Author: Nancy Benac
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Mueller report: Trump tried to choke Russia probe and oust Mueller, report says
WASHINGTON — Public at last, special counsel Robert Mueller’s report revealed to a waiting nation Thursday that President Donald Trump tried to seize control of the Russia probe and force Mueller’s removal to stop him from investigating potential obstruction of justice by the president. Trump was largely thwarted by those around him. Mueller laid out…
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Echoes of Watergate in Trump tumult
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WASHINGTON • The White House seethes with intrigue and backstabbing as aides hunt for the anonymous Deep (state) Throat among them. A president feels besieged by tormentors — Bob Woodward is driving him crazy — so he tends his version of an enemies list, wondering aloud if he should rid himself of his attorney general…
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War hero and presidential candidate John McCain has died
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Sen. John McCain, who faced down his captors in a Vietnam prisoner of war camp with jut-jawed defiance and later turned his rebellious streak into a 35-year political career that took him to Congress and the Republican presidential nomination, died Saturday after battling brain cancer for more than a year. He was 81. McCain, with…
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Comey’s firing: Trump frustration finally boiled into action
WASHINGTON — For weeks, President Donald Trump had been seething. The swirling questions about possible contacts between his presidential campaign team and Russia just wouldn’t stop, and he felt it was overshadowing his early achievements. Who was to blame? In Trump’s view, FBI Director James Comey. Comey had allowed the bureau’s investigation to play out…
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Trump inaugural attracts record $107 million in donations
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump raised $107 million for his inaugural festivities, nearly double the previous record set by President Barack Obama eight years ago. Trump’s inaugural committee was due to file information about its donors with the Federal Election Commission and said it would do so Tuesday. The committee doesn’t need to publicly disclose…
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Disarmingly warm Gorsuch loves ‘cold neutrality’ of law
WASHINGTON — It’s poker night in a row house on Cranham Street, Oxford, England, and Neil Gorsuch, studying for yet another degree, is feeling down. His housemates decide that what Gorsuch needs is a girlfriend. Accounts differ on whether it was a dare, goading or a gentle prod, but Gorsuch phones a woman he’d clicked…
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In Trump’s first speech to Congress, will decorum hold?
WASHINGTON — A presidential speech to Congress is one of those all-American moments that ooze ritual and decorum. The House sergeant-at-arms will stand at the rear of the House of Representatives on Tuesday night and announce the arrival of Donald Trump before a joint session of Congress by intoning: “Mister Speaker, the President of the…
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Week 1 of Trump: dog years, old fights, new words, weirdness
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save WASHINGTON — It’s been a getting-to-know-you first week for both President Donald Trump and the nation. Trump’s personal traits on display during the campaign seemed more pronounced in the august setting of the White House.…
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Women descend on DC to push back against new president
WASHINGTON — Wearing pink, pointy-eared “pussyhats” to mock the new president, hundreds of thousands of women massed in the nation’s capital and cities around the globe Saturday to send Donald Trump an emphatic message that they won’t let his agenda go unchallenged over the next four years. “We march today for the moral core of…
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Inaugural cheers, fireworks: Trump sweeps in for his big day
WASHINGTON — With fireworks heralding his big moment, Donald Trump swept into Washington Thursday on the eve of his presidential inauguration and pledged to unify a nation sorely divided and clamoring for change. The capital braced for an onslaught of crowds and demonstrators — with all the attendant hoopla and hand-wringing. “It’s a movement like…