Myth: Mueller found “no collusion.” Response: Mueller spent almost 200 pages describing “numerous links between the Russian government and the Trump Campaign.” He found that “a Russian entity carried out a social media campaign that favored presidential candidate Donald J. Trump and disparaged presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.” He also found that “a Russian intelligence service conducted computer-intrusion operations” against the Clinton campaign … Read More
Indecision As Foreign Policy
Things have been ratcheting up with Iran for a few weeks, starting last week with a questionable attack by Iran on a US oil tanker, accompanied by weak, grainy photographic evidence. But it went into overdrive this week when Iran shot down a U.S. drone over… well, Iran or international waters, depending on who you listen to. Trump’s response was… … Read More
Meet The New Grift, Same As The Old Grift
Trump “officiially” launched his 2020 campaign with a rally in Orlando last night, although what made it “official” is hard to tell. In fact, what made it 2020 was hard to tell, as Trump spent an inordinate amount of time talking about the same things he talked about in 2016. Like the wall. Like “jina” (China). Oh, and Hillary Clinton, … Read More
Biden Can Work With Bigots, But Don’t We Want Someone Who Can BEAT Them?
Joseph R. Biden Jr., defending himself on Tuesday night against suggestions that he is too “old fashioned” for today’s Democratic Party, invoked two Southern segregationist senators by name as he fondly recalled the “civility” of the Senate in the 1970s and 1980s. Speaking at a fund-raiser at the Carlyle Hotel in New York City, Mr. Biden, 76, stressed the need … Read More
The Purge Begins (In Words Only, Probably)
Trump announced, on Twitter, a massive sweep of undocumented immigrants across the United States: “Next week ICE will begin the process of removing the millions of illegal aliens who have illicitly found their way into the United States. They will be removed as fast as they come in. Mexico, using their strong immigration laws, is doing a very good job of … Read More
Trump Kills The Messengers
A peak inside Trumpland shows that if you speak truth to him, he goes on off on you. This is how he is in private: President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign is cutting ties with some of its own pollsters after leaked internal polling showed the president trailing former Vice President Joe Biden in critical 2020 battleground states, according to a … Read More
Dem Debates Lineup:
Wednesday, June 26: Booker Castro de Blasio Delaney Gabbard Inslee Klobuchar O’Rourke Warren Thursday, June 27: Biden Bennet Buttigieg Gillibrand Harris Hickenlooper Sanders Swalwell Williamson Yang The first night is a gift to Warren, since she is among lower-level people, and it is the first night (more likely to get more viewers). Thursday looks like the heavy hitters, and for … Read More
Queen Of Gaslighting To Leave In Two Weeks
Yup. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is leaving at the end of the month. And why not? She has nothing to do. She is the press secretary that killed press conferences with the press secretary. But that will not be her legacy. Her legacy will be, bluntly, lying. Love this WaPo editorial: When Sarah Sanders said Thursday that she hopes to be … Read More
Office of Special Counsel Recommends Kellyanne Conway Be Removed
Wow. Not surprisingly, the White House is doping nothing: White House Deputy Press Secretary Steven Groves responds: pic.twitter.com/k6aU0nTxjn — Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) June 13, 2019 This statement is just wrong. 1) #SCOTUS has repeatedly held that government employees have very limited First Amendment rights _as_ employees. 2) No one has deprived @KellyannePolls of anything; this is a recommendation to terminate … Read More
Trump: No Collusion, No Collusion, But Would I Collude? You Bet!
In an Oval Office interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, Trump said he would consider accepting information on his political opponents from a foreign government, despite the concerns raised by the intelligence community and special counsel Robert S. Mueller III over Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Trump also said he wouldn’t necessarily alert the FBI if a foreign country … Read More
Don Jr Testifies Behind Closed Doors
He’s sticking to his story, which contradicts previous testimony of Gates and Cohen: Donald Trump Jr. told the Senate Intelligence Committee Wednesday that he did not tell his father about the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting and that he didn’t pay close attention to the Trump Tower Moscow project that was one of many potential deals that had been in … Read More
House Judiciary Committee Voting Now On Contempt For AG Barr And Commerce Secretary Ross
This relates to refusal to turn over documents relating to the citizenship question on the census. New: DOJ informs House Oversight President Trump is invoking executive privilege with regard to some of the subpoenaed documents regarding addition of a citizenship to 2020 census pic.twitter.com/vlVE000dqi — Sam Levine (@srl) June 12, 2019 So weird that the administration is going to such … Read More
Actually, It Seems The President IS Above The Law
It is worth noting that, while Attorney General Barr has apparently negotiated an agreement to provide the House Judiciary Committee with access to Robert Mueller’s “most important files” related to the obstruction inquiry, Trump’s lawyers continue to fight in court against the release of the president’s financial records. It is very likely that the latter poses the bigger threat to Trump, who has already … Read More
2020 Election Polls Continue To Bash Trump
Note that all six of the candidates mentioned here bet out Trump OVER the margin of error. That’s not all. After a devastating 17-state poll conducted by his campaign, Trump was also behind in key states to Biden. What did Trump do? He told aides to deny that his internal polling showed him trailing Mr. Biden even though he is … Read More
Barr Caves; Mueller Evidence To Go To House Judiciary Committee
Breaking: House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler on Monday said he has struck a deal with the Justice Department to begin providing Congress with some documents from the Mueller Report related to obstruction of justice. Nadler announced the agreement ahead of a vote scheduled for Tuesday, when the House is expected to approve a resolution to go to court to enforce … Read More