As the president-elect begins making personnel choices, the left of the Democratic Party is demanding ethics rules that would ban lobbyists and some consultants. With @kenvogelnytimes.com/2020/11/12/us/…
Trump admin today moves to weaken rules intended to prevent OFFSHORE OIL SPILLS/ACCIDENTS in Alaska. Goal is to help oil and gas companies do more drilling off coast of Alaska, which has economically been a tough sell, even in Trump era. bsee.gov/newsroom/lates…
FYI, the rule Trump team now trying to weaken was adopted in 2016 after a Shell Oil drilling rig ran aground in 2013 while being towed through rough Arctic waters nytimes.com/2013/01/02/bus…
I did a piece sometime back now on an earlier (now completed) Trump-era effort to rollback post Deepwater Horizon rules regarding offshore drilling. The Trump legacy will live on, for a while. nytimes.com/2018/03/10/bus…
NEW: President Trump’s string of losses in court in recent days extended beyond his effort to challenge the outcome of the election: Defamation lawsuits he filed against two news organizations were also dismissed this week. nytimes.com/live/2020/11/1…
Let's take a look at these Trump losses....Here is the white flag being waved by Trump lawyers in the Wisconsin case Trump filed against NBC. int.nyt.com/data/documentt…
Here is the court order in the case filed against CNN, where the judge found Team Trump "failing sufficiently to plead
malice," after opinion piece said “Trump cheats and lies, and when caught, lies again and claims the right to make the rules." assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2040…
Very interesting move. Turkish President Erdogan's son-in-law, who had served as intermediary to Trump via Jared Kushner (another son in law), resigns unexpectedly from his government post in Turkey. Must be more to this story. Albayrak had been considered possible successor.
Here is Berat Albayrak and Jared Kushner with Turkish President Erodgan at a meeting in Turkey--and our story on the ties between Kushner and Albayrak. with @ddknytnytimes.com/2019/11/12/us/…
THREAD: A moment from cutting room floor re our Turkey and Trump story: Here is a key meeting at DOJ in DC on June 11 2019 between AG Barr and Turkish Minister of Justice Abdulhamit Gül, where we were told the Halkbank sanctions evasion case came up, among other matters
What we also know is that DOJ, at this point, had evidence suggesting that key senior political allies of Erdogan (or former allies) had taken bribes as part of the Iran sanctions evasion scheme. DOJ acknowledged this in 2016. Here:
We also know that Erdogan had repeatedly told Trump that he wanted this case gone--the investigation into Halkbank and others potentially implicated in the sanctions evasion that sent billions to Iran. This is from Bolton's account of a Dec. 2018 meeting between Erdogan and Trump
WSJ: Trump tariffs on steel haven’t produced the steelmaking job growth he boasted about. Instead they hurt U.S. manufacturers, including in automotive and appliance sectors. wsj.com/articles/tarif…
Higher prices made steel more expensive for manufacturers that buy it, leading to the loss of about 75,000 U.S. manufacturing jobs, according to a study released late last year by the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.
Those repercussions weren’t expected when Mr. Trump sketched out his tariff-led trade and infrastructure policy at a 2016 campaign speech in Monessen, Pa., a steel town south of Pittsburgh
24 state attorneys general, in addition to Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and city agencies in New York and Chicago, call on Trump Labor Depart to stop rule that would redefine if millions of private sector workers are contractors or employees, i.e. Uber ag.ny.gov/sites/default/…