Bernie Sanders Annihilates Trump With Facts In His Rebuttal To Congressional Speech
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) leveled President Trump with a forceful fact based rebuttal that exposed the unpopularity of the Trump agenda.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) leveled President Trump with a forceful fact based rebuttal that exposed the unpopularity of the Trump agenda.
Democrats refused to shake Trump hand, as it has been mostly Republicans who want to be seen with this president after his speech to Congress.
Donald Trump falsely accused President Obama of doubling the national debt during his speech to Congress. Here are the facts.
Trump and his followers may not like it, but the Democrats who stayed seated on Tuesday night were representing the majority of Americans.
Here are the five biggest lies that President Trump told during the first 30 minutes of his address to Congress.
President Trump began his speech to the joint session of Congress with a weak and general condemnation of the threats and attacks on Jewish community centers and cemeteries.
The Democrats will use their first rebuttal speech to go hard after the unpopular president.
President Trump is attacking an Obama era clean water rule in an effort that will place in jeopardy the status of clean drinking water for 100 million Americans.
The rule would have applied to 75,000 people who were deemed mentally unfit to purchase a firearm.
His words will matter very little if his administration spends the next four years implementing an immigration policy similar to that of the last four weeks.
President Trump is claiming that Jewish people themselves are calling in bomb threats and vandalizing Jewish cemeteries.
With Republican opposition from the conservative wing of the party growing to the leadership’s plan for Obamacare repeal, united Congressional Democrats are getting closer to a huge win if they can save the health care law.
Petitioners say: “As the leaders of the free world, we cannot allow an adversary to invade our territory and subvert our republican form of government.”
“Some of us, who were sitting on the Health Education Committee who went to meeting after meeting after meeting – yeah, we got a clue.”
“I think that when you get into an airplane and you look at the cockpit and you see the pilot saying ‘boy, look at all these gauges this is really complicated,’ you know you have a problem.”
The German magazine noted for its investigative journalism outed “America’s biggest conspiracy theorist” and “epitome of fake news” Alex Jones as Trump’s propagandist, warning of the dangers of his treatment of Trump as some kind of “Hitler-like Führer”.
George W. Bush just called Donald Trump out for alienating Americans, racism, and name-calling.
During an interview on Fox and Friends, President Trump revealed that the basis for all of his economic plans is a hope that the economy grows at three percent during his presidency when all economic and workforce projections predict a grow of 1.8-1.9%. In other words, Trump’s entire plan is based on fantasy BS.
“I think President Obama’s behind it, because his people are certainly behind it.â€
“I can’t [take it personally] because I take it as a very serious violation when they say it and I have to write it off as being purely politics.”
“I just thought in light of the fake news and all the other things we’re talking about…I just thought it would be better if I didn’t do the dinner”
The administration also plans to go after EPA climate programs put into place during Obama’s time in the White House.
You may have noticed a slight decline in Trump’s morning tweets. That’s because he no longer watches ‘Morning Joe’.
Losing a U.S. service member under any circumstance is difficult to bear, but it’s even harder to swallow when it was the result of a rash decision by an incompetent and unfit president.
A new McClatchy-Marist Poll has found that 67% of Americans are opposed to a full repeal of Obamacare as is being pushed by Republicans in Congress and President Trump.
The fact is, this is a tenuous moment in American history. We’re being tested, we will be tested on some very fundamental constitutional principles.”
The top-ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) had some bad news for President Trump. The committee will be investigating potential Trump campaign collusion with Russia during the 2016 election.
A misconduct complaint has been filed against Trump Chief of Staff Reince Priebus with the Wisconsin Office of Lawyer Regulation relating to Priebus interfering with the FBI’s investigations into the Trump/Russia scandal.
Sean Spicer tried to put an end to questions about the need for a special prosecutor to investigate President Trump’s Russian connections with nothing but arrogant outrage.
Spicer demanded, “I guess my question would be, ‘A Special Prosecutor for what?'”
Trump Budget Director Mick Mulvaney was challenged by reporters about the Trump budget’s numbers not adding up. Mulvaney’s answer was that this was what Trump promised to do, which is an admission that Trump’s numbers make no sense.
President Trump continuously claims to be the victim of Democratic obstruction while presenting himself as a “unity” president, but he spends a lot of his time dissing Democrats. In fact, he is doing what Republicans inaccurately accused President Obama of doing. And then Trump whines about the reaction to his insults and snubs.
President Trump gave a very specific and narrow denial when asked if there should be a special prosecutor on Russia Monday morning, saying he hasn’t called Russia in ten years.
While speaking to the nation’s governors, President Trump laid out a plan for taking away health care from 20 million Americans and then blaming Obama and the Democrats.
