Trump In Free Fall As His Favorite Poll Shows Approval Rating In The 30s For The First Time
Not only are Trump’s numbers continuing to fall, even with his favorite pollster, but the passion and energy are clearly with his opposition.
Not only are Trump’s numbers continuing to fall, even with his favorite pollster, but the passion and energy are clearly with his opposition.
“The stilted nature of the text alone was sort of a tell that President Unindicted Co-conspirator was involved,” Rick Wilson said before unloading on Trump.
“They thought we colluded, but we couldn’t even collude with our local offices,” Kushner said during a private meeting.
The new development “adds to a series of actions that Trump has taken that some advisers fear could place him and some members of his inner circle in legal jeopardy.”
“We created him, and now we’re rationalizing him. When will it stop?” Republican Sen. Jeff Flake wrote in an op-ed published in Politico on Monday.
Anthony Scaramucci was brought into the Trump administration because Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump wanted to get rid of former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus.
The White House is trying to spin the departure of Anthony Scaramucci as a decision to help Chief of Staff John Kelly, but what happened was Scaramucci refused to report to the Chief of Staff, and not Trump, so he was given the boot.
Anthony Scaramucci didn’t last two weeks working for Trump, as it is being reported that Trump is set to fire his new communications director. The New York Times, “President Trump has decided to remove Anthony Scaramucci from his position as communications director, three people close to the decision said Monday, relieving him just days after…
A majority of Americans are ready to move on from healthcare reform at this point after the U.S. Senate’s effort to dismantle Obamacare failed on Friday, according to an exclusive Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll.
Donald Trump was trying to talk tough to North Korea, but his response to a reporter’s question revealed a president without a plan who doesn’t appear to have the slightest clue of how to handle a looming potential crisis.
Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA) spoke about Donald Trump like he was a toddler when he called the President’s constant messes exhausting, and his tweets distracting.
WikiLeaks said on Monday it had published a searchable archive of more than 21,000 verified emails associated with key figures in the election campaign of President Emmanuel Macron.
China hit back on Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted he was “very disappointed” in China following Pyongyang’s latest missile test, saying the problem did not arise in China and that all sides need to work for a solution.
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday took aim at the nation’s health insurers in an escalating threat to cut the healthcare subsidy payments that make Obamacare plans affordable, one day after urging Republican senators to continue working to undo his Democratic predecessor’s healthcare law.
While swearing in his new chief of staff, John Kelly, Donald Trump referred to the White House cabinet room as the boardroom in front of reporters. The President appears not to know where he is because there is no boardroom in the White House.
The Obama backed, and Eric Holder chaired, National Democratic Redistricting Committee has raised $10.8 million in six months in their effort to combat Republican election rigging through gerrymandering.
As the failures of his administration pile up, Donald Trump is taking credit for Obama accomplishments, while proclaiming his White House chaos free.
After Trump had whined about China not solving the N. Korea nuclear problem, Rep Ted Lieu (D-CA) hit Trump hard by pointing out that the President hasn’t signed the sanctions bill against Chinese entities that help North Korea.
U.S. Representative Greg Gianforte will perform community services at a Montana nonprofit that builds wheelchairs for children after pleading guilty to assaulting a reporter during his election campaign, local media reported on Sunday.
Republicans on Sunday urged President Donald Trump’s new chief of staff John Kelly to rein in the chaos within the White House on Monday but said the retired Marine Corps general will be challenged to assert control.
The Trump White House has gone off the rails and is now trying to tell the Senate what they are allowed to vote on.
Kellyanne Conway has been going on Fox News and delivering the message that Trump and Mike Pence should be treated with deference and humility because elected officials like Trump aren’t your peers. They are better than you.
Trump’s HHS Secretary Tom Price fell apart when he was asked a very simple question on ABC’s This Week. Price was asked are you going to sabotage the health care system or fix it, and all he could do was criticize Obamacare.
Trump wants a political win so badly that he is begging Republican Senators to take away health care from millions as the impotent president can do nothing but watch his presidency collapse.
Senator Mazie Hirono’s (D-HI) plea for compassion has great relevance for healthcare policy moving forward as well as for all major legislation that affects people’s lives.
