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Former acting director of national intelligence Richard Grenell. (Getty/Chip Somodevilla) Controversial Trump loyalist Richard Grenell has been handed a new government role, as the president seeks to reward his allies with plum posts ahead of his exit from office. The controversial gay Republican operative, who previously served as Trump’s ambassador to Germany and his acting national security advisor, has been nominated serve on the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. Grenell provoked ...

Trump turns to fringe element in election fight Author: Toluse Olorunnipa, Josh Dawsey, Rosalind S. Helderman, Emma Brown, The Washington Post Updated: December 21, 2020 Published December 21, 2020 Share on Facebook Print article WASHINGTON - With his baseless claims of widespread voter fraud rejected by dozens of judges and GOP leaders, President Donald Trump has turned to a ragtag group of conspiracy theorists, media-hungry lawyers and other political misfits in a desperate attempt to...

President Donald Trump, less than a month away from leaving office, has named a spate of loyalists to plum boards – placing longtime aide Hope Hicks get the group overseeing Fulbright scholars and putting the businessman who introduced him to the first lady on the Kennedy Center board.  Paulo Zampolli introduced Trump to the the former Melania Knauss when she was a Slovenian model at the Kit Kat club in 1998. He will not sit on the board of the Kennedy Center – nabbing a prestigious perk i...

December 22, 2020 3:38 PM ET Font Size: President Donald Trump announced plans to appoint current senior adviser Hope Hicks to a new government role, the White House announced Tuesday. Hicks will join the William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, which aims to “improve intercultural relations.” Hicks’ appointment came among a long list of last-minute appointments Trump is making ahead of President-Elect Joe Biden’s inauguration in January. Other notable appointments include former Di...

Trump assembles a ragtag crew of conspiracy-minded allies in flailing bid to reverse election loss Toluse Olorunnipa, Josh Dawsey, Rosalind Helderman, Emma Brown A guide to Trumps false election claims | Fact Checker Replay Video Replay Video UP NEXT With his baseless claims of widespread voter fraud rejected by dozens of judges and GOP leaders, President Trump has turned to a ragtag group of conspiracy theorists, media-hungry lawyers and other political misfits in a desperat...

With his baseless claims of widespread voter fraud rejected by dozens of judges and GOP leaders, President Donald Trump has turned to a ragtag group of conspiracy theorists, media-hungry lawyers and other political misfits in a desperate attempt to hold on to power after his election loss. The presidents orbit has grown more extreme as his more mainstream allies, including Attorney General William Barr, have declined to endorse his increasingly radical plans to overturn the will of the voters....

Who’s responsible for America’s disastrous mismanagement of COVID-19? Four months ago, when the U.S. death toll was around 160,000, I outlined President Donald Trump’s role in the catastrophe. Since then, the body count has nearly doubled. A new report, published this weekend in the Washington Post, adds to the incriminating evidence. It details multiple incidents of negligence and malfeasance, attributed by the Post’s sources to specific administration officials. Each of these incident...

Trump turns to fringe element in election fight In this Jan. 27, 2020, file phoot President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci) Published December 22. 2020 12:05AM | Updated December 22. 2020 12:11AM Toluse Olorunnipa, Josh Dawsey, Rosalind S. Helderman and Emma Brown WASHINGTON - With his claims of widespread voter fraud rejected by dozens of judges and GOP leaders, Pr...

The inside story of how Trump’s denial, mismanagement, and magical thinking led to the pandemic’s dark winter By Yasmeen Abutaleb, Ashley Parker, Josh Dawsey and Philip Rucker The Washington Post,Updated December 20, 2020, 12:55 a.m. Email to a Friend White House coronavirus response coordinator Deborah Birx and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci listened as President Trump spoke at a coronavirus briefing at the White House on March 20.Jabin B...

Even as Trump vows to keep fighting, his aides are quietly starting to move on Josh Dawsey, David Fahrenthold, Carol D. Leonnig Why Barr finally broke with Trump Replay Video Replay Video UP NEXT Vice President Pence has begun looking for a new home in the Washington suburbs, and he’s planning a valedictory foreign trip to begin the day Congress counts the electoral college votes. Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has discussed opening a consulting firm with other White House aide...