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As America gears up to watch Robert Mueller‘s congressional testimony this coming Wednesday, former FBI director James Comey shared a list of questions he would ask the special prosecutor in a blog for Lawfare posted on Friday evening. The former FBI chief, who was fired by President Donald Trump in …

President Donald Trump recently wrote a letter to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo confirmed on Sunday. According to state news agency KCNA, Kim said Trump’s letter was “excellent” and that he would “seriously contemplate the interesting content,” adding praise for Trump’s “extraordinary courage.” Beyond that, …

Jared Kushner was named a White House adviser solely by the grace of his marriage to the president’s daughter. Given his lack of experience, he has largely — and wisely — opted to avoid the media and work behind the scenes. This changed recently when Kushner decided to sit down …

Few things are more important to President Trump than trampling over the lives of those he feels have wronged him. Venerated war heroes are no exception, as he’s demonstrated through his repeated attacks against former Arizona senator John McCain, who did not support Trump’s candidacy and in 2017 voted against …

Mitch McConnell once again confirmed the obvious on Tuesday: That he is, and always has been, totally full of shit. While speaking at a Paducah Chamber of Commerce luncheon in Kentucky, the Senate majority leader was asked for his position on confirming a new Supreme Court justice should a sitting …

On Meet the Press Sunday, moderator Chuck Todd was asking Democratic candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) whether he supports abortion rights. Todd asked, “Will you have a litmus test for judges on Roe? It’s pretty clear in 2020, no matter which side of the abortion you are on, it is …

During the 2016 campaign, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) called President Trump everything from a “sniveling coward” to a “pathological liar” to “utterly amoral” to a “serial philanderer.” The insults were lobbed under the assumption that Trump would not go on to become president. Now that he has, Cruz has become …

There’s no great mystery about what Attorney General William Barr did Wednesday during his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. He knows that Senate Democrats don’t have the votes or the power to do anything substantial to impair his tragic choice to protect President Trump from the substantiated allegations against …

This past week, NRA President Oliver North threatened to ruin NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre, citing financial improprieties and an ongoing battle with the group’s PR firm, Ackerman McQueen, but his plan backfired and now North has been told he will not be renominated as the group’s president, the Wall Street …

President Donald Trump called into Hannity on Thursday night. As is usually the case whenever the president and his favorite Fox News personality convene on the air, the “interview” was extremely long — about 45 minutes this time — and incredibly terrifying. Goaded by Hannity, Trump railed against Special Counsel …