By John Crace January 15th, 2018 On a snowy January evening in 2017, disgraced head of Fox News Roger Ailes and Donald Trump’s right-hand man Steve Bannon met for dinner in a New York brownstone. “We’ve got a problem,” said Bannon. “Trump doesn’t get it. He doesn’t realise the bad guys are the bad guys.” […]
Steve Holland January 3rd, 2018 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Wednesday blasted former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon as having “lost his mind” in the fallout over damaging comments Bannon made about Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. in excerpts from a new book. CLICK IMAGE for direct link to Reuters story. Trump, who […]
David Von Drehle July 12th, 2017 The most pressing question of our time might be: How bad is it? As a candidate and now as President, Donald Trump has smashed the gauges that once tracked the normal temperature, pressure and wind speed in the climate map of American politics. Now when it feels like the barometer […]
Katherine Skiba, David Heinemann and Todd Lighty July 13, 2017 Days earlier, the financier from suburban Lake Forest gave an interview to the Journal about his quest, and it began publishing stories about his efforts in late June. The Journal also reported it had seen emails written by Smith showing his team considered retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, […]
Editor’s note: Rachel Maddow filed an extraordinary piece tonight on all the President’s lawyers. THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 7/13/17 Trump lawyer e-mail meltdown raises questions of competence Rachel Maddow looks at the oddly aggressive streak in Donald Trump’s legal team and reports on an angry meltdown by the head of Trump’s legal team, Marc Kasowitz, in […]
BY JENNA MCLAUGHLIN JULY 12, 2017 Democratic congressmen on the House Judiciary Committee want to know why Attorney General Jeff Sessions abruptly settled a money laundering case in May involving the same Russian attorney who met with Donald Trump Jr. during the presidential election to offer “dirt” on Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for direct link to […]
BY PETER STONE AND GREG GORDON JULY 12, 2017 Investigators at the House and Senate Intelligence committees and the Justice Department are examining whether the Trump campaign’s digital operation – overseen by Jared Kushner – helped guide Russia’s sophisticated voter targeting and fake news attacks on Hillary Clinton in 2016. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for direct link […]
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD Published JULY 12, 2017 All along, the truth was right there in the emails — Donald Trump Jr.’s emails, that is, which he released publicly on Twitter Tuesday morning after learning that The New York Times was about to publish their contents. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for direct link to NYT Opinion Page In language so blunt and obvious […]
On Tuesday morning, after being told that The Times was about to publish the content of emails setting up a meeting with a Kremlin-connected lawyer, Donald J. Trump Jr. posted the email chain on Twitter, along with a comment. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for direct link to emails at nyt.com The emails, from June 2016, are between Donald […]
By JO BECKER, ADAM GOLDMAN and MATT APUZZO JULY 11, 2017 The June 3, 2016, email sent to Donald Trump Jr. could hardly have been more explicit: One of his father’s former Russian business partners had been contacted by a senior Russian government official and was offering to provide the Trump campaign with dirt on Hillary Clinton. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for […]