Bill Russo, a deputy campaign communications director for Biden, lashed out at Facebook on Monday A top aide to President-elect Joe Biden has accused Facebook of ‘shredding the fabric of our democracy’ in the latest signal that the Democratic administration may be tougher on Big Tech than Republican President Donald Trump has been. Bill Russo, a … Read more
Man overboard! Trump’s highest-ranking black official Ja’Ron Smith becomes first White House aide to quit after election President Donald Trump’s highest-ranking black official, Ja’Ron Smith, has left his job becoming the first White House departure post-Election Day Smith’s exit was long-planned, a White House official told The Hill, as he’ll become the director of the Center … Read more
It was the moment when Rishi Sunak finally lost his battle with Matt Hancock and Michael Gove to avert a crippling second national lockdown. The all-powerful Covid Quad committee, which has taken all the key strategic decisions during the pandemic, met in the Cabinet Office on Friday amid doomsday predictions from the Government’s SAGE committee … Read more
A former political aide to President Donald Trump has said his wife Melania is sometimes ‘repulsed’ by her husband. Omarosa Manigault Newman, 46, met the President in 2004 after appearing on The Apprentice, and in January 2017 became Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the Office of Public Liaison. She has since written a … Read more
‘Are we in Cleveland?’ Kamala Harris is caught on hot mic asking an aide which city she’s in during campaign stop in Ohio Senator Kamala Harris made a campaign stop in Cleveland, Ohio, on Saturday Vice presidential candidate was caught on hot mic asking aide where she was ‘Are we in Cleveland?’ she asked an … Read more
President Donald Trump called his longtime aide Hope Hicks onstage at his Florida rally after each of them contended with a positive test for the coronavirur. Hicks, who joined Trump’s 2016 campaign from the Trump Organization, took her time getting before thousands of cheering fans and joked about overcoming the deadly disease. ‘We can share a … Read more
Melania Trump‘s former aide has called the First Lady and President Donald Trump ‘hypocritical’ for telling Americans how to handle the pandemic, but not revealing that her son Barron had COVID-19 and for failing to wear a mask on some public outings. Stephanie Winston Wolkoff said it was a missed opportunity for the president and the … Read more
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 1 Ronna McDaniel, 47. Chair of the Republican National Convention McDaniel is thought to have been the first positive case. It was not made public until after Trump’s diagnosis. She was last in contact with Trump on September 25. McDaniel began isolating on September 26 when a member of her family tested positive. She … Read more
A Trump administration aide pressured Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) experts to alter its report on children’s coronavirus risks, emails obtained by Politico suggest. Paul Alexander, a part-time assistant professor of health research methods at McMaster University in Canada who was brought into the Trump administration by Michael Caputo, pressed the editor of … Read more
Ex-Question Time host David Dimbleby calls Boris Johnson’s chief aide Dominic Cummings a ‘machine gun’ prepared to ‘massacre’ institutions including the BBC and judiciary – and even takes aim at ‘arrogant’ PM Mr Dimbleby, 81, said ‘there is something obnoxious’ about Dominic Cummings He also said politicians these days shy away from scrutiny and are … Read more