The mayor of Puerto Rico’s hurricane-battered capital spoke on Friday of thirsty children drinking from creeks. A woman with diabetes said a lack of refrigeration had spoiled her insulin. An insurance adjuster said roads have virtually vanished on parts of the island.
Dozens of people were arrested on Saturday as neo-Nazis and anti-fascists clashed with police during a march by the extreme right-wing Nordic Resistance Movement (NMR) in Gothenburg, Sweden on Saturday, police said.
The President of the United States is not befitting of his position, as he has been proven to be an instrument of historical incompetence and divisiveness. America has been thrust into civil unrest and political upheaval, that hasn’t been witnessed in decades. The only saving grace for the future advancement of the world’s most celebrated democracy is us…We The People.
The following is a partial list of officials who have been fired or have left the administration since Trump took office on Jan. 20, as well as people who were nominated by Trump for a position, but did not take the job.
Russia probe Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating Mike Flynn’s possible violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), violations of which have a maximum sentence of five years in prison.
Few people in Puerto Rico have suffered more from the devastation of Hurricane Maria than the elderly and the infirm.
Saturday, President Trump conflated criticism of him with criticism of our soldiers and first responders.
Soon after President Trump was sworn into office on January 20, the NSA warned Jared Kushner not to use a personal email address for government business because it would leave him vulnerable to hacking by the Russians and others. So then he proceeded to use a personal email address for government business.
While Trump was tweeting and obsessing over the NFL, he didn’t receive a briefing on Puerto Rico from anyone involved in disaster relief for four days.
Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory of 3.4 million people, struggled through a tenth day with virtually no electricity, patchy communications and shortages of fuel, clean water and other essentials in the wake of Hurricane Maria, the most powerful storm to hit the island in nearly 90 years.
Donald Trump’s slow response was bad and will likely cost lives when all is said and done. His recent behavior will only make things worse.
The aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico hasn’t just left the island in tatters, but – like Hurricane Katrina did to George W. Bush’s presidency – it has left the Trump administration in tatters, too.
“Today our President will sit in his opulent golf resort attacking hurricane first responders,” Murphy tweeted.
Instead of attacking the San Juan mayor as she works tirelessly to save lives in Puerto Rico, Donald Trump should be taking notes from her about how to lead in a crisis.Â
After being embarrassed and shamed for his deliberately lagging response to help Puerto Rico, President Trump let his racist flag fly high, attacking Puerto Ricans as people who are lazy and “want everything to be done for them.”
The president’s lack of concern, knowledge and interest in helping Puerto-Rican Americans is telling in more ways than one.
Trump falsely accused CNN and NBC, which includes MSNBC, of attacking first responders because they are telling the truth about his weak Puerto Rico response.
When Julia Louis-Dreyfus announced via Twitter that she has breast cancer, she showed Trump how leadership tweeting is done. At any other time in our political history, the very idea of saying a person playing a president or vice president on television is more presidential than the real thing would be absurd.
The Trump White House cynically threw Tom Price under the bus during a Friday news dump while ignoring the loads of White House officials who were also abusing taxpayer-funded travel including Trump himself.
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price resigned under pressure from President Donald Trump on Friday in an uproar over Price’s use of private charter planes for government business.
President Trump spoke to reporters Friday from the White House in Washington before he departed for Bedminster, New Jersey where he is expected to head to his Trump National Golf Club, telling them that Puerto Rico is going really well.
President Donald Trump said he would decide probably later on Friday whether to keep Tom Price in the job as Health and Human Services Secretary, expressing disappointment in Price’s use of expensive private charter flights for government business.
The U.S. National Security Agency would need to begin winding down what it considers its most valuable intelligence program before its expiration at year-end if the U.S. Congress leaves its reauthorization in limbo, the agency’s deputy director said on Friday.
Less than two weeks after Trump’s Veterans’ Affairs Chief signed a memo instructing VA staff to cut down on nonessential travel, he took a 10 day taxpayer funded trip with his entourage to Europe that included a River Cruise and visiting palaces, the Washington Post reports.
Trouble could be brewing for Republicans in deep red Alabama as the first poll after the Republican Senate primary runoff finds Democratic candidate Doug Jones trailing Republican Roy Moore 50.2%-44.5%.
