WASHINGTON – President-elect Donald J. Trump said this weekend that he was nearly ready to unveil a plan to replace President Obama’s Affordable Care Act with “insurance for everybody.” Mr. Trump, in an interview Saturday evening with The Washington Post, said that health care offered under his plan would come “in a much simplified form […]
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Trump May Boot Press From White House
In the 1890s, journalists covering the president were forced to stand vigil outside the White House fence, querying visitors for scraps of information and appealing for audiences with presidential aides. Today’s reporters are concerned that President-elect Donald J. Trump could send them back into the past. The White House press corps was stunned on Sunday […]
Intelligence Agencies Say Russia Has Potentially Damaging Info On Trump
WASHINGTON – The chiefs of America’s intelligence agencies last week presented President Obama and President-elect Donald J. Trump with a summary of unsubstantiated reports that Russia had collected compromising and salacious personal information about Mr. Trump, two officials with knowledge of the briefing said. The summary is based on memos generated by political operatives seeking […]
Trump Seeks Censorship Of Dissenters Via Twitter Bullying
“When you attack a man for living an ordinary life in an ordinary job, it is bullying,” said Nicolle Wallace, who was communications director for Presdient George W. Bush and a top strategist to other Republicans. “It is cyberbullying. This is a strategy to bully somebody who dissents. That’s what is dark and disturbing.” Robert […]
Ben Carson To Lead HUD
President-elect Donald J. Trump on Monday selected Ben Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, to be secretary of housing and urban development Mr. Carson, who endorsed Mr. Trump after ending his own presidential race, took him on a tour of blighted neighborhoods of Detroit during the campaign, including his boyhood home. He is now poised to oversee […]
Trump Praises Pakistan’s Prime Minister Despite The Foreign Relations Consequences
We have all seen how President-elect Donald Trump made a cozy, expansive, even flattering phone call to Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. On one level, his remarks could be seen as simply amusing. In America, we have gotten used to Trump’s way of shooting his mouth off without any hint that he knows his subject. […]
Trump Won’t Follow Through On Prosecuting Hillary Clinton
WASHINGTON – President-elect Donald J. Trump repeatedly said Hillary Clinton ‘s “lies and deception” rivaled Watergate. He called her “Crooked Hillary.” His most rabid fans chanted it over and over again at huge campaign rallies: “Lock her up!” But on Tuesday, Mr. Trump essentially said: “never mind,” signaling that he does not intend to pursue […]
Cast Of Hamilton Harasses Vice President-Elect As He Exits Play
“Hamilton,” the hit Broadway musical about colonial rebels shaping the future of an unformed country, took an even more political turn during its performance on Friday night. With Vice President-elect Mike Pence attending the show, the cast used the opportunity to make a statement emphasizing the need for the new administration of President-elect Donald J. […]
Trump Picks Longtime Washington Insider as Chief of Staff
WASHINGTON – President-elect Donald J. Trump is expected to chose Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee and a loyal campaign adviser, to be his White House chief of staff, turning to a Washington insider whose friendship with the House speaker, Paul D. Ryan, could help secure early legislative victories, according to people […]
Trump Doesn’t Want To Live In Whitehouse
President-elect Donald J. Trump won the White House with an outsider’s populist promise to “drain the swamp” of Washington. Now, as he prepares to assume the presidency, an open question remains about the capital he repeatedly spurned: Just how much is he willing to become a part of it? Mr. Trump, a homebody who often […]
Obama Invites Trump For a Visit, Calls For Unity
WASHINGTON – President Obama on Wednesday made a plea for national unity after the election of Donald J. Trump, saying that he had instructed his staff members to work as hard as they could starting this week to make the transition of power smooth and successful despite his ample differences with his successor. “It is […]