Aaron Blake

Almost half of Republicans want war with North Korea, a new poll says

October 15, 2017 at 8:23 p.m.

There was a pretty striking finding in Thursday's Quinnipiac University poll: Fully 46 percent of Republicans - a plurality - said they would support a preemptive strike against North Korea.

President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson listen to statements before a luncheon with U.S., Korean and Japanese leaders at the Palace Hotel during the 72nd United Nations General Assembly in New York City on Sept. 21.

Blake: Trump’s loose talk on nuclear weapons suddenly becomes very real

October 13, 2017 at 12:08 p.m.

While Donald Trump's loose chatter about nukes might have been dismissed as campaign bluster and posturing before, it seems much more real now, following a report by NBC News.

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters outside the White House on Oct. 7. During the exchange, Trump called NBC News "fake news" after it reported tension between the president and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.

Blake: Trump’s threat to NBC’s license is the very definition of Nixonian

October 12, 2017 at 12:55 p.m.

President Donald Trump is yet again threatening to crack down on media outlets he doesn't like. This time, it's almost exactly what Richard Nixon appeared to attempt in the 1970s.

Blake: What’s the matter with Donald Trump’s lawyers?

September 18, 2017 at 4:29 p.m.

Those who we might expect to be the most disciplined -- the lawyers -- have proven anything but. Last week was the first time that seemed to potentially imperil Trump's...

Analysis: The White House clearly isn’t going to make Mexico pay for that wall

August 25, 2017 at 9:48 a.m.

The White House isn't even pretending that Mexico is going to pay for that wall anymore.

President Donald Trump and Russia's President ...

Blake: Putin is playing hardball with Trump. And Trump is conspicuously silent.

July 31, 2017 at 3:26 p.m.

President Donald Trump has a ready-made defense for whenever he viciously attacks his opponents: He's a counterpuncher. But on Russia, the counter-puncher-in-chief is conspicuously gun-shy.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions testifies on ...

Republicans are starting to draw red lines on Trump firing Sessions and Mueller

July 27, 2017 at 5:16 p.m.

For arguably the first time, Republicans are starting to draw red lines in an effort to save President Donald Trump from himself.

Analysis: Trump is ratcheting up his abuse of Jeff Sessions. And Sessions has no good options.

July 25, 2017 at 4:57 p.m.

Trump on Tuesday afternoon denied that he is letting Attorney General Jeff Sessions twist in the wind. But that is the very definition of what Trump is doing, and he's...

Donald Trump Jr., left, is interviewed by host Sean Hannity on his Fox News program on Tuesday. Trump eagerly accepted help from what was described to him as a Russian government effort to aid his father's campaign with damaging information about Hillary Clinton, according to emails he released publicly on Tuesday.

Blake: The White House is being really cagey about more contacts with Russians

July 14, 2017 at 3:09 p.m.

The White House has been caught too many times denying contacts with Russians, only to have those denials blow up in their faces.

Analysis: This is one of President Trump’s most bizarre tweets yet – for 3 reasons

July 7, 2017 at 10:17 p.m.

It's a very big day for President Donald Trump: the day he meets and sits down with Russian President Vladimir Putin for the first time. So naturally he got it...

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