In the heated summer of 2020, thwarted in his desire for a violent crackdown on protesters for racial justice, Donald Trump included his vice-president in a complaint that senior advisers were “losers”. Trump’s second defense secretary, Mark Esper, details the… Read More »Esper book details Trump rage at Pence and proposal to hit Mexico with missiles
Government investigators say the former US interior secretary Ryan Zinke misused his position to advance a development project in his Montana home town and lied to an agency ethics official about his involvement. The interior department’s inspector general said in… Read More »Trump’s interior secretary misused position and lied to ethics official, watchdog says
The House select committee investigating the Capitol attack on Wednesday subpoenaed Donald Trump’s former White House senior adviser Peter Navarro, escalating its inquiry into the former president’s efforts to return himself to office and the January 6 insurrection. The move… Read More »Capitol attack inquiry narrows on Trump as panel subpoenas top aide
Meeting then-Israeli president Reuven Rivlin in Jerusalem in May 2017, Donald Trump stunned advisers by criticising the then-prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, for being unwilling to seek peace while Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian leader, was “desperate” for a deal. The comment… Read More »Trump risked disaster with Abbas praise in key Israel meeting, ambassador says
Some of the White House records turned over to the House committee investigating the January 6 attack were ripped up by Donald Trump. The documents include diaries, schedules, handwritten notes, speeches and remarks. The supreme court rejected Trump’s attempt to… Read More »Trump tore up records turned over to House Capitol attack committee
The University of Rhode Island will revoke honorary degrees given to Rudy Giuliani and Michael Flynn, key allies of Donald Trump in his attempt to overturn the 2020 election. The URI board of trustees on Friday voted unanimously to revoke… Read More »Rudy Giuliani and Michael Flynn to see honorary university degrees revoked
In the aftermath of the deadly attack on the US Capitol last year, the rightwing Fox News host Sean Hannity pleaded with a top aide to Donald Trump that there should be “no more stolen election talk” and “no more… Read More »Texts show Fox News host Hannity’s pleas to Trump aide after Capitol attack
William Barr, Donald Trump’s second attorney general and perceived “hatchet man” until he split from the former president over his lies about election fraud, will publish his memoirs in March. HarperCollins, the publisher of One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs… Read More »Donald Trump’s former attorney general William Barr to publish his memoirs
Donald Trump cannot hide behind immunity from criminal prosecution and faces the possibility of being debarred from running for public office over his role in the Capitol attack, several members of Congress said on Sunday. Days after the anniversary of… Read More »Capitol attack: Trump not immune from criminal referral, lawmakers insist