A Michigan state senator wore a Confederate flag during a state senate vote on Friday, then denied the obvious by stating that the flag was not what it clearly was. Then, he ultimately halfheartedly apologized after also throwing his wife under the bus for the incident. On Friday, State Sen. …
Read More »Watch Dr. Anthony Fauci Refute Trump Talking Points in Real Time
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and one of the American people’s only hopes for competency in the Trump administration as it combats the novel coronavirus, appeared on Fox News in an interview with Laura Ingraham Thursday night and — much like he …
Read More »How the New Oil Wars Could Upend Trump's Re-Election Bid
Whatever the true nature may be of the twisted relationship between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, this much is clear: As the world economy teeters, reeling from the dystopian implications of the coronavirus, Putin has decided this is a good time to stick a shiv deep into the …
Read More »Bloomberg Brags of Buying Congress in South Carolina Debate
Mike Bloomberg is worth more than $60 billion and has used his riches to influence politics on both sides of the aisle. He’s also plowed more than $500 million into his own presidential campaign, leading his 2020 Democratic primary competitors to warn — less as an accusation and more as …
Read More »Trump Is Sending Elite Border Patrol Units to Make Arrests in Sanctuary Cities
President Donald Trump is deploying border patrol agents from tactical units to sanctuary cities across the nation to arrest undocumented people. According to the New York Times, one hundred agents from the Border Patrol Tactical Unit (BORTAC), will assist local Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers with arrests of undocumented people …
Read More »The GOP's Attempts to Spin and Deny on Impeachment Have Hit Pathetic New Lows
WASHINGTON — Over the past several days, the president’s legal team and his allies in the Senate mounted a feeble and fact-challenged defense as part of the third impeachment trial in history. They pushed the ahistorical and widely mocked view that Trump shouldn’t be convicted because he committed no actual …
Read More »Linda Ronstadt Tells Mike Pompeo to His Face: 'He'll Be Loved, When He Stops Enabling Donald Trump'
Linda Ronstadt did not let Saturday night’s festivities stop her from telling Secretary of State Mike Pompeo what she thought about his connection to President Donald Trump. “I’d like to say to Mr. Pompeo, who wonders when he’ll be loved, it’s when he stops enabling Donald Trump.” The singer, songwriter …
Read More »Exasperated Chuck Todd Tells GOP Senator He's 'Selling' Putin's Argument
On Sunday’s Meet the Press, host Chuck Todd did his best to hold Senator John Kennedy (R-La.) accountable for muddying up the waters when it comes to the facts about Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. elections. After Kennedy classified Fiona Hill’s impeachment testimony that Russia alone was responsible for …
Read More »Republicans Are Waging War on Reality to Defend Dear Leader Trump
WASHINGTON — Republican lawmakers took to the airwaves Sunday to defend their leader, President Trump, after a week of compelling and at times damning testimony in the House’s ongoing impeachment inquiry. The most absurd and delusional of these appearances came on Fox News anchor Chris Wallace’s show. Wallace had invited …
Read More »Three Things You Need to Know From Thursday's Impeachment Hearing
WASHINGTON —Dr. Fiona Hill and David Holmes appeared before Congress on Thursday in the sixth and likely final public impeachment hearing not as Democratic- or Republican-called witnesses but as fact witnesses. Holmes, a career foreign service officer and adviser in the U.S. embassy in Ukraine, overheard the phone call when …
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