Nearly eight years ago, after both major political parties had settled on their presidential nominees, then-House Speaker Paul Ryan made a pitch to then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. As the Wisconsin Republican argued at the time, it was customary for both parties’ White House hopefuls to start receiving national security briefings, but Ryan wanted to make an exception for Hillary Clinton. Intelligence agencies, Ryan said, “should deny Hillary Clinton access to classified...
Investigative journalist David Cay Johnston joins Alex Witt to discuss his reporting about how Trump’s mounting legal debts leave him susceptible to the interests of foreign governments, why the Constitution fails to protect us from these concerns, and how unprecedented the danger is for our democracy. “People are going to have leverage over him to the tune of well over half a billion dollars in the E. Jean Carroll and New York fraud cases we’ve never had a president subject to leverage by...
Former President Donald Trump said Monday that he still believes TikTok poses a national security risk but is opposed to banning the hugely popular app because doing so would help its rival, Facebook, which he continues to lambast over his 2020 election loss. Trump, in a call-in interview with CNBC's
Former President Donald Trump said Monday that he still believes TikTok poses a national security risk but is opposed to banning the hugely popular app because doing so would help its rival, Facebook, which he continues to lambast over his 2020 election loss. Trump, in a call-in interview with CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” was asked about […]
Black voters are moving to Trump, senior advisor to the former president Lynne Patton said during an interview on Breitbart News Saturday.
Net Zero Is A National Security Threat & Must Be Abandoned, Former Security Minister Warns Authored by Will Jones via DailySceptic.org, Decarbonising the steel and electricity industry in pursuit of Net Zero represents a real and present danger to national security and must be abandoned, a former Security Minister has warned. Writing in a foreword to a new paper from campaign group Net Zero Watch, Sir Gerald Howarth, Minister for International Security Strategy under David...
If TikTok, the popular social media app owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, wanted to demonstrate why it is imperative that the federal government force ByteDance to sell the app to an entity not affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party, it could not have done better than the misbegotten influence campaign it tried on the […]
HOUSTON — It’s official: Donald Trump is in charge of the GOP. Two days after Nikki Haley dropped her presidential bid, the Republican National Committee used its spring meeting here to install a new leadership team hand-picked by the former president, a formal signal of his takeover of the national Republican Party. The RNC’s membership selected North Carolina Republican Party Chairman Michael Whatley to serve as the party’s new chairman, and Trump's daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, to serve as the...
Donald Trump’s hostile takeover of the Republican Party’s apparatus should come with a stark warning: Be careful what you wish for. By remaking the Republican National Committee in his image, Trump is actually making it harder for him to win in November, not to mention the Republicans down ballot. Even if he does eke out a win, he’ll likely have fewer members of Congress to help him out as a result of his meddling. Trump has long had a hold on the GOP, as can be seen from his near-clean sweep of...
Donald Trump stands on the brink of unofficially securing the Republican presidential nomination for a third time as voters finish casting ballots in Georgia, Mississippi, Washington and Hawaii
By ROBERT YOON and MAYA SWEEDLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump stands on the brink of unofficially securing the Republican presidential nomination for a third time as voters on Tuesday finish casting ballots in Georgia, Mississippi, Washington and Hawaii, but he’ll need about eight out of every 10 delegates available in those states
With the general election underway, the campaigns are off to the races and so are the networks’ respective political correspondents. And they seem to be all over the place, as their coverage of reaction to remarks made by former President Donald Trump over the future of Social Security. CBS barely covered the issue, lumping it in as a throwaway item within a broader political roundup by White House correspondent Nancy Cordes: NANCY CORDES: In the same interview, Trump suggested he is open...