Tillerson Promotes Closer Iraq-Saudi Arabia Links
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Sunday promoted improving ties between Saudi Arabia and Iraq as a way to counter Iran’s growing military assertiveness in the region. Tillerson, participating in the initial meeting of the Saudi Arabia-Iraq Coordination Committee in Riyadh, told Saudi King Salman and Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi that their improving […]
Why is Bannon Out As Trump’s Strategist?
White House chief political strategist Steve Bannon is reportedly no longer occupying his senior position in President Donald Trump’s administration, according to reports by The New York Times and ABC News. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders released aa statement saying that Bannon and Chief of Staff John Kelly had “mutually agreed” Friday would […]
Who is Steve Bannon? Trump Strategist Gone
In a White House defined by chaos, tumult and turnover, Steve Bannon became the latest person to depart President Donald Trump’s team Friday afternoon. The New York Times reported he was on his way out, writing that two unnamed officials said Trump “told senior aides that he has decided to remove” Bannon from the key […]
Steve Bannon is out after critics spent months calling for his firing
White House aide Stephen Bannon is out of the White House, reports Reuters. BREAKING: Trump tells aides he has decided to remove Stephen Bannon as chief strategist: @NYTimes https://t.co/GU7soleIU7 pic.twitter.com/zdtTOebZQ9 Watch the video — Reuters Top News (@Reuters) August 18, 2017 Conservative blogger Matt Drudge tweeted that Bannon had “one hell of a run.” “We […]
Breitbart News, Donald Trump’s Pravda, Is in Crisis
Close Earlier this year, reporter Lee Stranahan was in the White House press room when another journalist asked him which outlet he worked for. “Breitbart News,” Stranahan answered, recalling the exchange in a recent phone conversation. The other journalist laughed, thinking this had to be a joke. Breitbart, after all, was largely known, whether justly […]
Sanders Criticizes a Nominee Over Statement on Muslims
Senator Bernie Sanders criticized a White House nominee Wednesday over an article he wrote that appeared to defame the Muslim faith. The Vermont senator called out Russell Vought, nominee to be deputy director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, for an article he penned for The Resurgent in January 2016, in which […]
Trump Assistant Gorka Is Leaving the White House
U.S. President Donald Trump’s deputy assistant Sebastian Gorka is on his way out of the White House, according to reports. Gorka, a former national security editor of far-right website Breitbart, joined the administration as a terrorism adviser. He will take a job at a federal agency dealing with “the war of ideas” surrounding the battle […]
As White Men Flee, Trump’s Approval Rating Dips Again
Things aren’t looking up for President Donald Trump, a man long obsessed with ratings of any sort. His approval rating took another dip this week. Just 34 percent of the country approved of the job Trump is doing, down from 44.1 percent in March, according to the latest survey this week from Investor’s Business Daily/TechnoMetrica […]
Steve Bannon dropped from National Security Council
Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump’s chief strategist, has lost his seat on the powerful National Security Council (NSC) in a high-level shakeup, US officials said on Wednesday. Trump’s elevation of Bannon to a permanent spot on the NSC had been widely criticised as injecting politics into White House deliberations on sensitive defence, foreign policy, and […]
Fired U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara Said to Have Been Investigating HHS Secretary Tom Price
Former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who was removed from his post by the Trump administration last week, was overseeing an investigation into stock trades made by the president’s health secretary, according to a person familiar with the office. Tom Price, head of the Department of Health and Human Services, came under scrutiny during his confirmation […]