WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump prodded Republican Senators on Friday to work harder to make good on their promise to repeal Obamacare after the latest Republican healthcare plan ran into significant opposition that threatened to doom the proposal. Writing on Twitter from Paris, where he was a guest of honor in Bastille Day celebrations,…
Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Democrat Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said on Friday that the Kremlin got the message that Donald Trump welcomed their help on the election.
President Donald Trump had another awkward moment as he shook President Emmanuel Macron’s hand in preparations to leave France. It was a seemingly endless handshake, completed by yet another even more awkward moment with President Macron’s wife as Trump kissed her while holding on to her husband’s hand.
By Dan Levine and Mica Rosenberg (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s temporary ban on travelers from six Muslim-majority countries cannot stop grandparents and other relatives of United States citizens from entering the country, a U.S. judge said on Thursday. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson in Honolulu also opens the door for more…
A meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer in June 2016 was also attended by a Russian-American lobbyist who was a former Soviet counter-intelligence officer, NBC News reported on Friday.
House Democrats renewed calls for a vote on an independent commission to investigate Russia’s interference in the U.S. election and ties to the Trump administration during their Friday morning press conference, with Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi saying Republicans “have become enablers of the violations of our Constitution.”
It turns out that the Russian government lawyer wasn’t the only person at the Trump Jr., Kushner, Manafort meeting. The meeting was also attended by a former Soviet counterintelligence official.
The Trump campaign’s digital and data director will speak to the House Intelligence Committee that investigating potential Trump collusion with Russia, as the investigation is apparently looking at any data sharing between the Russians and Trump.
If Sandoval is against the revised legislation, it’s likely that Sen. Dean Heller will also oppose it, which could spell the end of Trumpcare once and for all.
The idea that Trump’s own lawyers would know about the explosive emails and the president himself would be left out of the loop is almost impossible to believe.
As the Russia scandal continues to hang over the White House, Trump and his staff would be smart to take it more seriously.
A handful of Democratic Senators were fuming on Thursday as Donald Trump and the White House strongly consider giving back two compounds to Russia that were shut down by the Obama administration.
After Sens. Rand Paul (KY) and Susan Collins (ME) both announced that they would vote against moving the health care bill forward, Democrats need just one more Republican no vote to firmly kill the legislation and save Obamacare.
Senate Republican leaders released on Thursday a revised plan to dismantle the Obamacare law, playing to the party’s disparate factions by letting insurers sell cheap, bare-bones policies while retaining taxes on the wealthy, but quick criticism showed the healthcare overhaul is already in jeopardy.
The political fissure between an Obama-appointed financial overseer and regulators hired by U.S. President Donald Trump is widening, with Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Richard Cordray threatening to challenge in court any attempt to kill his agency’s new arbitration rule.
President Trump’s personal lawyer for the Russia scandal threatened a stranger in an email Wednesday evening, writing, “Watch your back, b*tch” and “I already know where you live.”
While representing the people of the United States, serial sexual assaulter Trump grabbed Brigitte Macron and repeatedly judged her looks.
U.S. President Donald Trump, who is fighting off allegations of ties between his election campaign and Moscow, said he would invite Russian President Vladimir Putin to the White House but that now was not the right time for that.
When asked by CNN’s Jake Tapper why Trump would give back compounds to the Russians that were taken away by Obama after they attacked the 2016 election, Trump’s Deputy Assistant Sebastian Gorka said that it was because they wanted to give collaboration with Russia a chance.
During a gaggle with reporters aboard Air Force One, Donald Trump admitted that he might have been told about Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with a Russian government attorney, but he claims that he was never told that the meeting was about getting dirt on Hillary Clinton.
The latest version of Trumpcare contains an exemption for Senate Republicans so that they will have more benefits and better care than every other American.
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter was receiving hospital care on Thursday after becoming dehydrated at a charity house-building project in Canada, but he is doing “OK,” Habitat for Humanity said.
The reaction to Mitch McConnell’s tweaked version of the Senate healthcare bill was swift, severe, and deadly, with enough moderate Republicans at no to kill the bill.
Watch as French President Macron does his best to hold back laughter as a reporter asks Trump about his friend Jim in Paris who has never been confirmed as being a real person during a joint press conference in Paris.
