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President Donald Trump monitored Hurricane Harvey from the seclusion of his official mountaintop retreat on Saturday, sending a flurry of tweets before and after the powerful storm made landfall in Texas in an effort to reassure the public that he was fully in control of managing the first natural disaster since he took office. "Closely monitoring #HurricaneHarvey from Camp David.
The Trump administration Sunday ramped up its response to deadly Hurricane Harvey amid reports of Texas families trapped in their homes and a Weather Service pronouncement of "unprecedented" impacts - including up to 50 inches of rain predicted, and elevated highways under water. In Washington, President Donald Trump was headed into a late-morning Cabinet tele-conference on the disaster, tweeting "Even experts have said they've never seen one like this!" Going to a Cabinet Meeting at 11:00 A.M. on #Harvey .
Arizona Republic editorial board: After [Donald] Trump was elected, many hoped he would abandon his habit of appealing to the worst instincts of disaffected white Americans who have been left behind by economic changes that had little to do with undocumented immigration. Many hoped Trump would decide to become the president of all the people.
In this Jan. 26, 2016, file photo, then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is joined by Joe Arpaio, the sheriff of metro Phoenix, at a campaign event in Marshalltown, Iowa. In this Jan. 26, 2016, file photo, then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is joined by Joe Arpaio, the sheriff of metro Phoenix, at a campaign event in Marshalltown, Iowa.
White House Homeland Security adviser Tom Bossert defended President Donald Trump 's controversial pardon of former Sheriff Joe Arpaio as "pretty straightforward." "I think it's pretty straightforward what the president did.
House Speaker Paul Ryan joined with other Republican leaders Saturday in criticizing President Donald Trump's decision to pardon Sheriff Joe Arpaio. "The speaker does not agree with the decision," Doug Andres, a spokesman for Ryan, told The Wall Street Journal.
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President Donald Trump, left, sits with House Speaker Paul Ryan on Capitol Hill in Washington during a "Friends of Ireland" luncheon, March 16, 2017. President Donald Trump should not have pardoned a former Arizona sheriff who was convicted of criminal contempt in a case of racial profiling, the Republican speaker of the House of Representatives, Paul Ryan, said on Saturday.
Former National Intelligence Director James R. Clapper Jr. may have put it best when -- appearing on CNN after Donald Trump's dyspeptic, disjointed, disgraceful pep rally Tuesday evening at the Phoenix Convention Center -- he questioned the president's fitness for office and whether he's "looking for a way out." What if, Clapper wondered in his most sobering assessment, a president capable of such a "downright scary and disturbing" performance before cheering supporters decides to use nuclear weapons against North Korea? "There's actually very little to stop him," the career intelligence professional observed.
At one time, what happened to Brennan Gilmore in the aftermath of the Charlottesville violence would likely have been dismissed as the work of a few troubled people on the lunatic fringes of American society. Now, however, it's a deeply disturbing sign of how far anti-government zealots and hate groups are willing to go to turn Americans against each other, sow distrust in our institutions and destroy our nation from within.
With Steve Bannon out of the White House, it's clearer than ever that President Donald Trump's promise to be a populist fighting for ordinary workers was worth about as much as any other Trump promise - that is, nothing. His agenda, such as it is, amounts to reverse Robin Hood with extra racism - the conventional Republican strategy of taking from struggling families to give to the rich, while distracting lower-income whites by attacking Those People, with the only difference being just how blatantly he plays the race card.
Active-duty transgender troops say a policy change that puts them at risk of being removed from service and that indefinitely bars transgender people from enlisting in the military is a step backward for civil rights and will promote inequality in the armed forces. President Donald Trump on Friday directed the Pentagon to extend a ban on transgender individuals joining the military but gave the Pentagon the authority to decide how to handle openly transgender people already serving.
Washington Post The petroglyphs of Procession Panel, thought to represent a ceremonial gathering or migration, are seen as the sun sets in June at Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah.
President Donald Trump's pardon of former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio shows a lack of regard for an independent judiciary, say critics who note Trump's past criticism of federal judges, including the chief justice of the United States.
As a monster hurricane not seen on American shores in over a decade bore down on Texas on Friday night, a tsunami of news out of Washington was also on its way. President Donald Trump, in the space of four hours, formally announced a ban on transgender people serving in the military, pardoned a controversial sheriff accused of racial profiling and parted ways with polarizing aide and conservative media darling Sebastian Gorka.
Shortly after receiving a pardon from President Donald Trump, former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio hinted to local reporters he might return to politics. Arpaio told the Associated Press he wouldn't rule out running for office again, saying he would be "very active" politically, even at age 85. He had the same message for the state's largest newspaper.
In this Dec. 18, 2013, file photo, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio speaks at a news conference at the Sheriff's headquarters in Phoenix, Ariz. President Donald Trump has pardoned former sheriff Joe Arpaio following his conviction for intentionally disobeying a judge's order in an immigration case.
President Donald Trump, with Melania Trump ahead of him, boards Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington Aug. 25, 2017, as the Trumps were preparing to fly to Camp David, Maryland. President Donald Trump, with Melania Trump ahead of him, boards Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington Aug. 25, 2017, as the Trumps were preparing to fly to Camp David, Maryland.
In this Jan. 26, 2016 file photo, then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is joined by Joe Arpaio, the sheriff of metro Phoenix, at a campaign event in Marshalltown, Iowa. President Donald Trump has pardoned former sheriff Joe Arpaio following his conviction for intentionally disobeying a judge's order in an immigration case.
Eric Hoffer , a San Francisco longshoreman and philosopher who died in 1983, the year President Ronald Reagan awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom , could have been analyzing contemporary American politics when he wrote, some 66 years ago, that "mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil." Campaigns are easy.