Former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial begins today and according to a CBS/YouGov poll released earlier this morning, most Americans favor convicting him for inciting an insurrection against Congress. The poll found 56 percent favor convicting Trump and the same percentage believe Trump encouraged the violence that resulted in his supporters storming the Capitol, an…
Donald Trump has been the face of the Republican party for the last 5 years. And if the ex-president gets his way, he will be the face of the GOP for many years to come. Republicans who don’t want Trump to be a part of party’s future, they do have a chance to stop him….
It is more than likely that Donald Trump was rooting for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers last night. The two men are friends and Brady made waves back in 2015 when a MAGA hat was spotted in Brady’s locker. And Brady did get a big win yesterday night, winning his 7th Super Bowl ring. And according…
The “big lie†is not unique to Trump but rather constitutes a long-standing Republican tradition and political practice that, far from distinguishing itself from Trump’s governance, in fact enabled and even created it.
Donald Trump wields an enormous amount of power over the Republican party. The power doesn’t stem from his ability as a politician or his oration abilities. The GOP cedes power to Donald Trump because his supporters are incredibly fervent. The actions of many Republican lawmakers following the November election showed just how scared they were…
Many GOP lawmakers made no secret of their support for Donald Trump. This was obvious when 147 Republican congresspeople voted to overturn November’s election results. But some elected officials stood out for their sheer sycophancy towards Trump. And one the top of that list is Matt Gaetz. The Florida congressman may have been embarrassed when…
Donald Trump has a lot of supporters in conservative cable news, but few defend the ex-President more than Lou Dobbs. The Fox Business host welcomed Trump lawyer David Schoen onto his program Wednesday to discuss the upcoming impeachment hearings. Referring to the trial as “evil nonsense,” Dobbs asked, “Why is the president even responding to…
In an open letter, hundreds of Congressional staffers are urging senators to convict former President Donald Trump for inciting last month’s violent siege of the United States Capitol, arguing that to not convict him would set a terrible precedent for the rule of law. “We are staff who work for members of the U.S. Senate…
Donald Trump will soon face an impeachment trial in the senate. Finding lawyers willing to defend him has been an issue. The 45th president is now on his second legal team after the first quit because he wouldn’t follow their strategy. And the arguments to defend Trump aren’t great. MSNBC‘s Nicolle Wallace spent a Tuesday…
A few weeks ago, it seemed that Democrats might have the votes needed to convict Donald Trump in his upcoming impeachment trial. Senators like Mitt Romney and Lisa Murkowski seemed likely to vote against the 45th President. Mitch McConnell, then seemed like he might be willing to convict Trump as well. It doesn’t seem, however,…
In a legal brief, Congressional Democrats say former President Donald Trump aimed a “loaded cannon” of his supporters at Congress when he incited a violent insurrection that claimed the lives of five people, including a Capitol Police officer who later died of injuries. Democrats argue that Trump, whose impeachment trial is scheduled for February 9,…
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has refused a call to hold a quick confirmation hearing for Merrick Garland, who President Joe Biden has nominated to serve as the nation’s attorney general. Garland’s hearing is scheduled for February 8. Graham says the hearing is designed to “score political points” ahead of the impeachment trial of former President…
Over the last week, a few GOP lawmakers have been willing to call out Marjorie Taylor-Greene. The criticism came from the usual suspects, Adam Kinzinger and Mitt Romney. The party leadership, though, had largely stayed silent on the matter. That is until Mitch McConnell blasted the Georgia congresswoman in a Monday night statement. The Kentucky…
A report released today from the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights concluded that anti-conservative bias claims are part of a disinformation narrative and not supported by any tangible evidence. “The claim of anti-conservative animus is itself a form of disinformation: a falsehood with no reliable evidence to support it. No trustworthy large-scale…
From Richard Nixon to Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump, the GOP has long presented itself as the party of “law and order.” The last time a large-scale terrorist attack occurred on US soil, George W. Bush was President. In September of 2001, Bush told Congress, “Our war on terror begins with Al Qaeda, but it…
In an interview with the CNN podcast “The Axe Files,†Representative Adam Kinzinger defended his vote to impeach former President Donald Trump for inciting the Capitol insurrection. He says he knew that doing so could likely cost him his seat in the House given the partisan political climate. “I did it knowing full well it…
Long before he ever became President of the United States, Donald Trump worked in real estate. He didn’t build an empire so much as he inherited an empire from his father, Fred. And while Trump has built and maintained properties all around the world, New York City has always been his main target. New York,…
