By JONATHAN KARL & MORGAN WINSOR Jan 5, 2017, 12:44 PM Incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer today flatly denied that President-elect Donald Trump was considering reported plans to reform the nation’s top intelligence agencies. The denial comes after a senior Trump transition official, speaking to ABC News earlier today, confirmed a Wednesday night […]
By Andrew M Harris January 5, 2017 at 1:17:17 PM PST Plumbers, wood workers, electricians have claims against hotel Trump organization spent $212 million renovating capital site Donald Trump’s new Washington hotel, located just blocks from the White House, owes electricians, wood workers and a plumbing and heating business more than $5 million for unpaid labor, […]
David A Fahrenthold January 3rd, 2017 The Independent. Published in The Washington Post December 29th, 2016 The billionaire philanthropist has given ‘many tens of millions’ to good causes. His charitable foundation has helped many hundreds of organisations. Everyone says so. But it it true? Or is the main benefactor of the Donald J Trump Foundation’s largesse actually… Donald J […]
Michael Isikoff Chief Investigative Correspondent Yahoo News January 4, 2017 CLICK IMAGE for direct link to story. Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov, a Russian dissident now living in exile in the United States, warned today that the world could be what he called “entering a very dark ages” unless President-elect Donald Trump reverses course and stands up […]
Susan Davis, Brian Naylor January 3rd, 2017 After a storm of criticism, including from President-elect Donald Trump, House Republicans have reversed themselves and restored the current rules of the Office of Congressional Ethics. GOP members met Tuesday afternoon and agreed by unanimous consent to withdraw a change to House rules approved late Monday evening, before […]
By Matt O’Brien January 3 at 12:31 PM When a billionaire does it, that means that it is not corrupt. That seems to be an animating principle of the incoming Trump administration. Although to be fair, in what amounts to a populist touch, this will probably apply to select millionaires as well. At least the […]
By LOUIS NELSON 01/03/17 07:33 AM EST President-elect Donald Trump’s promised press conference to address potential conflicts of interest between his business empire and his incoming administration is scheduled to occur in the middle of next week, a senior adviser to his transition team said Monday night. Kellyanne Conway, who took over as Trump’s campaign […]
By JAMES RISEN DEC. 30, 2016 WASHINGTON — If Donald J. Trump decides as president to throw a whistle-blower in jail for trying to talk to a reporter, or gets the F.B.I. to spy on a journalist, he will have one man to thank for bequeathing him such expansive power: Barack Obama. Mr. Trump made his animus […]
By RICHARD C. PADDOCK and ERIC LIPTON DEC. 31, 2016 JAKARTA, Indonesia — One resort, planned as the largest in Bali, will overlook a spectacular Hindu temple. The other, in the verdant hills of West Java, will adjoin a theme park. The properties will be so luxurious, the Trump Organization says, that even an impressive five-star rating will not do […]
Kate Sheppard January 1st, 2017 WASHINGTON ― Wall Street Journal Editor-in-Chief Gerard Baker said his newspaper would not refer to false statements from the Trump administration as “lies,” because doing so would ascribe a “moral intent” to the statements. Baker appeared on NBC’s “Meet The Press” Sunday, where he described some of President-elect Donald Trump’s falsehoods […]
