Concerned that he was being set up to take the blame for possible acts of obstruction, the White House counsel started talking to investigators.
Tag: Donald J. Trump
👓 Fox News, NBC, and Facebook pulled Trump’s racist campaign ad. He’s not happy about it. | Vox
The latest controversy over Trump’s final campaign ad, explained.
🎧 The Daily: The Trump Voters We Don’t Talk About | New York Times
New data offers a more nuanced look at this group beyond “white men without a college degree.”
🎧 The Daily: A New Path for Presidential Pardons | New York Times
Granting clemency was long a cumbersome bureaucratic process. That has changed under President Trump.
🎧 The Daily: Paul Ryan’s Exit Interview | New York Times
As speaker of the House, the Republican lawmaker should be at the peak of his powers. Instead, he’s walking away.
🎧 The Daily: A Scorched-Earth Strategy in Ohio | New York Times
Republicans have deployed a polarizing message and millions of advertising dollars in an attempt to rescue what used to be a reliably conservative congressional seat.
🎧 The Rise of Michael Avenatti | The Daily | New York Times
The lawyer’s self-sure ways and penchant for media spectacle have led some to characterize him as the anti-Trump.
🎧 How Paul Manafort’s Plans Backfired | The Daily | New York Times
The story of the former Trump campaign chairman and his ties to foreign governments begins long before the 2016 election.
🎧 The Daily: The Strange Case of QAnon | New York Times
A fringe online movement makes a front-and-center appearance at a televised event for President Trump.
🎧 The Daily: Which to Believe: Trump’s Words, or His Acts? | New York Times
Is the United States’ policy toward Russia what the president says, or what the government does?
👓 After selling off his father’s properties, Trump embraced unorthodox strategies to expand his empire | Washington Post
In 2005, Donald Trump kicked off a decade-long buying and spending spree, vastly expanding his hotel and golf-course empire and cementing his image as a brash impresario. The unorthodox approach Trump took in making those bold bets — racing through hundreds of millions in cash and drawing loans from the private-wealth office of Deutsche Bank — came when he was on new terrain as a developer.
👓 Trump, no longer ratings gold, loses his prime-time spot on Fox News | Politico
In a crucial period with the midterms less than a month away, some in the White House are worried that the president is losing a prime-time megaphone to his base.
Perhaps I’m wrong, but in the past I don’t recall any of the networks carrying full coverage of any rallies like these except perhaps the nominating conventions; even then they did it somewhat begrudgingly or only with partial coverage? At best, the coverage of these was small individual soundbites of candidates. Fox news has obviously and sadly been using them more for entertainment value than for any news value they might have had. Could this new coverage be coined liefotainment? There certainly isn’t any journalistic value in full coverage. I wonder if they’ll be carrying flaming-cross to flaming-cross coverage of KKK rallies next?
👓 The Times Trump investigation and the power of the long game | Columbia Journalism Review
WE LIVE AT A TIME WHEN JOURNALISM can land with great force. The epic investigation published Tuesday by The New York Times, on the fraud that is the Trump family business, is such a story. The piece, which took three reporters—David Barstow, Susanne Craig, and Russ Buettner—18 months, 15,000 words, and eight pages in the print edition, has been roundly, and rightly, praised. One of its great benefits, to my mind, is that it transcends the headlines of the day, focusing on an elemental, fundamental aspect of this man and this presidency that, it turns out, is even more divorced from our common understanding than we might have previously thought. It is an example of journalism as long game, a sport that more of us need to be playing.
🎧 The Daily: The Other Russian Interference | New York Times
Hours after the presidential summit meeting in Helsinki, news broke of the arrest of Maria Butina, a Russian woman charged with conspiring to influence American politics.
📺 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: This Is Why Trump Doesn’t Do Solo Press Conferences | YouTube
Stephen delivers a monologue about Trump's long, incoherent, rambling press conference just minutes after Trump's long, incoherent, rambling press conference.