Donald Trump reminded the nation why he is the least popular first-year president in history by releasing hate-filled message wishing the country a happy new year.
Carl Bernstein said that his White House sources are telling him that Trump’s lawyers are intentionally lying to him because he is out of control and they are trying to keep him from getting impeached for firing Mueller.
As 2017 ends, CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin offered a simple preview of the three questions about the Russia investigation that terrify Trump.
Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos told an Australian diplomat in May 2016 that Russia had political dirt on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, the New York Times reported.
Dan Gilroy’s 2017 film Roman J. Israel, Esquire, starring Denzel Washington and still lingering in theaters, has either been critically panned or just plain overlooked.
North Korea remains unmoved by President Trump’s apocalyptic threats to “totally destroy” it. The Korean Central News Agency released a new statement reiterating the regime’s intention to continue developing and testing nuclear weapons in the upcoming year. “Do not expect any change in [North Korea’s] policy,” the statement said. “Its entity as an invincible power can…
The New York Times reported Saturday that George Papadopoulos inadvertently kickstarted the Russia investigation after saying too much to top Australian diplomat Alexander Downer during “a night of heavy drinking” in May 2016. Papadopoulos was Trump’s former foreign policy adviser; in October, he admitted to lying to the FBI about his communication with Russian nationals and pleaded…
Erica Garner — who entered the national spotlight in 2014 after her father, Eric Garner, was killed by a police officer who kept him locked in a chokehold despite Garner saying “I can’t breathe” 11 times — has died at the age of 27. She spent the last week of her life hospitalized after suffering…
With very little for this president to hang his hat on after a year of occupying the White House, it’s no surprise that Trump resorts to telling blatant falsehoods to get him through the day.
Trump has spent one-third of his short presidency at one of his ritzy country clubs and more than a quarter of his time on a golf course.
“He is not a king! He is a president in a constitutional model of government.”
Trump staged a photo op at his Florida golf course that was designed to use the presidency to promote his business.
We’re welcoming the new year at PoliticusUSA by giving away a copy of Peter Baker’s acclaimed biography Obama: The Call Of History for free.
Trump’s Obama insecurity is boundless, as he has falsely claimed that he and the former president have the same approval rating.
Trump admitted that he is using Dreamers as hostages as part of a scheme to get Democrats to pay for his wall.
The poll Trump bragged about on Thursday shows that 53 percent of the country thinks he hasn’t done a good job.Â
In an impromptu interview with the New York Times, Trump said, “I have the absolute right to do what I want to do with the Justice Department.”
One Democratic representative called Trump a “child who hates science class.”
“Here is my promise to you: I may be leaving the Senate, but I’m not giving up my voice,” the popular Democratic senator said.
Trump’s ignorance on this subject is obvious, but it’s neither new nor is it surprising.
In a political moment when the American president not only stokes the fires of sexism, racism, and the hate they represent but also seems to embody these values, Martin McDonagh’s 2017 film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, in its thoughtful, sympathetic, and loving approach to understanding hate, could not be more timely. Condemning the hate…
CNN ripped Trump for spending a third straight day golfing after he promised America that he would get back to work after Christmas.
In what should be viewed as a tactical move with a potential eye on 2020, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo trashed the Republican tax cut for the rich as a tax on blue states.
Alabama officials on Thursday certified Democrat Doug Jones the winner of the state’s U.S. Senate race, after a state judge denied a legal challenge by Republican Roy Moore, whose campaign was derailed by accusations of sexual misconduct with teenage girls.
The governor of New York said on Thursday that the state was considering restructuring its tax code in response to a federal tax overhaul bill that recently became law, which he said may be unconstitutional.
The latest aspect of Mueller’s probe could show how widespread and hands-on the coordination was between Russia and the president’s team.
Trump made it all about himself, like usual, and in the process, he told one of his favorite lies that he’s the most accomplished president in modern history.Â
Trump will try to paint Flynn as a liar, but it’ll be a tough sell given all the praise he has heaped on the ex-national security adviser.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski has been accused by a singer of slapping her buttocks without her consent at a party in November.
