CYBERWAR/FAKE NEWS/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Putin & I discussed forming an impenetrable Cyber Security unit so that election hacking, & many other negative things, will be guarded…and safe. Questions were asked about why the CIA & FBI had to ask the DNC 13 times for their SERVER, and were rejected, still don’t…have it. Fake News said […]
7/9/2017
2016 ELECTION/CYBERWAR/FOREIGN POLICY/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I strongly pressed President Putin twice about Russian meddling in our election. He vehemently denied it. I’ve already given my opinion…We negotiated a ceasefire in parts of Syria which will save lives. Now it is time to move forward in working constructively with Russia!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 9, 2017 […]
7/9/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The G 20 Summit was a great success for the U.S. – Explained that the U.S. must fix the many bad trade deals it has made. Will get done!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 9, 2017 06:15am […]
7/8/2017
CLIMATE CHANGE/FOREIGN POLICY: “World leaders struck a compromise on Saturday [7-8-17] to move forward collectively on climate change without the United States, declaring the Paris accord ‘irreversible’ while acknowledging President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the agreement. In a final communiqué at the conclusion of the Group of 20 summit meeting in Hamburg, Germany, the […]
7/8/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Thank you @SenatorDole, very kind! https://t.co/cXrYiK46Qq” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 8, 2017 07:29pm […]
7/8/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA: “When President Donald Trump left a session at the Group of 20 summit on Saturday [7-10-17], the White House official who slipped into the chair he had just vacated was his daughter and senior adviser, Ivanka Trump. It was a reminder of the role that his family plays in his […]
7/8/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Leaving Hamburg for Washington, D.C. and the WH. Just left China’s President Xi where we had an excellent meeting on trade & North Korea.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 8, 2017 01:55pm […]
7/8/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/GERMANY/PROTESTS: “Law enforcement & military did a spectacular job in Hamburg. Everybody felt totally safe despite the anarchists. @PolizeiHamburg #G20Summit” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 8, 2017 01:50pm […]
7/8/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/GERMANY: “The #G20Summit was a wonderful success and carried out beautifully by Chancellor Angela Merkel. Thank you!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 8, 2017 01:20pm […]
7/8/2017
FAKE NEWS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We will fight the #FakeNews with you! https://t.co/zOMiXTeLJq” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 8, 2017 01:17pm […]
7/7/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The United States, Russia and Jordan have agreed to foster a cease-fire in a limited area of southwestern Syria that will begin at noon on Sunday [7-9-17], Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson said on Friday after the first face-to-face meeting between President Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. […]
7/7/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/GUANTANAMO/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions and his deputy, Rod J. Rosenstein, were scheduled to visit the American wartime prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, on Friday in a gesture of support for continuing to detain terrorism suspects without trial there and to prosecute some before a military commission. In a statement, Ian Prior, […]
7/7/2017
DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Maxine Waters runs around the U.S. Capitol these days — moving fast in heels as she balances back-to-back television interviews, speeches, hearings and hugs from millennials who have called her ‘Auntie Maxine’ to celebrate her feisty style. It is an odd new celebrity for a 78-year-old Washington fixture who has logged more […]
7/7/2017
NATIONAL SECURITY/NUCLEAR/UN: “For the first time in the seven-decade effort to avert a nuclear war, a global treaty has been negotiated that proponents say would, if successful, lead to the destruction of all nuclear weapons and forever prohibit their use. Negotiators representing two-thirds of the 192-member United Nations finalized the 10-page treaty this week after […]
7/7/2017
GERMANY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Great first day with world leaders at the #G20Summit here in Hamburg, Germany. Looking forward to day two! #USA https://t.co/bLKgZKQemw” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 7, 2017 06:33pm […]
7/7/2017
