Democrats Plan To Highlight Trump Scandals In The Fall Elections

Democrats Plan to Highlight Trump Scandals in the Fall Elections image Calling the Trump Administration one of the most “compromised and corrupt administrations in American history,” congressional Democrats on Monday unveiled the anti-corruption agenda they plan to carry into the 2018 midterm elections. With President Donald Trump facing historically low approval ratings , Democrats from the House and Senate plan to use his promises to “drain the swamp” amid a growing list of accusations against members of his Cabinet and his associates....

Barack And Michelle Obama Just Signed A Multi-Year Deal With Netflix

Barack and Michelle Obama Just Signed a Multi-Year Deal With Netflix image (NEW YORK) — Barack and Michelle Obama are getting into the television business with Monday’s announcement that they had signed a multi-year deal with Netflix . The former president and first lady have formed their own production company, Higher Ground Productions, for the material. In announcing a deal that had been rumored since March, Netflix offered no specifics on what shows they would make. Netflix said the Obamas would make “a diverse mix of content,” potentially...

Twitter Bots May Have Boosted Donald Trump’S Votes By 3.23%, Researchers Say

Twitter Bots May Have Boosted Donald Trump’s Votes by 3.23%, Researchers Say image Twitter bots may have altered the outcome of two of the world’s most consequential elections in recent years, according to an economic study. Automated tweeting played a small but potentially decisive role in the 2016 Brexit vote and Donald Trump’s presidential victory, the National Bureau of Economic Research working paper showed this month. Their rough calculations suggest bots added 1.76 percentage point to the pro-“leave” vote share as Britain weighed whether to remain in...

Veterans Slam ‘Shameful’ Ad Attacking Candidate For Living Out Of State During Military Service

Veterans Slam ‘Shameful’ Ad Attacking Candidate for Living Out of State During Military Service image Veterans groups are rushing to defend a Democratic Congressional candidate in Kentucky after her opponent attacked her for not living in the state during her 20 years of military service. Jim Gray, the Mayor of Lexington, Kentucky, who is vying for the Democratic candidacy in Kentucky’s 6th Congressional district, released the ad Friday – three days before the Democratic primary – against retired Marine Lt. Col. Amy McGrath. It highlighted the fact that she had not been living in...

Here’S Why Donald Trump Is Criticizing Former CIA Director John Brennan

Here’s Why Donald Trump Is Criticizing Former CIA Director John Brennan image President Donald Trump harshly criticized former CIA director John Brennan in a series of tweets quoting a guest on “Fox & Friends” just hours before he swore in the agency’s new director. Over the course of three tweets Monday, Trump quoted a lengthy criticism of Brennan from Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent and congressional candidate, that aired on Fox News that morning. “John Brennan is panicking. He has disgraced himself, he has disgraced the Country,...

Rudy Giuliani Says Robert Mueller’S Russia Investigation May End By September

Rudy Giuliani Says Robert Mueller’s Russia Investigation May End by September image (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump said Sunday that he will “demand” that the Justice Department open an investigation into whether the FBI infiltrated his presidential campaign, an extraordinary order that came hours before his legal team said that the special counsel indicated its investigation into the president could be concluded by September. Trump tweeted: “I hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Department of Justice look into whether or not the...

Trump To Demand Justice Department Review Whether FBI Infiltrated 2016 Campaign

Trump to Demand Justice Department Review Whether FBI Infiltrated 2016 Campaign image (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump says he’ll demand that the Justice Department review whether it or the FBI infiltrated his presidential campaign for political purposes and whether any demands or requests came from the Obama administration. Trump tweeted Sunday: “I hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Department of Justice look into whether or not the FBI/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes – and if any such...

Steven Mnuchin Says U.S. And China Will Put Trade War On Hold

Steven Mnuchin Says U.S. and China Will Put Trade War on Hold image (WASHINGTON) — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Sunday that the United States and China are stepping back from a possible trade war after two days of talks that produced “meaningful progress.” Despite not getting China to agree to trim its overall trade surplus with America by a specific amount, Mnuchin said the U.S. team did get a number of commitments on a framework for reducing the deficit over time, including big increases in purchases of farm products and a doubling of...

President Trump Still Thinks Like A Real Estate Developer. Here’S How That Helps Him

President Trump Still Thinks Like a Real Estate Developer. Here’s How That Helps Him image When Donald Trump was asked about the effects of a vote by Great Britain to leave the European Union, he speculated that a weaker British pound could boost sales at his golf course in Scotland. When he made his first speech before the United Nations General Assembly, he noted that the building he was speaking in had helped make a nearby residential tower of his a success. And when he was addressing racial violence in Charlottesville, he took time to note that he owns a nearby winery . In short,...

Trump Nominates New Veteran Affairs Secretary In Surprise Announcement

Trump Nominates New Veteran Affairs Secretary in Surprise Announcement image (WASHINGTON) — In a surprise announcement that caught the candidate off-guard, President Donald Trump said Friday he’ll nominate acting Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie to permanently lead the beleaguered department. Trump spilled the news about Wilkie at a White House event on prison reform as he introduced Cabinet members in attendance. When Trump got to Wilkie, he said, “I’ll be informing him in a little while — he doesn’t know this yet — that...

