Everyone likes to tell war stories, including cops and definitely gangsters. Such tales provide the fuel for Get Gotti, Netflix’s new three-part docuseries that tries to breathe fresh life into a story that ended well before there was even such a thing as Netflix. Fast and slick, well-sourced and cogently …
Read More »'SNL' Cold Open Crashed by George Santos With a Random Baby
Before we were treated to the hosting debut of musician and actor Bad Bunny, Saturday Night Live kicked things off with a cold open on the House of Representatives’ third vote for Speaker — where the deeply unlikable Republican Representative Jim Jordan, who has some serious things to answer for …
Read More »Liz Cheney: Democracy Is Doomed Under a Second Trump Presidency
Rep. Liz Cheney shared her fears that another Trump presidency could be the death knell for democracy. “He cannot be the next president because if he is, all of the things he attempted to do but was stopped from doing by responsible people around him — at the Department of …
Read More »Trump Announced Sidney Powell Joined His Legal Team In 2020, Now Claims She Was 'Never' His Lawyer
To Donald Trump, the truth is whatever he decides it is. In the wake of Sidney Powell‘s plea deal and despite claiming that she had joined his legal team in 2020, the former president is now alleging she was “never” his attorney. “Despite the Fake News reports to the contrary… …
Read More »Listen: Billionaire Brags About Trump Sharing Secret Information With Him
Nearly two weeks ago, media reported that Donald Trump reportedly revealed information about U.S. nuclear submarine capabilities to Australian billionaire Anthony Pratt. And on Sunday, 60 Minutes Australia played recordings of secret tapes where Pratt disclosed other non-public information Trump shared with him, including information about U.S. military operations in …
Read More »Team Trump Never Dreamed Sidney Powell Would Flip on Them
Sidney Powell was the wildest of MAGA diehards —someone who swore long past the bitter end that Donald Trump won by a landslide in 2020, and insinuated that a long-dead Venezuelan dictator helped hatch a plot that flipped votes away from her guy. That’s why the former president and much …
Read More »Alleged Mastermind of Trump's 'Fake Electors' Plot in Georgia Accepts Plea
Kenneth Chesebro, a Georgia co-defendant of Donald Trump, accepted a plea deal on Friday with Fulton County, Georgia, prosecutors, in connection to the charges brought against him in the state’s sprawling RICO election interference case. Chesebo pleaded guilty to a single felony count of “conspiracy to commit filing false documents,” …
Read More »Errol Morris Talks Chaos and Conspiracy With John le Carré, and Defends His Steve Bannon Film
E rrol Morris is not one for adversarial interviews. Whether he’s talking to alleged murderers or mourning pet owners, defense secretaries or political svengalis — the documentarian has no interest in moving deftly through a list of questions until he gets to some satisfying gotcha. He’d rather just talk it …
Read More »MAGA Lawyer Sidney Powell Pleads Guilty, Flips on Georgia Co-Defendants
Sidney Powell has agreed to a plea deal with Fulton County, Georgia, prosecutors over charges brought against her in a sprawling RICO case in which former President Donald Trump and 17 others have also been charged for allegedly meddling in the state’s 2020 election results. The plea deal comes just …
Read More »Cher Confirms She 'Will Leave' the Country if Donald Trump Is Re-Elected
Cher is ready to pack her bags if a certain former president finds his way back into the Oval Office. In a broad-ranging interview with the Guardian, the singer was asked how she felt about Donald Trump being potentially re-elected. “I almost got an ulcer the last time,” Cher replied. …
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