By Peter Lance December 15th, 2016 The prospect of the impending Trump administration presents the media with challenges, unknown since the Nixon presidency. Apart from his questionable appointments like Gen. Michael Flynn Sr. as National Security Advisor; a man whose son was fired December 6th from the transition team after he’d pushed the fake news “Pizzagate” story […]
By Dan Freed Tue Dec 6, 2016 | 2:44pm EST Blackstone Group LP (BX.N) Chairman and CEO Steve Schwarzman said on Tuesday he expected to see a “very substantial reversal of regulations of all types,” for the financial sector, following Donald Trump’s U.S. presidential election victory. Schwarzman, who was picked by Trump to chair a panel of […]
By KENNETH P. VOGEL and JULIA IOFFE 12/02/16 02:39 PM EST A top Russian official is accusing the Ukrainian government of undermining Donald Trump’s presidential campaign by trashing him on social media and disseminating dirt on one of his close associates. A spokeswoman for Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday contended that the Ukrainian government over the summer damaged Trump’s […]
Press release: DEC 02, 2016 President-elect Trump Establishes the President’s Strategic and Policy Forum (New York, NY) – President-elect Donald J. Trump today announced that he is establishing the President’s Strategic and Policy Forum. The Forum, which is composed of some of America’s most highly respected and successful business leaders, will be called upon to meet with […]
By STEPHEN SESTANOVICH NOV. 25, 2016 WASHINGTON — With a single phone conversation this month, Donald J. Trump and Vladimir V. Putin have started talk of another “reset” in ties between Russia and the United States. A new president, of course, has every reason to seek improved relations. But what could make this “reset” work? […]
By ANDREW HIGGINS, MIKE McINTIRE and GABRIEL J.X. DANCE NOV. 25, 2016 TBILISI, Georgia — Jobless and with graduation looming, a computer science student at the premier university in the nation of Georgia decided early this year that money could be made from America’s voracious appetite for passionately partisan political news. He set up a […]
Chris Hayes looks at the parallels between Trump and Italy’s longest-serving prime minister – Silvio Berlusconi November 23rd, 2016 CLICK IMAGE for the video
By Peter Lance November 10th. Huffington Post. After casting my ballot for Hillary Clinton I watched in stunned disbelief on election night as all of the polls predicting her victory proved wrong. I was about to go to bed in the early morning hours Wednesday when Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, New Hampshire and Arizona were still “too […]
By Alexandra King, November 8th, 2016 Trump tweet mistakenly alleges nationwide voting issues.
David Lauter and Del Quentin Wilber November 6, 2016 The FBI‘s much-trumpeted new scrutiny of emails related to Hillary Clinton has turned up nothing that would cause the bureau to recommend charges against her, the bureau’s director, James B. Comey, has told Congress. Nine days after rocking the presidential race with word that a new trove of emails had been discovered, Comey […]
