Last week, President Trump’s ex-lawyer Michael Cohen admitted he lied to Congress more than a year ago when he claimed discussions about a possible Trump Tower in Moscow ceased in January 2016. (The talks continued through the Republican primary season, which ended in June 2016.) Cohen made the claims in …
Read More »Larry Kudlow and John Bolton Tried to Defend Trump at the Podium. It Didn't Go Well.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders called reporters to the White House on Tuesday for a rare press briefing. Though it was the only time this month the press secretary has held an on-camera briefing, she didn’t even answer questions for 15 minutes. Instead, Sanders ceded the bulk of the press conference to …
Read More »Trump Grades Himself as President in New Interview: 'I Would Give Myself an A-Plus'
In an interview between Fox News Sunday‘s Chris Wallace and President Donald Trump, topics ran the gamut from Trump’s relationship with the press to why he didn’t visit Arlington Cemetery on Veterans Day to the appointment of Matthew Whitaker as acting Attorney General overseeing the Mueller investigation. Discussing CNN reporter …
Read More »Elizabeth Warren Calls Trump's $1 Million Bluff
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) rolled out a highly-produced retort to Donald Trump’s “Pocahontas” attack on Monday morning. The five-and-a-half-minute video, which features interviews with Warren’s Republican family members in Oklahoma, her former employers and a MacArthur Genius Award-winning expert in DNA testing, seeks to put to rest questions the president …
Read More »David Lynch to Donald Trump: 'You Are Causing Suffering and Division'
Director David Lynch accused President Donald Trump of “causing suffering and division” in a Facebook post in which he clarified comments he made about Trump that he claims right-wing media outlets took out of context. In an interview with The Guardian published Saturday, Lynch said that Trump “could go down …
Read More »Why Is Trump Suddenly So Concerned with Chinese Jobs?
Though he may have been too busy to buy his wife a birthday present last month, President Trump is a big fan of mothers. On Sunday morning, he tweeted a videoin which spoke of the “incredible spirit” of those who birthed us while marveling at “how they pioneered the West …
Read More »Can Trump Weasel His Way Out of This Giuliani Mess?
If you weren’t aware that Rudy Giuliani joined Trump’s legal team late last month, you are now. After not even two weeks on the job, the Trump confidant and former New York City mayor spoke to Sean Hannity Wednesday night about several ofthe president’s ongoing legal issues. It was an …
Read More »A Brief Survey of President Trump's Biggest Personal Lawsuits
Harry Truman used to have a plaque on his desk –The Buck Stops Here, it said. It was a way of making clear the president is the final authority: If you’ve got a problem, you’ll have to take the issue up with him. “Every president is subject to quite a …
Read More »10 Things We Learned from Stormy Daniels' 60 Minutes Interview
After his own 60 Minutes interview – shortly after he clinched the presidency in November 2016 – Donald Trump called the show’s executive producer, Jeff Fager, to ask if the episode broke any ratings records. It hadn’t – in fact, it hadn’t even beaten Sunday Night Football. This week’s installment …
Read More »What Is Trump's Foreign Policy on Russia?
Americans are unaccustomed to getting news about their own government from the Kremlin. On January 30th, Russian officials disclosed that the director of the SVR, Russia‘s foreign intelligence service, had recently visited Washington for a meeting with Mike Pompeo, director of the CIA, to discuss counterterrorism issues. That sparked revelations, …
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