While referring to a list of people that Trump has attacked on Twitter, MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell pointed out that Rachel Maddow’s name is not on the list because Trump fears Maddow. Video: Donald Trump is afraid of Rachel Maddow. https://t.co/lBKs2umi6h pic.twitter.com/BFIzSzUZu0 — Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) March 28, 2018 O’Donnell said, “It’s actually — I…
Run, Romney! Run! Not even two months into his run for Orrin Hatch’s Utah Senate seat, the Daily Herald reports that Mitt Romney has run right over Trump and most of his GOP colleagues on immigration, telling voters at a campaign Q&A that “I’m… more of a hawk on immigration than even the President. My…
Chris Hayes suggested on Tuesday that Democrats and gun safety advocates should stop prefacing every argument about guns with an assurance that they support the Second Amendment.
As Mr. Trump continues to hinder our reputation as a nation around the globe, he also is destroying the reputation of the modern-day Church in the process. Those who attend church these days, cannot say they were not warned. Make no mistake: I do not write this article to proselytize the reader, but to hold…
“He knows it’s true. … It’s the same reason why he didn’t sign the agreement – so he could later claim he didn’t know anything about it.”
No amount of Trump tweets or GOP stunts appear to be shaking the opinion of the vast majority of the country that Trump can’t be trusted on Russia.
Nine of the ten Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee did an end around on Trump by sending letters to top five DOJ officials who would move up if Attorney General Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein were fired or removed asking them not to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Read the letter below: [pdf-embedder…
Proving yet again how nervous the far right is getting about the momentum survivors of the Parkland school shooting have injected into the gun control issue, several alt-right websites and commentators have compared student David Hogg to Hitler. On Saturday, Hogg delivered a speech to a massive crowd of an estimated 200,000 people at the…
Rep, Maxine Waters (D-CA) explained why Robert Mueller’s investigation is essential to connecting the dots that lead to Trump impeachment. Video: This is why the path to Trump impeachment goes through Robert Mueller. https://t.co/AHd7utODLh pic.twitter.com/XLML3SLzyW — PoliticusUSA (@politicususa) March 27, 2018 Rep. Waters said on MSNBC’s The Beat With Ari Melber, “I don’t know what…
Recently we reported how Cambridge Analytica had distributed their 27-page blueprint for using data to increase the effectiveness of political ads, such as the ones they claim helped Donald Trump get elected president.  Cambridge Analytica’s business development director Brittany Kaiser explained how the blueprint was created and also how it was used. According to Kaiser,…
The Democrats see the issue as one that is vital to their electoral strength. They believe the question will frighten census respondents who think that they might be deported by the Trump Administration. And of course, they believe the Republicans are doing this solely to give themselves more political power.
Despite official denials that Speaker Paul Ryan is resigning, rumors that he plans on leaving his current position in politics persist. A Republican congressman just strengthened those rumors in a Monday interview on the Nebraska Newsmakers podcast. “The rumor mill is that Paul Ryan is getting ready to resign in the next 30 to 60…
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders lied about the history of the citizenship question on the Census to hide Trump’s latest line of attack on immigrants. Video: Sarah Huckabee Sanders flat out lies about the history of the citizenship question on the Census. pic.twitter.com/j2MFk1Nx76 — Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) March 27, 2018 Sanders said,…
Trump is pressuring the military to pay for his border wall with funding from the omnibus, which is illegal because wall funding requires a congressional vote. The Washington Post reported, “It would be unlikely for the military to fund the wall, according to White House and Defense Department officials. The president has suggested to Defense…
In response to an inquiry from Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), the NRA admitted that they are taking foreign (read: Russian) money, but claimed that the money is not being spent on elections. NPR reported: Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, wrote to the NRA earlier this month asking,…
As he enables the Russian attack on our election, the Speaker of the House said on Tuesday in the Czech Republic that the U.S. and its allies should condemn Russia for meddling in elections and launching cyber attacks.
Down, Pat! Ex-Nixon campaign aide and full-time racist Pat Buchanan thinks those damn kids shoulda’ stayed off the White House lawn on March 24th, that they’re immature, and not so bright. Yesterday, on CSPAN’s “Washington Journal” Buchanan had this to say in response to a callers query: Caller: Today, as I look at the march…
Lawyers are refusing to take Trump on as a client because they don’t need the bad publicity that comes with working for the unpopular president. Video: Lawyers are turning down Trump because they don't want the bad publicity. https://t.co/eH1nuoAKV6 pic.twitter.com/PhJcvAn04V — PoliticusUSA (@politicususa) March 27, 2018 Jonathan Swan of Axios said on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell…
New York state’s attorney general said on Tuesday he will lead a multistate lawsuit to try to stop the federal government from asking people whether they are citizens in the 2020 Census, arguing the move will discourage immigrants from participating.
A Cambridge Analytica whistleblower said on Tuesday that Canadian company AggregateIQ worked on software called Ripon which was used to identify Republican voters ahead of the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
A retired U.S. Supreme Court justice on Tuesday called for the repeal of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which gives Americans the right to keep and bear firearms, days after mass protests nationwide demanding stronger gun control.
Facebook’s legal troubles continue to grow in number and intensity. Over recent days we have reported that: Facebook is being sued in U.S. by its users over improper data harvesting, The FTC Opened an investigation into Facebook’s violation of a 2011 consent decree, and Facebook CEO Zuckerberg was invited to testify at a U.S. Senate hearing….
Former Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC) would be filing a lawsuit against the Trump administration over their decision to add a citizenship question to the census. Holder, who is the Chairman of the NDRC, said in a statement: We will litigate to stop the Administration from moving forward…
Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen is finally getting a dose of his own medicine.  Trump has always liked Cohen because he is super-aggressive and is known to try to intimidate people through threatened and actual lawsuits.And now, after allegedly calling Stormy Daniels‘ pornstar friend Alana Evans a liar, he is being threatened by Evans…
