MSNBC’s rating surge is being powered by a surge in new cable news viewers as the Trump presidency has gotten more opponents involved and engaged which is bad news for the President and his party.
Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) is leading the effort to stop Trump from abandoning an Obama era rule that allowed residents of nursing homes to sue facilities when they were abused.
A company linked to U.S. President Donald Trump has been granted approval from the Chinese territory of Macau for additional trademarks, including casino services, to develop the “Trump” brand in the world’s biggest gambling center.
As poll show softening support for Trump among Republicans, the President used rallies of handpicked supporters to claim that his base is getting stronger, which illustrates how Trump is hallucinating a presidency that doesn’t exist.
Trump tried to bully Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) with one of angry personal attack tweets on the Russia scandal, but the Democrat shot back the six words that terrify Trump, “No one is above the law.”
How was Donald Trump allowed to enter the White House as leader of the most influential nation on the planet? By electing Trump as President of the United States, we as citizens may have done irreparable damage to America. Mr. Trump has not only stoked the flames of ignorance; he has undeniably revealed our democratic system to be flawed and in need of an ideological reconstruction.
In a telling moment on ABC’s This Week, White House adviser Kellyanne Conway tried to change the subject when she was asked if Trump would commit to not firing the Special Counsel leading the Russia investigation, Robert Mueller.
Trump claimed that he is not on vacation, but is working at his New Jersey golf club, but a picture and video show a president who is hanging out, playing golf, and riding around in his golf cart. Trump tweeted: Working in Bedminster, N.J., as long planned construction is being done at the White House….
Trump’s Deputy Attorney General is refusing to rule out throwing reporters in jail to get them to divulge their sources.
Trump has been threatening to withhold payments for ACA subsidies from insurance companies, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is signaling a move towards a bipartisan health care bill.
The New York Times caught Vice President Mike Pence running a shadow 2020 campaign in case Trump goes down for the Russia scandal, and the VP’s response to getting caught was a flip out that only confirmed his 2020 intentions.
House Intelligence Committee ranking member Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said that Donald Trump Jr’s emails were just the beginning, and Special Counsel Robert Mueller impaneled the grand jury because the investigation is heating up, not winding down.
When ABC’s George Stephanopoulos called out the Trump White House for lying about the Russia scandal, even perpetual Trump lie machine Kellyanne Conway broke down and began to make no sense while stumbling over her words and talking about Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Benghazi.
In what can only be described as a stunning assault on our nation’s founding principles and some of our most hopeful and aspirational values, Senators Tom Cotton (R-AK) and David Perdue (R-GA) introduced a bill that would make drastic cuts to family-based immigration as well as transform the employment-based system.
Rescue teams were searching for three U.S. Marines missing after their aircraft crashed into the sea off Australia’s east coast on Saturday, the U.S. Marine Corps said.
“Those experts broadly agreed that immigration improves the economy for the native population, even on the per-person level.”
“It’s like a guy built a house and sold it to someone, and that person walked in and turned the lights on is like, ‘Look at the house I built.'”
“I suggest they put one in the press podium right there. The place would light up like a disco.”
The Trump is good at doing one thing. They are setting the bar lower so that failures like Trump creating fewer jobs this year than Obama created last year are viewed as a great success.
Trump is so uninvolved unless he is trying to shut down the Russia investigation, that people close to him are wondering if he sees the statements from the White House put out under his name.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions wants to attack the legal marijuana industry, but the AG’s own task force has shot him down.
Kellyanne Conway tried to attack the grand jury that is looking into the Trump/Russia scandal and humiliated herself by not knowing that grand juries aren’t secret.
Three military helicopters hovered over Anne Choi’s backyard, engaged in what appeared to be a drill ahead of President Donald Trump’s visit three weeks ago to this tranquil town of farmland and horse barns in rural New Jersey.
The Kremlin said on Friday it fully agreed with U.S. President Donald Trump who said in a Twitter message that Washington’s “relationship with Russia is at an all-time and very dangerous low”.
