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Trump Is Using Right-Wing Media To Avoid The Flynn Scandal
For his second straight press conference, President Donald Trump called on only conservative reporters, this time during a joint presser with the Canadian prime minister. By responding solely to friendly press, Trump avoided answering any questions about reports that national security adviser Michael Flynn may have violated federal law.
White House: Kellyanne Conway ‘counseled’ for plugging Ivanka Trump line
Kellyanne Conway, a senior adviser to President Trump, said in an interview with Fox on Thursday, Feb 9, 2017 from the White House that people should “go buy Ivanka’s stuff.” File- Kellyanne Conway speaks to CNN’s Jake Tapper on February 7, 2017.
Donald Trump and close aide Rudy Giuliani. File photo: AFP
Donald Trump originally dubbed his executive order suspending refugee arrivals and barring visas for travellers from seven Muslim-majority countries a “Muslim ban,” according to the US president’s aide Rudy Giuliani. “When he first announced it he said, ‘Muslim ban,'” the former New York mayor told Fox News late Saturday when asked whether the ban was connected to religion.
Trump continues Twitter assault
His inauguration days away, President- elect Donald Trump is continuing to lash out at critics in the intelligence community and Democrats in Congress who are vowing to skip his swearing-in ceremony. The tough-talking Republican questioned whether the CIA director himself was “the leaker of fake news” in a Sunday night tweet.
Fox News Going All-In on Trump in the New Era
Fox is once again telegraphing its approach to a new administration by providing an elevated platform for an ascendant right-wing media figure. But this time, it’s Fox’s own Sean Hannity.
Covering Donald Trump White House will ‘pose a challenge for the…
Outgoing press secretary Josh Earnest said the relationship between President Barack Obama and the White House press corps ‘wasn’t cordial.’ Multi-award-winning journalist Diana Swain is the senior investigative correspondent for CBC News and host of The Investigators on CBC News Network.
LGBT activists brace for efforts to undermine their gains
In this April 25, 2016 file photo, protesters head to the legislative building in Raleigh, N.C., for a sit-in against House Bill 2, a contentious law that limited protections for LGBT people. After a string of major gains in recent years, LGBT activists are bracing for a different task in 2017 – trying to prevent Republicans in Congress and state legislatures from undermining those gains.
How Megyn Kelly made 2 big enemies and won millions of admirers
How Megyn Kelly made 2 big enemies and won millions of admirers Megyn Kelly had one hell of a year, but will her Fox News audience follow her to NBC? Check out this story on portclintonnewsherald.com: http://usat.ly/2hT0B6E The former Fox News anchor found herself in the news rather than just reporting it, a dual role she managed during one of the most contentious presidential elections in history. Perhaps most famously, President-elect Donald Trump attacked her after she posed a question about his comments on women.
The Women On The Fox Couch Say Obama’s A Commie
So says Kennedy crossing her legs on the Fox News Outnumbered Couch at the Roger Ailes Memorial Mini-skirt Extravaganza. As my colleague Heather sums up this clip, the Outnumbered cast also blamed Obama for any FUTURE partisan gridlock, because it’s clearly his goal in his emeritus years to make it “hard” for Trump to “govern.”
Fox News has kept most of its audience after the election
A sharp drop in cable news ratings following a presidential election is as inevitable as snow in Buffalo. Yet in the Age of Trump, so far Fox News Channel is defying that trend.