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Laura Ingraham Calls John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Jeff Flake ‘Triumvirate of Idiocy’
“And most obvious among the speeds bumps he’ll hit will be [Republican Sens.] John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Jeff Flake, that triumvirate of idiocy.”
Monthly Archives: December 2016
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GOP Senators Ignore Trump And Vow To Move Forward On Russian Hacking Investigation
If the proposed bill passes, it “would mandate a new select Senate committee on cybersecurity” which would investigate the election-season cyber attack.
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Report: Trump Pressured Kuwait Into Holding Event At His Washington D.C. Hotel
Not only is Trump maintaining the swamp of corruption in Washington, but he’s filling it in a whole new way.
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Trump Issues Reckless, Anti-Muslim Statement Following Berlin Truck Attack
Blaming an entire religion for the senseless violence of a few is a whole lot easier than actually knowing what you’re talking about.
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Fact Check: Trump Is Lying To America By Calling His Electoral College Win A Landslide
Donald Trump is claiming that he won the electoral college in a landslide, but a review of the historical numbers reveals that Trump’s win ranks near the bottom and his claims of a landslide are false. Here was the statement from Trump’s transition team on his electoral college victory, “Today marks a historic electoral landslide…
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Trump Wins Electoral College And Becomes The Most Unpopular President-Elect In History
On the same day that Trump won the electoral college, a new poll found that he will enter the White House as the first president with a negative approval rating.
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Trump Is Already Failing As Majority Are Uncertain And Pessimistic About His Presidency
A new NBC News poll revealed that as President-elect Donald Trump is failing. Instead of providing the American people with a dose of hope and optimism, the majority of Americans surveyed are uncertain and pessimistic about his presidency.
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Instead Of Pointing Fingers, Democrats Must Unify Around Making Trump A Failed President
There has been a great deal of finger pointing and blaming in Democratic circles over the 2016 election results, but Democrats already have the pieces that they need, the left and Democrats need to come together around the singular mission of making Donald Trump a one term president.
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Obama Perfectly Diagnoses How The Media Handed Trump The Keys To The White House
In an interview with NPR, President Obama was careful not to blame the media for Trump’s win, but he did diagnose how the media’s decision to cover the election as a reality television show played into the hands of Trump.
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If You’re Feeling Vaguely Hysterical Over Donald Trump, You’re Not Alone
If you’ve been feeling vaguely hysterical, what I like to call hysterical-adjacent, at the idea of Donald Trump running the U.S., you’re not alone.
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Russian ambassador gunned down and Killed in Ankara
The Russian ambassador to Ankara was shot in an attack at an art gallery in the Turkish capital on Monday and the Russian RIA news agency said he had died of his wounds.
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Bill Clinton Blames FBI Director James Comey For Trump Winning The White House
Former President Bill Clinton has lashed out and his blaming FBI Director James Comey for Donald Trump winning the presidential election.
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The American People Agree With Democrats And Want The Electoral College Gone
A new Morning Consult/Politico poll has found that a plurality of the American people agree with Democrats and want to replace the Electoral College with the popular vote.
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Leak Shows Trump’s Choice for Secretary of State Directs a Russian Oil Company
Rex Tillerson not only runs ExxonMobil, he is also the director of a Russian oil company registered in the Bahamas, a secretive tax haven.
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Paul Krugman Warns the ‘1930s Show’ Has Returned With Trump’s Private Security Force
“The erosion of democratic foundations has been underway for decades, and there’s no guarantee that we will ever be able to recover.”
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Trump Uses ‘Thank You’ Tour Finale to Remind America He is an Unhinged Liar
Trump attacked journalists, Michelle Obama, and reality itself, claiming “we won by a lot. It wasn’t even close.â€
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Donald Trump Made Millions of Dollars Running For President
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.”
