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 »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 …
Read More »MAGA Lawmaker Who Tried to Overturn Election Says the Feds Seized His Phone
Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), one of Donald Trump’s most loyal supporters in Congress, says federal authorities seized his phone on Tuesday, a day after the FBI raided the former president’s Mar-a-Lago estate. Perry’s office later reiterated to Rolling Stone that the FBI seized the congressman’s phone Tuesday morning. “This morning, …
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 »Why Are Pro-Choice Groups Furious Over a Bill To Codify Roe?
On Monday, four centrist senators rolled out a bill that, if passed, promises to codify Roe, the long-standing Supreme Court precedent that protected women’s right to access abortion for almost five decades. “After the Supreme Court gutted a woman’s right to make personal health care decisions, Congress must restore that …
Read More »Trump Said He Wanted Generals to Be Loyal to Him Like Nazis Were to Hitler: Report
There’s plenty of evidence that Donald Trump wanted to be treated like a dictator, that he frequently butted heads with military leaders, and that his ignorance of history knew no bounds. It shouldn’t be that surprising, then, how the former president reached back to World War II in trying to …
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