President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Saturday to again bash John McCain. The late Arizona senator has been dead for seven months now. Trump was triggered by a Fox News interview with former independent counsel Ken Starr, who investigated Bill Clinton. Starr said that if it were true that …
Read More »Conservatives Give Trump a Pass for Referencing Genocide to Mock Elizabeth Warren
Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY) went on CNN Sunday and, as most Republicans have with President Donald Trump’s racism, acted as an enabler. After Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) announced her presidential bid on Saturday, the president went after her on Twitter, writing, “Today Elizabeth Warren, sometimes referred to by me as …
Read More »Trump Goes to Extreme Lengths to Hide What He and Putin Talk About Behind Closed Doors
President Donald Trump has taken drastic measures to conceal his private conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to a report in theWashington Poston Saturday. The bombshell story comes just one day after theNew York Timesrevealed that the FBI opened a joint counterintelligence and criminal investigation into whether the president …
Read More »Stable President Holds Bait-and-Switch Press Briefing to Peddle Border Wall Propaganda
Minutes after Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) reclaimed the House speaker’s gavel on Thursday afternoon, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced that she would be holding an impromptu press briefing, giving reporters approximately five minutes to prepare. The press corps scrambled to fill the room, and about 10 minutes …
Read More »Taxpayers Are Subsidizing Mar-a-Lago's New Year's Eve Party Despite Trump's Shutdown
Though Trump’s decision to shut down the government may keep him in Washington for the holidays, it won’t keep taxpayers from footing a heavy portion of the bill for Mar-a-Lago’s New Year’s Eve party. As was noted by Quartz this week,government spending data shows that the Secret Service paid Grimes …
Read More »Actually, Crime Is Good
On Friday, prosecutors for the Southern District of New York filed a sentencing memo for Michael Cohen. In recommending a “substantial” prison term for the president’s former lawyer-fixer, the SDNY wrote that Trump directed Cohen to make pre-election hush money payments to two women that constitute felony campaign finance violations. …
Read More »Our Earned Media President
“May I say something you’re not going to like? I think the press loves him. All day on TV — and I don’t even watch TV, except sports. But he says somebody had a horse face — all day we hear about that. We hear about Kanye West, all day. …
Read More »Trump Doesn't 'Believe' the Latest Climate Report. The Climate Doesn't Care.
Publicly, President Trump says he doesn’t believe the CIA or the FBI when they tell him Vladimir Putin fucked with the 2016 election. He also says he doesn’t believe the CIA when they tell him the Saudi crown prince ordered the murder and dismemberment of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. For Trump, …
Read More »Bernie Sanders Opens Up About New Democrats in Congress, Taking on Trumpism
Amid all the drama of the 2018 midterms, Vermont’s Bernie Sanders cruised to re-election Tuesday night, securing a third term in the Senate with an easy 66.1 percent of the vote. In a year in which longtime Senate incumbents on both sides of the aisle were either unseated or faced …
Read More »This Is What a Pro-Trump Local News Monopoly Would Look Like
Fox News might be President Trump’s most prominent propaganda arm in the media, but a deal proposed by the Sinclair Broadcast Group could change that. The FCC is currently mulling a $3.9 billion merger of Sinclair and Tribune Media, a move that would give the former company over 200 local …
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