President Donald Trump on Thursday thanked House Republicans “for being tough” in the face of the ongoing impeachment inquiry one day after a few dozen GOP lawmakers stormed a secure hearing room in the U.S. Capitol in protest.

“Thank you to House Republicans for being tough, smart, and understanding in detail the greatest Witch Hunt in American History,” Trump tweeted.

The president claimed “it has been going on since long before I even got Elected,” a reference to his long-held but unsubstantiated claims that FBI agents and other intelligence community officials were biased against him during the 2016 campaign. Read Full Story

• Washington Examiner: House Republicans Request First Impeachment Witness: The Whistleblower
• The Washington Times: Senate GOP Bill Seeks to Move 90% of Jobs in 10 Federal Depts Outside D.C.
• The Washington Free Beacon: GOP Lawmakers Cannot View Impeachment Docs Without Supervision of Democrats
• PJ Media: ICE Official: 100 Illegal Alien Criminals Released in Los Angeles Every Day
• Axios: Trump’s Looming Move to Leave Paris Climate Agreement

President Donald Trump said Monday that he doesn’t want to have copies of The New York Times in the White House anymore and suggested he would terminate the subscription.

“We don’t even want it in the White House anymore,” Trump told Fox News’ Sean Hannity in an interview that aired Monday night. “We’re going to probably terminate that and The Washington Post.”

Trump also claimed that the Times apologized to its readers for its poor coverage of him, echoing his previous assertions about a letter the newspaper sent to its subscribers following the 2016 presidential election.

The Times has forcefully pushed back on Trump’s accusations as false. The Times’ publisher wrote in the letter to readers that news outlets underestimated Trump’s support among U.S. voters and described his victory as “unexpected.” The letter thanked subscribers and did not include an apology. Read Full Story

• Inside Hook: Journalists Tracked Down Mitt Romney’s Secret Twitter Account
• Washington Examiner: ‘Still Bitter’: Huckabee Mocks Romney for His Secret Anti-Trump Twitter Account
• The Daily Caller: Grassley Suspects ‘Deep State’ Is Responsible for Delay in FISA Abuse Report
• The Washington Times: Trump Administration Eyes Reversal on Troop Withdrawal From Syria
• National Review: The Supreme Court Is Poised to Strike Down Major Obama-Era Agency

It’s truly amazing to see how passionately Democrats are suddenly supporting the idea of American Empire: a worldwide presence of U.S. troops, with a focus on the Middle East. For decades, Democrats said they opposed endless wars, but from the very moment Donald Trump became president, the party’s leaders have become more hawkish than George W. Bush (of all people).

President Trump has noticed this, too. “I am the only person who can fight for the safety of our troops & bring them home from the ridiculous & costly Endless Wars, and be scorned,” he writes on Twitter. “Democrats always liked that position, until I took it. Democrats always liked Walls, until I built them. Do you see what’s happening here?” Read Full Story

• The Hill: Trump: Lawmakers Should Censure Schiff
• The Daily Caller: Nancy Pelosi Treated Trump Staff With ‘Disrespect,’ Called Them ‘Incompetent,’ Hogan Gidley Claims
• Washington Examiner: ‘Hypocritical’ Climate Protesters Attacked for Morning Commute Disruption
• The Washington Times: State Department Lifts Hold on Foreign Aid to Central America
• Townhall: Bad Gaslighting Epidemic Sweeps Elite