POLITICS 02/05/2019 09:18 am ET "His stamina is simply remarkable," the former governor said about the president. By Lee Moran Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) on Tuesday invoked imagery of an upmarket restaurant as he attempted to brush off reports that President Donald Trump’s White House is engulfed in chaos. “Have you ever been to a restaurant behind the scenes in the kitchen? I mean, I’m talking about a five-star restaurant,” he said on “Fox & Friends.” Huckabee said it may seem “like there is chaos back there” in the kitchen but when the food is brought out, diners say it is “the best I have ever had.” Huckabee continued with the dining analogy: What I think people are missing is that this is not chaos, this is an administration who has a leader who has so many things going on, he’s pushing so many buttons and so many things are on his table, on his plate, that frankly, his … [Read more...] about Mike Huckabee Likens Trump White House To Restaurant Kitchen, Gets Served Online
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Red Sox MVP Mookie Betts Dumps Donald Trump White House Meeting
POLITICS 01/28/2019 03:58 am ET "I won't be going there," the right fielder declares. By Mary Papenfuss Boston Red Sox right fielder and Most Valuable Player Mookie Betts is blowing off an invitation to the White House to meet with President Donald Trump. He’s not giving a reason. Betts, 26, simply said: “I won’t be going there. I decided not to.” He made the announcement Saturday in New York at the awards dinner of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, where he accepted his first MVP honor, The Boston Globe reported. Other team members are considering what to do about the White House meeting scheduled for May, the Globe said. Third baseman Rafael Devers has already said he’s not attending simply because he “wasn’t compelled to go,” and that his decision is not related to politics. Betts’ snub comes just days after after California’s Golden State Warriors basketball team … [Read more...] about Red Sox MVP Mookie Betts Dumps Donald Trump White House Meeting
Chris Christie Tears Into Donald Trump’s White House: ‘Amateurs, Grifters, Weaklings’
POLITICS 01/17/2019 04:36 am ET The former New Jersey governor appears to be settling scores with his upcoming memoir. By Lee Moran Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie reportedly delivers a savage critique of President Donald Trump’s inner circle in his upcoming book, Let Me Finish. In an exclusive excerpt of the tell-all memoir that was obtained by Axios, Christie wrote that Trump has a “revolving door of deeply flawed individuals” working for him in the White House. They are “amateurs, grifters, weaklings, convicted and unconvicted felons” who “were hustled into jobs they were never suited for, sometimes seemingly without so much as a background check via Google or Wikipedia,” he added in the tome, which is due out Jan. 29. Christie, who was axed from the Trump transition team just days after the 2016 election, also said the president “trusts people he shouldn’t, including some … [Read more...] about Chris Christie Tears Into Donald Trump’s White House: ‘Amateurs, Grifters, Weaklings’
Report: Trump White House unable to account for nearly 1,500 immigrant children
A new report from the New York Times claims the Trump White House is unable to account for close to 1,500 immigrant children.The results come after a congressional investigation found that the Health and Human Services Department did not know the location of 1,488 children who were placed with sponsors. According to the Times, HHS has placed 11,254 migrant children with sponsors this year. That number was based on follow-up phone calls to sponsors between April 1st and June 30th.The Times noted that the lack of knowledge of where the kids are located is causing some to fear that they could end up with human traffickers.HHS spokeswoman Caitlin Oakley said in a statement to the newspaper, “As communicated to members of Congress multiple times, these children are not ‘lost.’ Their sponsors - who are usually parents or family members and in all cases have been vetted for criminality and ability to provide for them — simply did not respond or could not be … [Read more...] about Report: Trump White House unable to account for nearly 1,500 immigrant children
Book review: Bob Woodward’s ‘Fear’ is a meticulous, frightening look inside the Trump White House
"Fear: Trump in the White House" by Bob Woodward; Simon & Schuster; 420 pages It's hard to imagine a more disturbing portrait of a president than the one Bob Woodward painted of Richard Nixon in his final days: paranoid, poisoned by power, pounding the carpet and talking to the portraits on the walls. But the early days of Donald Trump's presidency, as recounted by Woodward in his new book, "Fear," are strikingly similar and in some ways even more gut-wrenching. Then, as now, the country faced a crisis of leadership caused by a president's fatal flaws and inability to function in the job. In both "Fear" and "The Final Days," which he co-authored with Carl Bernstein, Woodward shows how a federal criminal investigation clouds and then comes to obsess a president and paralyze the operations of the White House. At a moment when feverish talk of presidential impeachment dominates the political discourse, "Fear" is full of Nixonian echoes, including Trump's childishly short attention … [Read more...] about Book review: Bob Woodward’s ‘Fear’ is a meticulous, frightening look inside the Trump White House