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.
Debra J. Saunders
Former Washington Columnist
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.
But the president predicts the leaders’ first bilateral summit and a one-on-one meeting in Helsinki, Finland, will be the “easiest” talk of all after his drama-filled European trip last week.
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.
President Donald Trump has pardoned two ranchers whose case sparked the armed occupation of a national wildlife refuge in Oregon.
President Donald Trump announced Judge Brett Kavanaugh as his choice to succeed retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy on the U.S. Supreme Court in a drama filled prime-time event in the White House East Room.
The consequences of President Donald Trump’s skillful use of the high court’s makeup during the 2016 election will become clear when he picks his second nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court. An announcement is expected Monday.
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?