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Senators Call For Select Panel Investigation Into Russian Election Interference
U.S. Republican and Democratic senators on Sunday called for a special bipartisan panel to investigate cyber attacks against the United States by foreign countries with a focus on Russia’s alleged efforts to influence the U.S. presidential election.
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Reince Priebus Refuses To Confirm That Trump Didn’t Contact Or Coordinate With Russia
During an interview on Fox News Sunday, incoming Trump chief of staff Reince Priebus refused to deny that Trump coordinated or communicated with Russia during the campaign. Instead of a denial, Priebus tried to turn Russian election interference into a partisan issue.
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Republicans Abandon Facts And Reality As 52% Think Trump Won The Popular Vote
Fifty-two percent of Republicans think that President-elect Donald Trump won the popular vote according to an online Qualtrics survey. This kind of long term Republican attack on reality is what made us vulnerable to Donald Trump and the Russian hacking.
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Here’s Why John McCain’s Call For A Select Committee On Russian Hack Should Terrify Trump
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) called for a bipartisan select committee to investigate Russian hacks on Sunday during CNN’s State of the Union. A joint select committee would be bad news for Trump because it guarantees that the Russian hack story will not go away.
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Van Jones Blasts Trump For Refusing To Admit That Russia Cyber Attack Was An Act Of War
Our country is under attack by the Russians and Donald Trump won’t even say it’s wrong. CNN’s Van Jones blasted President-elect Donald Trump this morning on State of the Union, saying what everyone but Trump Republicans will admit, “Cyber war is real war! So you have an active attack on our country and you have…
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DNC Chair: Russia’s Pro-Trump Cyber Attacks On Democrats Continued Through Election Day
On the eve of Electoral College electors gathering to vote, acting DNC Chair Donna Brazille said that the Russian hacks against the Democratic Party were even worse than previously reported.
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Looking Back and Looking Forward: The Fight for Democracy and the Dignity of All Begins
The fight for our democracy and the dignity of all will take the efforts of the global village coming together in defense of the principles and policies that make us strong.
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Obama points finger at Putin for hacks during U.S. election
President Barack Obama strongly suggested that Russian President Vladimir Putin personally authorized the computer hacks of Democratic Party emails that American intelligence officials say were aimed at helping Republican Donald Trump win the Nov. 8 election.
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U.S. to disclose estimate of number of Americans under surveillance
The U.S. intelligence community will soon disclose an estimate of the number of Americans whose electronic communications have been caught in the crosshairs of online surveillance programs intended for foreigners.
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U.S. intelligence agencies feud with Republicans over Russian hacking
Republican members of Congress are complaining that U.S. intelligence agencies are refusing to brief them widely on a classified CIA report that concluded Russia hacked Democratic Party data in an effort to help Donald Trump win the presidency.
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Paul Krugman Warns of a Trump Redux of Bush’s 2003 Rush to War
“It will either exploit a real terrorist attack or involve a US version of Falklands War — picking a fight with foreign power to rally home base.”
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Hate Group Leader Calls on Trump to Lead Witch-Hunt of Pro-LGBT Officials
Trump needs to make clear “’activists’ within the State Department promoting” pro-LGBT policies “will be ferreted out and will be replaced”
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China to return seized U.S. drone, says Washington ‘hyping up’ incident
China will return an underwater U.S. drone seized by a naval vessel this week in the South China Sea, both countries said on Saturday, but Beijing complained that Washington had been “hyping up” the incident.
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It’s Crucial to Purge and Prosecute ‘Rogue’ FBI Agents Collaborating with Russia
The growing consensus is that Putin’s espionage and FBI-created “October surprise†gave Russia and FBI rogues what they wanted; a Trump White House.
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Appeals Court Opens A Narrow Path For The Electoral College To Reject Trump
Buried in a Colorado appeals court decision was a slim but possible path for Electoral College electors to reject Donald Trump.
