The National Rifle Association spent $30 million to help elect Donald Trump—more than any other independent conservative group. Most of that sum went toward television advertising, but a political message loses its power if it… Read More
Enemies
Making President Trump’s Bed: A Housekeeper Without Papers
During more than five years as a housekeeper at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., Victorina Morales has made Donald J. Trump’s bed, cleaned his toilet and dusted his crystal golf trophies. When… Read More
Trump White House Has No Plan to Counter Mueller Report
Nobody knows how the White House plans to respond to the #Mueller report—including the people who work at the White House. The special counsel is reportedly nearing the end of his probe. Sentencing memos are… Read More
CNN analyst warns Flynn could have named Trump or Pence: ‘You only get a good deal if you give up someone above you’
Former Donald Trump National Security Advisor Michael Flynn may have “given up” the president or Vice President Mike Pence, a CNN political analyst explained on Tuesday. Hours earlier, special counsel Robert Mueller had recommended as… Read More
The number that scares Trump
A number scaring the hell out of the Trumps: 119. The equation: 70 hours of Michael Cohen interviews with Mueller’s team + 30 hours of interviews with former White House counsel #Don McGahn + 19… Read More
Prince MBS, an Arab Falcon with broken wings
by Ahmed Tharwat You have to kiss lots of frogs, till you find your handsome prince, goes the saying, but in the case of Saudi Arabia, it is the reverse. We have been kissing lots… Read More
Trump’s China Truce Calms Markets, but He Chooses a Hard-Liner to Lead Talks
WASHINGTON — President Trump cast his trade accord with President Xi Jinping of China as a huge victory for American farmers, automakers and other key political constituencies — statements that helped send volatile financial markets… Read More
‘Just a lot of alarmism’: Trump’s skepticism of climate science is echoed across GOP
Sen.-elect Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee said falsely in the lead-up to her campaign that the Earth has started to cool, and argued inaccurately that scientists have not reached a consensus on climate change. In Florida,… Read More