Democracy Dies in Darkness Sections Home Try 1 month for $1 Username Sign In Account Profile Newsletters & Alerts Gift Subscriptions Contact Us Help Desk Subscribe Account Profile Newsletters & Alerts Gift Subscriptions Contact Us Help Desk Accessibility for screenreader Politics by Robert Costa by Robert Costa Email the author May 3 at 3:13 AM Email the author Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York mayor and a recent addition to President Trump’s legal team, said Wednesday night that Trump made a series of payments reimbursing his attorney Michael Cohen for a $130,000 settlement with adult-film actress Stormy Daniels — despite Trump’s assertion last month that he was unaware of the payment. “The president repaid it,’’ Giuliani told Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity. Trump “didn’t know about the specifics of it, as far as I know. But he did know … [Read more...] about Transcript: Giuliani interview with The Washington Post
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Donald Trump: the Washington Post Is ‘Made Up Garbage’
President Donald Trump denounced the Washington Post in a Sunday Twitter post, criticizing a story about his chief of staff, General John Kelly. “The Washington Post is far more fiction than fact. Story after story is made up garbage—more like a poorly written novel than good reporting,” Trump wrote on Twitter.The Washington Post reported that Kelly was experiencing a “downward arc” of influence in the White House while Trump was breaking free of his effort to instill more discipline. The story cited sixteen anonymous sources who were inside the White House, outside advisers, and confidants of the president. “Always quoting sources (not names), many of which don’t exist,” Trump said. “Story on John Kelly isn’t true, just another hit job!”Trump repeatedly feuds with the Washington Post over their coverage of his administration, especially the “palace intrigue” stories from inside the White … [Read more...] about Donald Trump: the Washington Post Is ‘Made Up Garbage’
White House Trade Adviser: The Washington Post Is ‘Fake News Most Of The Time’
POLITICS 04/08/2018 12:27 pm ET Peter Navarro echoed Trump's tweet claiming that the major newspaper is "more fiction than fact." By Laura Bassett White House trade adviser Peter Navarro escalated President Donald Trump’s attacks on the news media Sunday morning, characterizing The Washington Post as “fake news most of the time.” Speaking with host Chuck Todd on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Navarro brushed off a Washington Post post story from Saturday that described turmoil in the White House. He specifically denied the newspaper’s report that White House chief of staff John Kelly is threatening to resign. “Every day of his adult life,” Navarro said, “John Kelly’s gotten up in the morning to serve America. He’s a great man, a courageous man –– he serves the president, he has the president’s ear, he runs the West Wing well. That’s all I know, that’s all I … [Read more...] about White House Trade Adviser: The Washington Post Is ‘Fake News Most Of The Time’
Scott Pruitt is No. 1-seed in Washington Post’s bracketology for worst Trump cabinet members
Daniel W. Drezner, a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, created a bracketology of "the worst member of Trump’s Cabinet."Former Oklahoma attorney general and current EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt was a No. 1 seed."Records show taxpayers had to pay at least $90,000 during a period in June when Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt traveled first class from Washington to New York and to Cincinnati and Rome, with his aides flying coach," Drezner writes. "Pruitt traveled from Cincinnati to New York on a military plane at a cost of $36,068.50 to catch his first-class flight to Rome."And now CNN reports renewed White House frustration with Pruitt over his … um … unique housing arrangements in D.C.: 'the source of the frustration stems from the fact that White House officials began learning about this issue from media reports, not Pruitt himself.'"Pruitt’s twin scandals give him the … [Read more...] about Scott Pruitt is No. 1-seed in Washington Post’s bracketology for worst Trump cabinet members
Trump whacks CNN, ‘Amazon’ Washington Post, but they hit back
close Video Kurtz: Is Trump going overboard against the press? 'MediaBuzz' host Howard Kurtz weighs in on President Trump's increased attacks on the media, including CNN, Jim Acosta and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos. The president is once again on a tear against the press. He's been whacking CNN and the Washington Post, and so-called fake news in general, and getting plenty of pushback in return. While Donald Trump's disdain for the media is nothing new, I'm sensing a definite escalation in his tactics, and a growing willingness by some news organizations to accuse him of false statements. The president has used the press as a foil from the day he got into the race. As I detail in my new book "Media Madness," sometimes he does this as a political strategy; sometimes he's just venting, and at other times he's punching back at what he sees as unfair coverage. And there's no question the coverage has been overwhelmingly negative. But Trump also leaves his detractors an … [Read more...] about Trump whacks CNN, ‘Amazon’ Washington Post, but they hit back