Impeachment

With the coronavirus outbreak spreading across the country over the past several weeks, President Donald Trump has bragged that his daily press briefings at the White House are achieving “Bachelor finale, Monday Night Football type numbers.”  At one such briefing in mid-March, a reporter posed Trump a unique question. “Major left-wing…

A clarifying look at the president’s response to the coronavirus, in his own words April 21, 2020 Contributing writer at The Atlantic and managing editor of Lawfare Contributing writer at The Atlantic and editor in chief of Lawfare Alexander DragoAt his daily pandemic briefing the other day, President Donald Trump…

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) says President Donald Trump’s decision to withhold funding to the World Health Organization is “illegal” and will be “swiftly challenged” by Democrats. Trump announced Tuesday he intended to at least temporarily halt U.S. funding to the United Nations public health agency over its handling of the coronavirus…

Rep. Justin Amash holds a Town Hall Meeting in May 2019 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Bill Pugliano/Getty Images Of all the potential damage done by President Donald Trump’s meltdown during Monday evening’s briefing on the coronavirus, the biggest self-inflicted political wound may just be its impact on Michigan Rep. Justin…

WASHINGTON — Even as experts in his own government were increasingly alarmed about a pandemic threat this January, President Donald Trump apparently remained unconcerned, with no scheduled intelligence briefings before Jan. 6 and only nine the entire month. In the first week of the year, when dire warnings about the…

President Trump tweeted Wednesday that "the Radical Left Democrats have gone absolutely crazy that I am doing daily presidential news conferences," adding that "the ratings are through the roof." But it was The Wall Street Journal's conservative editorial page that urged Trump, a few hours later, to give up his…

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) sent a letter Tuesday to acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell demanding he explain President Trump's recent dismissals of Michael Atkinson and Glenn Fine, the inspectors general of the intelligence community and the Pentagon, respectively. The Washington Post's Greg Sargent says how…

President Donald Trump has taken an anti-responsibility approach to the coronavirus pandemic. In mid-March, Trump said he doesn't take "responsibility at all" for testing failures, and has continued to adopt this tone when challenged about the federal government's shortcomings in preparing for and responding to coronavirus. Trump's approach could backfire spectacularly, as…

President Donald Trump has effectively removed the inspector general set to monitor spending from the $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package, the latest move to curb oversight efforts over the massive government coronavirus crisis relief measure. Top congressional Democrats immediately charged Trump's move was politically motivated. Glenn Fine, the acting Department…

Kayleigh McEnany is moving from the Trump campaign to fill the role.April 7, 2020, 6:22 PM6 min read After less than a year on the job, White House press secretary and communications director Stephanie Grisham is stepping down, according to senior Trump administration officials. Grisham is returning to the East…