Donald Trump

BOOK: Paul Ryan Researched Dealing With People With Narcissistic Disorder After Trump Won 2016 Election

Business Insider reports: Then-House Speaker Paul Ryan started studying how to interact with people with narcissistic personality disorder after Donald Trump won the 2016 election, according to a new book by The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward and Robert Costa. According to the book, Ryan was caught off guard when Trump won the election in an enormous upset over Democratic nominee …

Read More »

Milley: My Calls To China Were In Line With My Duties

The Associated Press reports: The top U.S. military officer on Wednesday defended the phone calls he made to his Chinese counterpart in the final months of Donald Trump’s presidency, saying the conversations were in keeping with his duties as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In a written statement, Gen. Mark Milley’s spokesman, Col. Dave Butler, said Milley acted …

Read More »

Melania Rages At Grisham’s Coming Tell-All: “Betrayal”

Politico Playbook reports: Sometimes it seems that everything has already been said about the Trump years though not everyone has said it. In the latter camp is STEPHANIE GRISHAM, the former Trump White House press secretary best known for never holding a press briefing. Now Grisham is breaking her silence, and POLITICO’s Daniel Lippman emails us with a scoopy preview …

Read More »

Trump Gives Keynote Speech To The Moonies [VIDEO]

The Moonie outlet Washington Times reports: Former President Donald Trump said Saturday that America’s bold step to begin a direct dialogue with Pyongyang has opened the door to the reunification of North and South Korea and paved the way for a more peaceful world in the 21st century. The rally, organized by the Universal Peace Federation (UPF) and the seventh …

Read More »

Toomey Urges GOP Not To Nominate Trump In 2024

CNBC reports: Sen. Pat Toomey has urged his party not to nominate former President Donald Trump as its presidential candidate in 2024, calling his conduct in the aftermath of the 2020 election “completely unacceptable.” “I think that the future of our party is to be a party of ideas, and not to be a party about any one individual, and …

Read More »

Ann Coulter Hails Biden For “Having The Balls To Bring Our Troops Home,” Which “Wuss” Trump Did Not Do

Mediaite reports: President Joe Biden received praise from an unlikely source on Tuesday: Ann Coulter. Biden had just concluded his address to the nation on the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, ending a war that had lasted 20 years. The president has been criticized for failing to anticipate the rapid crumbling of Afghan security forces in the face of the Taliban’s …

Read More »

Paul Ryan: It’s “Really Clear Trump Legitimately Lost”

The Hill reports: Former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said it’s “really clear” that President Biden won the 2020 election, as fellow Republicans in his home state gear up for an audit of presidential ballots. “President Trump lost the election. Joe Biden won the election,” Ryan told WISN 12 in a rare interview on Monday. “It was not rigged. It …

Read More »

Axios: Trump Demands Financial Stake To Join GETTR

Axios reports: Former President Trump wanted equity in Gettr, the new social media app launched by former Trump aide Jason Miller, sources tell Axios. The former president has yet to join the app, although sources say that conversations about his participation are ongoing. Discussions about equity are likely part of those conversations, and everything is a negotiation point. Miller has …

Read More »

Court Strikes Down Trump Rule On Water Pollution

The New York Times reports: A federal judge on Monday struck down a Trump-era environmental rule that drastically limited federal restrictions against pollution of millions of streams, wetlands and marshes across the country. The Biden administration had already begun the lengthy process of undoing the policy, which President Donald J. Trump established in 2020 to please real estate developers and …

Read More »

Seven Capitol Police Officers Sue Trump, Roger Stone, Oath Keepers, And Proud Boys For Inciting Capitol Riot

The Associated Press reports: U.S. Capitol Police officers who were attacked and beaten during the Capitol riot filed a lawsuit Thursday against former President Donald Trump, his allies and members of far-right extremist groups, accusing them of intentionally sending a violent mob on Jan. 6 to disrupt the congressional certification of the election. The suit in federal court in Washington …

Read More »

City Declares COVID Emergency Ahead Of Trump Rally

The Hill reports: Cullman, Ala., on Thursday declared a COVID-19-related state of emergency ahead of a scheduled Alabama GOP rally featuring former President Trump on Saturday as Alabama struggles with a surge in new infections and a shortage of hospital beds. The state of emergency declaration allows the city to provide additional resources for the rally, a request that was …

Read More »

When Trump Praised A Future Takeover By The Taliban

Mediaite reports: Last February, months after canceling a planned meeting with the Taliban that would have placed the group’s leaders inside the White House on Septembr 11th, Trump gloried in the idea of a Taliban-led Afghanistan that would become a bane to terrorists. “I’ll be meeting personally with Taliban leaders in the not-too-distant future. And we’ll be very much hoping …

Read More »

GDP Growth Under Trump Was Worst Since Depression

Bloomberg News reports: It was the whopping-yet-still-disappointing 6.5% annualized growth number for the second quarter that got most of the attention when the U.S. gross domestic product report came out Thursday. But the data release from the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis also included revisions to GDP and related measures back to 1999, making this an opportune time to …

Read More »

Riot Committee Chair: Subpoenaing Trump On Table

The Wall Street Journal reports: The House’s select committee probing the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump won’t hesitate to subpoena members of Congress or Mr. Trump and will try to enforce the subpoenas in court if necessary, said the panel’s chairman. “Anybody who had a conversation with the White House and officials …

Read More »

Bob Dole: “I’m A Trumper” But Joe Biden Won Fairly

USA Today reports: He was one of the few elders of the traditional Republican establishment to endorse Donald Trump in 2016 and the only former presidential nominee to attend the convention that nominated Trump. In a split with the 45th president, Dole said there’s no question that Trump lost his reelection race in 2020 – narrowly perhaps but fair and …

Read More »

Dem Bill Requires Speaker To Be Member Of House

Oh yes, the cultists will scream about this: A new bill introduced on Monday by Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-Pa.) would only allow an elected House member to serve as Speaker after former President Trump called the suggestion that he seek the gavel “so interesting.” The Constitution does not directly state that the House Speaker must be a member of the …

Read More »

Energy Dept Dumps Trump Rule On Showerheads

NBC News reports: So much for Donald Trump’s quest for “perfect” hair. President Joe Biden’s administration is reversing a Trump-era rule approved after the former president complained he wasn’t getting wet enough because of limits on water flow from showerheads. Now, with a new president in office, the Energy Department is going back to a standard adopted in 2013, saying …

Read More »

BOOK: Pelosi Feared “Maniac” Trump Would Use Nukes

The Hill reports: Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was fearful former President Trump would launch nuclear weapons in his final days in the White House, according to a new book. Washington Post journalists Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker write in “I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year” that Pelosi called Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the …

Read More »

Leaked Kremlin Docs Show Operation To Back Trump

The Guardian reports: Vladimir Putin personally authorised a secret spy agency operation to support a “mentally unstable” Donald Trump in the 2016 US presidential election during a closed session of Russia’s national security council, according to what are assessed to be leaked Kremlin documents. The key meeting took place on 22 January 2016, the papers suggest, with the Russian president, …

Read More »

NJ Trump Golf Club To Pay $400K In Fatal DUI Crash

The Washington Post reports: One of former president Donald Trump’s golf clubs on Wednesday agreed to pay a $400,000 penalty to the state of New Jersey for overserving alcohol to a customer who later caused a fatal car crash, according to settlement documents released by the state. Under the settlement, Trump’s golf club in Colts Neck, N.J., pleaded no contest …

Read More »