Trump Lies About His Dishonesty And Oh, Boy Does He Get Busted
“I’m a very instinctual person, but my instinct turns out to be right. Hey, look, in the meantime, I guess I can’t be doing so badly, because I’m President, and you’re not.”
“I’m a very instinctual person, but my instinct turns out to be right. Hey, look, in the meantime, I guess I can’t be doing so badly, because I’m President, and you’re not.”
There were clear winners and losers in the aftermath of the Republican health care bill fiasco, with Democrats having all of the reasons to celebrate.
After Trump was handed an epic loss on health care, he tried to spin himself as never having been concerned about immediately repealing and replacing Obamacare, when in reality, Friday’s defeat was crushing for Trump because he has been obsessed with repealing Obamacare for years.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan had a message for America after humiliating himself by trying to pass a health care bill that nobody wanted. Ryan told the country that doing big things is hard.
President Trump is blaming Democrats, even though 34 House Republicans were poised to vote against the Republican health care bill.
As the debate was about to end on the health care bill, the House abruptly went into recess as President Trump asked Speaker Paul Ryan has pulled the health care bill, because it doesn’t have enough votes to pass.
During his daily briefing at the White House, Press Secretary Sean Spicer admitted that Trump’s wants to cut health care first so that he can maximize tax cuts for the wealthy in 2018.
Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) stood up against Trumpcare with a breathtaking speech where the Civil Rights icon vowed to fight the Republican health care law with every bone and breath in his body, as Trumpcare looks completely doomed.
Mick Mulvaney, President Donald Trump’s budget director, suggested that pregnant women concerned about losing maternity care under Trumpcare should just change the law in their state.
When Speaker of the House Paul Ryan rushed to the White House to brief Trump on the health care bill hours before the vote, the odds were that the news was not good for Republicans. It’s being reported that Ryan told Trump that he doesn’t have the votes to pass the health care bill, but White House is still pushing ahead on the vote.
In case you’re wondering why ranking member Democrat Adam Schiff appears to know more than the Chair of the Intel Committee, Rep. Devin Nunes, it’s because he has experience prosecuting a crooked FBI agent who was working for the Kremlin.
It wasn’t Donald Trump alone who had ties to the Russians during the 2016 campaign. It turns out that the Republican National Committee used a firm with ties to Russian intelligence to dig up dirt on Hillary Clinton.
The most powerful Republican committee chairman in the House, Appropriations Chairman Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ) has announced that he will vote no on the Republican health care bill, as Trump’s first piece of major legislation takes another step towards defeat.
Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) accused House Intelligence Committee Chair Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) of trying to muddy the waters and help Trump cover-up the Russia scandal.
“I know politics is politics, but whenever Trump opens his mouth, it shakes our business. Even white, Anglo-Saxon people are afraid of crossing the border into America.”
The editorial board’s verdict is that Rep. Nunes “deserves to be subject to the same leaking probe he demanded for the previous disclosures”
“Amazing what we’re hearing from reporters…Trump treating the GOP members of congress like they’re his employees.”
The Speaker was in no mood to deal with the press after a day of spectacular failures for his party.
If there is one thing just about every American agrees on, it’s that these two parts of the Affordable Care Act should remain untouched.
Trump can’t even bring Republicans together to do something they have promised to do for the past seven years.
Trumpcare will cost more than initial estimates – and none of the cost increases will go toward covering the 24 million Americans that will lose health insurance under the plan.
A new Quinnipiac Poll shows that the Republicans health care bill is so unpopular (56% disapproval) that it will be nothing less than an act of political suicide for every Republican that votes for the legislation.
During an interview with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) asked the one question that will bring down the Trump presidency. Sanders asked, “What do the Russians have on Trump?”
Unable to provide evidence or even say who his “source” is, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) refused to confirm or deny if his “source” was the Trump White House.
Chuck Schumer was on fire Thursday when he announced his opposition to President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Neil Gorsuch, forcing 60 votes for confirmation.
Roger Stone sent a freaked out letter to CNN’s Jake Tapper this Thursday morning that includes calling Democratic Ranking Intel Member Adam Schiff a “p*ssy” and threatened to spank his accusers like children.
Carefully avoiding the network that broke the story that the FBI has evidence of the Trump campaign possibly working with the Russians to bring down Hillary Clinton, Trump wrote, “Just watched the totally biased and fake news reports of the so-called Russia story on NBC and ABC. Such dishonesty!”
The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) is calling for an investigation into House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) after the Intel Committee chair gave information to a White House under investigation.
The charade that Donald Trump is our legitimate president has worn increasingly thin…he stands but one good push away from impeachment
“At this point, I don’t believe there are eight Democrats supporting Judge Gorsuch,” said Dick Durbin
“Whoever is going to carry on with this investigation, it seems more important than ever that this investigation carry on.”
“You have to wonder if Trump himself isn’t worried about what’s swirling around under the covers even more than what’s happening over in Pyongyang.”
