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Donald Trump's election felt like a revolutionary act and love him or hate him, his first year in office has rewritten the rules of the political game. That's why it's surprising how little political thinking seems to have shifted.
Michael Flynn's "life was destroyed" by the probe over Russian meddling in the US election campaign, Donald Trump has said. In Tweets posted on Saturday, the US President accused the Department of Justice of displaying double standards and said the system was "rigged".
Hours after the pre-dawn passage of a $1.5 trillion tax cut, President Donald Trump suggested for the first time Saturday that he would consider a higher corporate rate than the one Senate Republicans had just endorsed, in remarks that could complicate sensitive negotiations to pass a final bill. On his way to New York for three fundraisers, Trump told reporters that the corporate tax rate in the GOP plan might end up rising to 22 percent from 20 percent.
"The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and 'slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God.'
Emails Dispute White House Claims That Flynn Acted Independently on Russia - WASHINGTON - When President Trump fired his national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, in February, White House officials portrayed him as a renegade who had acted independently in his discussions ABC News statement on Michael Flynn report - We deeply regret and apologize for the serious error we made yesterday. The reporting conveyed by Brian Ross during the special report had not been fully vetted through our editorial standards process.
Robert Mueller 's special counsel was not enough. Donald Trump is back on the presidential Twitter machine to complain about a legal "double standard" that has left Flynn's life in ruins while allowing Hillary Clinton to get away with her private email scandal.
Republican presidents since World War II have selected secretaries of state who carry out White House priorities in foreign policy and don't aspire to make policy.
President Donald Trump suggested Saturday he may be willing to negotiate changes to a significant portion of the tax overhaul, the corporate tax rate, injecting an element of uncertainty into the tax plan only hours after it cleared the Senate. Trump told reporters at the White House before a trip to New York City that he would consider setting the corporate tax rate at 22 percent, compared to a 20 percent rate that he has pushed for with House and Senate Republicans during the fall.
These days renowned poet and cultural critic Kevin Young is one of the most reviled and dismissed of figures: He's a learned expert on fakery. The author of "Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News" began the book six years ago, long before "fake news" became a depressingly common pejorative.
Early Saturday night, ABC suspended chief investigative correspondent Brian Ross for only four weeks without pay for the latest and most egregious error of the journalist's career, falsely claiming on Friday that candidate Donald Trump had instructed Michael Flynn to make contact with Russian officials. In reality, Trump had only done so after the election.
WASHINGTON The former top FBI official assigned to special counsel Robert Mueller's probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election was taken off that job this summer after his bosses discovered he and another member of Mueller's team had exchanged politically charged texts disparaging President Donald Trump and supportive of Hillary Clinton, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. Peter Strzok, as deputy head of counter-intelligence at the FBI, was a key player in the investigation into Clinton's use of a private email server to do government work as Secretary of State, as well as the probe into possible coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia in the 2016 election.
Republicans muscled the largest tax overhaul in 30 years through the Senate early Saturday, taking a big step toward giving President Donald Trump his first major legislative triumph after months of false starts and frustration on other fronts.
President Donald Trump walks down the steps of Air Force One at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Saturday, Dec. 2, 2017. Trump is in New York to attend a series of fundraisers.
This story says, "The House easily approved a bi-partisan measure Wednesday requiring annual anti-harassment training for lawmakers and aides." Really? Is this a joke? Did these men have a mother, sister, grandmother? Who is going to pay for this? Guess who.
Outside his first event, several hundred protesters stood behind barricades along 42nd Street. His motorcade ducked into a side street so he saw some of the action but not most of it.
Backers of a U.S.-Russian plan to build nuclear reactors across the Middle East bragged after the U.S. election they had backing from Donald Trump's national security adviser Michael Flynn for a project that required lifting sanctions on Russia, documents reviewed by Reuters show. The documents, which have not previously been made public, reveal new aspects of the plan, including the proposed involvement of a Russian company currently under U.S. sanctions to manufacture nuclear equipment.
Stocks fell sharply on Friday on an ABC News report that Michael Flynn would say President Donald Trump told him to contact Russians. Stocks rose to new highs this week as Senate Republicans advanced their tax bill, though news related to the Russia investigation has now overshadowed that in markets.
Mother's boyfriend is arrested over disappearance of three-year-old Mariah Woods and police believe the little girl is dead Trump celebrates 'biggest tax cuts in history' after 'great Republicans' push sweeping $1.5 TRILLION bill through the Senate - despite Democrats claiming they had no time to read scribbled small print Mexican man convicted of kidnapping and sexually abusing two Oregon women GRINS in court and tells their families he'll 'see you in Hell' - as it emerges he'd already been deported TWENTY times before Terrifying footage shows the moment jilted deputy cornered his ex as she walked her dog, shot her in cold blood and then killed himself JARED 'is the mystery official who ordered Flynn to contact the Russians': Trump adviser puts president's son-in-law in Mueller's crosshairs and promises to testify against MORE family members after admitting lying to the FBI 'You never ... (more)
Republicans pushed a nearly $1.5 trillion tax bill through the Senate early Saturday after a burst of eleventh-hour horse trading, as a party starved all year for a major legislative triumph took a giant step toward giving President Donald Trump one of his top priorities by Christmas. "Big bills are rarely popular.