5/16/2017 President Donald Trump asked former FBI Director James Comey to shut down his bureau’s investigation into Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn, a request that Comey documented in a memo, the New York Times reported on Tuesday. The news came one week after Trump suddenly fired Comey from his position as FBI Director which set off a firestorm in ...

  According to the Washington Post, during his meeting with Russian officials at the White House President Trump volunteered top secret information.  It was later learned that the secret information was given to US intelligence by the Israelis.  The information the president disclosed jeopardizes the relationships that US intelligence agencies has with its allies, along with disclosing the identity of ...

  Michael Flynn is a retired United States Army lieutenant general who was the eighteenth director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and the first national security advisor appointed by President Donald Trump.  Flynn served as the twenty-fifth national security advisor from January 20, 2017, to February 13, 2017. He was forced to resign after the Washington Post reported he had lied to Vice President Mike Pence about the nature and content ...

Michelle Obama asks “What is wrong with you?”  “Think about why someone is OK with your kids eating crap.” One of the former first lady’s signature legacies was an effort to reduce childhood obesity by encouraging healthier eating and more exercise.  Earlier this month, Donald Trump’s administration took steps to undo these efforts. At the Partnership for a Healthier America summit ...

In response to criticism surrounding the Trump administration’s inability to deliver a consistent message, President Trump suggested throwing in the towel and doing away with live press briefings. …Maybe the best thing to do would be to cancel all future "press briefings" and hand out written responses for the sake of accuracy??? — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 12, 2017 ...

In response to the ever-changing stories that have been coming out of the White House, President Trump tweeted today that his staff can’t be counted on to be accurate.  Most Administrations carefully craft a message to the important news of the day, and staffers are instructed to keep to the narrative.  While the Trump administrative staff can seem to stick ...

In an early morning Tweet, President Trump warned former FBI Director James Comey that he better hope that there were no “tapes” of their conversation before he went to the press.  White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer later refused to answer questions seeking to confirm or deny that President Trump secretly records his conversations.  The last known occurrence of a ...

  President Trump said he was going to fire former FBI Director James Comey anyway, recommendations didn’t matter.  Calling Comey a Showboat and Grandstander, President Trump said he was going to fire FBI Director James Comey regardless of the Deputy Attorney General’s recommendation during an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt.  These statements were in direct conflict with his termination letter ...

In an apparent slap in the face to the FBI, President Trump welcomed two Russian diplomats into the Oval Office the day after he fired the FBI Director investigating possible collusion between the Trump Campaign and Russia.  The American press was not allowed into cover or take photographs of the event, only Russian news agencies were allowed into the Oval ...

  President Trump signed an executive order today to establish a commission to review alleged voter fraud in the American election system.  Vice President Mike Pence and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach were announced today as the Chair and Vice Chair of the bipartisan “Presidential Commission on Election Integrity.” Following the 2016 election, Trump claimed widespread voter fraud explained why ...