Streisand Blames Trump for Making Her Gain Weight
Barbra Streisand is now blaming President Donald Trump for her weight gain. Perhaps she would be less stressed out and thinner if she had left the country like she promised if he was elected.
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White House Aides Defend Trump’s Wiretapping Claim on NBC, Fox Morning Shows
White House officials on Monday defended President Donald Trump's explosive claim that Barack Obama tapped Trump's telephones during last year's election , although they won't say where that information came from and left open the possibility that it isn't true. In televised interviews, Kellyanne Conway and Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Trump firmly believes the allegations he made on Twitter over the weekend.
Taking a Closer Look at Trump’s Angry Weekend on Twitter
His staff had hoped to build on the momentum generated by Trump's speech to Congress but those efforts rapidly unraveled. According to AP sources close to Trump, it was the angriest he's been as president.
Online game Words with Friends adds ‘covfefe’ to its list new
The popular mobile word game Words With Friends has added one of the internet's most popular typos in recent days - "covfefe." The mysterious term that President Donald Trump tweeted has spread like wildfire on social media and the Scrabble-like multiplayer game has jumped aboard, defining the word as "the amount and quality of reporting when autocorrect fails you at 3am."
The Latest: Dems seek details of communications about Russia
The Latest on President Donald Trump's claim that then-President Barack Obama had Trump's telephones tapped during last year's election : Congressional Democrats are seeking details about reports of contacts between the White House and the Justice Department concerning the FBI's ongoing review of efforts by the Russian government to unlawfully influence the U.S. presidential election. House Judiciary Committee Democrats plan a letter to White House counsel Donald McGahn noting the contacts were inappropriate.
Trump Demands Congress Investigate Obama Wiretapping Allegations
On March 4, President Donald Trump took to Twitter to accuse former President Barack Obama of wiretapping Trump Towers during the 2016 election. A mere 24 hours later, he demanded Congress investigate his claims - with absolutely no evidence to back them.
Opinion: If Donald Trump’s trying to deflect attention from…
US President Donald Trump's claim that he was spied on comes amid a storm over his administration's Russia links. His latest lash-out - a Twitter blitzkrieg early on Saturday, in which he accuses presidential predecessor Barack Obama of a "Nixon/Watergate" plot to tap the phones at the Trump Tower headquarters in New York in the run-up to last year's election - featured a succession of five similarly-worded tweets, belted out between 3.32am and 4.02am.
‘Our Conspiracy Theory President is at it Again’: Brian…
Following President Donald Trump taking to Twitter this morning to lob explosive accusations at former President Barack Obama , claiming that Obama wiretapped his phones at Trump Tower, CNN senior media correspondent Brian Stelter reacted with concern over Trump's sources of info. "Our conspiracy theory president is at it again," Stelter noted this morning on CNN.
Trump accuses Obama of wiretapping him
President Donald Trump made a stunning claim Saturday that his predecessor, Barack Obama, wiretapped Trump Tower ahead of the 2016 election. "Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower just before the victory.
Trump goes on Twitter rant accusing ex-President Obama of…
In a series of tweets issued early Saturday morning, Donald Trump accused ex-president Barack Obama of "tapping" the phones at Trump Tower just prior to the election while comparing the former president to Richard Nixon. Following a tweet defending embattled Attorney General Jeff Sessions over his contacts with the Russians, Trump suddenly changed gears with a startling collection of tweets attacking Obama, although it is unclear what Trump is directly alluding to.
Trump accuses Obama of ‘wire-tapping’ his office during election
US President Donald Trump has accused former president Barack Obama of "wire-tapping" his office phones during the 2016 election campaign. Mr Trump made the accusation in a series of tweets from his personal Twitter account on Saturday morning .
After backlash, DeVos backpedals on remarks on historically black colleges
Facing a fierce backlash after she called historically black colleges and universities "real pioneers" of school choice, Betsy DeVos, the education secretary, spent Tuesday afternoon backtracking on the controversial statement and highlighting the institutions' roots in racism and segregation. DeVos, in a series of Twitter posts on Tuesday and in remarks at a luncheon with presidents from some of the schools, repeatedly acknowledged that the schools were not created simply to give African-Americans more choices but because black students across the country were not allowed into segregated white schools.
SALMAGUNDI: Don’t settle for slogans, demand specifics
Scott T. Holland is a former associate editor of The Times who continues to contribute his column plus help with editing and writing. He can be reached at scotth@mywebtimes.com , facebook.com/salmagundi or twitter.com/sth749 .
CNN anchor Jake Tapper’s stinging put down of Sean Spicer
'That must really bother you.... cc: Barack Obama:' CNN's Jake Tapper launches stinging Twitter jab at Sean Spicer for complaining that journalists got his birthplace wrong CNN's Jake Tapper sharply reminded Sean Spicer of the Birther theory that was pushed by the Trump campaign before November CNN's Jake Tapper piled on his criticism of the White House on Saturday in a stinging Twitter put-down of Press Secretary Sean Spicer. Spicer, who he earlier deemed 'un-American' for banning certain publications from an off-camera briefing on Friday, complained on Saturday about a pair of New York Times journalists he said 'didn't bother to ask' him where he was born before mistakenly publishing his birthplace.
Trump and DNC leader Tom Perez trade barbs on ‘rigged’ elections
Both former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden threw their support behind Perez. The DNC election took multiple rounds of balloting to name a clear winner.
GOP congressman: Special prosecutor needed for Russia probe
Congressman Darrell Issa speaks with members of the media following his speech during the California Republican Party's 2017 Organizing Convention in Sacramento, CA, on Saturday February 25, 2017. WASHINGTON - A Republican congressman has called for a special prosecutor to investigate whether Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election and was in touch with President Donald Trump 's team during the campaign.
Bill Mitchell: The happiest guy at CPAC
Standing at an imposing 6-foot-5, radio host Bill Mitchell towered over pretty much everyone at the Conservative Political Action Conference this week. It provided a fitting visual, as few cut a more triumphant figure at the gathering than he did.
BC pro has taken a photo of himself every day for 30 years
Long before they were called selfies, Karl Baden snapped a simple black-and-white photo of himself. Then he repeated it every day for the next three decades.
Lena Dunham Donating $50,000 To LGBTQ Organization
Actress Lena Dunham has pledged $50,000 to an organization helping the gay and transgender community following U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw protections regarding school bathroom laws. The Girls creator and star was among the outraged celebrities who took aim at Trump on Wednesday , when it was announced government officials had removed the federal guidelines that allowed transgender school students to use the bathrooms that matched their gender identity.
McConnell allies label Bannon a white supremacist, angering Jewish conservatives
As former White House strategist Stephen Bannon declares war on the Republican establishment, a faction linked to the Senate GOP leadership is firing back with the kind of charges previously heard from Democrats and Never-Trumpers when Bannon ran Trump's campaign and sat in the White House. Namely: that the head of Breitbart News and self-described "economic nationalist" is, in fact, an anti-Semite and a white supremacist.