WHITE HOUSE WATCH: JARRING CONTRAST-CHINA TALKS AND A PRESIDENT WHO GRIEVES FOR THE FALLEN
By Denny Gulino THE WHITE HOUSE (MaceNews) – Somebody knows something, right? Because why would stocks go up on optimism about the China talks that start Thursday, a day after they went down on pessimism about the talks? Maybe the eight drivers sitting on a bench waiting for the next trip overheard something as they […]
WHITE HOUSE WATCH: BAD VIBES SURROUND RUNUP TO CHINA TRADE TALKS
By Denny Gulino THE WHITE HOUSE (MaceNews) – The BLS Limo Group black vans are back at the Willard Hotel, this time carrying bureaucrats from China and as they mill about at 14th & F streets, a block from the Treasury and two blocks from the White House, they seem relaxed. They are a low-security […]
UPDATED WHITE HOUSE WATCH: ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER SURPRISE POLICY SHIFT
By Denny Gulino THE WHITE HOUSE (MaceNews) – It was a sort of typical Monday in the Executive Mansion, a few tweets, a surprise pullout of U.S. troops from Syria, an impromptu news conference after the signing of a $55 billion trade deal and an accompanying “digital” commerce agreement with Japan and on many levels, […]
WHITE HOUSE WATCH: OCTOBER BECOMES MORE CROWDED WITH TARIFFS
By Denny Gulino THE WHITE HOUSE (MaceNews) – One of the many targets of the president other than the “stone-cold crooked” Bidens – who he Thursday called on China to investigate, apparently in case Ukraine isn’t up to the job – is doing the White House a favor. First, though, as he left for a […]
WHITE HOUSE WATCH: WALLS OF WORRY AND SEEDS OF POLITICAL CRISIS
By Denny Gulino THE WHITE HOUSE (MaceNews) – When the Dow industrials can close down Wednesday almost 500 points and that only erases a month’s worth of gains, how bad can that be? And to continue the Panglossian view of the day’s markets and tangled political recriminations, what’s not to like about those walls of […]
WHITE HOUSE WATCH: OF ISM, FALLING MICE AND THE NEW DONGFENGS
By Denny Gulino THE WHITE HOUSE (MaceNews) – Here at the center of the action Tuesday, about 150 feet from the Oval Office , there is …. no action. When you watch the evening news, it will seem that a lot is going on. But take it from one of the “pool” reporters who rotated […]
WHITE HOUSE WATCH: DARKNESS, LIGHT AND MORE DARKNESS IN THE HALLS OF POWER
By Denny Gulino THE WHITE HOUSE (MaceNews) – Day by day the wall gets longer, with two long sections in place Monday. That would be the new 13-foot wall along what used to be Pennsylvania Ave. in front of the White House, a physical metaphor for the less visible but substantial barriers being erected inside […]
WHITE HOUSE WATCH: DON’T WASTE TIME FINDING NON-IMPEACHMENT NEWS
By Denny Gulino THE WHITE HOUSE (MaceNews) – Did you hear? No government shutdown! It’s hardly news worth talking about, of course, as the impeachment inquiry crowds out everything else. At least, there’s no government shutdown next Tuesday. The short-term extension to the budget passed by the Senate, already passed by the House and being […]
WHITE HOUSE WATCH: SCENARIOS KEEP SHIFTING BUT TRUMP TEAM FOCUSES
By Denny Gulino THE WHITE HOUSE (MaceNews) – The lightning-like upgrade to impeachment inquiry status caught the Trump team off guard, during a Manhattan foray for the president that lasted nearly a week, but now the White House’s chief resident is back, signaling Thursday that the fight is on. What one Capitol Hill newspaper counted […]
TRANSCRIPT CONFIRMS TRUMP ASKS UKRAINE PM TO PROBE BIDENS
WASHINGTON (MaceNews) – The following is the transcript of President Donald Trump’s telephone conversation July 25 with then newly elected Ukraine Prime Minister Volodymyr Zelensky, released by the White House Wednesday: UNCLASSIFIED Declassified by order of the President’ September 24, 2019 Telephone Conversation with President Zelensky of Ukraine Notetakers: The White House Situation·Room July 25, […]