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Intelligence Expert Explains Why Donald Trump is the Perfect KGB Recruit
Sound familiar? Malcolm Nance described the kind of person the KGB sought out to manipulate, “This is who the KGB targeted for recruitment. Egocentric people, who lack moral principles, who are either too greedy or who suffer from exaggerated self importance. These are the people KGB wants and finds easiest to recruit.”
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Cause For Concern As It Took Trump 87 Minutes to Correct His “Unpresidented” Gaffe
Kyle Griffin, producer for MSNBC’s The Last Word, pointed out, “It took Trump and his team 87 minutes to fix the word ‘unpresidented.'”
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The Next President Can’t Spell And 2 More Trump Traits That Are A National Embarrassment
Not only can president-elect Donald Trump not spell, but he makes up his own facts while being obsessed with his media coverage. All of these traits taken together form a president-elect who is a national embarrassment.
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As China Seizes US Drone, Trump Roundly Mocked for ‘Unpresidented’ Spelling Error
“China steals United States Navy research drone in international waters – rips it out of water and takes it to China in unpresidented act.”
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Donald Trump’s Middle East Policy is Shaping Up to be a Disaster
Blame Trump’s uninformed decision-making processes, which is based entirely on the faulty assumption that he is a “smart guy.â€
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EPA Report That Fracking Poisons Water Seals Its Fate
“EPA’s report confirms what experts and the science show: that fracking operations put our drinking water at risk. “
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Super PAC Connected To Paul Ryan Used Russian Material Against Dem. House Candidates
Speaker Ryan’s spokeswoman never disputed that the material used against Democratic candidates was “stolen as an act of Russian espionage
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Complaint Filed Against Russian Government And Trump For Potential Election Law Violations
Two public interest organizations, Free Speech For People and the Campaign for Accountability, have filed a complaint with the FEC requesting an immediate investigation into the whether the Russian government illegally spent money to help Trump win the presidential election.
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Senator Calls For Immediate Release Of All Materials Related To Russian Election Interference
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) is calling on the Obama administration to immediately declassify and release all materials related to Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election. Here is the full statement from Sen. Wyden: Sen. Wyden was on the money. History will not forgive those who delayed or hid the facts. By interfering in the…
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The Walls Are Closing In On Trump As FBI Agrees With CIA That Russia Helped Him Win
The FBI and the Director of National Intelligence have joined with the CIA in agreeing with the conclusion that Russia interfered with the US election to help Donald Trump.
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Obama Calls Out The Media For Not Treating Hillary Clinton Fairly During The Election
In response to a question about whether he believed that the Russian hacks cost Hillary Clinton the election, President Obama told reporters that he thought Clinton was treated unfairly and that the coverage was troubling.
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Trump Supports Using Weaponized Personal Harassment to Intimidate Electors and Journalists
Targeted harassment, personal intimidation, media censoring their own — these are weapons of silence and control in the Age of Trump. Right now, these tactics are being aimed at electors and journalists to keep them from asking questions.
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Trump Adviser Suggests If Obama Loved America More He Wouldn’t Investigate Russian Hack
Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway suggested during an interview on Fox News that if President Obama loved his country more, he wouldn’t be investigating potential Russian election interference.
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Trump is a Threat to ‘How Journalists Gather Information on a Daily Basis’
CNN’s Brian Stelter, one of those under constant attack from right-wing sources for being willing to take account of actual facts in his reporting, took to CNN’s New Day today to argue for transparency in the Trump transition.
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Democrats Fight Back To Protect President Obama’s Legacy With New Super PAC
A group of Democratic operatives who were behind the movement to draft Vice President to run for president is starting a new super PAC to help Democrats fight back against President-elect Trump, and protect the achievements of President Obama.
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The Resistance Goes Cyber As Sens. Warren And Sanders Roll Out Website On Trump Treasury Nominee
A group of Democratic Senators led by Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) launched a website inviting the American people to share their stories of how their lives were impacted by the practices of Trump’s “foreclosure king” Treasury Secretary nominee Steve Mnuchin.
