And that's a big reason Bubba Watson is now the proud owner of two green jackets. His back nine was not nearly as spectacular as when he won two years ago. There was no playoff shot that will live in Masters lore, like the one he carved around the trees to beat a stunned Louis Oosthuizen. Just a methodical march to the Butler Cabin, as Jordan Spieth made some rookie mistakes that Watson pounced on like someone who had done this before....
The president and first lady walked onto the field alongside the ROTC members from LSU and Clemson, the teams competing for college football’s top prize at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome on Monday. While walking with the ROTC, the Trumps stopped to wave at the USA-chanting crowd while ROTC members continued marching to designated spots. The president and Melania found their designated spots next to the ROTC members and held their right hands over their hearts for the national anthem in what’s considered to be friendly territory for them....
In Saturday’s GOP debate, Bush threw the first high hard one at Trump for his use of eminent domain to acquire the land on which to build an Atlantic City, N.J., casino’s limousine parking lot, triggering a back-and-forth between the two. MORE: Donald Trump hates A-Rod, loves Pete Rose Trump, ahead of Tuesday’s voting in New Hampshire, has offered his own brushback, pointing out how the Bush family history with eminent domain — in the case of the construction of the Rangers’ stadium in the early 1990s....
The president also criticized Raffensperger’s brother, saying he works for China. That is inaccurate. “I love the Great State of Georgia, but the people who run it, from the Governor, @BrianKempGA, to the Secretary of State, are a complete disaster and don’t have a clue, or worse. Nobody can be this stupid. Just allow us to find the crime, and turn the state Republican,” Trump wrote. “Now it turns out that Brad R’s brother works for China, and they definitely don’t want ‘Trump’....
Speaking to local TV station KY3, Sen. Hawley (R-MO) said Trump talked to him about the importance of keeping Sen. Blunt’s Missouri seat in the “Republican column” as the GOP seeks to overturn the Democratic Senate majority. He also said that he “absolutely” believed that Republicans would be able to hold on to the seat next year. “I have talked to the former president about this, he called me about it in fact,” Hawley told KY3....
But John Roberts, the chief White House correspondent at Fox News and the target of Trump’s criticism, pointed out that the network had, in fact, carried the speech in full on Tuesday morning. During Trump’s speech, Ibraheem Samirah, a Democratic member of the Virginia House of Delegates, stood up and chanted “Mr. President, you can’t send us back, Virginia is our home,” as he held a sign that read “Go back to your corrupted home....
Side by side with personal insults directed at Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Trump said he nonetheless gleaned an idea from the California Democrat in the Monday thread. Pelosi “suggested on Sunday’s DEFACE THE NATION that I testify about the phony Impeachment Witch Hunt. She also said I could do it in writing. Even though I did nothing wrong, and don’t like giving credibility to this No Due Process Hoax, I like the idea & will, in order to get Congress focused again, strongly consider it!...
The RNC voted to censure Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois at a meeting in Salt Lake City on Friday and accused the lawmakers of taking part in a “Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate public discourse” in the censure resolution. In a statement on Saturday, Trump congratulated the RNC for the ruling and described Cheney and Kinzinger as “two horrible RINOs [Republicans In Name Only]....
“It has been suggested that we should rename as many as 10 of our legendary military bases, such as Fort Bragg in North Carolina, Fort Hood in Texas, Fort Benning in Georgia, etc. These monumental and very powerful bases have become part of a great American heritage and a history of winning, victory, and freedom,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “The United States of America trained and deployed our heroes on these hallowed grounds, and won two world wars....
Trump made the comment during an interview published Monday by The Atlantic with a group of historians working on a book about his presidency. During the interview, Trump defended the legacy of his sole term in office. His claims that the 2020 election was stolen continue to shape U.S. politics. The 45th president gave an interview to a panel of historians convened by Julian Zelizer, a Princeton professor and editor of the forthcoming The Presidency of Donald J....
