Regardless of whether Attorney General William Barr was ever a “respectable” political figure, plenty of powerful people seem to have held him in such regard. If Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) was one of those people, she’s not anymore. On Wednesday, she lamented the degree to which the attorney general has …
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An angry Vladimir Putin has denounced the 18 month sentence handed down to Russian influence agent Maria Butina, blasting her prison term an outrageous face-saving measure by U.S. authorities and claiming, against substantial evidence, “there was nothing on her.” As Rolling Stone exposed in April 2018, shortly before she was …
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A new poll of Alabama voters finds that Republicans are eager to re-nominate the extremely problematic Roy Moore for a Senate rematch against Democrat Doug Jones. Moore is a disgraced former state Supreme Court justice — removed from office twice, most recently for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same …
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WASHINGTON — It took him three tries, but President Trump has finally found, in William P. Barr, the attorney general he’s wanted all along. That is, an attorney general who appears loyal to Trump and seemingly willing to protect the president when necessary, defy Democrats in Congress and investigate Trump’s …
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Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-CA) announced on Monday’s Late Show that he is running for president in 2020, joining an already-crowded Democratic field. The show tweeted a preview clip of Monday’s episode, allowing the 38-year-old to outline his campaign focus on gun control. “I see a country in quicksand — unable …
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After nearly two years of tight-lipped silence, the investigative team of Special Counsel Robert Mueller is leaking to reporters, and suggesting that there is far more to Mueller’s final report than Trump’s hand-picked attorney general has let on. In rival stories published Wednesday evening by the Washington Post and the …
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An email exchange between an NRA official and a man who has called the Sandy Hook massacre “the biggest government illusion that’s ever been pulled off” is raising questions about whether the gun lobby encourages conspiracy theorists. The emails — sent in the immediate aftermath of the 2018 school massacre …
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Paul Manafort’s legal team is asking for leniency for President Trump’s former campaign manager and former political consultant to Ukrainian oligarchs with a penchant for ostrich leather. In a sentencing memo filed in federal court Monday, Manafort’s legal team did not dispute his guilt — on a raft of crimes …
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Every few months or so, former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon comes out of his dark lair to impart his genius takes on the status of the Trump administration and the political landscape. And the masses, including the media, are here to gobble it up. Bannon, like all villains …
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Earlier this month, someone in the White House leaked months worth of President Trump’s private daily schedules. They confirmed the obvious: Trump is lazy as hell, with unstructured “Executive Time” making up around 60 percent of his workday over the past three months. According to Axios, which obtained the schedules, …
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