The Jan. 6 committee is requesting voluntary cooperation from Sean Hannity, Chair Bennie Thompson and Vice Chair Liz Cheney wrote in a letter released Tuesday. The letter cites previously unreleased text messages obtained by the committee, including one sent on Jan. 10 in which the Fox News host appears to …
Read More »The Walls Are Closing in Around Trump's Family in Fraud Investigation
The state of New York’s long-running investigation into former President Trump’s business practices is training its sights on Trump’s children, a court document filed Monday revealed. Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump have both been subpoenaed by Attorney General Letitia James, who is investigating whether the Trump Organization illegally manipulated …
Read More »MAGA Diehards Melt Down Over Trump's Pro-Vax Push
In the crisscrossed, Q-addled conspiracy world where Donald Trump is held up as America’s great savior, and covid-19 vaccines are denounced as part of a poisonous plot to control the world, the former president’s own vaccination status — Trump privately got jabbed before departing the White House — has been …
Read More »Meanwhile, Steve Bannon Is Reminding Everyone That the Right Is Very Much Trying to Destroy Democracy
Steve Bannon was criminally charged on Friday for defying a subpoena issued by the House committee investigating Jan. 6. The charges were announced not long after Bannon very emphatically reminded listeners of his War Room podcast that the he and the right are trying to do away with democracy by …
Read More »Schiff: The Risk of Authoritarianism Is 'Greater Than It's Ever Been'
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) believes American democracy is on the brink. Schiff, chairman of the House Select Committee on Intelligence and head of Congress’ investigation of the January 6th insurrection, is adamant that the false allegations of election fraud advanced by former-President Trump and his allies have brought us to …
Read More »Republicans Plot Elections Takeover in One of Georgia's Most Democratic Counties
“The most corrupt election in the history of the country.” Three hundred and twenty eight days after losing the 2020 election, that’s what Donald Trump was still grousing about this past weekend at the Georgia National Fairgrounds in Perry, Georgia. “The people of Georgia must replace the RINOs and weak …
Read More »Trump DOJ Sought WH Counsel's Records in Same Time Period It Went After Democrats' Data, Report Says
Former White House counsel Don McGahn was informed by Apple that in 2018, before he left the administration, the Justice Department sought digital records belonging to both him and his wife. According to CNN, the DOJ “appears to have accessed” the couple’s records during the same month data from the …
Read More »'I Have No Idea What He's Doing': Trump's Old Impeachment Lawyer Rips Trump's New Impeachment Lawyer
WASHINGTON — On day one of the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump, House Democrats on Tuesday afternoon laid out their case for why the Senate should proceed with an impeachment trial against a former president, citing the Constitution, the Federalist Papers, and the writings of legal scholars of all …
Read More »Reflections on the Muslim Ban on the Four-Year Anniversary
Four years ago today, the xenophobic promises of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign became a reality. The Muslim ban, signed a week into his presidency, declared that non-American citizens from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen could not enter the United States for the next 90 days; that the …
Read More »Rand Paul Refuses to Say Election Wasn't Stolen: 'I Won't Be Cowed by Liberals'
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) made a fool of himself on national television. Asked countless times by ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos on Sunday if he would admit that the presidential election was not stolen from Donald Trump, the Republican senator refused to tell the truth and blamed the courts, liberal politicians …
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