Dave Boyer

Donald Trump promises to stop deportation of Chaldeans, Iraqi Christians, in Michigan

President Trump heard on a flight to Michigan for a speech Thursday about the resurgent auto industry that his administration is deporting hundreds of the state's Iraqi Christians who face persecution abroad -- many of whom voted for him in his narrow victory there in 2016.

January 30, 2020

E. Jean Carroll seeks Trump’s DNA sample over allegation of sexual assault in 1990s

Lawyers for a woman who claims President Trump raped her in the 1990s served a legal notice on the president's lawyers Thursday seeking a DNA sample.

January 30, 2020

Trump campaign airs new Super Bowl ad highlighting ‘stronger, safer’ nation

President Trump's reelection campaign on Thursday released one of its two ads that will air during Super Bowl LIV, a 30-second spot titled "Stronger, Safer, More Prosperous."

January 30, 2020

Trump offers Medicaid block grants for state flexibility, Democrats opposed

The Trump administration announced new Medicaid guidelines Thursday that will allow states to receive block grants to cover health care services for low-income people, limiting the amount of money in return for more state flexibility.

January 30, 2020

Donald Trump visiting Michigan to highlight trade deal as big win for U.S. auto manufacturers

President Trump is heading to the battleground state of Michigan on Thursday to promote the benefits for the U.S. auto industry of his new trade deal with Canada and Mexico.

January 30, 2020

Chuck Schumer, Senate Democrats blasted John Bolton as untruthful in 2005

Democrats want to make former National Security Adviser John R. Bolton their star impeachment witness against President Trump, but years ago senators named Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer and Richard Durbin characterized Mr. Bolton as a liar.

January 29, 2020

White House told Bolton to scrub classified info from book before publishing

The White House National Security Council told former National Security Adviser John R. Bolton that he couldn't publish his book manuscript, now sought by Democrats to bolster their case in President Trump's impeachment trial, unless he deleted top-secret material.

January 29, 2020

Eliot Engel says John Bolton urged him in September to probe ouster of Ukraine ambassador

Former National Security Adviser John R. Bolton urged a top House Democrat to investigate the administration's recalling of U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch after he left his White House job last September.

January 29, 2020

Trump says Bolton would have embroiled U.S. in ‘World War Six’ if he hadn’t been fired

President Trump said Wednesday that former National Security Adviser John R. Bolton had poor judgment and would have pushed the U.S. into "World War Six" if he hadn't been fired.

January 29, 2020

Trump lawyers wrap up impeachment defense with plea to trust voters

President Trump's lawyers wrapped up their impeachment defense on Tuesday by urging senators to "trust the American people" with elections and to acquit the president, but the trial's end was still in doubt, with Republicans lacking the votes to stop Democrats from calling witnesses.

January 28, 2020

John Bolton’s manuscript ‘inadmissible’ in impeachment trial, Trump lawyer says

One of President Trump's defense lawyers said Tuesday that John Bolton's book manuscript that allegedly supports Democrats' impeachment case is "inadmissible" in the president's Senate trial.

January 28, 2020

Trump lawyers begin final day of arguments, slam accusations of Ukraine ‘cover-up’

President Trump's defense lawyers began their final day of arguments in his impeachment trial Tuesday by rejecting House Democrats' accusation of a White House cover-up of the president's phone conversation with the president of Ukraine last summer.

January 28, 2020

Former White House chief of staff Kelly sides with John Bolton, favors witnesses

Former White House chief of Staff John Kelly says the Senate should hear from witnesses at President Trump's impeachment trial, and he believes ex-national security adviser John R. Bolton's reported version of the truth about Ukraine.

January 28, 2020

GOP senators call for Bolton manuscript ahead of witness vote

Some Republican senators are starting to call for the Bolton manuscript ahead of this week's decisive vote on whether or not witnesses should testify in the impeachment trial.

January 28, 2020

Alan Dershowitz defends Donald Trump in Senate impeachment trial

Retired Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz gave his first defense of President Trump in his impeachment trial on Monday night, and said he would have defended President Hillary Clinton under the same circumstances.

January 27, 2020

Hunter Biden put on trial in Senate by Team Trump

President Trump's defense team put Hunter Biden and former President Barack Obama on trial on Monday during the impeachment case in the Senate, questioning why Democrats weren't outraged about Mr. Biden's $3 million sweetheart deal with a Ukrainian gas company or Mr. Obama "caving" to Russia on missile defense.

January 27, 2020

Trump lawyer Jane Raskin says Rudy Giuliani is Democrats’ bogeyman on Ukraine

Jane Raskin, a member of President Trump's legal team, took the Senate impeachment trial on a detour Monday with a particularly fierce defense of the president's personal attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani.

January 27, 2020

Trump lawyers brush past Bolton concerns in trial, Starr makes first argument

Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow opened the second day of President Trump's impeachment defense on Monday by declaring that the president's legal team won't get drawn into "speculation," an apparent reference to the furor surrounding reported Ukraine allegations in a manuscript written by John Bolton.

January 27, 2020

NSC aide handling book approvals is twin brother of Lt. Col. Vindman: Report

The twin brother of a key administration impeachment witness against President Trump is in charge of the National Security Council's process for reviewing publications by current and former NSC officials, according to a new report on Monday.

January 27, 2020

Schumer demands Bolton testify at impeachment trial: ‘Who knows what he’ll say under oath’

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer on Monday said new revelations from former National Security Advisor John R. Bolton had blown apart GOP resistance to calling witnesses at the impeachment trial of President Trump.

January 27, 2020