President Donald Trump announced via Twitter on Sunday that National Intelligence Director Dan Coats would be stepping down on Sunday and that conservative Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX) would be nominated to take his place. “I am pleased to announce that highly respected Congressman John Ratcliffe of Texas will be nominated …
Read More »Adam Schiff Used Mueller to Paint a Damning Portrait of Trump's Russia Connections
One of the reasons House Democrats asked former special counsel Robert Mueller to testify before Congress on Wednesday was to present his finding to the American people in a format other than a dense, 448-page report. No member of Congress was able to accomplish this more effectively than House Intelligence …
Read More »The Walls Are Closing in on Disgraced Trump Fundraiser Elliott Broidy
WASHINGTON — The saga of Elliott Broidy, the disgraced Republican donor, investor, and defense contractor, has taken yet another twist. The Associated Press broke the news Monday that a federal grand jury in New York is probing whether Broidy used his role as a vice chair of President Trump’s inauguration …
Read More »Mueller: 'If We Had Confidence That the President Did Not Commit a Crime, We Would Have Said So'
Special Counsel Robert Mueller spoke publicly Wednesday for the first time since he was appointed two years ago to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election and any Trump campaign coordination with Russia. “I am speaking out today because our investigation is complete,” he began. “The attorney general has made …
Read More »Trump's New Climate Plan Involves a Guy Who Compared Pollution to 'Jews Under Hitler'
Withdrawing the United States from the Paris Agreement was only the beginning. According to a new report from the New York Times, the Trump administration is poised to enter a dangerous, politically motivated new front of its war on climate science. “It reminds me of the Soviet Union,” Philip Duffey, …
Read More »Adam Schiff Is Convinced Mueller Will Testify. But Will He?
WASHINGTON — The American people will hear directly from Special Counsel Robert Mueller about his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. The question is when. So says Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) anyway. On Sunday, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee went on ABC’s This Week and told …
Read More »Michael Cohen Is Now in Jail. Will Trump Join Him After He Leaves Office?
Despite his best efforts, Michael Cohen reported to prison on Monday. The former personal attorney and “fixer” for President Trump will serve three years for a host of crimes, most notably violations of federal campaign finance law stemming from pre-election hush money payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, both …
Read More »How Lawmakers Are Reacting to the Final Mueller Report
After a day of speculation and writer’s block jokes by journalists, resistance-grifters and news junkies, the world learned about 5 p.m. ET Friday that Special Counsel Robert Mueller had indeed delivered his final report to Deputy Attorney Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General William Barr. Barr, in turn, sent a letter …
Read More »'SNL' Weekend Update Wants to See a Hillary vs. Trump Rematch
Comparing the not-gonna-happen rematch of President Donald Trump versus Hillary Clinton in upcoming 2020 presidential election to the movie Rocky, Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update anchor Colin Jost first expressed his disappointment that Clinton, this week, announced that she would not run. “First of all, I think she would be …
Read More »Has the Government Legalized Secret Defense Spending?
October 4th, 2018, was a busy news day. The fight over Brett Kavanuagh’s Supreme Court nomination dominated the cycle. The Trump White House received a supplemental FBI report it said cleared its would-be nominee of wrongdoing. Retired Justice John Paul Stevens meanwhile said Kavanaugh was compromised enough that he was …
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