Bolton and Pompeo: The Commander in Chief is locked and loaded

Bolton and Pompeo: The Commander in Chief is locked and loaded

by WorldTribune Staff, March 25, 2018 The Trump administration’s foreign policy successes have been accomplished “because” of President Donald Trump, “not in spite of him,” as many of his mainstream media critics claim, an analyst wrote. And, now, with John Bolton as his new national security adviser, and Mike Pompeo nominated as secretary of state, […]

Not ‘political’? March for Our Lives rally was anti-gun, anti-Trump, anti-GOP

Not ‘political’? March for Our Lives rally was anti-gun, anti-Trump, anti-GOP

by WorldTribune Staff, March 25, 2018 According to the March for Our Lives website “School safety is not a political issue.” But many of the thousands who took part in the march in Washington, D.C., on March 24 “carried signs revealing their anti-gun, anti-Trump, and pro-left wing agenda,” Penny Starr reported for Breitbart News. Signs […]

Bolt out of the blue: Trump’s new national security adviser ruffles dovish feathers in Seoul

Bolt out of the blue: Trump’s new national security adviser ruffles dovish feathers in Seoul

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk The appointment of John Bolton as President Trump’s national security adviser portends a tough U.S. policy toward the North even as South Korea’s President Moon Jae-In is planning to meet North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un in late April and Trump is to see Kim in May. Conservatives in the U.S. […]

House Committee report finds Director of National Intelligence Clapper misled Congress

House Committee report finds Director of National Intelligence Clapper misled Congress

by WorldTribune Staff, March 23, 2018 Former Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper provided misleading testimony to Congress regarding information he allegedly leaked to CNN on Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, the House Intelligence Committee said. The committee’s final report, which it approved on March 22, found no evidence of Russian collusion […]

Build (a small fraction of) the wall: Spending bill funds just 33 miles of U.S. border barrier

Build (a small fraction of) the wall: Spending bill funds just 33 miles of U.S. border barrier

by WorldTribune Staff, March 23, 2018 President Donald Trump first threatened to veto and then signed Congress’s massive spending bill that appropriates funds for only a fraction of the wall at the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump tweeted on March 23: “I am considering a VETO of the Omnibus Spending Bill based on the fact that the […]

Trump names Bolton, a hawk on Iran and North Korea, as National Security Adviser

Trump names Bolton, a hawk on Iran and North Korea, as National Security Adviser

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty U.S. President Donald Trump is replacing National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster with former UN Ambassador John Bolton, an outspoken hawk who has advocated using military force against Iran and North Korea. Trump tweeted late on March 22 that McMaster, 55, had done “an outstanding job and […]

Journalist spotlights checkered past of Mueller and his ‘pit bull’ Weissmann

Journalist spotlights checkered past of Mueller and his ‘pit bull’ Weissmann

by WorldTribune Staff, March 22, 2018 Special counsel Robert Mueller and his team’s top attorney, Andrew Weissmann, are carrying “troubling baggage,” having been prominently involved in two significant scandals in the FBI’s history, a report said. The “integrity” of Mueller’s “investigation and of the investigators must be a paramount priority in our criminal justice system […]

Making America laugh again: President taunts his tormentors

Making America laugh again: President taunts his tormentors

by WorldTribune Staff, March 22, 2018 Joe Biden would “go down fast and hard” in a physical confrontation, President Donald Trump said in response to the former vice president’s insistence that he would have “beat the hell” out of Trump if the two had been schoolmates. “Crazy Joe Biden is trying to act like a […]

Media hatred may derail Trump-Kim summit; And does Kim Jong-Un dare leave home?

Media hatred may derail Trump-Kim summit; And does Kim Jong-Un dare leave home?

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk U.S. President Donald Trump is in such hot water in Washington that his summit with Kim Jong-Un, if it actually happens, will be either a distraction or a welcome relief from the pressure-cooker atmosphere at home. The only problem is, he may be so busy fending off the investigation […]

White House defends Trump’s call to Putin after Russian election

White House defends Trump’s call to Putin after Russian election

by WorldTribune Staff, March 22, 2018 Amid a torrent of mainstream media criticism, the White House on March 21 defended President Donald Trump’s decision to make a congratulatory call to Russian President Vladimir Putin after his recent re-election victory. In a pair of tweets on his call with Putin, Trump said U.S. news organizations “wanted […]