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough criticized Senators Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) for downplaying the January 6 storming of the United States Capitol, which took place after former President Donald Trump urged his supporters to march on Congress in a bid to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The president’s supporters…
Representative Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) was the first Republican to come out in support of a resolution to compel former Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment after former President Donald Trump incited the Capitol insurrection. He says he knows it has damaged his future career prospects. “The only hope you have is to…
Just a few weeks ago, a mob of Donald Trump supporters stormed the United States Capitol. A number of those participating in the insurrection belonged to militia or white supremacist groups. The actions of those rioters were completely indefensible. That doesn’t mean, however, that people weren’t going to try. On his Tuesday night show, Tucker…
Google is the latest company to suspend donations to politicians who voted against certifying the results of the 2020 general election, which President Joe Biden won decisively. The company made the announcement after conducting an internal review of its political contributions in the wake of the violent insurrection at the Capitol, which took place after…
In July of 2020, Goya Foods CEO Robert Unanue said of Donald Trump, “We’re all truly blessed at the same time to have a leader like President Trump who is a builder, and that’s what my grandfather did.” This shocked many Latin-American fans of the brand who actively oppose Trump’s policies. There were numerous calls…
When Donald Trump first encountered the COVID-19 pandemic, he was lucky to have two doctor’s with decades of experience in immunology. The doctors, Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx took divergent paths in how they handled Trump. Fauci was definitely more combative with Trump and willing to contradict the ex-President when he was wrong. Birx acted…
President Joe Biden has reversed former President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender individuals serving in the military. “President Biden believes that gender identity should not be a bar to military service, and that America’s strength is found in its diversity,” the White House says in a fact sheet. The president signed an executive order reversing…
The Supreme Court of the United States has dismissed cases alleging former President Donald Trump violated the Constitution’s emoluments clause and profited off the presidency during his time in office. The emoluments clauses is a provision in Article I, Section 9, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution that states “No Title of Nobility shall…
Senate Republicans are now gearing up to acquit Trump in an impeachment trial on the specious rationale that putting a former officeholder on trial is unconstitutional, even though legal scholars, including some from the conservative Federalist Society, have broadly affirmed the constitutionality of such a proceeding. While this argument is their most recent political tactic,…
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will send articles of impeachment to the Senate on Monday, an action that would soon kick off the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump. Trump was impeached on January 13 on a single charge of inciting an insurrection after a…
When Donald Trump was seeking the Republican nomination in 2016, Lindsey Graham delivered a warning to his party. “If we nominate Donald Trump,” the South Carolina senator tweeted, “we will get destroyed and we will deserve it.” It took quite a while for his prediction to come to pass, but it seems to be coming…
To the surprise of no one, Trump spent his last day in office issuing pardons to celebrities and political allies. Rappers Lil Wayne and Kodak Black both had their ongoing legal issues ended by the stroke of the president’s pen. Al Pirro, the ex-husband of Fox News host Jeanine Pirro was given a pardon. But…
It’s been said that the people who voted for Donald Trump did so for a variety of reasons. Some did so because they felt neither party was addressing their needs. Others did so because of “economic anxiety.” But plenty of people who voted for Donald Trump did so because of his appeals to nativism and…
The National Archives will make President Donald Trump’s tweets publicly available as part of its plans for the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library website. “Social media content has been transferred as part of the official records of the Trump Administration. The National Archives is committed to ensuring that these records are preserved and made available…
Supermodel Chrissy Teigen, who was once blocked by outgoing President Donald Trump after criticizing his policies on Twitter, celebrated the end of his presidency in remarks she made online this morning. “With two impeachments, the creation of 3 million LESS jobs, 403,000 dead, a record low approval rating and god knows how many crimes, we…
When Donald Trump won the Republican nomination in 2016, he didn’t really have any political allies. So when Mike Pence was announced as his VP, it was seen as more of a strategic move. Pence was on the ticket to help Trump win the votes of Evangelical Christians. And while the strategy worked, it was…
