Author: Jonathan Lemire
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Giuliani: ‘Over my dead body’ will Mueller interview Trump
WASHINGTON • With a number of probes moving closer to the Oval Office, President Donald Trump and his attorney unleased a fresh series of attacks Sunday on the investigators, questioning their integrity while categorically ruling out the possibility of a presidential interview with the special counsel. Trump and Rudy Giuliani used Twitter and television interviews…
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Trump picks budget head Mulvaney to be next chief of staff
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday picked budget director Mick Mulvaney to be his acting chief of staff, ending a chaotic search in which several top contenders took themselves out of the running for the job. “Mick has done an outstanding job while in the Administration,” Trump tweeted. “I look forward to working…
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Trump expresses ‘disappointment,’ ‘anger’ at GM
WASHINGTON • President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he was “very disappointed” that General Motors was closing plants in the United States and warned that the White House was “now looking at cutting all GM subsidies,” including for its electric cars program. Trump unleashed on Twitter a day after GM announced it would shutter five…
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Trump celebrates Republican gains, threatens House Democrats
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday celebrated Senate Republican gains in the midterm election but immediately threatened Democrats, who won back control of the House and with it the power to investigate the president’s personal and professional conduct. Trump has long felt aggrieved by the special counsel’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016…
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Call for unity shelved by political barbs
WASHINGTON • It didn’t last. With the country on edge over a widening pipe-bomb scare, talk of national unity quickly gave way to finger-pointing Thursday. President Donald Trump cast blame on the media for fomenting anger in society while candidates across the country traded partisan broadsides. Three more devices were found Thursday, bringing to at…
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UN’s Nikki Haley to leave in latest Trump shake-up
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the latest shake-up for President Donald Trump’s turbulent administration, U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley abruptly announced Tuesday she is resigning at the end of the year, raising fresh questions about the Trump team and about the outspoken diplomat’s own political ambitions. The news blindsided some key U.S. allies and many congressional Republicans…
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Trump says he’s not firing Rosenstein
WASHINGTON • President Donald Trump said Monday that he has no plans to fire Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, delivering a reprieve for the Justice Department official whose future has been the source of intense speculation for two weeks. Trump said at the White House that he had “a very good relationship” with Rosenstein and…
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Trump challenges U.N., boasts of American might
UNITED NATIONS • President Donald Trump poured scorn on the “ideology of globalism” and heaped praise on his own administration’s achievements Tuesday in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly that drew headshakes and even mocking laughter from his audience of fellow world leaders. “The U.S. will not tell you how to live and work…
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U.S. warns Russia over missile system in Syria
NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration is warning Russia that supplying Syria with an advanced missile defense system would be a “major mistake” and should be reconsidered. It also says U.S. forces will not leave Syria until Iran leaves. National security adviser John Bolton said Monday that delivery of the Russian S-300 would be…
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Trump pushes pause on Rosenstein’s fate
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. • As Air Force One streaked across the desert sky and Las Vegas faded in the distance, President Donald Trump began seeking opinions. The TVs on the plane, tuned as always to Fox News, carried headlines about an explosive new story: Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had suggested wearing a wire to secretly…