President Donald Trump lashed out at Nebraska Republican Ben Sasse earlier this morning, calling him a RINO, or Republican in Name Only. “RINO Ben Sasse, who needed my support and endorsement in order to get the Republican nomination for Senate from the GREAT State of Nebraska, has, now that he’s got it (Thank you President…
According to the CBS News Battleground Tracker, Democrat Joe Biden is leading in two valuable battleground states: Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, two states President Donald Trump won handily in 2016. Coronavirus concerns have contributed to Biden’s rise. In Pennsylvania, 49 percent of likely voters said they would vote for Biden in November’s general election. 43 percent…
President Donald Trump lashed out at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), accusing them of delaying crucial coronavirus relief legislation. “So now Schumer and Pelosi want to meet to make a deal. Amazing how it all works, isn’t it,” he wrote. “Where have they been for the last 4…
Republicans continue to block legislation to provide relief to tens of millions of Americans as well as the state and local governments that provide services and employment to them. Their hand-wringing, it seems, is rooted in the worry that providing relief, such as extending enhanced unemployment benefits, will eliminate any incentive, or coercion, for people…
We often define culture as a “way of life.†Implicit in this definition is the notion that culture should support and value human life. It makes sense, right? A “way of life†promises, in its very language, to support living, not promote dying. And yet, as I have written about on multiple occasions (here, here,…
As is now widely known, the Arkansas Republican Senator Tom Cotton recently proposed legislation that would deny federal funding to schools that in any way used the The New York Times controversial 1619 project in its curriculum. This series in The New York Times, of course, explores the history of the United States through the…
The state of North Carolina will relax its restrictions on public gatherings for the Republican National Convention (RNC) scheduled August 21 – 24. The state’s health director and chief medical officer, Elizabeth Cuervo Tilson, said the Department of Health and Human Services, wrote in a letter to the RNC that restrictions on gatherings of more…
In the middle part of July, Donald Trump tweeted out a photo of himself wearing a facemask. Trump surrogates cheered on the move calling it a bold change in message and even describing it as patriotic. The President, however, was not able to stay on his pro-mask messaging. He has frequently been pictured since that…
Canadian Premier Doug Ford criticized President Donald Trump after he imposed 10 percent tariffs on Canadian raw aluminum. “I just have to say how disappointed I am with President Trump right now,†Ford said at his Friday news conference. “In times like this, who tries to go after your closest ally, your closest trading partner,…
Since she was elected to Congress in 2018, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been a subject of fascination for Republicans. Much of this fascination is based on her youth and her looks. Add Donald Trump to the crowd of GOP’ers who find the New York Representative quite attractive. During a recent speech in Ohio, the President described…
Democratic contender Joe Biden is the clear favorite among college students, according to the latest Chegg/College Pulse election tracking poll, which found he leads President Donald Trump by almost 50 points. Most college students believe Trump won’t win reelection. 62 percent of those surveyed said Trump will lose November’s general election. 38 percent believe he…
A federal appeals court ruled that President Donald Trump’s former White House counsel Don McGahn must comply with a House subpoena and testify. The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said McGahn’s refusal to testify is grounds for the House to sue, in a victory for House Democrats. The court ruled…
Following their departure from the White House in January of 2017, Barack and Michelle Obama have been relatively quiet. The pair, however, promised they would do whatever they could to help Democrats in the 2020 election. Barack Obama has been vocal in his support for former Vice President Joe Biden and recently filmed a talk…
According to  a Washington Post-Schar School survey conducted by Ipsos, 63 percent of parents disapprove of the Trump administration’s push to fully reopen schools amid the coronavirus pandemic. 44 percent strongly disapprove while 15 percent said they strongly approve. The poll found that both sides of the political aisle are heavily divided on this issue. While…
Appearing on Geraldo Rivera’s radio show earlier today on WTAM in Cleveland, President Donald Trump insisted he is being unfairly censored by Twitter and Facebook after the social media companies blocked a video shared by accounts linked to him and his campaign for spreading misinformation about the coronavirus. “They’re doing anybody, on the right, anybody,…
President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has come under fire for running an ad using a doctored photo of his opponent, Democrat Joe Biden. The ad falsely depicts Biden as “hiding” alone in his basement using an image that was edited to remove several other people. Deep in the heart of Delaware, Joe Biden sits in…
Since the lead-up to the 2016 Presidential election, Facebook has played an outsized role in US politics. A large part of this role is the social media giant’s resistence to “censor” poltical speech. Twitter had long been criticized for allowing Donald Trump to frequently flout their rules and regulations. But in May of this year,…
The New York Times reports that New York prosecutors have subpoenaed Deutsche Bank as part of the criminal investigation into President Donald Trump’s business activities.  Times reporters say the movie is “a sign that their criminal investigation into Mr. Trump’s business practices is more wide-ranging than previously known.” The subpoena was issued by the Manhattan district…
