Section: POLITICO – U.S. Edition (USA)
When Trump meets Merkel, will opposites attract?
Usually, when the American and German leaders meet up for formal talks, Human Rights Watch sends the two allied countries some guidance on sensitive topics to try to influence their discussion. But ahead of Tuesday’s scheduled White House meeting between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Donald Trump, the nonprofit group is...
McCain on Trump-Russia probes: ‘Lot of shoes to drop from this centipede’
Arizona Sen. John McCain suggested Sunday “there’s a lot of shoes to drop” once more information is known about President Donald Trump and his associates’ ties to Russia.In an interview with Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union,” McCain said he was troubled by a number of things with Russia, including the Republican Party...
Trump’s Dictator Chic
Every good brand needs a theme and an aesthetic, and President Donald Trump has spent decades cultivating both. The theme is success, wealth, winning, and the aesthetic is bright, brassy, loud—or, depending whom you ask, gaudy and fake. In person, the Trump look is that distinctive hair, oversized suits (apparently from the expensive Italian...
Authorities looked into Manafort protégé
U.S. and Ukrainian authorities have expressed interest in the activities of a Kiev-based operative with suspected ties to Russian intelligence who consulted regularly with Paul Manafort last year while Manafort was running Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.The operative, Konstantin Kilimnik, came under scrutiny from officials at the...
Trump: Russia ‘ran over’ Obama for eight years
President Donald Trump, himself a frequent target of criticism over his perceived soft stance towards Russia, said Tuesday that it was his predecessor, former President Barack Obama, who truly failed to get tough with the Russian government.“For eight years Russia ‘ran over’ President Obama, got stronger and stronger, picked-off Crimea and...
‘Don’t Be So Desperate to Rub up Against Russia’
America’s most senior diplomat just hit the exits from President Trump’s melting-down State Department after 40 years of being the man in the room when Russia was involved.And now Daniel Fried, a career Foreign Service pro who spent decades holding his tongue publicly while serving six presidents of both parties, is speaking out...
World War Meme
NEW YORK—Parked in front of a seductive portrait of Ann Coulter and an array of computer screens inside a home office in Harlem, Matt Braynard, former director of technology for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, welled up with emotion as he recounted his experience attending Trump’s inauguration a week earlier.It was not the...
Pelosi: Sessions’ recusal ‘is an admission that something was wrong’
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi panned Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ recusal from investigations related to last year’s presidential election as “insufficient” and “totally unacceptable” Friday morning, telling the audience at a POLITICO Playbook breakfast that it is “a reflection of the weak moral authority of this...
Trump Takes on The Blob
Late on the evening of February 13, President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, Michael Flynn, was forced to resign after just 24 days on the job. It was the shortest, rockiest tenure of any national security adviser since the post was created in the aftermath of World War II. Flynn, embroiled in a scandal over his contacts with the...
Sessions recuses himself from Trump-Russia probe
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Thursday that he will recuse himself from any investigations related to campaigns for president, including any probe into contacts between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russian officials. “I have recused myself in the matters that deal with the Trump campaign,” Sessions told reporters...
