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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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 …
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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 …
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a surprise attendee at a concert about her life Monday, marking her first public appearance since undergoing cancer surgery in December, The Washington Post reports. The 85-year-old justice attended a production of “Notorious RBG in Song,” performed by her daughter-in-law, Patrice Michaels. The …
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Former President George W. Bush went out of his way to thank his Secret Service staff, who are currently working without pay due to the government shutdown, by bringing them pizza on Friday. Although Bush said he hoped the shutdown ended soon in an Instagram post, he did not express …
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For Rolling Stone‘s February issue, contributing editor Jeff Goodell reported on the United Nations climate negotiations held last month in Katowice, Poland (“Saving the Paris Agreement“). The conference was tasked with fleshing out the rules for the landmark Paris Agreement, the 2015 accord signed by nearly every nation in the …
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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 …
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While the mainstream media continues to pretendthat President Trump’s white supremacy is debatable, the same can’t be said for Rep. Steve King (R-IA), the most racist man in Congress for almost 20 years. On Thursday, the New York Times published a story fleshing out King’s anti-immigrant history, which includes a …
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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 …
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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. …
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