President Donald Trump took to Twitter Wednesday to strike back at his former private lawyer and offer praise for a former campaign chairman as the White House grappled with the fallout from two legal cases.
Debra J. Saunders
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Debra J. Saunders joined the Review Journal as White House correspondent in December 2016, after 24 years writing a usually conservative opinion-page column for the San Francisco Chronicle. She has a B.A. in Greek and Latin from the University of Massachusetts at Boston, which may or may not prepare her for covering the Trump White House. She is syndicated with Creators Syndicate.
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was found guilty Tuesday of eight counts of tax fraud, bank fraud and failure to disclose foreign bank accounts; a mistrial was declared on 10 other charges.
President Donald Trump will be returning to Nevada within weeks to campaign in advance of the midterm elections, according to White House officials who spoke to reporters Tuesday afternoon.
With an eye toward the midterm elections, President Donald Trump saluted federal immigration enforcement officials Monday, recognizing “heroes” who saved lives, made their communities safer and, in the case of four Border Patrol agents, fell in the line of duty.
After President Donald Trump yanked the security clearance of former CIA chief John Brennan, the retired admiral who oversaw the mission that led to the death of Osama bin Laden asked to have his clearance revoked as well.
Rick Gates is to political consultant Paul Manafort what Omarosa Manigault Newman is to President Donald Trump.
Jurors will begin deliberating the fate of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort on Thursday after the prosecution and defense delivered their closing arguments Wednesday in the first case brought to trial by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
President Donald Trump continued to feud Tuesday with former staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman – on Twitter for him, cable news for her – as questions arose about White House personnel practices.
President Donald Trump and former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman engaged in mudslinging Monday over allegations contained in her upcoming book and tapes of secretly recorded conversations.
In June, U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis slammed the position of special counsel as a post too easily “wielded as a political weapon” to troll for dirt on targeted adversaries. At the same time, he ruled that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s prosecution of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was legitimate and should continue.
A new paper by the bipartisan Democracy Fund Voter Study Group, however, suggests that playing to the party base may be the wrong strategy for the 2018 midterm elections for both parties, but especially for the GOP, and particularly in Nevada.
The defense attorney for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort put the prosecution’s star witness, former Manafort lieutenant Rick Gates, on trial Tuesday in federal court.
When President Donald Trump sat down for an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt on May 11, 2017, the president did what he often does when he talks on camera – he did not hold back his grievances and he contradicted previous White House staff pronouncements.
President Donald Trump said Wednesday his attorney general should end special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
President Donald Trump took to Twitter Tuesday to punch back at GOP mega-donor billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch after the Koch-network let it be known over the weekend that it is not supporting key GOP candidates, including Nevada Sen. Dean Heller.
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