LAT: Former ‘Apprentice’ contestant accuses Donald Trump of unwanted sexual advances, files defamation suit

LAT: Former ‘Apprentice’ contestant accuses Donald Trump of unwanted sexual advances, files defamation suit

Hailey Branson-Potts Contact Reporter A former contestant on TV’s “The Apprentice” on Tuesday filed a defamation lawsuit against President-elect Donald Trump, whom she has accused of making unwanted sexual advances toward her. Summer Zervos announced the lawsuit at a downtown Los Angeles news conference with her attorney, Gloria Allred, three days before Trump’s inauguration. Zervos, who appeared […]

TheHill.com: Trump: Approval polls are rigged against me

TheHill.com: Trump: Approval polls are rigged against me

BY ELLIOT SMILOWITZ – 01/17/17 08:20 AM EST  President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday tweeted that approval rating polls are rigged against him as a series of polls show him with historically low approval as he enters office. “The same people who did the phony election polls, and were so wrong, are now doing approval rating polls. They are […]

WSJ: CIA Director calls Trumps Nazi Germany comments “repugnant.” Denies leaking kompromat dossier

WSJ: CIA Director calls Trumps Nazi Germany comments “repugnant.” Denies leaking kompromat dossier

By SHANE HARRIS Updated Jan. 16, 2017 10:39 p.m. ET Outgoing Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan on Monday rejected Donald Trump’s suggestions that he may have leaked an unsubstantiated dossier on the president-elect while defending the U.S. intelligence community more broadly from Mr. Trump’s recent attacks on its credibility and integrity. Mr. Brennan said he had no way […]

NY Daily News: Contrary to Donald Trump’s belief, 74% of Americans want to see his tax returns, according to poll

NY Daily News: Contrary to Donald Trump’s belief, 74% of Americans want to see his tax returns, according to poll

Chris Sommerfeldt January 17, 2017 12:16 AM  Donald Trump claimed during his first press conference as President-elect last week that “only reporters” care about seeing his tax returns — but a new poll suggests that nearly three quarters of the country believe that he should release them. Seventy-four per cent of Americans agree that Trump […]

CNN: Rep. Tom Price, Trump’s Cabinet pick invested in company, then introduced a bill to help it

CNN: Rep. Tom Price, Trump’s Cabinet pick invested in company, then introduced a bill to help it

By Manu Raju, Senior Political Reporter Updated 8:29 PM ET, Mon January 16, 2017  Washington (CNN)Rep. Tom Price last year purchased shares in a medical device manufacturer days before introducing legislation that would have directly benefited the company, raising new ethics concerns for President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Health and Human Services secretary. Price bought between […]

New Yorker” The Crowdsourced Guide to Fighting Trump’s Agenda

New Yorker” The Crowdsourced Guide to Fighting Trump’s Agenda

By Charles Bethea December 16, 2016 On Wednesday, around 7 P.M., a Google document entitled “Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda” began making the rounds online. Its origin was the Twitter account of Ezra Levin, a thirty-one-year-old associate director at a national anti-poverty nonprofit, and self-described “Twitter novice,” who lives in D.C. and, until a […]

LAT: Trump kicks off Martin Luther King weekend by attacking civil rights legend John Lewis

LAT: Trump kicks off Martin Luther King weekend by attacking civil rights legend John Lewis

By Cathleen Decker January 14, 2017 5:53 pm Unwilling to let criticism pass, Donald Trump on Saturday pilloried as “all talk … no action” national icon John Lewis, who was repeatedly beaten by police and nearly lost his life during protests in the long struggle for civil rights. Trump’s Twitter comments about the Georgia congressman came in […]

NYT: Trump’s Role in Son’s Failed Deal May Yield First Test for a State Regulator. Rachel Maddow: Trump tries to stick SC taxpayers with bill for Trump Jr’s mess

NYT: Trump’s Role in Son’s Failed Deal May Yield First Test for a State Regulator. Rachel Maddow: Trump tries to stick SC taxpayers with bill for Trump Jr’s mess

THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 1/13/17 CLICK IMAGES for stories. Trump tries to stick SC taxpayers with bill for Trump Jr’s mess Rachel Maddow reports on how Donald Trump bought his son’s failed business to shield him from having to clean up possible pollution at the business site, sticking South Carolina taxpayers with the bill if […]