“The Trump administration has eliminated the White House’s top cyber policy role, jettisoning a key position created during the Obama presidency to harmonize the government’s overall approach to cybersecurity policy and digital warfare.” More …
Is China Straight-Up Bribing Donald Trump?
“The president suddenly softens on a sanctioned Chinese business after Beijing bankrolls a Trump Organization project.” More …
Salem Media Group executives pressured radio hosts to cover Trump more positively
“Executives at Salem Media Group, a conservative media company that syndicates some of the country’s most recognized talk radio hosts and operates a batch of popular commentary websites, pressured some of their radio talent to cover Donald Trump more favorably during the 2016 presidential campaign, emails obtained by CNNMoney show.” More …
Baby Breitbarts to pop up across the country?
Reader Beware: … across the country there is a growing trend of opaque, locally focused, ideological outlets, dressed up as traditional newspapers. More …
Trump Jr.’s team pressed for unified story on Trump Tower meeting
“Attorneys for Donald Trump Jr. sought to coordinate public statements for attendees of a June 2016 meeting between a Kremlin-connected lawyer and top Trump campaign aides after news broke of the controversial sit-down, according to transcripts released Wednesday by the Senate Judiciary Committee.” More ….
White House, EPA headed off chemical pollution study
“Scott Pruitt’s EPA and the White House sought to block publication of a federal health study on a nationwide water-contamination crisis, after one Trump administration aide warned it would cause a “public relations nightmare,” newly disclosed emails reveal.” More …
Donald Trump and Sean Hannity Like to Talk Before Bedtime
Life inside the bunker of Fox News’ resident Trumplegänger. More …
Trump’s Lawyer Pitched Himself as a Fixer to Novartis and Got Paid $1.2 million
“The curious relationship between one of the world’s biggest drug makers and President Trump’s personal lawyer began early last year when Michael Cohen, a longtime fixer for the president, reached out to Novartis’s then-chief executive officer Joe Jimenez, promising help gaining access to Trump and influential officials in the new administration, according to an employee inside Novartis familiar with the matter.” More …
AT&T Gave Trump’s Lawyer $600,000 to Help Get Its Merger Approved (and Its Taxes Cut)
“AT&T’s $600,000 contract with Cohen stipulated that he would provide ‘advice’ on the telecom company’s proposed merger with Time Warner, which was awaiting the Trump administration’s approval.” More …
Trump White House Cancels NASA Research Verifying Greenhouse Gas Emissions
“The White House has mounted a broad attack on climate science, repeatedly proposing cuts to NASA’s earth science budget, including the Carbon Monitoring System, and cancellations of climate missions such as the Orbiting Carbon Observatory 3 (OCO-3).” More …