The road to Donald Trump’s impeachment just got shorter.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) shifted on his stance that an independent investigation wasn’t needed into the Trump/Russia scandal while telling the President that he still needed to apologize to President Obama for his wiretap lies.
Both Democrats and Republicans are now calling on Devin Nunes to step aside from the Trump-Russia investigation.
The top House Intelligence Committee Democrat, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) dropped a bombshell on Donald Trump by saying there’s more than circumstantial evidence against Trump for Russia collusion.
According to intelligence expert Malcolm Nance, House Intelligence Committee Chair Rep. Devin Nunes’s attempt to give Trump cover has made things worse for the White House because the former Trump transition official has disqualified himself from any Trump investigation.
Instead of it exonerating President Donald Trump from his unfounded, wild accusation against President Obama, Schindler wrote, “We are now just one diligent special prosecutor away from a whole bunch of Republicans getting indicted for major crimes over #TrumpRussia.”
House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes tried to exonerate President Donald Trump’s unfounded wiretapping accusations against President Obama, but in the process he ended up revealing that the alleged wiretap was legal and done under a FISA warrant, which means the people being surveilled are either foreign powers/agents and or may be involved in the commission of a crime.
A Democratic lawmaker threw down the gauntlet Wednesday, saying that former Chairman of the Trump campaign Paul Manafort needs to be subpoenaed, “Our investigation will not be complete if he (Manafort) does not testify, so he should be subpoenaed.”
The Secret Service was rejected by the Office of Budget and Management after asking for an additional $60 million in the budget to pay for Trump travel and protection, including protecting Trump Tower. That money will have to come from somewhere, so it will likely pull from the other responsibilities of the SS.
Former Vice President Joe Biden delivered the plain truth to America at a health care rally in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, and in the process, the former vice president hammered the final nail into the Republican health care bill’s coffin.
“The President clings” to his false wiretapping claims “like a drunk to an empty gin bottle,” say the editors of the Wall Street Journal
“It seems to be, and correct me if I’m wrong here, but virtually every case of voter fraud I can remember in my lifetime was committed by Democrats.â€
Given Trump’s refusal to acknowledge the threat to national security, it is essential that Congress discover the truth about Russia’s activities and stop colluding with Trump.
Unfortunately, Donald Trump has also proven that you don’t have to be very well informed, or even moderately intelligent, to do great evil.
After Rachel Maddow drew attention to a fake Bernie Sanders supporters Facebook page that appears to be part of the Russian information warfare effort against the United States liberal and progressive patriots have flooded the page to fight back.
“If he had nothing personally to do with Russia, he should care deeply about saying…I want the exhaustive investigation to clear the deck”
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) doesn’t think the Senate should proceed forward with the Supreme Court nomination hearings as if there is no Russian smoke clouding President Trump’s nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.
On MSNBC’s MTP Daily, Katy Tur turned Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA) into a far right conspiracy mess as the House Republican tried his best to defend Donald Trump.
CNN’s Jake Tapper called out Fox and Friends for making a false statement while trying to downplay FBI Director James Comey’s disclosure that the FBI is investigating the Trump campaign for coordinating with Russia during the 2016 election.
A new count of no votes found that even with Trump lobbying Republicans, he still lacks the votes to get the health care bill passed in the House.
Republicans are in a full blown panic, and warning that Democrats will win back Congress in 2018 if their health care bill fails to pass.
Democrats don’t need to find an “issue” to stop the Neil Gorsuch nomination from proceeding to confirmation. The Gorsuch hearing is irrelevant. He needs to be blocked out of concern for our national security and sovereignty.
The art of the deal, not so much. Facing Republicans in disarray over the GOP replacement to Obamacare after a rather disastrous roll out, President Trump thought threatening Republicans would be the way to go.
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) went off and ripped the Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee for denying Merrick Garland a hearing and pointed out that Trump’s nominee Neil Gorsuch was the choice of special interests.
Attorney Alan Dershowitz’s account of Trump violating a White House promise that Trump wouldn’t talk policy at his private Florida club is proof of how the president is profiting from the presidency while selling access to his administration.
Trump is personally profiting from every golf excursion, every luncheon date and his family’s business trips. Americans are pouring their tax dollars directly into the Trump organization.
Waters called for a “bipartisan, independent commission to investigate the Russian interference in our election and possible collusion with the Trump campaign.”
“Comey/Rogers JUST spent 8 hrs detailing how Russia tried to hack US election….Tillerson on a mission to make nice w/ Moscow.â€
“[Trump] keeps saying that ‘we’ need to be paid by the Europeans for the fact that we have troops in Europe or provide defense there. But that’s not how it works.”
Fox News appears to have given up on the bogus wiretapping allegation – leaving Trump with nobody left to cite.
If Trump wants to keep calling the Affordable Care Act a “disaster,†he probably shouldn’t do it in a state that has benefited so much from the law.
Note to Trump: The election was more than four months ago.
While Kentucky is a conservative state that Trump carried by nearly 30 percentage points last fall, it has in many ways become ground zero for the fight over protecting the Affordable Care Act.
