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In comments to POLITICO, published in Playbook on Thursday, Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon said  that if President Trump is reelected in 2020, the country is going to get âpure Trump off the chain.â He also said that the presidentâs second term would be âfour years of Donald Trump in payback mode,â indicating…
Attorney General William Barr is playing a political game, and he is losing, according to NBC News national affairs analyst John Heilemann. As Speaker Nancy Pelosi pointed out yesterday , when Barr testified before Congress, he went âoff the rails.â Instead of speaking as an independent law enforcement officer, Barr spoke as if he was…
London’s Metropolitan Police arrested Julian Assange on Thursday after the WikiLeaks founder was evicted by Ecuador from their embassy in the British capital. The eviction and arrest came about after the South American country revoked Assange’s asylum status. According to the Washington Post: âEcuador, which took Assange in when he was facing a Swedish rape…
CNNâs New Day this morning took some well-deserved shots at President Donald Trumpâs documented friendship with Fox News host Sean Hannity. POLITICO writers Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer were on the show discussing their new book, Hill to Die On, with co-anchors Alisyn Camerota and Jake Berman. The book describes the pitched battle that has…
History will show that when it comes to the political battle over security at the U.S. border, Donald Trump is a loser. Nothing he does — no matter how horrible — has worked to achieve his stated goals. In fact, he has made the situation worse, as border crossings have increased during his presidency. And…
Presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont is giving a new push to his 2020 campaign today by announcing a new version of his âMedicare for Allâ plan. âWhat our system does is get rid of insurance companies and drug companies making billions of dollars in profit every single year,â Sanders told CBS News in…
Update: This story has been corrected to reflect that this is an opinion piece, and not a factual statement about the president’s menconditiontion. President Donald Trump is undergoing significant cognitive decline and must be tested for dementia according to a new report in USA Today. Noted psychologist John Gartner wrote the report in which in…
The Trump administration has just announced plans to designate Iranâs Revolutionary Guard (IRG) as a terrorist group. What the announcement failed to mention was that this newly-designated terrorist group was involved in the financing for a Trump Hotel project in the country of Azerbaijan. The link between the Trump Tower Baku project and money-laundering activities of Iranâs…
Donald Trump seems to have a very unusual relationship with White House Adviser Stephen Miller , who has been accused of white supremacism. In fact, the president is now relying on the 33 year-old immigration hardliner more and more every day. Miller was reportedly behind the recent purge of the Department of Homeland Security, including…
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has found himself in the hot seat, and if he doesnât handle things properly he may also find himself in jail. Last week House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.) sent a letter to the IRS requesting six years of Trumpâs personal and business returns. He asked the IRS…
Donald Trump has spent the last few days engaged in one of his favorite activities: firing people. And the net result is that he has decimated the Department of Homeland Security. The president seems to be in a controlled rage, having now let go DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen , U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)…
A Trump-supporting Georgia congressman, Rep. Doug Collins, has demanded that House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) invite special counsel Robert Mueller to come testify before his committee âwithout delay.â House Judiciary Ranking Member @RepDougCollins  has asked Chairman @RepJerryNadler to invite Special Counsel Robert Mueller to testify before the committee “without delay.” INBOX: House Judiciary Ranking…
Last week House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass) sent a letter to the IRS Commissioner demanding six years of Donald Trumpâs tax returns. This started a huge legal and political fight in Washington, with both sides prematurely claiming victory. Neal and other House Democrats have said the federal law is clear, and…
The Office of the Special Counsel (OSC) has opened an investigation into the Trump administrationâs decision to pursue a nuclear agreement with the government of Saudi Arabia, The Daily Beast reported on Monday. Specifically, OSC âis looking at whether officials were retaliated against for raising concerns about the administrationâs work related to a Saudi nuclear…
Since becoming Speaker of the House in January, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has had to balance the goals of far-left progressives in her party with moderate Democrats who won districts in 2018 that Donald Trump had carried in 2016. And, in ways that have surprised a lot of skeptics, she has done an excellent job…
A panel of experts on CNNâs New Day on Monday was unanimous. They all said that President Donald Trump will have a very hard time finding a new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) chief who will also be able to win confirmation in the Senate. While discussing the firing of former Secretary of Homeland Security…
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has guaranteed victory for her party in the 2020 elections. One of the ways she will make good on her promise is by making sure the House passes popular bills which will be rejected by the White House and the GOP-controlled Senate. One such bill — to put back…