For the last four years, Mitch McConnell has taken advantage of Donald Trump’s power. The Senate Majority Leader has been able to push through 3 Conservative Supreme Court Justices and pass a major tax cut. The Georgia run-off elections, though, showed that Trump is most likely a problem for the GOP going forward. McConnell now…
The Wyoming Republican Party has voted to censure Representative Liz Cheney over her vote to impeach President Donald Trump for inciting the Capitol insurrection. The censure resolution has been submitted to the Wyoming Republican Party’s State Central Committee for consideration. “Representative Cheney has violated the trust of her voters, failed to faithfully represent a very…
Mary Trump, a psychologist and author who is the niece of President Donald Trump, said on the eve of President-elect Joe Biden‘s inauguration that the Trumps should be shunned from public life and called for the Trump brand “to be totally destroyed” in a new interview with the MeidasTouch podcast. Asked if her cousin, presidential…
Former FBI Director James Comey, a longtime critic of President Donald Trump’s, described the Capitol insurrection as the Republican Party’s “very own Chernobyl” in a new interview with The Guardian. Comey lambasted the GOP as a party “built on lies and racism and know-nothingism.” “Something is shifting and I’m hoping it’s the fault breaking apart, a…
A poll released a day ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration finds that the majority of Americans are worried and pessimistic about the future, a further indication of the general malaise that has dogged American politics. The poll, from NBC News, found that 53% of Americans are pessimistic about what the future holds compared to…
Over the course of a few months, the GOP has lost control of both the White House and the senate. With Democrats in complete control, there isn’t much Republican leaders can do to respond. That doesn’t mean they aren’t going to try. Arizona, a long-time Republican stronghold, voted for Biden and has recently elected two…
From 2016 through 2017, FBI Director James Comey played a massive role in American politics. Just weeks before the election, he sent a letter about Hillary Clinton’s emails to Congress. This may have cost her the election. After Trump was elected, he demanded loyalty from Comey and fired him after the he declined. Over the…
For the last two years, Nancy Pelosi has spent much of her time holding Donald Trump accountable for her actions. In just two short days, though, Trump will no longer be her problem anymore. The Speaker of the House spoke about her experiences during an appearance on Hillary Clinton’s radio show. Of course, the main…
The Capitol insurrection has raised fears of an inside attack at President-elect Joe Biden‘s inauguration and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is vetting 25,000 National Guard troops who will be stationed in the District of Columbia as security heightens ahead of the event. â€We’re continually going through the process, and taking second, third looks…
Couy Griffin, a New Mexico county commissioner and the founder of “Cowboys for Trump,” was arrested after suggesting that more violence will occur once the insurrectionists who participated in an attack against the Capitol earlier this month return to Washington, D.C. in time for President-elect Joe Biden‘s inauguration. In a video published by Inside Edition…
In the aftermath of the violent assault on the nation’s Capitol, all I heard on the cable news shows was how well-educated Senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley are. Cruz attended Princeton University and graduated from Harvard Law School. Hawley earned his undergraduate degree from Stanford University before completing his law degree at Yale. Brian…
Investigators at the Departments of Justice, Homeland Security, Defense, and Interior have announced plans to review their respective agencies’ response in response to questions about delays in calling for assistance on January 6, the day President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol in a bid to overturn the election results. “The DOJ OIG review will…
Security concerns have forced the rehearsal for President-elect Joe Biden‘s inauguration ceremony to be pushed back a day. “It is going to take place on Monday, is the current schedule. Secret Service is in charge of running that schedule, but that’s done in partnership with Biden team, and it was their decision to delay a…
Over the entirety of his business career, Donald Trump has been involved in over 3,500 lawsuits. He has quite a bit of experience with lawyers both good and bad. During the Mueller Report, Trump had Ty Cobb, John Dowd and Jay Sekulow in his corner. In his first impeachment trial, Trump again had Sekulow representing…
Donald Trump will soon be out of the White House. He will, however, loom over the party for years to come. With Joe Biden in control, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy are trying to keep their houses in order. Both McCarthy and McConnell have been willing to talk about…
Back in the early 1990’s Donald Trump was a bit of a pop-culture phenomenon. The vast majority of his business’ were failing, but he was able to convince the public that he was some kind of financial genius. He did so, in part, by phoning in fake scoops to the New York City tabloids. He…
Few are more clued into the thinking in DC than Jake Sherman. So it was quite notable that he recently told Mediate that Mitch McConnell and his allies in the senate are “seriously considering impeachment.” Sherman made the comments during an appearance on The Interview Podcast. He told host Aidan McLaughlin, “it’s very clear that…
