Former Melania Trump aide calls First Lady ‘hypocritical’ for hiding Barron’s COVID-19 diagnosis

Melania Trump’s former aide has called the First Lady and President Donald Trump ‘hypocritical’ for telling Americans how to handle the pandemic, but not revealing that her son Barron had COVID-19 and for failing to wear a mask on some public outings.   Stephanie Winston Wolkoff said it was a missed opportunity for the president and the … Read more

Another aide is infected at the White House workers in hazmat suits get to cleaning

Melania Trump outlined the ways she’s keeping the staff who man the White House residence safe as she and President Donald Trump battle COVID while Ivanka Trump joined the ranks of officials working from home after the number of aides testing positive for the coronavirus has grown. President Trump, still contagious from his bout with the … Read more

Trump’s last senior COVID-free press aide says he was ‘projecting strength’

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 1 Ronna McDaniel, 47. Chair of the Republican National Convention  McDaniel is thought to have been the first positive case. It was not made public until after Trump’s diagnosis.  She was last in contact with Trump on September 25. McDaniel began isolating on September 26 when a member of her family tested positive. She … Read more

Trump aide pressured CDC to alter report on kids’ coronavirus risks  

A Trump administration aide pressured Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) experts to alter its report on children’s coronavirus risks, emails obtained by Politico suggest.  Paul Alexander, a part-time assistant professor of health research methods at McMaster University in Canada who was brought into the Trump administration by Michael Caputo, pressed the editor of … Read more

Ex-Question Time host David Dimbleby calls Boris Johnson’s chief aide Dominic Cummings ‘machine gun’

Ex-Question Time host David Dimbleby calls Boris Johnson’s chief aide Dominic Cummings a ‘machine gun’ prepared to ‘massacre’ institutions including the BBC and judiciary – and even takes aim at ‘arrogant’ PM Mr Dimbleby, 81, said ‘there is something obnoxious’ about Dominic Cummings  He also said politicians these days shy away from scrutiny and are … Read more

ANDREW PIERCE: How Tory jail cuts hacked off David Cameron’s top aide

ANDREW PIERCE: How Tory jail cuts hacked off David Cameron’s top aide By Andrew Pierce for the Daily Mail Published: 02:10 BST, 21 September 2020 | Updated: 02:18 BST, 21 September 2020 Few Tory luminaries, it appears, had more harrowing personal experiences of the coalition government’s austerity measures than David Cameron’s former Downing Street communications … Read more

Dominic Cummings’ message to the generals? Top aide flashes letter about military tech

Dominic Cummings’ message to the generals? Boris Johnson’s suited and booted top aide shows off 1980s letter on the importance of new military technology as he leads drive to modernise Britain’s Armed Forces By David Wilcock, Whitehall Correspondent For Mailonline Published: 10:48 BST, 15 September 2020 | Updated: 11:13 BST, 15 September 2020 Dominic Cummings … Read more

Aide to fugitive Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn pleads not guilty

An aide to fugitive Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn pleaded not guilty to hiding tens of millions of dollars for his boss today as the trial against him began in Tokyo.  Greg Kelly denies an $87million conspiracy charge in a saga which has gripped the business world since Ghosn’s arrest nearly two years ago. Ghosn is … Read more

Boris Johnson poaches Prince William’s aide for civil service

A former aide to Prince William will today be appointed as Britain’s top civil servant. Whitehall sources last night confirmed that Boris Johnson has picked Simon Case to be the UK’s new Cabinet Secretary. He will replace Sir Mark Sedwill, who announced he was quitting in June after losing a power struggle with the Prime … Read more

Melania Trump’s closest aide says she has never heard First Lady trash her husband and Ivanka

Melania Trump’s closet aide said she’s never heard the first lady make any disparaging remarks about President Donald Trump or the first family after a report that there are tapes of Melania Trump doing just that.  ‘No. I’ve never heard Mrs. Trump say anything disparaging about the family,’ Stephanie Grisham, who serves as the first … Read more