Donald Trump and his cohorts of the GOP are malevolently complicit in a political assassination attempt, that leaves American citizens as collateral damage. Republicans have engaged in a universal effort to erase the legacy of Barrack Obama and will stop at no cost including the lives of the people that they serve.
Six months into the Trump administration, the GOP tune is changing as the president’s incompetence, corruption, and unfitness has thrown the entire Republican agenda into a dumpster and set it ablaze.
This week’s epic failure to pass any repeal and replace legislation won’t be the last effort by Donald Trump and Republicans to dismantle former President Obama’s signature achievement.
Trump repeated the lie that the Affordable Care Act is “imploding” and issued a threat to end payments that keep health care costs down.
In an interview on MSNBC, Franken was asked if he took Kushner at his word. His simple response: “No.”
“In one week, Donald Trump got rebuked by the boy scouts, by the Pentagon, by the International Association of Police Chiefs.”
U.S. President Donald Trump will sign legislation that imposes sanctions on Russia, the White House said on Friday, after Moscow ordered the United States to cut hundreds of diplomatic staff and said it would seize two U.S. diplomatic properties in retaliation for the bill.
“One of the failures was the president never laid out a plan or his core principles and never sold them to the American people,” the Republican said.
An adviser to Trump is publicly stating what many Republicans continue to deny. Donald Trump is a failing president.
As fellow Republicans labored to repeal Obamacare this week, U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly swerved off-topic, escalating concerns in his party about his ability to govern the country six months after taking office.
Here’s more evidence that Donald Trump is nothing more than a low information Fox News viewer. Trump used a Fox and Friends story as proof that Russia was really against him during the 2016 election.
Donald Trump went on the rampage against Republican Senators on Saturday. Trump claimed that Republicans need to get rid of the 60 vote rule, and reconciliation. The President also claimed that 8 Democrats, not 52 Republicans control the Senate.
Following is a partial list of officials who have been fired, have left the administration or were nominated by Trump for a position but did not take the job.
Following on the heels of the Boy Scouts, the Suffolk County Police Department has become the second organization in two days to disavow statements from Trump after the President called for more police brutality during a Friday speech to law enforcement officers.
Both in a statement and a CNN interview fired White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus has continued to unrelentingly suck up to the least popular president in the history of polling.
A massive image of U.S. President Donald Trump as an alien intruder now towers above one of the busiest roads in Mexico City urging motorists to “Make America Great Again.”
The failure of Senate Republicans to pass Obamacare repeal led to Trump firing Reince Priebus and launching his plan to declare war on the Republican majority in the House and Senate.
U.S. President Donald Trump expressed dismay on Friday that the Senate tried to repeal his predecessor’s healthcare program overnight but failed to do so, saying lawmakers had been working on it for seven years but “we’re going to get it done.”
A majority of Americans believe that transgender individuals should be allowed to serve in the military, according to an exclusive Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Friday.
President Donald Trump on Friday replaced his White House chief of staff, Reince Priebus, installing retired General John Kelly in his place in a major shakeup of his top team.
Trump Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci came up with a plan to catch the people who are leaking in the White House, but before he could take the plan to Trump, the scheme was leaked to the media.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren called on Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen to remove members of Wells Fargo & Co’s <WFC.N> board after revelations the company improperly charged customers for auto insurance. In a letter sent Friday to Yellen, Warren, a Democrat, said the recent revelation of more improper charges at the bank…
A U.S. congressional panel this week asked 22 government agencies to share documents on Moscow-based cyber firm Kaspersky Lab, saying its products could be used to carry out “nefarious activities against the United States,” according to letters seen by Reuters.
Donald Trump is so petty that after losing on health care, he had to criticize President Obama during a speech to law enforcement officers in New York.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Saturday that North Korea had fired a missile that may have landed in Japan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ).
Victory for the people…until next battle
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan was in full dark emo mode, and Republicans were talking about plane crashes all because millions of people will get to keep their health care.
The Russian central bank held its key interest rate unchanged at 9 percent on Friday, citing geopolitical risks and inflationary pressures, but it indicated rate cuts would follow in the coming months.
