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A new report from HillTV shows that since Donald Trump caused a government shutdown in attempting to force Congress to fund his border wall his support among male American voters has plummeted. The decline in his approval rating among men has been occurring steadily over recent months, according to an analysis of Hill-HarrisX public opinion…
Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather has denounced Fox News as “state-run media” according to a new article in The Daily Beast. In the article Rather refused to say that Trump had done a worse job than George W. Bush, indicating that it was a tough call. “I’m going to duck that question — and…
Over the past week Donald Trump has been lambasted for emboldening white nationalism after a white nationalist killed 50 Muslims at two New Zealand mosques. When a reporter asked the president whether he sees “today that white nationalism is a rising threat around the world?” Trump responded, “I don’t really.” There have been other incidents…
Jared Kushner was hammered today on Morning Joe for using his personal phone to conduct foreign affairs, which may have compromised the national security of the United States. On the show a former FBI agent explained how easily the White House adviser and presidential son-in-law could be hacked by Russia and other hostile foreign nations….
Reports from Capitol Hill this morning indicate that House Democrats will be aggressively seeking Donald Trump’s business tax returns along with his personal returns. Democratic lawmakers expect these business returns to uncover what they believe are the president’s extensive conflicts of interest, including possible dealings with Russia. They also believe the business filings will disclose…
Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Donald Trump, went on Fox News this morning to publicly trash her own husband, lawyer George Conway, who has been involved in a feud with her boss on Twitter. “My husband has been very critical of the president publicly, which is unlike him just because he’s traditionally been a very…
Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough this morning agreed with George Conway that President Donald Trump “no doubt” shows evidence of cognitive decline. The Washington attorney, who is the husband of White House adviser Kellyanne Conway, has been involved in a feud with the president, whom he suggests has a mental illness as well as other mental…
New reporting this morning has revealed that former vice president Joe Biden may soon announce he is running for president, and at the same time might announce that Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams will be his running mate if he wins the Democratic Party nomination next year. The report came from Axios and is based on…
Giving in to concerns about safety and overcrowding, the Trump administration has been forced to release hundreds of detained migrants from federal facilities as well as to stop detaining any more people attempting to enter the United States without documentation. This move proves that Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy of arresting and incarcerating migrants has…
The Daily Beast published a new poll this morning that appears to prove the existence of a frightening “Fox News Bubble.” It shows that nearly eight in 10 Republicans — 78 percent — who watch the right-wing news network believe Donald Trump is the most successful president in history. The poll also shows that Republicans…
Donald Trump has been attacking Bob Mueller’s special counsel investigation for nearly two years, calling it “a witch hunt” and “a hoax.” But according to the Associated Press, he may try to claim victory and upend Robert Mueller’s report no matter what it says. Mueller may issue a report any day now, and as we wait the…
Leaders from around the globe are desperately urging Joe Biden to run for president next year, hoping that he will beat Donald Trump and restore order and normalcy to the world stage. The former Vice President also reached out to his close supporters on Tuesday saying he intends to run for president in 2020, according…
Former federal prosecutor Elie Honig said on CNN this morning that the statement by Robert Mueller that he is too busy to comply with a request to unseal redacted documents has revealed something big is in the works at the special counsel’s office. Special Counsel Robert Mueller included a mysterious note in a court filing…
The number three ranking Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives was seen today on TV comparing the President of the United States to Adolf Hitler . The “First Look” segment of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” played a clip of South Carolina Congressman James Clyburn expressing his concerns that the current occupant of the White House…
Andrew Gillum has nearly $4 million left over from his losing campaign last year to become Florida’s first African American governor. And he has a plan to use it to destroy Donald Trump’s chances of winning reelection in 2020. Most people know that Trump can’t win reelection without winning Florida’s electoral votes. Gillum’s plan will…
New York Prosecutors on Tuesday unsealed copies of search warrants and other documents obtained in last April’s FBI raid on former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s home, office and hotel room. “JUST IN: Partially redacted search warrant materials pertaining to the April 2018 raid on Michael Cohen’s home, office and hotel room have been released” JUST…
Donald Trump attacked George Conway, husband to White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, on Twitter Tuesday morning. And Conway immediately responded with his diagnosis of Trump’s mental and personality disorders. In a retweet of Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale that dismissed the vocal critic of Trump, the commander in chief added: “A total loser!” Brad Parscale…
