The governor of New Hampshire, Chris Sununu (R), called out voters from his state that jeered and clapped when Donald Trump mocked authorE. Jean Carroll at CNN‘s town hall earlier this week. Trump was foundliable for sexual batteryagainst Carroll, who accused Trump of having raped her in the dressing room …
Read More »Feinstein's Health Crisis Goes Back Farther than We Knew
Dianne Feinstein, 89, returned to Congress this week, ending an almost three-month medical absence that highlighted her advanced age and deteriorating health. But her decline, and the problems it entails for American democracy, date back farther and go deeper than has been publicly known. Multiple sources tell Rolling Stone that …
Read More »Anderson Cooper Suggests CNN Critics Get Out Of Their 'Silo'
CNN was utterly humiliated by Trump during Wednesday night’s town hall — but the network isn’t backing down from its decision to host the former president. Anderson Cooper stated during his Thursday broadcast that while he understood viewers’ anger over what amounted to a made-for-TV Trump rally, the many lies …
Read More »Abortion in North Carolina Hinges on Just One Republican Keeping Their Word
When he was running for reelection to North Carolina’s House of Representatives this past October, Rep. Ted Davis gave an interview to the New Hanover County Republican Party. “What is your stance on abortion here in North Carolina — are you going to outlaw it completely?” his interviewer, Reuel Sample, …
Read More »Gabby Giffords: Cynicism Is Not an Option When It Comes to Gun Safety
There’s a self-defeating argument I’ve often heard used to explain the state of gun violence in this country. It goes something like this: If we couldn’t change things after 20 first-graders were murdered at Sandy Hook, what hope is there now? I understand the impulse to give in to cynicism …
Read More »They Helped Trump Plan a Coup. He Wants Them Back for a Second Term
Jeffrey Clark and Michael Flynn were leading figures in Donald Trump’s efforts to carry out a coup d’etat in 2020 and 2021. The result was mob violence, deaths at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., an array of criminal investigations and lawsuits, and what one former senior Trump aide went on …
Read More »Trump Mocks E. Jean Carroll at Town Hall, as His Fans Cheer Him On
Donald Trump has been accused of sexual misconduct by a slew of women during his decades of prominence as a public figure. On Tuesday, for the first time, a jury ruled that the former president was liable for sexual battery against author E. Jean Carroll, who accused Trump of having …
Read More »Asked If He Has Jan. 6 Regrets, Trump Boasts About Crowd Size
Donald Trump has no regrets about Jan. 6, 2021. During a aCNN town hallon Wednesday, moderator Kaitlan Collins asked the former president whether he had “any regrets about his actions that day.” In response, Trump boasted about the size of the crowd. “January 6th had to do with the fact …
Read More »Trump Repeatedly Deflects Questions About a National Abortion Ban
Despite bragging during CNN’s town hall Wednesday that he was the mastermind behind the overturning of Roe v. Wade and federal abortion rights in the U.S., Donald Trump refused to answer questions from moderator Kaitlan Collins about whether or not he would support a federal abortion ban. Collins asked Trump …
Read More »Trump Refuses to Pick a Side in Ukraine-Russia War
Donald Trump refused to pick a side in the Ukraine–Russia war. Instead he said he doesn’t “think in terms of winning and losing” and claimed he would end the conflict within a single day if he is re-elected in 2024. “I don’t think in terms of winning and losing,” Trump …
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