Trump said he didn’t know the British royal Tuesday, but there are pictures of them together from a few months ago, and from 2000. President Trump on Tuesday claimed to not know Prince Andrew despite multiple pictures of the two men together taken over the years, including one of Trump, the …
LONDON — Donald Trump just can’t seem to stay away from British politics. He’s fired off comments on topics including Brexit, his low opinion of a British ambassador, and how his Trump-branded golf course in Scotland “furthers U.K. relations.” So there’s little surprise that the American president is playing an …
It seems relevant that Trump’s preparation for the presidency has been years of straight up swindling. Donald Trump has famously refused to disclose his tax returns, and waged a series of implausible but dogged legal challenges to prevent those returns from being obtained by Congress and the New York attorney …
A new poll shows broad support for a ban on flavored e-cigarettes. But those who object to a prohibition are intense in their opposition. When the vaping industry and its allies launched a major push to dissuade President Donald Trump from banning flavored e-cigarettes this fall, they pointed to a …
Trump’s top congressional defender continues his crazy lawsuit binge. Last week, two news reports connected Devin Nunes, ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee and a key Donald Trump defender, to the Ukraine scandal. Both stories report on explosive allegations by the lawyer for Lev Parnas, Rudy Giuliani’s now-arrested partner …
Navy Secretary Richard Spencer’s ouster was just the latest collision between military leaders and the president, who has repeatedly ignored or overruled their advice. President Donald Trump came into office vowing to unshackle his military commanders from years of Obama-era micromanagement. But now he’s facing a rupture with his Pentagon …
The ambassador’s definition of “acting on good faith” meant following orders, even orders he found morally troubling. When Gordon Sondland testified at the House impeachment hearings on November 20, having “refreshed” his memory and recalled several incriminating facts that had escaped him the first time around, the ambassador was at pains to explain that …
Manhattan’s top attorney on Thursday urged the Supreme Court to stay out of a fight over President Donald Trump’s tax returns. At issue is a petition the president’s lawyers filed last week seeking the Supreme Court’s intervention to strike down a New York-based federal appeals court order that Trump must turn over his …
A top henchman turns on the president in explosive testimony. Gordon Sondland, the European Union ambassador, was a lynchpin of President Trump’s defense in the Ukraine scandal. Sondland had been a loyal functionary throughout, carrying out the president’s directives dutifully if reluctantly. Republicans publicly telegraphed their plan to pin the whole scheme …
The president lost two of three gubernatorial elections in conservative Southern states, raising questions about his standing heading into 2020. President Donald Trump campaigned hard in three conservative Southern states this fall, aiming for a string of gubernatorial wins that would demonstrate his political strength heading into impeachment and his own reelection …
Roger Stone is guilty, Trump’s goons shook down Ukraine, and Rudy Giuliani might be next. From the perspective of President Trump’s frustrated critics, the attempts to subject him to legal accountability have amounted to a long string of failures. Robert Mueller failed to produce a clear indictment of his dealings …
There’s me, there’s you and Ukraine. Here come the holidays, and all we’re going to hear about is Ukraine. I know, who’d have thought? There’s the impeachment drama, and it’s all about Ukraine. The Democratic primaries are coming up, and every one of the 92 candidates is worried about mispronouncing …
