The United States was expected to send a first group of 20 Central American asylum seekers back to Mexico through the border city of Tijuana on Friday as part of President Donald Trump’s hardening of longstanding U.S. immigration policy.
By Zachary Fagenson FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Reuters) – A longtime ally of U.S. President Donald Trump was arrested on Friday for lying to Congress about the 2016 campaign’s efforts to use stolen emails to undercut his Democratic rival in the latest arrest of the Special Counsel probe into possible election manipulation. Roger Stone, a 66-year-old…
Cernovich said Trump had been outmaneuvered by Democratic U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, calling her an “alpha.”
Speaker Pelosi made it clear that Trump caved, but there will be no SOTU until the government is open and they agree on a date.
Hundreds of flights were grounded or delayed at New York-area and Philadelphia airports on Friday as air traffic controllers called in sick hours before President Donald Trump announced an end to the 35-day partial shutdown of the U.S. government.
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A federal judge on Friday ordered lawyers for Special Counsel Robert Mueller and President Donald Trump‘s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort to appear Feb. 4 for a closed hearing on whether Manafort breached his plea deal by lying to investigators. Judge Amy Berman Jackson in the U.S. District…
Those who claim this was a fight between parties are ignoring that one party was doing the will of the people, while the other was not. The Speaker got it done because it was the right thing to do and it should be remembered that she is not the person who held the government and 2 million people hostage over a failed campaign promise.
Rep. Dan Kildee (D-MI) mocked Trump for taking a defeat lap in the Rose Garden after he lost everything in the shutdown. Rep. Kildee said on MSNBC, “I have seen a lot of things with this president for the first I have seen people give victory laps. This is the first time I have seen…
Economic growth is expected to take a hit in the current quarter because of the shutdown, a Reuters poll of economists showed on Friday, while a dearth of data is already impacting traders in U.S. fixed income and currency markets.
U.S. companies say the shutdown is hurting their businesses and can cause more damage if it persists.
By Steve Holland and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said on Friday he has reached a tentative agreement with U.S. lawmakers for three weeks in stop-gap funding that would end a partial U.S. government shutdown now in its 35th day, with a senior Democratic aide saying money the president demanded for a…
The details of the agreement to end the government shutdown have leaked out, and Donald Trump got absolutely nothing.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer handed Trump a massive defeat as the president caved and agreed to reopen the government without money for his wall.
The charges against him add to pressure on Trump as the newly installed Democratic majority in the House of Representatives plans to step up investigations of the president while a month-long partial shutdown of the U.S. government over Trump’s demand for funding for a border wall drags on.
Jerome Corsi, a right-wing political commentator, confirmed on Friday that he is “Person 1” cited in the indictment of Roger Stone and said that he no longer believed he would be charged as part of the U.S. special counsel’s Russia probe.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to back a short-term government funding bill, CBS and NBC reported on Friday, each citing a senior administration official. Debate over U.S. border security will continue, but such a stop-gap funding bill would allow federal workers to be paid and “take stress off (the) system,” an…
House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) suggested that there are only a few people who could have been directing Roger Stone, which turns attention to Trump and Jared Kushner.
Trump could only respond to the Stone indictment with a gibberish filled tweet, which is proof that Mueller has broken Donald Trump. Trump tweeted: Greatest Witch Hunt in the History of our Country! NO COLLUSION! Border Coyotes, Drug Dealers and Human Traffickers are treated better. Who alerted CNN to be there? — Donald J. Trump…
MSNBC’s Ari Melber explains that Mueller is laying out the evidence that someone connected to Trump was trying to get illegally obtained materials to benefit Trump.
(Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s long-time ally and campaign adviser Roger Stone was arrested on Friday on seven charges of obstruction, lying and witness tampering as part of the U.S. Special Counsel’s Office Russia investigation. Stone is one of dozens of people caught up in a long-running investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016…
Robert Mueller stunned the entire political world this morning with his early-morning arrest of Donald Trump’s oldest friend and associate, Roger Stone. The implications of this arrest, and the 24-page indictment of Stone obtained by Mueller in Washington last night, are not yet fully understood. But there is increasing speculation that President Donald Trump himself…
It’s against the law to even ask for or receive a “contribution or donation of money or other thing of value†in connection with a U.S. election. One does not have to even receive it to have broken federal law.
(Reuters) – Roger Stone, a longtime ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, allegedly called an associate “a rat,” threatened his dog and invoked “The Godfather” Mafia movies in a bid to stop him from testifying in an investigation run by U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office, according to court papers unsealed on Friday. Stone was…
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders sounded desperate as she tried to distance Donald Trump from the freshly indicted Roger Stone.
Panic and chaos are hitting the Trump administration this morning, after longtime Trump friend and campaign aide Roger Stone was arrested during an early-morning FBI raid on his home. New reporting shows that former Trump adviser Steve Bannon may also be implicated in the charges against Stone. Speaking on CNN after Stone’s arrest, White House…
Former CIA director John Brennan was on MSNBC’s Morning Joe today, predicting that more indictments would be coming soon in special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe. And he shocked his audience when he made the suggestion that Mueller’s new indictments could include members of President Donald Trump’s immediate family. Brennan made his comments shortly after it…
CNN on Friday analyzed the explosive new indictment of longtime Trump friend and associate Roger Stone, who was arrested by the FBI Friday morning in his Ft. Lauderdale, Florida home. Special counsel Robert Mueller obtained the indictment Thursday evening in Washington, D.C., charging Stone with one count of obstruction of justice, five counts of false…
Longtime Donald Trump friend and adviser Roger Stone was finally indicted and arrested by federal law enforcement authorities early Friday morning after months of speculation. The indictment of Stone came from special counsel Robert Mueller who charged him with obstruction of justice, giving false statements to the FBI and tampering with witnesses. NEW: Roger Stone,…