Donald Trump may be in trouble in Ohio. He won the state’s electoral votes in the 2016 election after promising to bring back factory jobs. But recent events show that factory workers have lost faith in the president they voted for. David Green of the United Auto Workers (UAW) of Ohio spoke with CNN this…
Donald Trump’s White House has completely ignored House Democrat requests for documents, and the administration expects to get away with it reported POLITICO this morning. House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) wrote to the White House last month demanding information about Trump’s national emergency declaration. Nadler’s February 22 deadline came and went without a response…
The German bank with a history of money laundering lent President Donald Trump over $2 billion when he could not obtain loans from other sources. And according to the New York Times, the loans were made by Deutsche Bank even after they confirmed that Trump had completed false financial statements and lied about his net…
Democrats are sick of watching Mitch McConnell stack the federal judiciary — including the Supreme Court — with right-wing judges. So now many of them want to retaliate, and they are starting to talk about a radical response that would allow a future Democratic president and Senate to add two new liberal justices to the…
This morning, the independent nonprofit news organization, ProPublica, published new information on a federal search warrant they had uncovered regarding major Trump Fundraiser, Elliott Broidy. In announcing the shocking new information about one of the top money men in the Republican Party, ProPublica tweeted: “The sealed warrant we obtained that the Feds used to raid…
Beto O’Rourke is continuing to break records. In the first day of his presidential campaign the former congressman from Texas raised over $6.1 million, according to NBC News. This is the largest first-day fundraising total of any 2020 Democratic contender to date, including Bernie Sanders. Video: Breaking: Beto O'Rourke raises $6.1M in first 24 hours…
Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election prospects continue to collapse as he is making moves to appease the extreme right-wing of the Republican Party. Although he insanely claimed to have won the presidency in 2016 by a massive landslide, the truth is he barely won the electoral college, and lost the popular vote by a large margin….
Members of the Senate GOP caucus are now desperately trying to curb the president’s emergency powers according to a report this morning in The Hill. The new effort arose after Donald Trump’s veto on Friday of a congressional resolution blocking his declaration of a national emergency on the U.S.-Mexico border wall. Neither house of Congress…
Donald Trump on Sunday attacked a Saturday Night Live (SNL) rerun for making jokes at his expense. The popular NBC show opened with a skit called “It’s a Wonderful Trump” which showed what life would be like if he had never been elected president. In a pair of tweets, Trump complained that SNL and other…
One of the U.S. Senate’s most powerful Republicans is fuming mad at President Donald Trump. Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley , former chairman of the Judiciary Committee, has declared war against Trump’s White House according to a new report in POLITICO. What’s riled up Grassley is the refusal by the Trump administration to turn over sensitive…
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand ( D-N.Y.) on Sunday made it official when she formally announced that she is running for the Democratic Party nomination for president next year. Gillibrand had announced an exploratory committee for a potential run last month. Her unsurprising announcement came early this morning in the form of a three-minute video produced by…
Although there were 12 Republican U.S. Senators who voted against Donald Trump in the vote last week on his emergency declaration, this doesn’t mean there is a widespread revolt in his party. In fact, what’s more revealing is to look at the senators who did NOT vote against the president, and understand why. Because it…
Two of the country’s top experts on constitutional law have just published a new analysis describing new “high crimes and misdemeanors” for which Donald Trump can legitimately be impeached . They also explained why these potential offenses committed by Trump should be immediately investigated by the Justice Department (DOJ). The experts are renowned Harvard Law…
Milo Yiannopoulos has a history of outrageous behavior in promoting his beliefs in white supremacism. His anti-Muslim biases have been made clear many times over the years. And now they have gotten him banned from ever entering the country of Australia. After yesterday’s New Zealand mosque murders, ABC Australia reported that Yiannopoulos has been prohibited…
For former Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke, the heat is on. On Thursday O’Rourke announced that he is running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. On Friday he was already forced to apologize for comments he made about his wife, and to explain some questionable things he did as a teenager. He acknowledged he had made…
The signs are mounting that special counsel Robert Mueller may soon be issuing a report with the findings from his investigation which has been going on nearly two years. The past week was a very eventful one for Mueller and his team of investigators, and there were several clues that their work may soon conclude…
HBO’s Bill Maher last night mocked supporters of Donald Trump who complain about experiencing public shunning for wearing MAGA — “Make America Great Again” — hats. “So you think you have problems, you cannot believe,” the comedian host began, “but it’s the Trump supporters who have the real problems.” “The people who wear ‘Make America…
