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Category Archives: Donald Trump
The Latest: Trump begins full days of meetings in Vietnam
Russia's President Vladimir Putin, left, and Russian metals magnate Oleg Deripaska, right, walk to attend the APEC Business Advisory Council dialogue in Danang, Vietnam, Friday, Nov. 10, 2017.
Trump in Vietnam delivers ‘America first’ speech on trade, steps up criticism of China
President Donald Trump on Friday delivered a stern message to a group of Pacific Rim nations eager for signs of the United States' continued engagement and economic leadership in the region: America First. "We are not going to let the United States be taken advantage of anymore," Trump told an audience of business leaders assembled in Vietnam for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, which annually gathers leaders from across the region and around the world to discuss trade and development.
The Podesta creeps
Hope you caught this: Oops! Podesta brothers are getting attention they don't like. Don't forget that they remain friends with convicted child molestor Dennis Hastert and that may tell you all you need to know.
Ivanka Wows In Maine Rocking Knee-High Black Boots [PHOTOS]
AUGUST 02: Assistant to the President and Donlad Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump hosts a listening session with military spouses in the Rooselvelt Room at the White House August 2, 2017 in Washington, DC. The military spouses said the choose professions that they can practice no matter where their partners are stationed but that licencing and certification continues to be a challenge when moving to a new post.
Deficit worries complicate path for Republican tax cuts
Unease among Republicans about a massive increase in the federal deficit could complicate passage of two tax-cut bills working their way through the U.S. Congress, endangering President Donald Trump's top legislative priority. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan budget watchdog in Washington, on Friday called a Senate Republican tax plan a "fatally flawed budget buster," likening it to Republican legislation in the House of Representatives that the House tax committee has approved.
Papadopoulos represented Trump campaign at meetings
He's been dismissed as a "low-level volunteer" and just a "coffee boy," but former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos represented the Trump campaign at various meetings with foreign officials up until Inauguration Day. In October, Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the FBI "about the timing, extent and nature of his relationships and interactions with certain foreign nationals whom he understood to have close connections with senior Russian government officials," according to court filings.
Quick Takes: Trump’s Complete Incoherence on Trade
While there, he has been completely incoherent in his remarks about trade. Here's what he said in China : Donald Trump, a man who said on his march to the White House that China was responsible for the "rape" of American workers, now says it's actually the US's fault that the two countries have an unbalanced economic relationship.
Republican tax plans both would increase the federal deficit
Republican tax writers in the House and Senate scoured the U.S. tax code this week and shook the couch cushions for loose change, as one member put it, in a struggle to find ways to pay for the deep tax cuts their leaders and President Donald Trump have promised. By late Thursday, the House Ways and Means Committee had hammered together a bill and sent it toward the House floor for a vote promised next week, while the Senate Finance Committee revealed a proposal that it intends to mark up on Monday.
Historian David McCullough’s perspective on Donald Trump
The renowned historian's latest book, "The American Spirit," a collection of speeches he has delivered over the past three decades, begins with his 1989 address to a joint session of Congress and ends with 2016 remarks in the Capitol's Statuary Hall, both of which included calls for lawmakers to live up to the history of the building. This week, his publisher, Simon & Schuster, is delivering the book to every member of the House and Senate with an inscription letting them know they "can enact change and help close the gap to common ground."
Chinese President Xi Jinping addresses the Asia-Pacific Economic…
US president sends hardline message on South China Sea and trade protectionism while Chinese leader offers his country as a defender of globalisation No sooner had the leaders of China and the United States patted each other on the back for a swag of business deals in Beijing than they were taking diverging stands on global trade at a regional summit in Vietnam. The two presidents arrived on Friday in the central Vietnamese city of Da Nang, a former American military base facing the South China Sea, for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation CEO summit, just hours after both lauded the success of US President Donald Trump's first state trip to China.
Steve Bannon Claims N.H. Voter Fraud and Pitches Party Unity
Former White House chief strategist and head of Breitbart News Steve Bannon spoke to New Hampshire Republicans last night at an event in Manchester. As people arrived at the Executive Court Banquet Facility in Manchester to hear Bannon speak, many of them were greeted by "boos" from across the street.
Manchin: Tax plan doesn’t help middle class
A proposed tax plan before the U.S. House would add nearly $1.7 trillion to a national debt that already exceeds $20 trillion, according to Sen. Joe Manchin.
Chinese energy deal worth $83.7 billion
The $83.7 billion a Chinese firm plans to spend developing West Virginia's shale natural gas resources exceeds the total value of all goods and services produced in the state each year.
Sexual misconduct accusations transform Alabama Senate race
Yet in the span of a tumultuous afternoon, a low-profile special election became a Republican nightmare that threatens a once-safe Senate seat - and offers a new window into ugly divisions that continue to plague the GOP in the age of President Donald Trump. Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore, a 70-year-old former state Supreme Court justice, defiantly denied allegations of decades-old sexual misconduct with minors published Thursday in a Washington Post story.
Ap Fact Check: Trump falls short on promises to veterans
In this Nov. 9, 2017, photo, Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin speaks during the U.S. World War I Centennial Commission ceremonial groundbreaking for the National World War I Memorial at Pershing Park in Washington. President Donald Trump is pointing to big achievements in advance of Veterans Day on his promise to fix the Veterans Affairs Department.
Washington’s No. 1 economic priority is tax cuts, not NAFTA
A U.S. lawmaker dropped a remark this week that illustrated how NAFTA is not the No. 1 economic priority in Washington these days, obscured by another paramount prerogative.
Senate tax plan stalls corporate cut a year
Senate Republicans on Thursday unveiled a plan to overhaul the U.S. tax code that would delay an immediate corporate tax cut President Donald Trump has demanded and scrap House Republicans' carefully crafted compromise on a contentious tax deduction. GOP Senate leaders unveiled a tax package that would delay cutting the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 20 percent until 2019.
How Russian Twitter trolls worked to deflect bad news around Trump’s campaign
Russian agents on Twitter attempted to deflect bad news around President Trump's election campaign in October 2016 and refocused criticism on the mainstream media and the Clinton campaign, according to an exclusive AP analysis of an archive of deleted accounts. Russian agents on Twitter attempted to deflect bad news around President Trump's election campaign in October 2016 and refocused criticism on the mainstream media and the Clinton campaign, according to an exclusive AP analysis of an archive of deleted accounts.
Fox’s Smith avoids story covered heavily by colleagues
While Fox News Channel has spent hours talking about Hillary Clinton and an Obama-era uranium deal in recent weeks, its news anchor Shepard Smith avoided the story entirely. Fresh evidence that Smith is an island unto himself at the news network came in research released Thursday by the liberal watchdog group Media Matters for America.