IMF/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The International Monetary Fund and Germany have a joint message to President Donald Trump as he arrives here for the Group of 20 summit: Don’t turn your back on a world forged by the U.S. Mr. Trump should focus on the evolution of international institutions and use them as pillars to […]
7/7/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/RUSSIA/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met for over two hours Friday [7-7-17] afternoon, discussing interference in US elections and ending with an agreement on curbing violence in Syria. But a diplomatic dust-up immediately broke out after the session when Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Trump accepted Putin’s […]
7/7/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I look forward to all meetings today with world leaders, including my meeting with Vladimir Putin. Much to discuss. #G20Summit #USA??” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 7, 2017 02:42am […]
7/7/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump opened his first meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday [7-7-17] by expressing concerns about Russian interference in the U.S. election, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said, adding that Mr. Putin denied any involvement. The leaders spoke for more than two hours on the sidelines of the […]
7/7/2017
STATE/UKRAINE: “The State Department has tapped Kurt Volker to be its special representative for Ukraine, the department announced Friday [7-7-17]. Volker will be tasked with advancing US efforts to the achieve the objectives of the 2014 Minsk agreements between Ukraine and Russia. After Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, the Minsk agreements were reached as an […]
7/7/2017
JOBS/LABOR: “U.S. job growth surged more than expected in June and employers increased hours for workers, signs of labor market strength that could keep the Federal Reserve on course for a third interest rate hike this year despite sluggish wage gains. Non-farm payrolls jumped by 222,000 jobs last month, driven by hefty gains in healthcare, […]
7/7/2017
CDC/HHS/NOMINATIONS: “Georgia’s public health commissioner was named director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday [7-7-17], ending months of speculation over who would fill a critical role leading an agency in charge of public health matters from battling epidemics to vaccination policy. The Trump administration named Brenda Fitzgerald to succeed Thomas Frieden, […]
7/7/2017
GOP/TAXES: “Republican dreams for revamping the tax code rest, for now, in the hands of six men. The officials from the House, Senate and White House—which some aides have taken to calling ‘The Big Six’—aim to overcome in months the internal divides and systemic obstacles that have blocked a major U.S. tax code rewrite for […]
7/7/2017
CRIME/IMMIGRATION: “For noncitizens, minor crimes like shoplifting can result in deportation. But a growing number of district attorneys say they offer immigrants accused of crimes plea deals to help them avoid that fate. The prosecutors, including at least six in jurisdictions on the East and West coasts, purposely avoid reaching plea agreements or sentences that […]
7/7/2017
CHINA/MILITARY: “Two U.S bombers have flown over the disputed South China Sea, the U.S. Air Force said on Friday [7-7-17], asserting the right to treat the region as international territory despite China’s claim to virtually all of the waterway. The flight by the B-1B Lancer bombers from Guam on Thursday came as U.S. President Donald […]
7/7/2017
ECONOMY/OIL: “Easy Wall Street cash is leading American shale companies to expand drilling even as most lose money on every barrel of oil they bring to the surface. While crude prices have fallen 13% since April, U.S. oil drillers have put about 100 rigs back to work from Oklahoma to North Dakota. Wall Street has […]
7/7/2017
FAKE NEWS/MEDIA: “I will represent our country well and fight for its interests! Fake News Media will never cover me accurately but who cares! We will #MAGA!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 7, 2017 02:44am […]
7/7/2017
CIA/FBI/INTELLIGENCE: “Everyone here is talking about why John Podesta refused to give the DNC server to the FBI and the CIA. Disgraceful!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 7, 2017 02:40am […]
7/7/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/POLAND: “After Poland had a great meeting with Chancellor Merkel and then with PM Shinzō Abe of Japan & President Moon of South Korea.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 7, 2017 02:07am […]
7/7/2017
POLAND/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “My experience yesterday in Poland was a great one. Thank you to everyone, including the haters, for the great reviews of the speech!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 7, 2017 01:59am […]
7/6/2017
