Lawmakers Call For Sen. Chappelle-Nadal’s Resignation Over Trump Assassination Post

Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal is being called to resign after her Facebook post asking for President Donald Trump's assassination, Aug. 18, 2017. In this photo, Chapelle-Nadal speaks to the press at a conference in Jefferson City, Missouri, March 4, 2013.

CEOs exit tech board ater Trump’s Charlottesville remarks

San Francisco, Aug 19 - Following a series of comments US President Donald Trump made over the violence in Charlottesville, tech leaders have resigned en masse from the President's tech advisory board as a mark of protest. According to a report in Politico on Friday, more than half of the members of the 15-person Digital Economy Board of Advisors have quit.

Trump’s new communications director isn’t new to his ways

In this Oct. 10, 2016 file photo, then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is handed a box of cookies by his press secretary Hope Hicks during a visit Eat'n Park restaurant in Moon Township, Pa. After four people tackled the assignment with limited success, the job of keeping President Donald Trump on message has now fallen to Hicks, a young former public relations aide and political neophyte who entered his orbit not knowing the ride would eventually take her into the cutthroat world of Washington politics.

Evangelical advisers stay with Trump as others criticize him

One of President Donald Trump's most steadfast constituencies has been standing by him amid his defense of a white nationalist rally in Virginia, even as business leaders, artists and Republicans turn away. Only one of Trump's evangelical advisers has quit the role, while presidential boards in other fields saw multiple defections before being dismantled.

Dems risk culture war fight in Charlottesville response

President Donald Trump's widely criticized response to white supremacist violence in Virginia has left Democrats in a quandary: how to seize the moral high ground without getting sucked into a politically perilous culture war. Democrats have denounced Trump for blaming "both sides" for deadly protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, and, more recently, for defending Confederate monuments.

Trump returns to Twitter, but steers clear of Charlottesville fallout

President Donald Trump returned to Twitter on Friday, declaring “radical Islamic Terrorism must be stopped” on the heels of the deadly van attack in Spain. The president steered clear, however, of the controversy stirred by his responses to violence at a white supremacists' rally last weekend in Virginia.

Washington reacts to Steve Bannona s White House departure

Lawmakers are reacting to the news that Steve Bannon, the embattled White House chief strategist, has resigned from his post. Bannon, a controversial figure in the Trump administration because of his tenure leading the conservative news outlet Breitbart, was facing calls to resign after violence erupted at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last weekend.

CNN, MSNBC Didn’t Used To View Romney As Moral Authority [VIDEO]

It turns out media figures are much keener on Mitt Romney when he is criticizing Donald Trump than when he is running for president. CNN and MSNBC spent much of the day Friday touting the 2012 Republican nominee's long-winded Facebook post urging President Trump to apologize for his "both sides" comments about Charlottesville, Va.

Trump hands communications reins to longtime confidante

After three people tackled the assignment with limited success, the job of keeping President Donald Trump on message has for now fallen to Hope Hicks, a young former public relations aide and political neophyte who entered his orbit not knowing the ride would eventually take her into the cutthroat world of Washington politics. Word of Hicks' promotion - she already was director of "strategic" communications at the White House - landed this week just as she and other top Trump aides confronted one of the biggest communications challenges in recent memory.

As the GOP voices outrage at Trump’s response to…

Ever since President Donald Trump issued an equivocating response to the violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia last weekend, over a dozen of the country's most prominent Republicans have denounced the president's remarks. "[The president] has not demonstrated that he understands what has made this nation great," Sen. Bob Corker, an influential Tennessee Republican, said Thursday, warning that without "radical changes" in the White House, the nation could end up in "great peril."

Bannon, out of Trump White House, returns to Breitbart: ‘I’ve got my hands back on my weapons’

Hold on to your butts, America. Steve Bannon is, as an ally told one reporter, "unchained" after being relieved of his White House duties as Trump's strategic advisor In an interview this evening, Bannon tells the Weekly Standard he's returning to run Breitbart.com, as he was before becoming Trump's campaign manager exactly one year and one day ago today.