All posts tagged "Administration"

President Donald Trump's cabinet has a new set of fears to contend with as they are dealt a fresh problem, a political analyst has suggested.

Heather Delaney Reese claims that Trump's team is slowly but surely leaking information to cover themselves as cabinet members and White House insiders worry for their future.

Reese wrote, "The cabinet he promised would be the tightest, most loyal operation in history, is hemorrhaging. Kash Patel is now suing The Atlantic over a deeply reported story about his excessive drinking, which claims his staff has trouble waking him up when he was seemingly intoxicated. ...

Donald Trump could find himself under investigation should he act on a sweeping range of pardons, a political analyst has claimed.

Frank Bowman, a law professor at the University of Missouri and former federal prosecutor, believes Trump may dangle pardons in front of compliant officials, but proceeding with such pardons would open him to investigation.

Bowman explained to Slate's Shirin Ali that the promise itself could be a legally dubious position for Trump, let alone carrying out the pardon. ...

The alleged naps President Donald Trump appears to be taking during meetings are a reflection of how tired Americans are with his administration, a political commentator has suggested.

Chauncey DeVega wrote that while Trump may be tired and falling asleep in meetings, the public is "exhausted" with administrative shortcomings that have sunk the president's approval rating. Writing in Salon, DeVega compared the sleeping president to the hardships of the American people.

He wrote, "Like his predecessors, he [Trump] embodies the fears, hopes and collective mood of the nation. He is clearly tired. In that way, he is a mirror for the American people. But while Trump may be merely tired, the American people are truly exhausted."...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is strongly objecting to a speech given Monday by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder at Northwestern University's law school, during which he offered a public acknowledgement that the Obama Administration believes it has the right to kill U.S. citizens anywhere in the world without judicial review.