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Being the second appointment of his aide in the month of February, President Buhari last week appointed Bashir Ahmad as his Senior Special Assistant on New Media.

But I was told by a well - placed source that Christie, speaking to a roomful of aides in December 2013 said: «I told Cuomo to tell Pat Foye to fuck off.»

The report made damning conclusions on the role played by Mr Mahama and a few of his aides in the massive electoral defeat of the NDC last year.

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Meanwhile, some of those who turned on Edwards, notably his former aide Andrew Young and his wife, have by their own admission done well financially for doing Edwards in.

President Nixon's West Wing aides went so far as to make sure that his wife Pat didn't get the newspapers delivered in the White House residence during the final days of Watergate.

The Japanese government added an extra day to what's typically a two - day summit to accommodate Trump, whom an aide of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe described this week as «one of the most remarkable people in the world because she is actively trying to support women entrepreneurs and improve women's participation in society,» according to The Washington Post.

An aide appeared to point him in the direction of where a bottle of water was located, which he then picked up and drank from.

In Trump's West Wing, once the rumors begin that an aide's exit is forthcoming, the «stink» on that staffer never leaves, according to one of the nearly dozen White House aides, former administration officials and outside advisers who spoke to The Associated Press under the same conditions.

At the confirmation hearing in January, Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota alerted Sessions to allegations of contact between Russia and Trump aides during the 2016 election.

He gets the coveted position of aide d'camp to George Washington and becomes immersed in battle strategy.

President Donald Trump and his national security aides on Thursday discussed options on Syria, where he has threatened missile strikes in response to a suspected poison gas attack, as a Russian envoy voiced fears of wider conflict between Washington and Moscow.

The White House released few details in advance about how Obama would spend his afternoon in Orlando, and aides said the trip had been hurriedly arranged in a fraction of the time usually required to plan a presidential trip.

Congressional aides said that the White House had suggested a three - year extension of the DACA program in exchange for $ 25 billion in funding for the border wall, a proposal Democrats rejected.

However, the Financial Times reported that the government has fresh concerns caused by Fox being named in a U.S. lawsuit filed last week that alleges it disseminated «fake news» on the murder of Seth Rich, an aide to the Democratic Party.

With that in mind, Bruno launched Hometeam, a homecare technology startup that pairs older adults — many of whom suffer from diseases such as Parkinson's, dementia, or multiple sclerosis — with in - home health aides.

Trump has harshly criticized the federal judge in Washington for his decision and a top White House aide on Sunday accused the 9th Circuit of a «judicial usurpation of power.»

That element, the president's authorization codes, is supposed to remain in close proximity to the president at all times, carried by one of five military aides, representing each branch of the military.

In what aides calculated were the most damaging passages, she reflects on the necessity of «unsavory» political dealing, telling real estate investors that «you need both a public and private position.»

Confirmed in a tweet by the candidate late Tuesday, the trip was organized in the last several days, with aides to the candidate and the Mexican leader working until the final minutes before the announcement to iron out the details for a visit that would normally require weeks of protocol and security planning.

Earlier in February, a top aide of Macron's also accused Russia of hacking attempts and spreading fake information about him in Kremlin - backed news outlets.

The shifting accounts of the decision to fire Comey, whom Trump derided as a «showboat» and «grandstander,» added to a mounting sense of uncertainty and chaos in the West Wing, as aides scrambled to get their stories straight and appease an angry president.

The team assembled in December consisted of about a dozen top managers - including executives from finance, legal and human resources - and aides to discuss ways to mitigate the impact of sanctions on Rusal.

The comments from Cruz and Lee suggest MacManus will likely face a nasty confirmation battle that will touch on the role he played as Clinton's top aide in the immediate aftermath of the Benghazi attack, as well as during the scandal over her use of a private email account while serving as secretary of State.

Allegations of sexual abuse have ranged from a charge of rape by an activist in the opposition Labour Party by a senior party member, to unconfirmed details of serial «sex pests» on a list reportedly drafted by aides and researchers in parliament.

Ware's statement suggested that the fact that Clinton's aides decided which emails to hand in raises questions about the «integrity» of the records, which necessitated the committee's subpoena.

Rather, Jared Kushner, the president's son - in - law and senior aide tasked with reviving a Middle East peace process, wanted to table the nuclear question in favor of simpler alliance - building measures with the Saudis, centered on Trump's visit in May, according to a person familiar with the discussions.

«Reforming the entire tax code in a matter of weeks is insanity,» a senior Democratic aide told Business Insider on Wednesday.

