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Judge denies Stormy Daniels’s bid to expedite case against Trump over confidential agreement

March 29, 2018

A federal judge on Thursday denied a request from Stormy Daniels, who says she was paid to remain silent about an affair with President Trump, to expedite a jury trial in her lawsuit against the president. The request for an expedited jury ...

Duterte spokesman: Trump offered to return Philippine fugitive during bilateral talks

November 14, 2017

Emily Rauhala and David Nakamura

MANILA — A spokesman for Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Tuesday that President Trump offered to return a fugitive who had fled to the United States and did not bring up human rights issues at all during their bilateral meeting a day earlier....

Republican Jewish Coalition breaks with Trump on Charlottesville, asks for ‘greater moral clarity’

August 16, 2017

David Nakamura

A major Jewish political coalition that has long supported President Trump and stood by him through other controversies broke with him on Wednesday over his response to events last weekend in Charlottesville, imploring him to more forcefully reject Nazis and other white supremacist groups. The Republican Jewish Coalition called on Trump to “provide greater moral […]

Pence cuts short Latin America trip and pressures Chile to sever all ties to North Korea

August 16, 2017

Philip Rucker

SANTIAGO, Chile — Vice President Pence is cutting short his Latin America trip by one day to return to Washington for a strategy meeting Friday at Camp David with President Trump and the national security team. Pence also has canceled two scheduled political appearances on Saturday in Virginia — a campaign stop with Republican gubernatorial […]

Trump adds another lawyer to his Russia investigation team

June 16, 2017

Abby Phillip

President Trump has hired prominent defense lawyer John Dowd to join his legal team amidst multiple probes into Russian interference in the 2016 election and reported allegations of obstruction of justice. Dowd, who has represented clients in cases involving the Justice Department and the Senate Ethics Committee, will join Trump’s legal team, which is led by […]

Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, hires his own lawyer in Russia probe

June 16, 2017

Philip Rucker and Rosalind S. Helderman

MIAMI — Michael Cohen, who for years has served as President Trump’s personal attorney, has hired a lawyer of his own to help him navigate the expanding Russia investigation. Cohen confirmed Friday to The Washington Post that he has retained Stephen M. Ryan, a Washington-based lawyer from the law firm McDermott, Will & Emery who […]

Full text: Trump transition team memo on keeping documents on Russia and the election

June 16, 2017

Washington Post Staff

On Thursday, lawyers for Donald Trump's presidential transition circulated a memo instructing people who worked for the team to preserve documents, in anticipation of turning records over to investigators exploring Russian interference in the 2016 election. The preservation order is a sign of the broadening investigations. The request asked staffers to compile all documents related […]

Can Trump really roll back Obama’s Cuba policy?

June 16, 2017

Allison Michaels

Friday, President Trump is headed to Miami to announce his decision on a new U.S.-Cuba policy. On the campaign trail, Trump called the Obama administration's moves to restore relations with Cuba “a bad deal” and tweeted a threat to “terminate it.” But how many of the steps President Barack Obama took to thaw our relationship with […]

Federal attorney says Trump’s contacts made him uncomfortable before he was fired

June 11, 2017

Sandhya Somashekhar

Preet Bharara, the former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York ousted by President Trump, said Sunday that he had become increasingly uncomfortable with Trump’s efforts to “cultivate some kind of relationship” with him and that his March firing came 22 hours after finally refusing to take a call from the president. In […]

Trump national security adviser: ‘Range of options’ being developed to respond to North Korea

April 16, 2017

John Wagner

President Trump’s national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, said Sunday that the United States is exploring “a range of options” to respond to an increasingly provocative North Korea but that the administration would like “to take action short of armed conflict, so we can avoid the worst.” McMaster’s comments came on a weekend during which North […]