WASHINGTON — Viktor Orbán couldn’t have scripted it any better if he’d tried. Seated next to President Trump in a gold-colored chair in the Oval Office, the Hungarian prime minister listened intently as the leader of the free world sang his praises to a throng of journalists, photographers and TV …
Read More »James Comey Explains Why William Barr and Others Let Trump 'Eat Their Souls'
Regardless of whether Attorney General William Barr was ever a “respectable” political figure, plenty of powerful people seem to have held him in such regard. If Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) was one of those people, she’s not anymore. On Wednesday, she lamented the degree to which the attorney general has …
Read More »What We're Learning From the Mueller Investigation Leaks
After nearly two years of tight-lipped silence, the investigative team of Special Counsel Robert Mueller is leaking to reporters, and suggesting that there is far more to Mueller’s final report than Trump’s hand-picked attorney general has let on. In rival stories published Wednesday evening by the Washington Post and the …
Read More »Paul Manafort's Lawyers Ask for Lenient Sentence, Citing His Altar Boy Past
Paul Manafort’s legal team is asking for leniency for President Trump’s former campaign manager and former political consultant to Ukrainian oligarchs with a penchant for ostrich leather. In a sentencing memo filed in federal court Monday, Manafort’s legal team did not dispute his guilt — on a raft of crimes …
Read More »Steve Bannon Says Democrats Might 'Weaponize the Mueller Report' to Take Back the White House
Every few months or so, former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon comes out of his dark lair to impart his genius takes on the status of the Trump administration and the political landscape. And the masses, including the media, are here to gobble it up. Bannon, like all villains …
Read More »Trump Tells Democrats to 'Loosen Up and Have Fun' as Shutdown Looms
Earlier this month, someone in the White House leaked months worth of President Trump’s private daily schedules. They confirmed the obvious: Trump is lazy as hell, with unstructured “Executive Time” making up around 60 percent of his workday over the past three months. According to Axios, which obtained the schedules, …
Read More »Ann Coulter Trashes Trump in Bill Maher Interview
President Donald Trump has once again lost the support of conservative commentator Ann Coulter after he agreed to reopen the government temporarily without getting funding for his border wall. After Trump announced the news on Friday, Coulter tweeted what a wimp Trump was. Later that night, she was interviewed by …
Read More »Is This the Obstruction of Justice Smoking Gun We've Been Waiting For?
Update: The special counsel’s office has released a statement in response to Buzzfeed’s report: “BuzzFeed’s description of specific statements to the Special Counsel’s Office, and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office, regarding Michael Cohen’s Congressional testimony are not accurate,” wrote special counsel spokesperson Peter Carr. Original text …
Read More »Trump's Family Separation Policy Was Exponentially Worse Than Previously Known
The Department of Homeland Security may have separated “thousands” more children from their families than previously reported, according to a new report conducted by the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services.“More children” children were separated “over a longer period of time” than previously believed, Ann Maxwell, …
Read More »Did Trump's Oval Office Address Accomplish Anything?
President Trump on Tuesday night addressed the nation from the Oval Office for the first time since assuming the presidency two years ago this month. The topic was border security, particularly the president’s belief that the only way to achieve it is through the construction of a literal wall separating …
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