by WorldTribune Staff, February 19, 2017 Those who continue to inhabit “the swamp” are in a death struggle against America’s voters for control of the country, a columnist said. “By any historical and constitutional standard, ‘the people’ elected Donald Trump and endorsed his program of nation-state populist reform,” Matthew Continetti, editor in chief of the Washington […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 16, 2017 The CIA’s apparent ongoing war with the White House is not only stalling security appointments by the new administration but also generating concerns among U.S. allies, according to reports in The Washington Times. The White House is denying security clearances to members of President Donald Trumps’s national security team […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 16, 2017 CIA Director Mike Pompeo met with Palestinian Authority (PA) leader Mahmoud Abbas on Feb. 14 to discuss “political and security issues in addition to the future of the peace process,” a report said. A Palestinian security source told The Jerusalem Post that the two sides met at the Mukata, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 13, 2017 Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah has joined the chorus that includes Iran and U.S. leftists who say an “idiot” is running the White House. Nasrallah, who heads up a terrorist organization that is funded by Iran, said “we are very optimistic that when an idiot settles in the White House […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 12, 2017 “Old soldiers never die, they just fade away,” famously said the late Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Former President Barack Obama is not an old soldier and is back to leading from behind. In an effort to salvage his legacy, Obama, from behind the scenes, is leading a group of leftist […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 9, 2017 Still hurting mightily from the 2016 election, Democrats pulled out all the stops to derail the nomination of Besty Devos as secretary of education. “The extraordinary battle over Betsy DeVos’s nomination … is the defining event of the Trump presidency’s early days,” Daniel Henninger wrote for the Wall Street Journal on […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 8, 2017 U.S. President Donald Trump and Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in a Feb. 7 phone conversation, discussed joint action aimed at liberating the Islamic State (ISIS)-controlled Syrian cities of al-Bab and Raqqa. Turkish presidency sources said that CIA Director Mike Pompeo would visit Turkey on Feb. 9 to discuss […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 2, 2017 If President Donald Trump is serious about “draining the swam”, he will need to focus on the Justice Department, situated right “in the heart of the swamp,” a Washington insider said. Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions “is going into an agency characterized by people like fired Acting AG Sally […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 3, 2017 Israel’s announcements of new settlement construction are hampering U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts at negotiated a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA), a White House official said. The unnamed official told Jerusalem Post on Feb. 2 that Trump has warned Israel to stop its unilateral announcements […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 1, 2017 President Donald Trump took a page out of the George W. Bush administration’s playbook with the reorganization of the National Security Council (NSC) principals committee and the participation of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) chairman. There were no major protests or challenges to Bush’s reorganization in 2001. In […]
