President Trump, who for three years has vowed to build a massive security wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, is running into his own wall on illegal immigration, which has continued to surge in recent months… Read More
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The Shadow Rulers of the VA
How Marvel Entertainment chairman Ike Perlmutter and two other Mar-a-Lago cronies are secretly shaping the Trump administration’s veterans policies. by Isaac Arnsdorf Last February, shortly after Peter O’Rourke became chief of staff for the Department… Read More
Media boost security as Trump ramps up ‘enemy’ rhetoric
Notebooks, mics, cameras, hairspray — those are all things TV reporters are used to having with them at political rallies. Now, in the age of President Donald Trump, they’ve added another: security guards. The networks… Read More
The party of Trump has a corruption problem. Will voters care at all?
Yesterday’s indictment of Trump ally Rep. Chris Collins on insider trading charges was yet another gut punch for Republicans after some bad news inside the numbers from Tuesday night’s primaries. And that hasn’t been the… Read More
Brett Kavanaugh: Presidents can ignore laws they think are unconstitutional – CNNPolitics
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in 2013 asserted that it’s a “traditional exercise” of presidential power to ignore laws the White House views as unconstitutional, as he defended the controversial practice of signing statements prevalent… Read More
Trump at a precarious moment in his presidency: Privately brooding and publicly roaring
In private, President Trump spent much of the past week brooding, as he often does. He has been anxious about the Russia investigation’s widening fallout, with his former campaign chairman standing trial. And he has… Read More
Trump just made 2 problematic admissions about the Trump Tower meeting
President Trump has yet again tweeted about his personal legal issues in a way he perhaps shouldn’t have. The Washington Post reported Saturday that Trump had expressed concerns in the past week about his son Donald Trump… Read More
Trump feud with Koch network exposes rift between populist forces and establishment GOP
President Trump’s tight grip on the Republican Party is being openly challenged by the powerful network of ideological conservatives linked to billionaire industrialist Charles Koch, splaying out long-simmering tensions over the party’s future just months… Read More