Trump claimed that everyone at the summit was talking about Podesta and the DNC server… but Trump’s aides say they have no idea what he’s talking about. Not only was Trump the only person talking about Podesta, but others either nodded politely or ignored him.
Trump met with Putin with no notes allowed for more than two hours and also demanded that staff be kept out to avoid information about the meeting being made public.
The Russians could barely hide their joy and were all smiles as Putin met Trump at the G20.
The economy did add 222,000 jobs in June of 2017, but that is 77,000 fewer Jobs than Obama added in June of 2016. NBC News’s Mark Murray tweeted the jobs table: The jobs numbers have been pretty consistent since 2012/2013 pic.twitter.com/3DBaBo0haM — Mark Murray (@mmurraypolitics) July 7, 2017 Murray is correct. Job growth has been…
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 increase this year despite benign inflation.
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.”
(Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump has employed tough rhetoric in response to North Korea’s missile tests, but his options appear limited in dealing with a challenge that has vexed his Oval Office predecessors. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called Pyongyang’s test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile on the eve of Tuesday’s U.S….
“How has [Putin] earned a face-to-face, full-scale, bilateral meeting with the U.S. president? What has he done to deserve that meeting and that respect?”
If there is an upside for Toomey, it’s that Trump’s constant social media outbursts are distracting from the disastrous piece of legislation he’s trying to push through the Senate.
From the start, Trump’s commission was a sham. It has since devolved into a complete embarrassment for the administration – one that appears to have violated federal law.
The fact that Republicans think they could pull one past the former Secretary of State on a complicated policy issue like health care shows just how lost they are.
Trump’s voter fraud commission has fallen flat on its face as nearly every state in the country has refused to turn over voter data to the White House.
Republicans are trying to distract people from hating their healthcare bill by blaming Hillary Clinton.
House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) slammed Trump on CNN for refusing to stand up to Putin while he bullies the media.
Trump’s attack on MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski backfired completely on the President. Instead of hurting the MSNBC program, Morning Joe’s ratings increased by 70%, and the show beat Trump’s favorite program, Fox and Friends.
The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday urged leaders of the Group of 20 major economies to avoid “myopic” nationalistic policies and to work together in agreed forums to resolve their trade and economic differences.
A confused Donald Trump got off of Air Force One and went to the wrong car despite the fact that his car has the presidential seal on it, and his wife was inside.
Donald Trump’s UN Ambassador Nikki Haley whined about working on July 4th on Twitter, going so far as to apparently jokingly add thanks to North Korea. Because nothing says ha-ha to a Trump official like North Korea state media bragging about intercontinental ballistic missiles reaching the US mainland.
Here is the proof that Trump’s toxic media attacks are harming the country. After NPR had tweeted the Declaration of Independence, Republicans went bonkers and claimed that one of the most famous political documents in the history of the world was a liberally biased attack on Trump.
Forty-four of the fifty states refused to provide data to Trump’s commission investigating voter fraud, as the White House seems to have been completely clueless about state voter privacy laws.
By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) – The Canadian government will apologize to former Guantanamo Bay inmate Omar Khadr and pay him around C$10 million ($7.7 million) to compensate him for the abuse he suffered in detention, two sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. A Canadian citizen, Khadr was captured in Afghanistan in 2002…
During his presidential campaign, Republican Donald Trump praised Russian President Vladimir Putin as a “strong leader” with whom he would like to reset tense U.S.-Russian relations. But as Trump heads to his first face-to-face meeting as president with Putin on Friday at the G20 summit in Germany, he is under pressure at home to take a tough line with the Kremlin.
Americans will celebrate Independence Day on Tuesday with fireworks, acts of gluttony and escapes to the beach, even for people in New Jersey where legislators brokered a last-minute deal to reopen state parks.
In an effort to bury the Russia story, Trump announced on the 4th of July that he would be meeting with Putin on Friday.
Trump takes his treatment of the presidency like a part-time job to a new level by leading the country on Independence Day by playing golf.
When the NPR/Marist Poll asked who America declared its independence from 77% of Americans answered Great Britain, but 23% chose other countries including, France, Mexico, Germany, and Japan.
From one-time presidential front-runner to a disgraced – soon-to-be former – Governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie sure has come a long way.
Using taxpayer money to fund a commission based on an insane Trump conspiracy theory has never been a good use of resources to begin with.
After six months of failed policy proposals, unprecedented scandals, and a deteriorating mental state, the Trump train has gone completely off the rails.
By Karen Freifeld and Jeff Mason (Reuters) – President Donald Trump is considering adding a veteran Washington lawyer to the White House counsel’s office to deal with Russia-related issues, people familiar with the matter said. Ty Cobb, a white-collar defense lawyer with the firm of Hogan Lovells and a former federal prosecutor, met with Trump…
In their campaign program for the German election, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives have dropped the term “friend” in describing the relationship with the United States.
