Posts tagged with "Donald Trump"

Outcry after Trump praises congressman who body slammed reporter Americas

Outcry after Trump praises congressman who body slammed reporter

October 19th, 2018 Donald Trump has been urged to apologise for praising a Republican congressman who body slammed a journalist, with critics claiming it risks encouraging further media attacks. The US president called Greg Gianforte a "tough cookie" and said he thinks the incident helped the party win the election in Montana. The congressman pleaded...
Trump threatens to shut border as migrants head for Mexico Americas

Trump threatens to shut border as migrants head for Mexico

October 19th, 2018 President Donald Trump threatened on Thursday to deploy the military and close the southern US border if Mexico does not halt a caravan of Central America migrants heading north, raising the risk of huge disruptions to trade. Stretching almost 2,000 miles (3,200 km), the US-Mexican border is one of the busiest in the world,...
Kavanaugh to be confirmed by weekend; protesters arrested Americas

Kavanaugh to be confirmed by weekend; protesters arrested

October 5th, 2018 By David Morgan and Amanda Becker President Donald Trump's fellow Republicans gained confidence on Thursday that his U.S. Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, could win Senate confirmation after two wavering lawmakers responded positively to an FBI report on accusations of sexual misconduct against the judge. The report, sent by...
New York Times accuses Trump of tax fraud Americas

New York Times accuses Trump of tax fraud

October 3rd, 2018 U.S. President Donald Trump engaged in tax schemes that included cases of fraud in which he and his siblings helped their parents dodge millions of dollars in taxes, the New York Times reported on Tuesday. The Times investigation, which the White House said was "misleading," showed Trump received the equivalent today of at least $413...
Trump says new trade pact to support 'hundreds of thousands' of U.S. jobs World

Trump says new trade pact to support 'hundreds of thousands' of U.S. jobs

October 1st, 2018 U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday touted the newly reached trade deal with Canada and Mexico that will replace NAFTA as a massive job engine, creating positions across the manufacturing, agriculture, technology and financial services sectors. "These measures will support many - hundreds of thousands - American jobs," he said at a...
Trump, Rouhani exchange threats, insults on U.N.'s world stage (V) World

Trump, Rouhani exchange threats, insults on U.N.'s world stage (V)

September 26th, 2018 U.S. President Donald Trump and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani exchanged taunts at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday with Trump vowing more sanctions against Tehran and Rouhani suggesting his American counterpart suffers from a "weakness of intellect." Trump used his annual address to the United Nations to attack Iran's...
Trump challenges Kavanaugh's accuser Americas

Trump challenges Kavanaugh's accuser

September 21st, 2018 US President Donald Trump on Friday cast doubt on the woman who has accused his Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, saying if the attack was "as bad as she says" it would have been immediately reported to police. After days of restrained comments on the allegations by California professor Christine Blasey...
Insider Trump resisters are not heroes Guest Columnist

Insider Trump resisters are not heroes

September 16th, 2018 By Peter Van Buren   The unnamed insiders who claim to be working clandestinely to resist Donald Trump are not heroes. As a State Department whistleblower who lost his career to tell the truth about the Iraq war, I am burdened by how the interviewees in Bob Woodward’s new book, “Fear,” and the anonymous writer of that...
Palestinians say US attacks international law with UN funding cuts Middle East

Palestinians say US attacks international law with UN funding cuts

September 11th, 2018 Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki described on Tuesday President Donald Trump's decision to halt US funding for the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA as an attack on international law. Trump's decision has left UNRWA trying to cover a $200m shortfall from Gulf and European donors, and has further strained...
Pence, Pompeo say they did not author 'resistance' NY Times Op-Ed Americas

Pence, Pompeo say they did not author 'resistance' NY Times Op-Ed

September 6th, 2018 US President Donald Trump's vice president and secretary of state on Thursday both said they did not write an anonymous column in the New York Times that asserted that many senior officials are part of "a quiet resistance" within the administration. The opinion column, published on Wednesday, prompted the Republican president to blast...
Senior Trump official describes resistance inside administration Americas

Senior Trump official describes resistance inside administration

September 6th, 2018 Many senior officials in President Donald Trump's administration have been working from within to frustrate parts of his agenda to protect the country from his worst impulses, an anonymous Trump official wrote in a column published by the New York Times on Wednesday. In the piece, the official described "early whispers" among members...
Ireland ‘must respect US president's office when Trump visits’ Europe

Ireland ‘must respect US president's office when Trump visits’

September 3rd, 2018 The Irish government must treat the U.S. president's office with the respect it deserves when Donald Trump visits in November despite disagreeing with many of his policies, Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said ahead of planned protests. Trump will travel to Ireland for the first time as president during a trip to Europe to attend a Nov....
Impeaching Donald Trump: the indictment Opinion

