An American billionaire has his sights set on the assets that belong to the Russian company Lukoil that were set to be sold to the private equity company, the Carlyle Group, and his backers may very well help land him the deal because of their proximity to President Donald Trump, according to a report last week in the Financial Times.
Faced with the prospect of losing both the House and Senate in November’s midterm elections, Republican political committees are prepared to unfurl about $1 billion in advertising from September to the elections, the Financial Times reported last week, citing data collected by AdImpact.
President Donald Trump tried to get past the controversy surrounding a Russian billionaire paying for Donald Trump Jr’s wedding after-party in the Bahamas earlier this year and told reporters at the White House that his son paid back the businessman.
Political observers have found that there is a surge in the number of Americans who are fed up with the status quo in Washington and are ready to take their frustrations out during the midterm elections, which could result in President Donald Trump’s Republican Party losing control of both Houses of Congress.
It is hard to imagine how President Donald Trump’s insane assertions might go beyond the point of being merely demented to something far worse, i.e. catastrophic.
There is a point in the decline of republics when the problem is no longer that the government breaks its own laws. Governments will always behave unlawfully.
The GEO Group, a private prison company, cut a check for $1.4 million to MAGA Inc, the Super PAC with close ties to President Donald Trump, just days after being awarded a contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that could be worth $165 million a year, according to The New York Times.
President Donald Trump says he does not play any role in personal stock trading since taking office, but his money managers have been active and made more than 1,000 trades in June, the Financial Times reported, citing a newly released government disclosure.
President Donald Trump’s personal lawyers are being hired at a fast clip in positions across the U.S. government, including Todd Blanche, who became the head of the Department of Justice.
A newly released Ipsos/Reuters poll found that 33 percent of respondents said they believe Democrats would do a better job with the economy than Republicans, which is problematic for the GOP as the November midterm elections loom.