So much swampiness, but the fightback is palpable Emoluments clause case: A federal judge told US House and Senate Democrats they can begin collecting financial evidence this week about Donald Trump’s businesses for a lawsuit.Judge Emmet Sullivan, of the US District Court in Washington, denied an attempt by the Justice Department to stop the Democrats from collecting information from the Trump … Read More
The Perils Of Immigrants
This photo hit the public yesterday and went viral. Chuck Schumer: “President Trump, I want you to look at this photo. These are not drug dealers or vagrants or criminals. They are people simply fleeing a horrible situation in their home country for a better life.”Via The Hill pic.twitter.com/r9an1kA7Br — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 26, 2019 The man and his … Read More
Mueller To Testify Publicly
Finally: Robert Mueller will testify before Congress on July 17 after House Democrats issued a subpoena for his appearance, a move that paves the way for a reluctant special counsel to answer questions publicly for the first time about his 22-month investigation into President Donald Trump. The House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees announced Tuesday that Mueller had agreed to testify after they … Read More
Trump Playing Good Cop AND Bad Cop To Iran (Spoiler: It Doesn’t Work)
Having taken the position that he wants to Make Iran Great Again, Trump expected accolades and praise from Iran’s leaders. Let’s face it — that is all Trump wants: praise. As anyone with a brain and a sense of history can tell you, Iran didn’t bite. Trump broke the Iran deal, imposed sanctions, and expected Iran to THANK him for … Read More
Trump Denies Rape
Trump, during an interview with The Hill, was asked about the recent rape allegation made by writer E. Jean Carroll: “I’ll say it with great respect: Number one, she’s not my type. Number two, it never happened. It never happened, OK?” the president said while seated behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office. When asked if Carroll was lying, Trump … Read More
Fine. Don’t Call Them Concentration Camps. They’re Still Unconscionable
CNN: A 14-year old told us she was taking care of a 4-year old who had been placed in her cell with no relatives. “I take her to the bathroom, give her my extra food if she is hungry, and tell people to leave her alone if they are bothering her,” she said. She was just one of the children … Read More
Nobody Pays Attention To Trump’s Rape Victim
This is how low we’ve sunk. A very credible claim of rape, and it doesn’t register on the news: Acclaimed author E. Jean Carroll publicly alleged for the first time Friday that President Donald Trump raped her in a dressing room in the mid-1990s. Two days later, the hosts of the most popular Sunday morning talk shows in the U.S. … Read More
10 Mueller Report Myths Debunked
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
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
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