Donald Trump had high hopes this election season. He, of course, believed deep down he would defeat Joe Biden. And even if he didn’t, he would assemble a crack team of lawyers who could help him win. And Trump did have some impressive legal firms ready to represent him post election. The problem was, however,…
The attack on the US Capitol last week was a first in multiple ways. Of course, the attack was unprecedented. But the assault on Democracy also represented the first time where almost all Republicans were willing to admit that Donald Trump did something bad. And while some are willing to punish Trump for his actions,…
Early last year, an impeachment vote was held in the House. While the measure passed, no Republicans voted to impeach Donald Trump. Today was a different story. All Democratic members of Congress voted to impeach Trump and they were joined by 10 GOP lawmakers. The most interesting name among the Republican Reps was Liz Cheney…
The majority of Americans support removing President Donald Trump from office after he incited an attack against Congress, according to the latest Morning Consult/Politico survey. 53 percent of voters support the House’s impeachment proceedings, which kicked off earlier this morning. Impeachment articles are expected to pass and be sent to the Senate. 54 percent say…
Former Department of Homeland Security intelligence analyst Daryl Johnson, who in 2009 authored an internal report warning that right-wing extremism was on the rise in the United States, warns that political violence will worsen in the wake of last week’s insurrection against Congress, which took place at President Donald Trump‘s behest. “This Capitol insurrection that…
120 Republican former officials are backing President Donald Trump‘s immediate removal from office after he incited an insurrection against Congress. The group is comprised of veterans from the Donald Trump, George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, and Gerald Ford administrations. The statement from Defending Democracy Together (DDT) comes ahead of today’s impeachment vote…
Speaking to Reuters, DAMAC Properties Chairman Hussain Sajwani said he is happy to continue his business relationship with President Donald Trump despite Trump’s role in inciting an attack on the Capitol last week that cost the lives of several insurrectionists and a Capitol Police officer. “Our relationship with the Trump Organisation, and especially with [Trump’s…
For the last four years, Donald Trump has had nearly everything he wanted. The former businessman has immeasurable power. He had immunity from all his looming court cases. And he could play golf whenever he wanted to on the people’s dime. When he leaves office, though, his outlook won’t be so bright. Trump is facing…
Speaking on “Fox and Friends,” Brian Kilmeade suggested impeaching President Donald Trump a second time should be off the table because Republicans are threatening mass violence in the wake of last week’s attack against the Capitol. Many people want Trump “to continue to be a force in the Republican Party,” Kilmeade said, adding that they…
Last week had a number of major political events. On Monday, Donald Trump made a stump speech in Dalton Georgia. On Tuesday, Americans eagerly awaiting the results of the Georgia senate race. On Wednesday, viewers tuned in to see the election challenge being mounted by Trump loyalists in the House and Senate. As the fight…
Donald Trump has mostly made a mockery of his ability to award civilian honors. He gave Rush Limbaugh the Medal of Freedom at 2020’s State of the Union. Football Lou Holtz was given the same honor this summer as a reward for questioning Joe Biden‘s Catholicism during the Republican National Convention. Trump has also used…
Republican lawmakers have let Donald Trump get away with pretty much anything over the last 4 years. Their enabling the President, in part, led to the terrorist attack on the US Capitol last week. And no Republican enabled Trump more than Lindsey Graham. The South Carolina senator, who stood in angry opposition to Trump during…
Donald Trump has been unhinged his entire presidency. Since the lost the presidency in November, though, he has become even more unhinged. And all his crazy behavior and comments came to a head last week when a mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol. And there will be consequences for his actions. First, the Democratic…
President Donald Trump took to Twitter the morning after conceding to President-elect Joe Biden that the “75,000,000 great American Patriots” who voted for him in the general election “will have a GIANT VOICE” long into the future.” “They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape, or form!!!” he wrote. The 75,000,000…
Dominion Voting Systems has filed a defamation lawsuit against lawyer Sidney Powell for pushing blatantly false claims about the election, including that Dominion machines were compromised. Dominion says it has been the victim of a “viral disinformation campaign†that Powell mounted “to financially enrich herself, to raise her public profile, and to ingratiate herself to…
Assistant House Speaker Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) said a vote to impeach President Donald Trump a second time could happen as soon as next week. The House only needs a simple majority to initiate the proceedings. “Donald Trump needs to be removed from office. And we are going to proceed with every tool that we have…
