Trump Administration Scandals Archives

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Mike Johnson Falls Apart When Asked To Say That Biden Won And Trump Lost

Speaker Mike Johnson was pressed say that Biden won and Trump lost, and the idea of stating this simple fact caused him to fall apart.

John Avlon on Susan Collins and Brett Kavanaugh

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CNN’s John Avlon: Susan Collins Must Admit Trump Never “Learned His Lesson” When She Voted Not to Impeach

NN’s John Avlon says Senator Susan Collins (D-Maine) must admit that former President Donald Trump never “learned his lesson.”

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Turns Out It Was Bill Barr and Not Merrick Garland Who Decided Not to Prosecute Ross

The AP and Government Executive issued a correction to their stories about Merrick Garland, turns out it was none other than Trump’s AG Bill Barr who “declined” to prosecute Wilbur Ross.

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Editorial: Merrick Garland Must Prosecute Criminal Former Trump Admin Officials to Save Democracy

The only way to stop the next Trump administration is to prosecute the last one.

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Trump Blew Off Warnings That Rudy Giuliani Was Feeding Him Russian Misinformation

The U.S. intelligence community warned the White House that Giuliani is being used by the Russians to feed misinformation to Donald Trump.

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Trump’s Attempt To Prosecute Obama Officials Flops As Bill Barr’s Review Finds No Wrongdoing

At least one attempt by Donald Trump to use his Department of Justice to go after his political rivals has flopped.

Vindman impeachment testimony Trump Ukraine call

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Alexander Vindman: Trump is Putin’s “Useful Idiot”

Alexander Vindman, the former lieutenant colonel and Director for European Affairs for the United States National Security Council (NSC) as well as a star witness during President Donald Trump’s impeachment proceedings this year, said Trump is Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s “useful idiot” in an interview with The Atlantic. “President Trump should be considered to be a useful idiot…

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Bill Barr Jokes About His Decision To Drop Criminal Case Against Traitor Michael Flynn

Bill Barr also blamed his critics for being upset about the Department of Justice’s decision to drop charges against Flynn.

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Lisa Page Says Trump is “Obsessed” After ‘Lovebirds’ Skit at CPAC

Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page said Trump is still very much obsessed with her and former FBI head of counterintelligence Peter Strzok.

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Trump’s Coronavirus Presser Backfires As Stocks Head For Worst Week Since Financial Crisis

President Trump’s Wednesday coronavirus press conference did nothing to comfort Wall Street, and in fact seems to have spooked it as stocks “head for worst week since financial crisis,”

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Trump’s Pardons Prove That His Entire Impeachment Defense Was A Joke

Donald Trump doesn’t give a damn about corruption; he never has. His spree of pardons on Tuesday just confirms that fact.

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Trump Admits He’s Guilty Of The Impeachment Charges Now That He’s Been Fake Acquitted

Donald Trump said that he did, in fact, personally send Rudy Giuliani to Ukraine to dig up dirt on his political opponents.

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Trump Threatens John Kelly After He Blasts the Failings of Trumpism

Trump threatened John Kelly that he had an obligation to “keep his mouth shut” after Kelly, one of the people he hired and said was one of the best people, eviscerated Trump and his policies and the harm he is causing America.

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Rachel Maddow Says Giuliani And Barr Appear To Be Joining Forces To Dig Up False Dirt On Dems

It’s starting to look like Rudy Giuliani and William Barr are joining forces to dig up dirt on Donald Trump’s election year political opponents.

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100 Brain Injured Troops Expose Trump’s Worst Lie Yet On Iran Strike

Over one hundred troops have been injured with traumatic brain injuries following Iran strikes that President Trump lied about in several major ways.

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Fox News’ Own Research Department Says The Network Is A Propaganda Machine

Trump’s presidency would likely have been over – and may not have even existed in the first place – if not for the propaganda Fox News pushes.

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Nancy Pelosi Let Us Know This House Is Not Accepting a Shoe-in Dictator from a Reality Show

Your repeated ripping – don’t miss this, folks – let us know that you were not having it; this House is not accepting a shoe-in dictator from a variety-reality show/rally. Your calm, deliberate hands, here in the last few seconds of this game, will become an iconic image of discipline, restraint, civility, and yes, diplomacy. Historic. Heroic. Classic. Classroom stuff.

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Bombshell: Trump Instructed Bolton to Pressure Ukraine for Him In Front of Witnesses

Donald Trump’s former National Security Advisor John Bolton drops another bombshell: Not only did Trump pressure him to get Ukraine to help him cheat in 2020, but he did it in front of witnesses.

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Trump White House Threatens Bolton Not to Publish His Book

The White House is threatening John Bolton that he can’t publish his book as is.