At a joint press conference in Paris, Donald Trump finally took a question from a reporter about his son Donald Jr.’s meeting with a Russia government attorney and his answer was to try to blame former Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch for his Trump Jr’s problems.
Republicans refused to allow discussion of amendments that would have kept America safe and blocked Trump from opening the door for future Russia cyber attacks as part of the NDAA.
By calling on Republicans to join them in protecting the 2018 election from Russian hacking Democrats have painted Republicans into a corner. Either they break with Trump and admit that Russia cyber attacks are a problem, or they stand with their president and betray their own country. Here is the letter from DCCC Chair DCCC…
Recording star Kid Rock, an outspoken supporter of Republican President Donald Trump, hinted in website and social media messages on Wednesday that he intends to run for the U.S. Senate in 2018, promising a “major announcement” to come soon.
During an interview on Fox News, VP Mike Pence’s spokes[erson would answer when he was asked on three occasions if Pence met with Russians.
Wall Street’s top U.S. regulator on Wednesday signaled support for potentially scaling back the scope and breadth of disclosure rules and compliance costs imposed on public companies, in an effort to entice more companies to go public.
“I think it’s very difficult when you have this overwhelming barrage of new information that unfolds every few days. I think it’s obvious.”
Trump may be far away, but the stench of scandal and controversy that has plagued his presidency since day one will follow him to France.
In an interview with Reuters, Donald Trump said, “I think many people would have held that meeting.”
Trump claims that he didn’t know anything about the meeting where his son tried to collude with a representative of the Russian government. If evidence surfaces that Trump did know, the President will be linked to collusion with a hostile foreign government and could be impeached. Reuters reported: Asked if he knew that his son…
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he was unaware of his son Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting last year with a Russian lawyer at the heart of a White House controversy, telling Reuters he only learned of it a couple of days ago.
Congresswoman Betty McCollum (D-MN) will propose an amendment that will ban Trump from using any federal money to fund his voter fraud commission.
White House Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders claimed that the Trump White House was as transparent as humanly possible while holding a briefing that cameras are not allowed to film.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) gave an answer that can only be described as gutless enablement when asked if he would ever meet with a foreign source offering campaign information.
Trump Jr. could be in legal jeopardy, they counter. They argue, “Donald Jr. and others may also be liable for conspiracy with respect to espionage, depending on how any illicit information was obtained and the level of their awareness of any spying.”
President Donald Trump on Wednesday defended his eldest son as “innocent” following emails that showed Donald Trump Jr. welcomed Russian help against his father’s rival in the 2016 presidential election, deepening the controversy over purported Russian meddling.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday it was preposterous that U.S. President Donald Trump’s eldest son was blamed for meeting a Russian lawyer who emails suggest might have had damaging information about Hillary Clinton last year.
The White House’s daily guidance for Wednesday included an update that Principal Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Sanders would give an “off-camera” press briefing at 3:00PM.
This marks the third day in a row that the White House has gone dark with their press conferences.
Wray is a former U.S. Justice Department lawyer who has prosecuted and defended white-collar crime cases and represented New Jersey Governor Chris Christie in a political scandal.
The British government said on Wednesday it would not publish in full its report on the sources of funding of Islamist extremism in Britain, prompting opposition charges it was trying to protect its ally Saudi Arabia.
There are signs that President Trump has retreated to his mental happy place of the 2016 election as Trump took to social media to defend himself against the Russia scandal by claiming that Hillary Clinton may have gotten away with crimes.
Instead of defending Donald Trump Jr. releasing his emails, President Trump’s own lawyer Jay Sekulow said that he had nothing to do with it because he represents Donald Trump. In other words, dad’s lawyer just left Trump Jr. to fend for himself.
Donald Trump Jr. sat down with his good friend Sean Hannity and flat out contradicted his own emails with a series of lies that were a total disaster, but you can be sure made President Trump feel better as he sat in jammies and watched from the White House.
On her MSNBC program, Rachel Maddow pointed out that the Russians knew about the Donald Trump Jr. meeting before The New York Times ever did, and asked the vital question, did the Russians use their information to blackmail anyone in the White House?
The Russia scandal is breaking apart the Republican Party as the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) fumed at the Trump administration during an interview on Fox News.