A five-week summer break might sound sweet to many people, but maybe not to the 292 Republicans in Congress who leave Washington with none of their major legislative goals achieved after six months in power alongside President Donald Trump.
The Interior Department’s inspector general said it would investigate a reported threat by the agency’s head, Ryan Zinke, against Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski’s state of Alaska last week over her opposition to her party’s efforts to repeal Obamacare.
More than fifty House Democrats are calling on Defense Secretary James Mattis, and General Joseph F. Dunford, Jr., Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to not comply with Trump’s call for a transgender military ban.
The reaction to the leak of transcripts of Donald Trump’s phone conversations has been laughter from diplomats around the world.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that he would issue subpoenas for journalists to get them to give up their sources for White House leaks.
Democratic Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Sherrod Brown (D-OH) have introduced legislation that would allow people age 55-64 to buy into Medicare. This modified public option would give an additional 41 million Americans access to Medicare.
The July jobs report is in line with the monthly average, a little higher than the same time last year, and reveals Trump is failing to amp up jobs but is maintaining the trend of the past seven years.
It was a nice photo-op for the West Virginia governor, but there seems to be more to the story than a simple change of heart.
The Democratic push to protect veterans and non-violent, undocumented immigrants comes as the president puts forward some of the most anti-immigrant policies the country has ever seen.
The president lashed out like a tired third grader during a campaign rally in West Virginia as the investigation into his ties to Russia continues to escalate.
Just today, Gallup clocked Trump’s approval rating at a dismal 36 percent.
Rep. Dwight Evans (D-PA) has introduced legislation that would force Trump to convert his businesses to cash and buy Treasury bonds to avoid any conflicts of interest.
Grand jury subpoenas have been issued in connection with the June 2016 meeting between Donald Trump Jr., a Russian lawyer and others, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is following the money, and where it is leading him is to a potential prosecution of Trump for financial crimes with Russia.
The investigation into potential crimes committed by the President and campaign has expanded as a grand jury has been impaneled in Washington, D.C. as part of the Russia investigation.
The 100 Democratic women who packed into a suburban Maryland conference room recently for a one-day training on how to run for political office were more than activists eager to battle President Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans.
Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) have introduced new legislation that would put a check on Trump’s ability to fire the special counsel investigating the Russia scandal, Robert Mueller.
Donald Trump is continuing to collude with Russia by repeating the talking of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev as he attacked the US Congress.
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. cities that refuse to step up efforts to focus on crimes committed by undocumented immigrants will not be allowed to participate in a new crime reduction training program unveiled earlier this year by the Justice Department, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said on Thursday. In making the announcement,…
Beneath all of the astonishing details in the leaked transcripts of Trump’s phone calls, there is a much larger point. Someone inside the White House was so concerned about these phone calls that they leaked them to inform the public.
Trump attacked the state of New Hampshire by calling it a drug invested den, and both Republicans and Democrats are fighting back.
Transcripts of Trump’s phone calls with Mexican President Peña Nieto reveal a liar who knew that Mexico would never pay for the wall but begged them to stop telling the press that they wouldn’t pay because it was damaging him politically.
The President Of The United States came to the defense of Russia this morning while attacking the US Congress for painting him into a corner and forcing him to sign Russia sanctions legislation.
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday allowed Democratic state attorneys general to defend subsidy payments to insurance companies under the Obamacare healthcare law, a critical part of funding for the statute that President Donald Trump has threatened to cut off. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of…
Once again, the realities of governing a country and making sound policy have collided with the empty and ill-informed rhetoric Trump spewed on the campaign trail.
Donald Trump spent the entire campaign playing the tough guy card, but after six months in the White House, there is not a soul on the planet who takes him seriously.
“There’s a likelihood that there will be a confrontation. And if there’s a confrontation and if there’s a threat to fire Bob Mueller, there will be a firestorm of opposition on both sides of the aisle here in Congress.”
