President Joe Biden spent a great deal of his speech at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on the fate of journalists held in captivity, vowing, “I promise you. I am working like hell to get them home.”
Still in a tone of seriousness, Biden said, “I believe in the First Amendment, and not just because my good friend Jimmy Madison wrote it.”
It took a few beats for many of the 2,600 or so packed into the Washington Hilton subterranean ballroom that the president was making a transition to the satirical portion of his remarks. By the time that he got to a Don Lemon joke, it was on.
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Many past dinners have taken place amid the backdrop of moments of national and international upheaval,...
Still in a tone of seriousness, Biden said, “I believe in the First Amendment, and not just because my good friend Jimmy Madison wrote it.”
It took a few beats for many of the 2,600 or so packed into the Washington Hilton subterranean ballroom that the president was making a transition to the satirical portion of his remarks. By the time that he got to a Don Lemon joke, it was on.
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Many past dinners have taken place amid the backdrop of moments of national and international upheaval,...
- 4/30/2023
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
The House Jan. 6 committee is slated to release its final report this week, bringing an end to its 18-month investigation into the effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election, and the violent siege of the Capitol as lawmakers were certifying President Biden’s victory.
The committee has obtained troves of documents, texts, and phone records; interviewed over 1,000 witnesses; and held a series of high-profile public hearings featuring live testimony from people close to the effort to subvert democracy. The primary takeaway from all of this, the panel has made clear,...
The committee has obtained troves of documents, texts, and phone records; interviewed over 1,000 witnesses; and held a series of high-profile public hearings featuring live testimony from people close to the effort to subvert democracy. The primary takeaway from all of this, the panel has made clear,...
- 12/21/2022
- by Nikki McCann Ramirez and Ryan Bort
- Rollingstone.com
Update: The January 6th Committee recommended that the Justice Department pursue four criminal charges against former President Donald Trump along with others they claim helped orchestrate an effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
The charges include obstruction of an official proceeding, conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to make a false statement and inciting, assisting or giving aid or comfort to an insurrection.
It will be up to the Justice Department to decide whether to file charges, but the move is the first time that a former president has faced a criminal referral such as this one.
Rep,. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), who outlined the recommendations, also named for potential prosecution John Eastman, the college professor who pushed an effort to install “fake” electors in advance of the joint session of Congress to certify the election results.
Raskin said that others were also involved, but the committee...
The charges include obstruction of an official proceeding, conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to make a false statement and inciting, assisting or giving aid or comfort to an insurrection.
It will be up to the Justice Department to decide whether to file charges, but the move is the first time that a former president has faced a criminal referral such as this one.
Rep,. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), who outlined the recommendations, also named for potential prosecution John Eastman, the college professor who pushed an effort to install “fake” electors in advance of the joint session of Congress to certify the election results.
Raskin said that others were also involved, but the committee...
- 12/19/2022
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
In early September, Donald Trump welcomed a handful of Republican allies to Manhattan’s Trump Tower with an urgent message: He saw a “scam” happening with midterm election voting in Philadelphia and elsewhere in Pennsylvania, and he wanted conservatives to do something about it.
“During our briefing, he was concerned that 2020 is going to happen again in 2022,” says former senior Trump administration official Michael Caputo, referencing Trump’s debunked assertion that voter fraud in Philadelphia helped win Pennsylvania for Joe Biden. Caputo — who attended the meeting alongside Bradford County Commissioner...
“During our briefing, he was concerned that 2020 is going to happen again in 2022,” says former senior Trump administration official Michael Caputo, referencing Trump’s debunked assertion that voter fraud in Philadelphia helped win Pennsylvania for Joe Biden. Caputo — who attended the meeting alongside Bradford County Commissioner...
- 10/23/2022
- by Asawin Suebsaeng and Adam Rawnsley
- Rollingstone.com
CNN’s Don Lemon went off Monday night after finding out that a spokesperson for outgoing president Donald Trump had claimed he was the most “masculine” president.
Lemon felt a better descriptor for Trump was “the biggest snowflake.”
“‘He’s the most masculine,'” scoffed Lemon, imitating campaign spokesperson Hogan Gidley, who made the claim earlier in the day on Fox News. “Come on, man. Shut up. Shut up! He is the biggest snowflake of them all, the biggest one.”