It’s no wonder Russia was so successful. There is great power in appealing to people’s feelings that their government isn’t listening to them, that they are disempowered. A great example of just one way this was done (and is done) was shared today by former FBI Special Agent of the Counterintelligence Division and now CNN analyst and Editor at Just Security, Asha Rangappa.
President Trump tried to defend his botched response to the disaster in Puerto Rico by explaining to America what an island is.
Tennessee Titans TE Delanie Walker wrote that he had received death threats towards himself and his family over his decision to take part in the national anthem protest.
The U.S. Justice Department and the FBI are resisting demands from a Republican lawmaker to hand over documents about a former British spy’s dossier on purported Russian support for Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign, because the FBI has its own open criminal investigation, officials said.
In a tweet, Shaun King shared a chilling announcement from a public high school principle in Louisiana. It’s the first indication that Trump’s attack on the first amendment is taking root. And it has begun. High schools are now following Trump’s order. Will kick off any players who don’t stand during the National Anthem. pic.twitter.com/lfNWyW7z5f…
Red states Florida and Texas got all the resources they needed after hurricanes hit them, but Trump is suggesting that decisions have to be made when it comes to the cost of rebuilding Puerto Rico.
San Juan’s mayor responded to the Trump administration’s claim that Puerto Rico is a good news story regarding needed aid reaching the island by saying, “Dammit, this is not a good news story. This is a life or death story.”
The newly launched White House inquiry into private email use is particularly stunning for this administration given how strongly Donald Trump and his team spoke out against the non-scandal surrounding Hillary Clinton’s email use as secretary of state.
Once again, the self-centered President of the United States cannot help but make every domestic and international incident about him and how wonderful and/or victimized he is.
Apple Inc has received more than four times as many national-security related requests from the U.S. government in the first half of this year versus a year ago, according to a company report on Thursday.
With the new reporting on Thursday, Price’s travel troubles got much worse. His days squandering taxpayer dollars for personal comfort are likely numbered.
Twitter said on Thursday it had suspended about 200 Russian-linked accounts as it probes online efforts to meddle with the 2016 U.S. election, but an influential Democratic senator slammed its steps as insufficient.
Disgraced ex-Fox News star Bill O’Reilly may have spent a career trying to take down people like Hillary Clinton, but this week the 2016 popular vote winner had the last laugh.
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, who helped usher in the 1960s sexual revolution with his groundbreaking men’s magazine and built a business empire around his libertine lifestyle, died on Wednesday at the age of 91, Playboy Enterprises said.
The right-wing extremist could face tens of thousands of dollars in fines – or even criminal prosecution.
A new poll shows former vice president Joe Biden would easily beat Trump in a 2020 presidential election matchup.
A campaign official for Sen. Luther Strange said that the Senator was closing the gap in the polls until Trump showed up in Alabama and started fighting with the NFL.
After he got busted wasting hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on private jets, HHS Secretary Tom Price announced that he would be paying the money back.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders crumbled as she tried to dance around Trump’s false claim that the Senate has the votes to replace Obamacare.
There’s something very wrong with Ryan weighing in on this and using his power in government to try to silence free speech. Qualifying that with acknowledging their right doesn’t mitigate from the chilling of free speech of such a powerful person in government shaming the players’ criticism of government.
According to a new PPP Poll, Trump’s strategy of attacking the media is backfiring, as all the media outlets polled, even ESPN are more trusted than the President.
President Trump promised that the elimination of the estate tax would protect millions of small businesses and farmers, but this claim got a Pants on Fire from PolitiFact.
Media quickly picked up on the fact that Republican rhetoric that their tax plan is good for middle class working families is belied by the actual policy. In the doing just hours after their latest Obamacare disaster, they are cementing in the media’s mind the idea that their rhetoric does not match the policy at all.
Donald Trump’s attempts to sabotage Obamacare are about to be dealt a fatal blow as the Senate is on the verge of announcing a bipartisan deal to stabilize the insurance markets.
President Donald Trump said on Fox News’s Fox & Friends that (note: mostly white) owners of National Football League teams are afraid of their (note: mostly black) players.