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Mike Pompeo Drops F-Bombs And Shouts At NPR Host For Asking About Ukraine

Sec. of State Mike Pompeo dropped F-bombs and shouted at NPR All Things Considered host Mary Louise Kelly for asking about Ukraine.

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Trump Sends Mike Pompeo To Ukraine To Keep Them Quiet During Impeachment Trial

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is going to Ukraine next week in a move seen by some as done to keep the Ukrainians quiet during the impeachment trial. Buzzfeed News reported: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will travel to Ukraine next week, just as the Senate’s impeachment trial of Donald Trump on charges he…

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NSA And CIA Are Refusing To Turn Over Ukraine Docs Because They Don’t Want To Make Trump Mad

The NSA and CIA are giving in to pressure from Trump and refusing to turn over documents related to the Ukraine scandal to Congress.

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Ex-RNC Chair Blasts ‘Un-American’ GOP Senators For Taking An Oath They Know They Won’t Keep

Michael Steele unloaded on GOP senators on Thursday, saying they should ashamed of themselves for taking an oath they don’t plan to keep.

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Republicans Take Oath To Be Impartial While Ignoring Impeachment Evidence

Parnas told Maddow that he delivered a message to a top aide to Zelenskyy, Sergei Sheyfir, that “it was all aid… we would stop giving them any kind of aid…” unless there was an announcement of an investigation into Joe Biden.

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State Department Cancels Briefing When Asked About Trump’s Iran Embassies Threat Claim

Trump’s State Department cancelled a briefing on Wednesday on embassy security and their as yet unsubstantiated claims regarding their unauthorized strike of former Iranian General Qassem Soleimani.

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Ex-GOP Chairman Says Nancy Pelosi Has Humiliated Mitch McConnell During Impeachment Trial Fight

This political pressure created by Nancy Pelosi has moved the needle just enough to force a handful of Republican senators supporting a fair trial.

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McConnell’s Sham Trial Is Going Up In Flames As Enough GOP Senators Will Vote To Call Witnesses

Ultimately, if the reporting is true and there are, indeed, enough Republican votes to call witnesses, then Nancy Pelosi’s strategy was success.

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Opinion: We’re On The Brink Of War With Iran Because Pompeo Was Sad

Trump escalated a conflict with Iran because the president needed something to brag about and the Secretary of State was feeling morose because he couldn’t get an assassination the last time he asked the president for one. We are living in chilling times as we continue the descent into the dystopian hell that Trump promised…

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Rachel Maddow Puts Mike Pence At The Center Of Trump’s Criminal Ukraine Plot

It’s clear that the vice president was a key player in Trump’s plot to extort a foreign power into handing over dirt on a political opponent.

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McConnell’s Sham Trial Dream Is Dying As Mitt Romney Says He Wants To Hear From Bolton

When asked what he thinks about John Bolton testifying in a potential Senate impeachment trial, Utah Sen. Mitt Romney said he’d be in favor of the idea.

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Former Federal Prosecutor Warns Trump: New Batch Of Emails Will Sink His Corrupt White House

Donald Trump is currently withholding dozens of emails that likely prove his guilt surrounding the freezing of military aid for Ukraine.

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Trump’s Favorite Pollster Shows His Support Hitting Lowest Level Since Impeachment

While Rasmussen shows Trump’s approval rating falling, support for the president’s impeachment and removal from office is surging.

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‘Handful’ Of GOP Senators Are Considering Breaking From Trump And McConnell On Sham Trial

McConnell wouldn’t be going on Fox News to spout off if he was so sure that his Senate caucus was fully onboard with a phony trial.

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Opinion: Yes, Republicans, The Impeachment Process Has Been A Partisan Sham – Because Of You

This process has been a partisan sham because the GOP has sold its soul to a man whose entire presidency is built on a publicity stunt gone wrong.

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Trump Implodes During Democratic Debate And Invents New Impeachment Conspiracy Theory

Trump said Pelosi is hesitating because Democrats, not Republicans, are afraid of having witnesses testify during a potential Senate trial.

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Joe Biden Tears Apart Republicans For Smearing His Family To Distract From Trump’s Crimes

Biden tore into Republicans for smearing his family in order to distract from Donald Trump’s high crimes and misdemeanors.

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Trump Reeling As 53% Of Voters Believe Democrats Were Right To Impeach

Donald Trump and Republicans claim the House-led impeachment inquiry was driven by politics, not facts, but the American people disagree.

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Opinion: Impeached Trump Forever Branded A Constitutional Criminal

No matter what happens now, Trump will always be the third president in American history to be impeached – a constitutional criminal.

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Mitch McConnell Is Struggling To Get 51 Senate Votes Against Trump’s Removal

Mitch McConnell is still scrambling to get to 51 votes in the Senate to prevent a humiliating, bipartisan vote in favor of removal.

