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Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty A top White House aide has been removed from her post after coming into very open conflict with First Lady Melania Trump. Trump publicly called for deputy national security adviser Mira Ricardel to be dismissed earlier this week. Ricardel was ousted on Wednesday night, though she will not be leaving the Trump…
HELSINKI — President Trump cast doubt on the conclusion of U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election, saying after his summit here Monday with Russian President Vladimir Putin that the autocrat gave him an “extremely strong and powerful” denial. After Putin said his government played no role in trying to sabotage…
Photo: Getty Images We’re well into the inelegant shitshow that is the first state visit of Donald Trump’s presidency. And despite the near-death, out-of-body awkwardness of President Trump and his ham-fisted handshakes, once again it is Melania Trump who is really the star of this deranged show that is apparently real life. First, yesterday, Mrs….
President Donald Trump shakes hands with James Comey, then director of the FBI, in the Blue Room of the White House on Jan. 22, 2017, in Washington, D.C. Photo: Andrew Harrer-Pool (Getty Images) Apparently, Michael Cohen isn’t the only person Donald Trump tried to get to act as a fixer for him. In his upcoming…
On Friday, The Wall Street Journal reported that Michael Cohen, the longtime lawyer for President Donald J. Trump, arranged a $130,000 hush payment to porn star Stormy Daniels one month prior to the 2016 presidential election. According to the Journal, the payment was made “as part of an agreement that precluded her from publicly discussing…
Getty Remember when First Lady Melania Trump was going to make her pet cause a campaign against cyberbullying? She doesn’t either. After her husband, President Donald Trump, tweeted Thursday morning to claim “low I.Q. Crazy Mika” Brzezinski, the co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, rolled into his Mar-a-Lago club with her face “bleeding badly from a…