The Trump Administration
Day 847
Thursday 16 May 2019
Day 846
Wednesday 15 May 2019
...[it] appears to be a copy of an advanced Russian design that could greatly improve Pyongyang’s ability to evade U.S. missile defense systems
...following months of discussions between senior adviser Jared Kushner and dozens of conservative groups
The attorney general joked about the House Judiciary Committee's finding that he should be held in contempt of Congress.
Among them: The Justice Department has acknowledged Congress’s “investigatory powers” as a remedy for not being able to indict a sitting president.
...accusing the Democratically-controlled committee of seeking to recreate the special counsel investigation to harass the President.
Treasury secretary also says U.S. negotiators likely to go to Beijing in near future
Mnuchin suggested today that he will reject House Democrats’ subpoena for President Donald Trump’s tax returns
The White House faces a deadline this Saturday to decide whether to slap duties on European car imports.
Judge Amit Mehta said there isn’t a case since 1880 where the Supreme Court or an appeals court found that Congress overstepped in issuing a subpoena.
...a move that comes as the U.S. government has alluded to risks of an attack by the Islamic Republic or its proxies in the region.
The troubles at Trump Doral [...] suggest the Trump Organization’s problems are bigger than previously known.
In the president’s first year in office, formal complaints that staffers were violating an 80-year-old law prohibiting them from political activity jumped.
Trump lawyers are arguing he’s an emperor, above the law, even as he calls on the Department of Justice to prosecute his political enemies.
Day 845
Tuesday 14 May 2019
...sending the strictest law in the nation to the state’s Republican governor, who is expected to sign it.
Incident comes amid growing tensions in the Gulf and a war of words between the United States and Iran.
...denouncing the cable news channel as “a hate-for-profit racket” that seeks to turns Americans against one another.
The executive order would invoke the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which gives the president the authority to regulate commerce in response to a national emergency that threatens the United States.
White House Ignored 2018 Request That Sought to Determine Whether Whistleblowers Know Their Rights
...recent events such as Iranian threats to close the Strait of Hormuz and a series of mysterious "sabotage" attacks against oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman, less than 100 miles away, have led to a new spike in tensions.
Gov. Ron DeSantis said that the F.B.I. had revealed to him which counties in the state had been targeted — then required the governor to keep the information secret.
The line of inquiry stems from claims made by the president’s former personal lawyer and fixer, Michael D. Cohen, who told Congress earlier this year that the lawyers in question helped edit false testimony that he provided to Congress in 2017
Day 844
Monday 13 May 2019
Day 843
Sunday 12 May 2019
Day 842
Saturday 11 May 2019
Day 841
Friday 10 May 2019
Day 840
Thursday 9 May 2019
Day 839
Wednesday 8 May 2019
Day 838
Tuesday 7 May 2019
Day 837
Monday 6 May 2019
Day 836
Sunday 5 May 2019
Day 835
Saturday 4 May 2019
Day 834
Friday 3 May 2019
Day 833
Thursday 2 May 2019
Day 832
Wednesday 1 May 2019