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Massive Crowds Flood The Streets On Impeachment Eve To Demand Trump’s Removal

Images from major cities all across the country show that there is no shortage of enthusiasm for Donald Trump’s impeachment.

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It’s Official: A Majority Of House Members Will Vote To Impeach Donald Trump

The number of House lawmakers voting in favor of impeachment articles against Trump crossed the majority mark Tuesday evening.

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Opinion: The House Should Not Send Impeachment to McConnell’s Rigged Senate

It’s imperative that the motion on impeachment be tabled. Otherwise, that power will be delegitimized by the McConnell/Graham rigged circus.

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Biden Hits Trump Where It Hurts By Tweeting The Latest Fox News Poll Directly To Him

Trump is the least popular president in modern American history, so it’s no surprise that he feels the need to regularly invent good poll numbers.

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‘Let’s Have All The Witnesses’: GOP Rep Breaks With Trump, Calls On Rudy And Mulvaney To Testify

Ever since Mitch McConnell admitted to Sean Hannity that he essentially wants a show trial In the Senate, he has faced bipartisan pushback.

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House Republicans Privately Admit They Want To Vote For Impeachment

There is no other way to accurately describe Republicans members of Congress: They are spineless cowards putting party before country.

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Bill Barr Is Threatening To Take Down Any FBI Official Who Investigates Election Interference

Bill Barr is bending over backward to protect Donald Trump, and in the process, he’s burning the Justice Department to the ground.

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Jim Jordan Gives Up On Arguing The Facts And Turns Impeachment Hearing Into Trump 2020 Ad

The GOP gave up on arguing against the substance of the two impeachment articles and instead auditioned for spots in the president’s next campaign ad.

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Nadler Calls Out GOP For Shamelessly Shielding Trump And Putting America On Path To Tyranny

Rep. Jerry Nadler tore into Republicans as they attempted to invalidate the second article of impeachment – obstruction of Congress – against Donald Trump.

Trump riffs on impeachment at Turkey pardon

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Opinion: House To Decide If Our Future Is As An Exceptional Democracy Or An Ordinary Dictatorship

The way we answer the call for Donald Trump’s impeachment will reveal whether we want America to continue as an exceptional democracy or to become an ordinary dictatorship. The House Judiciary Committee is debating two articles of impeachment, namely obstruction of Congress and abuse of power. If, as expected, the articles of impeachment pass the…

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Democrats Will Hit Trump With Two Articles Of Impeachment For Abuse Of Power And Obstruction

Before Christmas, Donald Trump will likely become the first president in United States history to be impeached by the House of Representatives.

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One Of America’s Largest Newspapers Drops Editorial Bomb On Trump By Endorsing Impeachment

The L.A. Times dropped an editorial bomb on Donald Trump on Saturday, calling for the president’s impeachment and urging Republicans to join in the effort.

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GOP Senators In Swing States Are Panicking Over Impeachment Vote

A handful of GOP senators are concerned that voting to clear Trump of any wrongdoing will come back to haunt them in 2020 and beyond.

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Russia Was Listening To Trump’s Calls As He Shook Down Ukraine For Political Dirt

Even setting aside Trump’s Ukraine shakedown, it should be disturbing to all Americans that he continues to allow foreign surveillance of his calls.

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Ex-GOP Rep Warns McConnell That Following Trump’s Impeachment Strategy Could Cost Him The Senate

If Mitch McConnell follows Donald Trump’s lead on impeachment, the Republicans could lose their Senate majority next year.

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North Korea Joins The Rest Of The World In Mocking And Insulting Trump

A North Korean official has called President Trump an old and weak person whose mental faculties are declining.

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Opinion: Trump’s Only Expert Witness Concedes He Committed Impeachable Offenses

Donald Trump had a devastating day during Wednesday’s impeachment hearings. Even his own constitutional expert, Jonathan Turley, conceded that swapping military aid for labelling a political opponent a criminal is an impeachable offense. This followed quibbling about procedure and a supposed need for more evidence. If the professor’s performance at Wednesday’s impeachment hearing was any…

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Bill Barr Is Actively Conducting Ukraine-Style Shakedown Schemes All Over The Globe

With the nation’s attention fixed on the Ukraine scandal, it’s easy to forget that Bill Barr is running similar pressure campaigns all around the globe.

Devin Nunes Accuses Democrats of Impeachment Drug deal

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Impeachment Report Makes It Clear: Devin Nunes Was A Key Player In Trump’s Ukraine Scheme

A growing body of evidence indicates that Nunes was a key player in Trump’s scheme to bribe Ukraine into handing over political dirt on the Bidens.