A right-wing Australian senator on Friday said Muslim immigrants were the “real cause of bloodshed” following a shooting at two mosques that killed 49 people in New Zealand. A 28 year-old Australian man was arrested as the primary suspect in the terrorist attack. “I am utterly opposed to any form of violence within our community,…
Beto O’Rourke believes President Donald Trump “at the very least” attempted to obstruct justice and also attempted to collude with Russia during the 2016 election. Friday morning on CBS This Morning, in his first TV interview since announcing his bid for the White House a day earlier, the former Texas congressman told host Gayle King…
As the U.S. tax filing season progresses, new data shows that more Americans are being hurt than being helped by the tax scam legislation passed by Donald Trump and congressional Republicans in December of 2017. According to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Friday just one of every five U.S. taxpayers will pay less income…
After scores of Muslims were murdered in a terrorist attack in New Zealand, Donald Trump mindlessly tweeted out a link to the anti-Muslim Breitbart News website. There was no other comment in the tweet, nor was there an explanation for why the president tweeted the link to Breitbart, a news organization formerly run by Trump…
A terrorist attack on two crowded mosques during Friday prayers left forty-nine people dead and many more seriously injured in the New Zealand city of Christchurch. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern described it as “one of New Zealand’s darkest days.” "It is clear that this can now only be described as a terrorist attack." New Zealand…
Trouble may be brewing in one of the country’s most progressive congressional districts, Minnesota’s Fifth. After a national controversy caused by her comments about Israel, congresswoman Ilhan Omar, may be facing a primary challenge next year, and a lot of Democrats are upset about it. Omar’s remarks seem to have split Minnesota Democrats into two…
A new Gallup poll released Thursday shows Donald Trump with just a 39 percent approval rating, marking the first time in months that it has dropped below 40 percent. It also shows that his approval has dropped 4 points in a month. His approval rating was 43 percent in the second half of February. The president’s…
Is the Democratic Party ready to nominate a white male presidential candidate? Members of a panel on CNN this morning said they were not so sure, referring to the announcement that former Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke will be running for president next year. CNN’s Nia-Malika Henderson expressed grave concerns she has about O’Rourke, who has…
There have been many rumors in recent weeks that the special counsel investigation being led by Robert Mueller is nearly over. Some people think Mueller’s report will be issued by the end of the month, but that is just speculation. There is a piece of new information, however, which is not speculation, but is solid…
Lost in all of the news about Paul Manafort’s sentencing is the fact that new evidence has come to light which shows that Ivanka Trump is a target of the investigations of the House Judiciary Committee. When the Judiciary Committee sent document requests to eighty-one Trump connected people and entities earlier this month, everyone wondered…
A lot of people have been wondering how an average guy like Jared Kushner ever got admitted to Harvard. And now we know the answer: it was because his felon-father (legally) bribed the renowned institution so he could go there. Yesterday the news broke about a massive college admissions bribery investigation, involving children of CEOs…
Donald Trump is whining again. Now he thinks that late night comedians are not only biased, but are being mean to him also. And even though he can dish it out, our thin-skinned president clearly can’t take criticism — or jokes — that are directed towards him. Trump went to Twitter Wednesday morning to complain…
Senate Republicans have just 24 hours to come up with a workable solution to stop a Democratic-backed resolution that chastises President Donald Trump for declaring a national emergency. Not helping their plight is the fact that by a wide majority American voters continue to oppose his declaration of a national emergency at the southern border,…
Donald Trump this morning tweeted his strong opposition to California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plans to suspend the death penalty in the state. “Defying voters, the Governor of California will halt all death penalty executions of 737 stone cold killers,” Trump tweeted. “Friends and families of the always forgotten VICTIMS are not thrilled, and neither am…
The chances of Democrats winning control of the U.S. Senate next year are looking better every day. In fact, according to MSNBC anchor Lawrence O’Donnell, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) may be leaving the U.S. Senate within the next two years. “Here are all of the Republican senators who are up for re-election next…
An exiled former friend of Vladimir Putin, wanted back in his home country of Russia for tax fraud, has been partying with other guests at Donald Trump’s exclusive Mar-A-Lago resort in South Florida the Miami Herald reports this morning. Sergey Danilochkin came to Florida after being forced to flee Moscow in 2010 fearing for his…
Many Republicans in the U.S. Senate are desperately working behind the scenes to get Donald Trump to back off his emergency declaration as they look for an alternative way to fund his border wall. According to a report in POLITICO, these senators are afraid that they will lose power while appearing to be puppets of…
Panelists on MSNBC’s Morning Joe television program were laughing out loud this morning after Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said that President Donald Trump was not worthy of impeachment. In comments yesterday Speaker Pelosi dismissed the president as “unfit” for office, but she also said that impeachment was too divisive for the country….