House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan said on Friday he was disappointed with the Senate’s failure to pass healthcare legislation but urged Republican senators not to give up as their colleagues in the House moved on to tax reform.
“Half his tweets show utter weakness. They are plaintive, shrill little cries, usually just after dawn,” Peggy Noonan wrote in Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal, in an article entitled “Trump Is Woody Allen Without the Humor.”
With two tweets about the Senate vote on health care, Donald Trump proved that he is totally out of it, and has no idea what is going on in the government that he is supposed to be running.
Russia on Friday ordered the United States to cut hundreds of diplomatic staff in retaliation for a new round of U.S. sanctions, and said it was seizing two U.S. diplomatic properties.
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The United States will have to cut its diplomatic staff in Russia by 200 to 300 people after Moscow retaliated on Friday against Washington over new U.S. sanctions, the RIA news agency said, citing a source. Russia told the United States on Friday that some of its diplomats had to leave the…
A U.S. Senate led by Donald Trump’s fellow Republicans dealt the president a harsh blow on Friday, failing to move ahead with a major campaign promise to dismantle Obamacare as they fell one vote short of passing healthcare legislation.
President Obama managed to lead a huge piece of legislation, known as the ACA, through both chambers while Trump, who promised repeatedly that he would repeal and replace immediately, failed to do so.
Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) who is also a Senate candidate called for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to step down after Republicans failed to pass an Obamacare repeal bill.
In the wake of the Republican failure to repeal Obamacare, Democratic leaders Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi extended olive branches to their Republican colleagues, urging bipartisan work to tweak the ACA.
Trump blamed Senate Republicans for failing to pass Obamacare repeal, but the failure began with a weak president who burned bridges with Senators in Maine and Alaska, and when push came to shove the man who thinks he is a dealmaker couldn’t get a majority of Senators from his own party to support a bill.
In a shocking twist, the Senate Republican skinny Obamacare repeal bill failed after Sen. John McCain cast the decisive no vote.
The new CBO Score on the Senate Republican “Skinny” Bill reveals that Republicans are voting to take health insurance away from 16 million Americans.
The American Medical Association has released a statement calling the Republican Health Care Freedom Act a.k.a. skinny Obamacare repeal toxic to patients.
As the U.S. Senate edged towards a late-night vote on a pared-down bill to repeal Obamacare, House Speaker Paul Ryan assured Senate Republicans that if they approve a bill that many do not want to become law, the House will help them craft different legislation.
Senate Republicans have finally unveiled their 8 page Obamacare, which despite Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell’s best efforts, is finally available for the public to read.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senate Republicans passed a measure on Thursday that would permanently repeal Obamacare’s so-called Cadillac tax on high-cost employer-provided insurance without a single Democratic vote amid a broader debate to repeal the healthcare law. The measure passed along party lines by a 52-48 vote. To become law, it will need to be passed…
Reporters tried to get a Republican Senator to tell them what is in the Obamacare repeal bill, but instead of answering their questions, he ran away.
As U.S. Senate Republican leaders feverishly tried to pass a slimmed-down Obamacare repeal, some senators threatened to bring the entire effort to a halt unless there were guarantees that the bill would be significantly changed during negotiations with the House of Representatives.
A leading Democratic lawmaker on Thursday said he would ask federal officials to investigate reported threats by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke regarding Alaska energy policy to retaliate against opposition from one of the state’s Republican senators to efforts to repeal Obamacare.
Hillary Clinton’s memoir about her failed attempt to win last year’s U.S. presidential election will be called “What Happened,” a declaration rather than a question, her publisher said in the run-up to its September 12 release.
Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee are demanding a second special counsel be appointed to investigate former President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
A statement from Paul Ryan and the actions of the House Rules Committee have made it clear that Speaker Ryan is gearing up to take away insurance from 16 million Americans before next Tuesday.
White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci’s obscene tirade against other members of the Trump administration is evidence that Trump is the source, but the country won’t be cleansed until the entire Trump White House is gone. The current White House is so dysfunctional that the Communications Director went after the Chief of Staff with a…
Walmart.com, trailing Amazon.com Inc in the number of goods for sale on its website, is recruiting vendors in China and other countries to boost its online offerings in a pivot away from Wal-Mart’s Made-in-America campaign.