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow clobbered Fox News for the second straight week, as Maddow drew 756,000 younger viewers to Fox News’s 604,000 viewers age 25-54.
Chris Hayden of the Center for American progress sent out a list of what looks to be possible collusion points between the Trump campaign and the Russian government after the FBI Director James Comey said they were investigating whether there was any coordination between the campaign and Russia.
The ranking member of the Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff (D-CA) debunked two massive lies in the Trump administration’s pushback on James Comey’s testimony during an interview on CNN.
The big winners at the House Intelligence Committee hearing on Russia were Democrats, who were on the offensive, while Republicans were left to deflect and offer a non-defense of Trump.
Pundits and strategists who keep blaming Hillary Clinton for losing while ignoring the impact of Russian interference display a willful blindness that can only be accounted for by a particularly strong emotional bias teetering on hysteria.
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said Monday that President Trump won’t apologize to President Obama for his false wiretapping claim, even though FBI Director James Comey testified today that it never happened.
Republican strategist and MSNBC contributor Nicolle Wallace said that people outside of the administration who have spent time with Trump said that the president is showing signs of paranoia and delusion over his belief that Obama wiretapped him.
Robby Mook, Hillary Clinton’s former campaign manager, called for members of the Trump campaign to be prosecuted for treason if they conspired with Russia to help Trump win the election.
Director James Comey just confirmed for the first time during a House intelligence committee hearing on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election that the FBI is investigating Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, as well as possible coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia.
FBI Director James Comey destroyed President Trump’s claim that Obama wiretapped him by saying that the FBI has no evidence that Obama wiretapped him, and that presidents can’t order surveillance, which raises the question, was Trump’s lie an impeachable offense?
The top-ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) began by asking the question that must be answered. Was Trump’s collusion with Russia a coincidence?
“Hey buddy, that song you love was written by my uncle. He’s been married to my other uncle for 40 years. And he’s a Jew.”
“Just heard Fake News CNN is doing polls again despite the fact that their election polls were a WAY OFF disaster. Much higher ratings at Fox”
“James Clapper and others stated that there is no evidence Potus colluded with Russia. This story is FAKE NEWS and everyone knows it!”
“I don’t think there is any but one there [at the White House] that is under any type of investigation or surveillance activities at all.â€
In what turns out to be yet another blatant Trump lie, when he promised to take decisive action to reduce the rising cost of medicine, and stop pharmaceutical corporations from “getting away with murder†with exorbitant and ever-rising drug prices, he didn’t get approval from the big pharmaceutical companies.Â
Donald Trump has set a record that disapproval rating that has never been reached before in the history of polling as his disapproval rating has reached 58% two months into his time in office.
President Trump is being sued for lying to the public by hiding his personal debts in violation of government rules on his personal disclosure form.
During an interview on Fox News, Eric Trump sounded completely terrified and more than a little worried that his father’s tax returns would be leaked.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said on Meet The Press that he believes that Donald Trump lies or tells half truths as his way of doing business. A president who has no credibility is a president who can easily find themselves facing impeachment.
Fox News Sunday panelist Neera Tanden, the head of the Center For American Progress, went there by calling out Fox News’s lies about Obamacare collapsing as being fake news.
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer accused MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow of committing a crime, as the Trump administration is smearing the MSNBC host for reporting on the president’s tax returns.
When pressed during an interview on ABC’s This Week, Trump HHS Secretary Tom Price admitted that Obamacare (ACA) helps people, which is the opposite of the Republican argument that Obamacare is a collapsing disaster.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) made a colossal mistake while trying to defend Trump on the Russia scandal that could cost Republicans the House in 2018.
An administration that cared about taxpayer dollars would not maliciously cut from the smallest areas of discretionary spending and call it compassionate.
Bands with diaspora from the seven Muslim-majority countries on U.S. President Donald Trump’s original travel ban took to the stage in Austin to build resistance against executive orders critics see as perpetuating bigotry.
The recent uprisings at Republican town halls are demonstrating the power of the people to withstand and turn back the assault on democracy
The U.S. Justice Department is developing plans to temporarily reassign immigration judges from around the country to 12 cities to speed up deportations of illegal immigrants who have been charged with crimes, according to two administration officials.
Allegations from the United States that British spy agency GCHQ snooped on Donald Trump during his election campaign are “arrant nonsense”, the deputy head of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) said in an interview on Saturday.
The lie about British spying came to Sean Spicer from Andrew Napolitano, who got it from Russia via former CIA analyst Larry C. Johnson
“Glad you think it was great, @POTUS. Would have been greater if you didn’t treat NATO like protection racket, or allies like deadbeats”
Trump promised during the presidential campaign that he would “take out the families†of suspected terrorists. At least 56 and possibly as many as 70†innocent civilian worshippers perished during prayers.
Donald Trump was schooled by a former NATO ambassador after he humiliated himself by showing that he doesn’t know how NATO works.
A massive protest is being planned against Donald Trump as at least 340,000 will walk off the job and strike around the country on May 1.