When thriller author Joel C. Rosenberg was invited into an impromptu Oval Office visit, he offered up a surefire way for President Trump to have fun with the Russia collusion story, dismissed in a new report to Justice.
The author, on a tour promoting his latest New York Times best-seller The Persian Gamble, told the president about his prior book The Kremlin Conspiracy, assuring Trump that it had nothing to do with him.
“I suggested that next time he walked out to Marine One, he should carry the book with him,” said Rosenberg. “He could hold it up for reporters and photographers and point to the title and say, ‘It’s fiction people, it’s fiction.'” …
- Conservative radio host and columnist Hugh Hewitt has been picked to head the Richard Nixon Foundation. He has strong ties to the ex-prez — he was hired by Nixon as a researcher from Harvard University 40 years ago to help with the building and opening the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, Calif. …
- When any secretary of state appears before the House Foreign Affairs Committee to pitch their budget, it’s usually standing room only with all members lining up to praise or criticize the nation’s top diplomat. This week’s appearance by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo threatened to be explosive, since he had ripped Democratic member Rep. Ilhan Omar’s anti-Israel comments. But she didn’t show up. ...
- He’s new to Congress and a Republican from Wisconsin, so it was a natural for Rep. Bryan Steil to be featured on Wisconsin Rep. Sean Duffy’s latest insider podcast called "Plaidcast." In Duffy’s “buzz saw” section, he asked Steil which Democrat he likes most. “John Lewis is a pretty amazing guy,” he said of the Georgia civil rights leader and lawmaker. “When you talk to him about his personal story, what he saw, that’s really a generation before you and I, what an amazing, amazing individual. We’re all blessed that he’s there.” …