President Donald Trump personally interviewed Geoffrey Berman to be US attorney for the Southern District of New York. Berman reportedly recused himself from the Michael Cohen raid. It was exactly the kind of thing Trump was likely looking to avoid. It appears as if President Donald Trump‘s plan to protect himself in New York just completely backfired. ABC News reported Tuesday that Geoffrey Berman, the interim US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, recused himself from the investigation into Trump’s longtime lawyer Michael Cohen. Two sources told ABC News that Berman was not involved in the decision to raid Cohen’s office and residences because of that recusal, which was approved by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Other attorneys in the office handled the raid, which was approved by a federal judge. It’s unlikely that Trump had such a situation in mind when he made the … [Read more...] about It looks like Trump’s plan to protect himself in New York has backfired spectacularly
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Mideast expects big changes under Trump
By Associated Press Donald Trump’s all-but-dismissal of human rights as a foreign policy principle could land like an earthquake across a Middle East landscape beset by warring factions and beleaguered governments, with some players eyeing the prospect of once unimaginable new alliances. Syria is the foremost test of Trump’s promise of a return to a hard-headed realpolitik and could quickly show whether America is truly abandoning promotion of democracy and the rule of law in a way that could reshape much of the region’s post-Cold War, post-9/11 order. Trump has raised the possibility of a broad new U.S. partnership with Vladimir Putin’s increasingly authoritarian Russia and has even hinted at aligning with Syrian President Bashar Assad, which would amount to a dramatic reversal from years of the Obama administration calls for Assad’s ouster. Trump seems to calculate that their shared enemy in the Islamic State is more important than shared values. … [Read more...] about Mideast expects big changes under Trump
THE CONSPIRACY CANDIDATE? 13 outlandish theories Donald Trump has floated on the campaign trail
In May 2011, reporters swarmed Donald Trump as he exited the Hyatt in Washington, DC, after the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Many wanted a response from Trump, who had just watched President Obama deliver jokes that night about Trump’s constant questioning of the legitimacy of Obama’s birth certificate. Trump on Friday finally relented, saying after five years of attacks aimed at Obama’s citizenship that he believed the president was born in the United States. It was perhaps the first of numerous debunked or unverified conspiracy theories that Trump has entertained during his time in the political spotlight. Throughout the 2016 campaign, Trump has floated theories fueled by the conspiratorial-minded corners of supermarket tabloids and the internet, something unprecedented in modern politics. He’s often used them as weapons against his opponents. For instance, he accused Sen. Ted Cruz’s father of having ties to President John … [Read more...] about THE CONSPIRACY CANDIDATE? 13 outlandish theories Donald Trump has floated on the campaign trail
The timeline of Trump’s ties with Russia lines up with allegations of conspiracy and misconduct
President Donald Trump and several associates continue to draw intense scrutiny for their ties to the Russian government. A dossier of unverified claims alleges serious conspiracy and misconduct in the final months of the 2016 presidential campaign. The White House has dismissed the dossier as fiction, and most of the claims remain unverified. The timeline of major events, however, lines up. The document includes one particularly explosive allegation – that the Trump campaign agreed to minimize US opposition to Russia’s incursions into Ukraine in exchange for the Kremlin releasing negative information about Trump’s opponent, Hillary Clinton. The timing of events supporting this allegation also lines up. The timeline of claims made in an unsubstantiated dossier presented by top US intelligence officials to President Donald Trump and senior lawmakers last … [Read more...] about The timeline of Trump’s ties with Russia lines up with allegations of conspiracy and misconduct
THE LIST: All of Donald Trump’s Twitter burns against his Republican rivals
Real-estate mogul Donald Trump attacked presidential rival and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida) Tuesday night on Twitter. In a single 140-character broadside, Trump declared that Rubio’s middle name was “amnesty,” highlighted his poor Senate voting record, and suggested the senator didn’t have a foreign-policy “VISION” for the country. With that tweet, Trump has now insulted almost every single one of his Republican rivals on Twitter. The online trash-talk, which has become a featured method for Trump, usually comes in response to a shot fired by the opponent in question. Rubio, for example, recently said Trump had not provided enough specifics on national security. Only a couple of candidates who refuse to criticize Trump have escaped unscathed – notably Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R), and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R). New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), who has taken light shots at Trump but … [Read more...] about THE LIST: All of Donald Trump’s Twitter burns against his Republican rivals