Rachel Maddow makes all of the hot take artists in the mainstream press look like fools as she showed that the Rick Gates plea was really about getting to the bottom of what was going on between Trump and Russia. Video: Rachel Maddow makes the rest of the media look clueless as the miss the…
The top-ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said that Manafort’s statement on Friday was a message to Trump asking for a presidential pardon. Video: Adam Schiff tells Rachel Maddow that Manafort is signaling to Trump that he wants a pardon. #maddow pic.twitter.com/8yj5Ep8KeF — Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) February 24, 2018…
Former Watergate Asst. Special Prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks warned that Trump’s son in law Jared Kushner is now at extreme risk of being prosecuted in the Russia scandal. Video: Former Watergate Asst. Special Prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks warns that Jared Kushner is now extreme risk on the Russia investigation. #AllIn pic.twitter.com/BO5NkM2qWl — Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) February…
Trump has directed the military to hold his military parade on Veteran’s Day at the White House. Politico reported, “The president has directed the Department of Defense to organize a parade that would take place on Nov. 11 – Veterans Day – according to an unclassified Feb. 20 memo written by National Security Adviser H.R….
A Tennessee woman driving a white van on Friday intentionally drove into a White House security barrier but did not breach it, and she was immediately apprehended and put under arrest, the U.S. Secret Service said.
The United States is expected to open its embassy to Israel in Jerusalem in May, a U.S. official told Reuters on Friday, a move from Tel Aviv that reverses decades of U.S. policy.
A top Justice Department official alerted the White House two weeks ago that “significant information requiring additional investigation would further delay the security clearance process of senior adviser Jared Kushner,” according to a new report by the Washington Post’s Carol D. Leonnig, Robert Costa and Josh Dawsey. Three people told the writers that on February…
By Sarah N. Lynch and Karen Freifeld WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A former senior official in Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, Rick Gates, pleaded guilty on Friday to conspiracy against the United States and lying to investigators, and he is cooperating with a federal probe into Russia’s role in the election. Gates, who was a deputy…
A new indictment filed on Friday by special counsel Robert Mueller alleges that President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort secretly paid former senior European politicians in 2012 and 2013 to lobby for the pro-Russia government of Ukraine.
More than half a dozen U.S. companies have abruptly cut ties with the National Rifle Association as gun safety activists on Friday intensified calls for a boycott in the wake of last week’s Florida high school massacre.
As Republicans in Congress face a threatening blue wave in the midterms, the Republican National Committee is paying more than $37,000 a month in rent to President Donald Trump’s company, and thousands more in salary to Vice President Mike Pence’s nephew, John Pence. Thus far, they’ve spent more than $290,000 since September.
A passenger vehicle struck a security barrier near the White House on Friday, but did not breach the White House complex, the U.S. Secret Service said in a series of tweets.
14-year-old Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting survivor Lauren Hogg asked the First Lady why she hadn’t spoken to her step-son Donald Trump, Jr about putting a target on Lauren Hogg and her family by liking a conspiracy theory.
At a joint press conference with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnball, Trump insanely compared arming teachers to professional air marshals. Trump said, “I think it’s going to make it safer. The fact that you have some capability within a school, they’re not going to go into that school. They’re not going to do it. Look…
Trump was asked if he is going to give his son in law Jared Kushner a security clearance wavier, and he answered by praising Kushner and blaming Obama for the fact that his son in law can’t get clearance to handle classified information. Video: Trump throws a fit and blames Obama because Jared Kushner can't…
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday will consider for the second time in two years whether to choke off a critical funding stream for public-employee unions, potentially reducing organized labor’s influence in the workplace and at the ballot box.
A former deputy campaign manager for Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, Rick Gates, will plead guilty on Friday to conspiracy against the United States and lying to investigators.
Some of the biggest names in corporate America are coming under mounting pressure on Friday to cut ties with the National Rifle Association as gun safety activists intensified calls for a boycott in the wake of last week’s Florida high school massacre.
Arming everyone used to be a joke concept. It was a concept that TV racist know-nothing Archie Bunker pushed to great laughter. Trump’s plan to arm teachers to stop school shootings sounds exactly like Archie Bunker’s plan to stop airplane hijacking by arming all passengers.
President Donald Trump’s former campaign aide Rick Gates will plead guilty on Friday afternoon to charges of conspiracy against the United States and lying to investigators from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office, according to court records.
MSNBC’s Velshi and Ruhle starting fact checking Trump and destroyed the biggest lies in his speech seconds after he stopped speaking at CPAC. Video: This is a must see fact check of Trump's CPAC speech by MSNBC's Velshi and Rhule. pic.twitter.com/xaBrNV8M4u — Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) February 23, 2018 Transcript: He keeps talking about NAFTA,…
A U.S. court temporarily blocked the Trump administration from delaying or ending an Obama-era rule aimed at preventing oil and gas leaks during production, according to court documents, marking the fourth time either Congress or the courts have upheld the rule’s implementation.
Trump went off on a deranged rant about the media after he stopped his own speech at CPAC to complain about a heckler. Video: Trump goes off on a rant because one person protested him at #CPAC pic.twitter.com/6YXqz56buC — Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) February 23, 2018 Trump said, “How did he get in here, Matt?…
Trump claimed that schools need more offensive firepower, as in more guns in schools to prevent mass shootings. This is nothing more than a recycling of Trump’s one idea, but this idea will get more people killed in school shootings. Video: Trump calls for "offensive firepower" in schools after Stoneman Douglas school shooting. #Parkland pic.twitter.com/gRsdBDys8R…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Rick Gates, a former adviser to Donald Trump’s 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, was expected to plead guilty as soon as Friday in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe, the New York Times and ABC News reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Gates’ expected plea is a sign he will likely cooperate…
