After months of delay, legal sparring, and constitutional uncertainty, President-elect Donald Trump today was sentenced to an “unconditional discharge” over his felony conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records related to hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels. The “unconditional discharge” sentence — which is what the prosecution …
Read More »It Sure Doesn't Seem Like the Supreme Court Is Going to Save TikTok
TikTok could be banned in the United States in a little over a week. Its last hope to stay in app stores is the Supreme Court, which on Friday heard oral arguments in the massively popular platform’s case to block the law that could lead to its digital excommunication. The …
Read More »Alito Spoke to Trump Day Before Trump Asked SCOTUS to Block Sentencing
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said he spoke with President-elect Donald Trump on the phone about an ex-law clerk a day before Trump asked the Supreme Court to delay sentencing in his New York hush money case. Alito confirmed the news to ABC News on Wednesday. “William Levi, one of …
Read More »Right-Wingers Are Blaming the L.A. Fires on Diversity
A series of powerful wildfires has turned large swaths of Los Angeles into smoldering ruins. As first responders attempt to control the blazes, heavy winds are quite literally fanning the flames —to the point that the fires have now been ravaging the city for days. There is a clear link …
Read More »Biden Says He Would Have Beaten Trump if He Stayed in the Race
With just weeks left in Joe Biden’s term, the president is reflecting on his decades-long career in elected office, and what he must do before passing the mantle of leadership to President-elect Donald Trump. In a wide-ranging exit interview published by USA Today on Wednesday, Biden discussed everything from weighing …
Read More »Fox News Insider Leaked Town Hall Questions to Trump's Team: Book
Fox News has long entrenched itself as a pro-Donald Trump propaganda network dedicated to broadcasting, defending, and justifying the words and actions of the president-elect and his cronies. While Trump and Fox News regularly critique the “mainstream media” as corrupt, biased ideologues, the network itself is no stranger to bending …
Read More »Trump Pushes Misinfo, Blames Dems and 'Worthless Fish' for L.A. Blazes
As Los Angeles burns in catastrophic firestorms whipped by the region’s infamous Santa Ana winds, President-elect Donald Trump is not offering care or condolences. Rather, Trump is blasting the state’s Democratic governor and reigniting a long-simmering feud about California’s water policies. In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump …
Read More »Mark Zuckerberg and Meta Are Finding New Ways to Kiss Trump's Ass
Silicon Valley billionaires are scrambling to get into President-elect Donald Trump’s good graces ahead of his inauguration later this month, and no one has embarked on a more blatant boot-licking campaign than Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Meta has already donated $1 million dollars to Trump’s inaugural fund, and Zuckerberg flew …
Read More »Amazon Is Paying $40 Million for Melania Trump Vanity Doc: Report
Weeks after Jeff Bezos dined with President-elect Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate, Amazon has struck a massive licensing deal involving future first lady Melania Trump. According to Puck News, Amazon has agreed to pay $40 million in order to license a documentary and a limited series about Mrs. Trump. …
Read More »Trump Says America Could Use Military to Seize Other Nations
President-elect Donald Trump refused to rule out the use of military force to seize control of Greenland and Panama during a press conference on Tuesday. “Can you assure the world that as you try to get control of these areas you are not going to use military or economic coercion,” …
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