The “CNN Tonight” anchor went on, “Why are you coddling his feelings all the time? Why are you coddling all of these people’s feelings?”
He railed, in particular, against the idea that downtrodden Trump supporters should be given time to process the loss Trump suffered in the election against President-elect Joe Biden, questioning, “Who’s the snowflake now?”
Lemon moved on to Jake Angeli, the headdress-wearing insurrectionist arrested after...
Lemon felt a better descriptor for Trump was “the biggest snowflake.”
“‘He’s the most masculine,'” scoffed Lemon, imitating campaign spokesperson Hogan Gidley, who made the claim earlier in the day on Fox News. “Come on, man. Shut up. Shut up! He is the biggest snowflake of them all, the biggest one.”
The “CNN Tonight” anchor went on, “Why are you coddling his feelings all the time? Why are you coddling all of these people’s feelings?”
He railed, in particular, against the idea that downtrodden Trump supporters should be given time to process the loss Trump suffered in the election against President-elect Joe Biden, questioning, “Who’s the snowflake now?”
Lemon moved on to Jake Angeli, the headdress-wearing insurrectionist arrested after...
- 1/12/2021
- by Lindsey Ellefson
- The Wrap
In a trainwreck of an interview, Trump Campaign National Press Secretary Hogan Gidley gave little insight into his candidate’s debate prep for Thursday night’s event but did share his thoughts on the well-known liberal bias of plexiglass.
After refusing to answer simple and fundamental pre-debate questions from MSNBC’s Hallie Jackson — like did the president prep and if so with whom — the host moved on and asked about some of the differences the second debate will feature.
Asked about the plexiglass dividers that have already been installed at...
After refusing to answer simple and fundamental pre-debate questions from MSNBC’s Hallie Jackson — like did the president prep and if so with whom — the host moved on and asked about some of the differences the second debate will feature.
Asked about the plexiglass dividers that have already been installed at...
- 10/22/2020
- by Peter Wade
- Rollingstone.com
The biggest headline to come out of Tuesday night’s first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden was the incumbent’s failure to clearly denounce white supremacists, when invited to.
Moderator Chris Wallace (of Fox News) said to Trump midway through the long 90 minutes, “Are you willing tonight to condemn white supremacists and militia groups… and to say that they need to stand down and not add to the violence in a new number of these cities as we saw in Kenosha, and as we’ve seen in Portland?”
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Moderator Chris Wallace (of Fox News) said to Trump midway through the long 90 minutes, “Are you willing tonight to condemn white supremacists and militia groups… and to say that they need to stand down and not add to the violence in a new number of these cities as we saw in Kenosha, and as we’ve seen in Portland?”
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- 9/30/2020
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
As his poll numbers have slipped, Donald Trump renewed his complaints against mail-in voting on Thursday, but this time he also suggested that the Nov. 3 presidential election could be delayed.
“With Universal Mail-In Voting, 2020 will be the most Inaccurate & Fraudulent Election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???” he wrote on Twitter.
But federal law sets the date of the election as the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. It is not up to the president. To change that date would require an act of Congress, i.e. the Republican-controlled Senate and the Democratic-controlled House. As historians quickly noted, not even during other moments of crisis, like World War II, has the date of the vote been changed.
Even if a delay were to happen, that would...
“With Universal Mail-In Voting, 2020 will be the most Inaccurate & Fraudulent Election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???” he wrote on Twitter.
But federal law sets the date of the election as the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. It is not up to the president. To change that date would require an act of Congress, i.e. the Republican-controlled Senate and the Democratic-controlled House. As historians quickly noted, not even during other moments of crisis, like World War II, has the date of the vote been changed.
Even if a delay were to happen, that would...
- 7/30/2020
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Fox Business Network’s Dagen McDowell argued with President Donald Trump’s campaign spokesperson Hogan Gidley Wednesday, disagreeing with the way the president and Gidley disparage political polling.
“Hogan, why is President Trump trailing Joe Biden, who has barely been out on the campaign trail and his only presence is really out of his house? He’s trailing in national polls. He’s trailing in all the swing state polls and Valerie Jarrett pivots to the here and now because the number-one issue for Americans is the coronavirus. It’s not the economy. It’s not even race relations and according to the latest Fox News poll, President Trump trails Joe Biden on doing a better job on coronavirus by 17 points. Why isn’t the president’s message resonating then?” she asked.
