It appears that the Trump administration has been keeping a report conducted by the office of Inspector General John Roth at the Department of Homeland Security inaccessible to both Congress and the American public for several weeks.
When asked about the senatorial race between Democrat Doug Jones and Republican Roy Moore, President Trump practically endorsed Moore.
The Department of Homeland Security violated two court orders in the days after U.S. President Donald Trump issued a temporary travel ban on citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries, according to the department’s watchdog.
On Sunday, thousands marched at the National Mall in Washington D.C. to urge the Trump administration and Congress to provide more aid for Puerto Rico. Hundreds of rally-goers waved Puerto Rican flags, carried signs, and chanted “Puerto Rico, Presente” and “Puerto Rico Se Levanta” — meaning “Puerto Rico is Present” and “Puerto Rico Is Rising.”…
Donald Trump can’t even pardon a turkey without insecurely mentioning former president Barack Obama.
In December of 2016, Trump claimed he had donated millions to his foundation and that all of the money raised went to “wonderful charities.” This was after he got busted for inaccurately claiming to have donated a hundred million to charity.
But:
“Mr. Trump did not donate to his foundation in 2016 and has not done so since 2008.”
The presidential turkey pardon is supposed to be one of those light and fun moments for a president, but since Donald Trump can’t be trusted to talk without a script, the White House had to write it all down and put the speech on a giant teleprompter for Trump to read.
The allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct against Charlie Rose didn’t happen at CBS, but that didn’t stop the network from firing Rose for his “disturbing and intolerable behavior.”
In a statement that was loaded with doublespeak, FCC Chair Ajit Pai announced a vote on a plan that would put control of what internet users see and use in the hands of big Internet Service Providers like Verizon and Comcast.
A group of about a dozen U.S. State Department officials have taken the unusual step of formally accusing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson of violating a federal law designed to stop foreign militaries from enlisting child soldiers, according to internal government documents reviewed by Reuters.
The deal has been a political lightning rod since it was hatched in October 2016. During his campaign, Trump said that reporters covered him unfairly and has continued to attack CNN as president, which he has labeled as “fake news.” He has not commented on the AT&T deal since his inauguration in January.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions declined to say last week if anyone from the White House had discussed the merger with any Justice Department officials.
A federal court judge in California on Monday blocked an executive order from President Donald Trump to deny some federal grants to so-called sanctuary cities, undermining the administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration.
Three dozen women who worked with now Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) on Saturday Night Live released a statement saying that none of them ever experienced any inappropriate behavior.
The designation of North Korea as a State Sponsor of Terrorism doesn’t do anything other than ramp up tensions between the two nations.
Some advice for Donald Trump: Be nice to Elizabeth Warren; she could soon have your job.Â
Nearly 60,000 Haitians will be forced to leave the United States within the upcoming 18 months, thanks to a decision made by the Trump administration on Monday. In a press release, the Department of Homeland Security announced that it would cease shielding 59,000 Haitian immigrants from deportation through the Temporary Protected Status program. The state of…
Biden gets the support of 41 percent of likely Democratic voters in a crowded field that includes Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.
Republicans are on the verge of passing a tax plan that would both raise taxes for the majority of Americans and bust the budget wide open.
With all the pressing issues of the day, Donald Trump still finds time to engage in a twitter war with LeVar Ball, father of LiAngelo Ball.
CBS and other networks on Monday suspended Charlie Rose, one of the most prominent American interviewers, after eight women told the Washington Post he sexually harassed them and prompted Rose to apologize for his “inappropriate behavior.”
Not only did the “charitable” foundation not do much charity work, but Trump frequently used it to enrich himself, his family members, and his businesses.
Sen. Franken’s office said that the Senator has no plans to resign over the sexual harassment allegations that have been made against him.
Trump’s National Security Adviser, H.R. McMaster trashed Trump at a private dinner and said that the President Of The United States is as smart as a kindergartner. According to Buzzfeed News: Over a July dinner with Oracle CEO Safra Catz — who has been mentioned as a candidate for several potential administration jobs — McMaster…
After a second woman accused Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) of groping her, liberal groups are starting to call on him to step down.
