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 U.S. President Donald Trump and Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in a Feb. 7 phone conversation, discussed joint action aimed at liberating the Islamic State (ISIS)-controlled Syrian cities of al-Bab and Raqqa. Turkish presidency sources said that CIA Director Mike Pompeo would visit Turkey on Feb. 9 to discuss […]
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 […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 3, 2017 Israel’s announcements of new settlement construction are hampering U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts at negotiated a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA), a White House official said. The unnamed official told Jerusalem Post on Feb. 2 that Trump has warned Israel to stop its unilateral announcements […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 1, 2017 President Donald Trump took a page out of the George W. Bush administration’s playbook with the reorganization of the National Security Council (NSC) principals committee and the participation of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) chairman. There were no major protests or challenges to Bush’s reorganization in 2001. In […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 1, 2017 Still dazed after failing to derail the Trump election and his inauguration, panicked media elites are publishing reports that do not bear up under scrutiny. Following is a partial list of such reporting, courtesy of The Daily Wire’s John Nolte: Trump’s executive order on immigration being called a “Muslim […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 29, 2017 President Donald Trump has won praise for bringing several Jewish officials into his administration after much media anxiety over his Cabinet choices, including a number of solid conservatives who have been branded extreme by left-leaning critics. Trump won 24 percent of the Jewish vote, with especially strong support in […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 27, 2017 The elite media “should be embarrassed and humiliated” after its behavior during the presidential campaign and now should “keep its mouth shut and just listen for a while,” White House chief strategist Steve Bannon said. “You’re the opposition party,” Bannon said during a Jan. 26 interview with The New […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 27, 2017 The former chief of staff to President Donald Trump’s top rival in the 2016 primaries has been tapped as the White House’s new liaison to House conservatives. Paul Teller, who served as Sen. Ted Cruz’s chief of staff from early 2014 to July 2016, is expected to head congressional conservative […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 27, 2017 The Palestinian Authority (PA) says it has received $221 million in aid from the U.S. authorized by Barack Obama in the last hours of his presidency despite the Trump administration’s claim that it had frozen the transfer of the funds. “We have already received the last sum assigned by […]