“Whether or not your intention, your presidency has given the oxygen of incitement to some of the most viciously hateful elements in our society.”
“We need an independent media to hold people like me to account…it’s important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power.â€
Dems ought to be focused on saving healthcare, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. Instead, they’re chasing down scandals or they’re making them up.
The decision has set twitter a-crowing over Trump’s failure and sent him scurrying to find another suitable rich white guy to run the government
Bannon is a “dangerous person driven by an authoritarian ideology. This is a mean, vicious, intolerant group. I’ve never seen anything like this.”
A picture is emerging of the chaos surrounding the Republican plan to replace Obamacare. It turns that there never was a Republican plan to replace the ACA and Trump his party lied to the country for years about having a health care plan of their own.
The Trump White House is like HBO’s Veep come to life in the political world as the White House managed to leak details of their own investigation into leaks.
The father of the Navy Seal who was killed in Yemen is demanding a probe into whether President Trump put together the mission properly.
Instead of driving the newspaper out of business with his attacks, President Trump has caused subscriptions to go wild every time he tweets about the paper, which means that his attacks have the opposite effect from what the President intended.
Trump’s Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders refused to keep the President’s promise that people won’t lose their health care with the Republican Obamacare replacement during an interview on ABC’s This Week.
Gov. Chris Christie has changed his tune on special prosecutors. The Republican from New Jersey has gone from demanding one to investigate Clinton to arguing that a special prosecutor is unnecessary to investigate Trump.
For the party that talks so much about the value of life they sure put a whole lot of energy into polices that promise to be a slow death sentence
“I will not be attending the White House Correspondents Association Dinner this year” = “Oh pleeeeeez Alec Baldwin go as trump at Correspondents Dinner!!!!”
French President Francois Hollande fired back at Donald Trump on Saturday after the U.S. president remarked in a speech that a friend thought “Paris is no longer Paris” after attacks by Islamist militants.
“Barack Obama has completed his second term as President of the United States on January 21, why not hire him as President for France?”
2016 Democratic Presidential nominee and popular vote winner Hillary Clinton congratulated a united Tom Perez and Keith Ellison after Perez won as DNC Chair and immediately appointed his opponent Ellison as Deputy.
President Obama has released a statement praising the new DNC leadership team of Tom Perez and Rep. Keith Ellison. Approval of the new DNC leadership has been universal as everyone from Sen. Bernie Sanders to Barack Obama has expressed enthusiasm for Perez and Ellison.
Davi is wrong, not only about the law but about who is guilty of spreading false and malicious rumors. It is his hero who is liable, not his critics
Former Obama Secretary of Labor Tom Perez has defeated Rep. Keith Ellison to become the new chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
Opponents of the Dakota Access Pipeline who were pushed out of their protest camp this week have vowed to keep up efforts to stop the multibillion-dollar project and take the fight to other pipelines as well.
While President Donald Trump has suggested that the United States must expand its nuclear arsenal, many experts say U.S. nuclear forces are unrivaled and will remain so as they undergo a modernization program that could cost more than $1 trillion.
Undocumented workers contribute 3 percent of GDP, or nearly $5 trillion in economic growth†that will vanish with Trump’s “military action†against Mexican workers.
While claiming that he and President Trump will stand up for Israel, Vice President Mike Pence got the Israeli flag wrong.
Lies upon lies upon lies.
Because Trump is accomplishing virtually nothing as president, but his need for praise led him to make a statement that highlighted the fact that his claim that he inherited a mess from Obama is a lie.
Issa said Sessions must recuse himself: “You cannot have somebody, a friend of mine Jeff Sessions, who was on the campaign and who is an appointee.”
A fake news story on Tucker Carlson Tonight leads to an international incident with Sweden after Emperor Trump repeats it & then blames Fox.
The Pope wasted little time lashing out at fake Christians whom he said would be better off being a non-believer, an atheist, than a “bad Christian.â€
So far at CPAC we have seen nonstop attacks on “globalists” and “globalism” – and this from a president who makes money from all over the globe. On the whole, this makes as much sense as liberals being cast as the elites when it’s Trump who uses a golden toilet as his throne.
“This White House doesn’t value an independent press,” Tapper said. “There’s a word for that line of thinking: The word is Un-American.”
A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll contained the worst news yet for Trump. By a more than two to one margin (53%-25%), the American people want Congress to investigate Trump’s communications with Russia.
As the Trump White House leans on the FBI to shut it up about their Russian connections, at CPAC the Trump fans waved their pro-Trump fans with gusto, until the fans were hastily confiscated.
“When a White House leans on the FBI, they’re in a cover-up mode,” John Dean said regarding the way the Trump administration is trying to lean on the FBI.
