Donald Trump has directed his ire at the wife of Judge Arthur Engoron in response to a New York appellate court deciding to reinstate a gag order leveled against Trump by the judge. Engoron is currently overseeing, and will ultimately rule on, the state’s $250 million civil fraud lawsuit against …
Read More »George Santos Announces Bid for Two More Years of Public Humiliation
Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) has announced that he’s running for reelection. The embattled Long Island congressman, who more than 70 percent of voters in his district think should resign, officially announced his 2024 campaign on Monday. “As a first-generation American, I am no stranger to the issues affecting my district. …
Read More »'I Keep Waiting for the Feds to Come': The Jan. 6 Investigations Have Trumpworld on Edge
After a jaw-dropping Jan. 6 committee hearing and a string of aggressive moves by the Biden Justice Department, Donald Trump’s associates are realizing what the ex-president can’t admit: The dual investigations into the efforts to overturn the 2020 election are far more than show trials —and there may be serious …
Read More »Sen. Ron Johnson Wanted to Hand Deliver Fake Electors to Pence on Jan. 6
The Jan. 6 committee revealed on Tuesday that former President Donald Trump was “directly” involved in the illegal campaign to fabricate phony slates of electors in key swing states. So too was Rudy Giuliani. So too was John Eastman, who wrote the “coup memo” instructing former Vice President Mike Pence …
Read More »A Second American Has Died in Ukraine. He's Unlikely to Be the Last
He went to Ukraine to help beat back the Russian invasion. But a moment of clumsiness, or merely a stroke of bad luck, cost Stephen D. Zabielski his life. The U.S. Army veteran was killed by a landmine in southeastern Ukraine, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. That …
Read More »Trump-Endorsed Senate Candidate Blames Gun Violence on 'Black People, Frankly'
Blake Masters, whom former President Donald Trump recently endorsed for Senate in Arizona, said during a podcast appearance earlier this year that “Black people, frankly” are responsible for America’s gun violence problem. “We do have a gun violence problem in this country, and it’s gang violence,” Masters said on the …
Read More »Herschel Walker's Response to the Uvalde Shooting Was Incoherent. So Is His Senate Bid
“What I like to do is see it and everything and stuff.” This is how Hershel Walker responded on Tuesday night when asked about gun control in the wake of a shooter killing 21 people, including 19 children, at an Uvalde, Texas, elementary school hours earlier. Walker didn’t make much …
Read More »Matt Gaetz Lashes Out At 'Over-Educated' Women Protesting For Abortion Rights
Matt Gaetz is a model avatar for the Republican Party’s manic culture war. As a far-right reactionary currently under investigation for sex crimes, he checks several boxes of hypocrisy so often seen among the GOP’s moral crusaders. It makes sense, then, that he delivered the best encapsulation of the socially …
Read More »'If There's a Civil War Then There's a Civil War': Second Oath Keeper Pleads Guilty to Jan. 6 Seditious Conspiracy Plot
Brian Ulrich, an Oath Keeper from Georgia, has pleaded guilty to participating in the seditious conspiracy plot that sought to keep Donald Trump in power by force, as well to obstruction of an official proceeding — the certification of the 2020 election on Jan. 6, 2021. A tearful Ulrich entered …
Read More »After Losing Trump's Endorsement, Ohio Republican Calls in Mike Flynn to Dial Up the MAGA Insanity
The old man in the paratrooper beret is up at the front of the church with Ohio Senate Candidate Josh Mandel and he is yelling. “I fought the Communists!” he yells. The back of his jacket says USAF Pararescue. “In Laos, in Cambodia…” Things get a bit indistinct here but …
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