A hacker used McDonald’s Twitter account to attack President Donald Trump in an extremely derogatory tweet early Thursday. Sent at 9:16 a.m. ET Thursday morning, McDonald’s tweeted: “@realDonaldTrump You are actually a disgusting excuse of a President and we would love to have @BarackObama back, also you have tiny hands.” The tweet, which was sent out […]
Category: Domestic
Washington Judge That Blocked First Won’t Block Second Travel Ban
A federal judge in Washington state whose order blocked President Donald Trump’s first so-called “travel ban” last month on Thursday refused to apply that hold to a second, revised order. The second order remains blocked by a different judge’s ruling. U.S. District Court Judge James Robart in Seattle ruled that the second order temporarily restricting […]
Senate Intelligence Says No Proof Of Wiretapping Or Wider Surveillance
Senate Intelligence Committee leaders released a joint statement Thursday saying that they have no reason to believe that President Donald Trump’s wiretapping claims against then-President Barack Obama are true. “Based on the information available to us, we see no indications that Trump Tower was the subject of surveillance by any element of the United States […]
Federal Judges Rule Against Trump’s New Travel Ban
In Maryland, Judge Theodore D. Chuang echoed that conclusion hours later, ruling in a case brought by nonprofit groups that work with refugees and immigrants, that the likely purpose of the executive order was “the effectuation of the proposed Muslim ban” that Mr. Trump pledged to enact as a presidential candidate. Mr. Trump lashed out […]
Trump’s Budget Makes Huge Cuts To Federal Government
The White House is putting its “America First” agenda front and center, unveiling a budget Thursday that pumps $54 billion more into the Pentagon and protecting the nation’s borders, while sharply slashing domestic and discretionary spending. The $1.1 trillion budget proposal sent to Congress represents a significant rollback of the federal workforce and imposes deep […]
Russian Spies Charged With Email Hacking
The Justice Department announced charges Wednesday against two Russian spies and two hackers behind the 2014 theft of data connected to half a billion Yahoo accounts, which officials called one of the largest known data breaches in American history. The four men together face 47 criminal charges, including conspiracy, computer fraud, economic espionage, theft of […]
Senator Threatens FBI With Subpoena If Wire Tapping And Russia Questions Aren’t Answered
A US senator has warned he will use a court order to force the FBI to say whether Barack Obama wiretapped President Donald Trump’s phones. Senator Lindsey Graham said Congress would “flex its muscle” if FBI director James Comey did not meet its requests. The president has made unsubstantiated claims that his predecessor tapped his […]
Trump’s Tax Plan Would Benefit Trump The Most
The release of two pages from President Trump’s 2005 tax returns didn’t show much. But they did show just how much Trump — and other super-rich Americans — would benefit from his proposed tax plan. Donald and Melania Trump earned about $150 million in 2005, putting them in the top 1 percent of income earners for the year. […]
Trump Says Media Can Choose Where He Donates His Salary
US President Donald Trump will donate his $400,000 (£329,620) salary to charity at the end of 2017, his spokesman has confirmed. And in an unexpected twist, he wants the White House press corps to decide where it should go. Before taking office, Mr Trump told CBS’s 60 Minutes that he would not claim his presidential […]
Top Trump Aide Under Investigation For Tax Evasion
In the three years before he became Donald Trump’s chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon lived as a virtual nomad in a quest to build a populist political insurgency. No presidential adviser in recent memory has followed such a mysterious, peripatetic path to the White House. It was as though he was a man with no […]
Trump Yet To Donate Salary As Promised?
President Donald Trump pledged to forgo a presidential salary, but as his second payday approaches, the White House is declining to say if the president has donated any of his earnings yet. During the campaign, Trump promised he would take “no salary” if elected — a pledge he reiterated after he won. “I’m not going […]
Conway Implies Obama Did More Than Wiretap Trump Campaign
ALPINE, N.J. — The White House is offering yet another wrinkle in its attempt to support President Trump’s allegation — unfounded, so far — that his campaign headquarters in Manhattan was wiretapped by the Obama administration. The latest comes from Trump’s senior counselor Kellyanne Conway. She says the “surveillance” may be broader than even Trump suggested. In […]