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U.S. Officials Say Putin turned Russia election hacks in Trump’s favor
Russian President Vladimir Putin supervised his intelligence agencies’ hacking of the U.S. presidential election and turned it from a general attempt to discredit American democracy to an effort to help Donald Trump, according to three U.S. officials.
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Bill O’Reilly Says ‘War on Christmas’ Has Been Won But ‘Insurgents Remain’
O’Reilly says, “Don’t like Christmas? Ignore it.” Right. Like Evangelicals ignore the things they don’t like.
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Larry Kudlow, Who Assured Us All Was Well in 2007, to Be Trump Economic Adviser
“Discussion of economic policy is now monopolized by people who have been wrong about everything, have learned nothing from the experience”
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New Report Affirms That President Obama Has Been Really, Really Good For The Economy
When Donald Trump takes office next month, he will be inheriting a country in much better shape than when the current president took office in 2009. For that, he should be saying, “Thanks, Obama.”
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Trump Ditches Teleprompter, Calls Supporters ‘Wild Beasts’ At Latest Post-Election Rally
“Before the election, you people are like wild beasts, wild animals,” Trump said of his supporters.
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1 Million More Americans Sign Up For Obamacare As GOP Gleefully Prepares To Take It Away
- Democratic Party, Donald Trump, Featured News, Republican Party, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate
The Republican strategy on the health care law boils down to this: Repeal it first and figure out what to replace it with later.
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Conservatives Are Outraged Over Facebook’s Plan To Use Fact Checkers To Weed Out Fake News
A Republican Party and a conservative movement that has moved from facts to beliefs are outraged that Facebook would use a coalition of fact checkers in their effort to weed out fake news.
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Trump’s Proposed Changes To White House Press Corps Would Undermine The Flow Of Information
Members of the incoming Trump administration are floating ideas that would radically bring changes to the White House Press Corps. All of the suggested changes would benefit Trump by allowing the White House to intimidate journalists into compliance while restricting the free flow of information from the White House to the American people.
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Harry Reid Drops A Truth Bomb: Putin Was ‘Clearly” Involved in Hacking U.S. Election
Outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) charged that Russian President Vladimir Putin was “clearly, yes” involved in the election hacks. Reid added, “And his having been former head of the KGB, does that surprise you?”
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Trump Is Already Harming America By Not Properly Vetting His Nominees
President-elect Trump isn’t doing a proper vetting of his nominees for financial and conflict of interest issues. It is being reported that Trump is handing out jobs in his administration based on “gut instinct and chemistry.” The consequences of Trump’s refusal to properly vet his cabinet could do immense damage to the American people.
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Senate Democrats Hit Trump With Bill Requiring Him To Disclose and Divest Conflicts Of Interest
Senate Democrats are using the day when Donald Trump was supposed to hold his press conference explaining how is going to separate himself from his business conflicts of interest to announce legislation that would require the president and vice-president election to publicly disclose and divest all conflicts of interest.
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No Defense: Trump’s Evangelical Defenders Are as Unscrupulous as He Is
David French says, “Surrender is not an option when the human soul hangs in the balance.” How about when your soul means we lose our rights?
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Franklin Graham Praises Trump for Finding a Way to “Work With The Thugs†Like Putin
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.
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Elizabeth Warren Building Toward 2020 Run With New Senate Armed Services Post
If Warren is planning to launch a candidacy in four years, this is a smart move in bolstering her credentials.
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Republicans Show True Colors As GOP Views Putin More Favorably Than Obama
Republican opinions of Putin spiked around the same time Trump called on Russia to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails.
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Report: Putin Directly Involved In Election Hack Meant To Put Trump In The White House
“Ultimately, the CIA has assessed, the Russian government wanted to elect Donald Trump,” NBC News reported.
