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Tag: Donald J. Trump
👓 Rod Rosenstein Expected to Leave Justice Dept. Once Attorney General Is Confirmed | The New York Times
The deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, has been a central figure in the Russia investigation by appointing the special counsel and overseeing the inquiry.
As long as he’s leaving of his own accord…
📖 Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer demand equal airtime to respond to Trump’s address | CNN
The major television networks said that they will provide wall-to-wall coverage of President Donald Trump's prime time address on border security on Tuesday.
This coverage is sure to be I’ll thought out and disastrous. The opposition party should definitely get equal time.
I’ll boycott any network that doesn’t have the text in advance with fact checking and ample time for rebuttal after.
👓 Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer demand equal airtime to respond to Trump’s address | CNN
The major television networks said that they will provide wall-to-wall coverage of President Donald Trump's prime time address on border security on Tuesday.
This journalistic decision is sure to be completely ill advised.
I’m very seriously considering any major network that airs this without obtaining the text of the speech in advance and without serious fact checking and without additional rebuttal time for the opposition party in advance.
There is absolutely no credible threat of anything at the border and this play is pure politics. If there were a credible threat, then there should be someone from the Pentagon giving the briefing and it should happen immediately and not tomorrow.
🎧 “The Daily”: Bob Woodward on Trump, Nixon and Anonymity | New York Times
The reporter sat down with “The Daily” to talk about what it took to get access to the White House and why he called his new book “Fear.”
l love that this is more about process and history with Nixon as well as covering “anonymous” sources (aka deep background) and what they really mean. There isn’t nearly the level of book promotion here that I might have otherwise suspected.
🎧 “The Daily”: Why Michael Cohen Lied to Congress | New York Times
An admission by President Trump’s former lawyer about a proposed business deal in Russia sheds new light on where the special counsel investigation is headed.
How does this happen so late in the game?
👓 Opinion | The People vs. Donald J. Trump | New York Times
He is demonstrably unfit for office. What are we waiting for?
👓 How the Border Wall Is Boxing Trump In | New York Times
What started out as a memory trick for an undisciplined candidate has become the central priority of the Trump presidency, even as some immigration hard-liners do not view it as a top goal.
👓 Donald Trump Was Never Vetted | Intelligencer
We are only now discovering that Trump is a secretive figure who has escaped basic scrutiny.
🎧 “The Daily”: What’s Going On With Paul Manafort? | New York Times
We look at several twists in the case of President Trump’s former campaign chairman that raise fresh questions for the special counsel investigation.
I wish the GOP could rise to its challenges, but there have been too many lies for too long.
👓 How Mark Burnett Resurrected Donald Trump as an Icon of American Success | New Yorker
With “The Apprentice,” the TV producer mythologized Trump—then a floundering D-lister—as the ultimate titan, paving his way to the Presidency.
How did this not get written before the election?
👓 Just Say It’s Racist | The Atlantic
The American press is caught between describing Trumpism accurately and avoiding the wrath of the president and his supporters.
👓 Trump, Democrats battle over wall in Oval Office spat | The Hill
"I will be the one to shut it down," Trump tells Democrats at the White House.
👓 Individual-1 | Leo Laporte
There’s now strong evidence that Trump committed two felonies when he instructed Michael Cohen to pay off two women to silence them just before the election. The Cohen indictment also showed Trump continued to plan a Trump Tower in Moscow while running for president (and denying any contacts with ...
This is the first place I saw a reference to Donald J. Trump as “Individual-1”.