Bernie Sanders Busts The Media For Pushing Trump Lies About The Recount
When ABC News’s Martha Raddatz pushed a Trump lie about the recount to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Sanders shot back with the facts and set the mainstream media straight.
When ABC News’s Martha Raddatz pushed a Trump lie about the recount to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Sanders shot back with the facts and set the mainstream media straight.
President-elect Donald Trump is enraged and viewing the recount as a personal insult. The problem is that it was Trump himself who raised doubts about the integrity of US elections by complaining that the election was going to be stolen from him.
If only this were a movie and not a metastasizing reality threatening the deepest values of our democracy, the welfare of every citizen, and our standing in a globalized world.
Protesters opposed to an oil pipeline planned to run beneath a lake near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota must vacate an area where thousands of demonstrators have been camped by Dec. 5 or face prosecution, according to U.S. authorities.
Efforts to undermine unions diminish democratic operations in our schools and disempower those who are most attuned to what our children need.
President-elect Donald Trump on Friday chose Washington insider Donald McGahn to be his White House counsel, giving him the job of untangling potential conflicts of interest that the New York businessman’s presidency may present.
“Do you vote against the greater evil if you don’t happen to like the other candidate? The answer to that is yes, if you have any moral understanding”
An overwhelming majority of Mexicans hold a negative view of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, but most believe their own president should meet with him to defend the country’s interests, an opinion poll showed.
Trump loves Putin, hates on Castro, while Putin points out “Castro was a sincere and reliable friend of Russia.â€
DeVos has the potential to undermine progress by diverting resources and failing to uphold government’s responsibility to protect the needs of students.
“This recount is just a way for Jill Stein…to fill her coffers with money…a scam by the Green Party for an election that has already been conceded”
“My campaign’s goal: Transparent election processes to ensure election results can be verified—that every vote counts”
“I join the many Cuban Americans who supported me so greatly in the presidential campaign, including the Brigade 2506 Veterans Association that endorsed me…”
An election fraud complaint has been filed with the Wisconsin Elections Commission after it was uncovered that more people voted in the presidential race than the total number of votes in 4 precincts in Wisconsin.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign will participate in the election recounts in three critical swing states that have been and will be filed for by Jill Stein. However, the Clinton camp doesn’t expect the recounts to change the election results.
For the Sioux, this is being treated like trespassers on their own land, and according to the 1851 and 1868 Fort Laramie Treaties, this IS their own land
The man has been dubbed “Putin’s favorite congressman.”
If this pattern remains consistent across the state, it’s feasible – though unclear how likely – that Clinton could end up on top in the state.
This week Friday Fox Follies exposes the 2 biggest lies told on Fox, interesting internal internecine insurgencies, and the usual hypocrisy.
Spoiler alert: The richest 1 percent of Americans would benefit most from Trump’s proposal.
Jill Stein and the Green Party have officially filed a request to have the ballots in the 2016 presidential election in Wisconsin recounted.
By tapping into those economic worries, Trump captured about two-thirds of whites with no college degree, exit polls showed. That helped him gain the razor-thin margin of victory he needed in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan – all picked up by President Barack Obama in 2012 – to win the Electoral College, despite losing the popular vote.
After easily passing her initial fundraising goal to pay for recounts in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, the Green Party’s Jill Stein has upped the amount of money she says she will need, and changed some of the fine print on her fundraising page.
A new app allows consumers to boycott the 250 companies that have connections to Donald Trump while they do their Christmas shopping.
Since the project is worth $3.8 billion, you can bet the Sioux of Standing Rock are not going to get a fair shake from the president-elect
“The question for us is will Trump as president use the power he has to interfere — given that he has a financial interest in the outcome of these matters.”
“Unless a Starbucks cup is
A) Threatening to murder you &
B) Somehow seems to have the ability to do so
Then some of you are overreacting
“He told people that he would make Germany great again. He blamed Jews, Socialists, Communists, and others for the troubles of the land.”
This is especially troubling given Trump’s utter lack of knowledge when it comes to foreign affairs.
The money already raised is enough to secure a recount in at least one state – Wisconsin – whose filing deadline is Nov. 25.
In one choice, Trump managed to abandon yet another campaign promise, while upsetting teachers unions and his most loyal supporters.
With calls from election security experts growing, the Green Party has announced that they will be filing for a recount in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania to help Hillary Clinton win an election that they believe was hacked.