The resignation of Trump economic aide Gary Cohn and the firing of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson are bookends to a week of major developments in Washington.

UPDATE III: On background, a Democratic aide in the Senate says: «it's certainly a strange negotiating strategy to go out of your way to decrease your leverage by taking options off the table.»

The server investigation put such political strain on the FBI in large part because of the environment of ethics stories that surrounded it — the business and philanthropic empire that arose out of and was hopelessly intertwined with the Clinton political operation, the high - dollar paid speeches, the political aides who were somehow getting so rich off this enterprise that one of them just bought David Rockefeller's mansion.

The conservatives, liberals and socialists, who command a large majority of the parliamentary seats, will work out a joint motion on Tuesday and expect to debate the issue in parliament on Wednesday and vote on it on Thursday, Tremosa's aide said on Monday.

USA Today in late February reported that Shulkin's assistant secretary for public and intergovernmental affairs, John Ullyot, in a call initiated by Cashour, had lobbied a senior aide on the House Committee on Veterans Affairs to persuade members of Congress to call the White House and request Shulkin's ouster.

When Barack Obama first became President of the United States in 2009, two - thirds of his key aides were men, and they had a habit of ignoring or talking over the ideas of their female counterparts.

Trump enjoys the company of his preferred staffers in the Oval Office for much of the day, where the president often asks his closest aides to weigh in on subjects far outside of their professional expertise.

The program came under scrutiny earlier this year after it was revealed that Nicole Meyer, the sister of senior White House aide Jared Kushner, who is the son - in - law of President Donald Trump, name - dropped Kushner while giving a presentation to Chinese investors.

But some government officials, including some of Pruitt's own aides, pushed back against the spending requests and reportedly were sidelined as a result, pointing to an agency staff in disarray.

Shulkin's departure comes on the heels of a series of exit announcements from the Trump administration in this month alone, including those by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, National Security Advisor Director H.R. McMaster, National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn, Communications Director Hope Hicks, and Trump's personal aide John McEntee.

Democrats have accused Trump of firing Comey to upend the FBI's Russia probe, which focused in large part on whether campaign aides coordinated with Moscow to hack Democratic groups during the election.

Trump congratulated Putin even after aides, in briefing materials prepared ahead of the call, reportedly warned him: «DO NOT CONGRATULATE.»

A former top military aide to Secretary Ash Carter used a government credit card to pay large bar tabs at strip clubs in Rome and in South Korea frequented by prostitutes and engaged in «inappropriate» behavior with women, a long - awaited report by the Department of Defense Inspector General released Thursday found.

Knight would be the second top economic policy aide to leave the White House in recent weeks after Gary Cohn, the former head of the council, resigned last month over his disagreement with the president's implementation of steel and aluminum tariffs.

Albert «Kell» Kelly, a top aide to Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt, who worked on toxic waste cleanups, resigned Tuesday amid criticism of his past work in banking in Oklahoma, where he was banned from the industry.

Trump's pardon power — and its possible limits — became a subject of interest after The Washington Post reported in July that the president asked his advisers if he could pardon aides, family members, and possibly himself as the Russia investigation picked up steam.

She also grew up in a political family, with her mother having worked as a legislative aide to a Tennessee Democrat her father as chief of staff to a Congressman from Connecticut, according to Heavy.

A leading conservative voice in the House, Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio, is still opposed to the legislation even with the proposed changes, according to an aide.

So Porter, a little - known White House aide who has avoided getting caught up in any of the West Wing drama that has plagued the administration for the better part of seven months, serves to review everything before it makes it to the president's desk.

In a sign of deepening concern among Republicans about the bill's future, Trump will speak to the party's lawmakers in Congress on Tuesday about the healthcare overhaul, two House Republican aides saiIn a sign of deepening concern among Republicans about the bill's future, Trump will speak to the party's lawmakers in Congress on Tuesday about the healthcare overhaul, two House Republican aides saiin Congress on Tuesday about the healthcare overhaul, two House Republican aides said.

The aide said the photo perfectly illustrates «just sort of how I view» Porter in the White House.

Trump was not expected to put much emphasis in his talks with Xi on thorny issues like the disputed South China Sea and self - ruled Taiwan, claimed by China as its own, although the two presidents» aides may deal with those matters privately, the official told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity.

A former Forbes reporter says that President Donald Trump lied to him in order to make the Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans, including impersonating an aide who didn't exist to claim wealth he didn't have.