Laurie Snell, the estranged wife of Pennsylvania Senate candidate Sean Parnell, testified in court on Monday that her husband strangled her, abused their children, and told her to “go get an abortion.” Punchbowl News reported on Friday that former President Trump is holding massive fundraiser for Parnell in January at …
Read More »He Helped Bring Down a Top Trump Crony. Now He's Driving for Uber
When Kevin Chmielewski emerged from the FBI’s fortress of a headquarters in downtown Washington, D.C., his head was spinning. It was the fall of 2017. He’d just left a classified briefing about a matter of national security. As he walked back to his office at the Environmental Protection Agency, Chmielewski …
Read More »Trump's Election Lawyers Were Full of It, According to [Checks Notes] a Trump Campaign Memo
Remember how President Trump’s “elite strike force” of election lawyers kept promising they were going to release a trove of information proving the election was rigged in Biden’s favor, in part by compromised voting machines? Well, it turns out there was no trove after all, and that the Trump campaign …
Read More »Trump Proudly Announces New Plan to Con Supporters Out of Their Money
Donald Trump is no longer president of the United States, but to paraphrase Robert Earl Keen: the road goes on forever, and the grift never ends. The Washington Post reported late last month that Trump’s Save America PAC has raked in over $75 million in 2021, largely on the idea …
Read More »Liz Cheney Blasts Trump for Continuing To Use Language That 'Provoked Violence on Jan. 6'
Wyoming Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney ripped Trump once again, saying the former president not only used language in the past that ultimately led to the attack on the Capitol but that he continues to do so to this day. On Sunday, Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan asked Cheney about …
Read More »Trump Got Vaccinated Secretly, Because Otherwise He Might Have Helped the Country
Former President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump both received the Covid-19 vaccine. They just didn’t tell anyone about it. Maggie Haberman of the New York Times reported the news on Monday, noting that Trump and Melania got the vaccine all the way back in January, when they were still …
Read More »Trump Takes Nation on One Last Excruciating, Delusional Tour of His Presidency
It’s only a matter of hours now. President Trump is well on his way out of office, and by this time tomorrow he’ll be nothing more than a civilian with a security detail. Perhaps concerned about the legacy he will leave, Trump on Tuesday evening released a lengthy video address …
Read More »Calls to Stop Trump Intel Briefings Grow, Citing 'Grave Danger'
Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said that Trump “can’t be trusted,” and he sees no reason why the president should receive intelligence briefings during his remaining days in office or going forward. “There is no circumstance in which this president should get another intelligence …
Read More »Ho, Ho, Ho, You're Not Getting $2,000
It’s the holidays, it’s been a truly miserable year, overwhelming numbers of Americans are missing their families, those hit hardest by the pandemic and collapse of the economy are still waiting for relief from the government of one of the richest nations in the world, and last night, in front …
Read More »Trump Takes His Donors to Graduate School at Trump University
Just days before his 2017 inauguration, Donald Trump coughed up $25 million to settle allegations that he’d defrauded students at his defunct Trump University. Four years later, as he scratches and claws to avoid leaving office, Trump is teaching a final master class in separating fools from their money. Log …
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