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US Vice President Mike Pence has said he is "100% confident" that no-one on his staff was involved with the anonymous New York Times column criticising President Donald Trump's leadership. "I know them.
Mike Pence added his staff to the list of more than two dozen high-ranking administration officials who have denied writing the column US Vice President Mike Pence has said he is "100pc confident" that no-one on his staff was involved with the anonymous New York Times column criticising President Donald Trump's leadership. US Vice President Mike Pence has said he is "100pc confident" that no-one on his staff was involved with the anonymous New York Times column criticising President Donald Trump's leadership.
The anonymous New York Times op-ed by a purported Trump administration senior official has a fatal flaw: The op-ed focuses on President Trump 's words rather than his actions and decisions, which have been remarkably successful both on the economy and in foreign affairs. To suggest that those successes occurred because of his staff's resistance to his leadership rather than to his direct orders is foolish and self-serving.
Registration will allow you to post comments on GreenwichTime.com and create a GreenwichTime.com Subscriber Portal account for you to manage subscriptions and email preferences. As the midterm elections approach, one thing is clear: Neither the Trump administration nor Congress has done enough to deter Russia and other hostile foreign powers from interfering in the U.S. democratic process.
When we all look back at the life of Sen. John McCain , it's easy to focus on all that he did - the sacrifice and victories, the wounds of war and the joy in service. But for me, it was something that McCain chose not to do years ago that I'll always be grateful for.
I am neither Republican nor Democrat because, to me, neither party is working for the good of the American people. They seem to be working for their own agenda for monetary gain and "to hell with the people."
After two years of investigating, the Justice Department waited to file an indictment against me until right before my election, writes Rep. Duncan Hunter. Duncan Hunter: Evidence will trump political agendas After two years of investigating, the Justice Department waited to file an indictment against me until right before my election, writes Rep. Duncan Hunter.
Blaming your wife in abuse of campaign donations. Insider trading charges. On Capitol Hill, shame takes a summer recess: Our view Duncan Hunter, Chris Collins and the Trump swamp Blaming your wife in abuse of campaign donations.
US Senator John McCain visits operating base Gamberi in the Laghman province of Afghanistan on December 25, 2014 [File photo: Reuters/Lucas Jackson] On August 25, senator and former presidential candidate John McCain died aged 81. In the obituaries that poured in, "war hero" and "maverick" were the most frequent epithets used to describe him. Both these terms, however, frame the irreconcilable paradox of the dysfunctional empire McCain called his homeland - its rosy self-perceptions and the truth of its vile militarism.
It was on that bus rolling through New Hampshire, as McCain was poised for arguably his finest moment politically, that I truly came to know him. What I learned about John McCain during 20 years covering him It was on that bus rolling through New Hampshire, as McCain was poised for arguably his finest moment politically, that I truly came to know him.
In this Oct. 11, 2008, file photo, Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., speaks at a rally in Davenport, Iowa. Arizona Sen. McCain, the war hero who became the GOP's standard-bearer in the 2008 election, has died.
There's a reason President Donald Trump increasingly sounds like the mob boss in a cliche-ridden gangster film: That's basically what he is -- and he must know how such movies usually end. Early Wednesday morning -- a day after his former campaign chairman was convicted of felonies in one federal courthouse, and his former longtime lawyer pleaded guilty to felonies in another -- Trump issued this statement on Twitter: "I feel very badly for Paul Manafort and his wonderful family.
According to the prosecution's reasoning, Cohen's six-figure hush-money payments to Trump's mistresses would have been legal, had he made them directly from the coffers of the Trump presidential campaign. On the flip side, Trump's defense at the moment amounts to: The six-figure payments my corporation made to the porn star and nude model to keep them from talking about how I cheated on my wife with them, were, at worst, a minor violation of campaign finance laws.
Eli Lake is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering national security and foreign policy. He was the senior national security correspondent for the Daily Beast, and covered national security and intelligence for the Washington Times, the New York Sun and UPI.
People who complain about the lack of issues in the crowded Democratic primary fight in the 3rd Congressional District have an issue now. It is Barbara L'Italien, the feisty state senator from Andover who has made herself something of an issue to separate herself from the 10-candidate pack, even though she does not live in the district where she's running.
It's a given that political candidates will target each other with as much oppositional propaganda as they can get away with. But with the Kremlin now playing a third-party shadow role in U.S. elections, the usual game seems to be shifting from blood sport to cold war.
Clear language struggles to thrive in the face of passion, which may help explain why, as our politics becomes more passionate, our language becomes less precise. Perhaps we could be more careful.