Former Good Morning Britain host (GMB) Piers Morgan released a promotional trailer for his interview with the former president on Wednesday. The video has garnered criticism on social media as it depicts a lively argument between the two, which Trump claimed was “deceptively edited” in a statement. Trump’s director of communications, Taylor Budowich, shared the statement by the former president on his Twitter page on Thursday. “Piers Morgan, like the rest of the Fake News Media, attempted to unlawfully and deceptively edit his long and tedious interview with me,” Trump said in the statement....
We have learned that Trump is so obsessed with the legitimacy of his 2016 election—and so terrified of becoming a private citizen (subject to indictment and imprisonment) after the 2020 election—that he embraces a conspiratorial myth of Ukrainian responsibility for Russian lawlessness hatched by an oligarch in Vladimir Putin’s orbit. We have heard an official’s first-hand account of a president so beholden to Putin that he blithely dismisses Russia’s aggression as not “big stuff” compared with a public announcement by Ukraine’s new president to the effect that, contrary to fact, its government is investigating (nonexistent) corruption by Trump’s political rival....
The criticism from the son of former President Donald Trump came after the Associated Press reported that there are concerns among U.S. officials that some older Afghan refugee men potentially brought child brides or other young women that they sexually abuse when they were evacuated from Kabul. The State Department reportedly sought “urgent guidance” after some Afghan men allegedly arrived with underage wives at Fort McCoy in Wisconsin. “So the Biden Administration lied about vetting and seems to be in the process of aiding and abetting child sex trafficking?...
Most recently, questions were raised about the U.S. military refueling at an airport in Scotland close to President Donald Trump’s Turnberry golf resort, at which servicemen and women stayed during the unorthodox stopover. The U.S. Air Force has ordered a review. Vice President Mike Pence also stayed at Trump’s Doonbeg golf resort during his visit to Ireland, despite his official meetings taking place in Dublin, which is on the opposite coast....
Newsweek spoke to five sources familiar with the First Family members’ aggressive campaign schedules to get a clearer picture of their efforts heading into the campaign’s final stretch. Most were not authorized to speak publicly about the Trump family. “It’s something that’s kind of floated under the radar,” one campaign source told Newsweek of the campaign’s heavy reliance on the popularity of Trump’s children. Multiple sources described each of the three as having specific roles and bases that the campaign thinks they can appeal to, in particular Donald Trump Jr....
Thompson made the remarks during an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Thursday. The committee has already issued subpoenas demanding testimony and evidence from former Trump officials and those involved in organizing the rally that immediately preceded the Capitol attack, which happened while Congress was meeting to officially certify President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory. Blitzer asked Thompson whether the former president could be next. “I would say this: At this point, Wolf, nobody is off limits to a subpoena from this committee,” Thompson said....
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) requested a March 24, 2019 memo prepared for Barr via the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), but the request was denied. At the time, the DOJ said the memo was protected from being disclosed as it was legal advice. However, Jackson ruled that the memo actually contained “strategic, as opposed to legal advice.” In addition, she said the writers of the memo already knew that President Donald Trump would not be prosecuted....
The event, announced by his Save America’s Political Action Committee, will take place at the Country Thunder Festival Grounds in Florence on January 15. The rally will be the former president’s first since he appeared at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines in October. He last appeared in Arizona at a rally hosted by Turning Point Action in Phoenix on July 24. Trump and his supporters have considered Arizona a key focal point in their continued push of the “big lie” narrative that the 2020 election was rigged in favor of President Joe Biden....
Trump praised Pence’s dodging of the question at Wednesday’s head-to-head in Utah as he appeared on Fox News on Thursday to discuss his health. He tested positive for COVID-19 last week. Speaking to the Hannity show last night, Trump said: “And then they talk about we want a peaceful transition of power. Peaceful transition. Mike Pence’s best answer was that answer last night. “Peaceful transition? Look what they did. They spent three and a half years trying to terminate a president....
Hill on Monday was suspended two weeks by ESPN for floating a possible boycott of Cowboys advertisers over team owner Jerry Jones’ declaration that players must stand for the national anthem or be benched. On Tuesday morning, Trump mocked both Hill and ESPN, which has been under fire from conservatives for its alleged liberal leanings. The Twitter attack on Hill is typical Trump, who likes to single out anchors, reporters and columnists at media organizations he dislikes such as MSNBC, CNN and the New York Times....