ENERGY/TRUMP PEOPLE/RICK PERRY: “After touring one of the few recently built coal-fired power plants in the U.S., Energy Secretary Rick Perry says they’re important for the country’s future. Perry says a stable baseload of electricity is important and this technology provides ‘the ability to deliver a secure, economical and environmentally good source of energy.’ He […]
7/6/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/POLAND/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump cast himself as a defender of Western values in a clash of civilizations during a dark and confrontational speech in Warsaw on Thursday [7-6-17], rebuking the news media, American intelligence agencies and Barack Obama during his visit to the European capital most hospitable to his right-wing nationalist message. Once […]
7/6/2017
CALIFORNIA/CLIMATE CHANGE: “Even before President Trump took office, Gov. Jerry Brown of California let it be known he was ready to do battle over climate change, vowing in December that California would launch its own satellite if Mr. Trump cut funding for federal space missions. On Thursday [7-6-17] evening, Governor Brown will mount a new […]
7/6/2017
ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The promise of faster economic growth has become a study in the triumph of hope over experience. While the June jobs report, coming on Friday [7-7-17], is expected to show that hiring continued at a healthy pace last month, other recent indicators in areas like consumer spending, construction and auto sales have […]
7/6/2017
DEFENSE/NATIONAL SECURITY/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP PEOPLE/JAMES MATTIS: “The Trump administration said it would give diplomacy more time to resolve a gathering crisis over North Korea’s efforts to build a nuclear weapon that can reach U.S. shores. On Thursday [7-6-17], Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said the U.S. wasn’t closer to war, in his first remarks since North Korea […]
7/6/2017
2016 ELECTION/CYBERWAR/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump took his criticism of the U.S. intelligence community abroad on Thursday [7-6-17], calling its acumen into question before an international audience in Poland. While the president conceded that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. election, he said other countries could have interfered as well, an assessment that contradicts […]
7/6/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/JAPAN/SOUTH KOREA: “Great trilateral meeting & dinner w/ President Shinzō Abe of Japan & President Moon Jae-in of South Korea @ the @usconshamburg this evening. https://t.co/fX6qC3XEog” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 6, 2017 04:15pm […]
7/6/2017
ECONOMY/ENERGY/TRUMP PEOPLE/RICK PERRY: “Speaking at a coal-fired power plant in Maidsville, W.Va., on Thursday [7-6-17], Energy Secretary Rick Perry made a strange argument about supply and demand, seeming to confuse the relationship between two of the essential forces in the economy. ‘Here’s a little economics lesson: supply and demand,’ Perry said, according to Taylor Kuykendall […]
7/6/2017
NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP PEOPLE/STEVE BANNON: “A former Breitbart writer and ally of Steve Bannon’s is leaving the White House after less than six months of serving as the deputy chief of staff for the National Security Council. NSC spokesman Michael Anton confirmed to CNN Thursday that Tera Dahl is exiting the group and will move on […]
7/6/2017
MILITARY/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP PEOPLE/MCMASTER: “A few days after President Donald Trump gave his Pentagon chief the unilateral authority last month to send thousands of American troops to Afghanistan at his own discretion, the White House sent classified guidance that effectively limits the number of forces. The memo, sent by national security adviser Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster […]
7/6/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/POLAND: “A strong Poland is a blessing to the nations of Europe, and a strong Europe is a blessing to the West, and to the world. https://t.co/vHzPwMtJSm” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 6, 2017 03:45pm […]
7/6/2017
DEMS/INTELLIGENCE/NATIONAL SECURITY/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Five senior Democratic senators involved in national security, foreign policy and intelligence wrote President Donald Trump in a letter published Thursday [7-6-17], urging him to use his upcoming bilateral meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin to ‘make absolutely clear’ that Russian interference in US elections ‘will in no way be tolerated.’ […]
7/6/2017
ETHICS: “Office of Government Ethics Director Walter Shaub said Thursday [7-6-17] he plans to resign later this month, ending a tenure that in recent months was marked by frequent tangles with the Trump administration. ‘The great privilege and honor of my career has been to lead OGE’s staff and the community of ethics officials in […]
7/6/2017
