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President Donald Trump intends to spend at least $430,000 of his own money to help pay the legal bills of White House staff and campaign aides related to the investigations into Russian election meddling in the 2016 election, a White House official said Saturday. It's the first such commitment by Trump, who has dismissed the ongoing investigations into whether his campaign colluded with Russia as a "witch hunt" invented by Democrats to explain Hillary Clinton's loss.
Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters of Missouri called on White House Chief of Staff John Kelly to apologize Saturday for defending President Donald Trump's conversation with a gold-star family. Waters wants Kelly to apologize for his remarks toward Democratic Rep. Frederica Wilson of Florida about the president's phone call with the pregnant widow of Army Sgt.
Mourners remembered not only a U.S. soldier whose combat death in Africa led to a political fight between President Donald Trump and a Florida congresswoman but his three comrades who died with him. Some of the 1,200 mourners exiting the church after Saturday's service said the portrait of Sgt.
Kevin Hassett, senior fellow and director of Economic Policy at the American Enterprise Institute, is President Donald Trump's chief economist. Kevin Hassett, senior fellow and director of Economic Policy at the American Enterprise Institute, is President Donald Trump's chief economist.
President Donald Trump's boast that he surpasses his predecessors in consoling families of the fallen proved empty this past week as many stepped forward to say they'd never heard from him after losing their loved ones in military service. The suddenly fraught and politically charged subject overshadowed other misfires from the president, on taxes, hurricane relief and more.
A Florida Republican lawmaker disputed the comparison. The Florida Democratic congresswoman who clashed with President Donald Trump over his call to the widow of a soldier killed in an ambush in Niger wants Congress to investigate what she's calling "Mr. Trump's Benghazi."
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders calls on a member of the media during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Friday, Oct. 20, 2017, in Washington. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders calls on a member of the media during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Friday, Oct. 20, 2017, in Washington.
President Donald Trump promised tax cuts Friday "which will be the biggest in the history of our country" following Senate passage of a $4 trillion budget that lays the groundwork for Republicans ' promised tax legislation. Republicans hope to push the first tax overhaul in three decades through Congress by year's end, an ambitious goal that would fulfill multiple campaign promises but could run aground over any number of disputes.
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Anderson Cooper's show recently featured a "two-part exclusive" that claims Donald Trump's EPA director had conspired with the CEO of a mining company to "withdraw environmental restrictions" so the company could dig "the largest open pit mine in the world in an extremely sensitive watershed in wild Alaska."
From the moment he was elected, liberals have clung to the possibility, however remote, that Donald Trump will be removed from office. They've fallen for the conspiracy theories of , and continue to hold out hope the Mueller investigation will bring his corrupt presidency crashing down.
Steve Bannon speaks at the California Republican Party's semi-annual convention. Bannon is the controversial former chief strategist to President Donald Trump.
Steve Bannon, the controversial former strategist for President Donald Trump, told California Republicans on Friday that if they don't join together to take back the state, they'll see a breakaway effort to create a sovereign nation. "You are a sanctuary state," he told a sold-out dinner crowd of about 500 gather at the Marriott Anaheim for the state GOP's semi-annual convention.
For 12 days after four U.S. Special Forces soldiers were ambushed in Niger, President Donald Trump said nothing publicly about their deaths. He didn't mention their bravery.
A powerful House Republican is trying to force into public view the identity of the person who first hired the investigative firm that compiled the infamous dossier of alleged links between Russians and the Donald Trump campaign. House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes quietly approved a subpoena earlier this month that would compel the unidentified bank handling finances for a private investigative firm called Fusion GPS to open up the company's books.
Former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is faulting President Donald Trump's administration for failing to fill many diplomatic positions and top Department of State posts and is criticizing his stance on climate change. Kerry was a Democratic U.S. senator from Massachusetts and spoke Friday in Rhode Island.
The White House on Friday rushed to defend chief of staff John Kelly after he mischaracterized the remarks of a Democratic congresswoman and called her an "empty barrel" making noise. A Trump spokeswoman said it was "inappropriate" to question Kelly in light of his stature as a retired four-star general.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan applauds as attendees to the 72nd Annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation dinner are announced Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017, in New York. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan applauds as attendees to the 72nd Annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation dinner are announced Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017, in New York.