Trump appears to be trying to have it both ways. He can’t come out and publicly support Roy Moore because then Trump’s own background of sexual assault allegations once again becomes a topic of conversation. At the same time, Trump knows that Doug Jones will be a no vote on his tax bill. Trump needs Moore’s yes vote. Jones is also in favor women’s reproductive rights and marriage equality. Neither of which are things that evangelic conservatives support.
Beyonce’s hit album “Lemonade” and world tour made her the highest-paid woman in music in 2017, according to an annual Forbes list on Monday, edging out Britain’s Adele and pop star Taylor Swift.
Fox News is preparing to cause conflict among millions of families this Thanksgiving by publishing a story that doubts the authenticity of the moon landing.
A heavily scripted Donald Trump could barely read the words placed in front of him as he tried to tout his tax cuts for the rich before a cabinet meeting.
White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway told Fox News viewers on Fox and Friends to vote for accused pedophile Roy Moore so that Donald Trump can cut taxes for the rich.
Democrats are getting set to unleash a series of ads that will make Republicans pay a heavy price for supporting the tax cuts for the rich scam.
Nebraska regulators will announce their decision on Monday on whether to approve TransCanada Corp’s Keystone XL pipeline route through the state, the last big hurdle for the long-delayed project.
Donald Trump flipped out on the NFL on Monday morning. It has to be driving him crazy that no matter how hard he tries to ruin the NFL, Trump’s ratings are down three times more than the league’s TV numbers.
Loyalty in most cases is a noble and endearing quality when given to those who have earned it by embodying righteousness, fairness, and truth. However, loyalty blindly imparted in politics is a dangerous and deadly cancer within the body of democracy. Alabama Governor, Kay Ivey, is a prime example of a misguided and twisted loyalty that has lasting pervasive ramifications in a country deep in the throes of turmoil.
Donald Trump who has the lowest approval ratings in history took to Twitter to proclaim himself “your favorite president.”
More Russia bombshells are set to drop as Special Counsel Robert Mueller is pursuing Trump campaign meetings and contacts with foreign officials that have not been made public.
After Republicans may have destroyed their chances of keeping the House in 2018 by including a repeal of the ACA individual mandate in the tax cut bill, Trump’s White House now says it’s no big deal if Obamacare repeal isn’t included in the bill.
It was too cold to play golf on Sunday so Donald Trump spent the day ranting about how he should have let three UCLA basketball players stay in jail in China because they will not suck up to him.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said during an interview on CNN’s State Of The Union that the nation has a sexual harassment crisis and that the goal is to change US culture, not to relitigate the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal.
14 female staffers who worked for Al Franken are speaking out and saying that the Senator from Minnesota treated them with the utmost respect and was a champion for women.
White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney made a promise that is destined to come back to haunt Trump as he vowed that the President wouldn’t sign a bill that increases taxes on the middle class.
It doesn’t matter what the issue is. Right-wing Christians have been placing the priorities of the party before the tenants of the faith for decades. However, now they are reaching ever new extremes, emboldened by Donald Trump’s presidency and Republican control of Congress.
Almost 200 nations kept a 2015 global agreement to tackle climate change on track on Saturday after marathon talks overshadowed by U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out.
The U.S. Congress is hurtling toward some major tax, budget and other policy deadlines. Some are hard and some are flexible, with the end of 2017 approaching. Here is the Capitol Hill outlook for what promises to be a turbulent November-December.
Donald Trump’s latest tweet about Hillary Clinton marked the 56th time that the President has tweeted about the woman that he lost the popular vote to in 2016.
The embrace of Trumpism may play well to the base in the short term, but it’s a recipe for long-term disaster.Â
First of all, no. Absolutely not. Trump deserves no credit, no round of applause, and no favorable coverage for his decision to reverse his own decision.
According to the right-wing pastor, it’s okay if we elect immoral leaders because “Jesus was the only perfect man who walked the earth.”