It is finally happening. Strong support for Donald Trump is sinking among Republicans, as only 53% of the voters in his own party strongly support the President.
President Donald Trump has reached a dangerous level of incoherence as he wants to fire the top US commander in Afghanistan and base the nation’s war strategy on a fancy New York restaurant.
Fifty-six retired U.S. generals, admirals and other senior officers voiced opposition on Tuesday to President Donald Trump’s announcement of a ban on transgender military service, saying it would be disruptive and degrade readiness.
Things went way off the rails as the Trump White House trotted out Stephen Miller to push for the xenophobic RAISE Act that Trump endorsed today. When asked by a reporter for proof of some his claims on the impact of immigration on low wage labor, Miller blew up, called the proposal common sense, and offered zero proof.
Donald Trump used a presidential signing statement on the Russia sanctions legislation to whine at Congress for not repealing Obamacare and to brag about his personal wealth.
In a Quinnipiac University Poll that is loaded with bad news for Trump, the worst news is that Trump has gone from failed president to national embarrassment.
The Boy Scouts deny that anyone from their organization called Donald Trump and praised his speech at their national jamboree that the organization later publicly apologized for.
U.S. President Donald Trump grudgingly signed into law on Wednesday new sanctions against Russia that Congress had approved overwhelmingly last week, criticizing the legislation as having “clearly unconstitutional” elements.
A gap in U.S. sanctions allows Western companies to help Russia develop some of its most technically challenging oil reserves, and risks undermining the broad aim of the measures, a Reuters investigation has found.
Other presidents would have made sure to sign the Russia sanctions bill in front of the media to send a clear message that Russian election would not be tolerated, but Trump chose to sign the bill with no formal announcement or media present to keep the whole thing quiet.
A new Morning Consult/Politico poll shows that the American people have soured on the Republican led government after the party’s efforts to repeal Obamacare, as Democrats hold a seven point lead on the generic congressional ballot.
In the latest demonstration that Russia controls Trump, Sec. of State Rex Tillerson is refusing to spend $80 million to counter Russian propaganda.
Trump is still trying to get Obamacare repealed, but there’s just one problem. Senate Republicans have moved on, and are ignoring the President.
In 2013, then President Obama wrote a beautiful essay about Lincoln, the White House, and the Gettysburg Address. Reading Obama’s words today reminds everyone that the same piece of living history that previous presidents were in awe of is the same place that classless Trump called a dump.
Eight U.S. Senate Democrats questioned on Tuesday whether they could trust President Donald Trump’s nominee for the top job at the U.S. Export-Import Bank to support renewing the trade lender’s charter in 2019 and to believe in its mission.
The Trump administration is going to take money that was supposed to be used by the Justice Department’s civil rights division and spend on investigating colleges and universities for discriminating against white people.
Lawyers are seeking the testimony of President Donald Trump and former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer related to their potential collusion with Fox News on a fake story about murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich.
A leaked transcript of the full Wall Street Journal interview with Donald Trump reveals that when the President was asked about pardons for the Russia scandal, he dodged the question and babbled about Jared Kushner.
While speaking to some members at his Bedminster golf club, Trump explained that he golfs at his own properties so much because the White House is a dump. According to a golf.com profile of Trump: Chatting with some members before a recent round of golf, he explained his frequent appearances: “That White House is a…
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) has introduced landmark legislation that would remove Marijuana from the list of federally controlled substances.
Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein (CA), the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee warned Trump that if he fires Jeff Sessions, it will be the beginning of the end of a short presidency.
Fox News is denying colluding with Trump on a fake news story to distract from the Russia scandal.
The top Democrat in the US Senate is urging Donald Trump to get off of his backside and apply more economic pressure to China as the North Korea crisis accelerates.
Donald Trump was personally supervising the White House effort to bury the Russia scandal by creating fake news that blamed murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich for the 2016 election hacks.
A new federal lawsuit alleges that the Trump administration reviewed a fake Fox News story about murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich.
