Among the many luminaries of the Trump administration, one person has emerged as a globetrotting man of mystery, carrying out top-secret diplomatic missions for his boss – Michael Cohen, formerly Trump’s personal lawyer and now consigliere-without-portfolio to the White House. The Backward has obtained fragmentary transcripts of Cohen’s delicate missions, opening a window onto his…
Stephen Miller, President Trump’s controversial and enigmatic national policy director, has been gaining the new leader’s confidence, even as other aides fall out of favor or run into trouble representing their boss. In a cover story for Bloomberg Businessweek, Joshua Green refers to Miller as the White House’s “minister for truth,” diving into his influence…
Did President Trump just toss decades of American policy on the Middle East in the trash — or was Donald just being the Donald? A seemingly off-the-cuff comment by the new president could mean the world for Israelis and Palestinians, or just represent an easy-breezy can-do approach to the conflict from a billionaire who prides…
President Trump responded to a question about rising anti-Semitism in America following his election with a random boast about his Electoral College win. The answer sounded more like a series of non-sequiturs than an answer to the question about rising hate crimes since the November vote. “I just want to say we are very honored…
President Trump pointedly acknowledged the Jewish nature of the Holocaust in a Wednesday press conference with visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, an about-face from a Holocaust Remembrance Day statement that omitted mention of Jews. “The state of Israel is a symbol to the world of resilience in the face of oppression,” the president said…
Mark Cuban, the Dallas Mavericks owner who moonlights as a #NeverTrump troll, could mount a bid for the White House four years from now, he said on Monday. “We will see,” he told Business Insider, speaking about his future political plans. The coy answer comes a few days after President Donald Trump took to Twitter…
Jared Kushner is widely perceived as a moderate in President Donald Trump’s White House — a socially liberal New Yorker hailing from a family of Democrats. But that impression might be wrong, according to reports that he’s become a backer of chief strategist Steve Bannon’s nationalist-populist agenda. The latest court gossip reports that Trump’s son-in-law…
Jon Stewart’s comedy often cuts through Washington, D.C.’s bonhomie and niceties, but he’s defending one inside-the-Beltway ritual, the White House correspondents’ dinner. Some have demanded that reporters boycott over President Donald Trump’s treatment of the press, but Stewart says he disagrees. “I think it’ll be entertaining,” the ex-Comedy Central host told TMZ on Monday. “The…
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