President Donald Trump was impeached by the U.S. House for a historic second time Wednesday, charged with “incitement of insurrection” over the deadly mob siege of the Capitol in a swift and stunning collapse of his final days in office. Holed up at the White House, watching the proceedings on TV, Trump later released a…
President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. said on Monday that his transition team had faced “obstruction” from the Defense Department, raising new concerns about the Trump administration’s cooperation with transition officials with just over three weeks until Inauguration Day. “Right now, we just aren’t getting all the information that we need from the outgoing administration in…
CNN host Don Lemon criticized President Donald Trump on Monday for his continued refusal to accept the results of the 2020 presidential election as Inauguration Day looms. Lemon pointed to recent efforts by Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert, a staunch ally of the president, who is suing Vice President Mike Pence in a longshot bid to…
President Donald Trump has signed a $900 billion pandemic relief package that will deliver long-sought cash to businesses and individuals. The fate of an end-of-year COVID-19 relief and spending bill remained in doubt Sunday as millions lost unemployment aid, the government barreled toward a mid-pandemic shutdown and lawmakers implored President Donald Trump to act. Trump…
President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden sparred Thursday in their final presidential debate, hoping to sway undecided voters in the Nov. 3 election. A look at how their statements from Nashville, Tennessee, stack up with the facts: BIDEN: “Not one single person with private insurance would lose their insurance under my plan, nor…
President Donald Trump planned to rally his supporters in the swing state of Pennsylvania on Tuesday, as the number of early ballots cast in the contest between him and Democrat Joe Biden passed 35 million with two weeks of voting to go. Trump’s trip comes the day before Biden’s old boss – former President Barack…
In 2018, the Trump campaign filed an arbitration case against the former West Wing aide over her book, which rocked the White House with stories of Trump using lewd, sexist and racist language. The dispute over Manigault Newman’s book is far from the only legal thread left dangling for the Trump campaign. Taken together, the…
President Donald Trump and Joe Biden will have their microphones cut off during Thursday’s final presidential debate while their opponent delivers initial two-minute answers to each debate topic, the Commission on Presidential Debates announced Monday. On Monday, Trump’s campaign sent a scathing letter objecting to the selected topics for Thursday’s debate and that both campaigns…
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked a resolution proposed by Senate Democrats that would have condemned President Trump’s response to protesters in Washington, D.C., on Monday, when federal law enforcement officers forcefully removed demonstrators from a park across from the White House. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer introduced the resolution on Tuesday, saying on the Senate floor…
President Trump began mulling a visit to St. John’s Episcopal Church on Monday morning, after spending the night devouring cable news coverage of protests across the country, including in front of the White House. The historic church had been damaged by fire, and Trump was eager to show that the nation’s capital — and especially…
White House aides wanted Trump to give a unifying Oval Office address to diffuse the tensions raging across the US, The Associated Press (AP) said. But according to the AP it was “scrapped for lack of policy proposals and the president’s own seeming disinterest in delivering a message of unity.” Trump and his advisers decided he…
Presidents live within a protective cocoon built and continually fortified for one purpose: keeping them alive. But inside the White House compound these days, Donald Trump seems rattled by what’s transpiring outside the windows of his historic residence. When Marine One deposited Trump on the South Lawn last night after his day trip to Florida, the…
President Donald Trump said Sunday that he will designate antifa as a terrorist organization after Democratic and Republican officials pointed to extremist groups and out of town demonstrators as responsible for violent episodes at protests in major cities across the country. In a Sunday statement, Barr said the Justice Department is taking aim at “apprehending…
Donald Trump has threatened people protesting the death of George Floyd with “vicious dogs” and “ominous weapons” if they had breached the fence outside the White House, where members of the US Secret Service are “waiting for action”. In a Twitter thread posted after another night of protests and uprisings against police brutality across the US, the president…
On Thursday, as Trump signed his executive order and his press secretary fielded questions about the COVID-19 milestone, it seemed those stories might dominate American news. But social media, in large part, ensured that the world couldn’t look away from the ongoing toll of another plague, which has preyed on Americans for generations. “Racism is…
This morning Donald Trump intimated that if he has the opportunity to run against Hillary Clinton in 2020, he would defeat her again. He also said that he hopes that she runs again. “I was recently asked if Crooked Hillary Clinton is going to run in 2020? My answer was, ‘I hope so!’” Trump tweeted…
In a speech on Friday President Trump said he’s recently “met with the president of the Virgin Islands” to discuss the hurricanes that impacted Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico and the island. All well and good, but it appears that Trump was not aware that residents of the U.S. Virgin Islands are, in fact, Americans.