Tag: Trump

December 10, 2019

House Democrats unveiled two articles of impeachment Tuesday against President Donald Trump — abuse of power and obstruction of Congress — pushing toward historic votes as the president insists he did “NOTHING” wrong. Speaker Nancy Pelosi said ahead of the […]

November 27, 2019

A federal judge on Wednesday once again delayed the criminal sentencing of Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump’s first national security advisor. Lawyers for Flynn and the Department of Justice had written to Judge Emmet Sullivan in a court filing Tuesday, […]

November 13, 2019

Global stocks sank Wednesday after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened more tariff hikes on Chinese imports if talks aimed at ending a trade war fail to produce an interim agreement. Market benchmarks in London, Frankfurt, Shanghai and Tokyo declined. Wall […]

October 31, 2019

President Donald Trump said Thursday the U.S. and China are working to secure a new site to sign a tentative trade war truce and the location will be announced soon. U.S. and Chinese negotiators wanted to finalize the deal in […]

October 23, 2019

A lawyer for President Donald Trump on Wednesday argued to a federal appeals court that a subpoena for information to Trump’s accountants — including a demand for his personal and corporate tax returns — issued by a grand jury at […]

October 11, 2019

A federal appeals court in a split ruling Friday rejected President Donald Trump’s bid to block a subpoena for his income tax returns from the Democrat-controlled House Committee on Oversight and Reform. The 2-1 ruling by the U.S Circuit Court […]

October 8, 2019

China signaled it would hit back after the Trump administration placed eight of the country’s technology giants on a blacklist over alleged human rights violations against Muslim minorities. Asked Tuesday whether China would retaliate over the blacklist, foreign ministry spokesman […]

October 7, 2019

A federal judge on Monday dismissed President Donald Trump’s lawsuit seeking to block the release of his personal and corporate tax returns to the Manhattan district attorney, who is conducting a criminal investigation related to the president’s company. U.S. District […]

October 3, 2019

Some have regrets. A few can’t talk about it. Others would do it all again. But the Republicans who carried out President Bill Clinton’s impeachment in 1998 are unanimous in urging caution and restraint as Congress embarks on yet another […]

October 2, 2019

More than a week after he was first asked about his role in the controversial July phone call between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has confirmed he was on the line. That […]

September 27, 2019

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Friday that there’s “no cause for any joy” in launching an official impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. “This is a very sad time for our country,” Pelosi said during an interview on MSNBC’s […]

September 23, 2019

Faced with growing tumult at home and abroad, President Donald Trump heads into his three-day visit to the United Nations this week hoping to lean on strained alliances while fending off questions about whether he sought foreign help to damage […]

August 30, 2019

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra is racking up his lawsuits against the Trump administration. The state’s AG added yet another to his belt this week, challenging proposed legislation that would invalidate the Flores settlement, thereby enabling the administration to indefinitely […]

August 28, 2019

Democratic front-runner Joe Biden has slightly expanded his lead over President Donald Trump in the latest Quinnipiac University poll, which also for the first time in Trump’s presidency registered more voters saying the U.S. economy is getting worse rather than […]

August 26, 2019

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that the United States is close to reaching a compromise over France’s digital tax. Trump’s comments came as he spoke to reporters at the G-7 summit in Biarritz, France, alongside German Chancellor Angela […]

August 23, 2019

At the end of March, after a series of trips to Central America and negotiations, then secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen signed an agreement with the so called “Northern Triangle” countries of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, a bilateral […]

August 21, 2019

The Trump administration is moving to end a long-standing federal court agreement that limits how long immigrant children can be kept in detention, a decision that will almost certainly lead to a new court fight over the government’s ability to […]

August 16, 2019

Talk to anyone in Trumpland, and you’ll hear that America is winning the trade war. “The economic burden is falling vastly more on them than on us,” proclaimed the President’s chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow in early August as the […]

August 13, 2019

HP Inc.-laptop maker Inventec Corp. said it will to shift production of notebooks for the U.S. market out of China within months, adding to the tech industry’s exodus as the world’s two largest economies escalate their trade war. Inventec will […]

August 9, 2019

President Donald Trump said Friday he has reassured the National Rifle Association that its views about the right to bear arms won’t be ignored in Washington’s response to recent mass shootings. Trump said he is talking with the NRA and […]