Adam Schiff smacks down Jim Jordan whistleblower lie

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Opinion: Whistleblowing Is a Defense of Democracy, Not a Capital Offense

If you’re an immigrant, you have known blistering rhetoric and tweets for three years. You’ve lived with anti-immigrant policies that are so cruel and extreme that if anything in this world was made for a string of expletives, it’s the Miller-Trump anti-immigrant program. If you’re the Whistleblower whose complaint opened up the Ukraine investigation, Donald…

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Bill Barr Trashes His Own IG Report Because It Won’t Back Up Trump’s 2016 Conspiracy Theories

The DOJ has gone so far off the deep end that Bill Barr is now trashing his own inspector general report to please Donald Trump.

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Former GOP Leaders Tell Trump And His Cult That They’re Destroying Democracy

The Republican Party’s response to Donald Trump’s Ukraine crimes has confirmed once and for all that the GOP is dead and buried.

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The House Of Representatives Is On Track To Formally Impeach Trump In Time For Christmas

Not only isn’t there a war on Christmas, but Democrats will be celebrating the holiday this year by formally voting to impeach Donald Trump.

Trump does reenactment of Sondland conversation

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Historian Warns Trump That His Support Will Collapse Once Democrats Formally Impeach Him

Donald Trump has had historically low support since taking office in 2017, but impeachment is likely to send those numbers plummeting into the cellar.

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Rachel Maddow Shows Proof That Trump’s Own White House Knew He Was Breaking The Law

Despite Trump’s claim that impeachment is a partisan hoax, it’s increasingly clear that it was the people inside the White House who spurred the inquiry.

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Trump Invents A War On Thanksgiving As His Mental Implosion Over Impeachment Continues

During a rally in Florida on Tuesday, Donald Trump appeared to invent a war that is supposedly being waged by liberals on Thanksgiving.

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Trump Released Ukraine Military Aid Right After Learning Of Whistleblower Complaint

The New York Times reported on Tuesday that the president was briefed on the whistleblower complaint before he unfroze the money.

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Two White House Officials Resigned Over Trump’s Ukraine Shakedown

The revelation further confirms that those inside the White House understood – in real time – that Trump was abusing his power.

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Clinton and Bush Navy Secretaries Warn Trump Is Damaging Our Military

Richard J. Danzig and Sean O’Keefe, who were Navy secretaries under Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush, warned of President Trump, “His values are not those of our military. It will do grievous damage to our armed services if they become so.”

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Top House Republican Uses Russian Stock Footage In Pro-Trump Campaign Ad

A GOP leader using Russian footage might be surprising in the Republican Party of yesteryear. In 2019, though, it’s completely on-brand.

Devin Nunes impeachment Trump nude photos

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Devin Nunes Is About To Get Smacked With An Ethics Investigation

In light of the explosive new reporting, the Republican lawmaker shouldn’t be part of conducting the impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump.

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New State Department Documents Implicate Mike Pompeo In Trump-Giuliani Extortion Scheme

Not only was Giuliani acting at the direction of the president, but he seems to have been acting with the support of Mike Pompeo’s State Department.

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Top House Dem Calls Lindsey Graham Part Of A GOP Infection That Is Destroying Democracy

Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) unloaded on GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham, who has completely sold what’s left of his soul to protect Donald Trump from impeachment.

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They’re All In On It: Devin Nunes Met With Ukrainian Official To Get Dirt On Biden

Stop pretending the GOP can be convinced to do the right thing and start treating them as what they are: accomplices in Trump’s extortion scheme.

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GOP Impeachment Smoke And Mirrors Can’t Hide That Trump Did It

The President illegally asked a foreign country to help him in a U.S. election. Again. Yes, Donald Trump is guilty and he did it.

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Rachel Maddow Pinpoints The Moment Devin Nunes Fell Apart During Fiona Hill’s Testimony

Rachel Maddow highlighted a moment during Fiona Hill’s testimony that the GOP counsel accidentally asked a question that elicited a damning response.

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Lindsey Graham Sells What’s Left Of His Soul And Announces Investigation Into Joe Biden

Lindsey Graham’s shameless efforts to protect a criminal president won’t do anything to change the trajectory of the House impeachment probe.

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Mick Mulvaney Throws A Trump-Style Tantrum After Fiona Hill Ties Him Directly To Ukraine Scheme

Mulvaney’s defense would have a little more credibility if he crawled out from behind his lawyer and delivered it under oath.

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Fiona Hill Hits Trump With A Total Quid Pro Quo KO

Fiona Hill testified in Thursday’s impeachment hearings, “It became very clear that the White House meeting itself was being predicated on other issues, namely investigations and questions about interference in 2016.”

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Fiona Hill Tells The Nation They’ve Been Lied to By Trump and The GOP

Former White House official Fiona Hill is testifying Thursday in the House impeachment inquiry, and her opening statement is a doozy for those who live in a Republican Bubble.

Hill says not only was Russia the country that “interfered” in our 2016 election, but they were successful.

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