Author: Philip Rucker
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Freed Egyptian American prisoner returns home following Trump intervention
An Egyptian American charity worker who was imprisoned in Cairo for three years and became the global face of Egypt’s brutal crackdown on civil society returned home to the United States late Thursday after the Trump administration quietly negotiated her release. President Trump and his aides worked for several weeks with Egyptian President Abdel Fatah…
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Trump, citing no evidence, accuses Obama of ‘Nixon/Watergate’ plot to wiretap Trump Tower
President Trump on Saturday angrily accused former president Barack Obama of orchestrating a “Nixon/Watergate” plot to tap the phones at his Trump Tower headquarters last fall in the run-up to the election. While citing no evidence to support his explosive allegation, Trump said in a series of four tweets sent Saturday morning that Obama was…
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Trump summons CEOs for advice on taxes, regulations, infrastructure
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump called two dozen prominent corporate executives to the White House on Thursday to advise the administration on taxes, regulation and infrastructure projects, as well as ways to strengthen the U.S. workforce. Trump celebrated the expansion of U.S. manufacturing jobs that some companies have announced in the three months since his…
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Trump: Raids targeting immigrants are ‘the keeping of my campaign promise’
President Trump on Sunday morning defended the large-scale raids of hundreds of undocumented immigrants by federal authorities over the past week as evidence that he is keeping his campaign promise. Since Trump signed an executive order Jan. 25 cracking down on illegal immigrants, federal officials in recent days targeted immigrants — many of them known criminals — in homes…
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Here are the 78 terrorist attacks the White House says were largely under-reported
The White House on Monday night released a list of 78 terrorist attacks in response to an assertion earlier in the day by President Trump that the “very dishonest press” often doesn’t report on them. The list, which includes domestic and overseas incidents, starts in September 2014. It includes some very heavily covered news event,…
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Obama orders review of Russian hacking during presidential campaign
President Obama has ordered a “full review” of Russian hacking during the November election, as pressure from Congress has grown for greater public understanding of exactly what Moscow did to interfere in the electoral process. “We may have crossed into a new threshold, and it is incumbent upon us to take stock of that, to…
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For millennial voters, the Clinton vs. Trump choice ‘feels like a joke’
FORT COLLINS, Colo. — Jo Tongue doesn’t have much time for politics, but the Hillary and Trump show is hard to tune out. And even harder to take. To this 31-year-old mother of two, with a third on the way, the presidency should be an honorable office, but instead she feels “bummed that we’re at…
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Trump refuses to support Paul Ryan, John McCain in upcoming Republican primaries
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is refusing to back House Speaker Paul D. Ryan in his upcoming primary election, saying in an interview Tuesday that he is “not quite there yet” in endorsing his party’s top-ranking elected official. Trump also said he was not supporting Sen. John McCain in his primary in Arizona, and he…
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Wilson apologizes for heckling Obama; fallout continues
Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) said Thursday that his interruption of President Obama’s speech by shouting out, “You lie!” was “spontaneous.” Wilson apologized for his outburst in a statement released shortly after the prime-time speech to Congress concluded Wednesday night, saying that he was overcome with emotion. But reporters eager for a firsthand accounting from the…