I'm praying for President Trump. If you're so inclined, I'd love company.
Stephen Hayes
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Stephen Hayes
@stephenfhayes
Editor/CEO, @thedispatch. NBC News Political Analyst.
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Annapolis, MD
Joined August 2009
- Got it. Russia attacks our elections, steals our cyber secrets, supports our enemies and meddles (currently) in our 2018 vote - and they’re worthy of G-8 membership. But a strong G-7 ally says something POTUS doesn’t like at a press conference and it’s time for toughness?Based on Justin’s false statements at his news conference, and the fact that Canada is charging massive Tariffs to our U.S. farmers, workers and companies, I have instructed our U.S. Reps not to endorse the Communique as we look at Tariffs on automobiles flooding the U.S. Market!
- Amazing. The Trump admin says for weeks that governors are responsible for securing equipment/tests for their states. Then MD Gov Hogan obtains 500k tests from South Korea and he's mocked by Adm Giroir and pilloried by Pres Trump for having done so.
- Immediately after those comments, I asked Trump at a press conference if he wanted to apologize to McCain. Trump said: “No, not at all.” When I asked him he was familiar with what happened to McCain during his captivity, Trump said: “It’s irrelevant.”Trump has told White House aides he does not regret saying McCain is not a war hero. He tells advisers that McCain has a vendetta against him and that he wishes he’d step down. He doesn’t plan to say a laudatory word about the ailing senator. washingtonpost.com/politics/bad-b…
- "King claimed our reporter lied. He didn’t. He claimed we didn’t have a recording. We do. He insisted we refused to release the audio. Untrue." The audio makes clear King was quoted accurately. We stand by the story. weeklystandard.com/stephen-f-haye…
- Huge kudos to the Washington Post and great old-fashioned, fact-based reporting on an issue of tremendous consequence.
- Ronald Reagan, on the KKK: "The politics of racial hatred & religious bigotry practiced by the Klan & others have no place in this country."
- Brennan is an incredible hack. He's been caught lying repeatedly. He routinely politicized intelligence. He sought to silence dissenting intel voices. Whatever you think about Trump's decision, it's a mistake to lionize a political hack.Admiral Bill McRaven commanded the raid that killed bin Laden. Now he writes: Revoke my security clearance, too, Mr. President wapo.st/2OG8gCS?tid=ss…
- What an embarrassing spectacle the modern Republican Party has become.
- Why would Walmart need to “eat the tariffs” if, as Trump has long claimed, “a tariff is a tax on a foreign country”? (8/17/24, Wilkes-Barre, PA)“Eat the tariffs,” Trump tells Walmart.
- The other lesson: Be less corrupt.Lesson to other Trump officials from Pruitt resignation: Give the left/media/organized greens any molehill and they will turn it into K2. Most of the accusations were overwrought, but the barrage was overwhelming. Let's hope an equally reformist successor denies them a repeat.
- President Trump needs to be impeached and removed, immediately. And responsible Republicans need to lead the effort.
- "I spent six years in the White House briefing room covering Ronald Reagan. I have to say, I never...I never saw a White House press secretary act like that." - Chris WallaceOne measure of any press secretary’s effectiveness is who, precisely, is enraged by them.
- NEWS: An hour before Congress reconvened, President Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, left a voicemail for Sen. Tommy Tuberville, imploring him to delay & promising new information tomorrow. The problem? Giuliani left his msg on another senator's voicemail. thedispatch.com/p/giuliani-to-…
