Impeachment

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…

President Trump hoped to run as the anti-socialist opposite of Bernie Sanders. Now he's telling businesses what to do and handing out money to millions of Americans. (AFP / Getty Images)I’ve been telecommuting for decades, so for me sheltering in place isn’t remotely the burden it is for a lot…

The outgoing inspector general for the U.S. intelligence community fired Friday by Donald Trump was legally required to alert Congress to a whistleblower complaint about the president’s troubling Ukraine phone call last year, he said in a statement Sunday. Michael Atkinson said he was “legally obligated to ensure that whistleblowers had…

Photograph: Patrick Semansky/APThe utter chaos in America’s response to the coronavirus pandemic – shortages of equipment to protect hospital workers, dwindling supplies of ventilators and critical medications, jaw-dropping confusion over how $2.2tn of aid in the recent coronavirus law will be distributed – was perhaps predictable in a nation that…

President Donald Trump is firing the intelligence community’s top government watchdog, who just happens to be the man who kicked off Trump's impeachment by alerting Congress about his call with the Ukrainian president. Michael Atkinson, the intelligence community’s inspector general, was central to Trump’s impeachment trial: he informed Congress about…

President Trump on Friday fired Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson, who informed Congress about the whistleblower complaint regarding Trump's communications with Ukraine that eventually led to his impeachment. The president said he "no longer" has the "fullest confidence" in Atkinson.Democrats were not happy with the decision, especially considering it…

Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a news conference next to President Donald Trump in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, March 29, 2020. Al Drago/Reuters Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday rejected the assessment that President Donald Trump "belittled" the threat of the coronavirus pandemic. "I…

It is a common, and very human, response to be stung by insults. Yet Presidents and politicians recognize that being insulted is part of their profession. Almost all presidents brood in private about the insults aimed at them. George Washington complained about press “outrages on common decency.” Richard Nixon kept…

Trish Regan hosted Fox Business Network's "Trish Regan Primetime." (Alex Kroke / Fox Business Network)Trish Regan, who was pulled from her prime-time slot on Fox Business Network after calling the coronavirus an "impeachment scam," will not be returning to the channel.Fox Business — the sister channel of Fox News —…

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, spoke to Trevor Noah on a social distancing episode of the "The Daily Show" on Thursday. While he didn't mention Trump directly, he did criticize his intention to open the country in two weeks.He said that a…