On Sunday, CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin published an editorial in The New Yorker, and in it he severely rebuked Attorney General William Barr. According to Toobin, Barr is continuing to obstruct justice by helping Donald Trump conceal special counsel Robert Muellerâs Russia report from Congress and from the American people. And he is doing…
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi continues to be a thorn in the side of Donald Trump. She is frustrating him in Washington, and now it has just been announced that she will receive one of the most prestigious honors in politics — the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award. This is sure to…
Donald Trumpâs Department of Justice (DOJ) is asking for two years to identify several thousand migrant children who were stolen from their parents at the Mexican border under Trumpâs âzero toleranceâ immigration policy. The Associated Press reported that the Trump administration has set forth their proposed timeline in a new court filing. Trumpâs people are…
A special report from the Washington Post has revealed that in order to stimulate economic growth, Donald Trump made risky changes in financial rules that could backfire at any time. Trump took the steps so he would look good and receive high approval ratings due to a booming economy. But Trumpâs economy is built on…
NBCâs âSaturday Night Liveâ hilariously took on the personal boundary questions of former Vice President Joe Bidenâs expected presidential campaign. The cold opening showed multiple cringe-worthy examples of the behavior that has raised questions about Bidenâs potential 2020 bid. As the show opens, several Biden advisers stand around talking, with one asking âdo you think…
Democrats lost the presidency to Donald Trump in 2016, partly because the Clinton campaign couldnât compete in the arena of digital media. But that was then. Now, itâs a whole new world , and Democratic 2020 candidates have all made using the internet effectively one of their top priorities. And because of this, having a…
It seems like every Democrat in the country is running for president in 2020. There could be as many as 20 candidates who lose the nomination next year. But who will win? With so many candidates running, how worried should Democrats be about a fiasco like a deadlocked nomination battle leading to a loss in…
Many people within the Trump administration could soon be found in âContempt of Congressâ and thus find themselves subject to arrest. House Democrats have been busy since taking control in January. Theyâve already issued several subpoenas, and theyâve written a lot of letters which could soon turn into even more subpoenas if they donât get…
Yesterday Donald Trump made a rare visit to the Golden State to try to garner support for his controversial border wall with Mexico. While there Trump took time out to attend a fundraiser at a Beverly Hills home, and it was a total bust. In fact, so few people wanted to meet the president that…
Even though Joe Biden is being attacked from within his own party for excessive public displays of affection, Donald Trump still fears the popular former vice president more than any other Democrat. White House aides have said that the president worries Biden would win his home state of Pennsylvania if the two run against each other,…
Attorneys for Michael Cohen have given documents to Congress which accuse Donald Trump and his team of lawyers of directing Cohen to lie to Congress about when negotiations ended for a major real estate deal in Moscow. The new information, reported today in Buzzfeed News, adds another layer to the Cohen controversy and makes it…
In a major policy speech, Senator Elizabeth Warren is calling to end the Senate filibuster. She is the first major presidential candidate to endorse ending the Senate‘s historic rule which requires 60 votes to pass legislation. Elizabeth Warren is calling to end the legislative filibuster, the first major presidential candidate to explicitly endorse ending the…
Reports surfaced yesterday that Donald Trump is planning to nominate to the Federal Reserve Board the controversial (and disgraced) former presidential candidate Herman Cain. This weird and unsettling move led to the Washington Post economics expert to writing a brutal takedown of the former pizza chain mogul and his very unusual views of monetary policy….
Donald Trump has been the subject of many âtell-allâ books during his tumultuous career, including several written about his own chaotic White House. And according to a new report in The Daily Beast, for some time he has been planning to write one of his own. Of course Donald Trump thinks his book will be…
MSNBCâs Joe Scarborough opened his show today with a blistering attack on Donald Trump and how his 2016 campaign was manipulated by Vladimir Putin and Russian intelligence agents. Speaking with a great deal of anger and passion, the Morning Joe co-host pointed out how Attorney General William Barr had let down the American people by…
An angry and defensive Judge Andrew Napolitano (Chief Legal Analyst for Fox News) made an appearance on television this morning strongly criticizing Congressional Democrats for requesting President Donald Trumpâs tax returns. But he also said that Trumpâs claims that his returns are under audit by the IRS are no defense against complying with the request,…
During a TV appearance when the discussion was all about whether or not Stacey Abrams would run for president in 2020, a former U.S. senator practically begged her to run for a Senate seat in Georgia instead. The former senator, Claire McCaskill of Missouri, made a strong pitch directly to Abrams, saying that if she…
Thanks to his Attorney General and a complicit media, last week Donald Trump thought he was winning. It appeared that he was getting away with falsely claiming he had been exonerated by Bob Mueller. Then he started seeking revenge against everyone, and vowed to investigate Democrats, the FBI and anyone else he could think of….