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Republican Senator Falls Apart And Can’t Name A Single Time That Trump Criticized Putin
CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) if he could name a single time that Trump criticized Putin. Sen. Johnson immediately broke into a song and dance about Trump will operate from a position of strength and everything is Obama’s fault.
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White House Says Trump May Have Known Russia Was Behind Hacks Before Election Day
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest suggested that Trump may have known that Russia was behind the hacks that helped his campaign long before election day.
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Facebook Announces That It Will Not Help Trump Build His Muslim Registry
Facebook has announced as company policy that they will not help President-elect Trump build his Muslim registry.
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One Final Landslide Win For Obama As 72% Think He Will Be Remembered As Average-Outstanding
A new poll by Pew Research revealed that 46% of Americans think President Obama will be remembered as an above average to outstanding president, while 26% believe he will be remembered as an average president. This means that 72% of Americans think the current president will be remembered well.
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Trump Corruption Grows As Senators Nail Education Pick For $5.3 Million In Unpaid Fines
Democratic Senators Tom Udall (D-NM), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Edward J. Markey (D-MA), and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) sent a letter to Trump’s Education Secretary nominee, Betsy DeVos, to pay the $5.3 million in fines that have been levied against her super PAC for election violations.
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Truthers Be Damned: Today Marks 4th Anniversary of Sandy Hook Shooting
Many of the victims are our children, whom we send to school each morning without any guarantee they will return home safely – or alive.
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Trump’s Promised Move of US Embassy to Jerusalem Already Underway
“Moving the embassy to the capital of the Jewish people, to Jerusalem, is a straightforward, standard thing to do.” Except it isn’t.
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ETP’s Response to Army Rejection of DAPL Easement ‘Most Dickish…Most Childish’ Ever
If you wondered what kind of Energy Secretary Rick Perry would be, now you have your answer. He would be a dickish one.
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Bombshell Report Shows FBI Knew About Russia’s DNC Hacking Since 2015
“The low-key approach of the F.B.I. meant that Russian hackers could roam freely through the committee’s network for nearly seven months before top D.N.C. officials were alerted to the attack…”
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Sellout Paul Ryan Gets Booed At Donald Trump’s Wisconsin ‘Victory Tour’ Stop
The moment came shortly after Ryan himself was at the podium and didn’t mention Trump once.
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Kasich Vetoes Heartbeat Bill While Approving Another Unconstitutional Abortion Measure
Kasich traded one extremist, anti-choice measure for another.
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U.S. Energy Department balks at Trump request for names on climate change
The U.S. Energy Department said on Tuesday it will not comply with a request from President-elect Donald Trump’s Energy Department transition team for the names of people who have worked on climate change and the professional society memberships of lab workers.
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Tech employees vow not to help Trump surveil Muslims, deport immigrants
More than 100 employees of technology companies including Alphabet Inc’s Google, Twitter Inc and Salesforce pledged on Tuesday to not help U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s administration build a data registry to track people based on their religion or assist in mass deportations.
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Trump Sets Himself Up For Impeachment With Promise Of No New Deals As President
Donald Trump’s promise that his companies won’t do any new deals once he is in office still sets the president-elect up to be violating the Constitution on day one.
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Trump Uses Kanye West To Distract From Growing Russia Election Scandal
As he is being swallowed by a scandal involving Russia meddling in the election to help him win, Donald Trump tried desperately to distract the press and change the subject by trotting out Kanye West in front of the cameras.
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The Left Roars As Bernie Sanders Mobilizes Opposition To Trump Secretary Of State Pick
By saying that Trump’s Sec. of State nominee, Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson must be opposed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) took the first step in mobilizing his millions of grassroots supporters against a Trump cabinet pick.
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Reince Priebus Says Morning Joe’s Joe and Mika ‘Speak Frequently’ to Trump
“Right. But here’s – you know that President-elect Trump — and I know you all speak frequently –“
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All Those “Real American†Patriots and Oathkeepers Are Frauds
No American patriot will ever accept or defend a leader aligned with a foreign “aggressor that consistently undermines American interests.”
