Category: Republican Party

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Sen. Richard Blumenthal Explains Why Kavanaugh’s Nomination Should Already Be Dead

Despite the fact that Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination should be dead on the Senate floor, Republicans continue to push ahead.

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GOP Officially Goes Insane And Calls Kavanaugh Allegations A George Soros Conspiracy

Whenever it looks like Donald Trump and the Republican Party can’t possibly go any lower, they grab shovels and start digging.

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Choir Boy Kavanaugh Caught In Another Lie As His Name Surfaces In Bar Fight Police Report

The flurry of new reporting on Monday isn’t only consistent with those claims, but it proves he lied repeatedly under oath.

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Everything About Kavanaugh’s Testimony Is Consistent With The Allegations Against Him

When the nation was given a chance to hear from the judge on Thursday, he did nothing to shake the recent characterizations of him. He only confirmed them.

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Shameful GOP Appears To Be Moving Forward With Kavanaugh As Bob Corker Is A Yes Vote

Bob Corker’s decision to vote in favor of this Brett Kavanaugh will forever taint his legacy as he prepares to leave office.

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Sen. Kamala Harris Gets Kavanaugh To Admit He Didn’t Bother To Watch Dr. Ford’s Testimony

Kavanaugh tried to clean up his dismissal of her testimony by promising to watch it at a later time. Like much of what he said, that’s hard to believe.

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Judiciary Committee Democrat Blasts Republicans For Destroying The Integrity Of The Supreme Court

No matter what happens going forward, the Republican Party has already damaged the reputation of the nation’s highest court.

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Bombshell Fourth Allegation: Drunk Kavanaugh ‘Aggressively And Sexually’ Assaulted Woman At Bar

The new allegations – which took place far more recently than the first three – are bad enough. Worse is that Republicans appear to be blowing them off.

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Susan Collins Calls On Senate Committee To Interview Second Kavanaugh Accuser Under Oath

Maine GOP Sen. Susan Collins – a pivotal vote for any Supreme Court nominee – called on the Senate Judiciary Committee to reach out to Deborah Ramirez.

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GOP Press Aide For Kavanaugh Nomination Resigns After Being Accused Of Sexual Harassment

Not only is Brett Kavanaugh the most unpopular SCOTUS nominee in history, but he has already tainted the court without even serving on it.

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Rachel Maddow Just Exposed Chuck Grassley For Running A Sham Investigation Into Kavanaugh

Republicans don’t have any interest in getting to the bottom of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s credible allegations against Brett Kavanaugh because they know it could cost them a Supreme Court seat.

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Sen. Blumenthal Tears Into Republicans For Encouraging Stigma Of Sexual Assault Victims

Sen. Richard Blumenthal blasted Republicans for their treatment of Kavanaugh’s accuser, who now says she is willing to testify next week.

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GOP Disaster: RNC Internal Poll Shows America Believes Tax Bill Screwed The Middle Class

With their tax proposal off the table, Republicans have nothing to run on with less than two months until the midterm elections.

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Sen. Mazie Hirono Just Called BS On Chuck Grassley’s Fake Outreach To Christine Ford

Sen. Mazie Hirono had some pointed words for how Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley is handling the allegations against Brett Kavanaugh.

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Rachel Maddow Unloads On GOP Hypocrites For Blocking FBI Probe Into Kavanaugh Allegations

The MSNBC host exposed Republicans for their blatant hypocrisy in blocking an FBI investigation into the sexual assault claims Brett Kavanaugh.

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GOP Reeling As Key Red State Senator Plans To Vote ‘No’ On Kavanaugh

If Democrats up for re-election in deep red states are jumping ship on Kavanaugh, it’s clear where the political winds are headed.

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Accused Pedophile Roy Moore Crawls Out Of The Woodwork To Defend Alleged Rapist Brett Kavanaugh

Hearing Roy Moore’s hot take on this issue will only remind women, again, that the Trump era GOP is not a party that stands with them.