Itâs no surprise that Jared Kushner is the senior White House official described in documents from the House Oversight Committee that details testimony of Tricia Newbold who identified serious lapses in the current White House security clearance process. The son-in-law and top aide to President Donald Trump has come under scrutiny for a long time…
Yesterday may have been Trumpâs worst day ever . But before things hit the fan yesterday, he had been flying high. Attorney General Barrâs bogus summary of the Mueller report created a false impression among the American electorate that the report had cleared Trump of all wrongdoing. Of course we know that is untrue, but…
The House Judiciary Committee just completed a vote that authorized its chairman to use a subpoena to force the Justice Department to give Congress a full copy of Special Counsel Robert Mueller‘s report and all of his underlying evidence. BREAKING: The House Judiciary Committee votes to authorize a subpoena of the full Mueller report, setting up…
In 2017 Donald Trump put his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, in charge of creating a plan to bring peace to the Middle East. It didnât seem to matter to the president that the greatest diplomats in history couldnât accomplish this objective, and Jared had absolutely no experience in international diplomacy. Letâs call Trumpâs illogical move ânepotism…
Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski couldnât believe Donald Trumpâs false claims made yesterday — and many times before — that his father Fred was born in Germany. In fact Fred Trump was born in the Bronx, in New York City, in 1905. During todayâs show Brzezinski played a series of video clips showing the numerous…
President Donald Trump said in a speech to a Republican group that former Vice President Joe Biden is “being taken care of pretty well by the socialists.” He was implying that recent criticisms against Biden, a potential 2020 presidential candidate, is the product of attacks coming from the left wing (i.e. Bernie Sanders wing )…
A large majority of American voters say they don’t trust Donald Trump on health care, according to the new Politico/Morning Consult poll released Wednesday. The poll discovered that 59 percent of voters said they don’t have âmuch trustâ or âany trust at allâ in the president on health care. The new poll also discovered that more…
Lori Lightfoot, a former federal prosecutor, was elected as Chicagoâs first black female mayor last night, in an historic first. She will also become the cityâs first openly gay mayor. She won a commanding victory after a long and grueling campaign that saw her defeat more than a dozen challengers as she won her first elected…
MSNBCâs Morning Joe program today played a brutal video montage of Donald Trump making promises about health care that have turned out to be completely false. It points out that none of Trumpâs promises can be believed, especially on healthcare. The video starts back in 2015, shortly after Trump announced he was running for president…
According to The Washington Post this morning, Donald Trump will not attempt to get Congress to pass legislation on healthcare — including changes to the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare) — until after the 2020 elections. The clearly-delusional president said that he believes that in 2020 he will be reelected, and Republicans will control…
The biggest and most dangerous group of terrorists in America is now being ignored by the Trump administration. According to a new report this morning in The Daily Beast, Trump has completely shut down a domestic terrorism group within The Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The president and his advisers apparently believe all terrorists have…
Pete Buttigieg is an unusual presidential candidate with an unusual name. And according to a new report, he has been generating more social media interest than any other actual or potential 2020 Democratic candidate. Even though most people donât know how to properly pronounce his last name, the 37 year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana…
An inside report from the White House this morning reveals that staff members are panicking over the prospect of their boss actually going forward with his threat to close the U.S. border with Mexico. On Friday Donald Trump made his initial threat to close the border and since then has repeated it, in effect doubling…
A White House whistleblower is accusing President Donald Trump of overriding national security concerns to give improper security clearances to 25 people who had been turned down for having âserious disqualifying issues.â POLITICO has just reported that White House Personnel Security Office employee Tricia Newbold gave testimony to the House Oversight and Reform Committee concerning…
