On the first couple’s recent trip overseas, Melania Trump’s television aboard Air Force One was tuned to CNN. President Trump was not pleased.
He raged at his staff for violating a rule that the White House entourage should begin each trip tuned to Fox — his preferred network over what he considers the “fake news” CNN — and caused “a bit of a stir” aboard Air Force One, according to an email obtained by The New York Times. The email, an internal exchange between officials in the White House Military Office and the White House Communications Agency last Thursday, also called for the ordering of two additional televisions to support Beam, a TiVo-like streaming device, to make sure the president and first lady could both watch TV in their separate hotel rooms when they travel. At the end of the email chain, officials confirmed that tuning the TVs to Fox would be standard operating procedure going forward.
On the first couple’s recent trip overseas, Melania Trump’s television aboard Air Force One was tuned to CNN. President Trump was not pleased.
He raged at his staff for violating a rule that the White House entourage should begin each trip tuned to Fox — his preferred network over what he considers the “fake news” CNN — and caused “a bit of a stir” aboard Air Force One, according to an email obtained by The New York Times. The email, an internal exchange between officials in the White House Military Office and the White House Communications Agency last Thursday, also called for the ordering of two additional televisions to support Beam, a TiVo-like streaming device, to make sure the president and first lady could both watch TV in their separate hotel rooms when they travel. At the end of the email chain, officials confirmed that tuning the TVs to Fox would be standard operating procedure going forward.
I love the pettiness of it all. Maybe her "I really don't care, do you?" jacket was for Trump, after all??
And what kind of hotel doesn't already have TVs?? Do they get a special one to make sure it's not spying on them or something??
On the first couple’s recent trip overseas, Melania Trump’s television aboard Air Force One was tuned to CNN. President Trump was not pleased.
He raged at his staff for violating a rule that the White House entourage should begin each trip tuned to Fox — his preferred network over what he considers the “fake news” CNN — and caused “a bit of a stir” aboard Air Force One, according to an email obtained by The New York Times. The email, an internal exchange between officials in the White House Military Office and the White House Communications Agency last Thursday, also called for the ordering of two additional televisions to support Beam, a TiVo-like streaming device, to make sure the president and first lady could both watch TV in their separate hotel rooms when they travel. At the end of the email chain, officials confirmed that tuning the TVs to Fox would be standard operating procedure going forward.
I love the pettiness of it all. Maybe her "I really don't care, do you?" jacket was for Trump, after all??
And what kind of hotel doesn't already have TVs?? Do they get a special one to make sure it's not spying on them or something??
Of course - haven’t you read 1984??
But seriously, if microwave surveillance is a concern, the better be checking their TVs too.
On the first couple’s recent trip overseas, Melania Trump’s television aboard Air Force One was tuned to CNN. President Trump was not pleased.
He raged at his staff for violating a rule that the White House entourage should begin each trip tuned to Fox — his preferred network over what he considers the “fake news” CNN — and caused “a bit of a stir” aboard Air Force One, according to an email obtained by The New York Times. The email, an internal exchange between officials in the White House Military Office and the White House Communications Agency last Thursday, also called for the ordering of two additional televisions to support Beam, a TiVo-like streaming device, to make sure the president and first lady could both watch TV in their separate hotel rooms when they travel. At the end of the email chain, officials confirmed that tuning the TVs to Fox would be standard operating procedure going forward.
Someone needs to turn it to CNN, take the batteries out of the remote, and watch the fireworks show that'll follow.
White House attorney Stefan Passantino is reportedly planning to leave the Trump administration in the coming weeks.
Passantino, the deputy White House counsel responsible for policing ethics for Trump officials, joined the administration in January 2017 after formerly serving as an attorney to former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.).
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Norm Eisen, former President Obama’s ethics chief and a prominent Trump critic, told Politico he was “amazed [Passantino] made it as long as he did.”
“His client was the White House, but its head, the president, is as difficult an ethics subject as has ever occupied the Oval,” Eisen said. “No ethicist could thrive in that environment.”
Ex-White House ethics chief Walter Shaub, who briefly served under Trump before resigning, said that Passantino was “openly hostile” to the government ethics program. The two clashed during Shaub’s brief tenure in the Trump White House.
