Barack Obama, who’s been pretty quiet – meaning, quieter than he could have been – on the political frays that have been coursing through Capitol Hill of late, has just formally waded back into the D.C. deep. He’s going to headline a fundraiser for the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, a group seen as crucial to the…
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Former President Barack Obama is working with Democratic leaders to develop strategies to rebuild the Party in the wake of the crushing electoral losses it suffered in 2016 and in previous cycles during his presidency. The former president has held several meetings with Democratic members of Congress in both his West End office and via phone…
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Barack Obama, never one to shy from ripping a Republican in the public eye, took occasion from his childhood hometown Jakarta to tear into President Donald Trump for – at root – having too much patriotism. Call it Fourth of July celebrations, Obama style. America waves Ol’ Glory; Obama beats the global drum. “The world is…
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Once the bloodhounds are unleashed, there’s no telling where the trail will lead. Sometimes the scent of scandal circles back to where it started. Democrats may regret the day they pointed a finger at Donald Trump, insisting that he must have cheated to beat Hillary Clinton. Now two staunch Obama administration loyalists, Loretta Lynch, the former…
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The Obama administration had a “back channel” to communicate with Russian officials, according to a new report detailing Moscow’s efforts to delegitimize the U.S. presidential election results. The news comes after Trump White House aide Jared Kushner was criticized for allegedly trying to open a back channel line of communications with Russian officials during the transition…
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We know Sen. John McCain is no friend of President Donald Trump’s – but this is ridiculous. The Arizona senator, who says he’s a Republican, actually came out and told a left-leaning overseas newspaper, the Guardian, that Barack Obama provided better leadership for America than Trump. Seriously. Here’s the context: The Guardian, in a long-running hit…
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by George Rasley, ConservativeHQ.com Editor Thursday, President Trump announced that the United States is withdrawing from Obama’s disastrous Paris climate accord. The President’s action marks another important campaign promise fulfilled, and it also marks the end of one of Obama’s most corrupt acts as President. While Obama and his liberal allies from Hollywood to Silicon Valley to Wall Street claim that the goal of the treaty was to reduce so-called greenhouse gasses, its effect was to produce a massive wealth transfer from American workers to foreigners and wealthy investors. And the end of that wealth transfer is what drives the howls emanating from Wall Street and Silicon Valley. For example, according to The Los Angeles Times, Obama crony Elon Musk received some $4.9 billion in taxpayer subsidies for Tesla, SolarCity and SpaceX. Our friends at the Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA) claim that, “American taxpayers spent an average of $39 billion a year over the past 5 years financing grants, subsidizing tax credits, guaranteeing loans, bailing out failed solar energy boondoggles.” According to one estimate by the Los Angeles Times, state and federal subsidies to Musk’s SolarCity have eclipsed the $1.5 billion mark. Meanwhile, less than one percent of the…
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A frustrated former President Obama chided President Trump Thursday for canceling U.S. involvement in the Paris climate agreement, and insisted the rest of the world is still headed toward lower greenhouse gas emissions even without American leadership. Even as Mr. Trump was still speaking in the White House Rose Garden, announcing his decision, Mr. Obama issued…
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The government in exile – the real one, according to the media – has had a busy week at home and abroad. “President Obama” has given up leading from behind and presumes now to lead from overseas. His secretary of State has a new mission, as missionary to the safe places where snowflakes fall. Mr. Obama…
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Department of Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly pushed back Friday against comments made by former President Barack Obama about constructing a border wall. “We’re not hiding behind a wall. We’re constructing physical barriers backed up by technology, and of course the great men and women of customs and border protection, to simply safeguard our Southern…
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With President Trump meeting European leaders nearby, former President Barack Obama took a veiled swipe at him Thursday, telling an audience in Germany that modern nations “can’t hide behind a wall.” “In this new world we live in, we can’t isolate ourselves. We can’t hide behind a wall,” Mr. Obama said in Berlin at a forum…
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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is not likely to turn the probe into Russian efforts to sway the U.S. 2016 presidential election over to a special prosecutor, several sources familiar with Rosenstein’s thinking told CNN Friday. In the wake of President Donald Trump’s sudden firing of FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday evening, Democratic lawmakers renewed…
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Barack Obama’s presidential foundation is barely two years old, but he is taking it down the same controversial – and by some accounts illegal – post-presidency path of his predecessor Bill Clinton, according to documents reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation’s (TheDCNF) Investigative Group. Federal law requires tax-exempt entities like the Barack Obama Foundation and…
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Former President Barack Obama is once again back in the public eye and once again interfering with other nation’s sovereign, democratic decisions. On Thursday, Obama released a video endorsing Emmanuel Macron, the center-left candidate in the French election supported by establishment globalist and corporate interests. “Because of how important this election is, I also want you…
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President Trump is truly a man alone. This isn’t new, as he was elected for that very reason; he campaigned as someone who would confront the status quo, and by doing so, make America great again. The budget battle is the perfect illustration of how lost Congress is and confirms the importance of why Mr. Trump…
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