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Ted Cruz hits out at Trump's response to North Korea

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, wasn't willing to fully endorse President Trump's 'fire and fury' rhetoric, which he used with North Korea last month.




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Don Trump Jr and Ted Cruz called racist over Obama cookie

President Trump's eldest son and the senator from Texas posed with the cookie on Sunday night in Dallas restaurant Le Bilboquet, where they were celebrating a mutual friend's birthday party.




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Ted Cruz begs Trump to campaign for him in Texas

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz is begging President Donald Trump to come campaign for him as he faces a tough contest from a rising Democratic star.




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Trump says he'll be stumping for one-time foe Ted Cruz in 'biggest stadium in Texas we can find'

Trump said Friday that he would be campaigning for Cruz after the Republican's home state was noticeably left off the White House's list of mid-term election targets.




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Michael Avenatti to hold 'resistance rally' in Texas the same night Trump holds event for Ted Cruz 

Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for Stormy Daniels who's weighing a 2020 bid, is holding a 'resistance rally' in Texas the same night President Trump will be campaigning for Sen. Ted Cruz.




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David Hogg's GoFundMe raises early $10K for billboard of Trump's anti-Cruz tweet

David Hogg (left) helped raise money for a billboard of Trump mocking Cruz in a tweet that reads;'Why would the people of Texas support Ted Cruz when he has accomplished absolutely nothing'.




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Heidi Cruz says her husband Ted laughed off Trump's tweet insulting her looks

In the waning days of the U.S. Senate race that could oust her husband from federal office, Heidi Cruz opened up about her marriage and Donald Trump's tweet spilling 'the beans' on her.




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Michael Avenatti calls off promised anti-Trump 'resistance rally'

Avenatti won't bring his anti-Trump rhetoric to Texas on Monday despite his promise last month to 'fight fire with fire' when the president visits Houston.




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Eric Trump boasts that 'ISIS is gone!' in speech at Ted Cruz rally

Both Eric and Lara gave speeches at the Houston rally for Cruz on Monday night. Eric boasted that ISIS no longer exists - despite the Pentagon saying last week it still poses a threat.




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Trump jokes that he needs to nominate Hillary Clinton to the Supreme Court

Trump claimed the 'fake news media', as he called it on Monday night, would only investigate Clinton if he nominated her. He called Kavanaugh a 'fine man' and asked: 'Can you imagine Hillary up there?'




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Ted Cruz jokes Trump's Washington is like 'Game of Thrones': Sessions is Ned and Pelosi is Khalesi

Cruz delivered a jesting speech in Washington, saying the next two years in Trump's Washington will be 'Game of Thrones': 'Mueller is coming ...Trump finally builds a wall to keep the wildlings out.'




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Ted Cruz urges Senate to make El Chapo pay for Trump’s border wall

Senator Ted Cruz repeated his call to use Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman's seized assets to fund the construction of President Trump’s promised wall along the Mexican border.




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Trump hints at U-turn and support for indexing capital gains to inflation

Indexing involves taking inflation into account by recalculating an asset's original purchase price when someone sells it. That results in less profit and a lower tax burden.




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Donald Trump walks away from 'elitist' indexing capital gains to inflation

Purchasing a home for $200K in 1999 and selling it today for $600K would result in a capital gain of $400K; under current law $150K of that is taxable, even though $108K of that is solely due to inflation.




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Ted Cruz says Donald Trump's call for China to probe the Bidens was 'NOT' appropriate

Cruz was asked on CBS Face the Nation if Trump should have said China should probe the Biden and said: 'It's not the business of foreign countries to be interfering in our elections.'




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'They don't even allege a crime': Trump adds 'No crime!' to 'No collusion' and 'No obstruction'

Trump claimed Democrats are impeaching him without evidence of a crime. 'I did nothing wrong. This will be the first Impeachment ever where there was no crime. They don't even allege a crime.'




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Senator Ted Cruz says President Donald Trump's impeachment trial could last as long as EIGHT weeks

Cruz joins Senator Lindsey Graham in saying that if the Senate votes to call witnesses, reciprocity rules should apply. That means a witness from the defense is matched for every one from the prosecution.




