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President Donald Trump defended his presidency, slammed reports that his campaign advisers had inappropriate contact with Russian officials and promised to crack down on the leaking of classified information in a news conference Thursday at the White House. Here is the full transcript: TRUMP: Thank you very much. I just wanted to begin by mentioning that the nominee for secretary of the Department of Labor will be Mr. Alex Acosta. He has a law degree from Harvard Law School, was a great student; former clerk for Justice Samuel Alito. And he has had a tremendous career. He’s a member and has been a member of the National Labor Relations Board, and has been through Senate confirmation three times, confirmed; did very, very well. The complete list of all 57 false things Donald Trump has said as president … [Read more...] about Everything Trump said in his wild and hostile Thursday news conference

WASHINGTON—U.S. President Donald Trump mounted a vigorous defence of his presidency Thursday, pushing back against media reports that his campaign advisers had inappropriate contact with Russian officials and vowing to crack down on the leaking of classified information. Nearly a month into his presidency, Trump said in a freewheeling White House news conference that his new administration had made “significant progress” and took credit for an optimistic business climate and a soaring stock market. The president reserved his harshest language for attacks on members of the media present for the news conference. “Tomorrow they will say ‘Donald Trump rants and raves at the press,’ ” Trump said at one point. “I’m not ranting and raving, you’re just dishonest people.” Trump denounced reports of a chaotic start to his administration marked by a contentious executive order — now tied up in a legal fight — to place … [Read more...] about ‘I’m not ranting and raving,’ Trump attacks the press at wild news conference

Last fall, as native American protesters gathered at Standing Rock to stop the completion of the Dakota Access pipeline, several of my friends “checked in” at the protest on Facebook. They were nowhere near South Dakota. They had heard — through urgent posts by other friends who were not present either — that fake geo-tagging would protect protesters at the site from monitoring by law enforcement. NPR reported that more than a million people “checked in” at the protest camp, a digital version of the “I am Spartacus” strategy. But the local sheriff’s office told reporters that it hadn’t been monitoring protesters using Facebook geo-tags. And leaders of the protest said they had never asked far-flung allies to change their locations on social media. The geo-tagging fad was a harmless way for people to express solidarity. It was also, arguably, part of a bigger problem with how information spreads online in the Trump era. Read … [Read more...] about Trump supporters not only ones to blame for fake news — liberals spread it too