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Photo: Getty During the 2016 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton famously warned voters against voting for Donald Trump because “A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons.” Now, we’ve learned that the person doing the actual baiting is, in fact, none other than President Trump himself….
Photo: Alex Wong (Getty Images) President Donald Trump hasn’t actually fired special counsel Robert Mueller yet, but for some reason, city officials in Pittsburgh are already planning to clamp down hard on protests that might erupt if he does. In an email obtained by WTAE reporter Marcie Cipriani, Pittsburgh Police Commander Victor Joseph instructed his…
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), announcing that he will not seek re-election for another term in Congress, during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on April 11, 2018 Photo: Mark Wilson (Getty Images) On Wednesday, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) announced that he would not be seeking re-election and would retire…
Screenshot: ABC James Comey popped in for a quick visit to The View today as part of his never-ending book tour for A Higher Loyalty. Because we all actually live in a cheap simulacrum of reality, part of the interview involved the former FBI director facing off with Meghan McCain. As a result, it also…
Photo: Getty Scott Pruitt is crooked. This is inarguable, or at least it would be if so many people weren’t professionally or ideologically obligated to argue the point. The facts are damning: In addition to his scandals involving the spending of public funds on his lavish jetsetting and excessive security requirements, and his pay raises…
A pair of women ride a LimeBike scooter. Photo by the author The Bay Area serves as America’s sandbox. The tech world’s most far-fetched ideas are often sketched and tested here, and if they’re successful, they’ll spread throughout the country. The latest trend to materialize here is motorized scooters you can rent through an app….
President Donald Trump shakes hands with James Comey, then director of the FBI, in the Blue Room of the White House on Jan. 22, 2017, in Washington, D.C. Photo: Andrew Harrer-Pool (Getty Images) Apparently, Michael Cohen isn’t the only person Donald Trump tried to get to act as a fixer for him. In his upcoming…
Former FBI director James B. Comey’s memoir hits bookshelves next Tuesday and his blitz of media interviews begins with “20/20” on Sunday. But The Washington Post obtained a copy of “A Higher Loyalty” and published excerpts on Thursday. Here, we boil down 304 pages to three big takeaways: 1. Comey does not accuse Trump of committing a…
President Trump’s personal attorney Michael D. Cohen sometimes taped conversations with associates, according to three people familiar with his practice, and allies of the president are worried that the recordings were seized by federal investigators in a raid of Cohen’s office and residences this week. Cohen, who served for a decade as a lawyer at…
President Trump on Friday lashed out at former FBI director James B. Comey on Twitter, calling him a “weak and untruthful slime ball” who deserved to be fired “for the terrible job he did.” “It was my great honor to fire James Comey!” Trump wrote in his first remarks since advance copies surfaced of Comey’s…