Donald Trump is so mentally unstable that members of his cabinet considered invoking the 25th Amendment to remove him from office, an anonymous senior administration official writes in The New York Times.
Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation as a US Supreme Court justice should be a shoe-in, but lobbying groups are still spending millions trying to convince American voters to support or oppose him.
Brett Kavanaugh finally got a chance to testify at the end of the first day of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s tumultuous hearing about his Supreme Court nomination. But a moment during today’s recess threatens to overshadow his remarks.
About 30 people, most of them women, were arrested during Brett Kavanaugh’s Senate confirmation on Tuesday morning after shouting slogans and criticism at ruffled senators from the public gallery.
Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee is off to a rocky start, with Democrats demanding the hearing be halted because regular order isn’t being followed.
Thanks to a whirlwind of executive orders, policy adjustments, and subtle bureaucratic changes, US immigration policy is looking more and more like the xenophobic 1920s. Back then, the US barred Asians, as well as Italians, Greeks, and people from Eastern Europe. This time, however, US immigration policies are focused on reducing the number of people from Muslim-majority countries, Mexico, Africa, and Central America.
Top White House lawyer Don McGahn is parting ways with Donald Trump as so many people do—messily, and with bad feelings on both sides. But part of McGahn’s legacy has little to do with his erstwhile boss: Well before Trump, McGahn played a crucial role in weakening US protections against compromised elections.
The US can’t afford to give its civilian workforce their planned raises, Donald Trump said today in a letter to Congress—so he’s cancelling them.
Vice president Joe Biden will deliver the eulogy at Senator John McCain’s memorial service in Phoenix, Arizona today, starting at 10am MST (1pm EDT).
The White House is “taking a look” into regulating Google, Donald Trump’s top economic advisor said Tuesday morning, after the US president tweeted in the early morning hours that googling “Trump news” turned up too many negative results.
Donald Trump announced from the Oval Office that he’d reached a “very special” deal for American manufacturers and farmers, in a bilateral trade arrangement with Mexico he envisions as replacement for the North American Free Trade Agreement that has included Canada.
Update Aug. 27 at 4:30 pm: The White House reversed course Monday afternoon, and will fly the flag at half-staff until McCain’s body is buried, the president said in a proclamation, as a “mark of respect for the memory and longstanding service.” Flags will be lowered on “all public buildings and grounds, at all military posts and naval stations, and on all naval vessels” until sunset on the day of McCain’s burial.
Prosecutors say David Pecker was instrumental in burying the stories of two women who say they had affairs with Donald Trump before the 2016 election. The CEO of AMI, publisher of the National Enquirer and Globe supermarket tabloids, also did a great service for Trump by printing wild stories about his opponents—while spiking a few about him.
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.
Michael Cohen’s messy personal finances and complicated arrangements to hide Donald Trump’s alleged affairs were laid bare by the Department of Justice today (Aug. 21) as he pleaded guilty to eight criminal charges.
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 US has deported Jakiw Palij, a former Nazi Germany prison guard who had been living in the US for nearly 70 years.
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.