Impeaching Donald Trump: the indictment

September 2nd, 2018 The constitution of the Republic of Cyprus is modelled on that of the US except that instead of having a number of states in a federation, Cyprus had two communities in a quasi unitary state. There are many similarities and differences but the impeachment of the president under the two constitutions is as topical as it is...
US man charged in 'enemy of the people' threats to Boston Globe Americas

US man charged in 'enemy of the people' threats to Boston Globe

August 31st, 2018 A California man has been charged with threatening to kill Boston Globe employees in retaliation for the newspaper's role in leading an editorial defense of press freedoms by hundreds of US news organisations against attacks by President Donald Trump. In a case unsealed on Thursday, federal prosecutors said Robert Chain, 68, called...
Trump hails Kim, sees no need to resume US-South Korea war games Asia

Trump hails Kim, sees no need to resume US-South Korea war games

August 30th, 2018 Days after canceling a planned visit to North Korea by his top diplomat citing insufficient progress in denuclearisation talks, US President Donald Trump hailed his personal relationship North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Wednesday and said there was no reason to resume war games with South Korea. Trump's statement came a day after...
White House probes Google after Trump accuses it of bias World

White House probes Google after Trump accuses it of bias

August 29th, 2018 U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday accused Google's search engine of promoting negative news articles and hiding "fair media" coverage of him, vowing to address the situation without providing evidence or giving details of action he might take. Trump's attack against the Alphabet Inc unit follows a string of grievances against...
Tweet, tweet… the real Donald Trump Guest Columnist

Tweet, tweet… the real Donald Trump

August 26th, 2018 By Andonis Vassiliades IN SOCIAL encounters, what we say and do provides components and indicators of who we are and how others perceive us to be. Since his inauguration on 20 January 2017 to the 21 August 2018, US President Donald Trump has transmitted, via Twitter, an incredible 4,440 messages to the world and claims 54 million...
Sessions hits back at Trump over criticism Americas

Sessions hits back at Trump over criticism

August 24th, 2018 US Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired back at President Donald Trump on Thursday after Trump gave a scathing assessment of his leadership at the Justice Department. Sessions, a former US senator from Alabama, was one of the first Republican lawmakers to back Trump's presidential election bid and has implemented his hardline...
Trump slams US Justice Dept, says will stay 'uninvolved' Americas

Trump slams US Justice Dept, says will stay 'uninvolved'

August 23rd, 2018 President Donald Trump expressed sympathy for his former campaign manager Paul Manafort and said he would remain "uninvolved" after he attacked Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the US Justice Department in an interview broadcast on Thursday. Trump intensified his criticism of the Justice Department in a Fox News interview taped...
Trump wants Pompeo to study ‘killing of farmers’ in South Africa Americas

Trump wants Pompeo to study ‘killing of farmers’ in South Africa

August 23rd, 2018 US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he had asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to study South African "land and farm seizures" and "killing of farmers", prompting Pretoria to accuse Trump of stoking racial divisions. Trump's comments have inflamed an already high-octane debate over land in South Africa, a country that...
New York subpoenas ex-Trump attorney Cohen in Trump Foundation probe Americas

New York subpoenas ex-Trump attorney Cohen in Trump Foundation probe

August 23rd, 2018 New York state sent a subpoena on Wednesday to U.S. President Donald Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen in connection with a probe of the Trump Foundation charity, a New York state official said. The subpoena was issued by the New York state tax department after Cohen's lawyer, Lanny Davis, made comments about Cohen having...
Cohen testifies Trump told him to commit crime by paying off women World

Cohen testifies Trump told him to commit crime by paying off women

August 22nd, 2018 U.S. President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen testified on Tuesday that Trump had directed him to commit a crime by arranging payments ahead of the 2016 presidential election to silence two women who said they had affairs with Trump. Cohen's voice cracked several times as he pleaded guilty to eight criminal...
Trump worries that Mueller interview could be a 'perjury trap' [V] Americas

Trump worries that Mueller interview could be a 'perjury trap' [V]

August 21st, 2018 U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he was worried that any statements under oath he provides to Special Counsel Robert Mueller could be used to bring perjury charges against him as part of the probe into Russia's electoral interference. In an interview with Reuters, Trump echoed the concerns of his top lawyer in the probe,...
Donald Trump, Turkey and the Don Pacifico Incident Opinion

Donald Trump, Turkey and the Don Pacifico Incident

August 19th, 2018 By Desmond Smith What do Donald Trump and Lord Palmerston have in common? They both believe in gun boat diplomacy and wielding the Big Stick in the interests of their respective countries. Due to the cyclical nature of history, we can place the current dispute between Turkey and the US in a context we’ve seen before, which links St...
Trump defends ex-aide Manafort as jury weighs verdict World

Trump defends ex-aide Manafort as jury weighs verdict

August 17th, 2018 By Nathan Layne and Karen Freifeld   Weighing in even as a Virginia jury deliberates for a second day, U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday called the bank and tax fraud trial of his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort "very sad" and described the defendant as a "very good person." Manafort's trial in federal court in...
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