US President Donald Trump has ratcheted up his verbal assault on the media, describing it as “the enemy of the American people” in a tweet. Shortly after landing at his holiday home in Florida – where he is spending a third consecutive weekend – the president lashed out at several news organisations. “The FAKE NEWS […]
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Trump To Introduce New Travel Ban
US President Donald Trump said he will issue a new executive order to replace his controversial directive suspending travel to the United States by citizens of seven mainly-Muslim countries. At an extraordinary White House news conference on Thursday, Trump said the new order would seek to address concerns raised by federal appeals court judges, who […]
Trump To Hold “Campaign Rally For America”
US President Donald Trump has arrived for what the White House calls “a campaign rally for America” in Florida. The rally in Melbourne is similar in style to those he held during the election campaign. The rally comes off the back of a week in which Mr Trump attacked the media in an aggressive press […]
Trump’s Approval Rating Continues To Fall
The most recent Gallup survey, the first conducted entirely after the resignation of Michael Flynn as national security adviser, has Mr. Trump’s approval rating down to 38 percent, with 56 percent disapproving (a differential of minus 18). Mr. Trump’s ratings aren’t just bad for an incoming president. They’re bad for a president at any point […]
Ethics Office Wants White House To Punish Conway
An independent government ethics office has urged the White House to probe and potentially discipline President Donald Trump’s advisor Kellyanne Conway for comments she made supporting Ivanka Trump’s clothing line. In a letter released Tuesday, Office of Government Ethics Director Walter Shaub told deputy White House counsel Stefan Passantino that Conway appeared to breach a […]
US General Claims 60,000 ISIS Militants Have Been Killed
Gen. Raymond Thomas, head of US Special Operations command, said on Tuesday that the US and its allies in the fight against ISIS had killed more than 60,000 of the terrorist group’s fighters. That estimate was considerably higher than the 50,000 ISIS-dead estimate given by US officials in December. Thomas, whose command includes Navy SEALs […]
Multiple Trump Aides Had Repeated Contact With Russia
WASHINGTON — Phone records and intercepted calls show that members of Donald J. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and other Trump associates had repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials in the year before the election, according to four current and former American officials. American law enforcement and intelligence agencies intercepted the communications around the same […]
Trump “Dirty Rotten Traitor” Comments May Have Affected Bergdahl’s Due Process
A military judge called President Donald Trump’s scathing campaign-trail criticism of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl “disturbing” on Monday and questioned whether it would make the public think the soldier can’t get a fair trial for walking off his post in Afghanistan in 2009. During a pretrial hearing at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, defense attorneys played […]
House Votes Against Forcing Trump To Release Taxes
The House Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday rejected a Democratic push to ask for President Trump’s tax returns. The amendment, offered by Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) to the panel’s oversight plan, was voted down on a party-line vote. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) sent committee chairman Kevin BradyKevin BradyRyan tries to save tax plan Overnight Finance: […]
New Candidate Emerging To Replace Flynn
Vice Adm. Robert Harward, a former deputy commander of the U.S. Central Command, became the front-runner late Monday to replace Michael Flynn as the White House national security adviser, following lengthy discussions among top advisers to President Trump and several Cabinet members after Flynn resigned. Harward’s rapid ascension to the top of Trump’s three-person shortlist […]
Trump Knew Of Russian Communications Weeks Before Flynn’s Resignation
WASHINGTON – President Trump was informed weeks ago that his national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, had not told the truth about his interactions with Russia’s ambassador and asked for Mr. Flynn’s resignation after concluding he could not be trusted, the White House said on Tuesday. At his daily briefing, Sean Spicer, the White House […]
Trump’s Security Adviser Had Secret Communications With Russia
Donald Trump’s administration was warned by the justice department about national security adviser Michael Flynn’s communications with Russia, the Associated Press has reported, adding to questions about the senior aide’s future. Hours after the White House said the president was “evaluating” allegations that Flynn lied about secret communications with Russia and misled the vice-president, Mike […]