“I rarely get emotional, if ever,” Trump Jr. wrote in his new book, “Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us.” “Yet, as we drove past the rows of white grave markers, in the gravity of the moment, I had a deep sense of the importance of the presidency and a love of our country.”
View the complete November 7 article by Reis Thebault on The Washington Post website here.
Donald Trump Jr. Wednesday morning appears to have outed the whistleblower whose formal complaint against President Trump led directly to the start of a damning impeachment investigation. The president’s eldest son, who just began a tour to promote his new book that attacks the left, took to Twitter to engage in what some claim is an illegal act.
Trump Jr. posted a tweet linking to the website Breitbart, which used to be run by the president’s former campaign manager and former White House Chief Strategist and Senior Counselor.
The title of the article includes the name of the alleged whistleblower. NCRM will not publish that name nor will we link to tweets or articles that do.
Despite overseeing leading multiple foreign business interests which have continued into his father’s presidency, Donald Trump Jr. went on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show to criticize the son of former Vice President Joe Biden over his own foreign business dealings — and promote debunked conspiracy theories about his father’s Democratic rival in the process.
“I wish my name was Hunter Biden,” Don Jr. told Hannity. “I could go abroad and make millions off my father’s presidency. I’d be a really rich guy. It would be incredible. But because my name is Trump, if I take $1.5 dollars from China — not $1.5 billion, like Hunter, but $1.5 dollars — their heads would explode.”
Because he has pursued high-profile business deals in India, Indonesia and Scotland since his father became president, Don Jr.’s repeated criticisms of Biden’s son have raised eyebrows.
View the complete October 31 article by Matthew Rozsa from Salon on the AlterNet website here.
“When my father became commander in chief of this country, we got out of all international business.”
— Eric Trump, executive vice president of the Trump Organization, in an interview on Fox News’s “The Ingraham Angle,” Oct. 15
“We’ve been international businesspeople for decades, but we can’t even do those kinds of deals anymore. We can’t even continue, and because we chose not to, because we didn’t think it was appropriate. So that’s the double standard. The media said, ‘Oh, you’re enriching yourselves.’ We’re like, ‘We literally stopped.’ ”
— Donald Trump Jr., executive vice president of the Trump Organization, in an interview on “Fox and Friends,” Oct. 30
The president’s sons say the Trump business empire no longer makes money from foreign deals.
It’s a false claim whether you take Eric Trump’s version (“we got out of all international business”) or Donald Trump Jr.’s formulation (“we literally stopped”).
View the complete November 1 article by Salvador Rizzo on The Washington Post webs here.
During the Russia investigation, former special counsel Robert Mueller sought testimony from a long list of people. But according to a court filing on Sunday, two people who Mueller did not force to testify before a grand jury were Donald Trump Jr. and former White House Counsel Don McGahn. And U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell wants to know why.
The court filing on Sunday, according to The Week, was in response to a ruling Howell made on Thursday — when Howell asserted that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) was withholding too much information from the House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York. The House Judiciary Committee, The Week’s Peter Weber reports, has been “wrangling” with DOJ over the evidence that Mueller obtained during his lengthy investigation.
On Thursday, Howell wrote that it was unclear why Mueller didn’t force Trump Jr. or McGahn to testify. “The special counsel’s reasons remain unknown,” Howell explained. “The reason is not that the individuals were insignificant to the investigation. To the contrary, both of the non-testifying individuals named in paragraph four figured in key events examined in the Mueller Report. Assessment of these choices by the special counsel is a matter for others.”
View the complete October 22 article by Alex Henderson on the AlterNet website here.
Apparently, Donald Trump Jr. has the self-awareness of a sea pineapple’s sphincter. (Do sea pineapples have sphincters? I’ll just say they do, because it’s 2019, and you can say whatever you want now, apparently. Go ahead, fake news. Fact-check me. I dare you.)
So the walking, talking conflict of interest whose father has spent the past three years turning the presidency into a carnival ring-toss game is super concerned about Joe Biden’s ethics:
Why didn’t @JoeBiden recuse himself from dealing with Ukraine?
His son was on the board of a Ukrainian energy company that had been investigated by the prosecutor who Joe pushed to be fired.
At the VERY LEAST, there’s the appearance of impropriety. A clear conflict of interest.
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) October 2, 2019
And, yeah, people noticed:
HOW THE WEINSTEIN FALLOUT DID AND DID NOT CHANGE POLITICS: Today marks the debut of New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey’s book detailing Harvey Weinstein’s decades-long track record of alleged sexual harassment and assault. Almost two years after Kantor and Twohey broke the story that sparked the #MeToo movement, its “seismic social change” is still influencing politics as not so usual.
But last night in North Carolina — in a sign the Trump family remains unconcerned about the political reckoning from the wave of women speaking out about male misbehavior — Donald Trump Jr. made a #MeToo joke at his dad’s campaign rally. Pollsters and political strategists believe that’s a big mistake.
View the complete September 10 article by Jacqueline Alemany on The Washington Post website here.
Just a couple hundred people turned out for the event meant to help Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin (R).Don’t expect to hear much bragging about this crowd.
Donald Trump Jr., son of President Donald Trump, spoke on Thursday at a rally in Kentucky for Gov. Matt Bevin (R), who is running for reelection in a tight race against state Attorney General Andy Beshear (D).
Local CBS station WYMT reported before the event that “locals expect a memorable turnout.” And indeed it was, but perhaps for all the wrong reasons for Trump.
View the complete August 30 article by Ed Mazza on the Huffington Post website here.
Perhaps there is some cosmic almanac in which the universe’s greatest ironies are recorded, a heavy tome that the angels can skim, marveling at man’s ability to demonstrate his own insincerity. If there is, the celestial scribes have had a busy morning thanks to Donald Trump Jr.’s appearance on Fox News in which he lambasted the New York Times for kowtowing to its audience.
The subject at hand was the newspaper’s decision to change its planned front-page headline summarizing President Trump’s speech on Monday following twin mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio. The paper originally ran with a headline of “Trump urges unity vs. racism,” a summary of Trump’s comments that manages to misrepresent both Trump’s vision of unity and his relationship with racism. It’s technically true, in the way that saying Babe Ruth hasn’t hit any home runs this century is true. It’s just … not the entire story.
The paper’s executive editor explained that the social-media outcry that the headline spurred caused the Times’s senior leadership to take a closer look at and, later, to change it. Fox, in its presentation of the scenario, suggested that the paper was actually responding to criticism from prominent Democrats.
View the complete August 7 article by Philip Bump on The Washington Post website here.
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, shared another person’s tweet with his millions of followers during the Democratic debate on Thursday that falsely claimed Senator Kamala Harris was not black enough to be discussing the plight of black Americans.
“Kamala Harris is implying she is descended from American Black Slaves,” Ali Alexander, a member of a right-wing constellation of media personalities, wrote on Twitter. “She’s not. She comes from Jamaican Slave Owners. That’s fine. She’s not an American Black. Period.”
Mr. Trump, a valuable Republican surrogate as his father faces a bruising 2020 race, posted the tweet of unverified information, then asked his more than three million followers: “Is this true? Wow.” By the end of the night, Mr. Trump had deleted his message, and by Friday, a spokesman said it had all been a misunderstanding.