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Republican lawmaker charged with insider trading will seek reelection

(Reuters) – Republican U.S. Representative Chris Collins, who has been charged with taking part in an insider trading scheme, will stay on the ballot in November after reversing a decision to suspend his campaign, a New York Republican official said on Monday. Collins’ decision to seek a fourth two-year term could potentially boost Democrats‘ chances…

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Former GOP Chairman Warns That Brett Kanavaugh Chaos May Flip Senate To The Democrats

The fight for which party controls the U.S. Senate has escalated in recent weeks as polling shows a neck-and-neck race in a handful of states.

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Sorry, GOP, You Lost Your SCOTUS Whining Rights When You Hijacked Obama’s Court Pick

When the GOP took it upon itself to hijack the SCOTUS nomination process with nearly a year left in Barack Obama’s term, they lost their right to complain.

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Republicans reel as Trump’s high court nomination hangs in balance

Senate Republicans struggled on Monday to salvage President Donald Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court even as the judge and the woman who accused him of a 1982 sexual assault offered to testify publicly and Trump called the nomination “on track.”

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AM Joy Erupts On GOP Strategist For Defending Trump’s Disgusting Puerto Rico Lie

The non-condemnations Republicans have issued since Trump dropped this disgusting lie is just the latest demonstration of how far the GOP has fallen.

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Trump and GOP almost double the deficit from last year with $214 billion deficit in August

The U.S. government had a $214 billion budget deficit in August, almost double the amount for the same period last year as outlays swelled, according to Treasury Department data released on Thursday.

That compared to a budget deficit of $108 billion in the same month last year, the department’s monthly budget statement showed.

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‘Knock It Off!’: Outraged GOP Gov. John Kasich Trashes Republicans For Blindly Following Trump

Kasich added that he is proud of the fact that he, unlike many in the GOP, never sold out supported Trump’s dangerous agenda.

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Ex-Ted Cruz Strategist Bursts Into Laughter Over His Former Boss Begging Trump For Help

The closeness of the race between Ted Cruz and Beto O’Rourke is evidence of just how much damage Trump has done to the GOP brand

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Rep. DeSantis, Fla. governor candidate, resigning from Congress

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Representative Ron DeSantis, a Republican running for governor of Florida, has notified House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan that he is resigning from Congress, an aide to Ryan said on Monday. Ryan has received a letter from DeSantis notifying him of the resignation, the aide said. His reasons for resigning now…

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GOP Senator Admits Trump ‘Regularly’ Makes Him Want To Leave The Republican Party

If Republican officials want history to look back kindly on them, they need to do something substantive to stand up to an out-of-control president.

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Steve Schmidt Urges Republicans To Follow The Spirit Of John McCain, Not Donald Trump

Schmidt said the Republicans have a choice to make: Will they follow the roadmap laid out by John McCain, or will they continue to follow Trump?

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Rising Dem Star Andrew Gillum Takes Five-Point Lead In Florida Over Trump Clone Ron DeSantis

The Democratic Party looks like the future of America – inclusive, diverse and full of hope – and the GOP is a spitting image of Donald Trump.

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Trump-backed candidate’s ‘monkey’ comment draws fire in Florida race

By Letitia Stein TAMPA (Reuters) – Florida‘s marquee governor’s race heated up on Wednesday, when the Trump-backed Republican candidate said the state should not “monkey this up” by electing his opponent, Democrat Andrew Gillum, who is African-American, in November. U.S. Representative Ron DeSantis, a staunch supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump who won his party’s…

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Adam Schiff Drops One Damning Stat That Shows Republicans Are Covering For Trump’s Crimes

Democrats are expected to investigate more than 100 areas related to Trump’s corruption, including his tax returns, his family businesses and his dealings with Russia.

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GOP Senator Goes Full Trump And Blames John McCain For White House Disrespect

The GOP is more concerned about staying on the good side of a man-child president than they are about honoring the life of an American war hero.

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Petty Trump Is Refusing To Say John McCain’s Name Before He Dies

McCain may infuriate a president who demands blind loyalty, but history will look back kindly on the heroic service of the Arizona senator.

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Yes, Democrats, It’s Absolutely Time To Start Running On Impeachment

If the GOP wants to be the party that refuses to hold Trump accountable for his crimes, that’s their decision. But Democrats can and must do better.