House Democrats say they will vote on Wednesday to subpoena Special Counsel Robert Muellerâs complete report. They also will subpoena Muellerâs underlying evidence files and other materials, according to CNN. https://twitter.com/CNNNewsource/status/1112709430125215744 Leading Democrats in Congress have been saying for the past week that they are tired of Attorney General Bill Barrâs games. And now they…
Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York on Monday published an editorial in the New York Times telling Attorney General Bill Barr that he must release special counsel Robert Muellerâs report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election by Tuesday or face legal action from Congress. Nadler is the chairman of the powerful House…
Morning Joeâs Joe Scarborough today said that President Donald Trump and Attorney General Bill Barr are not fooling the American people. âWe know itâs all a scam, and voters know itâs all a scam,â Scarborough said. According to the popular MSNBC host, Trump and Barr probably think theyâre getting away with something big by trying…
Over the weekend there were two big victories for Democrats in Louisiana which have sent shockwaves throughout the Republican Party. The elections won by Democratic candidates took place in two Louisiana state districts that Trump won in 2016 by huge margins. What voters in these districts have done is sent a massive 2020 election message…
New York Attorney General Letitia (Trish) James promised after she was elected in November that she would âuse every area of the lawâ to investigate President Donald Trump. She won in a landslide, primarily because the theme of her campaign was âGet Trump.â And now she has started to make moves that will ultimately result…
Make no mistake, rich people love the GOP — and their tax cuts. According to a new study reported by Axios this morning, super-rich CEOâs of big corporations have been flooding the Republican Party with contributions. They want to keep their tax breaks coming, even as the United States faces record budget deficits, and possible…
The battle for control of the U.S. Senate in 2020 may be decided in the cornfields of Iowa. Incumbent Republican Senator Joni Ernst is a rising star in the GOP and her seat is supposed to be safe. But nothing is safe for Republicans now, after Donald Trumpâs trade war . Trumpâs tariffs have caused…
A battle is brewing between Democrats in Congress and Attorney General William Barr over access to grand jury testimony, which is some of the most sensitive evidence obtained in special counsel Robert Mueller‘s investigation. Barr said he is still reviewing Mueller‘s entire final report, although he issued a summary of the reportâs final conclusions. He…
Robert DeNiro was on âSaturday Night Liveâ again last night doing an outstanding job playing the role of former special counsel Robert Mueller. In the showâs cold opening sketch Alec Baldwin was also featured portraying President Donald Trump, doing his usual excellent job as well. The skit ridiculed how Attorney General Bill Barr (played by…
As his political situation becomes more desperate, Donald Trump has begun to threaten even more desperate moves to stop the influx of undocumented immigrants at the Mexican border. Yesterday Trump âthreatened to close the U.S. border with Mexico next week, or at least large sections of the frontier, if Mexico âdoesnât immediately stop all illegal…
Donald Trumpâs self-destructive decision to try to completely dismantle the Affordable Care Act, as the race for the 2020 election is just beginning, has Republican lawmakers and GOP consultants panicking. They know something that he apparently doesnât know: that Trumpâs moves on healthcare and other social programs will assure that he loses in 2020. And…
Stacey Abrams of Georgia is now a national powerhouse in Democratic Party politics, but few people know about it. After narrowly losing the governorâs race in the Peach State in November Abrams has quietly built a âmassive political network” that will make her an instant force once she decides what her next move will be. She…
Republicans in Congress have begun a witch hunt, as they have started to plan their own probe into top Obama-era officials and the 2016 election. The GOP is obviously anxious to move past special counsel Robert Muellerâs investigation into Russian election interference and the Trump campaign. So now they are starting to investigate âthe investigators,”…
The right-wing viewers of Fox News are very unhappy with the networkâs chief legal analyst, Judge Andrew Napolitano right now. And they have taken to Twitter to express their extreme displeasure with what Napolitano had to say about Bill Barr, the Mueller report, and comments made by Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA). In…
Donald Trump is really going off the rails. His crazy antics might be funny if he werenât the most powerful man in the world, who has the codes to Americaâs nuclear weapons. As head of both the U.S. military and the U.S. law enforcement agencies, Trump is in a unique position to abuse his power…
