Toronto Star Washington Bureau Chief Daniel Dale is defending reporters at Bloomberg after Donald Trump made off-the-record comments criticizing Canada during ongoing trade negotiations between the two countries and Mexico.
The recent spate of reports revealing connections between the Trump White House and the far right isn’t over yet. The latest is recently resigned Homeland Security policy analyst Ian M. Smith. Emails leaked to The Atlantic show Smith was on the same threads as white supremacist Richard Spencer and Jared Taylor, who…
Earlier this month, adult film star Stormy Daniels was arrested while performing at a strip club in Columbus, Ohio. She was accused of touching patrons while performing, which is illegal under Ohio law. The next day, the charges were dropped.
The news last week that the Justice Department had secretly seized phone and email records from a journalist illustrated the extreme lengths to which the Trump administration will go to crack down on leaks. The news that the seizure was intertwined with a relationship the reporter had been having with someone on her…
President Donald Trump and his aides’ hatred of White House staffers dishing to journalists is matched only by their collective inability to stop dishing to journalists. There are plenty of reasons to talk to reporters—protest and self-preservation first among them—and slices of life behind the Oval Office curtain…
The White House is taking extreme measures to combat the steady stream of leaks emanating from the building—but the leaks are still coming.
Former FBI Director James Comey has seemingly attempted to set a record for most book tour interviews in the shortest time. His publicity campaign for A Higher Loyalty has included sitdowns with NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, NPR, the New York Times, and even theSkimm. “I don’t crave to be known,” he said at a live taping of…
It was leaked to the Washington Post on Tuesday night that, when Donald Trump congratulated Vladimir Putin for his re-election as president of Russia, he was holding briefing materials that had the words “DO NOT CONGRATULATE” written in all-caps on it. Ha ha ha. Then it was immediately leaked to reporters that Trump…
Some of the Trump administration’s tactics in its self-serving war on the press are impossible to avoid: the president’s endless Twitter tantrums about the “failing” New York Times and “fake news” CNN; diatribes about media outlets’ supposed dishonesty; his casual chuckle at the murderous Philippine president’s joke …
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who is still pining for President Trump’s approval, has a brilliant beyond brilliant idea for solving the White House’s leaky staff: hook em’ up to a lie detector and grill em’.
The Trump administration is the leakiest in recent memory. This has infuriated the president, who has demanded that his Justice Department crack down on leakers of all kinds. These investigations raise a thorny question: When is it actually illegal for someone in the government to leak information to a reporter?
On Tuesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions ended a packed day of being particularly awful by speaking at an event hosted by the Alliance Defending Freedom.
