POLITICS 12/12/2018 06:32 am ET CEO Sundar Pichai denied the company has "a little man sitting behind the curtain." By Lee Moran Search for the term “idiot” on Google and several photographs of President Donald Trump will appear high in the image results. On Tuesday, the search engine giant’s CEO Sundar Pichai had the task of explaining to members of Congress why that happens during a hearing in front of the House Judiciary Committee. Pichai refuted Rep. Zoe Lofgren’s (D-Calif.) tongue-in-cheek suggestion that it was down to “a little man sitting behind the curtain” who was skewing the results against conservatives — saying the company doesn’t “manually intervene” in searches. “We provide search today for any time you type in a keyword. We, as Google, have gone out and crawled and stored copies of billions of their pages in our index, and we take the keyword and match it against the pages and rank … [Read more...] about Google CEO Had To Explain To Congress Why Googling ‘Idiot’ Shows Donald Trump
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Stephen King taunts Donald Trump with the 1 simple question he won’t answer
Stephen King has a question for President Donald Trump.Throughout the 2016 campaign, Trump insisted that Mexico would pay for his proposed border wall. Then on Tuesday, he threatened to shut down the government unless taxpayers picked up the tab. That prompted the bestselling horror author to ask: Wait a minute, wait! Wasn't...um, Mexico going to pay for Trump's useless, just-tunnel-under-it wall?— Stephen King (@StephenKing) December 12, 2018 29 PHOTOS Where the wall already exists along the US-Mexico border See Gallery Where the wall already exists along the US-Mexico border A gap in the U.S.-Mexico border fence is seen outside Jacumba, California, United States, October 7, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Blake U.S. customs and border patrol officers inspect a vehicle entering the U.S. from Mexico at the border crossing in San Ysidro, California, United States, October 14, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Blake U.S. customs and border patrol … [Read more...] about Stephen King taunts Donald Trump with the 1 simple question he won’t answer
Twitter Users Tauntingly Tweak Donald Trump’s ‘People Would Revolt’ Impeachment Claim
POLITICS 12/12/2018 03:29 am ET "Rejoice... the word is rejoice." By Lee Moran President Donald Trump predicted Tuesday that “people would revolt” if he was impeached by Democrats in 2019. Trump’s claim came in a Reuters interview on recent developments in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible Trump campaign collusion. Dozens of Twitter users responded with a tweaked version of Trump’s quote: I think he has confused the word “revolt” with “rejoice.”— Forrest Brakeman (@forrestbrakeman) December 12, 2018 You mean rejoice— ❤️bunnymother❤️ (@bunnymother) December 12, 2018 Ummmmm, no they won’t.— David Alan Grier (@davidalangrier) December 12, 2018 Rejoice— Dave Matt (@davematt88) December 12, 2018 We’d be dancing in the street pic.twitter.com/F080gNgktS— sherrysager … [Read more...] about Twitter Users Tauntingly Tweak Donald Trump’s ‘People Would Revolt’ Impeachment Claim
Donald Trump says he could intervene in Huawei case
News / World by Press Association 12/12/2018, 5:29 am FacebookTwitterWhatsAppEmail Send us a story Sign up to our Daily newsletter President Donald Trump has said he would consider intervening in the case against Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou if it would be in the interest of US national security and help forge a trade deal with China. Mr Trump told Reuters in an interview at the White House that if he thinks it would be good for what will “certainly be the largest trade deal ever made” he would intervene if necessary. A Canadian court granted bail on Tuesday to Ms Meng, who was arrested at the United States’ request in a case that has set off a diplomatic furore among the three countries and complicated high-stakes US-China trade talks. Hours before the bail hearing in Vancouver, China detained a former Canadian diplomat in Beijing in apparent retaliation for the December 1 arrest of Ms Meng, chief financial officer of Chinese … [Read more...] about Donald Trump says he could intervene in Huawei case
President Donald Trump Says He’s Not Worried About Getting Impeached
POLITICS 12/11/2018 08:59 pm ET “It’s hard to impeach somebody who hasn’t done anything wrong," he told Reuters. By Lydia O'Connor President Donald Trump shot down reports Tuesday that he was worried about being impeached, telling Reuters that he had engaged in no wrongdoing. “It’s hard to impeach somebody who hasn’t done anything wrong and who’s created the greatest economy in the history of our country,” he said. “I’m not concerned, no,” he continued. “I think that the people would revolt if that happened.” The remarks come the same day CNN reported that Trump was feeling quite the opposite. According to an unidentified source who spoke with the cable news outlet, the president sees impeachment as a “real possibility” now that Democrats have regained control of the House. Impeachment talk has bubbled up since Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen pleaded … [Read more...] about President Donald Trump Says He’s Not Worried About Getting Impeached