WASHINGTON —The scandal-ridden campaign led by Trump adviser Rudy Giuliani to convince the Ukrainian government to investigate Joe Biden, a scheme that triggered a full-blown impeachment investigation of the president, just took its strangest twist yet. And it’s about to make Trump and Giuliani’s lives even more miserable. Two businessmen …
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It’s finally happening: House Democrats are opening a full-blown impeachment investigation into President Trump. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the news Tuesday afternoon following a busy day of speculation. “The President must be held accountable,” she said during a brief statement in front of a wall of American flags. “No …
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President Trump isn’t worried about the economy. No really, he isn’t. Everything is going to be fine. Seriously. All of that talk of a recession last week and over the weekend, spurred by a few ominous market indicators, a sputtering global economy, and Trump’s continuing trade war with China, was …
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WASHINGTON — It was a pretty straightforward request. In January, the watchdog group American Oversight asked the Department of Homeland Security to provide the number of analysts inside the agency’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis devoted to working on “non-Islamist domestic terrorism threats” —including right-wing extremism or attacks motivated by …
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President Donald Trump‘s propaganda media arm, Fox News, reveled in the president’s racist tweet that told “Progressive Democrat Congresswomen” to “go back” to the “crime infested places from which they came.” It’s yet another clearly racist remark from our vile racist-in-chief, this time aimed at Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rashida …
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On Saturday, the New York Times published an important story about how the United States military branches are attempting to thwart and combat Russian cyber attacks on American utility networks and interference in elections. But deeper into the article, an interesting and disturbing nugget has drawn attention: The Pentagon has …
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Donald Trump was in Europe last week to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day when he decided it was the perfect time to lob an attack at Bette Midler. “Washed up psycho @BetteMidler was forced to apologize for a statement she attributed to me that turned out to be totally …
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President Donald Trump’s approval rating has taken a hit since the redacted Mueller report was released to the public on Thursday morning. According to a new poll by Reuters/Ipsos, Trump’s approval rating now stands at 37 percent, a 2019 low. The poll, which saw a three point dropfrom a similar …
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Warner Bros. Pictures triggered the removal of a campaign video President Donald Trump posted on Twitter due to its unauthorized use of the score from The Dark Knight Rises. The 2020 campaign video reportedly originated on the pro-Trump sub-Reddit last week before Trump posted it to his own Twitter feed …
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In the Trump administration, protocol is for suckers, diplomacy is personal — and backchannels are best forged at the president’s private club, Mar-a-Lago. Jair Bolsonaro, the recently elected far-right president of Brazil, sat down in the Oval Office on Tuesday after backing up President Trump on his nativist immigration policy: …
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