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 …
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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 …
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I’ve spent the past month traveling across Africa and Europe as racial tensions in America boiled over, stoked by the tweets and temper-tantrums of Donald Trump. Even while traveling abroad, it felt like I couldn’t change the channel on Trump’s demented reality show. Perhaps most importantly, with my children — …
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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 …
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Welcome to ‘Useful Idiots,’ a New Rolling Stone Podcast “It just shows,” says Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, “that launching a smear campaign is the only response to the truth.” Gabbard, 38, burst into headlines after a July 31 Democratic Party presidential debate, when she went after California Senator Kamala Harris’s …
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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, …
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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 …
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Controversy over “fake news” burst into view again this past weekend, on the anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission . Saturday, July 20th marked 50 years since astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin beat the Soviets’ ill-fated unmanned Luna 15 to the lunar surface. The coming of this date was …
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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 …
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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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