David Brooks – nytimes.com – JAN. 8, 2018 The quality of the opposition is deteriorating. Let me start with three inconvenient observations, based on dozens of conversations around Washington over the past year: First, people who go into the White House to have a meeting with President Trump usually leave pleasantly surprised. They find that Trump is not the raving...

By: Catherine Lucey - washingtonpost.com – January 10, 2018 President Winfrey? No way, says political prognosticator Donald Trump. “I’ll beat Oprah,” the president declared flatly at a White House meeting Tuesday — though he quickly added, “I don’t think she’s going to run.” Asked about all the presidential speculation suddenly swirling around Winfrey, the typically pugilistic Trump steered clear of nasty...

By: Seung Min Kim, Heather Caygle, Ted Hesson and Rachel Bade – politico.com – January 9, 2018 President Donald Trump’s freewheeling, televised — and, at times, incoherent — immigration meeting with lawmakers Tuesday accomplished one thing at least, according to attendees: They agreed on what they would try to agree on. Yet even that tentative outline is prompting pushback from...

By John Zmirak  – stream.org – January 1, 2018 I dream that in 2018 we’ll see Justice Ginbsurg retire. And Pope Francis. And zero funding for Planned Parenthood, plus a pro-life president of Mexico. Last time I urged the reader to prayer with my list of the “big three” bad events I hope we don’t undergo in 2018. So it...

newsmax.com – January 8, 2019 Connecting with rural Americans, President Donald Trump on Monday hailed his tax overhaul as a victory for family farmers and pitched his vision to expand access to broadband internet, a cornerstone of economic development in the nation’s heartland. “Those towers are going to go up and you’re going to have great, great broadband,” Trump told...

By: Sebastian Gorka – thehill.com – January 8, 2018 Don’t believe Michael Wolff’s book about Trump if you want the truth When I worked in the White House, I was viewed as strange by many of my colleagues on Sean Spicer’s press team. Although, as a deputy assistant to President Trump, I could regularly be seen on the major news...

By Haley Byrd – weeklystandard.com – January 06, 2018 On Wednesday night, before Washington was completely consumed by Michael Wolff’s West Wing tell-all, Politico published a piece feeding into a different frenzy: the notion that Congress was concerned President Trump might be mentally unfit for office. The article, titled “Washington’s growing obsession: The 25th amendment,” claims that more than a...

By: Annie Karni – politico.com – January 3, 2018 Lawmakers invited a Yale psychiatry professor who edited a book about President Donald Trump’s mental state to brief them on Capitol Hill in December. Lawmakers concerned about President Donald Trump’s mental state summoned Yale University psychiatry professor Dr. Bandy X. Lee to Capitol Hill last month for two days of briefings...

David Smith – theguardian.com – January 3, 2018 Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon has described the Trump Tower meeting between the president’s son and a group of Russians during the 2016 election campaign as “treasonous” and “unpatriotic”, according to an explosive new book seen by the Guardian. Bannon, speaking to author Michael Wolff, warned that the investigation into...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – January 3, 2018 Trump’s Decision to Cut Ties with Steve Bannon Is One of the Best Moves of His Presidency If it holds, the end of Bannon’s influence will give better men and women a chance to rise in the White House. Early this morning, the Guardian reported on the contents of a new...