Trump Might Pick Sarah Palin To Lead The VA And Social Media’s Response Is Priceless
We laugh, but leading the Department of Veterans Affairs – the government’s largest agency – is serious business.
We laugh, but leading the Department of Veterans Affairs – the government’s largest agency – is serious business.
Some Republicans in Congress are working to prevent Trump from carrying out a top campaign promise.
If approved, it would also allow firearms in police stations and airports.
“FAIR’s newly laid-out immigration priorities are directly from the xenophobic, far-right movemen…severely limiting legal immigration.”
Carrier played the president-elect by getting tens of millions of dollars in incentives, while still outsourcing 1,100 jobs to Mexico.
Seven Senate Democrats, who all sit on the Senate Intelligence Committee, have sent a request to President Obama asking him to declassify all materials related to Russia interfering in the US presidential election.
Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren called Donald Trump a hypocrite today for his decision to nominate a Wall Street insider to head the Treasury Department.
Green Party candidate Jill Stein followed through on her promise by filing for a recount in Michigan Wednesday afternoon, citing a high number of blank votes as the reason.
In what could be devastating news for US veterans, Sarah Palin is under consideration to head Veterans Affairs in the Trump administration.
The White House responded to Donald Trump keeping 1,000 jobs in the US by dropping a huge fact bomb that showed just how little Trump has accomplished compared to President Obama.
Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) fended off a challenge from Tim Ryan by a vote of 134-63 Wednesday morning, in a closed door caucus meeting.
MSNBC has a major conflict of interest as Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough is advising Donald Trump and has not disclosed this fact to viewers. In essence, the MSNBC morning program is giving viewers a dose of pro-Trump propaganda, without providing adequate to disclosure of their relationship with the president-elect.
Why won’t Donald Trump do as much as Bill Clinton did to separate himself from his business interests? For all of Donald Trump’s smearing of Hillary and Bill Clinton and their foundation, it’s telling that when it comes down to it, once again Donald Trump doesn’t even try to uphold the most basic of standards.
President-elect Trump is hyping the PR stunt of saving 1,000 jobs in Indiana, by giving Carrier a package of tax cuts and incentives, but it is nothing compared to the 1.2 million jobs that President Obama saved with the auto bailout.
About a million people should be scooped up, “charged with treason, and under habeas corpus, detain them indefinitely at Gitmo.â€
Donald Trump has moved Fox News’ “whole roster off of Rupert Murdoch and onto the taxpayers of the United States.”
“I feel it is visually important, as President, to in no way have a conflict of interest with my various businesses”
As power players in D.C. jockey for influence over the incoming president, Trump appears to be happy to give it to them.
Pence served up a huge, taxpayer-funded handout to Carrier so the company would keep jobs in Indiana.
Sorry, Trump voters. The swamp your man promised to drain is only getting deeper.
The most alarming story of the campaign was the successful effort by a ‘hostile’ foreign power, Russia, to interfere and influence this election.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) blasted Donald Trump for lying about protecting Social Security after the president-elect nominated a man who is dedicated to killing Social Security and Medicare to run HHS.
Journalists are warning that President-elect Donald Trump is considering not having a White House press office, doing no press briefings, closing down the White House press room, and only having a single pool reporter covering the president. In other words, Trump is kicking around the idea of removing the press from the White House.
After Donald Trump suggested that people be put in jail for burning the flag, top Republican Senators Mitch McConnell and John McCain reminded Trump that flag burning is protected under the First Amendment, as McConnell signaled to reporters than any legislation banning flag burning would be DOA.
Ethics violator and Chief Clinton conspiracy monger from the 90s Newt Gingrich called Jill Stein the “nut wing of American politics” today in an effort to defend Donald Trump from her recall.
President-elect Donald Trump has been attacking the First Amendment for days via his Twitter account. If Trump acts on his stated feelings about free speech, he will violate his oath of office and there is a school of Constitutional thought that believes that such a violation would be an impeachable offense.
Scarborough relished the idea of “putting Democrats in the position…to come down on the side of flag burning” but what we’d be coming down on is the side of the First Amendment
“Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag – if they do, there must be consequences – perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!”
“Summing up, the press is trumping up…a white power movement storyline that simply doesn’t exist. It’s vile to suggest that it does.”
Trump’s attack on the free press had an underlying message for America. The man that they have elected to be the next president is showing signs of mental instability.
If this is how Trump voters are behaving after their candidate won an election, just imagine how they would be acting if he had lost.
