Tag Archives: White House

BREAKING: Manafort Found Guilty On Eight Counts

CNBC reports: President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort on Tuesday was found guilty of eight criminal counts, including five counts of tax fraud. In a note to U.S. District Court Judge T.S. Ellis, the jurors said they had not reached a consensus on the 10 remaining counts in the bank fraud and tax crimes trial. Manafort, 69, faces …

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BREAKING: Cohen Reaches Plea Deal With Prosecutors

Axios reports: President Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen has reached a plea deal on with federal prosecutors in New York, per ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos. The big question: It’s still unknown whether Cohen’s deal means he’ll be cooperating with federal investigators, including those in the Mueller investigation. USA Today reports: The reported deal comes after reports that federal investigators …

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Randy Rainbow Takes On Omarosa! [VIDEO]

Viral YouTube comedian Randy Rainbow is back today, this time taking on Omarosa to the tune of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1943 classic, Oklahoma! As always, I won’t give away any of the jokes, but as you’d expect there are many riffs on the secret tapes. Watch until the end.

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Poll: Majority Say Trump Doesn’t Hire The Best People

Politico reports: President Donald Trump repeatedly said during the 2016 election that he would “hire the best people” for his administration, but a new poll Monday shows that most Americans don’t think he delivered on that promise. The new Monmouth University Poll found that only 30 percent of respondents believe that Trump has hired the “best people,” with 58 percent …

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Melania’s First Official Solo Trip Will Be To Africa

CBS News reports: First Lady Melania Trump is planning her first big solo international swing with a trip through several African countries in October, CBS News has confirmed. The first lady first told The Associated Press in a written statement Monday that she’s looking forward to learning about the issues that children living on the continent face, as well as …

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Trump Invites Hispanic Border Patrol Agent To White House Event Podium: “Speaks Perfect English!” [VIDEO]

At a White House ceremony to honor border agents, our totally not racist Glorious Leader invited a Hispanic officer to the podium, saying, “Come here, you’re not nervous, right? Speaks perfect English!” Earlier in the presentation, Trump claimed that ICE is “liberating” Long Island town from MS-13. “We’re going to do very well in the midterms, and this is one …

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Omarosa: I Believe Trump Wants To Start A Race War

The Hill reports: Former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman on Sunday said President Trump is “disingenuous” in his efforts to help the African-American community, and accused the president of wanting to start a race war. “We have a lot to lose right now,” Manigault Newman said on MSNBC’s “Politics Nation,” referencing Trump’s appeal to African-American voters during the 2016 …

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BOMBSHELL: White House Counsel Don McGahn Has “Cooperated Extensively” With Robert Mueller’s Team

The New York Times reports: The White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, has cooperated extensively in the special counsel investigation, sharing detailed accounts about the episodes at the heart of the inquiry into whether President Trump obstructed justice, including some that investigators would not have learned of otherwise, according to a dozen current and former White House officials and …

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REPORT: Trump Tried To Quash The #BeBest Campaign

The New York Times last night published a lengthy profile of Melania’s relatively solitary life in the East Wing. Most notable, perhaps, is the revelation that her husband tried to quash her #BeBest campaign: The president suggested that Mrs. Trump choose a different topic to avoid questions about how the wife of a notorious Twitter bully could lead a campaign …

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White House Plots Using Obscure Budget Rule To Strip Billions In UN Funding Without Congressional Approval

Politico reports: The White House budget office believes it has found a way to cancel about $3 billion in foreign aid even if it is never approved by Congress, according to a Republican aide familiar with the plan. Using an obscure budget rule, administration officials are planning to freeze billions of dollars in the State Department’s international assistance budget — …

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REPORT: Omarosa May Have 200 More Tapes

The New York Times reports: The tapes of Ms. Manigault Newman’s private conversations with Mr. Trump and other officials connected to him have rattled the White House in a way that few things other than the special counsel investigation into possible campaign collusion with Russia have. Mr. Trump’s aides have been concerned that they will make appearances on other tapes, …

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LIVE VIDEO: White House Press Briefing

CBS News provides likely topics: Omarosa: On Tuesday, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders admitted to providing an incorrect figure regarding the number of jobs created for African Americans during the Trump era vs. the Obama era. The error came as Sanders was defending President Trump’s derogatory comments on former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman. Lewandowski: Former Trump …

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White House: Sorry Not Sorry For Fake Job Numbers

The Washington Post reports: White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders apologized late Tuesday for wrongly stating that President Trump has created three times as many jobs for black workers as President Barack Obama did. At a news conference Tuesday, Sanders said Obama created 195,000 jobs for African Americans during his eight years in office. “When President Obama left after …

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WH Staffers “Terrified” About Omarosa’s Next Move

Politico reports: A daily trickle of revealing internal conversations between staffers. Growing anxiety about what one might have once said. No sense of how long it will go on. Omarosa Manigault Newman’s slow release of secretly taped conversations from inside the Trump campaign and White House is having the same effect on staffers as the daily dumps from WikiLeaks had …

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Trump Tried To Ban Aides From Writing Tell-All Books

Politico reports: Long before Omarosa Manigault Newman lodged explosive claims against her former boss, President Donald Trump’s White House foresaw the potential problems with ex-staffers’ tell-all books. Embedded in the White House’s two-page non-disclosure agreement was a seemingly innocuous clause that prohibited top aides from disclosing confidential information in any form including books, without the express permission of the president, …

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REPORT: Trump Has A Problem With Time Zones

Politico reports: Several times in the first year of his administration, President Donald Trump wanted to call Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the middle of the afternoon. But there was a problem. Midafternoon in Washington is the middle of the night in Tokyo — when Abe would be fast asleep. Trump’s aides had to explain the issue, which one …

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White House Seeks To Block More Omarosa Tapes

ABC News reports: Omarosa Manigault Newman’s former White House colleagues are looking into legal options to stop her from releasing more tapes and to punish her for secretly recording her conversation with Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly, White House officials tell ABC News. “The very idea a staff member would sneak a recording device into the White House Situation …

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Omarosa Taped Her Own Firing By John Kelly [VIDEO]

Axios reports: Former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault-Newman released an alleged audio recording of her firing by Chief of Staff John Kelly in the White House Situation Room during an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday. While the White House stated that Omarosa resigned back in December, it was an open secret at the time that she had actually …

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White House Blasts “Disgruntled Liar” Omarosa

“Instead of telling the truth about all the good President Trump and his administration are doing to make America safe and prosperous, this book is riddled with lies and false accusations. It’s sad that a disgruntled former White House employee is trying to profit off these false attacks, and even worse that the media would now give her a platform, …

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LIVE VIDEO: Broadway Protests Outside White House

The Associated Press reports: Rosie O’Donnell and cast members from some of Broadway’s biggest musicals plan to serenade President Donald Trump on Monday — but from outside the White House in protest. The group will sing “The People’s Song” from “Les Miserables,” Burt Bacharach’s “What the World Needs Now Is Love,” ″A Brand New Day” from “The Wiz” and “Climb …

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