• Trump campaign continued paying private security firms after election, records show

    Trump campaign continued paying private security firms after election, records show

    Jan 20, 2017 04:27 PM EDT

    ... from the Trump campaign between Oct. 20 and the end of November. The spending was up from the first three weeks of October, when the campaign paid the firm $29,506. XMark is one of several private security firms on which the Trump campaign continued spending money after the president ...

  • AP Sources: Trump offers Montana's Zinke interior secretary

    AP Sources: Trump offers Montana's Zinke interior secretary

    Dec 13, 2016 11:44 PM EDT

    ... the congressman has accepted, two people with knowledge of the offer said Tuesday. Zinke, 55, is a retired Navy SEAL who was awarded two Bronze Stars for combat missions in Iraq. He was an early supporter of Trump and met with the president-elect Monday at Trump Tower in Manhattan ...

  • From 'oops' to Energy chief: Rick Perry is Trump's pick for energy secretary

    From 'oops' to Energy chief: Rick Perry is Trump's pick for energy secretary

    Dec 13, 2016 03:25 PM EDT

    ... fitness with a brief appearance on this season's "Dancing with the Stars." He was the second contestant eliminated. Weissert contributed from Austin, Texas. Associated Press writers Julie Pace and Ken Thomas contributed to this report. READ MORE: Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson will be Trump’s Secretary of State

  • Democratic Party, with few up-and-coming stars, in dire straits after GOP sweeps

    Democratic Party, with few up-and-coming stars, in dire straits after GOP sweeps

    Nov 10, 2016 10:02 PM EDT

    ... Campaign Committee. Green said Democrats must make a "conscious decision to separate themselves from the corporate villains who are to a large extent funding their campaigns." Trump's open warfare with Republican leaders over the past year and a half obscured the extent of the Democrats' crisis, and they are ...

  • Clinton tells supporters to greet Trump with 'open mind'

    Clinton tells supporters to greet Trump with 'open mind'

    Nov 09, 2016 01:21 PM EDT

    ... after 16 years. If Clinton had won, it would have marked the first time a former first lady was elected U.S. president. Clinton's campaign was trying to make sense of a dramatic election night in which Trump captured battleground states like Florida, North Carolina and Ohio and demolished ...

  • Is the media fair to Donald Trump?

    Is the media fair to Donald Trump?

    Oct 18, 2016 11:12 PM EDT

    ... pretty accurate description of what he said in that tape, for instance. JUDY WOODRUFF: Well, let's take this a little bit further. What Donald Trump -- Bob Lichter, what Donald Trump is saying is that the media is in collusion with the Clinton campaign. What evidence is there that that ...

  • Trump says 'zero' chance he'll quit presidential race after lewd comments

    Trump says 'zero' chance he'll quit presidential race after lewd comments

    Oct 08, 2016 04:47 PM EDT

    ... Ryan and Priebus did not join a chorus of GOP officeholders from Utah to Alabama to New Hampshire who decided the former reality television star's bombshell was too much to take. More than a dozen Republicans — senators, congressmen and sitting governors — announced Saturday they would not vote for Trump ...

  • Why seeing Trump’s tax returns really matters

    Why seeing Trump’s tax returns really matters

    Sep 30, 2016 12:30 AM EDT

    Having declined to release his tax returns, Donald Trump made an offhand remark at the first presidential debate that made people wonder if the real estate tycoon pays any tax at all. But that’s just one part of the equation. David Cay Johnston joins economics correspondent Paul Solman to make sense of Trump's taxes and...

  • Trump becomes punchline at this year's Emmys

    Trump becomes punchline at this year's Emmys

    Sep 19, 2016 02:55 PM EDT

    Since it often seems like the most entertaining limited series on television, there was little surprise that the presidential campaign made its presence felt at the Emmy Awards.

  • Donald Trump's fundraising lags behind Romney's, documents show

    Donald Trump's fundraising lags behind Romney's, documents show

    Aug 23, 2016 05:25 PM EDT

    Donald Trump portrays himself as an indispensable cash resource for fellow Republicans. So far, they're not seeing much of a benefit.