Kimberly Guilfoyle Lost Her Mind After Trump Publicly Humilated HerKimberly Guilfoyle is reportedly “spiraling” after her fall from grace , and nearly retracted her resignation. The ex–U.S. ambassador to Greece (and Donald Trump Jr.’s ex-fiancée) was publicly asked to resign during White House press secretary Katie Zacharia’s first-ever media briefing Tuesday, following reports that President Donald Trump was preparing…The New Republic3d agoWhole story →Culture
Trump State Department in Chaos as Advisers Lose It at Each OtherTensions inside the Trump administration are heating up, and the president’s appointees are at each other’s throats. Deputy Secretary of State Chirstopher Landau and State Department special envoy Paolo Zampolli have been trading insults and allegations for nearly a year, according to messages obtained by Politico . Zampolli, a former modeling agent who…The New Republic3d agoWhole story →Security
Trump Calls Off Livestream of Firing Squad Execution After BacklashPresident Trump is backing down from plans to livestream the execution of Fort Hood mass shooter Nidal Malik Hasan. “I think streaming the execution for all to see might have been a strong deterrent for the World to witness how America deals with Terrorists and SCUM like Hasan but, many very good and well meaning people would rather not watch him die,…The New Republic3d agoWhole story →Security
Trump’s New Press Secretary Tries to Backtrack on Her China AnswerKatie Zacharia’s latest approach to handling the scandal around her boosted legal credentials involves pretending the whole thing never happened. The new White House press secretary told The New York Times Wednesday that she had misinterpreted a reporter’s question earlier this week about where she passed the bar exam. At the time, Zacharia answered :…The New Republic3d agoWhole story →EducationSecurity
Trump Uses Nuclear Option to Keep Kennedy Center Documents HiddenPresident Trump is fighting attempts to make him testify and produce documents related to his takeover of the Kennedy Center. In a court filing Wednesday, Trump asserted executive privilege, claiming that in her lawsuit, Kennedy Center board member and Democratic Representative Joyce Beatty initiated “overbroad discovery requests that expressly…The New Republic3d agoWhole story →TechnologyJustice
Trump’s Sick Plan for Ilhan Omar ExposedPresident Donald Trump wants to build a case to strip Representative Ilhan Omar of her citizenship and deport her. The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that the federal government is investigating how Omar got her citizenship after she arrived in the U.S. from Somalia as a child, focusing on how her late father filled out her forms. Her Washington,…The New Republic3d agoWhole story →JusticeSecurity
Transcript: Trump Boast About Rallies Wrecked by Humiliating GOP LeaksThe following is a lightly edited transcript of the October 15 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here . Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic , produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent. Earlier this week, Donald Trump made two very audacious claims. First, he said Republicans will do very…The New Republic3d agoWhole story →Culture