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South Carolina Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy is being hammered by President Donald Trump's allies after he said it was appropriate for the FBI to use an informant to investigate Russian activities during the 2016 presidential election and that the agency did not plant a spy in the Trump camp for political purposes despite the president's claims, Politico reports. Rudy Giuliani, Trump's personal attorney, on Thursday said Gowdy was "drinking the Kool-Aid," in buying the FBI's story.
President Donald Trump's lawyers argued in a confidential January letter to special counsel Robert Mueller that the President cannot illegally obstruct the Russia probe because the Constitution empowers him to "terminate the inquiry, or even exercise his power to pardon," The New York Times reported Saturday. The letter, which CNN reported on last week and the Times has obtained, also says that Trump could not possibly have committed obstruction because he has unfettered authority over all federal investigations.
President Donald Trump's lawyers have for months quietly waged a campaign to keep the special counsel from trying to force him to answer questions in the investigation into whether he obstructed justice, asserting that he cannot be compelled to testify and arguing in a confidential letter that he could not possibly have committed obstruction because he has unfettered authority over all federal investigations.
U.S. companies that export products, such as agricultural producers in the Midwest, say their businesses will suffer if the U.S. moves forward with imposing tariffs, only to see other countries retaliate with similar measures. WASHINGTON - As a tool of national trade policy, tariffs had long been fading into history, a relic of 19th and early 20th centuries that most experts regarded as mutually harmful to all nations involved.
In this May 23, 2018, photo, one of two Democrats seeking the party's nomination to run for attorney general in Colorado, Phil Weiser speaks during a campaign stop at a senior living community in Highlands Ranch, Colo. First-time candidate Weiser, a law school dean, explains in a TV commercial that he's running for attorney general because of President Donald Trump.
The former Republican congressman from New York City's Staten Island is fighting his party, his president and the stigma of a felony conviction in a no-holds-barred primary June 26. Just two years out of prison, the amateur boxer with a fiery temper wants his old job back. And he has a legitimate chance to seize the nomination from the incumbent, Dan Donovan.
Sen. Bernie Sanders said President Donald Trump wants to "undermine American democracy," exhibits "strong authoritarian tendencies" and "kind of likes" authoritarian leaders in other countries, The Hill reported Saturday. "We have a president who has strong authoritarian tendencies; who wants to, every day, undermine American democracy," Sanders said Friday on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher."
For a couple of decades now, the term I have used most often to describe the Republican party is "profoundly undemocratic." They don't believe in representative democracy; they believe in the use of brute force to get their way .
With his shameful pardon of ultraconservative writer and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza, Donald Trump has sunk to new lows in terms of the abuse of his power-and has elevated D'Souza's star power on the right to new heights. D'Souza will now be more insufferable than ever-and more successful than ever, as well.
If a trade war is coming, the cheesemakers of Wisconsin are standing in the line of fire. So are the farmers of the Great Plains and the distillers of Kentucky.
Seeking to comfort grieving families and shaken survivors, President Donald Trump spent more than an hour privately Thursday with some of those impacted by a Texas mass school shooting that killed 10 and wounded more than a dozen on May 18. The latest spasm of violence in a year marred by assaults on the nation's schools, the shooting at Santa Fe High School was the latest to test the president's role as national comforter-in-chief. Trump met with more than two dozen people affected by the shooting, and did not publicly share his message for the grieving families and local leaders during a meeting at a Coast Guard base outside Houston.
Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable has rejected calls to make way for a successor, with friends telling Business Insider that he plans to stay in the job for another 20 years. Ellis Island was the first place many hopeful immigrants saw upon arrival on US shores, the repository for all their dreams.
The European Union says it will start imposing duties from July on a list of U.S. products in response to President Donald Trump's decision to slap tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Europe. The European Union says it will start imposing duties from July on a list of U.S. products in response to President Donald Trump's decision to slap tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Europe.
When United States President Barack Obama first imposed sanctions on Venezuela in 2015, the stated purpose and subsequent actions by the Obama administration were to effect behaviour change in Venezuelan leadership, not to replace the Nicol s Maduro government. There was mounting evidence Maduro was pursuing a non-democratic path, human-rights violations were becoming the norm; and rule-of-law and justice in Venezuela faced significant challenges.
Even Barack Obama, the most optimistic of politicians, fears his presidency may have come a decade too early for the US, writes Susan Dalgety. The three women in front of me had had enough.
If a trade war is coming, the cheesemakers of Wisconsin are standing in the line of fire. So are the farmers of the Great Plains and the distillers of Kentucky.
The President teased the Jobs Report an hour before it was officially released. This was both a violation of Federal law, and yet another example of this President violating long-established norms governing how politicians are supposed to act.
Trump privately met Thursday with more than two dozen people affected by the Santa Fe High School shooting. One parent said the president kept mentioning arming teachers.
In this Dec. 7, 2011 file photo, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, left, speaks to reporters as his wife, Patti, listens at the federal building in Chicago.