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Ted Cruz On The Run As Beto-Mania Puts The Texas Senate Race Within The Margin Of Error

Given the enthusiasm of Democrats, actual voters turning out on Nov. 6 could trend bluer than a pool of registered voters.

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Jaws Drop As White Georgia Lawmaker Says He’s Fine With Trump Using N-Word

Georgia Rep. Michael Williams’ defense of a possible Trump N-word tape is just the latest demonstration of how far the Republican Party has jumped off the cliff.

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Virginia GOP Senate Candidate Admits It Wouldn’t Matter If Trump Is On Tape Saying The N-Word

Corey Stewart’s comments suggest that GOP candidates are already working on a blame-the-media pivot if the tape does exist.

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GOP Rep. Chris Collins Ends Re-Election Bid Days After Arrest – And He’s Blaming Nancy Pelosi

In a statement announcing he was suspending his re-election bid, Rep. Chris Collins lashed out at the Democratic Party and Nancy Pelosi.

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NRA Pours $1M Into Pro-Kavanaugh Ads While Being Investigated For Russian Money Laundering

The President and one of his most friendly lobbying groups are both accused of essentially working with a foreign adversary to influence the 2016 election.

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Arrest Of Trump Ally Chris Collins Could Take Down More Than A Half-Dozen Other Republicans

The arrest of Rep. Chris Collins put gasoline on the GOP dumpster fire – and it could get even worse in the weeks to come.

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Republican New York congressman Collins indicted for insider trading

NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors on Wednesday said Christopher Collins, a Republican congressman from upstate New York, has been indicted for insider trading related to a drug trial at an Australian biotechnology company on whose board he served. The indictment also charged Collins’ son Cameron, as well as Stephen Zarsky, the father of Cameron…

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Republican Panic Grows As Ohio Special Election Is A Less Than 1 Point Margin In District Trump Won By Double Digits

Trump and the Republican Party should be deeply concerned about the fact that they can’t even coast to victory in their own territory.

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Steve Kornacki Warns GOP That Unpopular Trump Could Cost Them An Easy Win In OH-12

With the Trump presidency falling deeper into chaos and scandal, parts of the country that used to be reliably red no longer are.

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Trump Russia: Manhattan Madam and Drug Dealer Kristin Davis Will Testify Before a Grand Jury

Today’s story involves a woman who ran a high-end prostitution ring in New York City, “Manhattan Madam” Kristin Davis, who was running as a Libertarian for New York City comptroller when she was arrested on drug charges, testifying before a grand jury this week in the Trump Russia probe.

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Trump Bear Hugs Jim Jordan And Touts His Wrestling Skills While Ignoring OSU Sex Abuse Scandal

To a known womanizer like Donald Trump, there is likely nobody he would respect than Jim Jordan, a man who looks the other way.

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Trump’s Mental Decline On Full Display As He Spends 15 Minutes Rambling About 2016 Election

Like a drunk man sitting alone at the end of a bar muttering nonsense, Trump tore into a slurring 15-minute ramble about his 2016 victory in Pennsylvania.

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U.S. senator Paul to meet Russian lawmakers in Moscow on Aug. 6: agencies

The Republican senator is due to lead a U.S. delegation to the Russian capital and to meet Russian members of parliament, Russian agencies cited a senior lawmaker as saying earlier on Thursday.

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Jaws Drop As Key Dem Calls Trump-Russia Conspiracy Worse Than Watergate

A foreign attack on American democracy was aided and abetted by the campaign of the current president. Um, yeah, that’s a bigger deal than Watergate.

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Rep. Jim Jordan Is Privately Pressuring Sex Abuse Witnesses To Take Back Their Allegations

Despite Republican Congressman Jim Jordan’s desperate lobbying efforts, the former wrestlers are sticking to their stories.

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Facebook has identified ongoing political influence campaign: NYT

Facebook Inc has identified a coordinated political influence campaign through dozens of inauthentic accounts on its platform ahead of November’s U.S. midterm election,

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Trump slams conservative Koch donor network as a ‘total joke’

President Donald Trump on Tuesday slammed the powerful Koch-led political donor network as “globalist” and “a total joke,” rejecting the conservative group amid signs of a growing public fissure between the president and business over trade and immigration.

