Trump administration’s new gun policy: Let’s arm more bad guys around the world

The Trump administration is trying to make it easier to sell guns worldwide that could end up in criminal hands Donald Trump has so far spent the month of July using his presidential platform to degrade international relations and further destabilize peacekeeping efforts. He has bashed NATO , called the European Union a "foe" of the United States and publicly colluded with Russian President Vladimir Putin to issue transparent denials of the Russian military's crimes against American democracy.

Cupp: That Helsinki feeling and hitting rock bottomby S.E. Cupp | | 15 mins ago

Cupp: That Helsinki feeling and hitting rock bottom Cupp: That Helsinki feeling and hitting rock bottom Check out this story on northjersey.com: https://njersy.co/2LvNrMU President Donald Trump says he now wants a second meeting with Russia's Vladimir Putin. AP's Ken Thomas reports the White House has been repeatedly forced to clarify presidential statements after the criticism over their Helsinki meeting.

Teflon Don? Trump tries a familiar tactic: providing a new story line

President Donald Trump spent much of Thursday playing up his economic accomplishments and attacking his regular list of rivals, including Hillary Clinton and the news media, which he again called the enemy of the people. As he tried to leave in his wake Monday's news conference with President Vladimir Putin of Russia, analysts and critics spent the day wondering whether the misstep would create a lasting problem for him.

Trump planning to invite Putin to Washington this fall: White House

President Donald Trump has instructed National Security Adviser John Bolton to invite Russian President Vladimir Putin to Washington this fall and "discussions are already underway," according to a tweet from White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. The invitation comes just days after the president met the Russian leader in Helsinki and drew sharp bipartisan criticism for refusing to publicly confront Putin about Russian interference in the 2016 election during their press conference - and for casting doubt on the conclusion of the U.S. intelligence community that Putin had ordered it.

Trump-Putin II: Planning fall event in aftermath of Helsinki

Unbowed by swirling criticism of his summit encounter with Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump swiftly invited the Russian leader to the White House this fall for a second get-together. Cleanup from the first has continued with no letup and Trump belatedly decided Putin's "incredible offer" of shared U.S.-Russia investigations was no good after all.

Translators stay in shadows, but Dems want Trump’s to emerge

In this November 1985, file photo, U.S. President Ronald Reagan, his wife Nancy Reagan and an aide, left, meet with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, his wife Raisa Gorbachev and an aide in Geneva, Switzerland. After a week of erraticism by President Donald Trump about what really went on in his private meeting in Finland with Russia's Vladimir Putin, history could use a fly on the wall.

News Media Find Trump Guilty of Treason

Since President Trump's press conference in Helsinki on Monday, many in the liberal media have hyperventilated about how his lack of aggression toward Russian President Putin makes him somehow guilty of treason. Nevertheless, in a Tuesday interview with Rep. Chris Collins on Cuomo Primetime , CNN's Chris Cuomo bristled at the Congressman's allegations that the media had played any role in the word's newfound ubiquity.

Donald Trump says media’s goal is to see him go to war with Russia

His unfounded assertions come days after a summit with Putin in Helsinki, after which Trump was widely condemned for seeming to side with Putin over U.S. intelligence officials WASHINGTON President Donald Trump lashed out anew at the news media on Thursday, suggesting that reporters are slanting their coverage of his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin with the aim of provoking a possible war. "The Fake News Media wants so badly to see a major confrontation with Russia, even a confrontation that could lead to war," the president wrote amid a series of morning tweets.

White House says President Trump disagrees with Putin’s request to interrogate Americans

WASHINGTON The White House said Thursday that President Donald Trump disagrees with Russian President Vladimir Putin's request to interrogate American citizens in exchange for helping American investigators look into Russian interference in the 2016 election. "It is a proposal that was made in sincerity by President Putin, but President Trump disagrees with it," White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said in a statement Thursday.

Republicans foil Democrats’ attempt to subpoena State Department translator

Republicans foil Democrats' attempt to subpoena State Department translator who was present for every second of Trump and Putin's meeting White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Tuesday that President Trump and President Putin's meeting in Helsinki had not been recorded Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee have blocked a move to subpoena the American translator from the Helsinki summit to testify about the private talks between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. The panel's top Democrat, Rep. Adam Schiff, said Thursday he wanted Maria Gross, the translator, who works for the State Department, to appear in closed session, saying Congress must 'find out what was said' during the two-hour meeting.

The case for censuring the president

Sixty-four years ago, the U.S. Senate censured the bullying demagogue Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin for conduct that "tended to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute." McCarthy lingered in the Senate for 2 1/2 more years, but the censure essentially ended his early-1950s "Red Scare" reign of intimidation and character assassination.

Lawmakers condemn White House suggestion that Kremlin could interrogate former US ambassador

Lawmakers and former intelligence officials are expressing outrage over the White House suggesting it is considering a proposal from the Kremlin to potentially interrogate a group of Americans including a former U.S. ambassador. In an exchange during the White House briefing Wednesday, press secretary Sarah Sanders would not rule out the possibility that the U.S. could provide Russia access to a group of Americans they have accused of being involved in a criminal plot.

Trump rejects Putin offer on interviewing suspects

Donald Trump has rejected Vladimir Putin's offer to allow the US to question 12 Russians accused of interfering in the 2016 election. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the proposal was "made in sincerity" by the Russian president but Mr Trump "disagrees with it".

White House: Trump reverses course and now ‘disagrees’ with …

President Trump initially praised idea floated by Russian leader Vladimir Putin to allow special counsel Robert Mueller's team to interview Russians indicted over election meddling, in exchange for Kremlin questioning of Americans. The White House on Thursday walked back President Trump's exuberant endorsement of a bizarre proposal made by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The Latest: GOP senator says Trump is ‘misjudging’ Putin

Russian Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Russian ambassadors to foreign countries in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, July 19, 2018. Putin says his first summit with U.S. President Donald Trump was "successful" and is accusing Trump's opponents in the U.S. of hampering any progress on the issues they discussed.