Donald Trump was whining until the bitter end. The former president on his last day in office threatened to leave the GOP and start a new party in an effort to get back at the Republicans he felt abandoned him, according to Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show, …
Read More »Trump and GOP's Shady Fundraising Tactics Lead to Millions of Donor Refunds This Year
One of former president Trump’s biggest campaign expenses this year has been refunding donors who were duped into making multiple increasing donations. Trump and the Republican Party have returned $12.8 million to donors in the first half of 2021, according to newly released federal records. TheNew York Timesreported that the …
Read More »Trump's Facebook Suspension Set to Expire in January 2023, Just in Time For the Next Presidential Race
Donald Trump — languishing in the social media wilderness, banned from Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, YouTube and Twitch after inciting a violent mob to storm the U.S. Capitol — finally got a spot of good news on Friday. Facebook announced that the former president’s indefinite suspension from the social media network …
Read More »Rush Limbaugh Did His Best to Ruin America
When Rush Limbaugh, the Great Bloviater of the AM dial, signed off from the “Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies,” two days before Christmas, he warned the faithful in the raspy remains of his famous trumpeting baritone: “The day is gonna come, folks, where I’m not going to be able …
Read More »GOP Rep. Kinzinger Hit With Claims of Devil Possession Since Impeachment Vote
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), one of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach the former president, described some of the blowback he has received for having the audacity to put democracy above the cult of Trump. Chuck Todd, host of NBC News’ Meet the Press, asked the congressman to …
Read More »What It's Like to See Your Mom Take Part in a MAGA Mob
Two weeks ago, Helena Duke says, her mom Therese told her that she was going out of town to take her aunt to have a procedure done. She was somewhat vague about the procedure in question, but Helena didn’t think much of it, simply because she “didn’t have much other …
Read More »Biden Blasts Trump for Delayed Covid-19 Vaccine Distribution
President-elect Joe Biden issued a scathing critique of President Donald Trump over the slow distribution and administration of the Covid-19 vaccine, saying the United States is “falling behind, far behind.” And according to an NBC News analysis, if the vaccination efforts continue at the current pace, it would take nearly …
Read More »Obama Publishes Account of Firing Gen. McChrystal On the Same Day McChrystal Briefs Biden
President-elect Joe Biden, whose transition team is still being stonewalled by a Trump administration unwilling to relinquish its grip on power, was briefed today by a group of outside advisers on matters of national security. Among those experts were several Obama administration alumni, including former U.N. Ambassador Samatha Power, retired …
Read More »Trevor Noah Dismisses Donald Trump's Futile Voter Fraud Claims on 'Daily Show'
Trevor Noah hammered home the ridiculousness of Donald Trump’s refusal to concede the 2020 presidential election, as well as his baseless claims of voter fraud, on The Daily Show Monday, November 9th. Over the past few days, Trump surrogates have been spouting an array of evidence-free claims that Republican votes …
Read More »America Last: How Trump Torpedoed the U.S. International Standing
The United Nations General Assembly’s annual session is practically Coachella for international diplomacy. Every September, heads of state, ambassadors, deputies, and other foreign relations staff representing the organization’s nearly 200 member nations congregate in New York City to lay out the global agenda for the following year. Speeches are given. …
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