During his administration, former President Donald Trump referred 334 classified leaks for criminal investigation, setting a record. And at his rally Saturday night, he said that the journalists who published the Supreme Court‘s preliminary decision to overturn Roe v. Wade would reveal their sources under threat of rape in prison. …
Read More »Trump Says Some Official Docs Seized at Mar-a-Lago Are His Personal Property
Former President Donald Trump is claiming that some documents seized by the Department of Justice from his Mar-a-Lago estate are both personal property and subject to executive privilege, an argument the Justice Department says Trump “cannot logically assert,” according to a report from The New York Times. The Justice Department …
Read More »Inside the Effort to Protect the Election — One State at a Time
Art Reyes III had been delivering the closing remarks at a virtual election watch party on November 3, 2020, when he learned that busloads of Republicans had pulled up to a Detroit convention center to demand election workers stop counting ballots. Reyes, the founder of grassroots group We the People …
Read More »Steve Bannon Sentenced to Four Months in Prison
Steven Bannon has been sentenced to four months in prison and ordered to pay a $6,500 for criminal contempt of Congress after refusing to comply with a subpoena issued by the Jan. 6 committee. Judge Carl Nichols, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, said on Friday that Bannon …
Read More »Trump Kept Super Secret Intel on China and Iran at His Golf Club: Report
Highly classified documents retrieved from former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate contained sensitive material related to China and Iran, The Washington Post reported on Friday. The documents included a description of Iran’s missile program and information regarding intelligence operations in China. Experts tell the Post that improper handling of the materials …
Read More »It's Official: Jan. 6 Committee Slaps Trump With Subpoena
The Jan. 6 committee has officially subpoenaed Donald Trump. “This subpoena calls for testimony and relevant documents in your possession on these related topics,” the committee wrote in a letter to the former president after listing several bullet points outlining the former president’s role in working to overturn the election, …
Read More »Democrats Dial Up the Cringe With 'Midnights' Memes
It turns out every politician in Washington was also staying up past their bedtimes in anticipation of Taylor Swift’s new album Midnights, and their posts might just be the thing that gets listeners to go back to bed. With 18 nights left until the midterms, engagement-hungry Democrats are harnessing every …
Read More »Leaked Texts Reveal Marjorie Taylor Greene's Private Push to Overturn 2020 Election
Marjorie Taylor Greene was privately pressuring former Georgia Senator Kelly Loeffler to get on board with the effort to overturn the 2020 election, text messages obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reveal. The leaked trove of texts show that before losing to current Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock in a Jan. 5, …
Read More »Mike Pence Still Won't Rule Out Voting for Man Who Wanted Him Dead
Mike Pence during a book even on Wednesday refused to say whether he would vote for former President Donald Trump if he becomes the 2024 Republican nominee. The former vice president responded only that “there might be somebody else who I’d prefer more” when questioned about voting the man who …
Read More »Trump Sits for Deposition in Defamation Case Brought by Rape Accuser
In 2019, E. Jean Carroll accused Donald Trump of raping her in a department-store fitting room in the 1990s. Trump vehemently denied the allegation and called her a liar, prompting Carroll, a former magazine writer, to sue him for defamation. The case has been ongoing, and Trump has long been …
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