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Donald Trump loyalist Doug Collins is in self-quarantine and shook hands with president

Georgia rep Doug Collins went to CPAC on Feb. 27 and met the mystery patient zero, he said. He then shook hands with Trump and went to the CDC's Atlanta headquarters last week.




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Republicans skip events over fears of coronavirus but Trump doesn't plan to stop rallies

At least two Republican lawmakers are voluntarily quarantining themselves after claiming they may have been exposed to coronavirus while attending CPAC at the end of last month.




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Cardi B launches bizarre rant at Trump

The 'I Like It' rapper took to Instagram to unleash a blistering and at times bizarre stream of thought directed at the POTUS, comparing him unfavorably to former president Barack Obama.




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Barack Obama tweets op-ed by members of his administration criticizing Trump

Former President Barack Obama has seemingly signaled he agrees with 149 of his former African American staffers who have denounced President Donald Trump's 'racism' in an op-ed on Friday.




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Donald Trump lashes out at Barack Obama for condemning leaders who 'normalize racist sentiments'

Donald Trump struck back at Barack Obama's condemnation of rhetoric he's used, arguing he's the 'least racist person,' and used an edited quote from a 'Fox & Friends' host to back up his point.  




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Biden's first campaign ad attacks Trump, plays up double-digit lead over Democrats

Joe Biden's first campaign ad of the 2020 presidential race, released on Monday, takes an assault on the former vice president's record on race head on and plays up his electability against Donald Trump.




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Trump says Russia should rejoin G7, claims Putin was booted because he 'outsmarted' Obama

Donald Trump said on the eve of the annual Group of Seven summit that it would be 'appropriate' for Russia to retake its seat at the table with the world's most advanced economies.




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Trump says he wants Russia to rejoin the G7 for 'world peace' and claimsObama 'outsmarted' by Putin

Donald Trump says that Russia should be allowed to rejoin the Group of Seven, even though the nation refused to leave Crimea, so he's able to speak to Vladimir Putin  more directly.




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Trump boasts Israeli Jews love him like 'the second coming of God' as he quotes conspiracy theorist

President Donald Trump on Monday quoted conservative radio host Wayne Allen Root, who has backed numerous conspiracy theories, as saying Israeli Jews revere him like 'the King of Israel.'




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White House tries to walk back Trump's call for Russia to rejoin the G7

The White House on Thursday attempted to scale back Donald Trump's claims that he wants Russia back in the G7 after European leaders said Vladimir Putin is not welcome until he relinquished the Crimean Peninsula.




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Barack Obama takes aim at Donald Trump's TV and social media habits at tech conference

Barack Obama said presidents benefited hearing from a diversity of opinion,' and counseled against watching TV and reading social media in an apparent dig at President Trump.




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Donald Trump says HE would have a Nobel Peace Prize 'if they gave it out fairly'

Donald Trump on Monday knocked Barack Obama for receiving the Noble Peace Prize and said he would have one of his own 'if they gave it out fairly.'




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'What is he smoking?' Susan Rice says Kurds' blood is going to be on Donald Trump's hands

'The Kurds were the pointy end of the spear who fought ISIS on our behalf,' Rice said. 'They bled and died ... and we just threw them under the bus in 24 hours.'




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Former New Jersey governor Christine Whitman tweets 'Hitler has nothing on Trump'

The comment, posted to Twitter by Christine Whitman on Monday, appeared to be deleted and replaced by a tweet which described the fake video as 'the stuff of dictators'.




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Donald Trump accuses OBAMA of 'election corruption' as he demands to see the DNC's hacked 'server'

Donald Trump accused Barack Obama of interfering in the 2016 election. 'There was a lot of corruption. Maybe it goes right up to President Obama. I happen to think it does,' he said




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Susan Rice slams Trump for calling her a 'disaster' as top Obama aide recalls 'totally gross' hug

President Trump lashed out at Susan Rice on Friday as a 'disaster' before Barack Obama's national security adviser clapped back by calling him 'gross' for hugging her at a DC dinner in 2015.