“Look at the contrast between Al Franken, accepting responsibility, apologizing, and Roy Moore and Donald Trump who have done neither,” Clinton said.
President Donald Trump has begun paying his own legal bills related to the Russia investigation and will no longer cover the costs using political donations to his reelection campaign or the Republican Party, his attorneys confirmed on Friday.
The Senate committee searching for Clinton’s alleged wrongdoing is keeping their witness’s name cloaked. However, William D. Campbell, a lobbyist, confirmed to Reuters he is the informant who will testify and provide documents to Congress about the Obama Administration’s 2010 approval of the sale of Uranium One, a Canadian company with uranium mines in the United States, to Russia’s Rosatom.
The White House has privately admitted that Trump is afraid to say anything publicly about Roy Moore because of the allegations of sexual assault and sexual harassment that have been against him.
The Cook Political Report has updated their ratings of seven House races with six of them moving toward Democrats, which is another sign that Speaker of the House Paul Ryan is close to losing his job.
Americans will sit down next week for what has become a holiday tradition in the United States: tiptoeing through a turkey dinner without mentioning the president.
Ohio Democrat Bill O’Neill wants you ladies to stop with the sexual assault complaints, or as he calls them, “sexual indiscretions.” He is “sooooo disappointed by this national feeding frenzy about sexual indiscretions decades ago.”
With Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska making it clear that she is a no vote, the Republican tax cuts for the rich are at risk of dying in the Senate.
The wife of Republican Alabama U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore said on Friday her husband would not end his campaign in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations, dismissing reports about his past behavior toward some women as political attacks.
The truth that the Trump family has been trying to hide is finally coming out as a Trump building in Panama has ties to drug trafficking and Russian organized crime.
The proposed repeal of the state and local tax (SALT) deduction is part of an “assault on local governments” by Republicans in Washington, said Elizabeth Kautz, the Republican mayor of Burnsville, Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
Jared Kushner’s lawyer failed to give the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee documents President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser received about a “Russian backdoor overture and dinner invite,” the committee’s leaders said on Thursday.
Former female staffers who worked for Sen. Al Franken issued a joint statement praising Sen. Franken for treating them with the utmost respect when they worked for him.
As the Senate Finance Committee was marking up the Republican tax cut bill, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) caused Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) to explode with rage by telling Republicans that this tax cut isn’t really for the middle class. It’s for the rich, and Republicans should drop the sarcasm and tell the truth about the tax cut.
The last person in the world who should be talking about sexual harassment is Donald Trump, but that didn’t stop the sexual predator in chief from attacking Sen. Al Franken.
The move by Mueller suggests that, while the Trump campaign claims to be “voluntarily” handing over all Russia-related documentation, they aren’t being fully forthcoming.
Trump issued a permit in March for Keystone XL’s construction – something that former President Barack Obama and other environmental activists had warned could do more harm than good.
The Fox News survey is a clear indication that the Republican Party’s problems aren’t limited to Roy Moore’s collapsing candidacy – it’s far greater than that.Â
One thing is definitely going right for U.S. President Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans who control Congress: they are steadily getting conservatives appointed as judges, advancing their long-held ambition of reshaping the federal judiciary.
A new Fox News poll shows Democrat Doug Jones leading Republican Roy Moore by 8 points as Alabama voters say that want a candidate that will represent the state with honor.
Sens Chuck Grassley and Dianne Feinstein wrote in an explosive letter published Thursday that Jared Kushner failed to produce emails that show that members of the Trump campaign were in touch with Sergei Millian and copied Kushner.
Reporters took apart Roy Moore at a campaign event, as his campaign refused to allow the candidate to speak to reporters and answer questions about the allegations that he sexually assaulted underage girls.
Page, an oil industry consultant with numerous contacts in Russia, told Reuters in a text message that he delivered the documents to the Senate and House intelligence committees.
“Just dropped irrelevant and unnecessary documents off for the Witch Hunt,†Page said in his text. “On to bigger and better things now.â€
Without the backlash to Donald Trump’s presidency — a thing built on the backbone of his own admission on tape that he sexually assaults women whenever he wants to and 16 women coming forward to say that Trump harassed and/or assaulted them — we would not be here right now…
… Having sometimes heartbreaking discussions about the predators among us.