“The left, whether it’s Black Lives Matter or La Raza…Groups that identify themselves by race provoked this group to identify by race”
President Obama did his last ever turkey pardon today in the Rose Garden, which also served as a reminder of how good this man has been as the nation’s commander in chief.
“Our parents’ generation made huge sacrifices to defeat those ideas and values in the Second World War. What you did…betrays the sacrifices of that generation.”
Election security expert J. Alex Halderman makes a compelling case for why Hillary Clinton needs to challenge the election results to ensure the integrity of our voting system.
Not only will 47% of Donald Trump’s proposed tax cuts go to the top one percent, but his tax plan will raise taxes on 26 million Americans who are part of 8.5 million low-income families.
Citing various conflicts of interest, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) are calling for a federal investigation by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) into the use of taxpayer funds to pay for Trump’s presidential transition.
“What, if anything, distinguishes the alt-right from more hidebound racist movements such as the American Nazi Party and the Ku Klux Klan. The answer is very little.”
There is a method to Trump’s madness, of course. If Haley becomes UN Ambassador, a Trump ally, Lt. Gov. Henry McMaster, will replace her.
Attack dogs, mace, pepper spray, beatings, bullets, water cannons, and arrest have all been used on pipeline protesters at Standing Rock
In one hour, Trump walked away from many of the themes central to his campaign.
Democrats are prepared to stand up to the huge threat that a Trump presidency represents.
Trump never had any intention of locking Hillary Clinton up because he knew she broke no laws.
A group of prominent computer scientists and election lawyers have found irregularities in results in at least three swing states, and they are urging Hillary Clinton and her campaign to challenge the results of the 2016 presidential election.
The non-partisan experts at Issue One, a non-partisan, non-profit dedicated to reducing the issue of money in politics are calling out President-elect Trump from placing himself above the law and the Constitution during his interview with The New York Times.
The media sold the reaction to leaving his meeting with The New York Times as cheers, but the video shows Trump being booed in public in New York City.
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.”
The saga of the on again, off again, on again, Trump meeting with The New York Times took a compelling turn as the Times reported that Trump initially canceled the meeting after his Chief of Staff Reince Priebus lied to him because he feared that Trump was in way over his head.
Donald Trump’s foundation appears to have done the very thing Trump accused Hillary Clinton of being corrupt over. With the same person. And he did it while running for president.
What the President-elect first signaled during his 60 Minutes interview has become a reality as the incoming Trump administration has broken their promise to Republicans to investigate Hillary Clinton.
“For the first time in history, we elected a president whose only experience is rooted in those businesses we don’t really know anything about.”
“Donald Trump promised to change Washington’s culture of self-dealing, and if he wants to succeed he’s going to have to make a sacrifice and lead by example.”
“Great meetings will take place today at Trump Tower concerning the formation of the people who will run our government for the next 8 years”
“The American citizen and pensioner Friedrich Trump, currently residing in Kallstadt, is hereby informed that he is to depart the state of Bavaria, or face deportationâ€
“The Holocaust did not begin with killing; it began with words. The Museum calls on all American citizens…to confront racist thinking and divisive hateful speech.”
This is what America has gotten itself into. It is being reported that President-elect Trump raged at NBC News because they showed photographs of his multiple chins during their campaign coverage.
Instead of accepting the wishes of North Carolina voters, McCrory is shamefully trying to discredit and ignore them.
There are some things that just aren’t up for debate. This is one of them.
This is Donald Trump’s America now – and he must own it.
Instead of leaving his safe space, Trump remained in post-election hiding to make his first major, post-election remarks.
The members of the networks expected to negotiate presidential press access during their meeting with the President-elect. What they got was a Trump-style temper tantrum where his disrespect for the free press was on full display.
In a savvy political move, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) outsmarted President-elect by reintroducing his own $1 trillion infrastructure spending bill, which offers Democrats an alternative to the Trump plan that Sanders labeled a “scam.”
Donald Trump’s team is claiming that he is too busy to hold a press conference and answer questions from journalists.
The New York Times’ Jeremy Peters asked President-elect Donald Trump’s Senior Adviser Kellyanne Conway if Trump was breaking any laws, and she accused him of being “negative.”
Television network bosses fueled the public’s distrust of their reporting by going to Trump Tower and holding a secret off the record meeting with President-elect.
The question now is who will save us from the potential sell-off of America to foreign interests? Congressional Republicans will, if they have any integrity at all.
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.
