Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) announced Friday morning that he is running for president, joining what is shaping to be a historically large field of Democrats vying to take on President Trump in 2020. Booker broke the news through an email to supporters and a campaign trailer posted to Twitter. The …
Read More »Trump Offers a Recycled 'Compromise' in Speech, Democrats Reject It
President Donald Trump addressed the nation from the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House to present his plan for reopening the government. Trump said that his plan will “break the log jam” of the government shutdown and to “solve the crisis on the southern border.” But early Democratic reaction …
Read More »Trump's Attorney General Pick Says He Won't Interfere in the Mueller Investigation
WASHINGTON —William Barr, President Trump’s nominee for U.S. attorney general to replace Jeff Sessions, reveals in prepared remarks released a day before his Senate confirmation hearing that he would not allow politics or other outside influences to interfere with Special Counsel Robert Mueller‘s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 …
Read More »What Does Rudy Giuliani Know?
Less than two weeks after joining President Trump’s legal team last April, Rudy Giuliani let slip to Sean Hannity that his client reimbursed Michael Cohen for the $130,000 he paid Stormy Daniels prior to the 2016 election. This contradicted Trump’s claim that he had no knowledge of the payment, which …
Read More »Trump Suggests Kneeling NFL Players Just Chill Out and Enjoy Themselves
Thursday night marked the first full slate of NFL preseason games, as well as the litmus test for what could be one of the most contentious seasons in the league’s history. The offseason was dominated by talk of how the league and its teams might discipline players who choose to …
Read More »3 Looming Questions After Trump's Border Policy Change
President Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order that allows for families to be detained together at the border while the parents await prosecution. The move was unexpected considering how the administration had spent the past week responding to reports of children being separated from their parents by defiantly maintaining …
Read More »Even Conservatives Are Realizing Trump's 'Spygate' Conspiracy Is a Hoax
A riddle for America, 2018: Could President Trump devise a conspiracy theory so unhinged that not even his base will believe it? Seeing as that the president and Fox News are usually of the same mind, one consciousness depending upon the other, this would create a paradox. But with Spygate …
Read More »Rudy Giuliani Clarifies His Priorities as Trump's Legal Adviser
Despite an acknowledgement from President Trump on Friday that Rudy Giuliani has yet to “get his facts straight” and that it’s best to “learn before you speak,” the former New York City mayor seemed to spend the weekend in front of just about every camera he could find. Following a …
Read More »Stormy Daniels' Lawyer Says Michael Cohen 'Has Been Set Up to Take the Fall'
The Stormy Daniels affair just turned into a Category 5 hurricane. The FBI has raided the office of President Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen, according to the New York Times.Vanity Fairreports that a team of feds also searched the Park Avenue hotel where Cohen has been staying. The agents reportedly …
Read More »Stormy Daniels Details Alleged Trump Fling: 8 Things We Learned
Stormy Daniels went into great detail about her alleged sexual encounter and subsequent meetings with Donald Trumpyears before he was elected President in a lengthy 5,000-word piece published in full by In Touch Friday. The interview was originally conducted in 2011, years before the former adult film star reportedly signed …
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