John Oliver’s satire of the Pence Marlon Bundo bunny book is ranked #1 on Amazon and the Pence book is #5. Here are the Amazon bestseller rankings: Oliver’s book is #1 on the Amazon bestseller list, #1 in Gay and Lesbian, #1 in children’s books Marriage and Divorce, and #1 in children’s books Animals. Pence’s…
By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is advancing toward the first transfer of a prisoner from the Guantanamo Bay detention center under U.S. President Donald Trump, the U.S. military told Reuters on Monday, a move that would repatriate the detainee to Saudi Arabia. The transfer of 43-year-old Ahmed Muhammed…
For Team Trump, the hits just keep on coming! For anyone who was looking for a reason for Trump’s Twitter meltdown that began Saturday and raged on today, special counsel Robert Mueller has what you’re looking for: a list of interview questions special counsel sent to The Donald as part of ongoing negotiations over the…
“Raise your hand if you think this is going to make this whole problem for the White House go away,” Maddow said of Trump’s latest gambit to avoid an interview with Mueller.
Rick Tyler, a well known Republican strategist, appeared on Stephanie Ruhle’s show and made an assertion which appears to have shaken her and her entire panel to the core. Tyler’s assertion? “Donald J. Trump will fire Robert Mueller.” While leading her panel earlier today, Ruhle presented the factual aspects of how Trump has attacked Robert…
“I think you’re going to have protests and marches and rallies and sit-ins. I believe Americans would not stand for the firing of Robert Mueller.”
If the president was “fully aware” of these tactics – including physical threats – and did nothing to stop them, he’s in more trouble than we thought.
“I just think it’s not necessary and obviously legislation requires a presidential signature,” Sen. Cornyn said. “I don’t see … the necessity of picking that fight right now.”
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican Senator John Kennedy has joined his Democratic colleague Amy Klobuchar in calling on Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg to testify before Congress following reports that a political consultancy gained inappropriate access to data on millions of Facebook users. In a joint letter, Kennedy and Klobuchar asked Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck…
(Reuters) – A New York tenants rights group and local politician said on Monday they would launch an investigation into the real estate company formerly headed by Jared Kushner, a top aide to President Donald Trump, over alleged falsification of building permits. The group and the politician, a city councilman, said they had uncovered evidence…
Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) reminded Chuck Grassley (R-IA) that her requests for information from Cambridge Analytica and some of the individuals named in these media reports, including Brad Parscale, Dan Scavino, and Steve Bannon, have been ignored and the Committee has taken no action on them.
Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) that he wants a bill to protect special counsel Robert Mueller included in the omnibus legislation that will be released on Friday. Manu Raju tweeted: Bob Corker tells me there would be “total upheaval†in Senate if Trump tried to fire Mueller and says “I can’t imagine†why a bill to…
Top executives of Cambridge Analytica (Cambridge) – the company that credits itself with helping Donald Trump win the presidency through its improper use of Facebook data  – have been secretly filmed boasting about how they could fix elections by entrapping political candidates. Their proposed techniques included using bribes and Ukrainian sex workers to put…
The political process of consolidating power occurs when an individual in power disbands legislative, judicial and executive authorities while placing that authority in one or two offices or office holders. For a historical example of this consolidation and what it looks like to the casual observer, one need only look to the October Revolution of…
The Supreme Court has refused to block the new map of congressional districts in Pennsylvania, which means that the map will be in effect for the 2018 election. Here is the entire one sentence Supreme Court decision: Republicans were desperately holding out hope that the US Supreme Court would come to their rescue and restore…
Trump was trying to talk tough about prosecuting drug dealers in New Hampshire when he said that he is leaving office after seven years. The problem is that two presidential terms are eight years. Video: Trump thinks two terms in office is only seven years. Who is going to be the one to tell him?…
The fundraising committee for House Democratic candidates set a fundraising record for February. Roll Call reported, “The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee raised nearly $10.6 million in February…The DCCC raised $3.38 million from online donations in February, with an average online gift of $18. So far this cycle, the group has raised more than $50 million…
A federal judge has rejected the last ditch effort of Republicans to overturn the redrawn Pennsylvania congressional map. The AP reported: HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) _ Federal judges reject Republican congressmen's lawsuit challenging Pennsylvania district map. — Ken Thomas (@KThomasDC) March 19, 2018 The new fairer map is major win for PA voters and Democrats As…
According to an article in New York Magazine, Trump confidant Hope Hicks (also known as the White House Communications Director) had been unhappy for months and wanted to leave the White House long before she announced her resignation in February. The author of the article, Olivia Nuzzi, wrote on twitter that Hicks would not speak on…
MSNBC’s Ali Velshi took apart three Trump tweets about the Mueller investigation and separated the facts from Trump’s fact-free fiction. Video: Watch this amazing fact check by MSNBC's Ali Velshi of Trump's Mueller tweets. https://t.co/QgFFslMeIt #Mueller #MSNBC #RussiaInvestigation pic.twitter.com/lUwZDydL4E — Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) March 19, 2018 Velshi said: Let’s go through that with you…
The Republican tax cut bill has a big mistake in it that hurts farmers, so Republicans are begging Democrats to help them fix the mistake before the midterm election. Republicans rushed and rammed through their tax cuts for the rich and corporations with allowing Democrats a seat at the table, but there is a problem…
A member of the British Parliament on Sunday accused executives of Facebook of deliberately misleading the government by understating the risk of Facebook users’ profile data being shared without their knowledge or approval. “It’s time for Mark Zuckerberg to stop hiding behind his Facebook page,” said Conservative legislator Damian Collins, who heads the British Parliament’s…
In February President Donald Trump announced that he would like to change the laws of the United States to provide for the execution of drug dealers.  He was reported as saying “You know the Chinese and Filipinos don’t have a drug problem. They just kill them.†Well apparently he is serious, and is taking steps…
