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 […]
By ERIC LIPTON and ELLEN BARRY NOV. 19, 2016 WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump met in the last week in his office at Trump Tower with three Indian business partners who are building a Trump-branded luxury apartment complex south of Mumbai, raising new questions about how he will separate his business dealings from the work of the government once he is in […]
Paige Lavender Senior Politics Editor, The Huffington Post President-elect Donald Trump will announce on Tuesday morning he’s chosen Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson as his secretary of state. Trump tweeted Monday that he would make an official announcement about his choice for secretary of state Tuesday morning. The Associated Press and The New York Times report Tillerson is Trump’s pick. Trump met with Tillerson in […]
TheHill.com BY ALEXANDER BOLTON – 12/12/16 10:18 AM EST Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said the Senate Intelligence Committee should investigate recent CIA findings that the Russian government tried to influence the U.S. presidential election. Calling the allegations of Russian meddling “disturbing,” McConnell said Monday the intelligence panel should take the lead, dismissing calls by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and […]
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 Franklin Foer November 2nd, 2016 On Monday, I published a reported piece that raised questions about a server owned by the Trump Organization. The server appeared to be unusually configured, and to communicate almost exclusively with two servers registered to Alfa Bank in Moscow. The piece followed a group of computer scientists who had stumbled […]
By ADAM GOLDMAN and ALAN RAPPEPORT OCT. 28, 2016 WASHINGTON — The presidential campaign was rocked on Friday after federal law enforcement officials said that emails pertinent to the closed investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server were discovered on a computer belonging to Anthony D. Weiner, the estranged husband of a top Clinton aide. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for link to […]
By Peter Lance October 19th, 2016. Peter James Kieran, a decorated Marine Special Ops veteran who served in Afghanistan, now studying at Columbia University, came up with an extraordinary campaign to fund 1o veterans’ non-profits by shaming Donald Trump into releasing his tax returns. Utilizing crowd pac.com the campaign generated pledges of $6,252.10 by the start of tonight’s third presidential debate. […]
By Peter Lance July 21st, 2016. I’ve known Tony Schwartz for more than 30 years. A former editor/reporter for The New York Times, Newsweek, New York Magazine and Esquire, he’s authored a number of distinguished business books and written or co-authored authoritative pieces for The Harvard Business Review. He’s also been haunted for decades over […]
By Peter Lance: On May 4th, 2016 after winning the GOP Indiana primary, home state of his future veep pic, Donald Trump became the presumptive nominee. Much of his campaign rhetoric centered on his purported business acumen that would help “Make America Great Again.” I’d been a working reporter in NYC during the 80’s when […]
