After Donald Trump embarrassed himself on the world stage on Thursday by again suggesting that Russia wasn’t behind the 2016 election meddling, Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff dismantled the president, saying he is “not putting America first.” Schiff, the top-ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said that Trump is putting his “personal best interest” ahead…
“One way to stab in the heart aggressive American reporting on that subject is to lay traps for American journalists who are reporting on it.”
James Clapper said the Russians will continue to collect intelligence and interfere in U.S. elections so long as the United States, led by Trump, refuses to “push back.”
“There is an appearance that [Trump’s] businesses are profiting from his occupying the presidency,” outgoing ethics head Walter Shaub said.
Just as Hillary Clinton warned the country during the campaign, Trump is turning out to be a Putin “puppet” who is delivering every last item on Russia’s wish list.
“Welcome to Hell”. That’s the greeting for U.S. President Donald Trump and other world leaders from anti-capitalist protesters in Hamburg who aim to disrupt the G20 summit, already rife with tensions over trade and climate change.
Dozens of police were injured in clashes with protesters before a G20 summit in Hamburg on Thursday, tarnishing the start of a meeting Chancellor Angela Merkel hopes will cement her role as a stateswoman as she seeks re-election in September.
By Roberta Rampton and Jeff Mason WARSAW (Reuters) – One day before his first meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that no one knows for sure whether Moscow intervened in the 2016 U.S. election but that he suspected Russian involvement. Speaking to reporters in Poland, Trump played down…
By Lisa Lambert WASHINGTON (Reuters) – More than one-third of U.S. states on Thursday sued the U.S. Education Department and Secretary Betsy DeVos over the recent suspension of rules that would have swiftly canceled student-loan debt of people defrauded by Corinthian Colleges Inc and other for-profit schools. Last month DeVos pressed pause on the rules,…
White House ethics chief Walter Shaub is resigning later this month, and while he says that he wasn’t pushed out by Trump, Shaub makes it clear in his resignation letter that he views this administration as placing profiting off of the presidency above all else.
CNN’s Jim Acosta is accusing Trump of faking his news conference overseas by calling on a reporter who applied for a job in his White House.
House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) called out Trump after he refused to say with certainty that Russia was behind the 2016 election hacking as a man who is too weak to stand up to Putin.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s plan to quickly pass a secret health care bill that would end coverage for 22 million Americans hit more snags, as the vote on the bill was delayed for an additional week because Republicans still don’t have the votes to pass it.
Trump spoke to the people of Poland, and the message that he delivered to them was that being invaded by Nazis and Soviets was “trouble and tough.”
