After a busy campaign for House, Senate and gubernatorial candidates, President Trump’s family is taking a break but already making plans to hit the road next year for the 2020 re-election campaign.
Lara Trump, the president’s daughter-in-law and wife of son Eric, said she is looking forward to some time with her family and off the campaign trail that brought her to dozens of cities. Donald Trump Jr. is taking some hunting and fishing trips.
But, said a family insider, “it won’t be too long before they’re both back barnstorming the country on the trail for 2020.”
During the 2018 campaign, the Trump kin made over 100 stops for Republicans. …
Former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt may be long gone, but the agency is bracing for the new House Democratic majority to open oversight hearings into the personal scandals that drove him from office. Insiders said that Democrats want to revive the controversies over Pruitt’s spending and links to lobbyists as a way to embarrass Trump and brake agency actions. …
Anthony Scaramucci, who served a very troubled 10 days as White House communications director before being dumped, wishes Trump had given him a second chance. “I think I would have learned,” he revealed in his book, Trump, The Blue Collar President. On the day he was fired, Scaramucci said he was ready to launch a plan to end Trump’s war with the press. “I could have helped repair the relationship,” he wrote. …
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has his eyes on reviving the national park system and fixing up the infrastructure problems many face. It will be costly, but he has won support from the Office of Management and Budget and is encouraged by new legislation passed in House and Senate committees on bipartisan votes. …
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