Trump is reported to be consumed by rage over the fact that his son Donald Jr. has been caught up in the Russia scandal, while the White House has kept the President hidden from any domestic public appearances as they fear what might happen if they let him out in public.
Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY) just made Trump’s problems a lot worse by writing to the FEC and demanding an investigation into whether Trump broke campaign finance and criminal laws by accepting a contribution or a donation from Russia.
The White House is pretending that everything is fine, as Donald Trump released a statement praising his son for being a “high-quality person,” but never denying the allegation that Donald Trump Jr. colluded with Russia.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is trying to force through the health care bill that will take coverage away from 22 million Americans by keeping the Senate in session until the third week of August or Trumpcare is passed.
One of Donald Trump Jr’s released emails revealed that the Russians had a way of getting information to Donald Trump through his long-time Trump Tower assistant. Here is the email exchange: The Rhona mentioned above is Rhona Graff, who has been the gatekeeper at Trump Tower and remains the backchannel that people use to get…
U.S. President Donald Trump’s eldest son on Tuesday released an email chain which refers to a top Russian government prosecutor as offering the Trump campaign damaging information about Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.
Trump and the Republican Party ran on Hillary Clinton’s emails, but Clinton could get some karmic revenge as it is Donald Trump’s Jr.’s emails that are providing the paper trail that could bring down Trump.
Donald Trump Jr. dug himself and his father in deeper on the Russia scandal by releasing transcripts of emails that show Russia was supporting Donald Trump for president, and that Donald Trump Sr. had a direct connection to Russia.
During an interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said that Donald Trump Jr’s meeting with an advocate from the Kremlin to get dirt on Hillary Clinton is potential evidence of Trump/Russia collusion.
Donald Trump is so worried about not being loved in the UK that he has postponed his visit until 2018 because he doesn’t want to face protesters.
“This meeting, purportedly in June, in July the Russians start dumping documents helpful to Donald Trump, hurtful to Hillary Clinton.”
Donald Trump Jr. was told in an email that the damaging info on Hillary Clinton that he sought during his meeting with a Kremlin-linked lawyer “was part of a Russian government effort to aid his father’s candidacy.”
Each day brings another “drip” of information that increases the likelihood that there was collusion between the president’s campaign and Moscow.
The fight to stop Republicans from repealing the Affordable Care Act is far from over – and millions of Americans are still at risk of losing insurance and benefits that the current law provides.
“Do I think it’s appropriate? I think I probably would’ve done the same thing. I mean, it’s opposition research.”
Senate Intelligence Committee ranking member Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) needed less than a minute to explain despite Trump’s denials; the Russia scandal is slowly sinking this president.
Donald Trump Jr. has lawyered up, as a meeting that the White House tried to call nothing on Sunday has quickly mushroomed into a need for a criminal defense lawyer on Monday.
Experts are warning that Donald Trump Jr. may have violated federal criminal statutes by meeting with Russia, and has now placed himself in legal jeopardy by admitting that the meeting took place.
The ACLU has filed a lawsuit against over the lack transparency in President Trump’s “election integrity commission.”
A source from within the White House told the media that they are coordinating with the alt-right to defend Donald Trump Jr.
The shoes are beginning to drop as Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine told the press that she would like Donald Trump Jr. to be questioned by the Senate Intelligence Committee and testify about Russia.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s effort to roll back Obamacare faced growing obstacles on Monday as Republicans who control the U.S. Senate remained divided over how to curb the costs of their proposed healthcare bill and prevent millions from losing coverage.
President Trump accused James Comey of breaking the law and leaking classified information, but the source for his claim wasn’t from the intelligence community, but from a Fox and Friends report that contained multiple factual errors.
In a series of disjointed tweets, Trump tried to defend his daughter Ivanka taking his seat at the G 20, but he also admitted that he gave America away to Putin.
By confirming that the Russia meeting happened, and what the Trump campaign expected to get out of the meeting, Donald Trump Jr. has blown the door wide open for impeaching his father.
Trump took another step towards becoming an authoritarian who wears a military uniform and awards himself medals by incorrectly claiming that since he is president, he is no longer a civilian.
