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 »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 …
Read More »What Happens When the Economy Collapses on Trump's Watch?
President Trump doesn’t have many tentpole accomplishments to tout as his presidency enters its third year. He does have the economy, though, which has boomed since he assumed office back in January 2017. He might not have it much longer. On Wednesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook warned that the company …
Read More »What This New Batch of Subpoenas Means for the Future of the Trump Organization
One week after the 2016 election, employees at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., pitched dozens of foreign diplomats on the property and all it had to offer. Not that much of a spiel was required, since the chief advantage was obvious: it belonged to the president. As one …
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