Reporter Raquel Camila

  Former US President Donald Trump said on Monday that he will not return to social media platform Twitter even if his account is reinstated following the platform’s purchase by billionaire Elon Musk. Trump told Fox News that he will formally join his own Truth Social startup over the next seven days, as planned. To know more:  https://english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2022/04/25/Donald-Trump-says-he-won-t-return-to-Twitter-if-account-reinstated-after-Musk-deal

John Durham, the special counsel appointed under former President Trump to investigate the FBI’s probing of Russian interference in the 2016 election, alleged in court that a tech executive “exploited” access to White House data in order to find damning information about Trump. In a court filing submitted Friday,  Durham’s office said that the executive , who is referred to in legal filings only as “Tech Executive-1” but has been identified in news reports as Rodney Joffe, used his company’s access to nonpublic government domain name system (DNS) data through a pending cybersecurity contract as he was analyzing supposed links between the Trump Organization and a Russian bank. COURT BATTLES “Tech Executive-1’s employer, Internet Company-1, had come to access and maintain dedicated servers for the EOP as part of a sensitive arrangement whereby it provided DNS resolution services to the EOP,” Durham’s office wrote, using an acronym for the White House’s Executive Office of the Preside...

Centrist Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Monday said he would not support confirming another nominee selected by President Biden for the Supreme Court immediately before the 2024 presidential election, clarifying remarks he'd made earlier about the midterm elections. Manchin said he would prefer to wait until the country knows who will occupy the White House in 2025. Senate Manchin walked back the comment he made earlier afternoon indicating that he would not support confirming a second Biden nominee to the Supreme Court if another vacancy occurs shortly before the Nov. 8 midterm election.   Asked if the Senate should act if another seat becomes vacant “later in the year closer to the election,” Manchin responded: “I’m not going to be hypocritical on that.  “If it comes a week or two weeks before like it did with our last Supreme Court nominee, I think that’s a time it should go to the next election,” he said.    Manchin’s comments immediately attracted attention...

White House officials’ stock divestments and recusals are hidden from public view, thanks to ethics law gaps and a lack of transparency from the Biden administration. Deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technology Anne Neuberger and Homeland Security adviser and deputy national security adviser Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall speak at the daily press briefing at the White House WHEN HOMELAND SECURITY adviser Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall joined the White House in January 2021, she held vested employee stock options at two growing companies in the cybersecurity industry. Cybersecurity was poised to be front and center for the Biden administration, given the massive breach of software company SolarWinds in 2020 that raised alarms about vulnerabilities in the U.S. government and economy. Sherwood-Randall signed a financial disclosure form pledging to divest her assets at Dragos and Resilience, for which she had served on the advisory boards, and had a recusal arrangement in p...

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) Chairman Jelena McWilliams, a Trump appointee, resigned Friday amid a   power struggle   with Democratic members of the agency’s board. In a letter to  President Biden  released Friday,  McWilliams announced  she would step down from the FDIC on Feb. 4, less than four years after she was confirmed by the Senate to lead the bank regulator. McWilliams’ unexpected resignation came weeks after Democratic directors on the FDIC board attempted to launch a review of bank merger standards  without her approval . While McWilliams ostensibly controlled the FDIC board, she was the sole Republican countering three Democratic directors: Former FDIC Chairman Martin Gruenberg, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director  Rohit Chopra  and Acting Comptroller of the Currency Michael Hsu. Jelena McWilliams In  a op-ed  for the Wall Street Journal, McWilliams denounced the Democratic directors for launching “a ...