With both his poll numbers and his approval rating dwindling, Donald Trump is counting on his debates with Joe Biden to reenergize his campaign. Some Fox News’ anchors are pushing the idea that the former VP is scared to debate Trump. The Biden camapign says nothing can be further from th truth. The President’s team…
President Donald Trump lashed out at former acting Attorney General Sally Yates in a tweet earlier this morning, accusing her of participating in “the greatest political crime of the Century.” The president accused Yates of “leaking” a conversation with former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who would later plead guilty to a felony count of…
President Donald Trump attacked CNN and Jim Acosta, its chief White House correspondent, following a report that quoted a source on the official coronavirus task force that he doesn’t understand the severity of the pandemic. “@CNN has no sources on the Task Force,” the president claimed. “Their ‘sources’ are made up, pure fiction! Jim Acosta…
According to a Reuters/Ipsos poll, 66 percent of registered voters are opposed to delaying November’s election despite common concerns about the coronavirus pandemic and President Donald Trump’s continued push against mail-in voting. The poll found that eight in 10 Democrats and five in 10 Republicans are opposed to postponing the election. Only 23 percent––a number Reuters…
Many of the country’s governors have been unhappy with the White House’s response and direction when is comes to the COVID-19 pandemic. And this isn’t just a Democratic lawmaker issue, Republicans have been upset as as well. According to Trump, however, he gets a different message from these governors when he speaks with them on…
The President of the United States has a number of different and interesting privileges. Among those privileges is hearing any information the government might have on alien life form. And for many Americans, this subject is fascinating. Lou Dobbs, Fox News host and Trump fan, is one of the those citizens who’s very interested in…
Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams says the United States’ coronavirus response under President Donald Trump and the Republican Party has been characterized by “willful ignorance.” “One of the deep disappointments of the current administration is their willful ignorance and their willingness to ignore the challenges that present themselves in real time,†Abrams said in…
Jocelyn Benson, Michigan’s Secretary of State, took on President Donald Trump’s lies on mail-in voting during an interview with MSNBC. “A lot of information and misinformation to unpack there and a lot of alarming stuff. Let me get your general response to what he said,” she was asked. “I mean, first, again, we have been…
In an interview with Axios, President Donald Trump defended his well wishes for Ghislaine Maxwell, who has been arraigned on charges that she recruited and participated in the abuse of young girls for the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, who mysteriously died in prison last year while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. He also openly questioned…
Donald Trump won the 2016 election by the thinnest of margins. The places that put him over the top, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Florida were closely contested states where his campaign spent an awful lot of money to put himself over the top. Ad money will again be important during the 2020 election. And how the…
As the number of Americans who’ve died from the novel coronavirus nears 160,000, President Donald Trump took to Twitter to boast about crowd sizes. “My visits last week to Texas and Florida had massive numbers of cheering people gathered along the roads and highways, thousands and thousands, even bigger (by far) than the crowds of…
Representative Maxine Waters (D-Calif) accused President Donald Trump of deliberately sabotaging the United States Postal Service as he’s mounted more attacks against vote-by-mail initiatives. “Trump put Postmaster DeJoy in charge of the postal service to dismantle the USPS & sabotage vote by mail. New procedures are causing massive delays,†Waters tweeted. She added: “Trump &…
Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden continues to enjoy rising poll numbers in two key battleground states: North Carolina and Ohio. Biden leads Trump 48 percent to 44 percent in North Carolina, according to a new CBS News/YouGov poll. “To be clear, there are pretty much no paths to Trump winning the presidency without a victory in…
During this past week many of us mourned the loss of John Lewis and the kind of greatness he had. The iconic civil rights leader was a man who refused to give up or give in after being beaten within an inch of his life. Those who knew him described him as someone you just…
The Black Lives Matter movement, in demanding that we reconsider how Black lives have been valued, or rather de-valued, in U.S. culture, society, and political economy, essentially asks us as well to interrogate our entire system of economic and cultural values. On what basis do we in our socio-economic system and culture assign different values…
Donald Trump has spent most of the year aching to get back in front of his supporters. The one time he did, however, the turnout was quite terrible. Following the Tulsa disaster, Trump has seen a New Hampshire rally, and the Jacksonville portion of the RNC canceled. On Friday, the President did get the chance…
President Donald Trump slammed House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) in a tweet this morning, claiming that a chart the latter posted showing the United States has more coronavirus cases than Europe is “fake news.” “Somebody please tell Congressman Clyburn, who doesn’t have a clue, that the chart he put up indicating more CASES for…
