Veteran journalist Bob Woodward has written about every U.S. president since Richard Nixon — nine in total. But in all his years covering politics, he has never encountered a president like President Trump. Woodward’s latest work, Fear: Trump in the White House, paints a portrait of Trump as uninformed and mercurial. The book describes moments, when staff…
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LANNY BLOWS IT! BOTCHES CNN ‘EXCLUSIVE’
Attorney Lanny Davis says he was an anonymous source in a July CNN story that reported his client, Michael Cohen, had privately claimed that President Trump had advance knowledge of the infamous Trump Tower meeting between his son and Russians — contradicting Davis’s own words on CNN’s air last week. In the story, Cohen was reported to…
OMAROSA DROPS BOMBS
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump lashed out at Omarosa Manigault Newman on Monday, saying his former White House adviser — who is promoting a tell-all book and airing secret audio recordings —“got fired for the last time.” On Twitter, Trump labeled Manigault Newman “wacky” and said Chief of Staff John Kelly called her a…
How Elon Musk’s Twitter Blocking Could Land Him In SEC Trouble
Using Twitter to disclose such crucial market-moving information may seem unorthodox. But the platform has been a bonafide channel for investor communication since 2013, when the Securities and Exchange Commission blessed social media as a valid disclosure method—as long as companies gave investors a heads-up they would post it there. Tesla complied with this requirement…
TIME FLIES: U.S. ADULTS NOW SPEND NEARLY HALF A DAY INTERACTING WITH MEDIA
The world has never been more connected, and U.S. audiences have never had as many options to access content as they do these days. In short, consumers in the U.S. seem like they can’t get enough content, and the possibilities for marketers to reach them, while fragmented, is an opportunity that is just too good…
Ronan Farrow Reveals How He Landed the Leslie Moonves Exposé
What made you decide to look into Leslie Moonves? After the publication of the very first of my stories on Harvey Weinstein, one of the accusers in this story reached out to me very trepidatiously and said: “I feel an obligation to do something on this story that I have which is very well documented, and…
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Risky Road Show
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announces her endorsement of Zephyr Teachout (right) for Attorney General of the State of New York at a press conference in lower Manhattan. ABDUL EL-SAYED IS currently running third in Michigan’s Democratic primary for governor. The 33-year-old former Detroit health commissioner is young, progressive, Muslim and an undeniable underdog. But he also happens to…
Why President Trump’s idea for a military parade divides Americans
Feb 7th 2018 by D.S.O.R. | BANGKOK “Studiedly neutral” would be a fair way to describe the reaction of General Joseph Dunford, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, when asked on February 7th about President Donald Trump’s desire to stage a big military parade in Washington, DC, modelled on the annual Bastille Day procession…
How the U.S. Is Making the War in Yemen Worse
Funerals in Yemen are traditionally large affairs. When prominent figures die, hundreds or even thousands of people come to pay their respects and to pray for them. Abdulqader Hilal Al-Dabab, the mayor of Sana’a, Yemen’s capital, could expect such treatment. But Hilal used to ask for a simple burial. “If I get killed when I’m…
California in revolt: how the progressive state plans to foil the Trump agenda
California prides itself on being first with progressive laws on climate change, labor rights and marijuana. In 2018, the Golden State’s “firsts” are defensive – bold proposals and legal maneuvers to protect citizens from Donald Trump. State leaders have pushed legislation and lawsuits to circumvent and undo Trump’s agenda on immigration, the environment, internet freedom and other liberal causes….