Not only was Trump’s victory not a “blowout,” but it was actually pretty unimpressive.
America will become a subsidiary of Trump Corporation…
Jill Stein goes all in to make sure votes in Wisconsin are recounted by hand.
There has been no evidence of widespread election fraud in the Nov. 8 presidential contest, the White House said on Monday in reaction to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s tweet over the weekend alleging millions of illegal votes and fraud in three states.
Sen. Bernie Sanders is urging Americans to stand up and come together in a national movement to stop Donald Trump and the GOP’s undemocratic vision for America.
President-elect Donald Trump accused New Hampshire, Virginia, and California of voter fraud. Officials in all three states have released statements denouncing the President-elect’s baseless conspiracy theory.
House Oversight Committee Democrats are demanding that President-elect Trump releases his tax returns and that an immediate investigation is launched into Trump’s conflicts of interest
The study Trump spox Jason Miller cites as evidence of voter fraud has been repeatedly debunked as providing no evidence of voter fraud
Jill Stein is following through on her promise to request recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, as the Green Party presidential candidate has filed for recounts in both Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission has denied a request by Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein for a hand recount of all ballots.
Local media in Columbus, Ohio are reporting that one suspect is dead after an attack using a knife and a car left at least 8 people injured at Ohio State University. The University has lifted the shelter in place order, but all classes are canceled.
Lewandowski repeated a Trump campaign lie and said: “Donald Trump won the election campaign by the largest majority since Ronald Reagan in 1984.â€
“Let’s stop obsessing over who’ll be Secretary of State. We don’t need one. Our Twitterer-in-Chief can set foreign policy in 140 characters”
“So there’s your Trump presidency in a nutshell. Thin-skinned rants. Feuding aides. Conspiracy theories. And all a distraction from the bigger issues out there.”
Trump is ‘furious’ at Conway’s comments on Sunday suggesting he “betrayed his supporters by even considering Mitt Romney for a position in his cabinet.”
Trump has 46.5 percent of the popular vote and dropping. Bill Clinton received only 43 percent in ’92 but unlike Trump, he received more votes than his opponent.
Trump’s plan calls for huge tax credits: billions of dollars in checks written to private companies that invest in ‘approved’ projects which they would end up owning.
In his most unpresidential moment yet, President-elect Trump took to Twitter to push a conspiracy theory with no evidence to support it, that millions of people illegally voted for Hillary Clinton.
Sen. Marco Rubio, who supported Trump during the presidential election, refused to say that he trusts the president-elect with the nuclear codes during an interview on Sunday.
Trump Senior Adviser Kellyanne Conway delivered a threat to prosecute Hillary Clinton if she pursues the recount during an interview on CNN’s State Of The Union.
When ABC News’s Martha Raddatz pushed a Trump lie about the recount to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Sanders shot back with the facts and set the mainstream media straight.
President-elect Donald Trump is enraged and viewing the recount as a personal insult. The problem is that it was Trump himself who raised doubts about the integrity of US elections by complaining that the election was going to be stolen from him.
If only this were a movie and not a metastasizing reality threatening the deepest values of our democracy, the welfare of every citizen, and our standing in a globalized world.
Protesters opposed to an oil pipeline planned to run beneath a lake near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota must vacate an area where thousands of demonstrators have been camped by Dec. 5 or face prosecution, according to U.S. authorities.
Efforts to undermine unions diminish democratic operations in our schools and disempower those who are most attuned to what our children need.
President-elect Donald Trump on Friday chose Washington insider Donald McGahn to be his White House counsel, giving him the job of untangling potential conflicts of interest that the New York businessman’s presidency may present.
“Do you vote against the greater evil if you don’t happen to like the other candidate? The answer to that is yes, if you have any moral understanding”
An overwhelming majority of Mexicans hold a negative view of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, but most believe their own president should meet with him to defend the country’s interests, an opinion poll showed.
Trump loves Putin, hates on Castro, while Putin points out “Castro was a sincere and reliable friend of Russia.â€
DeVos has the potential to undermine progress by diverting resources and failing to uphold government’s responsibility to protect the needs of students.
“This recount is just a way for Jill Stein…to fill her coffers with money…a scam by the Green Party for an election that has already been conceded”
“My campaign’s goal: Transparent election processes to ensure election results can be verified—that every vote counts”
“I join the many Cuban Americans who supported me so greatly in the presidential campaign, including the Brigade 2506 Veterans Association that endorsed me…”
An election fraud complaint has been filed with the Wisconsin Elections Commission after it was uncovered that more people voted in the presidential race than the total number of votes in 4 precincts in Wisconsin.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign will participate in the election recounts in three critical swing states that have been and will be filed for by Jill Stein. However, the Clinton camp doesn’t expect the recounts to change the election results.
