Roger Stone, the right-wing provocateur and longtime associate of President Trump, was convicted on Friday of lying to Congress and witness tampering related to his efforts to feed the Trump campaign inside information about WikiLeaks in 2016. Jurors convicted Stone on all seven counts of obstruction, making false statements and witness tampering. They deliberated for […]
Category: Government
Trump Says A Second Phone Call Transcript Will Be Released
President Trump tore into House Democrats’ ongoing impeachment inquiry Wednesday during a press conference with Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, decrying the hearsay-laden “witch hunt” and saying he hadn’t watched that day’s public hearing “for one minute.” “This is a sham, and shouldn’t be allowed — it was a situation that as caused by people […]
Supreme Court Leaning Towards End Of DACA Program
WASHINGTON — A bare majority of the U.S. Supreme Court appeared likely Tuesday to let the Trump administration follow through on its plan to shut down DACA, the federal program that has allowed nearly 800,000 young people, known as “dreamers,” to avoid deportation and remain in the U.S. With hundreds of DACA supporters rallying outside […]
Trump Braces For First Public Impeachment Hearings
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has long criticized Democrats for conducting the impeachment inquiry behind closed doors. This week, he and his advisers are bracing for impact as those doors are thrown open and the cameras roll on the first public presidential impeachment hearings in over 20 years. As the hearings on Wednesday have approached, […]
Protester’s Disrupt Trump’s Veterans Day Speech
President Trump on Monday hailed the legacy of the American armed forces in a Veterans Day speech that came against the backdrop of protests and political turmoil that has engulfed his presidency. Trump’s remarks at Madison Square Park in Manhattan were largely devoid of politics, but even in New York on Veterans Day the president […]
Trump Dealt Another Blow In Fight To Keep Tax Returns From Public
A federal judge dismissed President Trump’s lawsuit that attempted to block a newly passed law that would allow Congress to obtain his New York state tax returns — but allowed for Trump to try again in the future. The law, known as the TRUST Act, was signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in July and calls […]
American Born ISIS Bride Says She Deserves Second Chance From USA
AL-ROJ CAMP, Syria — An American-born woman who once urged jihadists in America to “go on drivebys, and spill all of their blood,” says she “regrets every single thing” and believes she should be given the option to return to the United States with her young son. “Anyone that believes in God believes that everyone […]
Trump To Appeal Tax Return Decision To Supreme Court
President Trump’s personal attorneys told a federal judge on Friday that they intend to petition the Supreme Court next week to review an appeals court decision that said the Manhattan district attorney can subpoena the president’s tax returns. Trump’s lawyers and the district attorney’s office said in a joint letter to a federal judge that […]
President Trump Ordered To Pay $2M Dollars Due To Rampant Charitable Law Violations
President Donald Trump has been ordered by a New York State judge to pay $2 million to a group of nonprofit organizations as part of a settlement in a civil lawsuit stemming from persistent violations of state charities laws. The payment is the final resolution to a case brought by the New York attorney general’s […]
Dems Release Transcripts Of Closed Door Impeachment Depositions
House Democrats leading the Trump impeachment inquiry publicly released the first transcripts from their closed-door interviews on Monday — airing concerns from witnesses about the activities of President Trump’s associates related to Ukraine — amid an outcry from Republicans that the proceedings are being conducted in private. The panels released testimony from former U.S. ambassador […]
Trump Officially Pulls Out Of Historic Paris Climate Accord
President Trump on Monday began the yearlong process of withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris climate accord. The official announcement cements a promise Trump made in the White House Rose Garden in 2017 when he first announced his intention to withdraw from the global climate change agreement signed by every other country in the world. […]
Trump Approves Plan To Admit Record Low Number Of Refugees
President Trump has approved a plan to reduce the cap for refugee admissions to the country for fiscal year 2020 to 18,000, the lowest level on record since the program began more than three decades ago. In a statement announcing the move this weekend, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that “the core of the […]