Claiming that he is friends with many NFL owners, Trump said, “They say, ‘we are in a situation where we have to do something.’ I think they’re afraid of their players, you want to know the truth. And I think it’s disgraceful.”
High-income Wall Street financiers could be unintended winners from a section of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tax-cut plan that is meant to help mostly small, “mom-and-pop” businesses.
Trump economic adviser Gary Cohn gave an unmitigated disaster of an interview where he refused to rule out that taxes are going to be raised on the middle class.
The latest Quinnipiac University poll found that a majority of Americans believe that Trump is embarrassing and unfit to be president.
Trump did an interview on Fox and Friends where he was allowed to blatantly lie about why Obamacare repeal has failed to pass, as the network did what any propaganda outlet does by disregarding the truth.
Hoping to lure Russian trolls into an online trap, Rachel Maddow announced that she is setting up a fake secession movement.
With Moore’s victory on Tuesday, it’s clear that the Republican Party is lurching even further to the right and embracing the most extreme elements in our politics.
By Robin Respaut and Scott DiSavino SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico/NEW YORK (Reuters) – As Puerto Rico struggles with a lack of fuel, water and medical supplies following the devastation of Hurricane Maria, it is pressing the Trump administration to lift a prohibition on foreign ships delivering supplies from the U.S. mainland. The island’s governor is…
This administration is not draining the swamp, as Trump repeatedly promised to do during the campaign. They are deep sea diving in it.
The new Trump tax plan is nothing but a massive handout to the wealthiest corporations and individuals – himself included.Â
Veterans are hammering Donald Trump for showing disrespect to all veterans by physically mocking war hero Sen. John McCain (R-AZ).
Trump threatened to campaign against Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-IN) if he voted against the Republican tax plan that would provide a massive tax cut to Trump, his family, and his business. Video: Pres. Trump: If Sen. Donnelly doesn’t support tax plan, “we will come here, we will campaign against him like you wouldn’t believe.” pic.twitter.com/S8uwKvxoUL…
During a speech that was supposed to be about tax reform, Trump claimed to have the votes to pass Graham-Cassidy. Trump made it up. He doesn’t have the votes to pass Graham-Cassidy.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions supposedly recused himself, but that didn’t stop him from using a radio interview to interfere in the Russia investigation.
Republicans and Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have launched an investigation into HHS Secretary Tom Price’s use of private jets at taxpayer expense.
Republicans continue to deny that the Russians impacted the U.S. election for Donald Trump, and the President himself calls the notion a hoax and claims Facebook had it out for him. They are, however, quite quick on the draw to use the Russia investigation to go after anti-fracking ads.
Trump tried to claim to reporters that Senate Republicans have the votes to pass Obamacare repeal, but they can’t because a Senator is in the hospital, which is a lie.
House Science and Technology Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, a Texas Republican and climate change denier, asked the CEOs of the technology companies to turn over documents by Oct. 10 that detail the involvement of Russian-based or funded entities detected on their platforms, information on ads they purchased, and any communications concerning ads advocating for “so-called green initiatives.”
Trump insisted to reporters on Tuesday that he was not preoccupied with the NFL controversy and that he could multi-task. He said he would visit Puerto Rico on Tuesday.
“I have plenty of time on my hands. All I do is work,” he said.
Former First Lady Michelle Obama told the audience at the INBOUND conference that any woman who voted against Hillary Clinton voted against their own voice.
Trump is being described as isolated, friendless, and at war with everyone around him. The President also spends his days mocking Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Sen. John McCain.
The Sept. 25-26 poll found that 57 percent of adults do not think the National Football League should fire players who kneel. This included 61 percent of NFL fans who watch at least a few games per season.
Republicans will say that the tax cuts, widely leaked to the media by a variety of sources in recent days, would be offset by new revenues raised from eliminating tax loopholes, although few if any of those are expected to be named in the plan.
President Trump expressed a happy expected win on the GOP health care bill after Friday, only to learn after that tweet what everyone else already knew, and that is that the parliamentary rules that would have allowed Republicans to ram their horrific bill through expire on Friday.
The DHS is ready to put digital Star of David armbands on every immigrant, and every naturalized American, according to Buzzfeed.