Donald Trump has spent much of this year’s election period railing against voting by mail. He’s taken this tact despite the fact that he, William Barr and Kayleigh McEnany have all taken advantage of the voting method. This morning, the President floated the idea of delaying the election until the COVID-19 pandemic dissipates. CNN’s Kaitlin…
In a statement, Trevor Potter, president of Campaign Legal Center (CLC), and a former Republican Chairman of the Federal Election Commission, responded to President Donald Trump’s suggestion to delay the November election. “The President does not have the authority to delay the election. Federal law mandates that the General Election take place on the first…
Democrat Joe Biden continues to lead President Donald Trump in two crucial swing states. Biden leads Trump by nine points in the swing state of Pennsylvania, according to the latest Franklin and Marshall College poll. 55 percent of Biden’s supporters in Pennsylvania saying they are voting against Trump. 78 percent of Trump supporters say they are…
When long-serving and revered lawmakers pass away, it is customary for past and current Presidents to attend the funeral. This hasn’t been the case with Donald Trump. At the request of the family, Trump was not invited to the funeral of legendary Republican John McCain. While Trump did attend the services for former President George…
President Donald Trump said Republican senators should “go back to school and learn amid criticism the inclusion of funding for a new FBI building in the next coronavirus relief package. “They have been trying to build a new building for many, many years,†Trump said, adding that “People have wanted a new FBI building now…
Journalist and MSNBC contributor Howard Fineman says President Donald Trump’s open defiance has only just begun” amid reports that the Trump administration will continue to reject initial Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) applications from immigrants who never obtained the protection from deportation. #DonaldTrump begins rolling back #DACA in defiance of the #SupremeCourt. The open…
Joe Biden has slammed the Trump campaign’s recent ads depicting a country in chaos and attacking him for wanting to defund the police and being soft on crime. The former Vice President accused President Donald Trump of stoking people’s fears as part of his “law and order” campaign pitch. For his part, Biden has not…
Donald Trump was one of the first celebrities to frequently use Twitter. And he used it to build a political career by spreading his false birtherism claim. But all isn’t right in the world with Trump and the website where he has amassed 84.2 million followers. On Monday night, the President claimed that the social…
The Lincoln Project has made many headlines in recent weeks as it ramps up its ad campaign against President Donald Trump’s reelection efforts, and its latest ad features a former Navy SEAL who said the president is not a real conservative. “I’m an American combat veteran and a conservative. I don’t agree with Joe Biden on…
Trump is crumbling at a rapid rate and now demanding that Pennsylvania voters do not vote for Joe Biden in November.
When Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took to the House floor last Thursday to address the widespread sexism at work in the halls of Congress and deeply embedded in American culture and society, she had to suspect her remarks would garner some media attention. After all, Republican Representative Ted Yoho, while walking with fellow Representative Roger Williams…
With his support in free fall, Donald Trump decided the best way to win over “suburban house wives†was to scare them with images of his gestapo gassing the wall of moms, assaulting vets and disappearing peaceful protestors. Seriously, who knows if Trump did it to get film for a video ad, send federal agents…
In an interview with Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy, President Donald Trump acknowledged that his Twitter activity, known for being the subject of often controversial headlines, gets him “into trouble.” “Do you sometimes —Â because I follow you on Twitter and I know I do this… do you ever tweet out and be like —Â you wake…
President Donald Trump’s new campaign manager Bill Stepien disputed suggestions that the president is sliding in the polls. Stepien warned that the president’s opponents are placing too much stock in poll numbers. “These trends are going to go unnoticed until election night, when we’re right and they’re wrong,†Stepien said. Stepien said the campaign’s internal…
Dr. Anthony Fauci has spoken about “serious threats” he and his family have received over the course of the Coronavirus pandemic. The infectious diseases expert says he’s disturbed by them. The head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases spoke to CNN’s David Axelrod about the threats to himself, his wife and his…
Nancy Shively, a Tulsa, Oklahoma special education teacher and “lifelong Republican who reluctantly voted for Donald Trump in 2016,” said in an op-ed for USA Today that “When the pandemic hit, the incompetence of the man for whom I had voted and the complicity of everyone around him forced me to admit that I could no…
Donald Trump became the latest and most high profile Republican to attack Liz Cheney on Thursday. Several prominent members of the GOP have taken aim at her in recent days. Cheney is chair of the House Republican Conference but some who consider her to be insufficiently pro-Trump have been seeking her ouster. Trump joined in…
President Donald Trump attacked Tom Ridge, the former Secretary of Homeland Security, after Ridge criticized the deployment of federal agents in Portland, Oregon. “Recently watched failed RINO Tom Ridge, former head of Homeland Security, trying to justify his sudden love of the Radical Left Mayor of Portland, who last night was booed & shouted out…