Louisiana Secretary of State Tom Schedler called Trump’s election integrity commission politicized while refusing to turn over the state’s voter data to the President.
The sexual harassment scandal at Fox is growing as Jamie Horowitz, the head of programming at Fox Sports has been fired.
Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh called Trump’s voter fraud commission illegal and debunked Trump’s entire voter fraud conspiracy in a blistering statement. Here is AG Frosh’s statement: Frosh was correct on both of his main points. Trump’s story about voter fraud costing him the popular vote is false, and what Trump’s commission is attempting to…
The angry movement under Donald Trump, the violent rhetoric he has openly engaged in, has put journalists in the same cross hairs as women, LGBTQ people, and minorities online.
White House sources say that Donald Trump is furious after calls to remove him from office via the 25 Amendment started trending on Twitter.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was caught on camera taking time out from dealing with a government shutdown to sunbathe on a state beach that had been closed to the public during the July Fourth holiday weekend.
The British government has been alerted that Trump may sneak into Britain with only 24 hours notice because he is trying to avoid giving protesters time to organize against his visit. The Times (UK) reported, “Senior government officials say they expect the American president to make an unscheduled stop at his Aberdeenshire golf course as…
The Koch brothers represent a problem that subverts and strangles the ideology of the democratic process. Charles and David Koch, owners of Koch Industries have thrust themselves in the midst of our government with the root of all evil: Money. Make no mistake, they have been welcomed with open arms by a government short on ideas and long on greed.
Donald Trump is trying to rewrite history one tweet at a time. On Monday, Trump took credit for Obama’s success on jobs, the economy, illegal immigration, and terrorism.
Nevada, the only state where both gambling and prostitution are legal, is adding recreational marijuana to its list of sanctioned indulgences for adults, with sales kicking off at more than dozen shops beginning on Saturday.
On NBC’s Meet The Press, host Chuck Todd revealed HHS Secretary Tom Price to be a gutless coward through a pointed series of questions about Trump’s behavior that Price refused to answer.
On Thursday, White House Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that Trump has never promoted violence, but on Sunday, Trump tweeted a video showing him beating up CNN.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) was asked about presidential virtue and Trump’s behavior. Instead of condemning the President, Trump’s answer showed why Republicans are going to sink because enable and refuse to stand up to him.
During an interview on CNN’s State of the Union, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) killed Trump’s idea that Republicans should repeal Obamacare now and replace it later by pointing out that 32 million Americans would immediately lose their health insurance under Trump’s idea.
Taxpayers paid for Trump to fly from the White House to his New Jersey golf club, back to the White House, and then he flew back to his New Jersey golf club for more of the 4th of July weekend, and then come back to DC on the 4th of July, and what is Trump doing with his time on the taxpayer dime? He is trolling CNN with Internet memes on Twitter.
It is patently evident now that when it comes to giving tax breaks to the wealthy Republicans in Congress have abandoned all moral guides to pursue their heartless agenda of appeasing their benefactors at the expense of vulnerable people across the country.
The U.S. Labor Department on Friday defended its authority to use salary levels to decide who was eligible for overtime pay but distanced itself from an Obama administration rule that greatly expanded the number of qualifying workers.
The problem is, again, that those constituents you and I might call people, the GOP, federally and at the state level, have decided are “not even people.â€
Sarah Jones has done stellar reporting Donald Trump’s latest misogynistic twitter attack, this one directed at Mika Brezinski and Joe Scarborough and the aftermath as evidence digs a bigger hole for Mr. Trump.
Trump is showing that he isn’t just more interested in attacking his critics than doing his job, but also that there is nothing he won’t lie about.
“Attacking media does nothing for the troop in harm’s way, the hungry child in Appalachia or inner city, the unemployed factory worker.”
On almost every level, the Republican effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act would be harder if they did it without a replacement plan.
New Jersey’s government shut down on Friday at midnight after legislators failed to pass a budget before the July 1 deadline amid a political standoff. Linda So reports.
Republicans in Congress – emboldened by the bully in the White House – are no longer trying to disguise how they feel toward lower and middle-income Americans.
Trump is spiraling out of control as he is attacking NBC, MSNBC, Joe Scarborough, and Mika Brzezinski. The President is claiming that MSNBC fired Greta Van Susteren because should wouldn’t go along with Trump hate and they are controlling the Morning Joe hosts.
Donald Trump is claiming that the states are “hiding something” by refusing to turn over sensitive voter personal information to his commission that looks designed to suppress the vote.