MSNBC’s Katy Tur left former Trump campaign adviser Michael Caputo stumbling by asking a simple question about Trump and Russian election interference.
Former U.S. president Barack Obama said the way people communicate via social media risked splintering society and leaders had to ensure the Internet did not cocoon users within their own biases.
Gallup has revealed their yearly most admired man and woman poll for 2017, and Barack Obama beat Trump to be named the most admired man in America. Obama is the second former president to beat a current president for the honor.
Mika Brzezinski and her Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough have both been attacked by Donald Trump on Twitter this year, and in a new interview with POLITICO, Brzezinski revealed how being singled out by the president of the United States has multiplied the hate she gets and has taken the joy out of her job. Trump lashed out against Brzezinski…
Earlier this month, President Trump fired off a tweet insinuating that New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has in the past offered him sexual favors in exchange for campaign contributions. Trump’s attack came after Gillibrand called on him to resign as a consequence for the sexual assault and harassment allegations that have been lodged against him by…
The Library of Congress announced Tuesday that it would be no longer be wasting its resources by trying to archive every single public post published on Twitter. The library embarked on its effort to preserve public tweets in 2010 after Twitter gifted it with a record of all public posts from 2006-2010; all future tweets…
U.S. home sales will likely take a hit next year as middle-class Americans receive fewer perks under an overhaul of U.S. taxes and face rising home prices and interest rates, industry experts said.
As 2017 draws to a close, Donald Trump has blown the record for presidential first year vacation days out of the water. Trump spent nearly one-third (111 days) of his first year in office on vacation. In contrast, Barack Obama took 26 vacation days during the first year of his presidency.
Eight northeastern states on Tuesday said they sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to force it to impose more stringent controls on a group of mostly Midwestern states whose air pollution they claim is being blown in their direction.
A growing number of pregnant women are using marijuana, and the habit is expanding fastest among teens and young adults, a U.S. study suggests.
Republican Rep. Francis Rooney (R-FL) openly called for a purge of the FBI and DOJ as nervousness that the end is near for Trump is sweeping through the Republican Party.
Trump’s post-Christmas Twitter tantrum about the Russia dossier gave Special Counsel Robert Mueller a huge reason to dive even deeper into the allegations that Trump was courted and turned by Russia.
It looks like Republican Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona might be challenging Trump for the presidency in 2020. Flake announced in October he intended not to run for re-election in 2018. On Sunday, during an appearance on ABC’s This Week, Flake responded to the question of whether he would be challenging President Trump in the…
Despite recent reports that the Russia investigation could last “at least another year,” Trump and his lawyers are still convinced that it’s winding down and will end soon. Jay Sekulow, one of Trump’s lawyers, was quoted in a Wall Street Journal report Monday repeating the belief that his client would be let off the hook…
A man claiming to be the person who delivered a gift-wrapped package of horse manure at the Los Angeles home of U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Monday he did it to protest the federal tax overhaul signed into law last week by President Donald Trump.
A supposed freelance journalist going by the name of “Alice Donovan” with bylines in at least 10 different news outlets has been revealed to be a Russian troll who spent the election season pushing anti-Hillary Clinton narratives. After Trump entered office, “Alice” has continued to write for multiple publications, with her stories focusing on foreign…
Celebrants of the recent tax bill have claimed, echoing Trump’s top economic advisors, that the massive corporate tax cut will indeed trickle down or, to mix metaphors, serve as the proverbial rising tide that will lift all boats. CNBC’s Patti Domm was quick to validate this exuberant claim, pointing to announcements from Wells Fargo and…
Sen. Flake (R-AZ) said that the crowds that turn out for Republicans are the spasms of dying party and that the anger of older white men can only carry the GOP so far. He added that voters have figured out that the Republican Party stands for nothing else.
It is Christmas Eve in America, and the President Of The United States is having a meltdown because the FBI is closing in on him and his campaign’s Russia scandal crimes.
Trump told the truth about his tax cut while spending taxpayer money at his private club in Florida, as he told his rich friends that the tax cut bill he signed into law just made them a lot richer.
