Donald Trump, his lawyers, and his allies in Congress and the conservative media have spent the week suggesting that the FBI may have planted evidence when they searched Mar-a-Lago on Monday. It reeked of a defense tactic should the Justice Department have found anything incriminating, and now that The Washington …
Read More »Trump's Allies Have No Clue How to Respond to Report of Nuclear Docs at Mar-a-Lago
Republicans in Congress and right-wing media talking heads have been having a conniption since the FBI raided Donald Trump‘s Mar-a-Lago estate on Monday. They haven’t had as much to say, however, since Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the Justice Department intends to make the search warrant public and The Washington …
Read More »The FBI Retrieved 'Top Secret' Materials from Mar-a-Lago, Document Shows
The FBI retrieved “around 20 boxes of items” from Mar-a-Lago on Monday, including 11 sets of classified documents, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday, citing a list of items obtained by the bureau which is part of a document that contains the search warrant authorizing the raid. Specifically, agents “collected …
Read More »Feds Investigating Trump for Potential Espionage Act Violation, Search Warrant Shows
The search warrant that led to the FBI‘s raid of former Donald Trump‘s Mar-a-Lago estate indicates the former president is under investigation for a potential violation of the Espionage Act, as well as obstruction of justice, several outlets reported on Friday. The warrant, which was first reported on by Breitbart, …
Read More »House Democrats Pass Historic Climate, Healthcare Bill over Republican Opposition
The House of Representatives passed the Inflation Reduction Act on Friday, clearing the way for President Biden to sign the landmark climate and healthcare bill into law. The legislation passed along party lines, as Democrats overcame unified GOP opposition. Republicans banded together to vote by proxy in order to deny …
Read More »Mystery Explosions Rock Russian Base — and Send the Propaganda War Into Overdrive
On Tuesday, videos began to spread of massive explosions at a Russian air base in the occupied territory of Crimea in southern Ukraine. The videos, taken from multiple angles by beachgoers using smartphones, showed the immediate aftermath of two large mushroom clouds, followed shortly by a third. It took only …
Read More »'Sheriff Joe' Arpaio Simply Cannot Stop Losing Elections
Joe Arpaio, the former sheriff of Arizona‘s Maricopa County, lost a race for mayor of Fountain Hills on Wednesday. Arpaio’s defeat at the hands of two-term incumbent Ginny Dickey marks the fourth consecutive loss at the polls for the Trump-loving 90-year-old, dating back to his ouster as sheriff of the …
Read More »Trump Was Subpoenaed for Records Before Mar-a-Lago Raid: Report
Conservatives have cried that the FBI’s raid of Donald Trump‘s Mar-a-Lago estate on Monday was excessive, and that federal authorities could have employed other, less aggressive tactics to get ahold of whatever it was they were looking for. The New York Times reported on Thursday that they did just that, …
Read More »DOJ Moves to Pull Back Curtain on Why It Searched Mar-a-Lago
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced during a press conference on Thursday that the Justice Department is filing a motion to unseal the search warrant and property receipt for the FBI‘s raid of former President Donald Trump‘s Mar-a-Lago estate, which was conducted on Monday. The motion notes that Trump is able …
Read More »Fox News Host Presses Top Republican About Not 'Backing the Blue' After Mar-a-Lago Raid
In a rare moment of sanity on Fox News Thursday morning, Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy repeatedly pressed Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) about Republicans’ attempts to concoct a baseless narrative around the FBI’s raid of former President Donald Trump’s Florida home earlier this week. Conservatives have responded to the …
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