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Exxon Consultants Condoleezza Rice and Robert Gates Endorse Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson
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
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End Times Pastor: Trump the Forerunner if Not the Actual Messiah Himself
We are told Trump’s “bloodline goes back to the Davidic dynasty.†In other words, a descendant of Mary, the mother of Jesus, or, worse, the family of Jesus himself
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In 2011 Rick Perry Couldn’t Remember Energy Department’s Name – Now He’ll Head It
“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”
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Mitch McConnell Says Russians Are ‘Not Our Friends,’ Announces Investigation
Saying “The Russians are not our friends,” Mitch McConnell, who once dismissed the threat of Russian hacking, has finally responded to pressure and announced that the Senate intelligence panel will conduct an investigation of Russia’s interference in the elections.
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Donald Trump Is The Biggest Loser In History To Ever Become President
Donald Trump didn’t just lose the popular vote. His margin of defeat is five times bigger than any president in US history.
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Trump Goes Into Hiding And Cancels Press Conference As Russia Investigation Gains Momentum
President-elect Donald Trump has canceled his first press conference since winning the election as calls grow for a bipartisan investigation into whether or not the Russian government interfered in the 2016 contest.
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It’s Donald Trump Not Barack Obama Who Is the Illegitimate President
The birther conspiracy contented that Obama was ineligible to be President of the United States because he was born in Kenya. So it’s very fitting that evidence has surfaced that Donald Trump is possibly illegitimate, courtesy of the Russians.
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John McCain Says There Is No Doubt That Russia Hacked The Campaigns
During an interview on CNN, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said that there is no doubt that Russia hacked the campaigns, and suggested that the investigation will focus on whether or not Russia tried to tip the election to Trump.
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The Roof Falls In On Trump As Clinton Campaign Urges Electors Get Briefed On Russian Hack
Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman is calling for all information related to the Russian hacks and interference in the US presidential election to be made public by the Obama administration.
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President Obama’s White House Shreds Trump For Supporting Russian Hacking
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest bluntly told the world that the president-elect is making excuses for Russia because Trump directly benefited from Putin’s interference in the US presidential election.
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Mitch McConnell Turns On Trump By Supporting Russia Election Meddling Investigation
Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) who was reported to have opposed a public statement on Russian election meddling in October, has turned on President-elect Donald Trump and now supports a bipartisan Senate investigation.
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Electoral College Electors Demand Intelligence Briefing On Russia Election Interference
A group of Electoral College electors sent a letter Director of National Intelligence James Clapper demanding an intelligence briefing on Russia’s interference with the 2016 election before they vote on December 19.
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It Is Time To Seriously Consider Treason Charges Against Republicans
It’s not surprising that anyone close to Trump’s campaign would have knowledge of attacks perpetrated at the hand of a foreign government.
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A Week After Boeing, Trump Attacks Lockheed, Stocks Drop
“The F-35 program and cost is out of control. Billions of dollars can and will be saved on military (and other) purchases after January 20th.”
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Carl Bernstein Says Donald Trump Has More Disdain for Facts than Richard M. Nixon
“What we have seen throughout the campaign is pathological disdain for the truth, a kind of lie, and ease with lying, that we have not seen before.”
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John Bolton Claims Russian Hacking Was a ‘False Flag Operation’ by Obama Administration
“It is not at all clear to me, just viewing this from the outside, that this hacking into the DNC and the RNC computers was not a false flag operation.â€
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Trump Surrogate Calls on FBI’s Comey to “Crackdown†on Peaceful Protests
The latest outrage, one that should alarm every American alive, is a call from a Trump acolyte in a Trump-related newspaper. The call to action was a summons for FBI Director James Comey, to use the authority of the Bureau to act as “official state police†to repress Americans exercising their First Amendment right to assemble.