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Trump Is About To Bypass Congress And Give A Massive $100 Billion Tax Cut To The Rich

I hate to break it to the mobs of low-income, MAGA-hat-wearing mobs that show up at Trump’s rambling political events, but Trump isn’t fighting for you.

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Citing Trump, some Republican women to vote Democratic in Ohio election

Becky von Zastrow often votes Republican in her affluent central Ohio suburb – but her dissatisfaction with U.S. President Donald Trump has convinced her to back the Democrat in a special-election test for both parties next month.

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No Way, No How: Why Jim Jordan Shouldn’t Even Be In Congress, Let Alone Speaker Of The House

Jim Jordan shouldn’t just be denied a chance to be second in line to the presidency; he should be forced to resign from Congress altogether.

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GOP Goes All In On Obstruction By Filing Impeachment Articles Against Rod Rosenstein

If Republicans are truly interested in filing articles of impeachment against someone, they should look toward 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

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Georgia Republican lawmaker who used racial slurs on prank show resigns

(Reuters) – A Georgia state lawmaker who yelled racial slurs and dropped his pants on a prank cable TV show after being told it would intimidate terrorists offered a terse resignation letter to the speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives late Tuesday. Fellow Republicans had called on state Representative Jason Spencer to resign after…

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Republicans might not even bother with passing new Russia sanctions before midterms

Unlike a year ago, when Congress worked with lightning speed on a sanctions law targeting Russia, North Korea and Iran, some lawmakers said on Tuesday the Senate and House of Representatives were carefully weighing their response to growing fears that Moscow is plotting to interfere in November’s congressional elections.

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Republicans Are Openly Begging Trump Not To Meet With Vladimir Putin Again

It’s safe to say that Republicans in Congress don’t want Donald Trump to star in a sequel to his disastrous meeting with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki.

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Adam Schiff Wipes The Floor With Devin Nunes For Repeatedly Lying To Protect Trump

At the end of the day, Devin Nunes is to Trump what Trump is to Russian president Vladimir Putin: an obedient lapdog.

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Republicans claim to be upbeat about November elections despite Trump-Putin uproar

Republicans at a conference in Texas this week had reason to feel downcast, even panicky as President Donald Trump’s meeting with Russia’s Vladimir Putin provoked broad outrage and revived talk of a Democratic wave in November’s congressional elections.

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Ari Melber Fights Back Laughter As GOP Rep Defends Trump’s Surrender To Russia

MSNBC host Ari Melber fought back laughter before quickly shutting down Republican Rep. Bill Johnson for defending Trump’s latest spin job.

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Alabama Republican who once spurned Trump appears headed for runoff win

Representative Martha Roby, an Alabama Republican who spurned Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential race, appeared headed for victory on Tuesday in a runoff election against a former Democrat-turned-Trump supporter.

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After Trump stands with Putin, House Republicans discuss further tax cuts

President Donald Trump and Republican U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday discussed another possible round of deficit-financed tax cuts, highlighting an initiative seen by some tax experts as an election-year effort with little chance of becoming law.

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Jury convicts ex-N.Y. Republican state senate leader of soliciting bribes

Former New York State Senate majority leader Dean Skelos was found guilty of soliciting bribes and other federal corruption charges by a jury on Tuesday, nearly a year after an appeals court threw out an earlier conviction.

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U.S. move to protect ‘dark money’ donors raises Russia concerns

A U.S. Treasury Department decision to safeguard the identities of so-called “dark money” donors to politically active nonprofit groups spawned warnings on Tuesday that the policy could inadvertently aid foreign actors, including Russia.

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Democrats And Republicans Finally Agree: Trump Is Firmly On Team Russia

There have been a lot of dark days for the U.S. since Trump took office. Monday was a particularly troubling one, and history will not soon forget it.

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No, GOP, You Don’t Get To Whine About Peter Strzok’s Affair While Defending Womanizer Trump

The Republican Party stooped to a whole new level of shame during Thursday’s clown show in the House of Representatives when they questioned FBI agent Peter Strzok. The most stunning development throughout the entire proceeding was how each GOP congressman attacked Strzok’s extramarital affair with former FBI attorney Lisa Page – and they did it…

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GOP Rep Exposed For Buying Multi-Million Dollar Yacht On Same Day He Voted To Cut His Own Taxes

Rep. Vern Buchanan isn’t an outlier in the modern GOP. He is just more brazen in his disregard for the middle-class Americans.