President Trump tried to punish the press by keeping outlets out of a press briefing who are reporting on his scandals, but the President’s plan backfired as the press has vowed to keep reporting the facts.
The House Republican Obamacare replacement plan has been leaked and it as bad as expected. The Republican plan would kill subsidies and Medicaid expansion. It would allow states to create high-risk pools with benefit caps and would cause millions of Americans to lose their health care. The Republican plan is a death sentence for millions of Americans who benefit from the ACA.
In the wake of the Trump administration’s attempts to silence the FBI, Nancy Pelosi called for both the DOJ and Congress to launch an investigation into the Trump administration’s conversations with the FBI.
The White House decided not to hold a press briefing on Friday, but instead held an off-camera session that excluded news organizations who have written about the Trump/Russia scandal or intelligence community leaks.
The Trumpean agenda is the polar opposite of Obama’s inclusiveness, of an America unified not by shared race, but shared values and ideals
On Friday, after Mike Pence called Obamacare “America’s nightmare”, support for Obamacare reached its highest point since shortly after it was passed in 2010. Support is at 48%, which is a 5 point increase since December.
President Trump begged Democrats to approve his cabinet, and “get smart” on healthcare, which means he wants them to give him political cover by voting to repeal Obamacare during his speech at CPAC.
President Trump raved like a crazy man at CPAC against all of the imaginary injustices committed against him by the free press, and in the process, this president made sure that he will zero credibility with anyone outside of the Republican Party.
Trump is getting nervous that the leaks are exposing his Russian ties, so he wants to go after the leakers. “FIND NOW” he typed in all caps, like the second grade leader that he is.
“Spicer claimed that the Trump administration has been ‘constantly’ in contact with our tribe. That claim is absolutely false.”
By following evangelical preachers’ edict to legalize discrimination against school-age children, Trump unleashed his theocrats and set a dangerous precedent.
“From one Republican to another, this is a disaster,” said Jenner.
If Trump is serious about reducing violence, he should consider tightening the nation’s gun laws.
“Such a request from the White House is a violation of procedures that limit communications with the FBI on pending investigations.”
A new Marist Poll found that Donald Trump is worse than unpopular. By a margin of 58%-33%, respondents described President Trump’s conduct as embarrassing.
Sean Spicer’s tantrum had the White House Press Secretary telling reporters they no longer get to yell out questions, “We’re going to raise our hands like big boys and girls.”
Former Rep. Gabby Giffords, who was shot while meeting constituents in 2011, told Republicans to show some courage and face their constituents by holding town halls.
President Trump will once again spend the weekend at his Florida private club, as his 4th straight taxpayer funded trip will set a record by spending more money on travel in a month than former President Obama spent in a year.
John Boehner (R-OH), under whom the House shut down the government in October of 2013 over Obamacare, said he started laughing at the idea of repealing Obamacare.
As Donald Trump’s “listening event” with manufacturing CEOs at the White House descended into the President rambling and giving free commercials to companies in attendance, both CNN and MSNBC cut away from their live coverage of the event.
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) cited violent strains of leftists who may shoot him like Gabby Giffords if he holds town hall meetings, as a reason for avoiding face to face meetings with his constituents.
The Trump family is showing that they have no understanding of the lives of regular people, as President Trump’s daughter Ivanka is pushing Congress to pass a $500 billion tax deduction for child care that would benefit rich people with nannies.
“[Stephen] Miller’s language about ‘judicial supremacy’ comes straight from the mouths of Religious Right leaders” who view “federal courts as obstacles”
No disrespect to the other candidates for DNC chair, but while watching the Democratic Leadership Debate on CNN Keith Ellison stood out from the pack.
Reclaiming our schools for the American people is a politically correct way of saying “making our schools white again”
Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) has vowed to fight back against Trump’s rolling back of protections for transgender students.
At the Democratic Leadership Debate, Rep. Keith Ellison argued that Donald Trump committed impeachable offenses on day one of his presidency, which is why investigations must be held, and impeachment is on the table.
The Trump administration abandoned Obama-era LGBTQ protections. New York wasn’t having it.
Republicans are learning that they can’t defend the indefensible.
It’s just the latest move in Donald Trump’s quest to turn back the clock on civil rights in America.
The reason why Obamacare repeal has turned into a nightmare for Republicans was demonstrated at Sen. Tom Cotton’s town hall when the entire crowd stood when a woman asked for anyone who was affected by the ACA or health care to stand.
Protesters were waiting for Mitch McConnell outside of the Jeffersontown Chamber of Commerce luncheon, so Sen. McConnell showed his true colors by hiding from the protesters by sneaking into the building through a hotel back door.
A new Quinnipiac University poll shows that many of the factors that are necessary for the American public to support impeaching a president a now present in Donald Trump’s poll numbers.