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President Trump on Sunday abandoned a strategy of showing deference to the special counsel examining Russia 's interference in the 2016 presidential election, lashing out at what he characterized as a partisan investigation and alarming Republicans who feared he might seek to shut it down. Mr. Trump has long suggested that allegations that he or his campaign conspired with Russia to influence the election were a "hoax" and part of a "witch hunt," but until this weekend he had largely heeded the advice of lawyers who counseled him not to directly attack Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, for fear of antagonizing prosecutors.
President Donald Trump said in a Thursday tweet that he would beat up former Vice President Joe Biden in a fight. "Crazy Joe Biden is trying to act like a tough guy," said the president on Twitter.
Former FBI deputy director Andy McCabe was fired Friday from the federal government, just two days before he was set to retire, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced in a statement late Friday night. Add Trump Administration as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Trump Administration news, video, and analysis from ABC News.
The fires of the Sherman Park unrest in Milwaukee had barely burned out in August 2016 before Russian Twitter trolls sought political gain by stoking the flames of racial division. Russia-linked accounts - including one named in a recent federal indictment - sent out dozens of tweets that sought to foment racial divisions, blame Democrats for the chaos and amplify the voices of conservatives like former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke Jr. who were commenting on it.
President Donald Trump has fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson- via Twitter - and picked CIA Director Mike Pompeo to shift from America's spy chief to its top diplomat. The abrupt announcement ends the turbulent tenure of the man who reportedly called the president a "moron" but wanted to stay, and deepens the disarray in the Trump administration.
President Donald Trump speaks to military personnel on March 13, 2018, at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego. The president has had a serious of awkward firings during his time in the White House.
A judge is recommending that President Donald Trump mute rather than block some Twitter followers to resolve a First Amendment lawsuit. A judge is recommending that President Donald Trump mute rather than block some Twitter followers to resolve a First Amendment lawsuit.
President Donald Trump said Monday that he is "watching court cases and rulings" before taking action on raising age limits for purchasing some firearms, arguing that there is "not much political support ." Trump's tweet came after his White House put out a plan to combat school shootings that doesn't increase the minimum age for purchasing assault weapons to 21 - an idea Trump publicly favored just last month - and leaves the question of arming teachers to states and local communities.
"It's insane," Kyle Kashuv said Wednesday at a Cosi in downtown Washington, D.C. "This has never been my dream. I never really wanted to get into politics.
An MIT study published Thursday in Science Magazine shows fake news on Twitter spreads six times faster than the truth. Scientists studied tweets from 2006 up until 2017 that proclaimed fake news stories.
A judge recommended Thursday that President Donald Trump mute rather than block some of his critics from following him on Twitter to resolve a First Amendment lawsuit. U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald suggested a settlement as the preferred outcome after hearing lawyers argue whether it's constitutional for Trump to block some followers.
Two Rio Grande Valley congressmen are pushing back against President Donald Trump's Easter Sunday declaration that any deal to replace the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, or DACA, is off the table. In a flurry of Easter tweets, Trump reversed his February claim that Republicans haven't forgotten young immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally by their parents and were working hard to pass legislation regarding their temporary status.
President Donald Trump and Alec Baldwin engaged in a Twitter feud Friday morning after the President mocked the actor's impression of him on Saturday Night Live. "Alex Baldwin, whose dying mediocre career was saved by his terrible impersonation of me on SNL, now says playing me was agony.
President Donald Trump on Friday declared a global trade war and said it would be "easy to win," promising to hammer "reciprocal taxes" on any country that charges tariffs on U.S. goods and services. His threats, made in a series of Twitter posts, looked to escalate his new protectionist policies far beyond the steel and aluminum tariffs he said he would impose next week.
A Virginia congressman has purged his campaign's Twitter account of "likes" of controversial tweets, including one that suggested a survivor of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting was a paid actor. The Richmond Times-Dispatch cites a statement from the campaign of Republican U.S. Rep. Dave Brat saying a campaign staffer mistakenly liked the tweets, thinking they were logged into their personal account.
GirlWithNoJob Instagram Controversy refers to a report by The Daily Beast that outlined the relationship between Claudia Oshry, better known as the popular Instagrammer @GirlWithNoJob and her sisters and their mother, right-wing provocateur Pamela Geller. After the report was published, a number of since-deleted tweets made by Oshry, which some have called offensive and racist.
Like so many political rivals he dispatched during a scorched-earth campaign for the White House, President Trump publicly shamed his attorney general as weak or beleaguered. Sessions quickly responded Wednesday to Trump's latest Twitter lashing, in which he called the attorney general "disgraceful" for choosing the Justice Department's inspector general instead of prosecutors to review alleged surveillance abuses of a former Trump campaign aide.
She also floated the theory that her campaign paid higher prices for Facebook advertising. Facebook responded with a chart showing Donald Trump actually paid more.
Last summer, President Trump announced out of the blue on Twitter that he would be implementing a ban on transgender soldiers from serving in the military. The announcement, which reversed a policy change that the Obama Administration had announced in 2016, came as a surprise to pretty much everyone since there had been no indication that the issue was under consideration by the White House and the Defense Department was continuing to work on implementing the Obama Administration's plan.