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Trump’s SCOTUS Pick Already In Peril As Two GOP Senators Will Skip WH Unveiling

Two GOP senators are poised to deliver Trump an epic defeat in his effort to push the Supreme Court in a dangerous direction.

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Trump’s tax cuts to give little lift to U.S. economy: Fed paper

Instead of the boost to GDP growth this year of about 1.3 percentage points estimated by the Congressional Budget Office and other forecasters, they wrote, “the true boost is more likely to be less than 1 percentage point,” with some studies pointing to as little as zero.

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Trump’s trade war splits a Missouri county into winners and losers

People don’t talk about trade tariffs in this stretch of the Mississippi River basin, where grains and metals have paid the bills for generations.

They skirt the subject at church fundraisers and sidestep it at Jerry’s Café and Quick Stop, where farmers and aluminum workers gossip about everything else.

Here, the winners and losers in U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war live side-by-side.

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Republicans need an even stronger U.S. economy to hold onto House

Every two years, a small league of political scientists and economists fire up computer models they’ve developed to predict who will win the U.S. congressional elections in November.

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Rachel Maddow Rips Apart Benghazi-Gate Leader Trey Gowdy For Whining About Mueller Probe Length

Trey Gowdy spent more than two years pushing Benghazi conspiracy theories and wasting taxpayer dollars on a phony investigation.

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Ari Melber Warns That Trump Will Use SCOTUS Pick To Unravel The Mueller Investigation

The president’s next Supreme Court pick could decide whether Trump will have to cooperate with Robert Mueller’s investigation.

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In age of Trump, evangelicals back self-styled top U.S. pimp

He styles himself as America’s best-known pimp, a strip-club owner who runs multiple brothels and looks set to win a seat as a Republican in the Nevada legislature with the blessing of many conservative Christian voters.

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Montel Williams Won’t Support Any Republican Who Won’t Stand Up to Trump’s ‘Amoral Sh*t Show’

Montel Williams has had it. The television personality wrote that he will not vote or give money to any Republican who doesn’t stand up to this “ammoral sh*t show” Donald Trump calls a presidency.

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At-risk Republicans separate themselves from Trump’s border policy

As images of youngsters in cages and an audiotape of wailing children affected by Trump’s “zero-tolerance” policy filled worldwide media, the overwhelming majority of Republicans in competitive districts in November’s elections issued statements and took to social media to try to tell voters that they did not condone removing children from their parents.

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Trump, U.S. Republicans to meet amid furor over immigrant children

President Donald Trump, facing intense criticism for the detention of children separated from their immigrant parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, planned to meet with Republican lawmakers on Tuesday before votes on immigration legislation.

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Trump Just Handed Dems The Midterms With New Immigration Plan That Goes Beyond Child Separation

Not only is Trump cementing himself as a morally bankrupt president who lacks even the most rudimentary sense of compassion, but he is bringing the entire Republican Party down with him.

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Republicans Are Fleeing Trump In Droves Over His Cruel And Illegal Immigration Crackdown

GOP members of Congress have finally found in an issue on which they’re willing to confront Donald Trump.

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Supreme Court rejects Republican bid to block Maryland electoral district

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rebuffed Republican voters in Maryland by refusing for now to block congressional district lines drawn by Democrats to maximize partisan advantage.

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Senate Republicans call for hearing on Pruitt scandals

Republican senators on Wednesday said embattled Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt should testify before the U.S. Congress to address the list of ethics scandals he faces, but stopped short of calling for his resignation.

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‘It’s Trump’s party now’ and U.S. Republicans could pay in November

While fealty to the Republican president may be a requirement to win low-turnout Republican primaries dominated by conservative activists, it could prove a tougher sell against energized anti-Trump Democratic forces in midterm elections this fall.

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Unpatriotic GOP Is ‘Flunking A Major Character Test’ By Supporting Dangerous, Immoral Trump

By publicly supporting Donald Trump, even though they privately know how damaging he is to the country, the Republican Party is failing an important moral test.

