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So how often do you make incendiary, slanderous accusations against former presidents based on an inkling?
And would you do it multiple times (see: bullshit birtherism)?
As we all remember, Donald Trump made a wild, completely...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
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on Fri Apr 26, 2019 at 07:45 AM PDT
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The threats that Donald Trump made about recording a dinner with former FBI Director James Comey seem a little more real when you dig back into stories from last year.
The presumptive Republican nominee “had a telephone console installed in his...
by Mark Sumner
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on Mon May 15, 2017 at 01:58 PM PDT
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If you’re familiar with older phone tech, you’ll probably “get” this faster than those who have grown up in an era of ubiquitous mobile phones: there’s an old “TV Trope” where a person is terrorized by phone calls while home alone one night (or while...
by GreyHawk
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on Sat May 13, 2017 at 08:10 PM PDT
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Trump issued a tweet earlier this morning insinuating that he had taped a conversation between Jim Comey and him when Comey was in the White House for dinner on January 27, 2017. Also insinuated in the tweet was: (a) Comey did not know his oral...
by MichaelDonner
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on Fri May 12, 2017 at 01:01 PM PDT
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Welcome to the 574th original “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profile, where we’ll be discussing Dan Bongino, a former member of the NYPD and Secret Service as well as a carpet-bagger extraordinaire who has, in each of the past three elections,...
by republicinsanity
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on Sun Apr 16, 2017 at 04:13 AM PDT
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Donald Trump’s insane interview with Fox Business News continues to press the idea that the Obama administration conducted improper surveillance of his campaign:
TRUMP: Well, I'm going to let you figure that one out. But it's so obvious. When you...
by Mark Sumner
97 comments
on Wed Apr 12, 2017 at 09:48 AM PDT
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During the fear and loathing of the 2016 campaign trail, Hillary Clinton's private email server was a topic now President Trump made a front and center issue. To my mind, Clinton's server was both a blatant attempt to dodge public records laws and a...
by Mason Pelt
46 comments
on Fri Apr 07, 2017 at 04:22 PM PDT
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Names keep surfacing and interaction between the Trump campaign and Russia keep coming to light.
The House and Senate Intelligence Committees are charged with investigating Russian involvement in the 2016 Election on behalf of Trump. They will be...
by kevinorme97
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on Tue Apr 04, 2017 at 01:33 PM PDT
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The first public hearing of the House intelligence committee brought some astounding testimony as FBI Director James Comey revealed that Donald Trump’s “wiretapp” claims were a total fantasy, but the investigation of the Trump campaign’s connections to...
by Mark Sumner
59 comments
on Tue Apr 04, 2017 at 09:37 AM PDT
with 78 Recommends
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Throughout the last week, there have been a chorus of calls for House intelligence chair Devin Nunes to step aside from his position in the committee, or at least recuse himself from investigations involving the Trump transition team. Nunes has refused...
by Mark Sumner
182 comments
on Fri Mar 31, 2017 at 12:57 PM PDT
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Then
Sep 24, 2016
“‘Immunity means you probably committed a crime” — Michael Flynn
Sep 27, 2016
”And if you’re not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for, right?" — Donald Trump
Sep 28, 2016
“The reason they get immunity is...
by Mark Sumner
148 comments
on Fri Mar 31, 2017 at 05:36 AM PDT
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The New York Times story on how the White House fed information to Devin Nunes appeared only minutes before the daily White House press conference began, but before the questions even opened it was clear that the Trump regime had thrown together a...
by Mark Sumner
67 comments
on Thu Mar 30, 2017 at 12:27 PM PDT
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In the middle of his improbable from-the-White House, to-the-White House car-hopping, secret sign-in investigation, top double-naught agent Devin Nunes checked in with Speaker of the House Paul Ryan. What did Nunes have to say about what had put him in...
by Mark Sumner
304 comments
on Thu Mar 30, 2017 at 05:48 AM PDT
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There seems to be a consensus building that Devin Nunes is both a liar …
People who have worked in the White House suggest that, on this matter, Nunes and the White House simply aren’t being credible.
And a fool …
Graham said on the...
by Mark Sumner
112 comments
on Wed Mar 29, 2017 at 12:47 PM PDT
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While Democrats on the committee are eager to move forward with the previously scheduled hearings, including the public hearings ...
Devin Nunes has been working with the White House to make sure the committee doesn’t do a thing.
The evidence...
by Mark Sumner
148 comments
on Wed Mar 29, 2017 at 08:09 AM PDT
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The Trump–Russia story is full of deceptions, misstatements, evasions and outright lies. It’s a story where Trump himself spent years touting his “personal relationship” with Vladimir Putin, then denied it ever existed. Where Paul Manafort took in tens...
by Mark Sumner
298 comments
on Wed Mar 29, 2017 at 07:22 AM PDT
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Speculation on Monday evening suggested that the primary target of Devin Nunes’ odd behavior over the previous days was preventing the next public hearing of the Intelligence Committee, a hearing at which former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates was...
by Mark Sumner
237 comments
on Tue Mar 28, 2017 at 07:31 AM PDT
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It’s looking increasingly possible that the reason Devin Nunes’ actions over the last week seem insensible is because they are just that—nonsense. A cover for the real goal, which may be something the House intelligence committee chair has already...
by Mark Sumner
139 comments
on Mon Mar 27, 2017 at 09:55 PM PDT
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The subject of Devin Nunes’ antics dominated much of the afternoon press conference with Sean Spicer as reporters tried to make sense of what seemed to be an information loop beginning and ending at the White House. Under questioning, Spicer claimed...
by Mark Sumner
68 comments
on Mon Mar 27, 2017 at 12:19 PM PDT
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Devin Nunes, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, had to rush to the White House to inform Donald Trump that he had come across information connecting Trump associates to intelligence investigations. Nunes refuses to reveal where he got this...
by Mark Sumner
208 comments
on Mon Mar 27, 2017 at 09:51 AM PDT
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