Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump were having a bad enough week even before the latest bit of bad news broke. After all, Kushner recently lost his top-secret security clearance and both him and Ivanka are reportedly under increasing scrutiny from special counsel Robert Mueller. According to a New York Times report, the couple may have…
The Trump family is focusing their ire on White House Chief of Staff John Kelly over the continued negative media coverage of Jared Kushner, Axios reported Wednesday. Axios quoted a White House official as saying, “Javanka and Kelly are locked in a death match. Two enter. Only one survives.” The source claims that the Trump…
Presidential advisor/son-in-law Jared Kushner’s interim security clearance has been downgraded, preventing him from viewing sensitive documents to which he once had unlimited access. All White House employees with the highest-level interim security clearances, including Kushner, were informed on Friday that their rights were being downgraded from Top Secret to Secret, Politico reported Tuesday. The move…
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump left behind another horrible week at the White House last weekend, trading Washington’s political swamp for the a sunny Caribbean vacation. But as he left, Kushner found that his unfettered access to intelligence material in the White House may soon be limited, with his temporary security clearance rendered invalid. Kushner,…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Nothing should keep Jared Kushner from pressing ahead in trying to achieve Israeli-Palestinian peace, the White House chief of staff, John Kelly, said as reports of a rift between Kelly and President Donald Trump’s key adviser proliferated. “As I told Jared days ago, I have full confidence in his ability to continue…
On Monday on Fox News, President Trump’s chief of staff, John Kelly, discussed the Civil War. He called Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee “an honorable man.” He blamed the conflict on “the lack of an ability to compromise.” And he never mentioned the word “slavery.” Commentators pounced. “Compromise on what?” historian Joshua Zeitz tweeted. “Extending…
CNN’s Jake Tapper offered a “thought experiment” to try and analyze what went wrong in the political storm surrounding President Trump’s phone call to Myeshia Johnson, who had just lost her husband, Sgt. LaDavid T. Johnson, in an ambush in Niger. “Let’s try to assume for the sake of argument that everyone in this story…
The departure of presidential aide Sebastian Gorka from the White House Friday, just one week after that of his mentor, Stephen Bannon, capped a crucial victory for military generals in the Trump administration. As Gorka himself put it in his August 25 letter to President Trump, “[G]iven recent events, it is clear to me that…
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