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Donald Trump stomps on al-Baghdadi's grave in speech to police chiefs

Donald Trump stomped on the grave of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi during a speech to police chiefs in Chicago on Monday.  'He was a sick and depraved man, and now he's dead,' he said.




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Auto shop sparks outrage with Halloween display Trump scarecrow holding Obama's severed head by rope

Michigan auto shop owner Dave Huff removed the rope and Obama mask Friday and added 'PC-POLICE' tape to the scarecrow with President Donald Trump's mask following the backlash.




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Donald Trump Jr says Twitter and Instagram are 'shadow banning' him and other conservatives

'Twitter and Instagram are removing more and more of my posts from people's timeline,' Donald Trump Jr writes in Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us.




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Donald Trump Jr claims his father can't be racist because he let him hang out with Michael Jackson

Donald Trump Jr's new book touches on his relationship with Michael Jackson while hitting out at his father's rivals, including Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton (inset). Don Jr and his father are seen above.




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Donald Trump Jr. jokes that Mitt Romney is 'my favorite Democrat,' WON'T rule out running for office

Romney, a first-term U.S. senator from Utah, was the Republican Party's presidential nominee in 2012. He lost to Barack Obama in a race that President Donald Trump called 'winnable.'




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Trump asks Turkey for 'friendly reporter' - prompting Graham to joke: 'There aren't any others left'

A Turkish reporter started off her question to Donald Trump by bashing Barack Obama and the president questioned whether the foreign journalist was actually employed by Turkey.




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Obama aides left notes in White House offices for Trump staff reading 'You will fail'

We came into the White House-I'll tell you something, every office was filled with Obama books. And we had notes left behind that said "You will fail," "You aren't going to make it",' Grisham said.




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Donald Trump claims Marie Yovanovitch 'didn't want to hang my picture in the embassy'

Former Ambassador to the Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch on Friday denied Donald Trump's claim that she refused to hang his picture in the U.S. Embassy in Kiev. 




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Billionaire Michael Bloomberg plans to spend $34 million in just ONE week on anti-Trump ads

The ad campaign is slated to run nearly nationwide beginning on Monday, and comes one day after Bloomberg filed paperwork creating a presidential campaign committee.




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Judges rule bankers turn over Trump's financial records and refuse to stay subpoena for Don McGahn

Capital One and Deutsche Bank must comply with a subpoena from the Intel and Financial Services committees, federal appeals judges ruled in New York. In D.C. there was a second blow.




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Ex-president beams a huge smile as he hits the links in Hawaii on the day Trump is impeached

Barack Obama has been pictured enjoying a round of golf in Hawaii on the same day his successor Donald Trump was impeached.




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Half of active-duty military personnel are unhappy with President Trump

The results showed a 13 per cent drop in support for the president from when he took office in 2016. They were carried out by the Military Times and staff at Syracuse University, New York.




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Trump retweets 2-year-old meme claiming he brought Jesus back to US after Obama kicked him out

Donald Trump has retweeted a two-year-old meme that suggests Jesus Christ likes him better than Barack Obama and calls the current White House resident 'heaven sent'.




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Barack Obama and Donald Trump TIE for 'most admired man' in 2019 in Gallup poll

Eighteen percent of the US adults quizzed nominated Donald Trump as the man 'living today in any part of the world' that they admired most, while Obama also received 18 percent.




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Donald Trump blames Barack Obama for funding Iran missiles

The high-stakes address comes just hours after Iran launched what it promised would be a 'crushing revenge' strike over the death of General Qassem Soleimani but only damaged two airbases.




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Trump tweets photoshopped image showing Barack Obama scaling walls of Trump Tower with binoculars

The tweet was an apparent reference to claims made by President Trump and his supporters that his predecessor, Barack Obama, unlawfully spied on him and his campaign.




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Trump lashes out at Obama for claiming he's responsible for creating decade of economic growth

President Donald Trump lashed out at former President Barack Obama for claiming that he's responsible for creating legislation that caused economic booms in both of their administrations.