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Former National Security Advisor John Bolton claimed Tuesday on CNN’s “The Lead” that President-elect Donald Trump’s demand for “fealty” from his advisers will not serve him well. Host Jake Tapper said, “On Sunday as President-elect Trump forms his cabinet, Donald Trump Jr. reposted a tweet that said, We need maximum pressure to keep all Neocons and war hawks out of the Trump administration.’ to which he replied, ‘Agreed, I am on it.’ It sounds like Don Jr and JD Vance and I know he was talking about people like you and it sounds like Don Jr. was agreeing also maybe....

Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville said President Biden does not have advisers telling him what to do, he has employees, in comments after his poor debate showing on Thursday night. Since the debate between Biden and former President Trump, the conversation has been centered around if Biden should step aside and allow another Democrat to take on Trump in the polls. Carville told Axios that he never thought Biden running “was a nifty idea” and predicts that Biden will be off the ballot by Election Day. Some Democrats are sounding the alarm after the debate while others are sticking behind...

President Joe Biden enters Camp David in Maryland on Thursday to begin a full week of preparing for his contest with former President Donald Trump in the first presidential debate of the 2024 campaign. The octogenarian and his team of advisers will use the secluded rural setting for intensive preparation and coaching in the days before heading directly to the June 27 debate hosted by CNN in Atlanta, ABC News reports. According to a campaign official, Ron Klain, Biden’s former chief of staff, is leading the debate camp preparations at the presidential retreat.

While the Fed is cleaning up some of the messes it made by printing money for 15 years, people on the Left want to make those messes even worse.A recent viral video receiving millions of views online explains why millions of American families continue to struggle with “Bidenflation.” Well, perhaps “explain” is too strong a term.In the video, an excerpt from the new leftist documentary Finding the Money, Jared Bernstein, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, discusses modern monetary theory—the idea that the federal government could eliminate the national debt simply by printing money. To say Bernstein’s...

Long among the most sensitive subjects inside the West Wing, Hunter Biden’s legal saga now appears destined to play out amid his father’s bid for reelection, frustrating the president but so far causing little real concern among his advisers. The probe into Hunter Biden is now one of two special counsel investigations – the other being an inquiry into his father’s handling of classified documents after leaving the Senate and the vice president’s office – that both appear poised to extend for months to come. Even some of Biden’s allies acknowledge they threaten to complicate or erode the moral high...

As Russia was amassing as many as 100,000 troops along the Ukraine border in December, the White House shot down a proposal by the US military to send a “few hundred” additional special operations personnel to Ukraine to provide training on unconventional warfare over fears the move would provoke Moscow, according to a report.​ The Biden administration was hoping that a diplomatic resolution to the military standoff could be reached and was concerned that the influx of US troops in the former Soviet state would derail the effort, Politico reported on Sunday. ​​

Marc Short, former chief of staff for Vice President Mike Pence, said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that at the end of his presidency, the advisers to Donald Trump were “basically snake-oil salesmen.” Anchor Chuck Todd said, “I want to go back to the time of January 6. You guys were under a lot of pressure. When did you conclude that all of the potential allegations that were out there that they were baseless?”

Joe Biden in his 2020 basement presidential campaign made a big deal about his quest of "unity" and the importance of taking the advice of "experts."That's now a joke. It got obvious last week when we learned he chased out two top Food and Drug Administration research scientists, both strict non-partisans (I checked), from their positions, in a string of such exits. White House interference, specifically from truth-challenged White House chief science advisor, Dr. Anthony Fauci, was what he meant by 'experts.'Now it gets worse. Turns out a whole host of unpaid Trump-appointed advisors on departmental advisory boards, with fixed...

CNN’s Jim Acosta said Thursday on “OutFront” that “insane” former President Donald Trump thought there was “some chance that he could somehow be reinstated as president.” Anchor Erin Burnett said, “Former President Donald Trump has been asking advisers if he could reassume the presidency this year, despite losing the election to Joe Biden. A well-placed source sells our Jim Acosta tonight that President Trump has been hearing the far-fetched suggestions from conservative commentators and allies, and has internalized that and asked others, what do you think of this theory?”

