New York’s attorney general is looking into a report that the Eric Trump Foundation funneled more than $1 million from charity golf tournaments into President Donald Trump’s business, a spokesman for the attorney general said on Friday. Forbes magazine reported this week that the charity run by Eric Trump, the president’s second-oldest son, paid the […]
Category: Domestic
Trump Says Comey Making Excuses For Democrats Losing Election
“No collusion. No obstruction. He’s a leaker.” President Trump on Friday claimed former FBI Director James Comey lied under oath during his sworn testimony before a Congressional committee. The president’s public statements were the first since Comey testified Thursday, accusing Trump of asking him to “let go” of the FBI’s Michael Flynn investigation and lift […]
Tillerson Urges Gulf States To Ease Blockade On Qatar
WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Friday urged Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states to ease their blockade against Qatar, saying it was causing unintended humanitarian consequences and affecting the U.S.-led fight against Islamic State. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt severed relations with the small Gulf Arab state on […]
President Trump’s Approval Ratings Sink To New Lows
President Donald Trump’s approval rating has sunk to a new low at 34%, according to a recent poll. According to a poll by Quinnipiac University, 34% of voters approve of Trump, while 57% disapprove, a dip from the university’s previous survey on May 24, which found that the President had a 37% approval rating. The […]
Trump Lawyer Says That Comey Was Lying Under Oath
President Donald Trump’s outside counsel said Thursday that James Comey is lying. Marc Kasowitz claimed the president never demanded loyalty from Comey as the former FBI director alleged in Senate testimony. In a statement to reporters Thursday afternoon, Kasowitz pushed back on various points of Comey’s dramatic, under oath testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee. […]
Comey Hopes That President Trump Releases Recordings Of Their Convos
Former FBI Director James Comey called for the release of any recordings of conversations he had with President Trump in the White House, as well as memos he wrote detailing the private talks at the time. Comey made his first public remarks since his abrupt May 9 firing during high-profile testimony before the Senate Intelligence […]
Trump Nominates Christopher Wray To Direct The FBI
President Trump on Wednesday said he intended to nominate former assistant attorney general Christopher Wray to be the next FBI Director. Wray would replace Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, who took over when James Comey was fired by Trump in May. “I will be nominating Christopher A. Wray, a man of impeccable credentials, to be […]
ISIS Claims Responsibility For Double Attacks In Iran
LONDON Suicide bombers and gunmen attacked Iran’s parliament and the Mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini in Tehran on Wednesday morning, killing at least 12 people in a twin assault at the heart of the Islamic Republic, Iranian officials and media said. Islamic State claimed responsibility and released a video purporting to show gunmen inside the parliament […]
Obama And Justin Trudeau Dine Together In Montreal
Barack Obama may no longer be the president, but that’s hasn’t put a damper on his “bromance” with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. While in Montreal Tuesday for a speaking engagement organized by the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal, Obama had dinner with Trudeau. And Montreal-born Trudeau, tweeted, “How do we get young leaders […]
London Mayor Wants Trump’s Visit To Be Canceled After Criticisms
London Mayor Sadiq Khan is calling on the British government to cancel a state visit from President Trump after Trump criticized his response to this weekend’s terror attacks in London. “I don’t think we should roll out the red carpet to the president of the USA in the circumstances where his policies go against everything […]
FBI Arrests Woman For Leaking NSA Report On Russian Hacking
WASHINGTON ― A government contractor in Georgia was arrested this weekend after a classified National Security Agency report was leaked on an alleged cyberattack attempt by Russian military intelligence officers on a voting software company and local election officials. Reality Leigh Winner, a 25-year-old federal contractor for Pluribus International Corp. who had a top secret security […]
Trump Escalates Tensions In Middle East After Qatar Is Blacklisted
WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump escalated a spiraling Middle East crisis on Tuesday morning in tweets attacking Qatar, which hosts 10,000 American troops at the largest U.S. military base in the region. Beginning a little after 8 a.m., the president put out three statements criticizing Qatar and praising neighboring countries ― including Saudi Arabia ― for […]