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For a man who loves the media spotlight, U.S. President Donald Trump has been wary of talking to reporters by himself. You can use one finger to count the number of times he has held a solo presidential press conference during his first 14 months in office.
Former House oversight chairman Jason Chaffetz on Wednesday warned President Donald Trump not to be comforted by news that he is a "subject" of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation instead of being considered a "target." Chaffetz, a Fox News contributor, was asked during an appearance on Fox & Friends whether Trump should "breathe a sigh of relief" now that The Washington Post has reported that Mueller does not yet have enough evidence to charge Trump with a crime.
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner listen to US President Donald Trump speak in the Rose Garden of the White House following the House of Representative vote on the health care bill on May 4, 2017 in Washington, DC. Following weeks of in-party feuding and mounting pressure from the White House, lawmakers voted 217 to 213 to pass a bill dismantling much of Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act and allowing US states to opt out of many of the law's key health benefit guarantees / AFP PHOTO / MANDEL NGAN Ivanka Trump appears to be at a turning point following a tumultuous first year as a senior White House advisor to her father, President Donald Trump.
President Donald Trump offered a measured gesture of support for Environmental Protection Agency Secretary Scott Pruitt, but those words of encouragement also came with a White House warning about the ethical questions surrounding his travel spending and ties to Washington lobbyists. "I hope he's going to be great," Trump told reporters Tuesday, declining to reiterate publicly his private praise for Pruitt's work.
Frustrated by slow action on a major campaign promise, US president Donald Trump has said he wants to use the military to secure the US-Mexico border until his promised border wall is built. "We're going to be doing things militarily.
The head of the NYPD's Special Victims Division, revealed to be a campaign contributor to then-presidential candidate Donald Trump - even after he was caught on tape bragging about grabbing women "by the p---y" - got an unlikely boost Tuesday from the head of the city chapter of the National Organization for Women. "Let's put this into perspective," Sonia Ossorio said of Deputy Chief Michael Osgood.
West Virginia Republican Congressman Evan Jenkins says President Donald Trump will visit West Virginia for the second time this year. Jenkins says he'll join the president for a scheduled roundtable in Greenbrier County on Thursday.
Environmental regulators an... . The Capitol Hill condo building where Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has stayed in Washington, Friday, March 30, 2018.
Mueller authorized by DOJ to investigate alleged Manafort collusion with Russian government - Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told special counsel Robert Mueller in a classified August 2, 2017, memo that he should investigate allegations that President Donald Trump's former Justice official authorized Mueller to investigate whether Trump campaign chair colluded with Russia Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III was authorized by a top Justice Department official to investigate whether Paul Manafort, the onetime chairman of Donald Trump's presidential campaign Jeff Sessions Quietly Appointed a Prosecutor to Probe Trump's Foes. That Could Be an Unprecedented Disaster.
President Trump suggested Tuesday he might try to put U.S. troops on the Mexican border until his anti-migration wall is built.Saying he has spoken with Defense Secretary James Mattis, Trump told reporters that "we're going to do some things militarily, until we can have a wall and proper security." Trump suggests he will put U.S. troops on Mexican border President Trump suggested Tuesday he might try to put U.S. troops on the Mexican border until his anti-migration wall is built.Saying he has spoken with Defense Secretary James Mattis, Trump told reporters that "we're going to do some things militarily, until we can have a wall and proper security."
President Donald Trump said Tuesday he wants to use the military to secure the U.S.-Mexico border until his promised border wall is built. Speaking at a lunch with Baltic leaders, Trump said he'd already discussed the idea with Defense Secretary Jim Mattis.
President Donald Trump speaks with, from left, Latvian President Raimonds Vejonis, Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid, and Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite President Donald Trump made the case to the leaders of the Baltic nations that the US was "very tough on Russia", pointing to US support for increased defence spending by Nato countries as a check on Moscow's aggression. Mr Trump, joined by the leaders of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, spoke a day after the White House dangled the prospect of extending a White House welcome to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Mueller authorized by DOJ to investigate alleged Manafort collusion with Russian government - Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told special counsel Robert Mueller in a classified August 2, 2017, memo that he should investigate allegations that President Donald Trump's former Justice official authorized Mueller to investigate whether Trump campaign chair colluded with Russia Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III was authorized by a top Justice Department official to investigate whether Paul Manafort, the onetime chairman of Donald Trump's presidential campaign Jeff Sessions Quietly Appointed a Prosecutor to Probe Trump's Foes. That Could Be an Unprecedented Disaster.
Republican Gov. John Kasich restored Ohio's membership in the National Governors Association as he seeks to shore up credibility for bipartisan deal-making that could bolster a 2020 bid for president. An invoice produced in response to a public records request shows Ohio rejoined the bipartisan policy group in January for the first time in eight years.
President Donald Trump in a March phone call proposed meeting Vladimir Putin at the White House, the Kremlin said Monday, a fresh revelation about a conversation that stirred controversy over Trump's friendly tone toward the Russian leader. After the March 20 phone call -- in which Trump congratulated Putin on a re-election victory in a vote widely criticized as not free and fair -- Trump told reporters that the two leaders had talked about a possible meeting to discuss Syria, Ukraine, North Korea and "the arms race."
President Donald Trump again criticized the Justice Department on Monday, saying the agency's production of documents to Congress is an "embarrassment to our country!" Trump made the statement after tweeting about unrelated topics, including the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, the news media and Amazon. "So sad that the Department of 'Justice' and the FBI are slow walking, or even not giving, the unredacted documents requested by Congress," Trump wrote, putting "Justice" in quotation marks.
President Donald Trump declared on Monday that a program shielding a group of young people from deportation -- which he moved to scrap last fall -- is "dead," and then blamed Democrats for failing to salvage the protections. "DACA is dead because the Democrats didn't care or act, and now everyone wants to get onto the DACA bandwagon," Trump said in one of a series of morning tweets on the matter.
President Donald Trump is briefed by Rodney Scott, head of the San Diego Sector Border Patrol, on wall prototypes on March 13, 2018. On many issues - naming Scalia-like judges and backing Reagan-like tax cuts - President Trump is a conventional Republican.
The conventional wisdom in Washington these days says that Secretary of Defense James Mattis is the one man who can save the nation from war. The new secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, is a hawk's hawk.
President Donald Trump proposed meeting Vladimir Putin at the White House in a March phone call, the Kremlin said Monday, a fresh revelation about a conversation that stirred controversy over Trump's friendly tone toward the Russian leader amid mounting tensions with the West. After the March 20 phone call - in which Trump congratulated Putin for a reelection victory in a vote widely criticized as not free and fair - Trump told reporters that the two leaders had discussed a possible meeting to discuss Syria, Ukraine, North Korea and "the arms race."