Tag: Trump pettiness

Trump again takes aim at John McCain over dossier, prompting rebuke from Meghan McCain

President Trump is again training his fire on the late senator John McCain, nearly seven months after the Arizona Republican’s death from brain cancer.

Trump’s tweets over the weekend prompted a rebuke from the senator’s daughter Meghan McCain and from some lawmakers.

On Saturday, Trump quoted former independent counsel Ken Starr, who criticized McCain on a recent Fox News show. In the segment, Starr referred to reports that a McCain ally had shared with the media parts of a dossier that allegedly included information linking Trump to the Russian government.

Trump piled on in his Saturday night tweet, criticizing McCain — as he has repeatedly done on the campaign trail and in interviews — for his vote against repealing the Affordable Care Act in 2017.

View the complete March 17 article by Felicia Sonmez on The Washington Post website here.

The War Against California

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The Trump administration has targeted the deep-blue state after dozens of lawsuits challenging his administration on issues from immigration to the environment.

THEY’RE PERPETUALLY IN court, on opposite sides. Each sees the other as the embodiment of bad practices and values. Sometimes the feud descends to name-calling and not-so-veiled threats of retribution.

No, it’s not the worst celebrity divorce. It’s California and the Trump administration, which have been engaged in an ongoing power struggle since Donald Trump took office in January 2017. But unlike other state-federal fights, this one is more evenly matched, as the Golden State uses its tremendous economic dominance and sheer size to thwart Trump administration policies.

“It’s true that California, on account of its size, can do an awful lot of stuff. The feds need California, for all sorts of purposes,” says Michael Greve, a professor at the George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School and an expert on federalism. Still, “California also needs the feds to be not too mean to it,” Greve adds. “It’s frequently a game of chicken. The question is, who blinks?”

View the complete February 22 by Susan Milligan on The U.S. News and World Report website here.