The Associated Press reports, Countering Trump, US officials defend integrity of election: Senior national security officials provided fresh assurances about the integrity of the elections in a video message Tuesday, putting them at odds with President Donald Trump’s efforts to discredit the vote. “I’m here to tell you that my confidence in the security of … Read more
Last Friday, President Trump would not say if he plans to keep or remove FBI Director Christopher Wray, expressing displeasure with his testimony to Congress about foreign election interference and domestic terror threats for a second straight day. Trump doesn’t offer vote of confidence for FBI director: “We’re looking at a lot of different things,” … Read more
Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, told CNN his magazine’s story about Donald Trump disparaging Americans who died in battle as “losers” and “suckers,” was just the tip of the iceberg. “I would fully expect more reporting to come out about this and more confirmation and new pieces of information in the coming days and weeks. … Read more
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” – Maya Angelou In a 1999 interview, Donald J. Trump said of Senator John McCain, “He was captured. Does being captured make you a hero? I don’t know. I’m not sure.” Trump returned to this in 2015 at the Family Leadership Summit while running … Read more
Donald Trump has held a number of private telephone conservations with his Russian handler Vladimir Putin for which national security experts have raised concerns that the normal national security personnel assigned to listen into such calls have been cut out and there is no “read out” of the call prepared by national security analysts. All … Read more