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/VOTER FRAUD: “The Justice Department is fighting a lawsuit filed by a privacy group to stop President Donald Trump’s Advisory Commission on Election Integrity from collecting voter information across the country, hoping to persuade a federal judge Thursday [7-6-17] that the Trump administration is taking adequate steps to protect the data. Last week, the […]
7/6/2017
ECONOMY/JOBS: “U.S. private employers hired fewer workers than expected in June and applications for unemployment benefits last week increased for a third straight week, pointing to some loss of momentum in job growth as the labor market nears full employment. Those signs were also evident in another report on Thursday [7-6-17] showing growth in services […]
7/6/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/MELANIA: “President Donald Trump and Melania Trump will make a future visit to the first lady’s native Slovenia. Slovenian President Borut Pahor invited the President and first lady to the country for a visit and the Trumps accepted, Pahor’s spokesperson Sepla Vovk told CNN. The group met Thursday in Warsaw at the Three […]
7/6/2017
DONALDISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “THE WEST WILL NEVER BE BROKEN. Our values will PREVAIL. Our people will THRIVE and our civilization will TRIUMPH! https://t.co/sozuVgdp5T” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 6, 2017 12:21pm […]
7/6/2017
TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA: “Ivanka Trump split off from the group traveling with President Donald Trump in Warsaw to pay tribute Thursday to Polish Holocaust heroes. Ahead of the President’s speech, Trump, who serves as an adviser to the President, laid a wreath at the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes and toured the POLIN Museum of the […]
7/6/2017
2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said Thursday that he thinks Russia was behind 2016 election meddling, but added that he feels ‘it could have been other people in other countries’ and that ‘nobody really knows for sure.’ ‘I think it very well could be Russia but I think it could very well have […]
7/6/2017
DONALDISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “America is proud to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Poland in the fight to eradicate the evils of terrorism and extremism. #POTUSinPoland https://t.co/MHxRmVvtsh” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 6, 2017 11:02am […]
7/6/2017
SECRET SERVICE/TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA: “A Bronx man tried to get into Trump Tower to see first daughter Ivanka Trump Thursday [7-6-17], but was stopped by Secret Service agents who noticed he was wearing a bulletproof vest, police said. Adames Benitez, 52, had the ballistic gear on under his shirt when he arrived at the Midtown building […]
7/6/2017
EDUCATION/LEGAL/TRUMP PEOPLE/BETSY DEVOS: “A group of 19 state attorneys general are suing Education Secretary Betsy DeVos for delaying an overhaul of rules to erase the federal student debt of borrowers defrauded by colleges… The complaint, filed in U.S. District Court on Thursday [7-6-17], accuses the Education Department, which did not immediately respond to requests for […]
7/6/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/MELANIA: “On behalf of @FLOTUS Melania and myself, thank you Poland!???? #ICYMI, watch here➡️ https://t.co/COpVXnn8YG #POTUSinPoland https://t.co/ylU3wLZV2H” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 6, 2017 09:02am […]
7/6/2017
NATIONAL SECURITY/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said Thursday [7-6-17] he is considering ‘some pretty severe things’ in response to North Korea’s continued efforts to develop nuclear weapons that can reach the U.S. At a joint news conference with his Polish counterpart, Andrzej Duda, Mr. Trump said that North Korean leaders were ‘behaving in […]
7/6/2017
TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The leaders of Japan and the European Union said Thursday [7-6-17] they had agreed terms of a broad, new trade deal, a convergence that comes on the eve of a Group of 20 leaders meeting where U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to clash with his counterparts on trade. The political […]
7/6/2017
CHINA/FOREIGN POLICY/NATIONAL SECURITY/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR: “China’s trade with North Korea has risen despite Beijing’s promise to enforce U.N. sanctions over the North’s nuclear program, but Chinese purchases of most North Korean exports have fallen. Customs data show total trade in the first five months of this year rose 15 percent from a year earlier, driven by […]
7/6/2017
EDUCATION/IMMIGRATION: “International students accepted to U.S. schools are planning to enroll at a similar rate as last year in most areas except the southern part of the country, especially Texas, according to data from 165 U.S. colleges and universities. The enrollment numbers help dispel fears that President Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric would scare international students […]
