Sen. Tom Cotton, who served in The Old Guard at Arlington Cemetery for 16 months starting in 2007, has no problem with Donald Trump using veterans’ graves to promote his campaign. He even parroted Trump’s response to the controversy, blaming Gold Star families for the controversial photo. “He didn’t take …
Read More »Trump Eats Words, Says He'll Vote to Preserve Florida's Six-Week Abortion Ban
After months of Donald Trump attempting to repaint himself as a moderate on abortion — despite the former president bragging that he killed Roe v. Wade — he has finally bent the knee to anti-abortion leaders. On Friday, Trump declared that he would vote against a ballot measure in Florida …
Read More »'Suckers,' 'Losers,' Jokes About Medals: Trump Doesn't Understand the Military
On Monday, former President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign photographed an event at Arlington National Cemetery, treating the burial grounds as a political venue despite federal laws expressly barring such behavior. A “verbal and physical altercation” reportedly took place during a wreath-laying ceremony when Trump’s staffers tried to enter the area …
Read More »Trump Suggests Gold Star Families to Blame for Arlington Cemetery Controversy
On Thursday, former President Donald Trump attempted to spin away reports that one of his aides pushed a staffer at Arlington National Cemetery during a visit to the burial ground earlier this week, blaming the controversy on “very bad people.” He also suggested in an interview that the Gold Star …
Read More »Trump Threatens to Jail Mark Zuckerberg for Life
Donald Trump wrote a book, and true to form, it contains some deeply unbalanced textual musings. According to Politico, the coffee-table book — titled Saving America — accuses Mark Zuckerberg of plotting to usurp the 2020 election in favor of President Joe Biden, and warns that the Meta CEO will …
Read More »Why Isn't Anyone Asking Trump About Mark Robinson?
How is the Republican Party not being held accountable for Mark Robinson, the party’s nominee for governor of North Carolina? While there are plenty of MAGA partisans in the modern GOP, Robinson stands apart from the rest. As we reported in Rolling Stone five months ago, Robinson’s conspiratorial, racist, homophobic, …
Read More »Army Says Team Trump 'Abruptly Pushed' Cemetery Employee
The United States Army on Thursday confirmed that a member of Donald Trump’s team “pushed” an Arlington National Cemetery employee during the former president’s visit to the grave sites of deceased service members earlier this week. The Army noted in a statement that the cemetery conducts nearly 3,000 public ceremonies …
Read More »Right-Wing Outlet Wonders Why Harris Didn't Tout McDonald's Experience on Legal Resume
The McFlurry machine is always broken, and so are some of the brains looking for dirt on Kamala Harris. On Thursday, the right-wing outlet The Free Beacon published an article suggesting Harris may be lying about a brief employment stint at a McDonald’s during college. Harris has often spoken of …
Read More »Harris Says She'd Appoint Republican to Cabinet in First Interview as Candidate
Kamala Harris sat down on Thursday for her first televised interview since President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race and the Democratic Party rallied around the vice president as its pick to take on Donald Trump. CNN’s Dana Bash interviewed both Harris and her running mate, Tim Walz, …
Read More »J.D. Vance Says Childless Leaders 'Disorient' and 'Disturb' Him: Audio
Resurfaced audio is once again reminding us of J.D. Vance‘s weird obsession with Americans choosing not to have children. During a forum held by the Center for Christian Virtue in 2021, Vance attacked Democratic leaders and American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten for not having children and accused them …
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