2/27/2018 US Cyber Command chief Adm. Mike Rogers told lawmakers on Tuesday that he has not been granted authority by President Trump to disrupt Russian election hacking operations where they originate. Asked by Democratic Sen. Jack Reed if he has been directed by the President, through the defense secretary, to confront Russian cyber operators at the source, Rogers said “no ...

2/27/2018 Senior official Helen Foster in the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) claims she was demoted and replaced with a Donald Trump appointee after refusing to break the law by funding an expensive redecoration of HUD Secretary Ben Carson’s office. Foster’s complaint letter stated that the day before Trump’s inauguration, Foster was asked by acting HUD director ...

2/27/2018 The Washington Post’s Shane Harris reported that officials in four countries discussed ways to manipulate Jared Kushner, President Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law. Officials in at least four countries have privately discussed ways they can manipulate Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, by taking advantage of his complex business arrangements, financial difficulties and lack of foreign policy experience, ...

2/27/2018 The White House calligrapher now has greater access to sensitive information than White House adviser (and President Trump’s son-in-law) Jared Kushner. Kushner’s security clearance was downgraded from top secret to secret, a huge cut to what information he has access to, including the President’s Daily Brief.  The Daily Brief contains all top-secret information the President needs to know.  Kushner has ...

2/27/2018 In a stunning admission, White House Director of Communications Hope Hicks told the House Intelligence panel today that she lies. During a 9-hour question and (sometimes) answer session, Hicks said she sometimes tells “white lies” for President Trump.  Initially, Hicks would not answer the question of whether she lied, but after consulting with her attorney for approximately 15 minutes, ...

2/26/2018 Republicans say that passing any gun control laws would result in only the criminals having guns.  The argument simply does not hold water, as every other advanced country in the world is able to control gun violence better than the United States.  Simple logic dictates that if gun laws similar to those in Australia, Japan or Canada were passed ...

2/26/2018 President Trump claimed Monday that he would have rushed into the school during the shooting that occured two weeks ago at a Florida high school.  The shooting killed 17 people.  The President stated that deputy sherrifs “wern’t exactly Medal Of Honor winners” and then later called it “a disgrace” the way they performed. “I really believe I’d run in, ...

2/25/2018 President Trump is 0-2 in his attempts to meet with the Mexican President, America’s most important neighbor to the South. Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto called off tentative plans to visit the White House after another testy call with Trump earlier in the week.  President Trump, self-proclaimed “Dealmaker” and author of “The Art Of The Deal”, was unable to ...

2/24/2018 At one point, some Republicans thought the Mueller investigation into Russian meddling was on its last legs.  Republican Devin Nunes had prepared a secret memo outlining how the investigation was unjust, biased, and grossly unfair to the President. Republicans who had seen the memo claimed that it contained claims of official corruption so great, they eclipsed the atrocities of Nixon’s ...

2/23/2018 Rick Gates, a former top aide to President Trump’s campaign, pleaded guilty to two felonies on Friday and promised to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election. Gates and Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort were indicted in October on charges that they secretly worked on behalf of a pro-Russian political faction in Ukraine ...