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Florida AG Who Dropped Case Against Trump Is Expected to Get White House Job Pam Bondi dropped a lawsuit against Trump University after successfully soliciting a campaign donation from the mogul.
By Eric Levitz
the national circus
Jan. 5, 2017
Donald Trump’s Pretend Time Is Almost Over The president-elect has dodged accountability throughout his campaign and transition. But Twitter will only take him so far in the White House.
By Frank Rich
The GOP Just Gave Congress the Power to Cut the Pay of Individual Civil Servants House Republicans revived an obscure rule that will allow them to cut off funds to any individual federal employee or government program.
By Eric Levitz
Mitch McConnell Says Voters Won’t Tolerate the Blocking of Supreme Court Picks The Majority Leader reveals that he has developed a brain injury that has erased all memory of the events between Antonin Scalia’s death and today.
By Eric Levitz
Trump’s Treasury Pick Is Ripe for a Public Shaming From Elizabeth Warren A bank run by Steve Mnuchin broke foreclosure laws, according to a leaked report. Expect hard questions at his confirmation hearing.
By Eric Levitz
Rex Tillerson Will Cut All Ties With Exxon If He Becomes Secretary of State With his confirmation fight looming, the Exxon CEO reveals a plan to sell off his Exxon shares before becoming Trump’s top diplomat.
By Eric Levitz
trump’s america
Jan. 3, 2017
Donald Trump Calls Out GOP for Its Move to Weaken Ethics Watchdog He doesn’t actually seem to disagree with the move. He just thinks the timing was bad.
By Jen Kirby
The GOP Wants to Drain the Swamp of Wall Street’s Enemies by Any Means Necessary Richard Cordray can’t be fired without cause from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau until 2018. But the GOP is determined to find a cause.
By Eric Levitz
Trump Resents Obama for Acting Like He’s Still the President The president-elect sees Obama’s final executive actions as unfair attempts to undermine his agenda.
By Eric Levitz
Trump Picks Former Bush Aide for Homeland Security Adviser Thomas Bossert will serve in the role focusing on homeland security, counterterrorism, and cybersecurity.
By Adam K. Raymond
Donald Trump Shows Off Holiday Letter From Vladimir Putin The president-elect said of Putin’s missive, “his thoughts are so correct.”
By Eric Levitz
Trump’s Pick for Health Secretary Traded Medical Stocks While in Congress Tom Price traded more than $300,000 in shares of health-care companies while sponsoring legislation that would likely affect the value of the shares.
By Eric Levitz
Donald Trump on Nuclear Weapons: ‘Let It Be an Arms Race’ Future White House press secretary Sean Spicer immediately clarified that Trump will not let there be an arms race.
By Eric Levitz
Trump Mulls Imposing Tariffs by Executive Order The president-elect is reportedly considering a 5 percent tariff on all foreign imports, much to the chagrin of GOP-aligned business interests.
By Eric Levitz
Donald Trump Is Expected to Retain a Private Security Force As President The president-elect has been supplementing his Secret Service detail with members of his campaign’s private anti-protester patrol.
By Eric Levitz
trump transition
Dec. 18, 2016
By Chas Danner
trump transition
Dec. 17, 2016
Trump Nominates a Fiscal Megahawk to Direct Federal Budget Mick Mulvaney is a tea-party hard-liner who will undoubtedly work to cut or privatize as much of the government as he possibly can.
By Chas Danner
Trump Picks Lawyer Who Likens Liberal Jews to ‘Kapos’ As Israel Ambassador David Friedman says Jews who oppose the occupation of the West Bank are worse than those who aided the Nazis. He opposes the two-state solution.
By Eric Levitz
Warmer Relations With Russia May Mean a Warmer Planet The U.S. imposed sanctions on Russia to punish its incursions into Ukraine. But those sanctions have also helped keep Arctic oil in the ground.
By Eric Levitz
Trump Wants to Make an Iraq War Architect One of His Top Diplomats But Establishment Republicans think the party needs to move on from the Bush years. (Which makes sense, considering the fact that nothing matters.)
By Eric Levitz
Here’s What the Markets Expect From President Trump Trump’s America will be a great place for banks and for-profit colleges — but not for hospitals — according to the Wall Street hive mind.
