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President Donald Trump has spent much of the week feuding with his top Senate partner, suggesting that Majority Leader Mitch McConnell might have to rethink his future if he doesn't deliver on the president's agenda of health care, taxes and infrastructure. Trump on Thursday called McConnell's failure to pass an "Obamacare" repeal last month "a disgrace."
"Last summer, the idea of being Donald Trump's running mate was so fraught and distasteful that Trump was forced to choose from a shortlist of Republican Party mediocrities, has-beens, and hangers-on - including ethical basket-cases like Newt Gingrich and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. Among up-and-coming Republicans, Trump was still an object of derision and scorn: vulgar, ignorant, embarrassing, and destined to lose to Hillary Clinton.
During his appearance on Fox & Friends this morning-a program that has vocally taken the side of Team Trump and criticized McConnell - Gingrich appeared to defend McConnell from Trump attacks and lay some of the blame on the lack of leadership from the White House. While he mostly tried to lay blame on the Democrats who did not vote on any effort to repeal and replace Obamacare, he mostly said that the blame game between Capitol Hill GOP and the White House was "goofy," and also calling it a "collective failure," President Ronald Reagan popularized what is known in political circles as "the 11th Commandment," which states "thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican."
Many conservatives, myself included, find President Trump's personality off-putting, but that does not mean that we don't support much of what he is trying to accomplish. Congress would do well to remember, as they go into their undeserved August recess, that they are still less-popular than the President.
President Donald Trump's new communications director exploded the smoldering tensions at the White House into a full-fledged conflagration Thursday, angrily daring Trump's chief of staff to deny he's a "leaker" and exposing West Wing backstabbing in language more suitable to a mobster movie than a seat of presidential stability. In a pull-no-punches, impromptu CNN interview that he said was authorized by the president, Anthony Scaramucci went after chief of staff Reince Priebus in graphic terms.
LE BOURGET , France - Thousands of supporters of a dissident Iranian opposition group rallied here Saturday for the overthrow of Iran 's theocratic government at an event that featured speeches by several Trump administration allies - including Newt Gingrich and Rudolph Giuliani - as well as the former head of Saudi intelligence. The boisterous event, held annually in this town just north of Paris, was organized by the controversial National Council of Resistance of Iran , a France-based group of Iranian exiles that brings dozens of current and former U.S., European and Middle Eastern officials together to speak out in support of regime change in Tehran.
The president either doesn't understand how Medicaid funding levels are set, or is cynically assuming readers of his tweets don't understand it. A presidential tweet yesterday afternoon helps us answer a pertinent question: How does Trump justify supporting GOP health plans that violate his pledge during the campaign to oppose cuts in Medicaid spending? It seems POTUS does not understand how Medicaid funding works, and thus what constitutes a "cut."
After James Hodgkinson shot Republican congressman Steve Scalise and four other people at the Republican congressional baseball team practice last week in Virginia, it did not take long for right-wingers to start blaming the left. Hodgkinson, who had an anger management problem and a history of violence - yet no trouble getting his hands on an assault rifle and handgun - had also been a supporter of Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign, which was more than enough for partisans on the right to denounce the entire left for violence.
The ultimate lawsuit: Trump will eventually fire special counsel Robert Mueller - and a lawyer games out what will happen next Eventually, Trump is likely to fire special counsel Robert Mueller. Trump's repeated statements about the Russia "hoax" - along with his apparent attempts to influence the FBI's investigation - warrant a close look at the process by which he could do so.
Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Sen. Mark Warner, whose panel is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election, speaks with reporters after final votes for the week, at the Capitol in Washington Thursday. Warner responded to President Donald Trump's tweet that there are no recordings of his private conversations with fired FBI director James Comey, saying, 'This administration never ceases to amaze me.'
This was supposed to be a huge Democratic victory, a vindication of past disappointing defeats; Democrats had to win this race, but fell short again. The Georgia U.S. House seat was up for grabs after it was vacated by President Donald Trump's newly appointed Health and Human Services Secretary Mr. Tom Price.
Democrats were left picking up the pieces after spending millions of dollars from the party's war chest to back a young candidate in a traditionally red district outside Atlanta and pushing hard for their base of supporters from around the country to donate to him too. The loss in the high-profile, costly race was only exacerbated by a second defeat last night in a race that flew mostly under the radar: Democrats also lost a special election in South Carolina.
Either Republican Karen Handel will claim a seat that has been in her party's hands since 1979 or Democrat Jon Ossoff will manage an upset that will rattle Washington ahead of the 2018 mid-term elections. As much of the district was drenched by rain and under flash flood warnings, election officials reported few issues at the polls amid steady turnout by early afternoon.
In this June 6, 2017 file photo, candidates in Georgia's 6th Congressional District race Republican Karen Handel, left, and Democrat Jon Ossoff prepare to debate in Atlanta. Handel and Ossoff are making their last push this weekend before voters in Georgia's 6th Congressional District cast ballots Tuesday, June 20, to replace Tom Price in Washington, a contest seen as an early political test for the Trump administration.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Sunday slammed special counsel Robert Mueller's hiring of 13 more lawyers to expand his Russia probe, suggesting they're Democratic donors whose bias will poison the investigation. In an interview with ABC News' "This Week," the Georgia Republican, a staunch supporter of the president, railed at the 97 percent of election donations from the Department of Justice that went to Hillary Clinton.
The investigation into collusion between Russia and President Donald Trump's campaign is unchanged, ongoing, and "just getting started," despite the White House's "besmirchment" attempts against special counsel Robert Mueller, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said Sunday. "Newt Gingrich and the president would like us to shut it down before it is really underway," Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, told ABC's "This Week" "We're far closer to beginning the investigation than we are to the end.