7/5/2017
CHINA/FOREIGN POLICY/NORTH KOREA: “President Trump criticized China on Wednesday [7-5-17] for failing to do more to pressure North Korea on its nuclear program, suggesting as he prepares for a high-stakes meeting with the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, this week that he is re-evaluating the United States trade relationship with Beijing in light of the growing […]
7/5/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/NATIONAL SECURITY/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR: “The standoff over North Korea’s nuclear program has long been shaped by the view that the United States has no viable military option to destroy it. Any attempt to do so, many say, would provoke a brutal counterattack against South Korea too bloody and damaging to risk. That remains a major […]
7/5/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/NATIONAL SECURITY/NORTH KOREA/SOUTH KOREA: “The top American general in South Korea said Wednesday [7-5-17] that self-restraint was all that kept the United States and South Korea from going to war with North Korea, as the South’s defense minister indicated that the North’s first intercontinental ballistic missile had the potential to reach Hawaii. The unusually […]
7/5/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Polish officials are bragging: On President Trump’s way to the Group of 20 summit this week, he is coming to Poland first, choosing it over more powerful American allies like Germany, France or Britain. ‘We have a new success, Trump’s visit,’ Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the head of the governing party and Poland’s […]
7/5/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump has been briefed repeatedly. His advisers have alerted him to the web of potential risks, complex issues and diplomatic snags. But even his top aides do not know precisely what Mr. Trump will decide to say or do when he meets President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia face-to-face this […]
7/5/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/NORTH KOREA/UN: “The Security Council held an emergency meeting on Wednesday [7-5-17] where the U.S. said it would introduce new sanctions against North Korea for launching this week an intercontinental ballistic missile. The new resolution would focus on tightening and expanding existing U.N. sanctions, diplomats said. U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley also said the Trump […]
7/5/2017
FED/FEDERAL RESERVE: “Federal Reserve officials in June readied plans to start slowly shrinking the central bank’s large portfolio of bonds and other assets in the next few months, and the debate since then over when to launch the plan has increasingly pointed to September. Several officials said the Fed had sufficiently prepared markets to initiate […]
7/5/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/NORTH KOREA/RUSSIA/UN: “The U.S. and Russia clashed at the United Nations Security Council over how to respond to North Korea’s nuclear-weapons program, a confrontation throwing into doubt U.S. hopes for an international diplomatic solution to the burgeoning crisis. The standoff between diplomats on Wednesday [7-5-17] came just two days before President Donald Trump and […]
7/5/2017
IMMIGRATION/LEGAL: “Undocumented immigrant children detained by federal authorities are entitled to hearings to determine whether they should remain confined, a federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday [7-5-17]. A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco, ruled that immigration authorities must abide by a 1997 legal settlement […]
7/5/2017
MILITARY: “Congratulations to the dedicated professionals of the USSS as they celebrate their 152nd anniversary. Thank you! ➡️https://t.co/mDhFzDm3ED https://t.co/BcB3wLjILg” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 5, 2017 06:23pm […]
7/5/2017
FBI/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s pick to be the next Federal Bureau of Investigation director is scheduled to appear before Congress next week in what is likely to be a contentious confirmation hearing in light of the president’s much-debated firing of former Director James Comey in May. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa), chairman of […]
7/5/2017
LABOR/TRUMP FAMILY/WOMEN/IVANKA: “First daughter and presidential adviser Ivanka Trump penned a response to a Wall Street Journal editorial titled ‘The Ivanka Entitlement’ that called her paid leave plan messy, arguing in her letter that the plan would benefit women nationwide. In the letter, published Tuesday [7-4-17] in the Journal, Trump defended the plan and argued that […]
7/5/2017
MEDIA: “Honoring the Declaration of Independence on the Fourth of July seemed innocent enough. America’s founding document, after all, represents the can-do spirit of the American people and the revolutionary vigor with which the country was founded. But when NPR did just that, posting the document line-by-line in a series of tweets on Tuesday, Twitter […]
