Feb 28, 2017 ... Trump's words were roundly criticized by many African-American leaders as  insensitive and an unfair portrayal of their communities. Despite that criticism,  Trump outperformed 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney among black voters. In his  speech to Congress, the president struck a gentler, more conciliatory ...
Emails dispute White House claims that Michael Flynn acted independently in his  discussions with Russia during the presidential transition and then lied to his ....  Trump also approached Senator Roy Blunt, who sits on the committee, and  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell with requests to end the investigations.
Jan 11, 2017 ... For the first time in 167 days, President-elect Donald Trump held a wide-ranging  news conference. NPR's politics team, with help from reporters and editors  across the newsroom, live-annotated the speech. Portions of the transcript with  added analysis are underlined in yellow, followed by context and fact ...
Anna Palmer is a senior Washington correspondent for POLITICO and co-author  of POLITICO's Playbook, the most indispensable morning newsletter for the .... to  Trump by White House counsel Donald McGahn, who had been warned about  Flynn's statement to the vice president by a senior Justice Department official.
Nov 21, 2016 ... Hillary Clinton became the sixth Democratic Presidential candidate in the past  seven elections to win the popular vote; yet during Barack Obama's Presidency  the Party lost both houses of Congress, fourteen governorships, and thirty state  legislatures, comprising more than nine hundred seats. The Party's ...
A request for "an increase in troops sat on desks in this White House (during the presidency of George W. Bush), including the vice president's, for more than eight months, a resource request filled by President Obama in March."