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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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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WASHINGTON —There were no gut punches at House Intelligence Committee’s first public hearing of impeachment inquiry into President Trump’s effort to pressure Ukraine to investigate the Bidens and a right-wing conspiracy theory about the 2016 election. But that doesn’t mean the hearing, the first of several, was a dud. Quite …
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It’s Roger Stone‘s “time in the barrel.” Former Trump campaign manager and White House strategist Steve Bannon testified in the Roger Stone trial on Friday, and it did not go well for Stone. Bannon, who was subpoenaed as a witness, told the court that Stone claimed to be in contact …
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