The White House says new restrictions on top security clearances set to go into effect Friday will not affect the work of senior White House adviser Jared Kushner. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law has been operating for more than a year with an interim clearance, and his position has given him access to some of the […]
President Donald Trump on Wednesday again questioned why, if Russia was interfering in the 2016 U.S. election, former President Barack Obama and his administration did little to thwart it and why they are not now being investigated. Trump virtually demanded his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, undertake an investigation of Obama and officials in that administration. […]
President Donald Trump is again blaming former President Barack Obama for mishandling Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. “Obama was President up to, and beyond, the 2016 Election. So why didn’t he do something about Russian meddling?” Trump said on Twitter Monday. The attack on his predecessor was the latest in a series of […]
U.S. President Donald Trump is supporting efforts to tighten federal background checks on gun buyers in the aftermath of last week’s shooting massacre of 17 people at a Florida high school, the White House said Monday. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Trump spoke last week with Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn about […]