On Monday, former President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign photographed an event at Arlington National Cemetery, treating the burial grounds as a political venue despite federal laws expressly barring such behavior. A “verbal and physical altercation” reportedly took place during a wreath-laying ceremony when Trump’s staffers tried to enter the area …
Read More »How the 2024 Election Is Normalizing Corruption
Last week’s Democratic convention was the crescendo of an unprecedented period in American history: The Republican presidential nominee survived an assassination attempt, the Democratic president ended his reelection bid, and the vice president became her party’s nominee without a single primary vote. But the summer was equally extraordinary for how …
Read More »Trump Suggests Gold Star Families to Blame for Arlington Cemetery Controversy
On Thursday, former President Donald Trump attempted to spin away reports that one of his aides pushed a staffer at Arlington National Cemetery during a visit to the burial ground earlier this week, blaming the controversy on “very bad people.” He also suggested in an interview that the Gold Star …
Read More »Why Isn't Anyone Asking Trump About Mark Robinson?
How is the Republican Party not being held accountable for Mark Robinson, the party’s nominee for governor of North Carolina? While there are plenty of MAGA partisans in the modern GOP, Robinson stands apart from the rest. As we reported in Rolling Stone five months ago, Robinson’s conspiratorial, racist, homophobic, …
Read More »Army Says Team Trump 'Abruptly Pushed' Cemetery Employee
The United States Army on Thursday confirmed that a member of Donald Trump’s team “pushed” an Arlington National Cemetery employee during the former president’s visit to the grave sites of deceased service members earlier this week. The Army noted in a statement that the cemetery conducts nearly 3,000 public ceremonies …
Read More »ABBA Also Tells Trump to Stop Playing Their Music at Rallies
Another rally, another unauthorized use of an artist’s music by the Trump campaign. This time around, it’s ABBA claiming that the Trump campaign did not have the Swedish group’s permission to play their music at a Minnesota rally. Trump leaned especially hard on ABBA’s music during the July 27 rally …
Read More »Jack White Says He's Suing Trump Campaign Over 'Seven Nation Army' Video
Here we go again: Jack White is promising to sue the Donald Trump campaign after a Trump aide used a White Stripes song in a video of the former president posted on social media. Just a week after a similar incident involving a Beyoncé song and a Trump aide‘s video, …
Read More »Right-Wing Outlet Wonders Why Harris Didn't Tout McDonald's Experience on Legal Resume
The McFlurry machine is always broken, and so are some of the brains looking for dirt on Kamala Harris. On Thursday, the right-wing outlet The Free Beacon published an article suggesting Harris may be lying about a brief employment stint at a McDonald’s during college. Harris has often spoken of …
Read More »Trump Threatens to Jail Mark Zuckerberg for Life
Donald Trump wrote a book, and true to form, it contains some deeply unbalanced textual musings. According to Politico, the coffee-table book — titled Saving America — accuses Mark Zuckerberg of plotting to usurp the 2020 election in favor of President Joe Biden, and warns that the Meta CEO will …
Read More »Here's How Pro-Trump Georgia Officials Wrote New Rules to Deny Election Results
New emails obtained by Rolling Stone and American Doom reveal how conservative Georgia election officials laid the groundwork for new controversial state election rules designed to give more power to those officials to arbitrarily refuse to certify election results. Months before the Georgia State Election Board passed the rules, emails …
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