Gidley responded by calling the polls “junk.”
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“Hogan, why is President Trump trailing Joe Biden, who has barely been out on the campaign trail and his only presence is really out of his house? He’s trailing in national polls. He’s trailing in all the swing state polls and Valerie Jarrett pivots to the here and now because the number-one issue for Americans is the coronavirus. It’s not the economy. It’s not even race relations and according to the latest Fox News poll, President Trump trails Joe Biden on doing a better job on coronavirus by 17 points. Why isn’t the president’s message resonating then?” she asked.
Gidley responded by calling the polls “junk.”
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- 7/29/2020
- by Lindsey Ellefson
- The Wrap
A member of the U.S. Navy and personal valet to Donald Trump has tested positive for the coronavirus, CNN first reported on Thursday, a development that raises questions of whether the president has been exposed to the virus.
The White House said that the president has since tested negative, along with Vice President Mike Pence. In a statement, Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley said that “we were recently notified by the White House Medical Unit that a member of the United States military, who works on the White House campus, has tested positive for coronavirus. The president and the vice president have since tested negative for the virus and they remain in great health.”
Members of the U.S. Navy are assigned to the White House to assist the First Family.
According to CNN, a White House source said that the valet exhibited symptoms on Wednesday morning. Trump and Vice...
The White House said that the president has since tested negative, along with Vice President Mike Pence. In a statement, Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley said that “we were recently notified by the White House Medical Unit that a member of the United States military, who works on the White House campus, has tested positive for coronavirus. The president and the vice president have since tested negative for the virus and they remain in great health.”
Members of the U.S. Navy are assigned to the White House to assist the First Family.
According to CNN, a White House source said that the valet exhibited symptoms on Wednesday morning. Trump and Vice...
- 5/7/2020
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
The White House is stamping out termination rumors after President Donald Trump retweeted a call from a former Congressional candidate to fire top infectious disease specialist and White House coronavirus task force member Dr. Anthony Fauci Sunday, fueling speculation about his future.
“This media chatter is ridiculous – President Trump is not firing Dr. Fauci,” tweeted White House principal deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley Monday.
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Sunday’s retweet was of DeAnna Lorraine, a former Congressional candidate. She wrote, “Fauci is now saying that had Trump listened to the medical experts earlier he could’ve saved more lives. Fauci was telling people on February 29th that there was nothing to worry about and it posed no threat to the Us public at large. Time to #FireFauci…”
Trump retweeted that, adding, “Sorry Fake News, it’s all on tape.
“This media chatter is ridiculous – President Trump is not firing Dr. Fauci,” tweeted White House principal deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley Monday.
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Sunday’s retweet was of DeAnna Lorraine, a former Congressional candidate. She wrote, “Fauci is now saying that had Trump listened to the medical experts earlier he could’ve saved more lives. Fauci was telling people on February 29th that there was nothing to worry about and it posed no threat to the Us public at large. Time to #FireFauci…”
Trump retweeted that, adding, “Sorry Fake News, it’s all on tape.
- 4/13/2020
- by Lindsey Ellefson
- The Wrap
The United States intelligence community has been warning the president since January and February about the dire consequences that would occur when coronavirus reached America, but the president seemed determined to play down the threat, leaving the country largely unaware and unprepared.
According to the Washington Post, intelligence agencies sent reports to Trump tracking the virus spreading through China and stating that the Chinese government was being dishonest and trying to minimize how severe the outbreak actually was. One official told the Post that intelligence agencies “have been warning on this since January.
According to the Washington Post, intelligence agencies sent reports to Trump tracking the virus spreading through China and stating that the Chinese government was being dishonest and trying to minimize how severe the outbreak actually was. One official told the Post that intelligence agencies “have been warning on this since January.
- 3/21/2020
- by Peter Wade
- Rollingstone.com
President Donald Trump is already on the 2020 stump, devoting his early Sunday tweetstorm to partisan attacks on his arch foes, the “Dems” and Sleepy Joe Biden.
The Commander-in-Tweet noted Biden’s recent statement on his past associations with segregationists in Congress, and the hoped-for support by his opponents for tactics that would drive down prescription drug pricing.
The day is young, so the President will undoubtedly return for more later in the day.
