A gunman tried to enter the FBI‘s Cincinnati headquarters Thursday morning and then fled onto a nearly highway, leading authorities to closed off a stretch of Interstate 71. An hours-long standoff ensued, culminating late Thursday afternoon when law enforcement shot and killed the suspect, according to officials. The New York …
Read More »Feds Charge Iranian Operative in Plot to Assassinate Former Trump Officials
The U.S. Department of Justice has charged a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in connection with an alleged assassination plot against former Trump National Security Adviser John Bolton. Axios reported later on Wednesday that former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has been informed that he was a …
Read More »Blake Masters Caught Lying About Anti-Semitic Backer: Audio
It was a classic case of he-said, he said. Blake Masters, Donald Trump’s pick for Senate in Arizona, swore last week that he doesn’t know Gab CEO Andrew Torba, calling him a “nobody” that “nobody cares about.” Torba — who has endorsed Masters’ Senate run and once said he’d vote …
Read More »Trump Once Said Only the Mob Pleads the Fifth Amendment. He Did It Repeatedly
Donald Trump sat for questioning on Wednesday as part of the state of New York’s long-running probe into his company’s business practices. The only question he actually answered, however, was about his name. The New York Times reported that the former president sat across from New York Attorney General Letitia …
Read More »Fox Corp. Brass Knows Trump Is Bad for America — But Doesn't Care: Report
Fox News hosts have spent the past few days wildly and irresponsibly speculating that the FBI planted evidence when investigators searched Donald Trump‘s Mar-a-Lago compound, proving that the network is still very much a propaganda machine for the former president. Fox Corporation’s CEO Lachlan Murdoch, however, has privately bashed the …
Read More »Fox News Is Having a Nuclear Meltdown Over the Feds Raiding Mar-a-Lago
The FBI raided Donald Trump’s estate in Palm Beach on Monday, reportedly in search of any leftover classified documents he may have taken from the White House. The search began in the morning, but didn’t make the news until later, when the former president announced the “prosecutorial misconduct” just in …
Read More »The GOP Suddenly Wants to Defund Law Enforcement After Feds Raid Mar-a-Lago
After years defending the continued militarization of law enforcement agencies across the United States, Republican lawmakers appeared to have a change of heart Monday after learning the FBI executed a search at the Florida estate of former President Donald Trump. Faced with the possibility that the “good guys” aren’t necessarily …
Read More »Inside Trump's Frantic Hunt for 'Killer' Criminal Defense Attorneys
Behind closed doors this summer, Donald Trump and his advisers have been narrowing the shortlist of criminal defense attorneys he’d need to take on the Justice Department. The former president has had preliminary conversations with Tim Parlatore, a lawyer best known for successfully representing an accused war criminal, about possible …
Read More »Trump and Republicans Are Already Trying to Cash in on the Mar-a-Lago Raid
The FBI‘s raid of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate on Monday enraged the former president and his backers throughout conservative media and the Republican Party. It also provided them with an opportunity to prod their supporters for cash. “MAR-A-LAGO was RAIDED,” Trump texted his supporters Tuesday morning, along with a link …
Read More »IRS Must Hand Trump's Tax Returns Over to House Committee, Court Rules
The House Ways and Means Committee can obtain former President Donald Trump‘s tax returns, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. The decision was spurred by Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.), the committee chairman, writing to the IRS in April 2019 requesting Trump’s federal income tax returns, saying the committee …
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