Joe Biden’s COVID-19 Advisory Board looks pretty . . . sick. One of his top guys wants a six-week national lockdown, with mass borrowing to pay all the sidelined workers. Another wanted the country to go on lockdown for 18 months — and doesn’t believe life is worth living after age 75. Biden adviser Michael Osterholm said Wednesday that locking down America for four to six weeks is needed while we wait for a vaccine to begin rolling out. He’s an epidemiologist by trade but seems to consider himself an economic expert, too. Savings rates have shot up in the...

A top aide to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday that Iran would immediately withdraw its “military advisers” from Syria and Iraq only if their governments wanted it to. “Iran and Russia’s presence in Syria will continue to protect the country against terrorist groups and America’s aggression,” said the adviser, Ali Akbar Velayati, in a conference in Moscow, according to Reuters. “We will immediately leave if Iraqi and Syrian governments want it, not because of Israel and America’s pressure,” he stressed. Iran and Russia back Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the country’s civil war. Iran has been...

The White House’s finance disclosure documents recently revealed that the President’s top four advisors collectively amount to nearly $2 billion. Steve Bannon, Reince Priebus, and Jared Kushner have assets that total between $757 million and $1.9 billion. Jared Kushner, son-in-law to President Trump holds nearly $700 million dollars worth of assets with his wife, Ivanka Trump. Some people have asserted that the recent financial disclosures are alarming, due to how much the President appealed to working class families during his 2016 campaign. This accusation is absurd and ridiculous. While Mr. Trump’s policies will benefit the middle class, this does not...

A number of Donald Trump’s aides have proactively offered to testify in front of Congress. This is a stark contrast to Hillary Clinton’s aides, who tried to avoid Congress during her email investigations. Paul Manafort, Roger Stone and Carter Page have all come forward and offered to testify in front of Congress. The Daily Caller reported that all three of these men have continuously maintained their innocence; however, Democrats seem determined to find some sort of connection, regardless of whether it exists or not. These three aides have come under scrutiny after CNN released a number of reports suggesting that...

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House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa subpenaed the president's official political adviser, David Simas Issa is concerned that Simas may be violating a federal law that bans most employees of the executive branch from engaging in political activity White House Counsel sent Issa a letter last night claiming the president's 'immediate advisers are absolutely immune' from such demands Issa held a hearing today anyway, claiming that his committee has a 'legal obligation' to make sure taxpayer funds are being used properly

In a move that would expand America’s involvement in Syria’s civil war, President Obama is close to authorizing the U.S. military to train moderate Syrian rebels to fight the regime of Bashar Assad and al Qaeda-linked groups, according to reports. U.S. officials told the Wall Street Journal Tuesday that the new military program would supplement a small training effort led by the CIA, which Mr. Obama authorized a year ago. At the White House Tuesday, Mr. Obama declined to answer a reporter’s question about the U.S. sending more advisers to train the rebels. In a commencement address at the U.S....

The U.S. military has deployed a small number of uniformed trainers and advisers to the failed state of Somalia for the first time since 1993, when two helicopters were shot down and 18 Americans were killed in the failed “Black Hawk Down” operation. A cell of U.S. military personnel has been stationed in the Somali capital of Mogadishu since last fall to advise and coordinate operations with African troops fighting to wrest control of the country from the al-Shabab militia, an Islamist group whose leaders have professed loyalty to al-Qaeda, according to three U.S. military officials. The previously undisclosed deployment...

Reports indicate that Marine General James Mattis is being forced out of CENTCOM for questioning certain aspects of the Obama administration's Middle East policy. In particular, it appears his questions surrounding the U.S. response to Iran's nuclear ambitions drew the ire of civilian military and security advisers. These civilians were apparently upset by the way Mattis pushed them to "consider second and third-order consequences of military action against Iran." Nor did they appreciate the way he pushed them to think long term and consider what the U.S. will do if Iran develops non-nuclear weapons that can be used to keep...

Among the key responsibilities of a president is choosing highly capable officials to steer the nation's course wisely. President Obama has failed in this duty. Romney declared during the debate that Obama only picks losers regarding green energy boondoggles; the same pattern holds true when it comes to picking people to run the nation. His picks span the spectrum from the incompetent to the dismal. Recently, I was struck by the tone and gist of a column by New York Times liberal columnist (but I repeat myself) Roger Cohen. His piece, " Obama's Team of Idolizers," made mincemeat of Barack...

"Scour this report, identify all those areas in which we can act administratively without additional congressional authorization and just get it done," President Obama said today to a "Jobs Council" meeting.