President Trump knew it was bad when he lost Fox & Friends. The morning after he fluffed up Vladimir Putin while teeing off on the U.S. intelligence community during a press conference in Helsinki, the president was roundly criticized by his favorite morning news program. At one point, host Brian …
Read More »Why Brett Kavanaugh Will Carry Trump's Water
President Trump’s new Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, already has signaled that he will be sympathetic to the president’s legal position in the looming court showdown over the Russia investigation. For all we know about Trump, that may be the single most important reason why he picked Kavanaugh to succeed …
Read More »Is Trump Getting Cold Feet About His North Korea Summit?
Update: The Associated Press reported Tuesday that Trump has said the summit with Kim Jong-un “may not work out for June 12th,” suggesting a potential delay. “If it doesn’t happen, maybe it will happen later,” the president added. ** Ever since the announcement of a sit-down with North Korean dictator …
Read More »Op-Ed: I Stood Up for 'The Denver Post' and Was Forced to Resign
One month ago, The Denver Post editorial board made news with a package of columns clustered around a tell-it-from-the-mountain screed decrying the degradation of local journalism at the hands of the out-of-state hedge fund and the yes-people that run the newspaper – and dozens of other papers across the country. …
Read More »There's a Gaping Hole in Giuliani and Trump's Legal Argument
Rudy Giuliani hurt President Trump and his lawyer/fixer Michael Cohen Wednesday night if he told America something about those Stormy Daniels hush-money payments that federal prosecutors didn’t already know. But of course they knew. Even before Giuliani’s disastrous Hannity interview, I believe Mueller and his larger team could have proven …
Read More »Why Are Marijuana Policies So Behind in 4/20-Heavy Places Like New York?
Amid mounting political pressure to legalize marijuana in New York, Bill de Blasio, the mayor of America’s largest city, remains locked in a prohibitionist mindset. At a press conference this week touting a new campaign to stamp out vermin (not a euphemism), the mayor fielded a question about pot. Seated …
Read More »James Comey's 'A Higher Loyalty' Is a Study in Contradictions, Inside and Out
One of the odder bits of the public controversy surrounding President Trump and the Russia investigation is how Robert Mueller, James Comey and Andrew McCabe have become lumped together, as if all three G-men were the same. The president made that accusation explicit on Friday, tweeting“McCabe is Comey!!” But actually, …
Read More »A Brief History of Michael Cohen's Criminal Ties
Copyright © Seth Hettena. Based on an excerpt fromTrump / Russia: A Definitive History to be published by Melville House Publishing on May 8th. Michael Cohen, President Trump’s long-time lawyer and personal “pit bull,” was brought to heel yesterday when federal agents raided his office in Manhattan’s Rockefeller Center. The …
Read More »What the Kids Got Right, and Killer Mike Got Wrong
Toward the end of the Los Angeles edition of the March for Our Livesrally this past Saturday, a group of five black children from the Black Lives Matter Youth Vanguard took the stage in front of City Hall. The program was now in its third hour, and the sun was …
Read More »Trump Lawyer Threatens Stormy Daniels With $20 Million in Damages
Donald Trump‘s personal attorney Michael Cohen filed a claim Friday in federal court alleging that porn star Stormy Daniels violated the terms of her non-disclosure agreement with the president. In Cohen’s filing, the lawyer said he will seek $20 million from Daniels, or $1 million per breach of the “hush …
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