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Blue Wave Strengthens As Dems Nearly Double Midterm Lead In Fox Poll

Not even Fox News could hide the blue wave building on the horizon as the November elections inch closer.

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John Boehner Slams Republicans For ‘Taking A Nap’ As Trump Wreaks Havoc On America

When the history books document this era of American politics, they will not be kind to the throngs of GOP politicians who stood by as this reality TV president used the federal government as his play toy.

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Missouri governor offered to resign if charges dropped

Missouri Governor Eric Greitens, who resigned on Tuesday, had offered to leave office in exchange for dismissal of a felony computer tampering charge against him in a wider scandal, a prosecutor’s spokeswoman said on Wednesday.

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The Hypocrisy And Challenge To White Evangelicals

E. J. Dionne, columnist for the Washington Post and author of several works regarding political analysis, reports that the American Bishop, The Most Rev. Michael Curry, who “preached for the royal wedding last Saturday, isn’t finished with us yet.” According to Dionne: “This is a testing time for the country as a whole, but the…

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GOP Strategist Steve Schmidt Blasts Republicans Who Are Complicit In Trump Crimes

Republican strategist Steve Schmidt hammered serial liar Donald Trump and called members of own party’s complicit actions in Trump’s crimes a scandal that is not being talked about.

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New NFL Anthem Policy Is A Profile In Cowardice

The first amendment of our constitution is clear: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press; or the right of the people to peaceably assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” So what…

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Trump And GOP Roll Back Obama’s Bank Regulations, Pushing America Toward Another Economic Crisis

It’s no longer a question who Trump stands for. It’s the same wealthy interests to which all Republican administrations cater. The real question is: Will his supporters notice?

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Slurring And Rambling Trump Praises GOP Congressman Who Assaulted Reporter: ‘Great Job’

The president’s praise of Greg Gianforte isn’t all that surprising. After all, Trump’s own campaign style was similar, as he frequently bullied his critics and incited violence at his campaign rallies.

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Bombshell Senate Report Finds Russia Used the NRA To Attack America And Elect Trump

The Senate Judiciary Committee released hundreds of transcripts and details from its investigation into the infamous June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower with Russians. The Committee says the documents suggest the Kremlin used the NRA as a means of assisting Donald Trump and his campaign.

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Rep. Eric Swalwell Exposes GOP Effort To Give Trump The Keys To Mueller’s ‘Evidence Locker’

This GOP effort is about one thing: Discrediting Robert Mueller’s Russia probe, thus giving Donald Trump an opening to fire Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

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GOP-led Oklahoma Legislature Passes Discriminatory Adoption Measure

The Republican-controlled Oklahoma legislature approved an adoption measure on Thursday that critics say discriminates against same-sex couples, non-Christians and single parents.

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Lawmakers find Missouri GOP governor lied in ethics inquiry about donor list

Missouri Governor Eric Greitens lied to state ethics officials about how a list of major donors to his former charity was obtained for use by his gubernatorial campaign, a state House of Representatives panel concluded in a report on Wednesday.

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As Mueller Closes In On Trump, House GOP Drafts Impeachment Articles – Against Rod Rosenstein

Republicans continue to undermine Robert Mueller’s investigation and do severe long-term damage to American instititutions.

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Devin Nunes’ House Seat Is No Longer Safe For The GOP, Top Election Forecaster Says

If there is one election cycle in which being the president’s shameless lapdog is a bad look, it’s this one.

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Eric Swalwell Blasts GOP Report as the Cover-Up Trump and Putin Wanted

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), Ranking Member of the CIA Subcommittee for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, condemned the Republican Russia report released on Friday as the cover-up that both Trump and Putin wanted.

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Democrats Slam Republicans Over Proposed Rule Change That Speeds Up Confirmation Of Trump Nominees

Democrats are slamming Republican legislators trying to enact a measure that would greatly diminish the number of hours of required debate time for President Trump’s nominees to be confirmed. Currently, Trump’s picks are debated for up to 30 hours on the Senate floor after they clinch the necessary support to move forward in the process….