Mike Pence: No-one on my staff wrote Trump ‘resistance’ op-ed

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.

Illustration on the anonymous op-ed in The New York Times by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

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.

Time to deter Russia

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.

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. 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.

John McCain: The impossible man

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.

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. 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.

Trump, the mob boss, wants protection | Eugene Robinson

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.

Trump sleeps with dogs, wakes up with flees

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.

Peter Lucas: L’Italien making waves — and drowning in criticism

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.