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Chances of Trump Staying in Iran Deal 'Very Small'

President says he'll announce his decision Tuesday

(Newser) - President Trump says he will announce his decision on the Iran nuclear deal at 2pm Tuesday—and he's widely expected to declare that the US is pulling out. European diplomats who've been trying to change the president's mind now say the chances of him staying in the...

Trump Gives Blankenship a Thumbs-Down, He Pushes Back

'I am Trumpier than Trump and this morning proves it,' says WV Senate candidate

(Newser) - President Trump is urging West Virginia voters to reject a former federal convict and coal baron running in the Republican Senate primary, arguing that Don Blankenship would lose the general election. Trump tweeted on Monday: "To the great people of West Virginia we have, together, a really great chance...

Trump's Real Estate Empire Is Doing Something Unusual

It's buying properties with cash, and lots of it, instead of through loans

(Newser) - The Trump Organization keeps the details of its financial operations close to the vest, but the Washington Post uncovered something unusual about its real estate strategy: It's been paying cash for properties and forgoing the usual practice of securing loans. Specifically, the Post found that the president's company...

France Outraged by Trump's NRA Remarks

Hollande calls comment on terror attack 'despicable'

(Newser) - Former French President Francois Hollande has two words for President Trump's claim that gun-toting Parisians could have thwarted ISIS attackers at Paris' Bataclan concert hall: "indecent and despicable." French anger erupted over the weekend at Trump's comments to the National Rifle Association —and especially at...

Rudy Giuliani Has News on Possible Trump Plea

Trump's top attorney talks up a storm on 'This Week'

(Newser) - Rudy Giuliani got America's attention Sunday by saying he couldn't deny that President Trump may plead the Fifth Amendment if he testifies in the Russia probe, ABC News reports. "Are you confident the president will not take the Fifth in this case?" asked George Stephanopoulos on This ...

Live From New York, It's Stormy Daniels

'SNL' trots out a star-studded Cold Open

(Newser) - The most famously hushed woman currently in America opened her mouth and yelled, "Live from New York, it's Saturday night!" Saturday Night Live trotted out Stormy Daniels as part of a star-studded Cold Open poking fun at President Trump's current woes, reports Rolling Stone , with Ben...

White House to China: Cut the 'Orwellian Nonsense'

Squabble brewing over Beijing's demand that airlines zap Taiwan references on websites

(Newser) - The Trump administration is again throwing down with Beijing, this time after China's aviation bureau sent letters to 36 foreign airlines demanding that references to the sovereignty of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau be zapped from their websites. Those airlines included American carriers, and the White House response on...

Trump to NRA: We Must Arm Teachers

Trump to NRA:
We Must Arm Teachers
the rundown
May 4, 2018 3:43 PM CDT

Trump to NRA: We Must Arm Teachers

'You have to give them a chance,' president tells convention

(Newser) - President Trump addressed the annual NRA convention in Dallas on Friday and promised the group's members that their gun rights were safe with his White House. "Your Second Amendment rights are under siege, but they will never, ever be under siege as long as I’m your president,...

Trump Says Giuliani Spoke 'Incorrectly' on Daniels Payment

But president is confident his new lawyer will soon 'get his facts straight'

(Newser) - Some "stunning" revelations from new Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani this week have caused a stir in the legal community and made the former NYC mayor the butt of late-night jokes. Adding to the commotion: the president himself, who the New York Times says "undercut" Giuliani Friday on claims...

Giuliani&#39;s &#39;Damage Control&#39; May Have Backfired
Giuliani's 'Damage Control'
May Have Backfired
THE RUNDOWN
May 4, 2018 6:35 AM CDT

Giuliani's 'Damage Control' May Have Backfired

He may have caused new headaches for Trump

(Newser) - Rudy Giuliani appears to have been making an effort at damage control with his bombshell media appearances this week, analysts say—but it may have backfired, big time. Legal experts tell the Washington Post that the remarks from Giuliani, who recently joined President Trump's legal team, could provide investigators...

