Rachel Maddow Explains The Vital Importance Of Trump’s Hush Money Trial
Rachel Maddow dove into Trump’s corruption of the DOJ, and how that delayed the New York hush money charges.
Rachel Maddow dove into Trump’s corruption of the DOJ, and how that delayed the New York hush money charges.
In a powerhouse presentation, Adam Schiff is forcing Republican Senators to hear the evidence of Trump’s corruption.
Documents provided to the House Budget Committee reveal that Donald Trump withheld military aid to Ukraine the same day that he talked to President Zelensky.
The RNC has become as mobbishly corrupt as Trump these days. The RNC appears to have strong-armed Trump supporting billionaire “Papa Doug” to donate half a million dollars MORE during his confirmation hearings.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee has introduced a bill to protect special counsel Robert Mueller. The congressman brought up the legislation on Thursday as the first order of business after the new Congress was sworn in. The bill seeks to provide a layer of protection for special counsel Mueller,…
With just two and one-half months until the midterm elections it is clear that Democrats will use as a major campaign issue the excessive amount of corruption in the Trump administration. What is also clear is that Republicans will NOT be campaigning on the issue that President Donald Trump repeatedly campaigned on during his 2016…
The Paul Manafort trial is set to begin on July 25, and special counsel Robert Mueller has now shown us how he will use the trial not only to put Trump’s former campaign manager in prison for the rest of his life but also to prove corruption in the Trump campaign. The indictments against Manafort…
The new Superfund Task Force at at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will now be led by a lawyer who until recently represented a major chemical and plastics company. The company he worked for is known for its long history of creating toxic chemical sites. Once again the Trump administration has put the fox in…
Many people seem to have forgotten that just two weeks ago Donald Trump was accused of accepting a $500 million bribe in exchange for allowing Chinese phone company ZTE to resume operations in the United States. The entire transaction was ignored by Congressional Republicans whose job includes providing oversight of the presidency and the executive…
Luckily we have watchdog groups looking out for all of the sleazy things going on in the Trump Administration. One such group, ProPublica, recently discovered more “mistakes” made by Presidential Son-in-Law Jared Kushner on his financial disclosure forms, and said it is the 40th time his forms have had to be revised. After that, a…
Mick Mulvaney, the director of the White House’s Office of Budget and Management, created a stir in Washington this week when he said that when he was in Congress he only talked to lobbyists who gave him substantial campaign contributions.
Political groups and federal agencies have spent at least $15 million with Donald Trump’s businesses, according to a new report from McClatchy. The spending occurred during the Trump presidential campaign and the first 15 months of his presidency. The expenditures of political contributions and government money went to many different Trump businesses, including his hotels…
The Whitefish contract is quickly spiraling into a major scandal that perfectly captures the rampant corruption of the Trump administration.
Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt meets near-daily with those he’s supposed to be regulating, including top corporate executives and lobbyists, and almost no meetings with environmental groups or citizen groups.Â
Donald Trump didn’t drain the swamp. He is profiting off of the swamp, as a new investigation reveals that dozens of government contractors and lobbyists have memberships at Trump’s golf clubs.
Trump’s son in law’s sister Nicole Kushner gave a presentation in China explaining how wealthy investors could immigrate to the US by investing $500,000 in a Kushner real estate project in New Jersey.
The lies from Trump’s team would have sent religious Republicans into near-fatal apoplexy if it was a Democratic administration.
This latest Trump abomination reveals why he and his administration hold a criminal mindset; they are above the law and because Trump won the election.
“If you have one of those, you can get away with pretty much anything when it comes to selling out, cursing out, or compromising your own country.”
Republicans know what collusion means, but they must consider Donald Trump much more than a family member because they conspired to help him conceal his corruption by aiding his attempt at keeping his tax returns out of the public’s eye.
“One of the top priorities of President Trump…was to allow oil and gas companies to cover up payments and bribes to foreign dictators”
Chaffetz’s position is that wealth puts you above the law: “The president and vice president are exempt. The voters understood this was a wealthy individual.â€
On Thursday, President-elect took to Twitter to fill the swamp even more with an unethical push for L.L. Bean, the company of Trump PAC donor.
“The @SenateGOP are bypassing important steps to make sure these billionaire cabinet nominees are free of dangerous conflicts of interest.”
Senate Democrats are calling for the Office of Congressional Ethics to investigate Trump’s HHS nominee, Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) for making $300,000 in trades in healthcare stocks while pushing legislation that would impact the stock price of the companies Price owned shares in.
Suspected of receiving illicit gifts and favors from foreign and domestic business executives, Netanyahu was questioned by police “under caution.â€
“Corruption, scandals, gutting of ethics rules aren’t new; they’ve been the GOP way going all the way back to Reagan. “
According to CNN, “President-elect Donald Trump dramatically strong-armed House Republicans into line Tuesday in his first Washington power play.”
“By crippling the OCE, House Republicans are signaling a return to the days…when Republican corruption in Congress ran rampant.”
“With all that Congress has to work on, do they really have to make the weakening of the Independent Ethics Watchdog…their number one act”
“There’s been an overzealousness in some of the processes over the years,” The truth is, legislators targeted by the OCE have voted it away
The president-elect is already personally profiting from the presidency, as Trump sold tickets to a New Year’s Eve party that will be held at his private club and attended by the Trump family.
“This a ridiculous shame? He loves these kids, has raised millions of dollars for them, and now must stop. Wrong answer!”
“Political ignorance in the USA is the greatest threat to our democracy — 50 years of personal observation indicates it is worse than ever!”
It was Donald Trump’s own son who had the idea of selling time with the President Of The United States in exchange for million dollar donations.
“I’m told he now just disclaims that. He now says it was cute, but he doesn’t want to use it anymore.”
He can claim he would have campaigned differently if there were no electoral college but then so would have Hillary Clinton.
Donald Trump’s transition team is in full backpedal mode after his sons Eric and Don Jr. were caught selling access to the president in exchange for a vaguely worded charitable donation.
Trump did project his real intent to run for president saying, “I could be the first presidential candidate to run and make money on it.”
Trump’s strategy for working with thugs is to let thugs be thugs as long as Trump gets a cut. And that includes the thugs in Trump’s own cabinet.
Gates says it’s ok because he met Rex “through our mutual involvement in…the Boy Scouts of America” while Rice doesn’t mention their business ties at all
“Reading Rick Perry, who infamously forgot the existence of the Dept. of Energy, is Trump’s pick to lead it. You can’t make this crap up”
During his interview with The New York Times, President-elect Donald Trump inaccurately declared that he would have no conflicts of interest because”The President can’t have a conflict of interest.”
A report out of Argentina states that when Argentine President Mauricio Macri called to congratulate the President-elect on his win, Trump responded by asking for help on permitting issues for one of his buildings in Argentina.
“We’re about to enter, or may already have entered, an era of corrupt governance unprecedented in U.S. history.”
Documents obtained through a Freedom Of Information Act request reveal that the conflicts on interest run deep as President-Elect Donald Trump has been using government contracts to enrich the very children that he now wants national security clearance for.
“Fla. AG Bondi added to @realDonaldTrump’s transition team. Trump Fdn gave illegal $25K gift to Bondi’s campaign grp.”