by WorldTribune Staff, February 9, 2017 Still hurting mightily from the 2016 election, Democrats pulled out all the stops to derail the nomination of Besty Devos as secretary of education. “The extraordinary battle over Betsy DeVos’s nomination … is the defining event of the Trump presidency’s early days,” Daniel Henninger wrote for the Wall Street Journal on […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 8, 2017 A federal court hearing on his immigration travel ban, the audio of which was carried live on national television, turned into a “political” and “disgraceful” show that marked a “sad day” for the United States, President Donald Trump said on Feb. 8. The president’s comments came the morning after […]
Special to WorldTribune.com GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs, Roseau. U.S. national security officials were, on the night of Feb. 7, trying to determine whether an opening had arisen because of the sudden eruption of political unrest in Dominica to reverse the major diplomatic and intelligence gains of the past decade by the People’s Republic of China […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 2, 2017 If President Donald Trump is serious about “draining the swam”, he will need to focus on the Justice Department, situated right “in the heart of the swamp,” a Washington insider said. Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions “is going into an agency characterized by people like fired Acting AG Sally […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty The United States should invest more in missile defense given repeated missile testing by Iran and North Korea, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee has said. Representative Mac Thornberry’s comments on Feb. 6 came after the Trump administration last week imposed new sanctions on […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said he is grateful to U.S. President Donald Trump for showing “the real face of America.” Khamenei’s website quoted him as making the comments in a February 7 meeting with military commanders in Tehran. “What we have said for […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 2, 2017 The Open Society Foundations, founded by leftist billionaire George Soros, is bankrolling a number of organizations that have filed legal challenges to President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration from seven Muslim-majority nations. “Leftists have no regard for the security and well-being of the American people. To the contrary, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 2, 2017 Liberal Democrats have been in lock-step opposing President Donald Trump, so Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s statement that the president was “right” to take a hard line on Iran was jarring. In an interview on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace asked the California Democrat if “President Trump is right to say […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 6, 2017 Giving Iran much of what it wanted in the nuclear deal only “emboldened” the Islamic Republic to further “disrespect” the United States, President Donald Trump said in an interview that aired on Feb. 5. “I think it was the worst deal I’ve ever seen negotiated,” Trump told Fox News’s […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 6, 2017 President Donald Trump should delay the appeal of a Seattle judge’s rejection of his travel ban executive order until the vacant seat on the U.S. Supreme Court is filled, a legal expert said. In the meantime, the Trump administration should follow Germany’s lead and use GPS ankle monitors to […]