Last week we reported that members of Congress want a criminal investigation into Jared Kushner’s security clearances which were issued against the wishes of U.S. security agencies, at the direction of the president. We also have reported that his wife Ivanka Trump lied about her husband’s security clearance situation, and that she was also a…
Under guidelines set out by the Department of Justice (DOJ) special counsel Robert Mueller must submit a report on his findings of criminal conduct to Attorney General William Barr . He may or may not release the so-called “criminal report” to Congress and to the public. But former federal prosecutor Nelson Cunningham wrote for The…
Barack Obama’s Vice President Joe Biden has a commanding lead over the rest of the field of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates in Michigan, according to a new poll. The Emerson College poll shows Biden leading all announced and unannounced candidates by a large margin. In fact he has a 17 percent lead over the second…
A shocking report revealing demented sexist comments made by Fox News host Tucker Carlson has raised new questions about whether advertisers will continue to stick by his show, “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” On video clips uncovered by Media Matters for America, Carlson is heard saying things like Paris Hilton and Britney Spears are “two of the…
Fox News has condemned outrageous remarks by host Jeanine Pirro over the weekend suggesting that Rep. Ilhan Omar supports Sharia law in defiance of the U.S. Constitution because she wears a hijab. “We strongly condemn Jeanine Pirro’s comments about Rep. Ilhan Omar,” Fox News said in a public statement. “They do not reflect those of…
A former staff employee of New York Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand resigned last summer in protest of Gillibrand’s handling of her sexual assault complaint according to a new report this morning in POLITICO. The harassment complaint was lodged against one of the presidential candidate’s top senatorial aides. The report says that the unidentified female staffer…
House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings wants to talk to two new attorneys in the Michael Cohen/Stormy Daniels hush money probe. The lawyers — Sheri Dillon and Stefan Passantino — were formerly employed in the White House and responsible for the president’s ethics and financial disclosures. Their testimony could be critical to figuring out whether…
Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough expressed astonishment this morning that Donald Trump continued to lie to a group of Republican donors even when confronted with video evidence that proves he did. Trump kept insisting to the donors that he hadn’t called Apple CEO Tim Cook by the wrong name, “Tim Apple.” But the president’s flub…
If you thought Michael Cohen’s congressional testimony was damaging to Donald Trump, wait until you hear what former felon and Russian mobster Felix Sater has to say. Sater has been a close friend and business associate of Donald Trump’s in New York City for many years. They worked together on the infamous Trump Soho project…
According to an opinion piece in the New Yorker, Democrats would be wasting their time bringing articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. For one thing, the Republican-controlled Senate would never let it happen even if the House successfully started the process. But perhaps more importantly, Democrats may win politically — and harm Trump more…
President Donald Trump started off his Sunday morning with another assault on the media, which he thinks is treating him more unfairly than any other president in history. In a multi-tweet attack , the president called the press “ the most hostile and corrupt in the history of American politics,” and then listed off what…
Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update” hosts had some choice words concerning the “slap on the wrist sentence” given to President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort. They said that Manafort being sent to a “white man’s prison” is about the same thing as being sent away to college for four years. “Weekend Update” co-host…
An Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed soon after taking off from an airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia this morning, killing all 157 passengers on board. The plane was on its way to Nairobi, Kenya, according to an announcement from the airline. The Boeing airliner took off at at 08:38 am local time and lost contact at…
A former general who served with former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly said the now-departed Trump aide was a consummate professional who committed unprofessional acts while in the White House. Retired Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling, speaking this morning on CNN, said he appreciated Kelly taking the thankless job serving President Donald Trump. He…
Television personality Bill Maher confronted the head of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Matt Schlapp , about Fox News’ coverage of Donald Trump. In the discussion Maher said, “Fox News is basically running our government.” During the one-on-one interview with Schlapp, Maher confronted the unwavering supporter of Donald Trump with a list of the…
Donald Trump just screwed himself over bigly. In a really dumb tweet the president accused Michael Cohen of lying to Congress. And this means Trump can be called to testify under oath. Which also means he might possibly commit and be charged with perjury. After Cohen testified before Congress, Trump’s allies tried to claim that…