On CNN’s State Of The Union, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) explained that Democrats are will elections all across the country because Trump is a national referendum and people are rising up to vote no.
Over the last July 4 holiday, in an infamous moment inspiring public outrage, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was captured on film enjoying a public beach with his family. His family were the only ones on the beach, as the beach had been closed to the public because the state, due largely to a Christie…
Andrew McCabe, who’s served as director of the FBI since May after Trump fired James Comey, is retiring in roughly 90 days, according to The Washington Post. The decision comes after continual attacks from Republicans and President Trump over that past half year. Comey responded to the news with a rare post on social media….
Sexist emails insulting Miss America contestants written by the pageant’s CEO, Sam Haskell, were published in a Thursday report by HuffPost. On Saturday, after suspending Haskell on Friday, Miss America’s board of directors revealed in a statement that he had resigned: This afternoon, the Board of Directors of the Miss America Organization accepted the resignation…
According to a New York Times report published Saturday, President Trump made multiple racist remarks in the Oval Office earlier this year about different immigrant groups, including those who come from Haiti, Nigeria, and Afghanistan. Two sources told the Times that in June, during a meeting covering immigration, Trump said that Haitian immigrants “all have AIDS. 
There is simply no way to justify this massive redistribution of wealth from bottom and middle-income earners to the richest people in America, including the President of the United States.Â
If it makes him feel better, his father’s presidency hasn’t just been bad for his family’s business. It’s been devastating for the country, too.
“Corporations are swimming in money. Stocks are up 18% this year. They’re at record highs. … We are financing through the deficit a tax cut to the one sector of society that absolutely didn’t need it.”
Instead of bringing down Robert Mueller and ending the Russia investigation with his smear campaign against the Special Counsel, Trump has provided more evidence to law enforcement for an obstruction of justice case against him.
One hallmark of Donald Trump’s presidency to date has been his ignorant blustering about the office he holds, notoriously over-reaching in his assertions of power and bumping up against the checks and balances our founders put in place precisely to protect our democratic institutions against bullying tyrants such as Trump has proven himself to be….
Dozens of former elected Republican officials and former federal prosecutors are rallying to defend Special Counsel Robert Mueller against attacks from Trump and his allies.
MSNBC tore into Trump for only holding one press conference during his entire time as president.
Some said they were disappointed with the Republican Party’s handling of healthcare and tax reform as well as Trump’s erratic performance. About half also felt that despite an improving economy, living costs are squeezing the middle class.
“We will not stand by and allow Fox News and right-wing Republicans to defy the rule of law and create their own rules to interfere with the legitimate investigation under the Constitution of the United States,” California Democrat Maxine Waters said during a press conference Thursday.
Legislation to provide $81 billion in new disaster aid for U.S. states, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands was put on hold by the Senate on Thursday amid attacks from both Republicans and Democrats.
The case for obstruction of justice against this president continues to grow, and it may have just reached a point of no return.
“Trump’s very much in line here with what you’d expect to see from a president whose party takes a shellacking in a midterm election.”
Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe confirmed James Comey’s explosive testimony that Trump demanded his loyalty.
NBC’s Katy Tur dismantled Republican Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) simply by asking him why the top 1% get 80% of the benefit from the Republican tax cut plan.
Republican senators will head home for a long holiday break proud of the tax relief they passed for their donors, while those still recovering from deadly natural disasters see no relief at all.
We’re celebrating Christmas at PoliticusUSA by giving away a copy of Lawrence O’Donnell’s new book Playing With Fire: The 1968 Election And The Transformation Of American Politics.
Trump has been doing everything in his power to kill the ACA, but the American people spoke loudly when 8.8 million of them defied his sabotage and signed up.
More than 120 countries defied President Donald Trump on Thursday and voted in favor of a United Nations General Assembly resolution calling for the United States to drop its recent recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
As Republicans scramble to avert yet another GOP government shutdown by midnight on Friday, Democratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) warned them that if they want Democratic help, they will need to show some respect via concessions.
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) talked about the threat that Trump poses and vowed to fight to his death to save US democracy from Trump.