Trump told Roy Moore to win the Alabama Senate special general election in November, but the election isn’t until December.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) isn’t intimidated by Trump and his associates’ personal attacks on him. In fact, Schiff called the attacks a badge of honor.
Trump campaign for Luther Strange, held rallies, did local interviews and robocalls. None of it matters as a day of humiliation for this president ends with the rejection of the candidate that he endorsed by his own party.
The widow of former NFL player and U.S. Army serviceman Pat Tillman told CNN in a statement that she doesn’t wish for the memory of her husband to be politicized.
“As a football player and soldier, Pat inspired countless Americans to unify,” Marie Tillman told CNN. “It is my hope that his memory should always remind people that we must come together. Pat’s service, along with that of every man and woman’s service, should never be politicized in a way that divides us. We are too great of a country for that.”
Poor Mike Pence. Trump’s tantrums over the repeated failed efforts to pass increasingly barbaric versions of Trumpcare, must be getting on his nerves.
Republicans are going to unveil the details of a massive tax cut for the wealthy and corporations, but they aren’t going to disclose how they will pay for it, because it will take major cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and education programs to cover the cost.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating three donations from Americans with ties to Russia to Trump political funds that total $2 million.
The Senators behind Graham-Cassidy issued a statement warning that it is not a matter if their deadly legislation replaces Obamacare, but when it will replace Obamacare.
The acting head of the Drug Enforcement Agency has resigned over concerns that President Donald Trump does not respect the law.
Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) has announced that he will not be seeking re-election in 2018. Corker said in a statement, “After much thought, consideration and family discussion over the past year, Elizabeth and I have decided that I will leave the United States Senate when my term expires at the end of 2018. When I…
Politico reported on Tuesday that an indictment is “virtually certain†against Mike Flynn, too.
At one point during a joint press conference at the White House, Donald Trump, who takes nearly every weekend off, complained about how all he ever does is work as president.
Senate Republicans didn’t have the votes so they have announced that the vote on Graham-Cassidy scheduled for Wednesday has been canceled.
Roger Stone told the media Tuesday after testifying in a closed hearing on the Trump Russia probe of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee that he “expressed my view” that he is “aware of no evidence whatsoever of collusion by the Russian state or the Trump campaign or anyone associated with Donald Trump.”
Rachel Maddow’s tireless coverage of the Russia scandal has made her MSNBC program #1 in total viewers, viewers age 25-54, and is the first MSNBC show ever to lead the rating for an entire quarter in total viewers.
In newspaper editorials around the country, Graham-Cassidy is viewed as a bad piece of political spite, the worst bill yet, and Republicans are seen as rushing this stinker through an undemocratic process for a political win.
By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Mitch McConnell, the U.S. Senate’s top Republican, clung to slim hopes on Tuesday that his party could still dismantle Obamacare, despite not having adequate support for a repeal bill. Facing the possibility of another failure to make good on their 7-year-old pledge to roll back the healthcare law, McConnell…
The President Of The United States revealed on Tuesday that his administration is struggling to get assistance to Puerto Rico because Trump thinks that the island is located in the Carribean Sea.
Jared Kushner’s lawyer was fooled by a prankster pretending to be Kushner into providing insight into how his attorneys are handling the email scandal.
Republicans are coming out against Trump’s tax plan, as the party of low taxes is looking increasingly unlikely to pass a tax cut.
The White House refused to answer when asked if Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump leaked classified information by using private email.
Either the entire anti-Hillary Clinton email crusade was a complete sham meant to rile up right-wing voters, or the country should be marching toward the White House at this hour chanting, “Lock them up!”Â
“Every major health organization in this country … thinks that their proposal is a disaster,” Sanders said, standing right next to Sens. Graham and Cassidy.
The entire Dallas Cowboys team – as well as owner Jerry Jones –
knelt in solidarity on Monday, a clear rebuke of Trump’s recent rhetoric.
“He clearly doesn’t want to talk about Puerto Rico – more than 3.5 million American citizens, along with the U.S. Virgin Islands. Not interested, doesn’t say a word about it.”
Trump’s tough talk is fooling no one, especially not the North Koreans, and Americans are feeling less safe as a result.
