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It's been a week of bogus boasting by President Donald Trump and members of his administration as they took unearned credit for airline safety, pollution cleanup and major advances in care for veterans. From left, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif., House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, President Donald Trump, and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, attend a news conference following a Congressional Republican Leadership Retreat at Camp David, Md., Saturday, Jan. 6, 2018.
President Donald Trump, portrayed in a new book as a leader who doesn't understand the weight of his office, took to Twitter on Saturday to defend his mental fitness and boast about his intelligence, saying he President Donald Trump, center, accompanied by from left, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., Vice President Mike Pence, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif., House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, speaks after participating in a Congressional Republican Leadership Retreat at Camp David, Md., Saturday, Jan. 6, 2018.
California State Sen. Scott Weiner, right, celebrates the opening of The Apothecarium for recreational marijuana sales in San Francisco on Saturday, Jan. 6, 2018. Joining him are The Apothecarium co-founder and CEO Ryan Hudson, center, and San Francisco Supervisor Jeff Sheehy.
Republican Sen. Jeff Flake says the U.S. has found no evidence that American diplomats in Havana were the victims of attacks with an unknown weapon. Flake, a Senate Foreign Relations Committee member and a longtime leading advocate of detente with Cuba, met Friday with high-ranking Cuban officials including Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez and officials from the Interior Ministry, which oversees domestic security and works with foreign law-enforcement agencies.
Capitol Hill leaders essentially scrubbed earmarks from the congressional experience a few years ago. They toppled the earmarking process like statues of Communist dictators in Eastern Europe, circa 1989.
President Trump called the recently released White House expose "Fire and Fury" a "work of fiction" and and that the purported White House interviews with him exist only in the author's "imagination." The president's comments followed the official release on Friday of Michael Wolff's book, which questions the Trump's emotional and intellectual competence to run the Oval Office.
Now that Russian collusion, after one year of intense study, has proven to be a total hoax on the American public, the Democrats and their lapdogs, the Fake News Mainstream Media, are taking out the old Ronald Reagan playbook and screaming mental stability and intelligence..... - Donald J. Trump January 6, 2018 ....Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart. Crooked Hillary Clinton also played these cards very hard and, as everyone knows, went down in flames.
US president Donald Trump and members of his administration have taken unearned credit for airline safety, pollution clean-ups and major advances in care for veterans. The president ignored fatality-free years in aviation during the Obama administration when he declared 2017 the safest year on record and suggested that was because he has kept a sharp eye on airlines.
Now that Russian collusion, after one year of intense study, has proven to be a total hoax on the American public, the Democrats and their lapdogs, the Fake News Mainstream Media, are taking out the old Ronald Reagan playbook and screaming mental stability and intelligence.. .Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart.
CONSERVATIVES' MEMO TO CONGRESS - YOU STILL GOTTA KILL OBAMACARE: It shouldn't have to be said but a large group of influential conservative activist groups know Republicans leading Congress need to be reminded over and over - they promised for seven years to repeal Obamacare, so what are they waiting for now, eight years later? LifeZette's Brendan Kirby points out that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has his mind on other matters: "McConnell has sent conflicting signals in recent weeks. He told National Public Radio before Christmas that the Senate would 'probably move on to other issues.'
President Donald Trump forcefully hit back against suggestions that his mental health is slipping in a series of Saturday morning tweets. Now that Russian collusion, after one year of intense study, has proven to be a total hoax on the American public, the Democrats and their lapdogs, the Fake News Mainstream Media, are taking out the old Ronald Reagan playbook and screaming mental stability and intelligence..
U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday rejected an author's accusations that he is mentally unfit for office and said his track record showed he is a "stable genius." Michael Wolff, who was granted unusually wide access to the White House during much of Trump's first year, has said in promoting his book, "Fire and Fury - Inside the Trump White House," that Trump is unfit for the presidency.
Mitt Romney changed his Twitter profile location from "Massachusetts" to "Holladay, UT" as soon as Sen. Orrin Hatch announced his retirement on Tuesday. It is clear that Romney intends to run for the open seat, and pundits agree that he is likely to win.
This week I sit down with Bruce Bartlett, domestic policy adviser to Ronald Reagan, and Treasury official under George H. W. Bush. Bartlett's expertise is in tax issues, and he was one of the author's of the Kemp-Roth tax bill, which ultimately became the basis of Ronald Reagan's 1981 tax cut.
Michael Wolff's book "Fire and Fury" about the early period of the Trump White House for sale at the Little Shop of Stories bookstore in Decatur, Ga., on Jan. 5, 2018. The book's release came four days early amid threats of a lawsuit from President Trump and his legal team.
The short answer is that they violated the election code, according to state officials. But the Texas Secretary of State's office has no authority to force someone to include a name on a primary ballot.
President Trump ignored questions about a critical new book as he departed the White House for Camp David on Friday to meet with top Republicans, telling reporters instead that the stock market was doing well and that the new tax cuts "are really kicking in". Rough Cut .
U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy met with real estate agents and homeowners in Fairfield Friday, telling them the new federal tax law will have a "drastic" effect on Connecticut, particularly in Fairfield County. Amid warnings from economists that the law will limit mortgage and property tax deductions and cause home values to drop, Murphy said he wanted to hear from those who know the state's real estate market best.