The tweetstorm so far:
The Democrats hate @realDonaldTrump so much, they lied about “collusion,” lied about a “cover-up,” lied about the “crisis at the southern border,” and then lied about the “motives” of a man who wanted to celebrate the greatest idea ever realized…America. #SaluteToAmerica pic.twitter.com/NHeTIvd6Jn
— Hogan Gidley (@hogangidley45) July 7, 2019
We are building the Wall now, but the reason the badly needed Wall wasn’t approved in the Republican controlled House and...
The Commander-in-Tweet noted Biden’s recent statement on his past associations with segregationists in Congress, and the hoped-for support by his opponents for tactics that would drive down prescription drug pricing.
The day is young, so the President will undoubtedly return for more later in the day.
The tweetstorm so far:
The Democrats hate @realDonaldTrump so much, they lied about “collusion,” lied about a “cover-up,” lied about the “crisis at the southern border,” and then lied about the “motives” of a man who wanted to celebrate the greatest idea ever realized…America. #SaluteToAmerica pic.twitter.com/NHeTIvd6Jn
— Hogan Gidley (@hogangidley45) July 7, 2019
We are building the Wall now, but the reason the badly needed Wall wasn’t approved in the Republican controlled House and...
- 7/7/2019
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
President Trump announced on Thursday that Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders will be leaving the White House at the end of June.
“After 3 1/2 years, our wonderful Sarah Huckabee Sanders will be leaving the White House at the end of the month and going home to the Great State of Arkansas,” the president tweeted. “She is a very special person with extraordinary talents, who has done an incredible job! I hope she decides to run for Governor of Arkansas – she would be fantastic. Sarah, thank you for a job well done!
“After 3 1/2 years, our wonderful Sarah Huckabee Sanders will be leaving the White House at the end of the month and going home to the Great State of Arkansas,” the president tweeted. “She is a very special person with extraordinary talents, who has done an incredible job! I hope she decides to run for Governor of Arkansas – she would be fantastic. Sarah, thank you for a job well done!
- 6/13/2019
- by Ryan Bort
- Rollingstone.com
President Trump is a liar. This goes without saying, but in case you’re still skeptical, the Washington Post has receipts. A lot of them. On Monday, the paper revealed that, according to their calculations, the president has now delivered over 10,000 false or misleading claims since taking office, good for around 12 a day.
Statistics aren’t necessary to demonstrate that the president is a pathological liar who harbors a fiercely adversarial relationship with reality. The more salient takeaway from Post’s tally is instead that his penchant for disinformation has...
Statistics aren’t necessary to demonstrate that the president is a pathological liar who harbors a fiercely adversarial relationship with reality. The more salient takeaway from Post’s tally is instead that his penchant for disinformation has...
- 4/29/2019
- by Ryan Bort
- Rollingstone.com
The redacted version of the Mueller report released on Thursday was not flattering to President Trump. Though the special counsel determined that the “high standard” for criminal prosecution regarding conspiracy with Russia was not met, the report detailed a sophisticated, multi-pronged effort to attack the 2016 election in service of Trump, and the Trump campaign’s enthusiasm to accept the help. It also laid out several instances in which Trump attempted to obstruct justice before ultimately putting the onus on Congress to respond accordingly.
Donald Trump has claimed the report exonerates...
Donald Trump has claimed the report exonerates...
- 4/19/2019
- by Ryan Bort
- Rollingstone.com
Last week, a group of 163 migrants who crossed the border near Lordsburg, New Mexico, turned themselves in to Border Patrol. Among the migrants was a Guatemalan man and his seven-year-old daughter, Jackeline Caal. Eight hours after they were taken into custody, Caal began having seizures. She was flown to the Providence Children’s Hospital in El Paso, Texas, where she went into cardiac arrest. Less than a day later, she was dead. “Our sincerest condolences go out to the family of the child,” U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman Andrew Meehan...
- 12/14/2018
- by Ryan Bort
- Rollingstone.com
Can you #Maga too hard? According to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel you can, under very specific circumstances.
The Osc on Friday found six Trump Administration officials guilty of violating the Hatch Act, a 1939 law prohibiting government employees from engaging in political activity while on the job. At the heart of several of the violations are accusations of tweeting or retweeting messages containing the hashtag #Maga.
