Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, his company’s chief financial officer, and the CEO of the company that owns the National Enquirer—which allegedly suppressed articles about his affairs—are cooperating with prosecutors. A jury found his former campaign manager guilty of tax and bank fraud.
Allen Weisselberg, longtime chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, has been granted immunity by federal prosecutors, according to the Wall Street Journal (paywall).
Donald Trump discussed his potential impeachment on Fox & Friends, marking the first time he’s delved into the possibility at length in public. And he’s only playing at playing defense.
Hours after Donald Trump’s onetime personal lawyer admitted he was pushed by his client to break the law and his 2016 campaign chairman was found guilty of tax and bank fraud, the president took to the stage in West Virginia, introduced by the wistful strains of John Denver:
Michael Cohen’s guilty plea in a US federal court includes a detailed explanation of how Donald Trump directed him to break campaign finance laws, as well as the complicated way Cohen helped stifle allegations Trump had affairs before the 2016 election.
Paul Manafort, the former head of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign who had a long business relationship with a pro-Russian Ukrainian politician, was found guilty on eight criminal counts by a federal jury in Virginia today (Aug. 21), including five counts of tax fraud.
Update (5:25pm ET): Paul Manafort was found guilty on eight criminal counts by a federal jury in Virginia, including five counts of tax fraud.
The White House honored Customs and Border Protection, the 60,000-strong armed force that guards the US borders, and the controversial Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency that patrols the US interior, in the East Room today (Aug. 20).
A group of nearly 200 former CIA analysts, district attorneys, Defense Department officials, FBI agents, and ambassadors have signed a public statement criticizing Donald Trump for stripping ex-CIA director John Brennan of his security clearance.
Michael Avenatti, lawyer for Stormy Daniels, the adult film star who says she was paid by Donald Trump’s lawyer to keep their affair a secret, isn’t officially running for president—yet.
Island Seafood, a $40 million in annual sales lobster wholesaler that’s been operating on the Maine coast for over 20 years, got a distressing message from a long-time Chinese customer at the end of July.
Ronald Reagan National Airport, one of the primary airports serving the Washington DC area, registered a power outage beginning at approximately 9:45 pm ET, forcing the airport to put at least some flight takeoffs on hold, and divert others, with many computer systems down. The airport said via Twitter that flights were operating, albeit slowly during the blackout. A little over an hour after lights went out, it said power was restored. The airport didn’t specify a reason for the outage.
Former presidential aide Omarosa Manigault Newman’s newly published book Unhinged, about her 15-year relationship with Donald Trump, traces a familiar narrative arc for a political insider’s tell-all: She settles scores, defends her own actions, and describes the evolution of her relationship with the US president.
“The America we know and love doesn’t exist anymore,” Fox News host Laura Ingraham said last night (Aug. 8) in a segment directed at Democratic congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Chris Collins, the Republican upstate New York Congressman, surrendered himself to FBI agents this morning, alongside his son and the father of his son’s fiancee. All three have been charged with securities fraud, wire fraud, and making false statements by the Department of Justice.
The White House plans to propose making it tougher for documented immigrants to become US citizens if they have ever used a range of social services from Obamacare to food stamps, NBC News reports.
China had a swift reaction to Donald Trump’s plans to double down on failing tariffs—Beijing said it would add more taxes to $60 billion in US goods.
If Donald Trump really wanted to preserve the most jobs possible in one of the US’s many struggling industries, he might consider local newspapers instead of steel manufacturing.
Frustrated with Beijing’s stubbornness on trade, the US’s top trade negotiator might pile even more tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese products.
At a rally in Tampa, Florida last night, Donald Trump touched on some familiar political themes: Telling Americans they can use the Christian holiday greeting “Merry Christmas” again; deriding his 2016 rival Hillary Clinton as “crooked;” falsely claiming that Democrats want to give illegal aliens the right to vote. Stirring up his base with divisive statements, in order to drive voters to the polls is part of the Republican plan to win in November’s midterm elections, which typically draw fewer voters than presidential races.
Since the 1880s, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics has tracked and published data about American jobs and workers, including average wages, how many people are employed by certain industries, and how consumers spend money.
Charles and David Koch seeded the low-tax, small government political movement in America that became the Tea Party, which eventually set the stage for Donald Trump’s presidency. Now, one of the wealthy industrialist brothers is using the same strategy to fight Trump’s trade policies.
The $12 billion that the Trump administration has pledged to American farmers to offset the cost of new tariffs is just a small piece of the pie, according to a new US Chamber of Commerce analysis.
More than 700 children forcibly removed from their parents at the US border still have not been reunited with their families, US officials said today (July 26).