Donald Trump had been asking his supporters to fight for him for weeks. It began with a flyer he distributed promising that January 6th in Washington DC would be a wild time. Then there were weeks of tweets with his claims of frauds getting more extreme by the day. And then there was the speech…
Comedian John Mulaney brilliantly described that it’s like to be an American with Trump in the White House in his 2018 special Kid Gorgeous. He referred to Trump as, “a horse in a hospital,” meaning absolute chaos is always right around the corner. And that unbridled chaos broke out yesterday in Washington DC as a…
One of the most troubling aspects of yesterday’s assault on the Capitol was how under-prepared and undermanned the police force was. There will certainly be investigations into the seemingly preventable situation. There are numerous video’s of Trump supporters assaulting the officers. And now, according to CNN’s Kristin Wilson, one of those officers has died. Wilson…
Yesterday’s attack on the U.S. Capitol was almost entirely Donald Trump‘s fault. But the President couldn’t have incited such a wild scene with a coterie of enablers. And the biggest enabler in Donald Trump’s election fight has been Missouri senator Josh Hawley. While Republican like Ted Cruz, Marsha Blackburn and Tommy Tuberville later joined the…
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced that President Donald Trump has been banned from Facebook and Instagram indefinitely following the violence that erupted on Capitol Hill yesterday. Many of the president’s supporters, encouraged by his baseless claims of election fraud, stormed the Capitol in a bid to overturn the election result. Ultimately, Congress certified President-elect…
Former Attorney General William Barr has denounced President Donald Trump after rioters, spurred by the president’s incendiary language and baseless claims of election fraud, stormed Capitol Hill yesterday in a bid to overturn the election results. In a statement to The Associated Press, Barr said Trump’s conduct amounts to a “betrayal of his office and…
President Donald Trump‘s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani left a voicemail with the wrong senator in a final effort to delay certifying President-elect Joe Biden‘s win. Giuliani attempted to reach Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) but he left the message on the voicemail of another senator, who has not been identified. In his message to Tuberville, Giuliani claimed…
This morning Donald Trump spoke to a large group of his supporters and asked them to fight for him. And fight they did. A legion of Trump fans stormed the US Capitol, overwhelmed the police and accessed the building. Trump could have helped to end the conflict. But according to multiple sources, the president ignored…
Social media has played an outsized role in the rise of Donald Trump. The president was an early adopter of Twitter and has millions of followers on the platform. Facebook, of course, let fake information and news stories run rampant on its site during the 2016 election, helping to propel Trump to victory over Hilary…
The congresspeople and senators who are helping Donald Trump fight the election results know the president lost. They also know that there is no pathway forward. For the majority of them, this is being done with an eye towards their political futures. Donald Trump, though, has not been acting like a man that has come…
There are more than a dozen Senators who are willing to help Donald Trump in his effort to overturn the 2020 election results. Among these are prominent GOP lawmakers like Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley. And while it doesn’t matter if the number is 1 or 50, it won’t change the election results. That doesn’t…
The polls weren’t great this past election season. If they were more accurate, tonight’s special election in Georgia would not be for control of the senate, Democrats would already have it. That does not mean, however, that people aren’t still interested in what top pollsters had to say. This morning on CNBC‘s Squawk Box, host…
This years presidential election featured a daunting map for Donald Trump. In 2016, he won traditionally Democratic states like Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin by the slimmest of margins. He also had so contend with the leftward lean of Republican strongholds like Georgia and Arizona. In the end, Trump lost all 5 of those states. In…
Watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has filed a criminal complaint against President Donald Trump for his call pressuring Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to overturn the results of the election in the state, which President-elect Joe Biden won decisively. “President Trump’s conduct violates not only the law, but the…
The Georgia Senate runoffs, which will determine which party will have control over Congress‘s upper chamber, are today. For weeks, President Donald Trump has been criticized for apparently undermining the Republican Party’s chances of winning by attacking Republicans who have not backed his call for overturning the results of an election that President-elect Joe Biden…
Donald Trump has exhausted nearly every strategy he had to overturn November’s election results. Once his January 6th attempt fails, there will be no cards left in his deck. And while Trump may not have yet come to terms with the fact he’s leaving the White House, most of the hosts on Fox News have….
