Brad Parscale, President Donald Trump’s campaign manager, promoted a new campaign site aimed at helping supporters beat that “liberal snowflake relative who starts an argument and then runs and hides” during “Christmas and ‘holiday time.’” Parscale linked to the site via Twitter on Tuesday, writing, “We know that at Christmas …
Read More »Trump Sycophant Lindsey Graham: 'I Will Do Everything I Can to Make Impeachment Die Quickly' in Senate
“This thing will come to the Senate, and it will die quickly, and I will do everything I can to make it die quickly,” Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said of the coming senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump during an interview with CNN. When asked if expressing an opinion …
Read More »Trump Caves to Kim Jong-un (Again)
President Trump has made a few friends around the world since taking office, but none are as “special” as Kim Jong-un, the murderous North Korean dictator with whom he has met three times, tweeted at repeatedly, and exchanged at least one piece of novelty-size correspondence. In recent weeks, however, their …
Read More »Biden, Ignoring Three-Quarters of His Vice-Presidential Tenure, Says Sharing Power With Republicans Is a Good Thing
During an interview with reporters on his “No Malarkey” campaign bus in Iowa, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden expressed concerns about Republicans possibly getting “clobbered” in the upcoming election mainly because of President Donald Trump. The candidate said he’s held back on his “ass-kicker” side because he knows the American …
Read More »Four Things We Learned at the Second Trump Impeachment Hearing
WASHINGTON — Marie Yovanovitch, the daughter of Soviet refugees, joined the American foreign service under President Reagan. She served in seven different countries, from war-torn Somalia to corruption-riddled Ukraine. She helped open the U.S. embassy in Uzbekistan. She once dodged bullets when a gunman opened fire during a visit to …
Read More »The Whistleblower's Identity Doesn't Really Matter Anymore
Lindsey Graham took some time over the weekend to rather gleefully indulge one of President Trump’s favorite means of discrediting the impeachment effort. “When you find out who is the whistleblower is, I’m confident you’re gonna find out it’s somebody from the Deep State,” he told Maria Bartiromo on Fox …
Read More »The Guy Trump Cited as Proof There Wasn't a Quid Pro Quo Just Said There Was a Quid Pro Quo
Few figures have been more entangled in the Trump administration’s plot to extort Ukraine into investigating the Bidens than Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union who was deposed by the House Intelligence Committee last month. On Tuesday, Congress released Sondland’s full testimony, along with an addendum he …
Read More »Trump Blames California Fires on Unclean Forest Floors, Governor Fires Back
President Donald Trump threatened to withhold aid — one of his favored tactics — from California, claiming Governor Gavin Newsom “has done a terrible job of forest management” and has not listened to Trump’s demand that he “clean” the forest floors, a bizarre suggestion he first made in 2018 alleging …
Read More »Former Democratic Rep. John Conyers, Longest Serving Black Congressman, Dies at 90
Former House Judiciary Chairman Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus and the longest-serving black member in congressional history, died Sunday in his sleep at age 90, according to his family. Conyers chaired the House Oversight Committee from 1989 to 1995 and was chair …
Read More »The Supreme Court Is About to Hear 3 LGBT Rights Cases That Are Way Bigger than Marriage Equality
When the Supreme Court was considering the issue of same-sex marriage in 2015, almost everyone was paying attention. Couples who had been denied the right to marry were hoping the Court would come to their rescue; liberals were dreaming of a proclamation of a new civil right; conservatives were dreading …
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