A woman told the House Ethics Committee that she witnessed former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), Donald Trump’s AG nominee, having sex with a minor, according to her lawyer. Joel Leppard, the woman’s attorney, released a statement to ABC News on Friday demanding the committee release their investigation report into allegations …
Read More »Trump Allies Were Told to Stop Saying They'll Put Migrants in 'Camps'
Donald Trump’s incoming administration brass wants it made clear: The president-elect is not planning to build a brand new network of “camps” to house the myriad undocumented immigrants who Trump has vowed to round up in what he claims will be “the largest deportation” operation in the “history of our …
Read More »Dem Governor Praises RFK Jr. Pick After Warning He'd Bring Back Polio, Measles
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, who previously criticized Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for backing policies that could bring back deadly diseases, took to social media Thursday to laud Donald Trump‘s decision to name Kennedy as the next secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Democratic governor said …
Read More »Trump's Extreme Hires Are About Showing Republicans Who's Boss
Donald Trump has nominated a roster of highly controversial, and in some cases scandal-plagued, MAGA chaos agents to serve in his Cabinet — and is planning to force them through the U.S. Senate, a chamber in which the incoming president will enjoy a new conservative majority. However, when it comes …
Read More »Trump's Pentagon Pick Was Investigated Over Alleged Sexual Assault
Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks aren’t exactly strangers to controversy, but the alleged past of Defense Secretary Nominee Pete Hegseth is already forcing the president elect’s transition team to do damage control. According to public records in 2017 Hegseth, a former Army service member and current Fox News host, was investigated …
Read More »Will Trump Be Able to Install His Extreme Cabinet Without Senate Confirmation?
Donald Trump has followed up his election win earlier this month by tapping a series of devout loyalists, conspiracy theorists, and zealots to occupy the highest ranks of the federal government. Some of them —like Matt Gaetz, Pete Hegseth, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — are so thinly qualified for …
Read More »Pressure Increases for House to Release Matt Gaetz Ethics Report
A lawyer representing a woman accusing former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) of having sex with her when she was a minor is pressing the House Ethics Committee to release a report on their investigation into the allegations despite Gaetz’s resignation from Congress. On Wednesday, Gaetz tendered his resignation after President-elect …
Read More »Trump Picks RFK Jr. to Run Dept. of Health and Human Services
President-elect Donald Trump has nominated vaccine conspiracy theorist and failed presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head the Department of Health and Human Services. “For too long, Americans have been crushed by the industrial food complex and drug companies who have engaged in deception, misinformation, and disinformation when it …
Read More »Trump's Peace Plan for Ukraine Looks Like Putin's Victory
Russian President Vladimir Putin sees an opportunity to consolidate territorial gains in Ukraine and freeze the war in Moscow’s favor, with President-elect Donald Trump having vowed to end the war “in 24 hours” once he was elected — even if it means forcing the beleaguered democracy to cede land that …
Read More »Matt Gaetz's Friend Demands Court Destroy Records About Sex Party
A “close friend” of Matt Gaetz, Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. attorney general, has asked a court to destroy records that could shed light on the details of a sex party with an underage girl that Gaetz allegedly attended. The records include witness statements about a 2017 party that featured …
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