While trying to save his father’s skin from the Russia scandal, Donald Trump Jr. accidentally confirmed in a statement that the Trump campaign was colluding with Russia to get dirt on Hillary Clinton.
Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-PA) has announced that he will be introducing legislation to prevent President Trump from forming an election cyber security group with Russia.
On CBS’s Face The Nation, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) torched Donald Trump for cooperating with Russia on preventing election hacking by saying by saying that he is sure Russia could help since they are the ones doing the hacking.
During an interview on ABC’s This Week, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said that if Republicans can’t pass McConnell’s healthcare bill, they should repeal Obamacare, and then take a couple of years to work on replacing it. Cruz completely screwed over McConnell by undercutting the ACA replacement bill.
During an interview on CNN’s State Of The Union, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said that the committee wants to hear from Paul Manafort, Jared Kushner, and Donald Trump Jr. on their meeting with a Kremlin-linked Russian attorney.
Donald Trump’s self-incriminating habit on social media struck again on Sunday as the President all but admitted that he is working for Putin as he said that he never discussed the tougher sanctions that the Senate passed with the Russian leader. Trump tweeted: Sanctions were not discussed at my meeting with President Putin. Nothing will…
The lack of transparency combined with the erosion of truth and trust in President Trump and his administration is resulting dire consequences following the lengthy meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.
The greatest trick the devil ever performed was to convince the world that he did not exist. However, he was unable to carry out this illusion alone. Donald Trump has figured this out and enlisted his very own shepherd to spread his malevolent message. Fox News and it’s resident dolt, Sean Hannity, play the part of messenger of misinformation and political distortion.
Senate Democratic leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) ripped Trump for embarrassing America during his meeting with Putin.
Trump’s own UN Ambassador, Nikki Haley, said during an interview on CNN that everybody knows that Russia interfered in the election, and by everybody, she means everyone but Trump who just denied that Russia interfered in the election at the G 20.
Trump’s new dumb idea is to woo Senate Republicans into supporting his bill by using numbers from conservative groups to dispute the CBO finding that 22 million people will lose their coverage under Trumpcare. The Washington Post reported, “When Trump returns from Europe, he plans to counter the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office’s analysis of the…
Trump can pretend to be a strongman all he wants, but in his first real opportunity to put America first and show strong leadership, he backed down bigly.
“I’m questioning the patriotism of all of those Republicans who are allowing this president to side with Putin, to wrap his arms around Putin.”
His behavior may play well to his shrinking group of supporters back home, but the United States under Donald Trump’s leadership is becoming a laughingstock on the world stage.
Four more Republican Senators all from rural states are withholding support for the Republican health care bill due to the damage it would do to rural hospitals. If McConnell brings this bill to the floor for a vote, Trump will be humiliatingly defeated by his own party.
Former Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta told MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews that he believes that the pressure from the Russia investigation is causing Trump to strike out and say things with no concern for whether or not they are true. Video: John Podesta to @hardball: 'How can you imagine sitting there, preparing for one…
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) zeroed in on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and became his worst nightmare by explaining how McConnell’s own bill will gut health care in his home state of Kentucky.
House Intel Committee ranking member Rep. Adam Schiff didn’t hold back on his skepticism as he destroyed all of the major points in the White House’s version of Trump’s meeting with Putin.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s commission to investigate possible election fraud will convene this month, a government notice said on Friday, as more U.S. states have refused to hand over at least some voter data. Trump created the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity in May, after claiming without evidence that millions of people…
“Trump just unilaterally surrendered to Russia on election interference,†Morgan Finkelstein, the Press Secretary for the liberal Center for American Progress Action Fund, said in a memo send to PoliticusUSA, in which Finkelstein likened the meeting between the two leaders to a “good first Tinder date.â€
The United States, Japan and South Korea on Friday agreed to push for a quick U.N. Security Council resolution to apply new sanctions on North Korea after its test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) this week.
Sergey Lavrov told reporters that Republican President Donald Trump accepted Russian President Vladimir Putin’s assurances that Russia didn’t meddled in the 2016 presidential election.
U.S. President Donald Trump told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday that it was an “honor” to meet him for the first time and said he looked forward to “positive things” in the relationship between the former Cold War rivals.
Collusion comes so easily and naturally to Trump and Putin that it is almost like they have done this before.