By Eric Levitz
5 Fun Facts About How Trump Picked His Secretary of State Highlights include Giuliani’s ego, Romney’s non-apology, and Tillerson’s backers.
By Adam K. Raymond
Dems: GSA Says Trump Will Need to Fully Divest From His D.C. Hotel But the GSA says it has not yet settled on a position in the matter.
By Eric Levitz
EPA Removes Frackers’ Favorite Sentence From Report on Water Contamination The agency is no longer comfortable asserting that “hydraulic fracturing activities have not led to widespread, systemic impacts” on drinking water.
By Eric Levitz
trump transition
Dec. 13, 2016
Trump Picks Freshman Montana Congressman to Run the Interior Department Other prospects were better known and more experienced, but this former Navy SEAL was more to Trump’s liking.
By Ed Kilgore
College Student Arrested for Carrying Knife and Fireworks Into Trump Tower Secret Service found the stash in the backpack of the 19-year-old “survivalist.”
By Jen Kirby
Condoleezza Rice and Robert Gates Cheer Trump’s Pick of Tillerson for State Rice and Gates took consulting fees from Exxon. Now, they’re giving the company’s CEO a badge of Establishment approval.
By Eric Levitz
today in donald trump
Dec. 11, 2016
Trump Says He’ll Skip Most Intelligence Briefings, Still Denies Russian Meddling Kiss another norm good-bye as the U.S. intelligence community braces for impact with the future president.
By Chas Danner
Reports: Trump Will Pick Exxon CEO With Close Russia Ties for Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s close relationship with Putin may make his nomination a target for Russia-wary Republicans.
By Chas Danner
Trump Is the Least Popular President-elect in Modern American History A new Pew poll shows just 41 percent of Americans approve of Trump’s transition efforts. In 2009, 71 percent approved of Obama’s.
By Eric Levitz
trump transition
Dec. 8, 2016
Trump’s Transition Team ‘Is Like Game of Thrones ’ There is a power struggle at the center of it between Steve Bannon and Reince Priebus.
By Gabriel Sherman
bill de blasio’s new york
Dec. 8, 2016
New York City Will Stop Saving Personal Data for Municipal ID Holders The fate of the data for the 900,000 current card holders, many unauthorized immigrants, is not yet clear.
By Jen Kirby
D.C.’s Liberal Civil Servants Are Horrified at the Prospect of Life Under Trump They are wrestling with the question of whether to quit as an act of conscience, or stay and fight for their values.
By Marin Cogan
New York Asks for $35 Million for Trump Security, May Get Just $7 Million A congressional spending bill has allocated $7 million for New York. Mayor de Blasio requested $35 million.
By Jen Kirby
Michael Flynn’s Conspiracy-Loving Son Is Out of Trump Transition Flynn Jr. has tweeted about Pizzagate and is a proud InfoWars supporter.
By Adam K. Raymond
international affairs
Dec. 3, 2016
Intentional or Accidental, Trump’s Taiwan Call Risks a Diplomatic Disaster China has lodged a complaint about the call, while Trump lodges a complaint against foreign-policy experts who are wondering if he’s in over his head.
By Chas Danner
Donald Trump Falsely Blames Popular-Vote Loss on Voter Fraud He is now baselessly claiming that millions of Clinton voters voted illegally.
By Chas Danner
Here’s Some More Trump Transition News Trump picks his deputy national-security adviser and White House counsel.
By Jen Kirby
Donald Trump to Tap Fellow Billionaire for Commerce Secretary Investor Wilbur Ross, also known as the “King of Bankruptcy.”
By Jen Kirby
Remember Jim DeMint? His Fingerprints Are All Over the Trump Transition It’s a sign of the times that the bomb-throwing former senator is playing a big behind-the-scenes role.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump Cabinet Hopeful Forgets Cover Sheet, Exposes DHS Plan for All to See The Kansas secretary of State met with Donald Trump Sunday and inadvertently provided insight into what he was proposing at DHS.
By Adam K. Raymond
trump transition
Nov. 21, 2016
John McCain Warns Trump Not to Bring Back Torture Mike Pence responded, “We’re going to have a president who will never say what we’ll never do.”
By Chas Danner
conflicts of interest
Nov. 20, 2016
Trump Met With His Indian Business Partners Last Week, Raising Pay-to-Play Fears But Trump’s new chief of staff says the American people have nothing to worry about.
By Chas Danner
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