Merkel Fires Back At Trump At NATO Summit
German Chancellor Angela Merkel fired back at President Donald Trump’s incendiary opening remarks about Germany at a NATO summit in Brussels. In response to Trump’s claims that “Germany is a captive of Russia,” Merkel said she was happy her nation was “unified in freedom.” Referring to her upbringing in Soviet-controlled East Germany Merkel said, “I […]
Loyalties Are With My Family And Country ~ Michael Cohen
President Donald Trump’s personal attorney and longtime “fixer,” Michael Cohen said his loyalties lie with his family and country. In his first interview since FBI agents raided his home and business, last April Cohen told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that my family “is my first priority.” Stephanopoulos had asked Cohen what he would do if prosecutors […]
Protest Across US Over Trump’s Child Separation Policy
Thousands of people across the United States participated in several hundred marches on Saturday to protest the Trump Administration’s policy of separating migrant children from their parents at the border. NBC News reported that “The protests, marching under the banner ‘Families Belong Together,’ are hoping to push the Trump administration to reunite thousands of immigrant […]
Update On Capital Gazette Newsroom Shooting
Five people were killed on Thursday when a gunman opened fire in a newsroom at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland. The suspect is in custody. NBC News reported that Acting Police Chief of Anne Arundel County William Krampf said at a news conference that other victims were “gravely injured.” The suspect, Jarrod Ramos didn’t […]
Kennedy to Retire from the Supreme Court In July
Supreme Court judge Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement on Wednesday in a letter to President Donald Trump. Kennedy, a moderate conservative who is also SCOTUS’s swing vote will leave the court on July 31. The 81-year-old Ronald Regan appointee voted with conservative justices to toss out campaign finance restriction and with liberal justices to legalize […]
US Supreme Court Upholds Trump’s Travel Ban
IN a 5-4 ruling along partisan lines the Supreme Court of the United States upheld President Donald Trump’s third version of the travel ban. The majority opinion, penned by Chief Justice John Robert’s affords Trump a broad range of powers, under current immigration law, to protect the nation. Robert’s also rejected opposition claims of anti-Muslim […]
Harley-Davidson Is the First US Casualty Of Trump Tariffs
President Donald Trump tariffs on the European Union may bring some US manufacturing jobs to other nations. In an SEC filing on Monday Harley-Davidson announced it would move motorcycle production overseas for units sold to customers in the EU. In retaliation for the Trump Administration’s EU implantation of global tariffs on steel and aluminum European […]
Trump Misleading Immigration Debacle Continues As House Bill Stalls
President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered federal agencies to collaborate to reunite children separated from their parents at the US southern border to ameliorate his immigration policy debacle. Trump said, “I’m directing HHS, DHS, DOJ to work together to keep illegal immigrant families together during the immigration process and reunite these previously separated group.” Praising […]
Trump Sign Executive Order to Stop Family Separations
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday reminding his policy of separating children and parents at the southern border. Trump said, “We’re signing on the executive order. I consider it to be a very important executive order. It’s about keeping families together, while at the same time being sure we have a very […]
Federal Judge Revokes Manafort’s Bail
President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort is going to jail. Federal Judge Amy Berman Jackson on Friday revoked Manafort’s ongoing bail arrangement. Manafort was previously on house arrest. Prosecutors for special counsel Robert Mueller successful convinced Jackson that Manfort violated the terms of his bail agreement by actively tampering with wittinesses. NBC News […]