Once he leaves office, Barack Obama will be the one Democrat capable of leading the party, and during his press conference in Peru, the President strongly suggested that he is not about to go quietly into retirement and allow his legacy to be dismantled by Trump and the GOP.
It isn’t just the popular vote that Donald Trump lost. According to a new Pew Research Poll, the American people preferred Hillary Clinton’s campaign to Donald Trump’s. Republicans have a big problem because most Americans prefer the candidate who won’t be president by multiple measurements.
“We’re about to enter, or may already have entered, an era of corrupt governance unprecedented in U.S. history.”
The news media really has a very simple job; report the truth even if it is reporting the truth that a presidential candidate is a liar.
“An MP has highlighted the growth in far-right extremism in the UK, saying young neo-Nazis are becoming a bigger problem than Islamist extremists.”
“Equal time? Election is over. There is no more equal time. Now u try 2 b Pres + ppl respond. That’s pretty much it.”
According to the 2016 National Popular Vote Tracker, Hillary Clinton’s popular vote lead over Donald Trump has now surged past 1.7 million votes.
These Trump appointments of extreme racists and religious bigots do not bode well for any Americans who are not white and not Christian.
During an interview on Fox News’s Media Buzz program, Megyn Kelly accused several members of the media of coordinating “hits” on Trump with his campaign, while secretly being in the bag for the Republican nominee.
The press continues to disappoint the American people by refusing to hold Trump accountable and ask him serious questions.
Those Americans who are arguing that Donald Trump is not their president got new ammo for their argument from the latest vote count data that shows Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump by more than 1.5 million votes.
Senate Democratic Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) shifted away from the overly positive talk of working with Donald Trump by promising to fight Trump tooth and nail during an interview on ABC’s This Week.
Mike Pence squashed President-Elect Trump’s outrage at the cast of Hamilton by telling Fox News Sunday that he wasn’t offended by the cast’s post-performance comments to him.
Chuck Todd had a chance to challenge incoming Trump chief of staff Reince Priebus on a contradictory answer about a potential Muslim registry, but instead the Meet The Press moderator bowed down to the new administration, and gave Trump a free pass.
Donald Trump isn’t the only person in the Trump family who doesn’t seem to keen on the actual work of the office he ran for. Future First Lady Melania Trump is also going to be a part-time First Lady, according to a report in the New York Post.
“I am ordering the State Police to put together a special unit to address the explosion of hate crimes in our state,” Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Sunday morning, while speaking at Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem.
On Fox News Sunday, Laura Ingraham confirmed that she is being considered as Trump White House Press Secretary.
Concerns over President-elect Trump’s potential free speech suppression should only grow after the President-Elect criticized a Saturday Night Live sketch and asked for “equal time” to respond to satire.
With each announcement the shock and trauma of what’s happening to this country, the civil rights of its citizens, and future of the free press is felt all over again.
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.
Is there a minimum wage of whiteness? When will those whites, of all classes…cease to feel a benefit of racism and see a benefit in solidarity?
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has often boasted about the strict confidentiality pledges he exacts from his employees. Now a legal challenge to one of those agreements is pending before a U.S. agency over which he will soon have influence, potentially posing an early test of concerns about conflicts of interest between Trump’s public role and his business empire.
Trump advisor completely dismisses “the well-established existence of endocrine-disrupting chemicals as a myth conjured by anti-chemical activists.”
Democratic attorneys general in at least five U.S. states have vowed to fight President-elect Donald Trump in the courts if he rolls back Obama-era regulations or adopts policies they view as infringing upon civil liberties.
Chinese state media warned U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday against flip-flopping on trade deals in Asia, as Asia-Pacific leaders gathered for a summit amid fears that growing protectionism will stunt global economic growth.
“The irony of the #BoycottHamilton movement is that it’s mostly folks who already boycott both hip-hop and knowledge of history.”
“Our goal is to connect people with the stories they find most meaningful, and we know people want accurate information.”
“Russia has perfected political warfare using cyber assets and apparently decided to apply these tactics so American democracy itself was hacked.”
Donald Trump’s infrastructure plan that some Democrats said that they might be able to support is not an infrastructure bill at all. Trump’s plan is not to spend government money on job-creating projects but to give tax cuts to contractors and the construction sector.
Journalists are expressing concern that President-elect Donald Trump’s tweets attacking the cast of Hamilton are a signal of how the next president intends to suppress free speech.
There is a Trump resistance movement building among Obama loyalists, and President Obama himself will be joining the organized push back against Trump after Inauguration Day.