For the Sioux, this is being treated like trespassers on their own land, and according to the 1851 and 1868 Fort Laramie Treaties, this IS their own land
The man has been dubbed “Putin’s favorite congressman.”
If this pattern remains consistent across the state, it’s feasible – though unclear how likely – that Clinton could end up on top in the state.
This week Friday Fox Follies exposes the 2 biggest lies told on Fox, interesting internal internecine insurgencies, and the usual hypocrisy.
Spoiler alert: The richest 1 percent of Americans would benefit most from Trump’s proposal.
Jill Stein and the Green Party have officially filed a request to have the ballots in the 2016 presidential election in Wisconsin recounted.
By tapping into those economic worries, Trump captured about two-thirds of whites with no college degree, exit polls showed. That helped him gain the razor-thin margin of victory he needed in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan – all picked up by President Barack Obama in 2012 – to win the Electoral College, despite losing the popular vote.
After easily passing her initial fundraising goal to pay for recounts in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, the Green Party’s Jill Stein has upped the amount of money she says she will need, and changed some of the fine print on her fundraising page.
A new app allows consumers to boycott the 250 companies that have connections to Donald Trump while they do their Christmas shopping.
Since the project is worth $3.8 billion, you can bet the Sioux of Standing Rock are not going to get a fair shake from the president-elect
“The question for us is will Trump as president use the power he has to interfere — given that he has a financial interest in the outcome of these matters.”
“Unless a Starbucks cup is
A) Threatening to murder you &
B) Somehow seems to have the ability to do so
Then some of you are overreacting
“He told people that he would make Germany great again. He blamed Jews, Socialists, Communists, and others for the troubles of the land.”
This is especially troubling given Trump’s utter lack of knowledge when it comes to foreign affairs.
The money already raised is enough to secure a recount in at least one state – Wisconsin – whose filing deadline is Nov. 25.
In one choice, Trump managed to abandon yet another campaign promise, while upsetting teachers unions and his most loyal supporters.
With calls from election security experts growing, the Green Party has announced that they will be filing for a recount in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania to help Hillary Clinton win an election that they believe was hacked.
“The left, whether it’s Black Lives Matter or La Raza…Groups that identify themselves by race provoked this group to identify by race”
President Obama did his last ever turkey pardon today in the Rose Garden, which also served as a reminder of how good this man has been as the nation’s commander in chief.
“Our parents’ generation made huge sacrifices to defeat those ideas and values in the Second World War. What you did…betrays the sacrifices of that generation.”
Election security expert J. Alex Halderman makes a compelling case for why Hillary Clinton needs to challenge the election results to ensure the integrity of our voting system.
Not only will 47% of Donald Trump’s proposed tax cuts go to the top one percent, but his tax plan will raise taxes on 26 million Americans who are part of 8.5 million low-income families.
Citing various conflicts of interest, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) are calling for a federal investigation by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) into the use of taxpayer funds to pay for Trump’s presidential transition.
“What, if anything, distinguishes the alt-right from more hidebound racist movements such as the American Nazi Party and the Ku Klux Klan. The answer is very little.”
There is a method to Trump’s madness, of course. If Haley becomes UN Ambassador, a Trump ally, Lt. Gov. Henry McMaster, will replace her.
Attack dogs, mace, pepper spray, beatings, bullets, water cannons, and arrest have all been used on pipeline protesters at Standing Rock
In one hour, Trump walked away from many of the themes central to his campaign.
Democrats are prepared to stand up to the huge threat that a Trump presidency represents.
Trump never had any intention of locking Hillary Clinton up because he knew she broke no laws.
A group of prominent computer scientists and election lawyers have found irregularities in results in at least three swing states, and they are urging Hillary Clinton and her campaign to challenge the results of the 2016 presidential election.
The non-partisan experts at Issue One, a non-partisan, non-profit dedicated to reducing the issue of money in politics are calling out President-elect Trump from placing himself above the law and the Constitution during his interview with The New York Times.
The media sold the reaction to leaving his meeting with The New York Times as cheers, but the video shows Trump being booed in public in New York City.
During his interview with The New York Times, President-elect Donald Trump inaccurately declared that he would have no conflicts of interest because”The President can’t have a conflict of interest.”