Here’s How Trump’s Environmental Legacy Stacks Up With Obama’s Record
September 27, 2019 7:09 PM ET President Donald Trump’s environmental record has benefited from an increase in natural gas production while coal stumbles. Oil production saw some of its biggest gains during the Trump and Obama administrations. Greenhouse gas emissions have fallen to record lows under Trump recently, while emissions slowly creeped up during the…
Flashback: Obama Admin Asked Ukraine to Investigate Trump Campaign Manager Paul Manafort
Former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy noted at National Review on Thursday that then-President Barack Obama’s administration asked Ukraine to investigate Donald Trump’s campaign manager, Paul Manafort, in 2016. McCarthy notes the double standard — that Democrats want to impeach Trump for doing what Obama did — and which they have been telling the world for…
Reporter Asks Trump What He’d Say If Obama Had Asked Foreign Leader For Dirt...
September 25, 2019 6:34 PM ET President Donald Trump fired right back Wednesday when a reporter asked what he would do if former President Barack Obama had asked a foreign leader for dirt on him. The president held a lengthy news conference to address the transcript of his call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky —…
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Questions Critics Who Say She Should Have Retired Under Obama
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg addressed critics who say she should have retired during one of former President Obama’s two terms, asking: “Who do you think the president could nominate that could get through the Republican Senate, who you would prefer on the court than me?” Ginsburg, who has faced a number of medical…
Joe Biden Confuses Guyana with Ghana: ‘I’ve Been All Through Africa’
Former Vice President Joe Biden committed another gaffe on the campaign trail, confusing an immigrant’s country of origin only moments after the man stated where he was from. During a recent televised town hall in New Hampshire, an immigrant from the South American country of Guyana asked Biden, who has stirred doubts even from the…
Romney Remains #NeverTrump, Has No Plans To Endorse POTUS In 2020
September 12, 2019 7:13 PM ET President Donald Trump still has not earned the support of the Republican Party’s 2012 presidential nominee. Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney told CNN Thursday that he has no plans to endorse Trump in the upcoming presidential election. Romney did not endorse Trump in 2016, but still interviewed for a…
Obama Alums Attack Warren Ahead Of Democratic Debate
September 12, 2019 6:03 PM ET Veterans of President Barack Obama’s administration attacked Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren ahead of Thursday night’s Democratic debate. Warren helped found the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), one of the major accomplishments of the Obama administration. However, several Obama alumni don’t think too highly of Warren, according to a…
WaPo Alters Story Angle On Trump Census Data Four Times, Burying The Administration’s Successes
September 10, 2019 7:31 PM ET The Washington Post made significant changes to a story about census data Tuesday. The article first highlighted successes under the Trump administration, and the angle was later changed to focus on the increasing number of uninsured Americans in 2018. WaPo told the Daily Caller News Foundation that “it became…
Trump Takes On Another Reg, This Time He’s Rolling Back Rules On Light Bulbs
September 04, 2019 6:18 PM ET The Trump administration announced new rules Wednesday rolling back requirements for energy-saving light bulbs, The New York Times reported. The Department of Energy (DOE) move will prevent new efficiency standards on light bulbs from taking effect on Jan. 1 under a law passed in 2007 under former President George…
BRICS was Created as a Tool of Attack, Says an Imprisoned Lula
Former Brazilian leader wishes emerging economies were closer; recalls Obama ‘crashing’ Copenhagen climate meeting, writes Pepe Escobar. By Pepe Escobarin Curitiba, BrazilAsia Times In a wide-ranging, two-hour-plus, exclusive interview from a prison room in Curitiba in southern Brazil last week, former Brazilian president Luis Inacio Lula da Silva re-emerged for the first time, after more…
