It now appears as though the “perfect” call President Donald Trump made to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky needs a fall guy, and outgoing Energy Secretary Rick Perry may just be that man. According to a report on Saturday, a source told Axios that the president told House Republicans during a …
Read More »An Inspector General Just Nuked Trump's Go-to Attack on the Ukraine Whistleblower
WASHINGTON — President Trump and his army of far-right supporters wasted little time coalescing around a theory to try to discredit the intelligence officer who blew the whistle on Trump’s efforts to get Ukraine to interfere in the 2020 election. Promoted by House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), Sen. Lindsey …
Read More »The Most Damning Passages From Trump's Ukraine Call 'Transcript'
President Trump has claimed repeatedly that his July 25th call with Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky was totally innocuous. “The conversation, by the way, was absolutely perfect,” he told reporters on Sunday.“It was a beautiful, warm, nice conversation.” A written record of the conversation allegedly at the center of a whistleblower …
Read More »Ukraine Phone Call Is the Russian Trump Tower Meeting on Steroids
If the emerging details are accurate, Donald Trump‘s efforts to get Ukraine to interfere in the 2020 election are not just a repeat of his overtures toward Russia in 2016 — they’re worse. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that, on a late-July call with Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump …
Read More »Trump Called Out 'Where's My Favorite Dictator?' When Looking for Egyptian President at G7
During a reception at the Hotel du Palais in Biarritz, France, at the recent G7 summit, President Donald Trump was looking for Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi and called out, “Where’s my favorite dictator?” according to the Wall Street Journal, citing several people who were in the room at …
Read More »Poll: 70 Percent of Americans Feel Angry at Political System That Favors Insiders With Money and Power
According to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released on Sunday, Americans are just as angry with the nation’s political and financial establishment as they were before Trump was elected. Seventy percent of Americans told pollsters that they feel angry “because our political system seems to only be working …
Read More »Old Man Yells at Windmills
President Trump was in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Thursday night for another campaign rally. It wasn’t much different from any of his others. The president bashed Democratic presidential candidates as socialists, trashed liberal-leaning cities as crime-ridden, and railed against undocumented immigrants. All standard fare. So too were his attacks against windmills, …
Read More »This Is Robert Mueller's Chance to Dismantle the Seth Rich Conspiracy Theory
WASHINGTON —With just a sentence or two, Robert Mueller could demolish one of the most viral and cruel conspiracy theories of the Trump era. On Wednesday, the former special counsel will testify before the House Intelligence and Judiciary Committees about his final report on Russian interference in the 2016 election …
Read More »'Send Her Back' Is Trump's Most Honest Campaign Slogan
It felt like President Trump’s rally in Greenville, North Carolina, on Wednesday night was probably going to be an ugly one. It was grotesque. The East Carolina University arena was pulsing with white nationalist synergy through the president’s time on stage, provided a horrifying glimpse of what the next 16 …
Read More »One of These People Is Not Like the Others, One of These People Just Doesn't Belong
An Instagram video from the French government, showing President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka inserting herself into a conversation with world leaders at the G-20 summit, went viral Saturday night. Ivanka attended the G-20 along with her father and gave an address about women’s economic empowerment. The viral video begins with …
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