This afternoon Donald Trump fired off two Tweets, announcing the removal of VA Secretary David Shulkin, and his nomination to replace him, Trump’s personal physician rear admiral Ronny Jackson. ….In the interim, Hon. Robert Wilkie of DOD will serve as Acting Secretary. I am thankful for Dr. David Shulkin’s service to our country and to our…
“There’s chaos in this young administration, sure, and that is interesting for all sorts of reasons. I don’t think, though, that you can separate that from the fact that there is also now a legal hurricane swirling around a basically unreinforced, undefended president.”
Even if Trump has the legal ability to hand out pardons, it’s the intent that matters most, a former Watergate prosecutor said.
According to new reporting, White House staffers are forced to spend an absurd amount of time debunking Trump conspiracies.
A wiser man than me once said “Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes.” In news that vaults easily over the huge pile of colorful metaphors it engenders, The Hill tells us that House Republicans are -with straight faces- pushing a balanced budget amendment. That push will come after their latest break … which they surely…
The internal watchdog at the U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday he is launching a review, after Republican members of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee alleged that the FBI made serious missteps when it sought a warrant to monitor a former adviser to President Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign.
Another day, another bombshell in the ongoing scandal surrounding the special counsel investigation into Donald Trump’s ties to Russia.
Trump’s nomination of his doctor to be VA Secretary is already falling apart less than two hours after it was announced. Trump tweeted: I am pleased to announce that I intend to nominate highly respected Admiral Ronny L. Jackson, MD, as the new Secretary of Veterans Affairs…. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 28, 2018…
Gov. Scott Walker has refused to hold special elections for one open seat in the state house and the state senate. Today, an appeals court ruled that Walker must hold the elections, and Walker announced that he would not be appealing to the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Out of fear that Democrats will win, Walker had…
Facebook was sued on Tuesday by several civil rights groups who allege that the social media company with over 2 billion users allows advertisers to discriminate in violation of several different federal laws. The National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) and three member organizations filed the joint suit in federal court in New York City. They…
A new CNBC All-America Economic Survey has found the the majority of Americans haven’t been experiencing the economic boost Trump promised his tax plan would deliver. The poll found that 52% haven’t seen any change in their paychecks whatsoever. Of those who say they have seen an increase in the money they’re taking home, very…
Not only did the decision that Trump lost in federal court allow the D.C. and Maryland emoluments clause lawsuit to move forward, but it also opened the door for any of Trump’s business competitors around the country to sue the president. Norm Eisen of CREW tweeted: BREAKING: Maryland federal court has granted standing to MD…
An attorney for President Donald Trump raised the idea of the U.S. leader pardoning two of his former top advisers last year as the special counsel in the Russia probe was building a case against them, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.
Speaking to CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Tuesday, Republican Pennsylvania Rep. Charlie Dent called out legislators in his party for their hypocritical responses to the scandal of Bill Clinton’s infidelity during his presidency compared to how they’re responding to Trump’s scandal involving Stormy Daniels, a porn actress whose real name is Stephanie Clifford. “A lot…
Sarah Huckabee Sanders didn’t do Trump any favors when she couldn’t deny that Trump tried to use promises of pardons to silence Russia investigation witnesses. In fact, her weak answers may help Mueller make the case against Trump. Video of Sanders: This is the opposite of a denial that Trump considered pardons for Flynn and…
According to over a half dozen top GOP donors who spoke with The Hill, conservative funders are getting nervous about the momentum Democratic candidates have been experiencing in congressional races and suggested that they might have to give up on trying to win the House to focus on keeping the Senate. “Myself and many others…
A federal judge on Wednesday gave the go ahead to part of a lawsuit that accuses President Donald Trump of flouting constitutional safeguards against corruption by maintaining ownership of his business empire while in office.
Trump’s former lawyer John Dowd floated the idea of pardons for Flynn and Manafort to get them to stop talking to Mueller and derail the Russia investigation. The New York Times reported, “A lawyer for President Trump broached the idea of Mr. Trump pardoning two of his former top advisers, Michael T. Flynn and Paul…
Special Counsel Robert Mueller for the first time directly connected the Trump campaign to Russian intelligence in a new court filing. Reuters reported, “The connection between Gates and the former intelligence officer, identified only as “Person A†in the records filed late on Tuesday, is significant because criminal charges against Gates and Manafort relate only…
A little-known former prosecutor with a doctorate in medieval history will play a central role on U.S. President Donald Trump’s legal team, as many top-tier lawyers shy away from representing him in a probe into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election.
A former Russian intelligence officer who worked with U.S. President Donald Trump’s former top campaign officials Paul Manafort and Rick Gates was communicating with Gates during the 2016 presidential campaign, according to court records filed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office.
The Stormy Daniels interview aired on Sunday, and since then Donald Trump has become a president in hiding as he has held no public events for the entire week. MSNBC’s Chris Jansing on Trump hiding from the public: Stormy Daniels has sent Trump into hiding as the president has not held a public event for…
Back in 2014 start-up company Cambridge Analytica was looking for a way to obtain private Facebook data from tens of millions of American Facebook users. Â To accomplish this difficult task Cambridge Analytica got help from one or more employees at Palantir Technologies, a top Silicon Valley company which has done top-secret work for the NSA,…
On April 4, 1968, a single gunshot killed civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. on a motel balcony in Memphis. On June 5 of that same year, Senator Robert F. Kennedy — brother of assassinated President John F. Kennedy, the former U.S. Attorney General and a presidential candidate — was fatally shot at a Los Angeles hotel after winning California’s Democratic primary.
This is how to find out if Donald Trump and his lawyer Michael Cohen have been lying about the Stormy Daniels affair, the nondisclosure agreement, and the $130,000 hush money payoff: Â get them to testify under oath, with penalties of perjury. Stormy Daniels’ lawyer Michael Avenatti just filed a motion with a federal court located…