Trump: We Paid Stormy to Stop Her Lies

President says no campaign funds used in 'private matter'

(Newser) - President Trump agrees with Rudy Giuliani on one key point: Trump says the payment to Stormy Daniels did not come from his political coffers and thus did not run afoul of campaign finance laws. "This was a private agreement," Trump tweeted Thursday morning. "Money from the campaign,...

Giuliani: Trump Knew I Would Talk About Stormy Payment

Analysts say Giuliani might be wrong about Trump not being in campaign finance trouble

(Newser) - President Trump might have reimbursed his lawyer for a hush-money payment to a porn star and then possibly lied about it, but at least he's off the hook for campaign finance violations, according to Rudy Giuliani's startling admission on Sean Hannity's show Wednesday night. Analysts say he...

Giuliani: Trump Repaid Lawyer for Daniels Hush Money

Her lawyer calls it a 'stunning revelation'

(Newser) - President Trump's new lawyer directly contradicted Michael Cohen and the president himself in bombshell remarks on Fox Wednesday night. Rudy Giuliani told Sean Hannity that Trump reimbursed longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen for a $130,000 "hush money" payment to Stormy Daniels, and the arrangement was "perfectly...

Trump Formally Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

18 House Republicans send letter to prize committee

(Newser) - Republican lawmakers have nominated President Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. Eighteen House members penned a letter Wednesday to the Nobel Prize Committee praising the president’s efforts to broker peace in the Korean Peninsula, reports the Hill . "President Trump has worked tirelessly to apply maximum pressure on North...

Trump Losing Ty Cobb. Here's the Rumored Replacement

'NYT' reports Emmet Flood will replace a retiring Ty Cobb

(Newser) - President Trump's legal team is getting another makeover. The White House on Wednesday confirmed White House lawyer Ty Cobb would retire at the end of this month, a prospect he has apparently been discussing for weeks. He's been Trump's point person in Robert Mueller's ongoing Russia...

Doctor Says Trump Dictated His Own Medical Report

Bornstein says Trump bodyguard raided his office

(Newser) - If a medical report praising President Trump's "astonishingly excellent" lab results and claiming he would be the healthiest person ever elected president sounded suspiciously Trumpian, that's because Trump dictated it himself, according to Harold Bornstein, the president's former doctor. Bornstein says Trump told him what he...

Lawyer: Mueller Warned of Presidential Subpoena

Dowd says he responded: 'This isn't some game'

(Newser) - A former member of President Trump's legal team has confirmed that Robert Mueller raised a possibility last month that could lead to a long legal battle: a presidential subpoena. John Dowd, who led the Trump team's response to the Mueller investigation until his resignation in March , tells Reuters...

Mueller&#39;s Question About Manafort Is &#39;Intriguing&#39;
Mueller's Question About
Manafort Is 'Intriguing'
the rundown
May 1, 2018 11:37 AM CDT

Mueller's Question About Manafort Is 'Intriguing'

It suggests special counsel has yet-to-be-revealed evidence related to collusion

(Newser) - The New York Times delivered a big scoop in regard to the Robert Mueller investigation Tuesday when it revealed nearly 50 questions the special counsel has submitted to President Trump's lawyers that he wants the president to answer. "The open-ended queries appear to be an attempt to penetrate...

John McCain: &#39;This Is My Last Term&#39;
John McCain:
'This Is My
Last Term'
May 1, 2018 10:17 AM CDT

John McCain: 'This Is My Last Term'

Senator faces down own mortality, state of politics in forthcoming book

(Newser) - Facing down an aggressive brain tumor that's kept him out of Washington for months, John McCain appears to be taking a hard look at his own mortality vis-a-vis his forthcoming book, The Restless Wave . "This is my last term," he writes in excerpts out now , via NPR...

Mueller's Questions for Trump Leaked

Special counsel has dozens of things to ask president

(Newser) - President Trump is not happy about a story involving three of his least favorite things: the Robert Mueller investigation, leakers, and the New York Times . Trump denounced the "Russian Witch Hunt" early Tuesday after the Times reported on a leaked list of around four dozen questions that Mueller wants...

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