Attorney General William Barr on Thursday released to the public a redacted version of the Mueller report. The special counsel’s findings, which were posted to the Justice Department’s website as PDF file, span 448 pages and are split into two volumes. The first volume focuses on Russia’s efforts to interfere …
Read More »
The stir that President Donald Trump caused when he tweeted an incendiary 9/11 video targeting freshman Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is showing no signs of slowing down. On Sunday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) released a statement that called on Trump to take down the video and reached …
Read More »
Are there constituents among the American electorate who love the trashing of dead people? If so, President Donald Trump has cornered that market. Weeks ago Trump hammered the now-deceased Sen. John McCain because he can’t get past McCain’s famous thumbs-down vote on legislation that would have taken away healthcare from …
Read More »
The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a resolution to “terminate” the national emergency President Trump declared earlier this month to secure funding for a border wall. The bill’s passage was expected, as 230 lawmakers, including one Republican, co-sponsored it before it was brought up for a vote. The measure …
Read More »
In his battle against the media he deems to be the “enemy of the people,” Donald Trump has repeatedly called for America’s libel standards to be overhauled. As a candidate back in February 2016, Trump vowed: “I’m going to open up our libel laws so when they write purposely negative …
Read More »
In a rare move, a spokesman for Special Counsel Robert Mueller took issue withBuzzFeed News’ Thursday night scoop that President Trump had explicitly directed Michael Cohen, his former personal lawyer, to lie to Congress. “BuzzFeed’s description of specific statements to the Special Counsel’s Office, and characterization of documents and testimony …
Read More »
In the latest, alarming, sign of Russia’s influence over not just President Trump but the GOP more broadly, Senate Republicans went to bat Wednesday for sanctioned oligarch Oleg Deripaska, aka “Putin’s favourite industrialist,” who had loaned $10 million to Trump’s now-jailed former campaign manager Paul Manafort. One month ago, Trump’s …
Read More »
Defense Secretary James Mattis will leave the Trump administration at the end of February. It’s hard to believe he made it this long. The retired four-star general was reported to have disagreed with several of the president’s foreign policy decisions, none more so, apparently, than Wednesday’s surprise move to pull …
Read More »
Americans tuning into Fox & FriendsMonday morning may have borne witness to a commercial for a product called the “Trumpy Bear,” a stuffed bear with a white collar, white cuffs, red tie and Trump’s “trademark” coif. You can also pull an American flag out of the bear’s ass. “God bless …
Read More »
There’s a reason why Rudy Giuliani and the rest of Donald Trump‘s legal team have steadfastly refused to allow Special Counsel Robert Mueller to question the president about obstruction of justice. A dossier could be compiled just on the Trump’s repeated attempts to hinder the investigation into his campaign’s relationship …
Read More »