Philadelphia’s District Attorney has warned that he’ll charge any federal officer sent into the city by the Trump administration if they commit a crime such as kidnapping. Larry Krasner issued the stark warning as President Donald Trump has threatened to deploy federal law enforcement to various Democratically-controlled cities. “My dad volunteered and served in World…
Speaking at a White House event earlier today, President Donald Trump said he will “pressure” governors to reopen schools amid the coronavirus pandemic. The president suggested, without evidence, areas that support closures are doing so for “political reasons.” “They think it’s going to be good for them politically, so they keep the schools closed,” he…
President Donald Trump tweeted a message commemorating Charles Evers, the older brother of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers and a prominent figure in Mississippi politics. The message courted controversy immediately: The president has in recent weeks tweeted support for flying Confederate flags has continued to disparage the Black Lives Matter movement, and has faced…
Representative Chip Roy (R-Texas) criticized President Donald Trump for wishing alleged Jeffrey Epstein co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell “well,” calling the president’s comment “unacceptably obtuse.” Roy issued his criticisms earlier this morning. “This is unacceptably obtuse for a woman accused of the most morally depraved of crimes, @realDonaldTrump,†he wrote on Twitter. “She needs to be severely…
A Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll gave Democratic contender Joe Biden an 8-point lead over President Donald Trump. 46 percent said they would back the Democratic candidate compared to 38 percent who said they’d vote for the incumbent. The remaining 16 percent say they’re undecided over who to pick. Some indicated they might vote for a third-party…
The Biden campaign has released a teaser video of a conversation between Joe Biden and Barack Obama where the two men will apparently critique Donald Trump. The socially distant conversation will be released on Thursday, 23 July but the the former Vice President’s campaign released some quotes and a short video clip on Wednesday. “Can…
Four former presidents of the D.C. Bar Association have called for the body to investigate Attorney General William Barr. They accuse him of unethical behavior and violating his oath to uphold the Constitution. In a lengthy complaint published on Wednesday, the signatories point to Barr’s actions on the Special Counsel’s Russia probe, the clearing of…
Speaking at a press conference, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said he will take President Donald Trump to court if he plans to send federal agents to the city. De Blasio said that Trump often “bluffs and blusters.” The president made the threat even as he faces heated criticism for ordering federal agents…
In a tweet earlier this morning, President Donald Trump claimed mail-in voting would lead to the “most corrupt election” in American history. “Mail-In Voting, unless changed by the courts, will lead to the most CORRUPT ELECTION in our Nation’s History!” he wrote, finishing off his message with the hashtag #RIGGEDELECTION. Mail-In Voting, unless changed by…
A clear majority of American voters now believe U.S. society is racist. This represents a significant trend as protests against the treatment of African Americans continue. AÂ Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds that 56% of Americans think the country is racist, while a staggering 71% believe race relations are bad at the moment. Brenda Lee…
President Donald Trump announced he would resume regular coronavirus briefings, telling members of the press that he will resume the practice starting tomorrow at 5 p.m. This would mark his first appearance at a briefing since April. The move comes as Trump faces backlash for remarks he made during a Fox News interview. The president…
President Donald Trump says he’s too busy to attend virus briefings, according to White House aides. Busy or not, the president has found the time to lambast health experts even as he faces heavy criticism for his lack of a coronavirus response. He also defended his management of the pandemic with several false claims. The…
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has taken President Donald Trump to task after he declined to say whether he’ll accept the election results if he loses to Democrat Joe Biden. Pelosi made the remarks earlier this morning during an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “The fact is, whether he knows it yet or not, he…
The U.S. Surgeon General has made the extraordinary claim that federal troops would be needed if a federal mask mandate were introduced. He made the claim while urging people to wear masks. Jerome Adams spoke to Fox News on Monday and literally begged Americans to wear face coverings. But he then said he wasn’t in…
Allen West has been elected the new chair of the Texas Republican Party in a virtual convention held early Monday morning. The former congressman defeated the incumbent chairman. Outgoing Chairman James Dickey was seeking a second term at the helm of the party but West managed to defeat him in the early hours of Monday…
John Kasich will speak in favor of Joe Biden at the upcoming Democratic National Convention. Reports on Monday suggested Kasich would be one of many prominent pro-Biden Republicans in the coming weeks. Kasich was the governor of Ohio and once had his own presidential ambitions. He’s widely considered a more moderate and traditional Republican than…
American citizens will be officially banned from visiting the Bahamas because of the risks from Covid-19. The decision will likely be seen as tacit condemnation of the nation’s handling of the virus. The Prime Minister of the Bahamas, Huber Minnis, said the situation in his country had worsened “at an exponential rate” following the reopening…
Donald Trump said that voting by mail is going to rig the election, and if he loses, he might not accept the results.