For the past five days Donald Trump has continually claimed that he has been âtotally exoneratedâ by Attorney General Bill Barrâs summary of special counsel Robert Muellerâs report. But a new poll released Friday shows that the majority of Americans are skeptical and are not buying Trumpâs claims of exoneration. The latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll…
Democratic Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut was on CNN this morning and told host John Berman that he believes Adam Schiff has nothing to apologize for when it comes to accusing President Donald Trump of colluding with Russia. He also said that Bill Barr’s summary of the Mueller report will not absolve Donald Trump of his…
MSNBCâs Donny Deutsch thinks Donald Trump is ârepulsiveâ and âdisgusting to look at.â Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough thinks Trump is âpatheticâ and âsad.â As a result, Deutsch said this morning, the president should not be attacking or making fun of the appearance of anyone else. And Scarborough joined Deutsch as together they mocked Trump…
Donald Trump keeps trying to undo the nation’s healthcare protections, and he keeps losing in court. The latest loss came when a federal judge struck down a Trump administration rule aimed at enabling millions of Americans to buy cheap health insurance plans that do not comply with key Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) requirements. The rule…
For wacky conspiracy theories you canât beat Fox & Friends , Donald Trumpâs favorite morning television show. Earlier this year they said that lower tax refunds this year were the fault of the American taxpayers instead of the Trump administration. And today they said that Former CIA Director John Brennan was behind the Mueller investigation,…
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) this morning filed a lawsuit against Facebook , claiming that the company engages in advertising practices that facilitate housing discrimination based on racial, ethnic and religious differences. Breaking: HUD has just charged Facebook with âencouraging, enabling, and causing housing discrimination through the companyâs advertising platform.â https://t.co/jglDmBIQk9…
CNN’s Joan Walsh has advised likely 2020 Democratic president candidate Joe Biden not to run, according to a report this morning in The Hill. According to Walsh, it would be better if Biden would support a woman candidate. She said that Biden has been saying that he wants to change what the former vice president…
Hereâs an interesting question: if Donald Trump and his aides in the White House are claiming total exoneration from the Mueller report, why are they refusing to release the report that supposedly exonerates them? And hereâs an equally interesting answer: because the Mueller report does NOT exonerate Donald Trump, but actually contains evidence of collusion…
A new poll shows that Donald Trump is in trouble. According to the highly respected Quinnipiac University poll, the majority of American voters have already made up their minds that they will not vote to reelect the president in next yearâs election. The poll also found that in the crowded 2020 Democratic presidential race, with…
Former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos was on CNNâs âNew Dayâ show on Wednesday and claimed that he was âhorrifiedâ after being told by an alleged Russian agent that the Russian government had obtained emails that would damage Hillary Clintonâs campaign. Then he got yelled at by his host. ââIn retrospect, of course,…
Nearly half of the American voters surveyed in a new opinion poll say they believe that Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign colluded with Russia. This result came even though Attorney General William Barrâs summary of the special counsel’s investigation appeared to conclude that there was no evidence to support that finding, or at least to…
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) may end up being the happiest person in Washington, according to a new report this morning. After Attorney General Bill Barrâs summary report indicated there was no criminal collusion between the Trump 2016 campaign and Russia, many Democrats were down in the dumps — but not Nancy Pelosi….
As Fox News and Republicans call for his resignation , Adam Schiff is doubling down on his claims that there was collusion between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign — and he will be able to prove it. He told the Washington Post in a new interview that he believes evidence of collusion between the…
Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski slammed President Donald Trump today for hiring shady individuals who operate outside the law. She also criticized him for throwing them under the bus when it served his purposes, noting that he has turned his back on all of his former associates after they were sent to jail for him….