There are more Democrats than there are Republicans. This is not only borne out in the number of registered voters. Democrats have consistently won presidential elections by wide margins. The thing that has allowed Republicans to take office despite losing popular votes is the electoral college. There have been frequent calls for Democrats to abolish…
Back during the 2016 Republican primary, GOP lawmakers had a much different reaction to Donald Trump. Chris Christie frequently bashed him before becoming an important campaign surrogate. Lindsey Graham famously tweeted, “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed…….and we will deserve it.” No the South Carolina senator is one of Trump’s chief sycophants. If…
People in the cable news media are expected to spin stories. Regardless of what side of the aisle they’re on, commentators often want to make the news look more favorable to them. But the idea of spin has become very difficult in the age of Trump. So the media figures of Fox News, OAN and…
President Donald Trump declared the Republican Party is “weak and ineffective” for not backing his attempts to subvert the results of the 2020 presidential election, which was decisively won by President-elect Joe Biden. “The ‘Surrender Caucus’ within the Republican Party will go down in infamy as weak and ineffective ‘guardians’ of our Nation, who were…
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger appeared on “Good Morning America” to discuss a phone call he had with President Donald Trump during which the president encouraged Raffensperger to help him swing the election in his favor. “I never believed it was appropriate to speak to the president,” Raffensperger said about Saturday’s call, noting that…
President Donald Trump falsely asserted that the results of the 2020 election are fraudulent after a recording of a call he had in which he urged Georgia’s Secretary of State to help swing the election in his favor. “How can you certify an election when the numbers being certified are verifiably WRONG,” the president wrote….
During an appearance on CNBC, Axios co-founder Mike Allen said that some Republicans believe President Donald Trump’s erratic behavior in recent weeks is designed to “sabotage” the GOP’s chances of winning the Georgia runoff elections, which will determine which of the two major political parties will have control of the Senate. “There’s a big strain…
It has been very obvious over the last 4 years that Donald Trump does not enjoy the job of president. It has been equally obvious, though, that Trump very much enjoys the power of the job. And Trump has exercised that power over the last few weeks in the form of pardons for his political…
George Conway had been a Republican his entire life when Donald Trump came around. His wife Kellyanne, of course, became a key member of Team Trump. Trump, however, was too much for Conway to stomach and he’s done everything he can to get him out of office. This includes becoming a founding member of the…
Lately, Donald Trump has been tweeting out support of Conservative channels OAN and Newsmax. Still, at any given moment, it’s likely that Trump is watching Fox News. The Fox News anchors know about their special access to the president. At many times, it seems like the Fox personalities are speaking directly to Trump. And sometimes, it’s…
Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) announced he would object to the Electoral College certification process and challenge President-elect Joe Biden‘s election win when Congress convenes for its joint session on January 6. “At the very least, Congress should investigate allegations of voter fraud and adopt measures to secure the integrity of our elections. But Congress has…
A United Nations panel said this morning that President Donald Trump‘s pardons of several former Blackwater contractors convicted of killing civilians in Baghdad are a violation of international law. “Pardoning the Blackwater contractors is an affront to justice and to the victims of the Nisour Square massacre and their families,†said Jelena Aparac, chair of…
President Donald Trump called for Brian Kemp, the Republican governor of Georgia, to resign from office while continuing to assert that he won the swing state even though it has long certified its results for President-elect Joe Biden. “Hearings from Atlanta on the Georgia Election overturn now being broadcast,” the president wrote, directing his followers…
Geraldo Rivera, who often appears on Fox News, is a long time friend of Donald Trump. And unlike many of the president’s friends, Rivera has pushed the president to accept his electoral defeat and move on to the next chapter of his life. There are many words used to describe Donald Trump, but dignity and…
Politicians are often at their most popular in times of great crisis. Following 9/11, New York’s previously unpopular leader Rudy Giuliani became “America’s Mayor.” Similarly, following the terrorist attacks, George W. Bush had an approval rating of 92%. Donald Trump had a terrible approval rating during his whole time in office. The COVID-19 pandemic, though,…
Jared Kushner worked many jobs for Donald Trump was in the White House. He played an important role in the administration’s botched COVID response. He was also a key figure in pushing Trump to embrace criminal justice reform. Perhaps the most ambitious job the president gave his son-in-law, though, was making peace in the Middle…
Many members of the GOP have given up on Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the election. They stood by as Trump lost lawsuit after lawsuit but once the Electoral College certified Biden‘s win, a majority of them moved on. That doesn’t mean, however, that all of the Republicans in congress have given up on Trump…
Donald Trump and his administration are on an execution spree, rushing to expedite as many state-sponsored murders of federal prisoners as they can before his term ends on January 20. Between last December 10 and the end of his term, Trump has scheduled five executions, bringing his total since last July to 13. Since Trump…
