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Rudy Giuliana, President Donald Trump's lawyer, says then-President Obama was aware of an FBI spy within the 2016 Trump campaign. Rudy Giuliani suggests Obama was aware of FBI spy in Trump campaign Rudy Giuliana, President Donald Trump's lawyer, says then-President Obama was aware of an FBI spy within the 2016 Trump campaign.
The primary race for South Dakota governor is in its final days as both Republican candidates - Attorney General Marty Jackley and Representative Kristi Noem - sprint to the finish line.
President Trump accused former President Barack Obama Sunday of playing politics with Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential race, saying Mr. Obama didn't stop Moscow's interference because he expected Hillary Clinton to win anyway. "Why didn't President Obama do something about the so-called Russian Meddling when he was told about it by the FBI before the Election?" Mr. Trump tweeted.
On Friday, President Trump signed three executive orders aimed reforming the federal bureaucracy. The first order makes it easier to fire incompetent federal employees.
" F.B.I. Used Informant to Investigate Russia Ties to Campaign, Not to Spy, as Trump Claims ," read the headline on a lengthy New York Times story May 18. "The Justice Department used a suspected informant to probe whether Trump campaign aides were making improper contacts with Russia in 2016," read a story in the May 21 edition of The Wall Street Journal . So much for those who dismissed charges of Obama administration infiltration of Donald Trump's campaign as paranoid fantasy.
That call to arms was delivered by Barry Goldwater at the 1960 Republican convention to implore members of the then-youthful conservative movement to hold their noses and rally around Richard Nixon's candidacy. Neal Freeman, a battle-scarred veteran of the conservative movement - he was a correspondent for National Review and the producer of William F. Buckley's TV show, "Firing Line," among other tours of duty - recently echoed Goldwater's clarion call for a different cause.
This coming week, it's my new book, A Nation Unmade by War . As part of the process, I did an interview about the book's themes with Truthout 's Mark Karlin who was kind enough to let me post it here on this Memorial Day weekend for TomDispatch readers.
The Republican front-runners for Tennessee governor are parroting President Donald Trump's call to "build the wall" and are depicting each other as sympathizers of people in the country illegally. U.S. Rep. Diane Black and former state economic development chief Randy Boyd are touting their toughness on immigration.
In this June 14, 2016, file photo, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., participates in a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Russia on Capitol Hill in Washington. Twenty-three years ago, Scott Baugh was a little known Southern California lawyer whose conservative politics and youthful brio impressed Rohrabacher, who steered his new protege to a seat in the state Legislature.
Because even a badly run democracy is based on the principle of self rule. The government gets its right to make and enforce laws from the consent of the will of the governed.
For more than two decades, Montana's lone U.S. House seat has been a sacrificial altar where Democratic candidates' dreams are squashed. Not only have all 12 Democratic candidates since 1996 lost to Republicans, but only two of them have since gone on to win any election at all.
Sen. Roy Blunt on Sunday said he was "concerned" about the FBI's behavior in the campaigns of both President Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. In an interview on "Fox News Sunday," the Missouri Republican, who serves on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said it "would be fine to find out what the Russians were doing" from an FBI informant, though "it would not be fine to find out what the campaign was doing" as Trump has suggested.
As I have said a time or two before, Samantha Power made a name for herself with a book proclaiming our obligation to stop genocide abroad. Once she took office in the Obama administration, however, she became an apologist for Obama's detachment from the catastrophe in Syria and his deal with the genocidal maniacs in Iran, among other things.
Sen. Jeff Flake said Sunday he hasn't ruled out a White House run in 2020 - and would do so as a Republican. In an interview on NBC News' "Meet The Press," the Arizona Republican - a frequent critic of President Donald Trump - said he hoped "somebody runs on the Republican side other than the president."
A potential bill to prohibit ZTE Corp. and other Chinese telecommunications companies from operating in the U.S. would have supermajority support in Congress, Republican Senator Marco Rubio said. "Most members of Congress have come to understand the threat China poses," Rubio said on CBS's "Face the Nation" on Sunday when asked whether President Donald Trump would sign such a measure.
No narrative is more at the heart of the Democrats' and media's Trump-Russia collusion charges than reports that Paul Manafort regularly communicated with Moscow during the 2016 campaign. Christopher Steele's Democratic Party-financed dossier said Mr. Manafort worked with Russia to coordinate the hacking of Democratic Party computers.
Sen. Chris Coons on Sunday said President Trump needs to be using "every ounce of leverage" the U.S. has over China amid talk that a planned summit with Mr. Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un could proceed next month. Mr. Coons said it's possible to have a constructive summit, and commended Mr. Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for recently securing the release of three Americans who had been held in North Korea.
Chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus Rep. Mark Meadows, R-North Carolina is one of President Trump's ardent supporters in the House today. Meadows sat down with "Face the Nation" to discuss lawmakers' briefing with intelligence officials amid concerns over the FBI's use of an informant during the Trump campaign in 2016 as well as ongoing efforts for immigration reform on Capitol Hill.
Sen. Roy Blunt said Sunday that potential talks with North Korea can produce results, but all sides need to be on the same page before a meeting takes place between President Trump and North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un. "There needs to be a strong understanding of what both sides, what all three sides, frankly, mean by denuclearization," Mr. Blunt said on "Fox News Sunday," referring to the U.S., North Korea and South Korea.