7/5/2017
CHINA/FOREIGN POLICY/GERMANY: “German Chancellor Angela Merkel and China’s President Xi Jinping pledged to boost economic cooperation between their countries as they met ahead of what is expected to be an unusually tense international summit on Friday [7-7-17]. ‘We are very happy to see that thanks to efforts from both sides, Chinese-German relations have entered a […]
7/5/2017
GOP/POLITICS: “A congressman’s video taken inside a gas chamber at the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz has drawn criticism from the Polish museum and memorial that oversees the site where hundreds of thousands of people were murdered during the Holocaust. During a trip to the concentration camp, Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) shot a roughly five-minute video […]
7/5/2017
CHINA/NORTH KOREA/TRADE DEALS: “Trade between China and North Korea grew almost 40% in the first quarter. So much for China working with us – but we had to give it a try!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 5, 2017 06:21am […]
7/5/2017
TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The United States made some of the worst Trade Deals in world history.Why should we continue these deals with countries that do not help us?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 5, 2017 06:14am […]
7/5/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Getting ready to leave for Poland, after which I will travel to Germany for the G-20. Will be back on Saturday.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 5, 2017 05:51am […]
7/5/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VOTER FRAUD: “Forty-four states have refused to provide certain types of voter information to the Trump administration’s election integrity commission, according to a CNN inquiry to all 50 states. State leaders and voting boards across the country have responded to the letter with varying degrees of cooperation — from altogether rejecting the request […]
7/4/2017
ECONOMY: “After a prolonged recovery that culminated in two years of record sales, the American auto industry is slowing down, with fewer buyers in dealer showrooms and fewer workers on the factory floor. Automakers said this week that sales dropped in June for a sixth consecutive month, falling by 3 percent from a year ago, […]
7/4/2017
IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A few Sundays ago, federal immigration agents walked through the doors of handsome houses here in the Detroit suburbs, brushing past tearful children, stunned wives and statuettes of the Virgin Mary in search of men whose time was up. If the Trump administration prevails, more than 100 of these men may soon […]
7/4/2017
ECONOMY/NAFTA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It seems President Trump is ready to start rolling back globalization. Let’s hope he doesn’t blow up the postwar economic order. While Mexican negotiators waited for the United States to make its first move in its proposed renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, the president last week turned on […]
7/4/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/NATIONAL SECURITY/NORTH KOREA: “The Trump administration on Tuesday [7-4-17] confirmed North Korea’s claim that it had launched an intercontinental ballistic missile, and it told Pyongyang that the United States would use ‘the full range of capabilities at our disposal against the growing threat.’ The administration followed up that warning on Wednesday morning with a […]
7/4/2017
AMBASSADOR/FOREIGN POLICY/POLITICS/STATE: “A delegation of United States senators visiting Afghanistan issued a stark warning on Tuesday [7-4-17] to President Trump to fill vacant embassy and State Department positions here in order to better address the country’s mounting military and political crises. Led by Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, the American delegation in Kabul voiced […]
7/4/2017
HOLIDAY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “#HappyIndependenceDay #USA?? https://t.co/9pfqnRsh1Z” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 4, 2017 09:19pm […]
7/4/2017
CHINA/FOREIGN POLICY/RUSSIA: “Much of the world’s attention at the Group of 20 economic summit on Friday [7-7-17] and Saturday will be on President Trump’s first meeting with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir V. Putin, with strenuous efforts to decipher the nature of the long-distance bromance between them. But the leader of the world’s other superpower, Xi […]
7/4/2017
BUDGET/COAST GUARD: “Vice Adm. Fred Midgette, commander of Coast Guard operations in the Pacific Area, has a challenge almost as vast as the ocean he patrols in search of drug traffickers, with responsibilities for an area that is twice the size of the continental United States. The Coast Guard is struggling to keep pace, seizing […]
7/4/2017
