Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the House of Representatives is opening an impeachment inquiry against President Trump amid new revelations about Trump’s attempt to leverage foreign aid to push Ukraine to investigate a potential presidential rival. “The president must be held accountable, and no one is above the law,” Pelosi said …
Read More »Professional Climbers Are Laughing at Trump's 'Impenetrable' Wall Claims
President Donald Trump is so proud of his big, beautiful wall, which he claims is unscalable. “This wall can’t be climbed. This is very very hard, and what the panel does at the top, as I said, it’s structural but it’s also very hard to get by that panel. Plus …
Read More »Trump Commemorates 9/11 by Bashing Dismal Polling Numbers
President Trump kicked off the 18th anniversary of 9/11 by tweeting a picture of himself and Melania standing side-by-side during a trip to survey the Flight 93 National Memorial in Pennsylvania. The image is a reminder of Trump’s tasteless, self-serving relationship with the attack and its aftermath, and also that …
Read More »The Pentagon Wants More Control Over the News. What Could Go Wrong?
If there’s a worse idea than the Pentagon becoming Editor-in-Chief of America, I can’t remember it. But we’re getting there: From Bloomberg over Labor Day weekend: Fake news and social media posts are such a threat to U.S. security that theDefense Departmentis launching a project to repel “large-scale, automated disinformation …
Read More »The Very Real Possibility of President Elizabeth Warren
Not too many campaign websites first ask visitors if they are unsure about the candidate in question. But if you click the “I’m not sure yet” button on the ElizabethWarren.com launch page, you can enter your email before answering the question “What’s holding you back?” one of three ways. Two …
Read More »Will Nancy Pelosi Come Around to Impeachment?
Don McGahn was supposed to appear before Congress on Tuesday. He was legally required to, in fact. He didn’t show. President Trump instructed the former White House legal counsel to defy the House Judiciary Committee’s subpoena to answer questions that have risen since the release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s …
Read More »Our Commander-in-Troll Does Not Care If He Puts Americans In Danger
“The President is actively and willfully endangering the life of a member of Congress,” MSNBC’s Chris Hayes tweeted in reaction to President Donald Trump’s taking to Twitter on Friday and posting a video mix of Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) referencing 9/11 alongside graphic video of the burning World Trade Center …
Read More »Why Donald Trump Jr. Should Be Worried by Michael Cohen's Testimony
Michael Cohen’s testimony Wednesday was by turns explosive and chilling, as the president’s former fixer detailed crimes he committed to help put Trump into office, and warned the world, in his closing statement, that Trump might not leave the White House without a fight: “I fear that if he loses …
Read More »Eight Questions About Robert Mueller, Russia and the NRA
Until now, the Russian infiltration of the National Rifle Association has looked like a sidecar to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into the Kremlin’s interference in the 2016 election. The prosecution of Maria Butina, the lifetime NRA member who in December pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges of seeking to act …
Read More »6 Ramifications of the Longest Government Shutdown in American History
As of January 12th, the United States will be without a fully functioning government for the longest stretch in the nation’s history. The milestone will come a day after 800,000 federal employees did not receive their paychecks —and as hundreds of senior Trump appointees enjoy a bump to theirs — …
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