Taxpayers will pay for Donald Trump’s ‘Emoluments’ lawsuit defense According to a New York Times story, the U.S. taxpayer will be picking up the tab for Donald Trump’s Emoluments Clause defense. Officials announced Monday that the Justice Department will defend Donald Trump from the lawsuit that was filed on Monday accusing the President of violating the Constitution’s Emoluments clause. The New York Times quoted a spokesperson from the Justice Department as saying, “The department is reviewing the complaint and will respond as appropriate.” The Constitution’s Emoluments clause prevents federal officeholders from accepting gifts or payments from foreign governments. And ethics...

WATCH: Seth Meyers consoles Donald Trump about his tiny crowd size On Monday night, Late Night host Seth Meyers consoled Donald Trump about his tiny crowd size. Meyers told the President, “Don’t worry, you’re still the most popular president—since Obama.” Then he asked, “imagine being so disliked that people are willing to go outside and protest you in Antarctica.” “Now we know Donald Trump doesn’t care that much about the sizes of things, especially crowds, so it was a little surprising to hear him complain about the media coverage,” Meyers said. Then Meyers showed footage of Trump ranting about the media coverage of...

Donald Trump used his first meeting with congressional leaders to bring back his lie about “millions of illegals” voting in the 2016 election and costing him the popular vote. According to a story in the Washington Post, “Trump spent about 10 minutes at the start of the bipartisan gathering rehashing the campaign. He also told them that between 3 million and 5 million illegal votes caused him to lose the popular vote.” Hillary Clinton, of course, won the popular vote by more than 2.8 million...

Democrats: Trump is in violation of his DC hotel lease House and Senate Democrats sent a letter Monday to General Services Administration Acting Administrator Timothy Horne asking what the agency is doing to address the obvious breach of the contract. According to Democrats, Donald Trump has officially violated the lease agreement he holds with the federal government for his Washington, D.C. hotel. The General Services Administration manages the Old Post Office building which Donald Trump leased for his Trump International Hotel. Now that Trump has been sworn in and announced that he will not divest ownership interest in the...

Trump’s CIA visit made relations with intel community worse There is growing evidence that Donald Trump’s bizarre rant in front of the CIA’s Wall of Start has made relations between Trump and the intelligence community worse. According to CBS, “U.S. government sources tell CBS News that there is a sense of unease in the intelligence community after President Trump’s visit to CIA headquarters on Saturday. An official said the visit ‘made relations with the intelligence community worse’ and described the visit as ‘uncomfortable.'” Donald Trump brought friendly crowd To CIA visit The CBS News report goes on to say that officials...

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that United States counterintelligence officials are investigating Donald Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn’s phone calls with Russia, according to people familiar with the matter. REPORT: US intelligence agents investigating Flynn calls with Russia The WSJ report follows up on an earlier Associated Press report that confirmed that Michael Flynn had contact with the Russian ambassador – a possible violation of the Logan Act –  on the same day that President Obama was announcing sanctions against Russia for their interference in the 2016 election. According to the Wall Street Journal report: The counterintelligence inquiry...