President Donald Trump referred to himself as the “ultimate member of The Book of the Month Club” in his first official response to Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, a book by his niece, Mary Trump, that is already topping the bestseller lists. “First I have lowlife dummy…
The nonpartisan Cook Political Report has shifted its rating of 20 House races toward Democrats, saying President Donald Trump’s “abysmal polling since the pandemic began is seriously jeopardizing down-ballot GOP fortunes.” “We may be approaching the point at which dozens of House Republicans will need to decide whether to cut the president loose and run…
Chuck Woolery, a conservative former game show host who made headlines this week after President Donald Trump retweeted his claim that public health experts are “lying” about the extent of the coronavirus pandemic, deactivated his Twitter account after his son contracted Covid-19. Woolery’s last tweet was: “Covid-19 is real and it is here.” “Chuck’s son…
Nearly two-thirds of Americans––that’s 64 percent––do not trust President Donald Trump’s coronavirus response, according to the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll. Tellingly, nearly a third of Republicans say they don’t trust the president’s coronavirus response. 29 percent of Republicans say they don’t believe the president is a credible source of information related to the pandemic….
Larry Hogan, the Republican governor of Maryland, said “waiting around” for President Donald Trump to run the nation’s coronavirus response was “hopeless” during an interview in which he criticized the Trump administration’s response as inadequate. “Eventually, it was clear that waiting around for the president to run the nation’s response was hopeless; if we delayed…
More Americans identify as Democrats, a signal that American party preferences have “swung sharply” in their favor, according to the latest Gallup poll. “What had been a two-percentage-point Republican advantage in U.S. party identification and leaning has become an 11-point Democratic advantage, with more of that movement reflecting a loss in Republican identification and leaning…
The White House is on the defense after news emerged that the Trump administration is conducting “loyalty tests” across government agencies. The White House says these one-on-one interviews with political appointees are necessary to determine who would be willing to serve should President Donald Trump be re-elected this November. “If we’re going to extend this…
President Donald Trump attacked Democrat Joe Biden, his electoral opponent, after Biden announced a $700 billion economic plan that touts environmental protection measures as a means for restoring economic growth. “Our past vice president opposes — think of this — all of our permitting reforms,†Trump said to an audience in Atlanta during a speech…
President Donald Trump’s net economic approval rating has dropped 15 points in just a month, according to the latest poll from Quinnipiac University. According to the poll, in June 52 percent of voters approve of the way the president is handling the economy compared to 45 percent who disapprove. This month, however, just 44 percent…
The Lincoln Project, a Republican anti-Trump super-PAC released a new ad asking viewers whether they trust President Donald Trump or Dr. Anthony Fauci on matters related to the novel coronavirus. The ad comes after reports revealed that the White House had sought to discredit and undermine Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, after his…
Earlier this morning, President Donald Trump attempted to tie his electoral opponent, former vice president Joe Biden, to the “radical left.” suggesting that Biden’s work with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders (I), a noted democratic socialist, on their joint unity task force will mean “The guaranteed destruction of America.” “Has anybody seen or reviewed the written…
President Donald Trump claimed the New York Times is “under siege” in a tweet earlier this morning, in response to the news that opinion columnist and editor Bari Weiss had left the publication because of an “illiberal environment.” “Wow. The @nytimes is under siege,” the president wrote. “The real reason is that it has become Fake…
Anthony Fauci has asked the American public to trust medical authorities about Coronavirus. In a thinly veiled rebuke of the President, Fauci criticized “political nonsense”. Fauci made the remarks during an address to graduates of Georgetown University. “You can trust respected medical authorities. I believe I’m one of them. So, I think you can trust…
A new ad campaign backed by the White House will urge unemployed Americans to “find something new”. It’s part of the Trump administration’s push in favor of vocational skills instead of four year college. The ad campaign will be launched on Tuesday and it comes as millions of Americans are newly unemployed. The Coronavirus pandemic…