Donald Trump has just accomplished an extremely difficult task. Over the past few days he has made moves that have united the Democratic Party. Every single Democrat in Congress was outraged that Trump had his hand-picked attorney general write a brief summary of Bob Muellerâs 22 month investigation that allowed the president to claim âcomplete…
Attorney General William Barrâs summary of the special counsel report does not address key counterintelligence aspects of the investigation into Donald Trumpâs ties to Russia, according to national security experts quoted by The Atlantic. Even though Barrâs summary addressed the issues of crimes and criminal indictments, it leaves open the question of alleged security and…
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii), a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate is now saying that if special counsel Robert Mueller had indicted Donald Trump it would have eventually âled to civil war.â Gabbard issued a lengthy statement that she posted on Twitter: âI strongly supported Mueller being allowed to complete his investigation and submit his findings. Now…
MSNBCâs Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski expressed outrage at Donald Trump and his allies today for claiming vindication before special counsel Robert Muellerâs report had been released to either Congress or the public The Morning Joe co-hosts made clear that there are some extremely important questions that still must be answered from the 22 month…
Democratic members of Congress are ready for a fight against the latest move by the U.S. military to make money available for Donald Trumpâs misguided wall at the Mexican border. It was announced Monday night by the Pentagon that it will be transferring $1 billion to the Army Corps of Engineers to build barriers along…
William Barrâs latest move as Trumpâs attorney general is intended to destroy the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) but also may destroy the GOP. Last December a federal district court judge issued a ruling saying the Obamacare individual mandate is now unconstitutional because of a provision of the 2017 GOP tax scam law. At the time…
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was on CNNâs âNew Dayâ this morning ranting that the Mueller probe was an effort to âoverthrowâ President Donald Trump. CNNâs John Berman immediately shut her down. During her interview with Berman, Sanders was asked about Trumpâs comments about the entire Mueller investigation being âan illegal takedown that…
Ann Coulter on Monday said Democrats can win in 2020 by pointing out that President Trump “hasnât kept any of his promises” after reports that special counsel Robert Mueller found no conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia in the 2016 election. Coulter , the best-selling conservative writer who has gone from Trump supporter to…
The lawyer who wrote the special counsel rules that governed Robert Muellerâs investigation believes that Donald Trump âshould not be taking a victory lap.” The lawyer, Neal Katyal, who is now an MSNBC legal analyst, expressed his opinion after reading Attorney General William Barrâs summary of the findings of Robert Mueller’s investigation. “There are any…
Donald Trump thinks that his Attorney General, William Barr, has cleared him of all charges of collusion from special counsel Robert Muellerâs investigation. It doesnât matter that Barr is serving as Trumpâs personal lawyer instead of serving the people of the United States — Trump has claimed victory, and almost immediately started gloating. He also…
Now that the Mueller probe has ended, and Bill Barr sent his summary letter to Congress, Donald Trump and his allies believe they have a winning issue for the 2020 election. But that may not be true. As the Washington Post reported last night: âPresident Trumpâs defiant mantra â âno collusion!ââ became a rallying cry…
We all know that under Department of Justice (DOJ) guidelines Robert Mueller had to submit a report on his findings of criminal conduct to Attorney General William Barr. And we know that Barr has discretion, and may or may not release this so-called âcriminal reportâ to Congress and to the public. But most people are…
House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said on Sunday that it would be “equivalent to a cover up” if the Department of Justice (DOJ) refuses to release the underlying information behind special counsel Robert Mueller’s final report. In other words, Nadler doesnât want to see just Muellerâs report, but he also wants to see all…
Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin used to be a Republican. Then Donald Trump won her partyâs nomination. Although Trump motivated her to leave her party, her opinions still count in Washington. And this morning she is making the case that proceeding with impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump will be to Republicans’ advantage before the 2020…
Democratic U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand will give her first speech as an official presidential candidate in New York City today, and will call Donald Trump a âcowardâ in front of his own hotel. The new 2020 candidate will also accuse the president of  âtearing apart the moral fabric of our country.â The New York senator…
Yesterday we reported that since Bob Mueller has delivered his report to William Barr, the fight against Donald Trump and his criminal family and businesses will move to the U.S. Attorneyâs office in the Southern District of New York (SDNY). Robert Mueller apparently will not indict anyone else, but Democratic leaders in Congress made very…
The husband of one of Donald Trumpâs top advisers, George Conway, is blasting the President of the United States on Twitter again — and for good cause. Today Conway’s comments deal with the president’s sudden reversal of sanctions on North Korea just one day after his administration made public statements about implementing them. While other…
Things are getting nasty in Washington, DC. After special counsel Robert Mueller gave his final report to Attorney General William Barr, members of Congress from both parties immediately entered into a war of words. The fights going on now are not legal, but political. Through the âspinningâ of the facts and through a major PR…
Many Republicans, along with their supporters on Fox News, started their premature celebrations last night after Attorney General William Barr released a letter saying he had received the final report from special counsel Robert Muller. According to Slate Magazine: âFox News spent most of Friday night taking a victory lap. âWell, happy No Collusion Day,…
It was once rumored that Donald Trump would throw Jared Kushner under the bus, but now it appears that the opposite may be happening. According to reports that came out last night, Trumpâs son-in-law, who is also a senior White House adviser, is now cooperating with the investigations of House Democrats. Jared Kushner is cooperating…
Now that Bob Mueller has delivered his report to William Barr, the fight against Donald Trump and his criminal family and businesses will move to the U.S. Attorneyâs office in the Southern District of New York (SDNY). Not coincidentally, the SDNY has just made a major new hire, bringing in one of the top lawyers…