BUDGET/GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “Republican senators are confronting a political challenge that is increasingly hard to ignore as they engage with voters during the July Fourth recess: Under their health-care overhaul, average premiums for a midlevel insurance plan would jump by 20% next January. That means many people who don’t get insurance through work would see their premiums […]
7/4/2017
STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/REX TILLERSON: “Thousands of State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development employees indicated in a survey they are worried about the future of their agencies, with some expressing particular concern about lack of support from the Trump administration and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. The findings are in a report for […]
7/4/2017
ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Gas prices are the lowest in the U.S. in over ten years! I would like to see them go even lower.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 4, 2017 02:55pm […]
7/4/2017
HOLIDAY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Getting ready to celebrate the 4th of July with a big crowd at the White House. Happy 4th to everyone. Our country will grow and prosper!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 4, 2017 02:49pm […]
7/4/2017
HOLIDAY: “#HappyIndependenceDay #July4 #USA?? https://t.co/NsFslPEFrp” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 4, 2017 05:38am […]
7/3/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/TAXES: “Congress is moving to prevent the Internal Revenue Service from enforcing one of the more unpopular provisions of the Affordable Care Act, which requires most Americans to have health insurance or pay a tax penalty. The plan is separate from Republican efforts to repeal the health care law, and appears more likely to be […]
7/3/2017
EPA/LEGAL: “Dealing a legal blow to the Trump administration, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday [7-2-17] that the Environmental Protection Agency cannot suspend an Obama-era rule to restrict methane emissions from new oil and gas wells. The 2-to-1 decision from the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit is a […]
7/3/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UK: “The White House and Downing Street poured cold water on Monday on news reports that President Trump was considering a quick visit to Britain next week, a possibility that had excited the many Britons eager to protest his presence in the country. According to British newspapers including The Times of London […]
7/3/2017
MILITARY/TERRORISM: “The United States military said on Monday [7-3-17] that it had carried out a drone strike in Somalia against the Shabab, the Qaeda-linked insurgent group, in the second such strike since President Trump relaxed targeting rules for counterterrorism operations in that country in March. The strike, which took place about 2:30 p.m. local time […]
7/3/2017
CHINA/FOREIGN POLICY/JAPAN/NORTH KOREA/SOUTH KOREA: “North Korea has just launched another missile. Does this guy have anything better to do with his life? Hard to believe that South Korea… and Japan will put up with this much longer. Perhaps China will put a heavy move on North Korea and end this nonsense once and for all!” […]
7/3/2017
DOW/FAKE NEWS/MEDIA: “Dow hit a new intraday all-time high! I wonder whether or not the Fake News Media will so report?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 3, 2017 04:10pm […]
7/3/2017
ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Really great numbers on jobs & the economy! Things are starting to kick in now, and we have just begun! Don’t like steel & aluminum dumping!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 3, 2017 03:54pm […]
7/3/2017
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Thank you to Shawn Steel for the nice words on @FoxNews.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 3, 2017 03:44pm […]
7/3/2017
CHINA/FOREIGN POLICY/NAVY: “The U.S. conducted a naval patrol close to a China-controlled island in the South China Sea on Sunday—the second such operation confirmed by American officials in less than six weeks—following several recent moves that appear to signal Washington’s displeasure with Beijing. The U.S. Navy on Sunday [7-2-17] sent the guided-missile destroyer USS Stethem […]
7/3/2017
LABOR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Women working in the White House earn an average salary of 80 cents for every dollar paid to their male colleagues, a CNN analysis found. That’s a gender pay gap wider than the national average of 82 cents on the dollar, according to the Labor Department. The average salary among men working […]
7/3/2017
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UK: “If we can help little #CharlieGard, as per our friends in the U.K. and the Pope, we would be delighted to do so.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 3, 2017 09:00am […]