Trump never intended to stand up to the gun lobby. Instead, he pretended to have some compassion – it’s what his cheat sheet instructed him to do, after all – while news of the shooting remained fresh in the nation’s collective mind.
“Turns out he has landed on his feet. … The guy who ran the Trump presidential campaign’s air fleet is now likely to be nominated to run the Federal Aviation Administration in the actual U.S. government.”
A transgender recruit has signed a contract to join the U.S. military for the first time since a federal court ruled late last year that the military would have to accept openly transgender people, the Pentagon said on Monday.
Schiff thinks the next indictment surrounding Russia’s hacking of the 2016 election will implicate Americans.
Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, said that when Trump called for Russia to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails, he knew that Russia had the emails. Video: Adam Schiff lays out a key piece of illegal Trump/Russia coordination. https://t.co/g0bK9L6yAI #AllIn #Russia pic.twitter.com/9NOkxfq7Q1 — Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) February 27, 2018 Schiff…
“We didn’t have a scandal that embarrassed us,” Obama said, according to a leaked recording. “I know that seems like a low bar…”
“The Supreme Court has repeatedly rejected even hearing cases trying to get Second Amendment protections for those kind of guns. In fact, it did so three times in the past three years.”
“Don’t worry about the NRA. They’re on our side,” Trump told more than 35 governors, including Rick Scott of Florida, during a White House meeting. “If they’re not with you, we have to fight them every once in a while. That’s OK. They’re doing what they think is right.”
A U.S. labor agency on Monday overturned a recent decision that made it more difficult for companies to be held liable for labor law violations by contractors and franchisees, saying an appointee of President Donald Trump had a conflict of interest.
Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) is one of the few Republicans in Congress who is willing to take on the NRA. Mast told MSNBC’s MTP Daily that he is willing to risk his political life to pass an assault weapons ban. Video: Mast wants to do several things that the NRA opposes like universal background checks,…
Democratic Congressman Ted Lieu of California wants some answers from Ivanka Trump, but the President’s daughter blocked the Democratic Assistant Whip.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders wilted and couldn’t come up with an explanation as reporters called BS on Trump’s claim that he would run unarmed into a school shooting. Video: Watch Sarah Huckabee Sanders struggle to come with an answer as the press pushes her on Trump's claim that he would run unarmed into a school shooting….
Trump claimed that he would have courageously run into the shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School unarmed. Trump is the same man who got five deferments to avoid serving in Vietnam, and he is so lazy that he prefers to use a golf cart instead of walking. Video: Trump was too scared to go to…
The U.S. Supreme Court appeared divided along ideological lines on Monday in a high-stakes case that could deprive unions representing police, firefighters and certain other public employees of a key source of funds — millions of dollars in fees they can collect annually from non-members.
A U.S. appeals court in Manhattan on Monday ruled that a federal law banning sex bias in the workplace also prohibits discrimination against gay employees, becoming only the second court to do so.
Reuters has found new information about Manafort’s handling of the loan and its potential link to the bankruptcies as Special Counsel Robert Mueller seeks to pressure Manafort to cooperate with his investigation into Trump’s campaign team and possible collusion with Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 election.
Lauren Hogg, a 14-year-old high school student who survived the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida two weeks ago, is the latest person to point out that if Melania Trump really wants to start a campaign to fight against cyber-bullying, she should really be starting with the people closest to her. “Hey @FLOTUS you say that…
Trump tried to get the Supreme Court to intervene and overturn a lower court ruling that his administration had to keep DACA going, but the Supreme Court rejected his request. CBS News reported, “The Supreme Court is rejecting the Trump administration’s highly unusual bid to get the justices to intervene in the controversy over protections…
First daughter Ivanka Trump once again failed to live up to her role as a supposed champion for women in a NBC News interview aired on Monday. Asked by Peter Alexander if she believes her father’s sexual misconduct accusers, of which there are over a dozen, she first pushed back against the question being asked in…
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away a challenge led by states and environmental groups to an Environmental Protection Agency regulation that lets government agencies transfer water between different bodies, such as rivers and lakes, without needing to protect against pollution. The nine justices left in place a…
According to a new Axios report, Trump thinks all drug dealers deserve the death penalty and frequently goes off on “passionate” speeches equating them to serial killers. He also often praises countries with extreme anti-drug measures, like the Philippines, where President Duterte’s “drug war” has resulted in the deaths of at least 12,000 drug users…
