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As we prepare to enter a surreal new era of American politics, Greg Kafoury, one of the nation's most tenacious litigators and a longtime CounterPuncher, has stepped forward with a generous matching grant proposal for the last month of the year. Greg will match ALL donations of $25 and more up to a total of $5000.
As we prepare to enter a surreal new era of American politics, Greg Kafoury, one of the nation's most tenacious litigators and a longtime CounterPuncher, has stepped forward with a generous matching grant proposal for the last month of the year. Greg will match ALL donations of $25 and more up to a total of $5000.
When Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for national security adviser, was working at the highest levels of the military and intelligence field, he had a reputation as a brilliant tactician.
CIA briefers told senators in a closed-door briefing it was now "quite clear" that electing Trump was Russia's goal, according to officials. In a secure meeting room under the Capitol last week, lawmakers held in their hands a classified letter written by colleagues in the Senate summing up a secret, new CIA assessment of Russia's role in the 2016 presidential election.
Edgar Maddison Welch, 28 of Salisbury, N.C., surrenders to police Sunday, Dec. 4, 2016, in Washington. Welch, who said he was investigating a conspiracy theory about Hillary Clinton running a child sex ring out of a pizza place, fired an assault rifle inside the restaurant on Sunday injuring no one, police and news reports said.
President Barack Obama talks with President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016. As the future Trump administration begins to take shape, the Obama White House is engaged in a frenzied, final effort to put in place as many new rules and regulations as time allows.
U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Michael Rogers testifies at the Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington March 11, 2014. REUTERS/Gary Cameron A top U.S. intelligence official is being considered to take over for the very man who recommended his removal from office for administrative failures.
When news broke Thursday that the Trump campaign had been in contact with Russia, it landed with a light tap instead of the earthquake it should have caused. It didn't, largely because the first article seemed to indicate that they had also been in contact with the Clinton campaign as a matter of course.
Faison speaks at a panel put on by the Washington Post called "Party Platform: Energy and Environment," at Butcher and the Brewer outside the Republican National Convention. When Jay Faison, one of the Republican Party's most generous patrons, flew to Cleveland for its national convention in July, things weren't looking good for anyone concerned about the health of the planet.
The normally wonky annual meeting of the Southside Planning District Commission came with a twist this year - an election year twist, that is. Robert Holsworth, a former VCU professor and political analyst who has earned renown in the pundit ranks as "Dr. Bob," regaled local officials and planners with his observations on the 2016 presidential election as guest speaker at the event, held Thursday night in Chase City.
Donald Trump's renouncement of birtherism on Friday came with some media gamesmanship that compelled television news networks to air 20 minutes of endorsements by retired military men before the candidate briefly got to the point. "We all got Rick-rolled," said CNN's Jake Tapper, a reference to the Internet prank of replacing an expected link with a video of singer Rick Astley's 1987 hit, "Never Gonna Give You Up."
Fifteen years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, the day's images remain vivid, and Americans are still vigilant about the threat of terrorism.
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Would he go hard or would he go soft? That was the mainstream media template for judging Donald Trump's speech on immigration in Phoenix last Wednesday. The verdict: hard.
Donald Trump's new deputy campaign manager is the longtime president of Citizen United - the conservative non-profit infamously known for helping to scale back regulations on political spending and OKing unlimited buys for corporations. "A friend of mine for many years," Trump told the Washington Post .
From Benjy Sarlin and Hallie Jackson : "Immigration experts across the political and ideological spectrum are eagerly awaiting any clarity they can get after parsing through a blizzard of inscrutable quotes from Trump and his campaign." More, from the Washington Post: "PeA a Nieto last Friday invited both Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton to visit Mexico, his office said in a statement provided to The Washington Post on Tuesday night.
If you listen to the Washington Post, they would have you believe there is a mass exodus within the Republican party due to the party's candidate, Donald J. Trump. They announce with glee There have also been reports from the Post regarding how Ohio Governor John Kasich deliberately ignored the GOP convention in his home state with the intention of embarrassing Trump.
Another Republican Senator has come out to declare that they cannot bring themselves to support or vote for Donald Trump because of his temperament. Maine's Susan Collins joins colleagues like Ben Sasse and Lindsey Graham in a Washington Post opinion piece tonight, saying, "It was his attacks directed at people who could not respond on an equal footing - either because they do not share his power or stature or because professional responsibility precluded them from engaging at such a level - that revealed Mr. Trump as unworthy of being our president."
The anger that he has consistently displayed in public and his tendency to lash out against his critics, whomever they might be, even the parents of a slain soldier, has sent Republicans into a full-scale panic. His willingness to make false statements or to play around with facts involving matters of national security has generated immense criticism.
Hillary Clinton is ahead of Donald Trump by eight points in the newest national poll, released Sunday by the Washington Post and ABC News. Clinton leads Trump 50-42 percent among registered voters and 51-44 percent among likely voters.