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Keith Girard

How Donald Trump Can Win Over Critics During His First 100 Days in Office

Keith Girard
Donald Trump has an ace up his sleeve if he wants to win over critics. He isn’t wedded to Democratic or Republican orthodoxy. That allows him to show his true independence. He’ll get an early test in office to do just that on Obamacare. House Speaker Paul Ryan is determined to repeal Obamacare as the first order of business. Trump should stop him....
NATIONAL

Trump Finally Finds Someone Who Agrees With Him on Russian Hacking (Video!)

Keith Girard
Donald Trump has finally found someone in the highest circles of government who agrees with his view that no one really knows who stole emails from the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Only it’s not our government; it’s Russia’s. Trump pal Valdimir Putin addressed the issue in his annual news conference and couldn’t agree with Trump more....
NATIONAL SECURITY

Donald Trump Casually Suggests New Nuclear Arms Race, Causing Uproar

Keith Girard
Donald Trump dropped another multi-megaton Twitter bomb, casually suggesting today that the nation start a new nuclear arms race “until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes.” The reaction on social media was spontaneous outrage. The United States already has more nuclear weapons that every other nation outside of Russia. Together, they control 93 percent of all warheads....
MILITARY

Obama Urged to Name Special Prosecutor to Probe Russia Election Hacking

Keith Girard
President Obama is being urged to appoint a special prosecutor to conduct an independent investigation of Russian interference in the presidential election and possible collusion with the Trump campaign. The petition, created by political Web site Daily Kos, is acutally a vote of “no confidence” in a planned bi-partisan Congressional investigation into the hacking....
POLITICS

FBI Director Hung Out to Dry by Baseless Search Warrant for Clinton Emails

Keith Girard
FBI Director James Comey’s bombshell letter upending Hillary Clinton’s election campaign not only violated Justice Department protocols, but was based on a search warrant that was baseless and possibly illegal, according to a lawyer who obtained the documents. Los Angeles lawyer Randy Schoenberg, who made the request, said he was “appalled” by the search warrant and the FBI’s actions....
LAW

Donald Trump’s Big Lie: Why He Won’t Bring Back Manufacturing Jobs

Keith Girard
Donald Trump will never be able to bring back manufacturing jobs, a campaign promise that helped him win traditionally Democratic states like Michigan and Pennsylvania and propel him into the White House. It was a false promise from the get go, and a new study shows why. Aside from Trump’s Ohio Carrier plant public relations stunt, he won’t keep his promise because he can’t, according to a new Brookings Institution study....
BUSINESS
Donald Trump and Steve Bannon

Trump Russian Embrace Dovetails With White Supremacist World View on Race

Keith Girard
Donald Trump’s embrace of Russia dovetails chillingly with the views of white supremacists promoted by alt-right propagandist Steve Bannon. They see the world divided in racial terms making mostly white “Christian” Russia a natural ally of the United States and all other races potential enemies. There’s no other way to explain Trump’s unilateral tilt toward Russia, which is contrary to decades of U.S. policy....
POLITICS

Intelligence Chief Blows Up Trump Effort to Sow Doubt About Russian Hacking

Keith Girard
FBI Director James Comey belatedly got on board with the rest of the U.S. intelligence community and confirmed the CIA’s finding that Russia was behind the theft of Democratic campaign emails in a bid to boost Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. Right wing media outlets were touting the FBI’s silence on the matter as evidence that the CIA’s assessment of the hacking was somehow off-base or being politicized....
NATIONAL SECURITY

FBI Election Dirty Tricks More Serious, Less Scrutinized Than Russian Hacking

Keith Girard
The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) unprecedented level of election dirty tricks is getting far less scrutiny from the media and lawmakers than the Russian email hacking scandal, even though the rogue agency poses a more serious threat to nation. The nation’s premiere law enforcement agency is supposed to be non-partisan and above politics. But it was anything but in the presidential election....
MEDIA

Elizabeth Warren, Democrats to Press Trump To Divulge, Divest Conflicts

Keith Girard
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) and other Democrats on Capitol Hill are drafting a bill that will force President-elect Donald Trump to disclose his business dealings and divest himself of conflicts of interest that threaten to compromise his governing ability. “This is bigger than our president-elect. This is bigger than this moment,” said Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.), ...
WHITE HOUSE
Russian President Vladimir Putin bragged about the decline of America under Trump. (Photo: Getty)

Donald Trump Russian Connection: Putin Directly Linked to Election Hacking

Keith Girard
Donald Trump capitalized on a private emails from the campaign of rival Hillary Clinton that were released in a massive leak personally orchestrated by Russian President Vladmir Putin, U.S. intelligence officials have determined. The latest revelations, first reported by NBC News tonight (Dec. 14), bring the investigation one step closer to Trump and key members of his campaign....
NATIONAL SECURITY

Keith Girard

Keith Girard has four decades of experience as an award-winning reporter, editor-in-chief, and senior media executive. Keith’s career began in Washington, D.C., where he was a reporter for The Washington Post and a contributing editor for Regardie's and Washingtonian magazines. He also worked as a writer/producer in CNN's Washington Bureau and has written one book on the U.S. Marines in the Gulf War.