“On a professional level, he has been openly hostile to the government ethics program, like nothing we’d ever seen,” Shaub added. “He’s done more harm than good in his brief stint in the White House. His detrimental influence on the government ethics program under the Trump administration was a factor in my decision to resign.”
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No surprise that Trump's ethics lawyer openly attacks ethics.
Post by sparrowsong on Jul 25, 2018 17:34:06 GMT -5
I just watched The Post last night and was surprised how similar it felt with Nixon banning reporters and publications he didn’t like from the White House.
From @rvawonk
BREAKING: Per @cnn, the White House banned CNN correspondent Kaitlan Collins from today's Rose Garden event because Trump didn't like her questions earlier in the day re. Michael Cohen.
Bill Shine & Sarah Sanders reportedly called Collins into a room and reprimanded her for her questions before telling her she wouldn't be allowed into the open press event later in the day.
Tape #2 (?). I know that Cuomo is friends with alot of 45's cronies because he's mentioned it on air when he's had them like KellyAnne, Mooch. I don't know why he is spending 2 hours with Cohen and this may not turn out to be good for him.
Kyle Griffin/NBC: Michael Cohen recorded a nearly two-hour conversation he had with CNN's Chris Cuomo this year in which he said he arranged a $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels "on my own," WSJ reports. Cohen apparently assured Cuomo he wasn’t running a tape.
Michael Cohen recorded a conversation he had with a reporter this year in which he said he arranged “on my own” a $130,000 payment in 2016 to a former adult-film star who alleged an affair with Donald Trump, according to people familiar with the matter.
In the nearly two-hour conversation with CNN reporter Chris Cuomo, which the people said appears to have been surreptitiously recorded by Mr. Cohen, the former Trump lawyer discussed at length the payment he arranged in October 2016, a month before the presidential election, to Stephanie Clifford, known professionally as Stormy Daniels.
“I did it on my own,” Mr. Cohen said of the payment, according to the people familiar with the matter.
The White House took retaliatory action against Kaitlan Collins, a White House reporter for CNN, after Collins asked President Trump questions at an Oval Office photo op on Wednesday.
CNN, rival networks, and the White House Correspondents Association all spoke out against the administration's action.
On Wednesday afternoon Collins was representing all the television networks as the "pool reporter" in the room during a meeting between Trump and Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission.
As is customary, Collins lobbed a few questions at the president. She asked about Vladimir Putin and Michael Cohen. Trump did not answer the questions.
Later in the afternoon, the White House surprised the press corps by announcing a press availability with Trump and Juncker in the Rose Garden. It was said to be open to all press, not just the small pool.
A few minutes later, Collins was asked to come to Bill Shine's office. Shine, a former co-president of Fox News, is the new deputy chief of staff for communications. Shine and press secretary Sarah Sanders met Collins there.
"They said 'You are dis-invited from the press availability in the Rose Garden today,'" Collins said. "They said that the questions I asked were inappropriate for that venue. And they said I was shouting."
A video clip of the exchange shows that Collins was speaking the same way journalists in the press pool usually speak.
On the first couple’s recent trip overseas, Melania Trump’s television aboard Air Force One was tuned to CNN. President Trump was not pleased.
He raged at his staff for violating a rule that the White House entourage should begin each trip tuned to Fox — his preferred network over what he considers the “fake news” CNN — and caused “a bit of a stir” aboard Air Force One, according to an email obtained by The New York Times. The email, an internal exchange between officials in the White House Military Office and the White House Communications Agency last Thursday, also called for the ordering of two additional televisions to support Beam, a TiVo-like streaming device, to make sure the president and first lady could both watch TV in their separate hotel rooms when they travel. At the end of the email chain, officials confirmed that tuning the TVs to Fox would be standard operating procedure going forward.
I love the pettiness of it all. Maybe her "I really don't care, do you?" jacket was for Trump, after all??
And what kind of hotel doesn't already have TVs?? Do they get a special one to make sure it's not spying on them or something??
But yet he takes a fucking soccer ball from Putin that has a listening device and which can hack near-by phones onto air force one with him for the entire 8 hour flight back home.
I’m catching up on Pompeo hearing from yesterday. This guy is really a fucking dickhead. I can see why 45 loves him. He just came in there to fight with the Senators to protect 45. All they were trying to do was get some info on 45 meeting/colluding with Russia in Helsinki.