Rick Gates is to political consultant Paul Manafort what Omarosa Manigault Newman is to President Donald Trump.
Debra J. Saunders
Debra J. Saunders, the Review-Journal's White House correspondent from 2017 to 2021, is the newspaper's Washington columnist. Her columns will appear two to three times weekly.
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.
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.
As the president basks in the glory of his pick of Brett Kavanaugh to serve on the Supreme Court, on can only hope that he will realize that some decisions have too much consequence to go with your gut.
My choice was simple: to avenge all the slanted stories I’ve read for decades by reporting with a deliberately conservative bent or tostrive to write down the middle?
A cluster of progressive Democrats eyeing the 2020 presidential race embraces the call to eliminate the immigration enforcement agency, but many see the move as perilous to the party in next election cycle.
As Justice Anthony Kennedy prepares to retire, all eyes in Washington will be on the battle to confirm whomever President Donald Trump nominates.
It’s getting ugly out there for President Donald Trump’s White House team. When they leave 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., they risk public shaming and are subject to mob intimidation.
Why are news outlets treating the 2018 border crisis as if it is the worst?
Because it started so differently — with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inviting President Donald Trump to a face-to-face meeting, which the mercurial Trump promptly accepted — the June 12 summit in Singapore held out the promise of delivering something big and transformative.
On the first day of June, President Donald Trump invited Kim Yong Chol, North Korea’s second most powerful official, into the Oval Office where they talked at length and posed for photos. Afterward, Trump shook Kim’s hand before reporters.
President Donald Trump asserted Monday that he has “the absolute right to PARDON myself” — the sort of Twitter pronouncement that drives his critics crazy while prompting supporters to cheer him on.
Reality TV star Kim Kardashian visited the White House Wednesday to urge President Donald Trump to commute the sentence of a 63-year-old grandmother serving a federal sentence of life without parole for a first-time, nonviolent drug offense.
A college dean who warned students about the risk of unschooled boobs ruining sound public policy didn’t get his facts straight during a recent commencement ceremony.
There was nothing bipartisan about the congressional delegation attending the opening ceremony of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem last Monday.