Now he is actually glorying in telling the American people that he intentionally tried to deceive them to smuggle unpopular legislation harmful to the American people through Congress.
On Fox and Friends, Ivanka Trump showed she’s as clueless as her father by repeated the widely debunked lie that the American people will now be able to file their taxes on a postcard.
he top Democrat on the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee, responding to escalating Republican attacks on Special Counsel Robert Mueller, said on Wednesday that if President Donald Trump fires Mueller, it “has the potential to provoke a constitutional crisis.”
Jared Bernstein, the former economic adviser to Vice President Biden, laid out three big myths that Republicans are trying to sell about their tax cuts for the rich.
“Be careful what you wish for,” Tom Steyer, a Democratic billionaire, said of Republican leaders in an interview with Reuters on Wednesday. “They wanted this, they should have never have wanted it. Now that they’ve got it, they’re going to wish they didn’t.”
The question is no longer whether the behavior of these Republicans is going to cause long-lasting damage to U.S. democracy – it’s how much damage will it cause.Â
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) had a blunt warning for Donald Trump that if he tries to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the American people will take to the streets and try to impeach him.
“At the end of the day, they walked out with a package that they could sign off on and their big donors could sign off on. And I don’t care how many sympathetic faces they make, that’s what the process was all about.”
If this is such a fine piece of legislation, why didn’t congressional Republicans rush it to the White House today to get the president’s signature on it? Â
Democrats lead the GOP by a whopping 18 points among registered voters – the largest lead they’ve held in two decade’s worth of midterm election cycles.
Speaker Ryan (R-WI) praised President Trump Wednesday after the Republican permanent tax cuts for the rich were passed, saying something this big couldn’t have happened without exquisite presidential leadership.
Trump and Congressional Republicans gathered at the White House to applaud loudly the fact that 13 million Americans will be losing their health insurance due to the repeal of the individual mandate.
The latest Gallup Daily Trump Job Approval tracking poll finds that Trump’s approval rating dropped by a point as Republicans were passing their tax cut bill in Congress.
House Republicans made sure that Americans knew who is responsible for harming them by revoting to cut taxes for the rich and pay for it by raising taxes on 86 million Americans.
Trump is going to flaunt his tax hike on the poor and middle class and taking away health care from 13 million people with a victory event at the White House on Wednesday afternoon.
When your father is a U.S. president with historically low approval ratings, it turns out that making surprise visits to schools won’t be welcomed as a nice gesture by a lot of people. Ivanka Trump presumably realized just that after parents of students at Norwalk High School in Connecticut pulled their kids from class after…
More than 20 women have accused Donald Trump of either sexually assaulting or sexually harassing them, and a new poll by Quinnipiac found that the majority of U.S. women — 59% — think the allegations are grounds for him to resign from the presidency. On the other side, 41% of men think he should step down…
Shelly Simonds, a Democrat in Virginia, unseated Republican delegate David Yancey in the state House after winning the election for the 94th district by a single vote. The announcement came on Tuesday after a recount of votes originally cast last month. Simonds’ victory means that the Virginia House of Delegates is now tied between Republicans…
Senate Republicans were too cowardly to pass their tax increase for 86 million Americans in broad daylight, so they passed their bill the same way it was written in darkness while hiding from public view.
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell told Democrats what they needed to hear as Republicans are passing tax cuts for the rich. The tax cuts for the wealthy are only temporary because they will be repealed by a future Democratic president and Congress.
Rachel Maddow ripped Mike Pence for a lie that was so flimsy and implausible that it is an insult to every American.
Lawmakers of both parties are working on legislation that would make members of Congress liable for settlements of sexual harassment claims against them, as new data shows public funds have been used to settle nearly a dozen cases of misconduct over the last decade.
Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI) explains how Republicans made an intentional decision to harm the middle class with their tax cut bill.
A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found that Democrats hold a double-digit lead in both the generic midterm ballot and voter enthusiasm.
Virginia Democrat Shelly Simonds won a seat in the House of Delegates by one vote, changing the power balance in the state legislature and extending a tide of Democratic victories beginning with November’s capture of the governorship and several legislative seats.
