LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Michael Bastasch A United Nations report published Wednesday highlights the legal risks that opponents say President Donald Trump faces if he does not withdraw from Paris climate agreement. The Paris Agreement could be used to force governments, including the Trump administration, “that have adopted climate-oriented laws to implement them,” reads the UN Environmental…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Phillip Stucky Washington Post reporter James Hohmann slammed Ivanka Trump’s new book due to her “life of privilege” Monday, but privilege didn’t come up when the paper featured Chelsea Clinton’s book in February. The president’s daughter isn’t able to effectively talk about women in the workplace, Hohmann writes in WaPo’s Daily…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Michael Bastasch French President-elect Emmanuel Macron told President Donald Trump he would “protect” the Paris climate change agreement during their first phone conversation Monday. “He told him he’s going to try to protect what was made in Paris,” Macron’s spokeswoman Laurence Haim told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour Monday. “He is…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Michael Bastasch The battle over the fate of the Paris agreement has reached new heights as groups make last-minute efforts to petition President Donald Trump on the deal to cut global carbon dioxide emissions. The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a libertarian think tank, launched a campaign to hold Trump…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Thomas Phippen Chief White House strategist Steve Bannon referred to President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner as a “globalist” and a “cuck,” while venting to people inside the White House about the man who insiders say he openly clashes with. “[Steve] recently vented to us about Jared being a ‘globalist’ and…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield On Saturday evening, liberal protesters held a “Queer Dance Party for Climate Justice” in the ritzy Washington D.C., neighborhood of Kalorama, where Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner live, reports the Blaze. The event, however, was not only assumably unpleasant for the Kushner/Trump family, but it was evidently extremely…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Benjamin Hitzig According to The Hill, Ivanka Trump, the daughter of President Donald Trump, has been given her own office in the West Wing of the White House, but will not hold an official role. Politico reports that Ivanka explained that she would give her father “candid advice and counsel, as I have for my entire…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield The federal government watchdog on ethics has explained in a letter, released on Tuesday, that Trump senior advisor KellyAnne Conway’s comments on Ivanka Trump’s clothing line were a “clear violation” of ethics rules. #BREAKING: U.S. Office of Government Ethics Calls on White House to Discipline #KellyanneConway pic.twitter.com/nixmDhMc6Q — House…
By Phillip Stucky President-elect Donald Trump plans to name Observer media owner Jared Kushner as his senior advisor in the White House, according to a Monday report from Politico co-founder Mike Allen. Allen asserted that Kushner is already in the process of naming “his own staff” in the new administration. Trump’s team of lawyers reportedly…
by Josh Guckert At Sunday night’s presidential debate, one of the hottest topics was the revelation of a recording wherein Donald Trump remarked that celebrities like himself can do anything to women that they so choose, including “grab[bing] them” in a particular nether-region. Despite the explosiveness of this audio and video, the Republican’s wife, Melania Trump,…