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Skip to navigation Skip to content Skip to footer View text version of this page Help using this website - Accessibility statement Join today and you can easily save your favourite articles, join in the conversation and comment, plus select which news your want direct to your inbox. US President Donald Trump spent the weekend at "the winter White House", Mar-a-Lago, the secluded Florida castle where he is king.
Former DNI James Clapper says Trump claim of wiretap is false Trump's accusation of Obama wiretap at Trump Tower is disputed Check out this story on thetimesherald.com: http://usat.ly/2n2Vfp8 James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence, says there was no court order to monitor Donald Trump's phones. WASHINGTON - Former Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper said Sunday he would have known and that there were no wiretaps at Trump Tower or against Donald Trump or his campaign during his tenure.
FBI director James B. Comey asked the Justice Department this weekend to publicly reject President Donald Trump's assertion that President Barack Obama ordered the tapping of Trump's phones, senior U.S. officials said Sunday. Comey has argued that the highly charged claim is false and must be corrected, they said, but the department has not released any such statement.
President Donald Trump has promised a new strategy for fighting terrorism, including ISIS. This week in his congressional address he signaled a big change when he used a phrase President Barack Obama refused to utter for eight years.
The newest revelations that the Obama administration wiretapped, that is "bugged" President Trump and all of his men, in the lead up to and after the November 8, 2016, elections are not surprising. In this regard, for over 2 years the highest levels of the Federal Bureau of Investigation have been secretly investigating the "harvesting" of highly confidential information including financial records of the chief justice of the Supreme Court, other justices, over 156 judges, prominent businessmen like Donald Trump, and public activists like me.
A bicameral but uni-partisan parade of legislators rallied with federal employees outside the Capitol on Thursday in a vigorous display of support for their pay, benefits and jobs. Seven representatives and one senator joined members of the National Treasury Employees Union in an enthusiastic demand for fair pay, fair play and respect.
In this March 22, 2013 file photo, the exterior of the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington. As millions of Americans file their income tax returns, their chances of getting audited by the IRS have rarely been so low.
A day after President Donald Trump alleged that then-President Barack Obama had ordered the wiretapping of the Republican's campaign headquarters, the White House says it won't comment further until congressional oversight committees investigate the matter. In a statement, White House press secretary Sean Spicer cited unknown "reports" of "potentially politically motivated investigations" during the campaign, calling them "troubling."
House minority leader Nancy Pelosi accused President Donald Trump of using "authoritarian" tactics by claiming -- without any evidence -- that President Barack Obama ordered that he be wiretapped. In an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union" Sunday, Pelosi called Trump the "deflector-in-chief -- anything to change the subject."
The White House on Sunday demanded that Congress, which is already investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, also examine whether former President Barack Obama abused his executive powers in connection with that campaign. The request followed President Donald Trump's claim Saturday that his predecessor had tapped the telephones at Trump Tower.
On March 4, President Donald Trump took to Twitter to accuse former President Barack Obama of wiretapping Trump Towers during the 2016 election. A mere 24 hours later, he demanded Congress investigate his claims - with absolutely no evidence to back them.
In the next few months, Georgia and Montana will hold special elections to fill newly vacant House seats, and what happens in those races may tell us a lot about the broader state of the Democratic and Republican parties in the distant 2018 midterms.
US President Donald Trump's claim that he was spied on comes amid a storm over his administration's Russia links. His latest lash-out - a Twitter blitzkrieg early on Saturday, in which he accuses presidential predecessor Barack Obama of a "Nixon/Watergate" plot to tap the phones at the Trump Tower headquarters in New York in the run-up to last year's election - featured a succession of five similarly-worded tweets, belted out between 3.32am and 4.02am.
At a circular booth in the middle of the Trump International Hotel's balcony restaurant, President Donald Trump dined on his steak - well-done, with ketchup - while chatting up British Brexit politician Nigel Farage.
EXCLUSIVE: Beau Biden's widow wears her wedding ring as she emerges for the first time after her relationship with his brother Hunter was revealed amid 'drugs and prostitutes' divorce claims Trump taunts Obama for making secret 2012 election promises to Putin - a day after accusing him of wire-tapping Trump Tower It's not just for cleaning your teeth! The unexpected but incredible uses for toothpaste Trump's NEW travel ban: The President 'will sign an executive order banning Middle Eastern and African migrants next week' Nevada wife who poisoned her husband's Lucky Charms to avoid having sex with him 'is hiding out in Mexico' The shocking moment a road rage driver smashes an SUV window with his bare FIST and then pepper sprays the stunned driver Married woman is found dead 'with her car still running nearby' in Indiana woods just 120 miles from where two teenage girls were murdered 'Go ... (more)
President Donald Trump has declared that the media are the "enemy of the people," but his administration is willing to joke around with reporters - and poke fun at itself - in a venerable Washington tradition. Vice President Mike Pence was the featured speaker Saturday night at the 132nd annual Gridiron Dinner, a comedic white-tie affair featuring skits, songs and speeches.
The problem is, Trump fires off flares he knows will get his base frothing at the mouth and in the end, it winds up giving cover to the Obama administration. Clouded up, is the possibility the United States government might have monitored the Trump campaign and any contact it had with the Russian government.
Barack Obama high-fives Jimmy Kimmel alongside Caren Bohan of Reuters, President of the White House Correspondents Association during the White House Correspondents Association Dinner in 2012. For the self-proclaimed nerds who work in the far-from-glitzy worlds of federal government and political journalism, there is one weekend each year when their lives look like something out of a movie.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has recused himself from being truthful while under oath. President Donald Trump has recused himself from being a stable, sound-minded, responsible president and quelling suspicions about an improper relationship between his campaign and Russia.