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Donald Trump lawyer James Trusty appears to be just as steely in real life as he is on CNN —with an exclusive report from The Guardian revealing how its political investigations reporter, Hugo Lowell, overheard a searing conversation between Trusty and Trump lawyers Evan Corcoran and Lindsey Halligan during a dinner at The Breakers hotel in Palm Beach in September last year. And on Thursday night, Lowell revealed just how he did it. The bitch session came just hours after the Trump team appeared united before federal judge Aileen Cannon, requesting a special master in the Mar-a-Lago documents case, which she eventually granted. Lowell, who managed to snag a seat next to the team while eating out last year, recognized Trusty and overheard him loudly complaining about Trump’s in-house counsel, Boris Epshteyn. Trusty apparently had a number of issues with the firebrand, including having to run all legal decisions by Trump’s former 2020 strategic advisor, who has remained close to … [Read more...] about Reporter Dishes How He Overheard Trump Legal Team Bitching at Dinner

close Video Trump, DeSantis to campaign in Iowa as 2024 race ramps up Republican Iowa voters join 'Fox & Friends' to share their opinions on former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Former President Donald Trump's campaign falsely claimed Tuesday that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a former member of the House, "voted for" Trump-nominated Christopher Wray to become the next FBI director in 2017. "DeSanctimonious is now making a show of promising to fire FBI Director Christopher Wray, but DeSantis voted FOR Wray’s confirmation in 2017, praising him as ‘talented, capable & highly respected,'" the campaign wrote in a tweet, less than a week after DeSantis vowed to replace Wray if he's elected president. The remarks quoted a 2017 tweet from DeSantis that read: "Christopher Wray is talented, capable & highly respected. POTUS has made an inspired choice & I look forward to working with Director Wray." DeSantis' … [Read more...] about Trump campaign attacks DeSantis for supporting Trump nominee, claims he ‘voted’ for Senate-confirmed position

At a stop on his first trip to New Hampshire as a presidential candidate, Gov. Ron DeSantis mentioned his efforts to provide tax relief for Florida families. He mentioned defunding diversity programs at public colleges. He mentioned his fight with Disney. But what he did not mention was the six-week abortion ban he signed in Florida this year. The ban — which Mr. DeSantis chose to highlight in his speeches to audiences in socially conservative Iowa this week — is a potential lightning rod for voters in more moderate New Hampshire. One New Hampshire Republican, Bob Kroepel, approached Mr. DeSantis after his speech in Rochester as the governor signed baseballs and took selfies with the crowd. “Would you support an abortion policy that would allow choice to a certain point?” Mr. Kroepel, who lost Republican primaries for governor in New Hampshire in 1998 and 2002, asked through the din of the crowd and speakers blaring country music. Mr. DeSantis dodged the thrust of the … [Read more...] about In New Hampshire, DeSantis Avoids Talking About Florida’s Abortion Ban

California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara, who authored the state’s version of “Medicare for All,” is under fire after journalists exposed that he has been taking campaign contributions from the insurance industry, breaking a key pledge. Lara, then a State Senator from Bell Gardens, proposed the “Healthy California Act” in 2017. The bill would have created a state-run health insurance system for all Californians, “replacing the state’s private health insurance industry with government-managed insurance,” according to economist Robert Pollin, writing in the Los Angeles Times at the time. The bill passed the State Senate but was blocked by State Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D-Los Angeles), who noted that the bill had no proposal to pay the $400 billion annual price tag of the new policy. Now, Calmatters notes (citing the San Diego Union-Tribune ): [Lara]’s been hammered by a series of journalistic revelations, mostly in the San Diego Union-Tribune , about … [Read more...] about California Official Who Sponsored ‘Medicare for All’ Caught Taking Insurance Company Cash

See the article in its original context from October 11, 1998 Section Page Buy Reprints View on timesmachine TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Clark M. Clifford, the silver-haired Brahmin of the nation's political establishment who advised Presidents across half a century of American history, died yesterday morning at the age of 91 at his home in Bethesda, Md. A Secretary of Defense for one President, friend and confidant of three others, Mr. Clifford frequently played the role of capital Wise Man in inner sanctum crises, helping President Harry S. Truman keep peace with labor and warning President Lyndon B. Johnson about the folly of the Vietnam War. With a gentle drawl and an insider's run of the halls of power, Mr. Clifford was consulted as well by Presidents John F. Kennedy and Jimmy Carter, bridging the nation's postwar political era until he ran afoul of legal troubles in high-finance brokering. For all the … [Read more...] about Clark Clifford, a Major Adviser To Four Presidents, Is Dead at 91

LAST month, as I was driving down a backbreaking road between Goma, a provincial capital in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Kibumba, a little market town about 20 miles away, I came upon the body of a Congolese soldier. He was on his back, half hidden in the bushes, his legs crumpled beneath him, his fly-covered face looking up at the sun. The strangest thing was, four years ago, almost to the day, I saw a corpse of a Congolese soldier in that exact same spot. He had been killed and left to rot just as his comrade would be four years later, in the vain attempt to stop a rebel force from marching down the road from Kibumba to Goma. The circumstances were nearly identical: a group of Tutsi-led rebels, widely believed to be backed by Rwanda, eviscerating a feckless, alcoholic government army that didn’t even bother to scoop up its dead. Sadly, this is what I’ve come to expect from Congo: a doomed sense of déjà vu. I’ve crisscrossed this continent-size country from east to west, … [Read more...] about The World’s Worst War