GOP FAVORS SPEED TO ASSEMBLE TEAM: ETHICS OFFICE CALLS IT “GREAT CONCERN” By JENNIFER STEINHAUER and ERIC LICHTBLAU JAN. 7, 2017 WASHINGTON — As Senate Republicans embark on a flurry of confirmation hearings this week, several of Donald J. Trump’s appointees have yet to complete the background checks and ethics clearances customarily required before the Senate […]
By SUSANNE CRAIG, JO BECKER and JESSE DRUCKERJAN. 7, 2017 On the night of Nov. 16, a group of executives gathered in a private dining room of the restaurant La Chine at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in Midtown Manhattan. The table was laden with Chinese delicacies and $2,100 bottles of Château Lafite Rothschild. At one […]
Conservative author and television personality Monica Crowley, whom Donald Trump has tapped for a top national security communications role, plagiarized large sections of her 2012 book, a CNN KFile review has found. The review of Crowley’s June 2012 book, “What The (Bleep) Just Happened,” found upwards of 50 examples of plagiarism from numerous sources, including […]
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 1/6/17 Trump lies about intelligence report on Russia easily spotted. Rachel Maddow points out that because Americans can read the declassified version of the intelligence report on Russia, we can see that Donald Trump is lying about what the report says about the effect on the election and the hacking of Republican targets. […]
BY JORDAN FABIAN – 01/06/17 11:40 AM EST President-elect Donald Trump on Friday dismissed the firestorm surrounding allegations that Russia intervened in the presidential election as a “witch hunt” carried out by bitter political opponents. “They got beaten very badly in the election,” Trump said in an interview with The New York Times. “I won […]
By DAVID E. SANGER JAN. 6, 2017 WASHINGTON — American intelligence officials have concluded that the president of Russia, Vladimir V. Putin, personally “ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the U.S. presidential election,” and turned from seeking to “denigrate” Hillary Clinton to developing “a clear preference for President-elect Trump.” The conclusions were part of […]
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and DAVID E. SANGER JAN. 6, 2017 WASHINGTON — President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia directed a vast cyberattack aimed at denying Hillary Clinton the presidency and installing Donald J. Trump in the Oval Office, the nation’s top intelligence agencies said in an extraordinary report they delivered on Friday to Mr. […]
CLICK THE IMAGE for the pdf. Anti-GOP Uprising Grows as “Indivisible Guide’ to Resisting Trump Goes Viral. By Nadia Prupis Jan. 5th, 2017 Former congressional staffers are publicizing their newly released “Indivisible Guide,” a manual for people, groups, and organizations who want to resist the incoming rightwing administration through grassroots action. President-elect Donald Trump rose […]
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 1/4/17 Resistance to Donald Trump begins to grow with local roots Rachel Maddow looks at examples of a burgeoning anti-Trump movement taking shape with local, grassroots organizing, in some ways mirroring the tea party’s anti-Obama movement. What is the ‘Indivisible’ guide? Rachel explains the online organizing guide, written by former congressional staffers, […]
Jeremy Venook Jan 5, 2017. A semi-comprehensive list of the business concerns that may influence the president-elect as he prepares for the nation’s highest office. Since his election, an ever-increasing level of attention has been paid to the unprecedented conflicts of interest that President-elect Donald J. Trump seems likely to bring with him when he assumes […]
