As Robert Mueller prepared to testify before the House Wednesday, President Trump fired off an addled, early-morning tweetstorm, decrying the “The Greatest Witch Hunt in U.S. history, by far!” Mueller led the investigation into the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russia, finding no criminal conspiracy with the government of Vladimir Putin, …
Read More »Trump Is 'Guilty of High Crimes and Misdemeanors,' House Judiciary Chair Says
On Sunday, House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) spoke with Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace about the importance of the much-anticipated testimony from special counsel Robert Mueller slated for Wednesday before both the Judiciary Committee and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The Fox News host started the interview …
Read More »Is Elizabeth Warren Building a Grassroots Juggernaut?
The official disclosure deadline is not until July 15th, but 2020 candidates are already touting the millions theyraised in the second quarter of 2019. The top rainmaker of the quarter, by far, is President Donald Trump. His campaign, in conjunction with the Republican National Committee, says it raised $105 million …
Read More »Trump Confirms He Would Accept Foreign Dirt on 2020 Opponent. What Now?
During an interview with George Stephanopoulos, a preview of which ABC released Wednesday night, President Trump confirmed that what the Mueller report made clear about his campaign’s relationship with Russia in 2016 — that it was offered, and willingly accepted, help from the foreign adversary — is not only liable …
Read More »Why Are Migrant Children Being Housed at the Site of a World War II Internment Camp?
On Tuesday, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that it will begin holding unaccompanied migrant children at Fort Sill, a 150-year-old military base in Oklahoma. In World War II, the site was used as an internment camp for Japanese-Americans. The move comes in response to a surge of …
Read More »The Complicity of Ben Carson
Housing discrimination is how Donald Trump got his start in public racism. If you are unfamiliar with the history, the Department of Justice sued the Trump family real estate management company in 1973 for barring rentals from prospective non-white tenants in New York City. The government found that the Trump …
Read More »Trump's Trying to Poison the Electorate for Mueller's Testimony
After our commander-in-chief first took to Twitter today to bizarrely tell the world that “political correctness” was to blame for the Kentucky Derby’s controversial outcome, President Trump got back to his usual Twitter habits of blasting his perceived enemies. When the Mueller investigation came to a close last month, Trump …
Read More »The White House, Not DeVos, Wanted to Slash Special Olympics Budget
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has been taking heat this week for cutting funding from the Special Olympics in its budget proposal this year, but a department official familiar with the process who spoke with CNN said it was the White House Office of Management and Budget that insisted on revoking …
Read More »Trump's Awkward Relationship With the Troops (Timeline)
Nobody knows more about ISIS than Donald Trump does. Or about hunting down enemies. Or preventing terrorist attacks —believe him. The 45th president lacks military experience but seems to believe he would have served his country better than any of the men and women who actually chose to do so. …
Read More »Timeline: All the Mueller Indictments and Plea Deals So Far
President Trump has called it a “witch hunt,” but Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia‘s interference in the 2016 presidential election, and the Trump campaign’s possible collusion with the Kremlin has yielded 37 indictments or guilty pleas and four prison sentences over the past year and a half. The …
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