Texas Democratic Senate candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rourke showed why he is the ideal candidate to face and maybe beat Sen. Ted Cruz on Real Time with Bill Maher. Video: Be afraid Ted Cruz, because Beto O'Rourke showed how he could beat you on #RealTime https://t.co/7wIQiEeEBr pic.twitter.com/4Zmj2Nixxz — Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) March 17, 2018 Maher…
Just when you think Trump can’t sink any lower, he has Jeff Sessions fire former Asst. FBI Director Andrew McCabe a little more than a day before he is eligible to collect his full retirement benefits. The Washington Post reported: Sessions announced the decision in a statement just before 10 p.m., noting that both the…
Rachel Maddow called attention to the fact that the Trump White House is creating alternative timelines to cover-up their firings of people like former Sec. of State Rex Tillerson who criticize Russia. Video: Rachel Maddow just opened up a whole new can of worms for Trump by connecting the Tillerson firing to Russia. https://t.co/BGyPx0QCNi #Maddow…
By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) – White House Chief of Staff John Kelly assured aides to President Donald Trump on Friday that no immediate personnel changes were in the works, as he sought to tamp down a wave of uncertainty generated by persistent indications Trump wants more turnover. Days after firing U.S. Secretary of State…
LONDON (Reuters) – Former British spy Christopher Steele, who compiled a “dossier” of allegations linking U.S. President Donald Trump to Russia, must give a deposition in a U.S. libel case, lawyers for the Russian businessman involved said on Friday. Businessman Aleksej Gubarev is suing the Buzzfeed website, which published the dossier in January last year,…
Groupthink, a term coined by social psychologist Irving Janis in 1972, occurs when a group makes faulty decisions leading to a “deterioration of mental efficiency, reality testing, and moral judgement.” Key characteristics of this phenomenon are: excessive optimism coupled with the encouragement of taking greater risks, collective rationalization as members of the group discount warnings,…
A former national security official told MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace that the country could handle three more years of Trump, but it can’t handle seven. Video: National security officials warn that America can't handle 7 more years of Trump. https://t.co/b1JKKdu5Rs pic.twitter.com/Sj0qmrD1rd — Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) March 16, 2018 Wallace said, “One of the former national…
Congressional investigators want to talk to the NRA’s own lawyer about concerns over the group accepting money from Russia and giving it to Trump. McClatchy reported, “Congressional investigators are examining information that a longtime attorney for the National Rifle Association had concerns about the group’s ties to Russia and its possible involvement in channeling Russian…
H.R. McMaster trashed the White House denials that he isn’t being fired with a smile and a single sentence to a reporter. Sarah Huckabee Sanders denied that McMaster is on his way out: Just spoke to @POTUS and Gen. H.R. McMaster – contrary to reports they have a good working relationship and there are no…
Stormy Daniels’ attorney Michael Avenatti was on MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe’ today with information about the adult actress and, not only her alleged sexual relationship with President Donald Trump, but also information about what he called “the cover up.† According to Avenatti, his client was threatened during the negotiations between Ms. Daniels and Mr. Trump…
Republican governors are trying to boost Scott Walker in his bid for a third term as governor of Wisconsin by claiming that Hillary Clinton called the Badger State backwards. The transcript of Clinton’s remarks reveals that the Republican Governors Association of which Walker is the chairman is lying. PolitiFact published the transcript of Clinton’s full…
The proposal is part of an EU strategy to save the accord signed by world powers that curbs Tehran’s ability to develop nuclear weapons, namely by showing U.S. President Donald Trump that there are other ways to counter Iranian power abroad.
By Olzhas Auyezov and Guy Faulconbridge ASTANA/LONDON (Reuters) – Russia is set to expel British diplomats in retaliation for Prime Minister Theresa May’s decision to kick out 23 Russians as relations with London crashed to a post-Cold War low over an attack involving a military-grade nerve agent on English soil. After the first known offensive…
Hackers from Russia have apparently been assaulting the electric grid, water processing plants, air transportation facilities, nuclear power plants and other targets throughout the United States, according to new warnings from the FBI. U.S. government officials said Thursday that these Russian hackers have been engaging in what they called “rolling attacks†on some of the…
So alarmed is he, Republican Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) is considering a presidential run against President Donald Trump. He says he will run either as a Republican or an Independent. Flake, a long time Trump critic, says someone needs to stop the President. Speaking in New Hampshire on Friday, which is expected to host the…
By Zachary Fagenson MIAMI (Reuters) – Rescue workers combed through the rubble of a pedestrian bridge that collapsed onto several lanes of traffic at Florida International University in Miami, but hopes of finding more survivors were fading early on Friday, police said. Six people were confirmed dead after the newly built 950-ton bridge crushed vehicles…
Stormy Daniels’ attorney Michael Avenatti was on CNN last night and MSNBC this morning with some explosive news concerning the sordid affairs of President Donald J. Trump.  According to Avenatti, six different women have contacted him saying they all have stories to tell that are very similar to Ms. Daniels’ story. In his on-air comments…
When the president announced that Gina Haspel would replace Mike Pompeo as the first women to head to the CIA, he failed to mention that she would face arrest if she travels to any of the European Union countries because of her history with torture.
One thing we know about Bob Mueller is this: he is very thorough. And although everything he and his team are doing has not been made public, we can be pretty sure that they are leaving no stone unturned in the Trump Russia investigation. Something they did a few weeks ago was made public yesterday,…
