wrote in an opinion piece published in Civil Beat on […]
3/19/2018
DEMS/DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “The White House and congressional Democrats traded immigration offers futilely over the weekend, according to three sources familiar with the talks, leaving little chance of an immediate deal to protect Dreamers. The White House on Sunday [3-18-18] made an 11th-hour push to include billions of dollars in border wall funding in a […]
3/19/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former federal prosecutor Joseph diGenova will join President Donald Trump’s legal team later this week, adding to the president’s Russia response another bulldog lawyer who argued earlier this year that Trump had been framed by the Justice Department and FBI with a falsely created crime…’ The addition of diGenova […]
3/19/2018
2016 ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A total WITCH HUNT with massive conflicts of interest!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Mar. 19, 2018 08:07am […]
3/19/2018
DEMS/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “His approval rating is perpetually underwater, and the pandemonium surrounding his presidency only grows the longer he’s in the job. But Senate Republicans are nevertheless making a counterintuitive, all-in bet that President Donald Trump will save their 51-49 majority — and perhaps even help them pick up a few seats. Even as […]
3/19/2018
SANCTIONS/SECRETARY OF STATE/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS/VENEZUELA: “By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), and section 301 of title 3, United States […]
3/18/2018
ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “For months, President Trump’s legal advisers implored him to avoid so much as mentioning the name of Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, in his tweets, and to do nothing to provoke him or suggest his investigation is not proper. Ignoring that advice over the weekend was the decision of […]
3/18/2018
AFRICAN-AMERICAN/BETSY DEVOS/EDUCATION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When Erin Rathke, the principal at Justice Page Middle School, is called to extract a student from class, she hears the same plea over and over again, most often, she has to admit, from black children: ‘The teacher only sees me.’ The plea weighs heavily at Justice Page, where African-American students […]
3/18/2018
DEMS/GOP/PENNSYLVANIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The head of Senate Democrats’ campaign arm chided President Donald Trump on Sunday [3-18-18] for not being the most effective surrogate for his party, coming after the GOP appears poised to lose a special election in Pennsylvania in a congressional district the president easily carried in 2016…Van Hollen, who is chairman of […]
3/18/2019
DRUGS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/PHARMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s plan to fight the opioid epidemic will call for the death penalty in some cases, White House officials said Sunday [3-18-18], scaling back the administration’s plan to punish drug dealers. ‘The Department of Justice will seek the death penalty against drug traffickers when appropriate under current law,’ said […]
3/18/2018
DEMS/GOP/HILLARY CLINTON: “Why does the Mueller team have 13 hardened Democrats, some big Crooked Hillary supporters, and Zero Republicans? Another Dem recently added…does anyone think this is fair? And yet, there is NO COLLUSION!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Mar. 18, 2018 07:35am […]
3/18/2018
ANDREW MCCABE/FBI/JAMES COMEY: “Spent very little time with Andrew McCabe, but he never took notes when he was with me. I don’t believe he made memos except to help his own agenda, probably at a later date. Same with lying James Comey. Can we call them Fake Memos?” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Mar. 18, 2018 07:22am […]
3/18/2018
FBI/JAMES COMEY: “Wow, watch Comey lie under oath to Senator G when asked ‘have you ever been an anonymous source…or known someone else to be an anonymous source…?’ He said strongly ‘never, no.’ He lied as shown clearly on @foxandfriends.” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Mar. 18, 2018 07:02am […]
3/17/2018
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/ROBERT MULLER/RUSSIA: “The Mueller probe should never have been started in that there was no collusion and there was no crime. It was based on fraudulent activities and a Fake Dossier paid for by Crooked Hillary and the DNC, and improperly used in FISA COURT for surveillance of my campaign. WITCH HUNT!” -Donald Trump, […]
3/17/2018
ANDREW MCCABE/FAKE NEWS/FBI: “The Fake News is beside themselves that McCabe was caught, called out and fired. How many hundreds of thousands of dollars was given to wife’s campaign by Crooked H friend, Terry M, who was also under investigation? How many lies? How many leaks? Comey knew it all, and much more!” -Donald Trump, […]
3/17/2018
HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA: “As the House Intelligence Committee has concluded, there was no collusion between Russia and the Trump Campaign. As many are now finding out, however, there was tremendous leaking, lying and corruption at the highest levels of the FBI, Justice & State. #DrainTheSwamp” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Mar. 17, 2018 12:11pm […]
3/17/2018
HOLIDAY: “Happy #StPatricksDay https://t.co/4vVsW2smhB” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Mar. 17, 2018 10:00am […]
3/16/2018
ANDREW MCCABE/FBI/JAMES COMEY: “Andrew McCabe FIRED, a great day for the hard working men and women of the FBI – A great day for Democracy. Sanctimonious James Comey was his boss and made McCabe look like a choirboy. He knew all about the lies and corruption going on at the highest levels of the FBI!” […]
3/16/2018
AFRICA/INTERIOR/RYAN ZINKE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A new U.S. advisory board created to help rewrite federal rules for importing the heads and hides of African elephants, lions and rhinos is stacked with trophy hunters, including some members with direct ties to President Donald Trump and his family. A review by The Associated Press of the backgrounds and […]
3/16/2018
JOBS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “You probably work in the service sector. This seems like a safe assertion, as 84 percent of private-sector jobs in the United States are in services. By contrast, ‘goods-producing’ jobs like logging, mining, construction and manufacturing accounted for only 20.5 million jobs last month, in a nation with 148 million total […]
3/16/2018
GOP/INFRASTRUCTURE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA: “The White House will turn to a familiar spokeswoman to help drum up enthusiasm for its plan to overhaul how the nation funds infrastructure needs: President Donald Trump’s eldest daughter. Ivanka Trump, a White House adviser, will appear in Iowa Monday [3-19-18] with Gov. Kim Reynolds and discuss workforce training in […]
3/16/2018
LEGAL/WOMEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A porn actress who said she had sex with Donald Trump before he became president has been threatened with physical harm, her attorney said Friday [3-16-18]. Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, has been seeking to invalidate a nondisclosure agreement she signed days before the 2016 presidential election in order […]
3/16/2018
ECONOMY: ” ‘U.S. Consumer Confidence Hits 14-Year High’ https://t.co/tXJsSRoM64″ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Mar. 16, 2018 12:42pm […]
3/16/2018
GOP/POLITICS: “It would be great for the Republican Party of Nevada, and it’s unity if good guy Danny Tarkanian would run for Congress and Dean Heller, who is doing a really good job, could run for Senate unopposed!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Mar. 16, 2018 11:27am […]
3/16/2018
JOHN KELLY/REX TILLERSON/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump and White House chief of staff John Kelly have settled on a truce, at least temporarily, as the latest round of staff tumult continues to ripple through the West Wing, according to people familiar with the discussions. Jarred by the treatment of former Secretary of State […]
3/16/2018
JOHN KELLY/REX TILLERSON/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump and White House chief of staff John Kelly have settled on a truce, at least temporarily, as the latest round of staff tumult continues to ripple through the West Wing, according to people familiar with the discussions. Jarred by the treatment of former Secretary of State […]