The Washington Post is reporting this morning that the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has won a huge lawsuit against the Trump administration in federal court. U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw has ruled that potentially thousands of migrant families who were separated at the southern border under the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy may now…
Trump on Friday accepted the resignation of Bill Shine, the former president of Fox News, who had spent just nine months as White House communications director. Shine is the fifth person to leave that role under Donald Trump. Shine will join the president’s reelection campaign as a “senior adviser” — a role that will allow…
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), desperate to increase her standing in the 2020 presidential polls, today called for the breakup of tech giants Amazon, Google and Facebook. In a Medium blog post, Warren named specific “anti-competitive” mergers she wants reversed, including: Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp and Instagram; Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods and Zappos; and Google’s…
President Donald Trump went to Twitter this morning to share with the world his initial comments about Paul Manafort‘s sentence which was handed out last night by federal Judge T.S. Ellis in Alexandria, Virginia. Trump tweeted: “Both the Judge and the lawyer in the Paul Manafort case stated loudly and for the world to hear…
The Miami Herald reports this morning that Donald Trump last month was photographed partying with the founder of a chain of Florida day spas that are known for being involved with human trafficking and prostitution. According to the Herald, Li Yang, the wealthy founder of the chain of profitable day spas attended Trump’s Super Bowl…
Even though the Trump administration has refused to provide Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s security clearance files to the House Oversight Committee, they appear to have gotten them anyway. According to a confidential source in the White House, the Oversight Committee was given the documents by a staffer who now could be under fire for…
Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election chances took another hit today when a new poll was published in Michigan showing his support in that state has severely dissipated since 2016. In the 2016 election Trump won Michigan by just 10,000 votes, representing .27% of the total votes cast. The new poll shows that the vast majority of…
The inauguration committee set up for Donald Trump in 2016 reportedly received large amounts of illegal contributions from shell companies that were set up to hide the involvement of a foreign contributors. The Guardian is reporting that the creators of three shell organizations each gave $25,000 to the record $107 million fund for President Donald…
U.S. embassy and security officials in Saudi Arabia say they were shocked when they learned that presidential adviser and son in law Jared Kushner cut them out of the loop completely during his recent trip to the country. The fact that Kushner kept U.S. officials totally in the dark about his trip has led to…
Donald Trump’s biographer thinks our current president is about to go through hell. Writing in Bloomberg,Tim O’Brien has predicted that the coming months will be excruciatingly painful for Trump, as House Democrats conduct a thorough probe of his personal finances. O’Brien is considered an expert on Trump’s finances after doing more than a decade of…
J.T. Smith II, executive assistant to Attorney General Elliot Richardson during the Watergate scandal, writes in this morning’s New York Times that current Attorney General William Barr must reconsider the Justice Department (DOJ) policy against indicting a sitting president. According to Smith, the current DOJ legal position was reached in 2000, but the directive against…
MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski was not impressed with Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen‘s testimony before Congress yesterday. The Morning Joe co-host not only criticized Nielsen but also said “she’s become the face of the Trump administration’s abuse of children at the border.” Nielsen was on Capitol Hill on to brief the House Homeland…
Nancy Pelosi’s newest battle is not against Republicans, but against forces that are tearing apart the unity of Democrats in the House. And Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren are now involved as well. The three U.S. Senators all came to the defense of Rep. Ilhan Omar for her remarks that critics…
Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed master negotiator, is not doing much to help the United States in trade negotiations with other countries. Under his leadership, the trade deficit in goods with China set a new record during his second year in office. This came despite his efforts to stop what he has claimed are Beijing’s trade …
The Associated Press (AP) is reporting this morning about Donald Trump’s new strategy for dealing with the many investigations he is facing from federal and state prosecutors, as well as from House Democrats. Apparently the president plans to keep fighting without realizing he has already lost the battle. According to the AP, Trump is beefing…
A newly published survey of Florida voters shows that a majority of them no longer support Donald Trump, meaning his reelection in 2020 is in serious doubt. Florida is the largest swing state , with nearly 14 million registered voters. In the 2016 election Trump won 49% of the Florida vote while Hillary Clinton won…
