Tag: Trump demand for loyalty

Senate plans investigation of Trump DOJ seizure of House Democrats’ data

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Justice Department inspector general will also probe matter

The Senate Judiciary Committee is prepared to subpoena Trump administration Justice Department leaders if that’s what it takes to get answers about reports that the DOJ obtained metadata related to House members, including the Intelligence Committee chairman.

Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer and Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin, who also chairs the Judiciary panel, said the committee would conduct a full review of the matter, which was first reported Thursday by The New York Times.

As part of a sweeping leak investigation, the DOJ used subpoenas to obtain information from Apple, including cellphone metadata for at least two House members: House Intelligence Chairman Adam B. Schiff and Eric Swalwell, both California Democrats. Swalwell and Schiff both confirmed their records had been obtained. Continue reading.

All the president’s disloyal men: Trump demands fealty but inspires very little

Washington Post logoThe Debrief: An occasional series offering a reporter’s insights

President Trump’s personal lawyer called him “John the Backstabber.” A pro-Trump Fox News host described him as “a tool for the radical Democrats.” And the president himself dismissed John Bolton, his former national security adviser, as a disgruntled lackey trying “only to sell a book.”

The explosive disclosures in Bolton’s forthcoming memoir about his time in the White House — including his firsthand allegation that Trump directly tied the holdup of $391 million of military aid for Ukraine to investigations into a political rival — prompted cries of heresy and betrayal from Trump and his allies.

But the short gestation period — less than five months — between Bolton’s September exit from the administration to his damning book manuscript underscores an uncomfortable truth for Trump: For a president who demands absolute loyalty, he inspires strikingly little of the same, with former aides, advisers and associates turning on him with thrumming regularity.

Trump wants the government and the GOP to be as loyal to him as his business was

Washington Post logoOne week ago, with Hurricane Dorian swirling in the Atlantic off the coast of Florida, President Trump’s mistakeabout there being a risk to Alabama was a quick flash that hadn’t attracted much attention. He’d tweeted about that risk well after any serious threat had passed, but since he’d done so on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend, few people noticed. A number of people in Alabama did, however, and they called in to local authorities, prompting the National Weather Service in Birmingham to clarify publicly that no such threat still existed. As of Monday afternoon of last week, that’s where it lay.

Until Trump decided to complain publicly about an ABC News report noting the Alabama mistake. That Monday evening, the president disparaged ABC News’s Jonathan Karl as a “lightweight,” insisting Alabama was at risk. It was a refrain he kept up all week, heightening the conflict by altering an old hurricane map with a marker to make Alabama appear to be more at risk and, later, changing his claims to center on the threat of wind damage. At the time of his tweet, Alabama faced a small chance of 40 mph winds, a threat that has become the formal rationalization for Trump’s tweet.

More importantly, though, we’ve seen how Trump and his administration have attempted to police this nonsensical claim.

View the complete September 9 article by Philip Bump on The Washington Post website here.

Fox News personalities rebuke Trump after he demands loyalty

AlterNet logoSeveral Fox News personalities publicly rebuked President Donald Trump after he escalated his attacks on the right-leaning network over its occasional criticisms of his administration.

“Fox News isn’t supposed to work for you,” Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume said.

“We don’t work for you,” Fox News contributor Guy Benson tweeted, adding: “My job isn’t to reinforce exactly what partisans want to hear.”

Brit Hume

✔@brithume

Fox News isn’t supposed to work for you. https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1166712943196680193 …

Donald J. Trump

✔@realDonaldTrump

….I don’t want to Win for myself, I only want to Win for the people. The New @FoxNews is letting millions of GREAT people down! We have to start looking for a new News Outlet. Fox isn’t working for us anymore!

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View the complete August 29 article by Shira Tarlo from Salon on the AlterNet website here.