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| House impeachment managers: Bolton 'directly contradicts the heart' of Trump's defense The team of House managers presenting the case for impeachment in the Senate trial of Donald Trump have released their first statement responding to the news that John Bolton asserts Trump personally told him he was freezing congressionally-approved... |
Hunter | 01/26/2020 | 85 |
| John Bolton: Trump explicitly said Ukraine aid freeze was tied to investigations into Democrats Former national security adviser John Bolton has refused House demands that he testify on the events surrounding the freezing of military aid to Ukraine and the efforts by Donald Trump’s allies and administration officials to pressure the Ukrainian... |
Hunter | 01/26/2020 | 135 |
| On the Sunday shows, Trump's Senate bootlickers show how low they can go Before this evening’s blockbuster John Bolton news, we’d already seen that the level to which Republicans will sink to defend Donald Trump on anything and, literally, everything has no bottom. There seems no cutoff point beyond which now... |
Hunter | 01/26/2020 | 44 |
| Evangelical scammers praise Trump for hastening the end of the world. Well, they're not wrong... Mother Jones reporter Stephanie Mencimer has produced a good read on the "End Times" evangelicals who support Donald Trump because they believe, truly and sincerely, that Donald Trump will bring ... |
Hunter | 01/25/2020 | 307 |
| Trump defender Matt Gaetz publicly sulking after he didn't get picked for Dear Leader's B-team One of the problems with being a professional political suck-up is that there is always someone willing to be more of a suck-up than you. Grovel all you like: Lindsey Graham will have you beat. Praise Dear Leader day and night: Nikki Haley will write a... |
Hunter | 01/23/2020 | 84 |
| Tulsi Gabbard sues Hillary Clinton in an apparent bid for new public attention There is not a snowball's chance in hell that outgoing Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard will ever be elected president, and it is equally unlikely she will ever again touch any nationwide office, ... |
Hunter | 01/22/2020 | 635 |
| Jay Sekulow makes a fool of himself in the Senate, so of course the Trump team doubles down One of the more baffling moments of the frequently baffling defense offered up by Trump's impeachment team was an extended rant on "lawyer lawsuits" delivered by Trump personal lawyer and co-conspirator to crimes Jay Sekulow. Nobody could figure out... |
Hunter | 01/22/2020 | 215 |
| Impeachment managers are ready to present our case, says Schiff. But 'Will the Senate let us?' Aside from the brazen lying and their own co-conspirator status, one of the reasons the Trump defense team's rhetoric has seemed to fall flat during today's Senate impeachment opening moves, is that they seem to have been prewritten with little care... |
Hunter | 01/21/2020 | 26 |
| With impeachment trial in progress, Trump struggles to get through prepared remarks in Davos While Sen. Mitch McConnell puts the finishing touches on his plan to assist Donald Trump in covering up a year of White House crime, the extortionist himself is in Davos, where his handlers let him give another not-particularly-coherent speech about,... |
Hunter | 01/21/2020 | 308 |
| Schiff says NSA, CIA are now attempting to withhold documents 'potentially relevant' to impeachment On ABC's This Week, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff confirmed a grim report that surface last week: The nation's top intelligence officials are pushing Congress to cancel the year's usual testimony to Congress on the nation's top... |
Hunter | 01/19/2020 | 130 |
| Trump's finances appear shaky, opening up more opportunities to buy presidential 'favors' Reporter David Fahrenthold is responsible for perhaps 80% of everything we know about Donald Trump's ongoing business operations. In a start-of-year summary of where things stand, Fahrenthold and ... |
Hunter | 01/18/2020 | 197 |
| The Most Centrist Take: Don't impeach Trump, but do pass a law clarifying that extortion is bad now Allow me to present the most "centrist" possible take on the impeachment of Donald Trump. The most studiously amoral, the one that treats bothsides-ism not merely as political dalliance, but as gymnastic artistry. The mewling that will dominate all... |
Hunter | 01/16/2020 | 154 |
| Intelligence leaders ask Congress to cancel national security hearings to avoid angering Trump This is unbelievable—and yet not. United States intelligence officials are "quietly" asking the House and Senate to cancel public hearings on this year's World Wide Threats Assessment, the report outlining the major risks to United States security as... |
Hunter | 01/16/2020 | 238 |
| Trump team finally releases billions in hurricane relief for Puerto Rico—with major strings attached Donald Trump and his team have continued to withhold disaster relief funds from Puerto Rico for the hurricanes that hit the island in 2017, and a series of recent earthquakes that have further damaged homes and infrastructure. Trump has continued to... |
Hunter | 01/16/2020 | 66 |
| Democrats file ethics complaint over Republican 'trackers' roaming House halls The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has filed a congressional ethics complaint against their counterpart, the National Republican Campaign Committee. Ethics complaints against ... |
Hunter | 01/15/2020 | 53 |
| White House responds to House impeachment with more lies and gibberish White House "press secretary" Stephanie Grisham, who may or may not be a crisis actor hired on for three hours a week or Andy Kaufman doing a bit from beyond the grave, is out with the official Trump White House response to impeachment. It's not worth... |
Hunter | 01/15/2020 | 52 |
| Warren responds to those who say a woman can't win the presidency Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Bernie Sanders were asked to weigh in, of course , on the ready-made spat of the day: whether Sanders once argued with Warren over whether a woman could win the ... |
Hunter | 01/14/2020 | 178 |
| Trump tries to take credit for declining cancer death rate ... before he took office It really feels like "Donald Trump is lying about a thing" is a job that should have gone to the robots already. Donald Trump is always lying about a thing. Donald Trump is always lying about all of ... |
Hunter | 01/14/2020 | 25 |
| Trump will take another $7.2 billion from defense to fund his promised border erection Once again, Donald Trump is making noise about the urgent need to show progress on his coast-to-coast monument to racism, also known as his "border wall." Once again the effort seems to be nakedly political, based on a need to prove his racism... |
Hunter | 01/14/2020 | 51 |
| Van Drew's would-be 2020 campaign manager will now be working to unseat him New Jersey's formerly Democratic Rep. Jeff Van Drew took careful aim and shot his own foot off last December with his decision not just to oppose the impeachment of Donald Trump for his acts against ... |
Hunter | 01/13/2020 | 19 |
| Jeff Bezos mocked for Amazon's $690,000 donation to fight Australian fires As the world as we know it comes to a quicker-than-expected end, with much of Australia caught up in wildfires that climate change did not start, but are unquestionably making worse, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is getting roundly toasted for his announcement... |
Hunter | 01/13/2020 | 60 |
| White House tweets 'First snow of the year!'—but it, um, wasn't snowing The Trump White House Twitter account got itself into another row last night with a tweet that was, even for the staff phone-it-inners using the account to highlight Fox News clips and pull the last meat off the bones of the Hatch Act, a bit weird. The... |
Hunter | 01/13/2020 | 73 |
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