Read President Trump’S Remarks On The Texas School Shooting

Read President Trump’s Remarks on the Texas School Shooting image President Donald Trump addressed the shooting at a Texas high school on Friday that left eight to 10 people dead, calling it a “very sad day.” Speaking before a summit on prison reform at the White House, Trump expressed sympathy for the victims and called on government to act to prevent more school shootings. His comments come three months after the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida . After Parkland, Trump put forth a school safety plan that advocated for various gun...

Rudy Giuliani Just Conceded That The President Can Commit Obstruction Of Justice

Rudy Giuliani Just Conceded That the President Can Commit Obstruction of Justice image Rudy Giuliani said Friday that a president can hypothetically obstruct justice, contradicting a former member of President Donald Trump’s legal team and wading into a thorny legal debate . In an interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo Friday morning, the former New York City mayor was asked if the president can be found to have obstructed justice under the law. “He can,” he answered. That contradicts an position taken in December by Trump attorney John Dowd, who has since left...

Campbell Soup’S CEO Will Retire After A Three-Year Slump

Campbell Soup’s CEO Will Retire After a Three-Year Slump image Campbell Soup Co., struggling through a three-year sales slump, said Chief Executive Officer Denise Morrison is retiring and will be replaced on an interim basis by board member Keith McLoughlin. Morrison, 64, who has been at the helm since 2011, is stepping down, effective Friday, Campbell said in a statement. She has been with the company for 15 years. McLoughlin, 61, has been a board member since 2016. Campbell has been seeking other sources of growth as it grapples with a soup slowdown. In...

Trump Says The Justice Department Is ‘Out To Frame’ Him

Trump Says the Justice Department Is ‘Out to Frame’ Him image WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday used his Twitter account to advance an unverified theory circulating among conservatives that the Justice Department planted a spy in his 2016 campaign and is now “out to frame him.” Trump’s early morning tweet seemed intended to undercut the ongoing Russia investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller, which he has repeatedly called a “witch hunt.” “Really bad stuff!” he tweeted. Last week, the...

Trump Administration Rule Would Take U.S. Funds From Family Planning Clinics Discussing Abortion, Report Says

Trump Administration Rule Would Take U.S. Funds From Family Planning Clinics Discussing Abortion, Report Says image (WASHINGTON) — The Trump administration will resurrect a Reagan-era rule that would ban federally-funded family planning clinics from discussing abortion with women, or sharing space with abortion providers, a senior White House official said Thursday. The Department of Health and Human Services will be announcing its proposal Friday, the official said on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to confirm the plans before the announcement. The policy has been derided as...

President Trump Says He Was Referring To Gang Members When He Called Some Immigrants ‘Animals’

President Trump Says He Was Referring to Gang Members When He Called Some Immigrants ‘Animals’ image (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump on Thursday defended his use of the word “animals” to describe some immigrants who enter the country illegally, saying he would continue to use the term to refer to violent gang members in spite of a sharp rebuke from Democratic leaders. Answering a reporter’s question during a meeting with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, Trump said his comment a day earlier had clearly been directed at members of the MS-13 gang. “MS-13,...

MTV Is Halting Production On Catfish Amid Allegations Of Sexual Misconduct

MTV Is Halting Production on Catfish Amid Allegations of Sexual Misconduct image MTV said it is halting production of its popular show Catfish following allegations of sexual misconduct from a former participant by staff members on the show. “We take these allegations very seriously,” an MTV spokesperson said in an e-mailed statement to TIME. “ We’re working with Critical Content, our third party production company, to conduct a thorough investigation and we’ve put a pause on shooting until the investigation is completed.” Ayissha Morgan,...

One Year Into The Russia Probe, Mueller Has Washington Rattled And Uncertain

One Year Into the Russia Probe, Mueller Has Washington Rattled and Uncertain image (WASHINGTON) — Unlike the president, Robert Mueller hasn’t uttered one word in public about his Russia investigation in the year since he was appointed special counsel. And that is rattling just about everyone involved. What’s he up to? When will he bring the probe to and end? He doesn’t have to say, and he’s not. A year into the investigation, the straight-laced prosecutor is everywhere and nowhere at the same time. In that time, the breadth and stealth of his...

The White House Can’T Shake John McCain Remark As It Hunts Leakers Instead Of Apologizing

The White House Can’t Shake John McCain Remark as It Hunts Leakers Instead of Apologizing image (WASHINGTON) — A West Wing aide’s morbid remark about gravely ill Sen. John McCain has not yielded widespread White House soul searching. Instead it has produced a push to fire those responsible for leaking that story and others that have bedeviled President Donald Trump’s administration. Nearly a week after Kelly Sadler dismissed McCain’s opinion on Trump’s CIA nominee during a closed-door meeting by saying “he’s dying anyway,” a torrent of criticism...

Senate Confirms Gina Haspel As First Female CIA Director

Senate Confirms Gina Haspel as First Female CIA Director image (WASHINGTON) — The Senate confirmed Gina Haspel on Thursday as the first female director of the CIA following a difficult nomination process that reopened an emotional debate about brutal interrogation techniques in one of the darkest chapters in the spy agency’s history. The 54-45 vote split both parties, with six Democrats joining most Republicans in support. Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who is battling brain cancer, was absent for the vote. Senate Majority Leader Mitch...