It was reported on Monday that the Trump administration has concocted a plan that involves sending 120,000 troops to the Middle East to counter a potential Iranian attack on American forces. Whatever threat may exist is almost entirely of the president’s own design. Since Trump rebuffed allies, experts and his …
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California Senator Kamala Harris’ pointed questioning of Attorney General Bill Barr during this week’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearings garnered a lot of attention. Not only because Harris asked questions with unflinching precision but because she left Barr with no choice but to obfuscate about whether or not President Donald Trump …
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Attorney General William Barr released a letter to Congress on March 24, 2019, purporting to summarize the top-line conclusions of the Mueller report. Now that the full report has been made public it’s clear that Barr’s selective, partial quotations from the Mueller text amounted to brazen, dishonest sins of omission. …
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The National Enquirer – the tabloid infamous for buying, then spiking, damaging stories about Donald Trump and reportedly keeping the evidence in a safe – is up for sale. Anthony Melchiorre, the hedge fund manager who owns the controlling interest in Enquirer parent company AMI, has reportedly grown tired of …
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President Trump tweeted 50 times over the weekend, posting 20 times on Saturday, and 30 times on Sunday. Between his first tweets on Saturday morning (clips of Lou Dobbs interviewing Diamond & Silk and a former ICE director) and his last on Sunday night (“MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”), Trump took …
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WASHINGTON — Eighty years ago, Congress became so alarmed by the rise of pro-Nazi propaganda in the United States that it passed the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), a law intended to shine a light on the activities and money spent by foreign countries and their representatives to lobby the …
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Longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone appeared in court Thursday after posting an Instagram photo of Judge Amy Berman Jackson with what appeared to be a crosshairs near her head and text accusing her of conducting a “show trial” on behalf of the “Deep State.” The judge, unmoved by an apology …
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Victorina Morales, an undocumented worker who was fired from President Trump’s New Jersey golf club after publicly revealing her immigration status, will attend his State of the Union address on February 5th as the guest of a Democratic congresswoman. The Washington Post reported that Morales received an invite from Rep. …
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Michael Cohen is likely headed to prison. And Donald Trump is in danger of joining him. There are two big takeaways from the criminal sentencing memos released Friday for Cohen — the president’s former lawyer and fixer — by Special Counsel Robert Mueller and by the United States Attorney’s Office …
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President Trump’s trip to Argentina for the G-20 summit was relatively subdued. He bailed on a press conference “out of respect for the Bush Family.” He refrained from bro-ing out with Vladimir Putin and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman. He dined with Chinese President Xi Jinping. But on Monday …
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