Republican strategists who have publicly criticized Donald Trump are getting blackballed and losing jobs with GOP candidates, the Daily Beast reports this morning. According to the report, Republican strategist Rick Tyler, the former top communications aide on Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) political campaign, was fired from his job working for Mississippi Senate candidate Chris McDaniel…
Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson was on MSNBC to discuss the bombshell New York Times expose on the different checks Donald Trump used to reimburse Michael Cohen for hush-money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels. The Times reported that there were 11 checks in total paid to Cohen, and these prove that Trump…
For the first time ever Donald Trump attacked Rep. Jerry Nadler, the House Judiciary Committee chairman, on his Twitter account this morning. He is clearly not happy about the new lines of investigation into his family’s business and his presidency. He accused Democrats of going “stone cold CRAZY” and then later accused them of obstructing…
Ty Cobb, who represented the White House amid Robert Mueller’s ongoing probe into Russian election meddling, called the special counsel an “American hero” in a new ABC News interview. He also said that he does not agree with Donald Trump’s view that the Russia inquiry is a politically motivated “witch hunt” or “hoax.” “I think…
The number two Republican in the U.S. Senate went on Twitter this morning to boast about a new Gallup poll showing that Donald Trump’s approval rating is now at 43%. And of course he was immediately mocked on social media for pointing out something that most presidents would rather keep secret. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX)…
In his testimony before the House Oversight Committee last Wednesday Michael Cohen said he has “never asked for, nor would I accept, a pardon from Mr. Trump.” However, that testimony did not apply to his lawyer. The Wall Street Journal is now reporting that an attorney representing Cohen broached the idea of a pardon for…
The latest in Donald Trump’s long sequence of impeachable offenses just came to light this morning. In a new report from The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer it is revealed that Trump tried to use the Department of Justice (DOJ) to punish CNN for their unfavorable coverage of him. Trump ordered former economic adviser Gary Cohn to put…
The governors are coming, the governors are coming. Former Democratic Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper has just announced that he is running for president in 2020. He joins Washington state governor Jay Inslee who announced last week that he is also seeking the Democratic nomination for president next year. JUST IN: John Hickenlooper tells @GMA he…
Roseanne Barr is at it again. In a wild and unfiltered interview on the new Candace Owens Show, Barr called Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris ‘Kama Sutra Harris’ and said she has “slept her way to the bottom.” In the past Barr has also described women involved in the #MeToo movement as “hoes.” In the explosive interview Barr…
Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski told Donald Trump’s GOP enablers this morning that they should heed Michael Cohen’s warning about serving as “fixers” for the leader of their party. In his congressional testimony on Wednesday, the former Trump Organization attorney warned Trump’s supporters they would end up in the same position as he was in…
Democrats in the House of Representatives are planning to roll out a lengthy series of investigations into President Donald Trump’s finances and his administration over the next few months as part of a long-term strategy to remove Trump from office, Axios has reported this morning. And although impeachment is certainly one option Speaker Nancy Pelosi…
According to the Washington Post, opponents of Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration at the Mexican border now have enough votes in the Senate to reject his attempted move to misuse presidential powers. Because Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky has said he can’t go along with the White House the president now faces an embarrassing…
The Republican Party of Texas is in panic mode. Shocked by the results of the 2018 midterm elections that saw the GOP lose a record number of seats in the House, and by the close race that saw incumbent Sen. Ted Cruz (R) almost lose his seat to rising star Beto O’Rourke (D), the Texas…
The Associated Press (AP) is reporting this morning that Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives are beginning several new investigations into Donald Trump as they prepare for “a post-Robert Mueller world.” No matter what happens with Mueller’s final Russia report, a half-dozen House committee chairmen are planning to “flood the administration with document requests,…
Ben Stiller returned to play Michael Cohen in last night’s “Saturday Night Live” cold open and he was joined by another SNL alum Bill Hader, who played right-wing congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio. To no one’s surprise, the opening skit addressed the congressional testimony last week of Donald Trump’s former “fixer” and attorney. “Thank you…
Michael Cohen’s testimony before congressional investigators last week resulted in a new line of inquiry, The Washington Post has reported. Lawmakers with the House and Senate Intelligence Committees reportedly questioned Donald Trump‘s former attorney about whether he and high-level members of the Trump administration had discussed a potential presidential pardon. Anonymous sources reportedly told The…