By COGAN SCHNEIER 11/03/16 07:10 PM EDT Updated 11/03/16 07:26 PM EDT The Obama administration threw Donald Trump a regulatory curve ball as he makes his final pitch to working-class voters. The National Labor Relations Board, the agency charged with enforcing federal labor law, ruled Thursday that the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas violated the National Labor […]
By Peter Lance December 15th, 2016. Huffington Post Back in the Eighties I started out as a correspondent for ABC News covering the dark side of the Reagan presidency for 20/20, Nightline and World News Tonight. I cut my teeth on investigations into Pentagon cost overruns, rigged Pershing II missile tests and FAA cover-ups on near […]
By Peter Lance December 15th, 2016 Huffington Post Back in the Eighties I started out as a correspondent for ABC News covering the dark side of the Reagan presidency for 20/20, Nightline and World News Tonight. I cut my teeth on investigations into Pentagon cost overruns, rigged Pershing II missile tests and FAA cover-ups on near misses […]
BBC NEWS: NOVEMBER 23rd, 2016 Donald Trump made a string of promises during his long campaign to be the 45th president of the United States. Many of them made headlines – from banning all Muslims entering the US, to building a wall along the border with Mexico. But as he and his team prepare to take […]
Defund Planned Parenthood for providing abortion The outcry surrounding Planned Parenthood began to spike at the beginning of 2011. Congressman Mike Pence (R-IN) introduced a bill to end federal funding for Planned Parenthood altogether. Pence stated, “The largest abortion provider in America should not also be the largest recipient of federal funding under Title X.” […]
By Ken Dilation DEC 14 2016, 11:52 AM ET President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for national security adviser, retired Army Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, “inappropriately shared” classified information with foreign governments, a 2010 military investigation concluded. The finding, first reported by The Washington Post, contradicts Flynn’s previous account of the incident, in which he told the newspaper […]
By Dan Kopf December 15, 2016 The 17 people who US president-elect Donald Trump has selected for his cabinet or for posts with cabinet rank have well over $9.5 billion in combined wealth, with several positions still unfilled. This collection of wealth is greater than that of the 43 million least wealthy American households combined—over one third of the 126 […]
By ALEX GUILLÉN and ANDREW RESTUCCIA 12/07/16 12:20 PM EST Updated 12/07/16 05:17 PM EST President-elect Donald Trump picked Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to run the EPA, putting one of the agency’s most hostile critics and a skeptic of climate change science at its helm, sources close to the transition said Wednesday. As attorney general for a state that is one […]
By Glenn Kessler December 13th, 2016. The Fact Checker is pleased to announce the launch of its very first presidential promise tracker: the Trump Promise Tracker. Since the Fact Checker was relaunched in 2011, we had missed the start of President Obama’s term, and so it was too late to track his 2008 promises. But, with a new […]
David A. Graham Nov 22, 2016 The Donald J. Trump Foundation apparently admitted in filings with the IRS it broke federal rules against self-dealing, The Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold reports. According to federal law, charitable organizations like the Trump Foundation cannot use their funds to help their leaders’ families or business interests. But during the […]