Threatening to fire anyone who leaks and promising that the FBI will get anyone who “cock-blocked” him, Trump’s new Communication Director Anthony Scaramucci’s profanity littered phone call with Ryan Lizza is telling, mostly because he didn’t even know to ask for it to be off the record or on background.
The U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to slap new sanctions on Russia, Iran and North Korea, despite President Donald Trump’s objections to the legislation.
Republican Senators Lindsey Graham (SC), John McCain (AZ), Ron Johnson (WI), and Bill Cassidy (LA) held a joint press conference to announce that they would vote no on the skinny Obamacare repeal bill unless they got assurances from Paul Ryan that it would never become law.
The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday approved a $68 billion increase in military spending next year with legislation that also provides money to start construction of President Donald Trump’s Mexican border wall.
President Trump has proclaimed himself done with White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, but in a totally crazy move won’t commit to firing him.
The chief of staff of the U.S. Army, General Mark Milley, said on Thursday he had no advance knowledge of President Donald Trump’s decision to ban transgender individuals from the military
The United States’ top general told the military on Thursday there had been no change yet to Pentagon policy on transgender personnel, after President Donald Trump’s announcement of his plans to ban them appeared to catch senior officers by surprise.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan is telling his Republicans to cancel their travel plans, because they may need to stay in DC to pass the Senate’s health care bill. In other words, Mitch McConnell’s promise of a conference was a lie, and the plan is to take coverage away from 16 million Americans.
For the first time ever, the Boy Scouts had to issue a formal apology after hosting Donald Trump’s insane political ranting at their national jamboree.
Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) told Donald Trump on the Senate floor to forget about trying to use the Senate’s August recess to kill the Russia investigation by firing Attorney General Jeff Sessions and appointing a new AG.
The key mechanism of waivers for rules governing preexisting conditions and mandatory benefits must be passed with 60 votes, the Senate Parliamentarian ruled after a successful challenge from Senate Budget Committee Democrats.
U.S. Senate Republicans embarked on Thursday on another push to unravel Obamacare, working on a stripped-down bill after failing to pass broader legislation and complete a seven-year campaign to gut a law that extended health coverage to millions.
U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan defended White House chief of staff Reince Priebus on Thursday after President Donald Trump’s new communications director appeared to link Priebus to media leaks in a tweet.
Former CIA Director General Michael Hayden said on CNN’s New Day, “I think we’re getting these leaks because of the atmosphere within the administration.â€
White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci bragged about talking to AG Jeff Sessions about the leaks, and also to “buddies in the FBI.” That, of course, is a violation of written rules regarding political interference in investigations.
Instead of running the country, Donald Trump is watching CNN and making the White House Communications Director call in when they say something that he doesn’t like. Video clip of Scaramucci on CNN: .@Scaramucci: Trump “may sign the sanctions… or he may… negotiate an even tougher deal against the Russians.†https://t.co/VOFYQx9frP — CNN (@CNN) July…
Ford Motor Co on Wednesday joined rival General Motors Co in reporting higher-than-expected second-quarter profits, and in the next breath warning of a rougher ride for the rest of the year.
“Trump has been talking privately about how he might replace Sessions and possibly sidestep Senate oversight, four people familiar with the issue said.”
Outside of the White House and the halls of Congress, it’s clear that people of all political persuasions recognize how devastating this repeal plan would be to millions of Americans.
Once again, Donald Trump has shown that he is on the wrong side of history, but the thousands of brave transgender members of the U.S. military aren’t likely to go down without a fight.
U.S. President Donald Trump intends to nominate Republican Kansas Governor Sam Brownback as ambassador at large for international religious freedom, the White House said on Wednesday.
The “skinny” repeal that is gaining steam may have a cute name, but it would cause a humanitarian crisis and leave millions of Americans without the care they need.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions plans to announce soon several criminal investigations into intelligence leaks, news outlets reported on Wednesday, as the nation’s top law enforcement official faced mounting criticism from President Donald Trump.