Tag: Barack Obama

President Trump takes the oath of office as first lady Melania Trump stands during the 58th presidential inauguration. Trump's inaugural planning committee paid more than $25 million to a company owned by the first lady's personal friend and current adviser. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

Mother reveals she hid Trump presidency from young son for four years in viral social media post

Emma Colton · December 22, 2020 4:45 pm

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, turns to answer a reporter's question as he departs after a closed-door briefing for the members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Tuesday, March 5, 2019, in Washington.

Ted Cruz urges Trump to submit Iran nuclear and Paris climate deals to Senate in bid to kill both before leaving office

Michael Lee · December 22, 2020 4:30 pm

Beltway Confidential

FOIA lawsuit seeks to highlight just how little ‘advice and consent’ went into the Paris Agreement

Kevin Mooney · December 22, 2020 3:24 pm

President Donald Trump speaks during a ceremony to pardon the National Thanksgiving Turkey in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2018.

Trump likely to be president with fewest pardons in a century

Mica Soellner · December 18, 2020 7:56 pm

Democrats ditch ‘defund the police’ slogan, but not necessarily policy principles

Emily Brooks · December 18, 2020 2:41 pm

Beltway Confidential

Police budget ‘reallocators’ were no less pernicious than full-on defunders

Jeremy Beaman · December 17, 2020 11:38 pm

United States U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power speaks during her final press conference, Friday, Jan. 13, 2017 at U.N. headquarters.

Biden taps Samantha Power for head of USAID

Haley Victory Smith, Mike Brest · December 15, 2020 9:34 pm

Vice President Joe Biden addresses the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Centennial Celebration luncheon in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Georgia sheriffs slam Democrats for supporting ‘defund the police’ ahead of Biden’s arrival

Barnini Chakraborty · December 15, 2020 8:32 pm

Washington Secrets

Biden more popular than Obama and Trump and entering ‘honeymoon phase’

Paul Bedard · December 15, 2020 4:08 pm

Former President Barack Obama, and former first lady Michelle Obama, shown at a community concert at the Obama Foundation Summit on Nov. 1, 2017, in Chicago, top the book charts.

Washington Secrets

Buzz: Obamas tops in book sales, cool the Fox-Newsmax rivalry, and egos plague White House

Paul Bedard · December 14, 2020 3:18 pm

Vice President Joe Biden, left, listens as President Barack Obama announces that Biden will lead an administration-wide effort to curb gun violence in response to the Connecticut school shooting, during a news conference in the briefing room of the White House on Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012 in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Beltway Confidential

Supreme Court decision highlights absurdity of ‘no fly, no buy’ gun control proposals

Zachary Faria · December 11, 2020 10:16 pm

Obama blames Fox News and Rush Limbaugh for severing his ‘connection’ with conservatives by abandoning ‘journalistic norms’

Andrew Mark Miller · December 10, 2020 3:06 pm