Roger Stone has said he wants Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz to become president and he wants to live long enough to see it. Both men are major supporters of the President. Stone gave an interview to Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Monday and spoke about the commutation of his sentence. He was convicted on seven…
Democrat Joe Biden has launched campaign ads in Texas as polls show him neck-and-neck with President Donald Trump. The former vice president’s ad campaign comes as cases of the novel coronavirus surge across the Lone Star state, a situation critics of the president say has been exacerbated by his faulty response. “I’m of thinking all…
Four former heads of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have come out against President Donald Trump’s policy on re-opening schools. Writing in an op-ed published in The Washington Post, former CDC directors Tom Frieden, Jeffrey Koplan and David Satcher, as well as former acting CDC director Richard Besser, took the president and political…
In a video posted to the website of the group Republican Voters Against Trump (RVAT), Will Galloway, a political science student at Clemson University who chairs the South Carolina College Republicans, says voting for President Donald Trump this November would constitute a “betrayal” to the United States. In the video, Galloway listed several of the…
According to a YouGov poll conducted July 11 to 13, the majority of Americans believe President Donald Trump should stop using Twitter as his primary mode of communication. 54 percent of respondents said “no” when asked if Trump should be posting messages on Twitter. 32 percent said “yes.” 14 percent of respondents said they were…
Mick Mulvaney has criticized the lack of Coronavirus testing in the United States. The former White House chief of staff has broken with his former boss to highlight the issue. Mulvaney wrote an op-ed for CNBC on Tuesday discussing the economy but also arguing that more needed to be done about testing for Covid-19. “I…
President Donald Trump this morning lashed out at Fox News for its recent coverage, accusing the network of turning against its viewer base. “So hard to watch @FoxNews anymore,” he wrote in a Twitter message. “They are working so hard against the people (viewers) that got them there. Their contributors are a disaster, and all…
President Donald Trump has spent this morning retweeting messages by conservative former game show host Chuck Woolery, who has accused public health experts of lying about the severity of the coronavirus pandemic. “The most outrageous lies are the ones about Covid 19. Everyone is lying. The CDC, Media, Democrats, our Doctors, not all but most,…
According to new CBS News/YouGov polls, President Donald Trump and his opponent, former vice president Joe Biden, are neck-and-neck in three states Trump won in 2016. All three states are dominating headlines as the nation’s current epicenters for the novel coronavirus. In Arizona, a state Trump won by four points in 2016, he and Biden…
Critics have accused the Trump administration of trying to smear Dr. Anthony Fauci after the White House released anti-Fauci talking points over the weekend. A White House official released a statement to CNN criticizing Fauci and providing a list of his mistakes. The move come as the administration is apparently trying to discredit him. “The…
This unfortunate and hopefully soon-expiring moment in U.S. history, Donald Trump’s presidency, has been anything but subtle in summoning the worst energies, impulses, and dimensions embedded in the nation’s history and still animating contemporary culture and politics. If it hadn’t been clear during his 2016 campaign when he characterized Mexican immigrants as rapists and criminals,…
The Trump campaign discourages staff from wearing masks at the office, according to individuals who spoke on condition of anonymity to Politico. While staff have been instructed to wear masks outside in the event they’re spotted by reporters, they’ve been told it’s acceptable not to wear them while on the clock. These actions have contributed…
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs has said the military will look again at bases named after Confederates. General Mark Milley is weighing into a debate that has animated the President. Gen. Milley spoke to the House Armed Services committee about the bases still named for Confederates and he conceded that it was time to…
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, responded to President Donald Trump’s claim that 99 percent of coronavirus cases are “harmless,” telling The Financial Times, “Obviously not.” “I’m trying to figure out where the president got that number,” Fauci told the outlet. “What I think happened is that someone…
President Donald Trump said in several interviews that he is considering pardoning his former political adviser Roger Stone, who in January 2019 was convicted on seven counts of obstruction of justice, witness tampering, and lying to federal investigators and later sentenced to 40 months in federal prison. “I am always thinking. You’ll be watching like…
