Trump Administration

While "furious Republicans" say they will rebuke Donald Trump over the Syria debacle, the one person with the power to allow or block that congressional rebuke remains relatively mum. Since making a single statement a...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo appeared to be shocked—and angered—on Friday, after a Nashville journalist used her short time with him as an opportunity to ask hard questions. Nancy Amons, an investigative journalist for...

After President Donald Trump announced on Friday night the resignation of Department of Homeland Security Acting Secretary Kevin McAleenan, immigrant rights advocates vowed that "we will not forget his cruelty." Families Belong Together, a national...

The Trump White House has got to be a madhouse to work in. Memos have gone out with typos in them, confidential inter-office correspondence has gone out on the wrong printer and been seen by people not authorized, and in it’s latest display of uber-efficiency, this White House has sent Republican talking points to the Democrats regarding Trump’s July 25 call to Ukraine and the removal of it’s ambassador — twice. Not once, twice. In corporate America, the whole lot of these clowns would have already been sacked. I guess this is good enough for government work, at least in this administration. The Hill: “We are not concerned with any information Yovanovitch might share, because the President did nothing wrong,” the White House email meant for Republicans said. “But we are concerned that Schiff is putting her a precarious position by having her testify in secret without State Department lawyers be present.” “It raises serious questions about why Schiff is willing to put career officials in such risky situations while bullying them with legally unfounded threats of obstruction charges,” the email added. The email marks the second time the White House has unintentionally sent talking points to Democrats in recent weeks, after an administration official inadvertently emailed them suggested rhetoric defending the July 25 phone call. For her own part, former Ambassador Yovanovitch told House lawmakers that she was removed after “a concerted campaign against” her from Trump and his associates, and that the campaign to remove her had been going on since the summer of 2018. Kinda makes you wonder if maybe the plan to put people favorable to Trump’s interests in Ukraine and to extort information from Ukraine was planned quite a while back, don’t you think?

Whereas most administrations put a career budget official with years or even decades of experience in charge of releasing appropriated funds, the Trump administration placed a politically appointed novice in the position after career...

According to the Palmer Report, Democratic Congressman Mark Pocan is demanding that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo explain who told Gordon Sondland not to show up and testify today, and he’s revealed that he’s...

As many as three times a day, CNN sources say, Donald Trump phones Moscow Mitch McConnell to browbeat him about impeachment and to remind him to keep Senate Republicans in line. This, a McConnell spokesman...

Moscow Mitch McConnell is toeing Donald Trump's line Wednesday morning in the constitutional crisis Trump has created by refusing all cooperation with the House impeachment inquiry. Never mind that Trump's refusal has absolutely no...

The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee—J.U.D.I.C.I.A.R.Y. Committee—is planning to "rally his Republican colleagues" in the Senate to sign a letter in solidarity with Donald Trump, declaring that the phone call now at the...

After the Trump administration blocked U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland from testifying before the House as part of the body's impeachment inquiry, Rep. Mark Pocan on Tuesday sent a letter to...