Democrats could be seen waving goodbye to their House Republican colleagues after the vote after they voted for tax cuts for the rich.
The woman accusing Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) of sexual harassment, Leeann Tweeden, said that she does not think Franken should step down, but she might change her mind if more women come forward.
House Republicans passed their bill cutting taxes for the wealthy and corporations while taking healthcare away from 13 million.
Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) has apologized and requested a Senate ethics investigation into the allegation that he sexually harassed, Leeann Tweeden, a Los Angeles radio anchor.
Trump claimed the Trump Organization was worth $9.5 billion, but according to new filings, his business is worth $600-$700 million.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) made the absurd claim that Republicans are killing Obamacare so that they can cut more taxes for the middle-class. McConnell is a lie.
Pope Francis condemned on Thursday inequality in healthcare, particularly in rich countries, saying governments had a duty to protect all citizens.
North Carolina Senators Richard Burr and Thom Tillis said they will not support the Trump administration’s nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) chemical safety office, media reports said.
With the world crumbling around his administration, Donald Trump thought now would be a good time to encourage the killing of African elephants.Â
The newspaper noted that a dozen people they spoke to remember Moore frequently “walking around alone, leaning on counters, spending enough time in the stores, especially on weekend nights.”
The Senate has reached a bipartisan agreement on legislation that would strengthen background checks by offering states incentives to strengthen the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
Dozens of votes that could decide control of the Virginia House of Delegates may be left uncounted because the postal service didn’t deliver them on time.
Senate Republicans admitted that the real reason why they are trying to repeal the individual mandate in the tax cut bill is that it gives them more money to give a bigger tax cut to corporations.
With no end in sight and no guarantee that more women won’t come forward over the final weeks of this hotly contested Senate race, Roy Moore may soon have no choice but to step aside.
Fox News was not happy as Trump promised a major announcement and instead offered an how I spent my Asia trip speech.
This was not a good look for Trump, as the President stopped in the middle of his remarks about his Asia trip, said, “they don’t have water,” found a bottle of water, took a drink, then continued reading his speech.
A poll by the National Republican Senatorial Committee shows Democrat Doug Jones now leading Roy Moore by 12 points in the Alabama Senate election.
Polling shows that Trump’s tax cuts for the wealthy are being soundly rejected who see through the plan as nothing more than a scam to give rich people more money.
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) says that Senators are close to a big breakthrough on bipartisan legislation on guns.
The Russia dossier has come back to haunt Donald Trump as author Christopher Steele says the dossier is 70%-90% accurate.
Trump just returned from a 12 day trip to Asia, and he immediately complained because he had to watch CNN instead of Fox News.
Donald Trump is supposed to be serving the public, but he thinks that three UCLA basketball players should be thanking him for getting them out of an accusation that they stole sunglasses while in China. Trump showed that he has no idea what public service means by tweeting: Do you think the three UCLA Basketball…
U.S. lawmakers may have to pass another stop-gap spending bill in order to keep the federal government operating Dec. 8 when existing money runs out, U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan told reporters on Tuesday.
A year after Donald Trump was elected president on a promise to revive the ailing U.S. coal industry, the sector’s long-term prospects for growth and hiring remain as bleak as ever.
A new poll shows Republican Roy Moore leading the Alabama Senate race, but he has lost nearly half of his support and has seen his lead shrink to six points over Democrat Doug Jones.
The House of Representatives will adopt mandatory training on sexual harassment and discrimination, Speaker Paul Ryan said on Tuesday after members of Congress shared stories of women being propositioned and groped in the halls of the U.S. Capitol.
During an interview on MSNBC’s All In With Chris Hayes, Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) said that Attorney General Jeff Sessions lied under oath to the House Judiciary Committee.
Here’s a clip of Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) literally fleeing down the stairs to escape from ABC News’ Tom Llamas’ question about whether he believes Roy Moore’s accusers.
