U.S. President Donald Trump ousted his new communications director Anthony Scaramucci just 10 days after he was named to the post, according to Reuters. According to the report, Trump was annoyed about Scaramucci’s lewd comments to The New Yorker magazine ...
Read More »Comey accuses Trump administration of ‘lies’
The White House’s shifting rationale for his dismissal “confused” the former director, he said, adding that it was the administration’s subsequent statements that the FBI was in “disarray” that moved him to speak, according to The Hill. “The administration chose ...
Read More »U.S. Senate committee subpoenas former Trump adviser Flynn over Russia
The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee issued a subpoena on Wednesday demanding documents related to Russia from President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn, ramping up its months long investigation of Moscow’s alleged meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, ...
Read More »Ivanka Trump in Germany: First Daughter Leaves Some Women Scratching Their Heads
In doing so, the billionaire’s daughter stepped into a land that prides itself on meritocracy, Alexander Smith writes in an article for NBC News. This is a country run by Angela Merkel, a veteran politician with a doctorate in quantum ...
Read More »Trump’s stunning u-turns on NATO, China, Russia and Syria
NATO, Trump said, is “no longer obsolete.” He backed down a threat to brand China a currency manipulator. In another reversal, Trump praised Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, whom he had previously pledged to replace when her term expires, and ...
Read More »Obama Administration Rushed to Preserve Intelligence of Russian Election Hacking – NY Times
Former American officials say they had two aims: to ensure that such meddling isn’t duplicated in future American or European elections, and to leave a clear trail of intelligence for government investigators, according to New York Times. American allies, including ...
Read More »US Attorney General met with Russian envoy twice last year
One of the meetings was a private conversation between Sessions and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak that took place in September in the senator’s office, at the height of what U.S. intelligence officials say was a Russian cyber campaign to upend ...
Read More »White House press secretary Sean Spicer targets own staff in leak crackdown
According to Politico, press secretary Sean Spicer is cracking down on leaks coming out of the West Wing, with increased security measures that include random phone checks of White House staffers, overseen by White House attorneys. The push to snuff ...
Read More »Majority of Americans Say Congress Should Probe Contact Between Trump, Russia: Poll
The new poll, conducted February 18-22, shows that 53 percent of the American public wants Congress to look into the alleged communications, while 25 percent disagree and 21 percent say they don’t have an opinion, NBC News reports. A similar ...
Read More »Meet the 5 Trump Administrations – NYT
“It should be clear by now that there are five different Trump administrations swirling before our eyes — Trump Entertainment, Trump Cleanup, Trump Crazy, Trump G.O.P. and the Essential Trump — and no one can predict which will define this ...
Read More »‘Refugees Welcome’ banner hung on Statue of Liberty in New York
The 3ft by 20ft banner was placed across the observation deck on statue’s pedestal on Liberty Island, New York, Joinfo.com reports with reference to the BBC. The banner was removed by park rangers a little more than an hour later. ...
Read More »Zuckerberg’s Manifesto: How Facebook CEO Plans to Save the World
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has planted his ideological flag in the ground, posting a 5,800-word essay to his social media site on Thursday, which details his broad plan for the future of, not only his company, but also ...
Read More »US National Security Adviser Michael Flynn resigns
US President Trump has named retired Army Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg as acting national security adviser. Kellogg previously served as Flynn’s chief of staff on the US National Security Council, Joinfo.com reports with reference to The Hill. The embattled Flynn ...
Read More »‘The Oval Office’: Trump’s administration stars in parody version of entertainment show
A creative man named Brandon Smith made this very entertaining video starring the Trump administration in a parody version of “The Office,” Joinfo.com reports citing Huffington Post. Watch “The Oval Office” below: The Oval Office (2017) pic.twitter.com/1JGNM35dvo — Brandon Smith (@minismitty) ...
Read More »Trump’s aide Kellyanne Conway gets Secret Service protection
Top President Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway has received mail with a suspicious white powder in them and has been assigned Secret Service protection, she told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Monday night, The Hill reports. “Because of what the ...
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