In March of this year, the Osc advised government employees that, because Donald Trump had officially declared himself a candidate for president...
The Osc on Friday found six Trump Administration officials guilty of violating the Hatch Act, a 1939 law prohibiting government employees from engaging in political activity while on the job. At the heart of several of the violations are accusations of tweeting or retweeting messages containing the hashtag #Maga.
In March of this year, the Osc advised government employees that, because Donald Trump had officially declared himself a candidate for president...
- 11/30/2018
- by Tessa Stuart
- Rollingstone.com
Kim Kardashian is back at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Three months since she paid a visit to President Donald Trump on behalf of Alice Marie Johnson, whose lifetime prison sentence was commuted in June, the reality star has returned to the White House. The occasion? Per Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley, members of the administration are hosting a listening session on Wednesday about the clemency process and Kardashian is one of the guests. "The discussion is mainly focused on ways to improve that process to ensure deserving cases receive a fair review," Gidley said in a statement. The makeup mogul is slated to join First Son-in-Law Jared Kushner, as...
- 9/5/2018
- E! Online
President Trump loves evangelicals. White evangelicals voted for him by more than a 4-1 margin in 2016, and their support has only grown since he assumed office. On Monday, Trump brought over 100 of these Christian leaders to the White House to listen to a sermon about the doom that awaits should the Democrats win control of Congress this November. The left will “overturn everything that we’ve done and they’ll do it quickly and violently,” said the president, whose remarks were revealed Tuesday after audio of the closed-door meeting was leaked.
- 8/29/2018
- by Ryan Bort
- Rollingstone.com
Larry Kudlow, the TV business commentator who recently joined the White House as President Trump’s chief economic adviser, suffered a heart attack, Trump tweeted on Monday.
“Our Great Larry Kudlow, who has been working so hard on trade and the economy, has just suffered a heart attack. He is now in Walter Reed Medical Center,” Trump tweeted from Singapore, just before he is scheduled to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Our Great Larry Kudlow, who has been working so hard on trade and the economy, has just suffered a heart attack. He is now in Walter Reed Medical Center.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 12, 2018
White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said in a statement to reporters that Kudlow suffered what doctors said was a “very mild heart attack” and that he was in good condition.
The Washington Post’s Robert Costa wrote that Kudlow’s wife, Judy,...
“Our Great Larry Kudlow, who has been working so hard on trade and the economy, has just suffered a heart attack. He is now in Walter Reed Medical Center,” Trump tweeted from Singapore, just before he is scheduled to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Our Great Larry Kudlow, who has been working so hard on trade and the economy, has just suffered a heart attack. He is now in Walter Reed Medical Center.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 12, 2018
White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said in a statement to reporters that Kudlow suffered what doctors said was a “very mild heart attack” and that he was in good condition.
The Washington Post’s Robert Costa wrote that Kudlow’s wife, Judy,...
- 6/12/2018
- by Ted Johnson
- Variety Film + TV
Embattled Epa chief Scott Pruitt is the latest Cabinet member spotted in the Trump Tumbril, after Deputy White House Press Secretary Hogan Gidley told Fox News Channel’s Sandra Smith on Thursday, “I cannot speak to the future of Scott Pruitt.”
And that was before CBS News began reporting this afternoon that a security agent was removed from Pruitt’s detail after telling Pruitt he could not turn on his vehicles light and sirens to circumvent a Washington traffic jam because it was not an emergency situation. CBS News reports the 16-year agency veteran got yanked and re-assigned days later.
Pruitt has been on tumbril watch since reports surfaced about his having given two Epa pals huge pay raises and a sweetheart deal in which he pays the wife of a Washington lobbyist 50 bucks a night for his housing while in town. Pruitt made it worse when he ignored White...
And that was before CBS News began reporting this afternoon that a security agent was removed from Pruitt’s detail after telling Pruitt he could not turn on his vehicles light and sirens to circumvent a Washington traffic jam because it was not an emergency situation. CBS News reports the 16-year agency veteran got yanked and re-assigned days later.
Pruitt has been on tumbril watch since reports surfaced about his having given two Epa pals huge pay raises and a sweetheart deal in which he pays the wife of a Washington lobbyist 50 bucks a night for his housing while in town. Pruitt made it worse when he ignored White...
- 4/5/2018
- by Lisa de Moraes
- Deadline Film + TV
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