Rachel Maddow is ahead of the curve and calling out Fox News for pressuring Mike Flynn to withdraw his guilty plea. Video: Rachel Maddow is ahead of the curve and warns about Fox News trying to pressure Mike Flynn to withdraw his guilty plea. #Maddow pic.twitter.com/LDoCXuwAQ2 — Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) February 22, 2018 Maddow…
Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel looked the NRA in the eye and called for more gun control during the CNN town hall on gun violence. Video: Broward County Sheriff Steve Israel throws down on the NRA by calling for gun control. #CNNTownHall pic.twitter.com/LRFDGsOF8E — Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) February 22, 2018 Sheriff Israel said, “First…
Sen. Marco Rubio (RFL) was asked by a Stoneman Douglas shooting survivor if he would stop taking NRA money and he said no. Video: #Rubio refuses to turn down #NRA money. #CNNTownHall pic.twitter.com/CFpxILyvIg — Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) February 22, 2018 Rubio was asked if he would stop taking NRA cash, and he wouldn’t say…
The Obamas’ empathetic and supportive words are much-needed for a country currently lacking compassion from the Oval Office.
NRA best boy Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) was called pathetic, weak, and nearly booed out of the building when he refused to support an assault weapons ban at the gun violence town hall. Rubio got confronted by Fred Guttenberg who lost his daughter in the Stoneman Douglas shooting: Marco Rubio and Trump are called pathetic…
“The idea that these students aren’t real and they’re actors, this is nonsense. These are the people who believe in Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster.”
“Schoolteachers have more than enough responsibilities right now than to have to have the awesome responsibility of lethal force to take a life.”
Photographers captured Trump holding a cheat sheet with empathetic things to say that was written for him by White House staff for his meeting with Parkland school shooting survivors and families. Via the AP: President Donald Trump holds notes during a White House listening session with students and parents affected by school shootings. (AP Photo…
Democratic leaders called on Congress on Wednesday to give the Federal Bureau of Investigation $300 million to fight foreign efforts to interfere in congressional and state elections in November, amid growing concerns about potential Russian influence on the polls.
Over 1,000 national faith leaders called on Congress to “Stop the Killing†by banning assault weapons.
Trump showed no compassion and never got out of his chair to comfort survivors and parents who lost children in Parkland, Florida at the White House. Andrew Pollack was pissed that he lost his daughter: Grieving father AndrewPollack gets no response from Trump only when he offers something that could be construed as praise for…
Survivors of last week’s deadly Florida high school shooting poured into the state capital, Tallahassee, on Wednesday to demand that lawmakers restrict sales of assault rifles, and hundreds of students joined scattered sympathy protests around the United States.
By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) – A coalition that includes a Latino membership organization and a former Massachusetts governor filed lawsuits on Wednesday challenging how four U.S. states allocate their Electoral College votes in presidential elections. The lawsuits were filed in federal courts in Massachusetts and California, states that went for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton…
Trump couldn’t even hold a listening session without embarrassing himself in front of Parkland survivors, as Trump promised to get the strongest and most important ideas on gun violence. Video: Trump sounds like a fool while promising to pick out the "strongest" ideas on gun violence. #parklandstudentsspeak #Trump pic.twitter.com/NnH3hd7TKU — Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) February…
New sealed criminal charges have been filed in federal court in the criminal case brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller against President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort and campaign aide Rick Gates, a court record indicated on Wednesday.
CNN has turned the calls for action by Stoneman Douglas students on gun violence into a disgusting ratings grab by inviting the NRA to the town hall event. CNN was happy to announce that the gun lobby was invited to a town hall feature student survivors of the school shooting in Parkland, FL: The NRA…
Devin Nunes, the Republican Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, made a “joke†of asking the Russian bots for help to make an article suggesting the Trump Russia connection is an unsupported conspiracy, urging less focus on Russia, go viral.
High school kids who are protesting for stricter gun laws have a message for Republicans they are going use this issue to decide who to vote for in November. Video: Students protesting for stricter gun laws say they plan to vote in November. pic.twitter.com/hMJqjFT6jT — Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) February 21, 2018 A high school…
“We’ve had enough of thoughts and prayers…we are coming after every single one of you and demanding that you take action, demanding that you make a change.” Delaney Tarr, Stoneman Douglas High School senior said on camera.
Parkland school shooting survivor Ryan Deitsch made it clear that he didn’t want to fight with the Republicans who blocked the bill to ban assault weapons in Florida. He wanted them to meet with him so that he could see their faces. Video: Parkland school shooting survivor Ryan Deitsch demanded that Florida Republicans who blocked…
Pence was going to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s younger sister, Kim Yo Jong, and the nominal head of state, Kim Yong Nam, but the North Koreans scrapped the Feb. 10 meeting two hours before it was set to start.
After the Pennsylvania Supreme Court unveiled the redrawn district map and the result was a fairer map rather than the extreme Republican gerrymandering of districts that had been in place, Senator Toomey (R-PA) said impeaching state Supreme Court justices is a “conversation that has to happen.”
Democrats are demanding White House documents on the ambush that killed four Special Forces members in Niger. Here is the letter from ranking member Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) to House Oversight Committee chair Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC): [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.politicususa.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/2018-02-21.EEC-to-Gowdy-re-WH-Niger.pdf” title=”2018-02-21.EEC to Gowdy re WH Niger”] Cummings wrote to Gowdy that he can at least request…
Trump is looking at firing John Kelly and not filling the job of chief of staff because he likely thinks that he can be his own chief of staff. Video: Trump may fire John Kelly and not have a chief of staff. pic.twitter.com/0tarf8qdJw — Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) February 21, 2018 Jeremy Peters of The…
The U.S. government on Tuesday proposed extending the availability of skimpy health insurance plans to millions of Americans in another Trump administration move aimed at undercutting the requirements of the Affordable Care Act, often called Obamacare.
As Robert Mueller closes in, Trump is demanding that Attorney General Jeff Sessions launch an investigation of former President Obama for Russian election meddling. Trump tweeted: Question: If all of the Russian meddling took place during the Obama Administration, right up to January 20th, why aren’t they the subject of the investigation? Why didn’t Obama…
