On The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, Stormy Daniels’ lawyer Michael Avenetti said that Donald Trump is heading for few sleepful nights if he depending on Michael Cohen not to crack. Video: Trump is heading for many sleepless nights according to Stormy Daniels' lawyer on #TheLastWord pic.twitter.com/CldtFO0W94 — Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) April 10, 2018…
Rachel Maddow laid out why Michael Cohen is the key to taking Trump down because Cohen is involved in everything Trump. Video: Rachel Maddow reading Michael Cohen quotes is simply the best. pic.twitter.com/t1ZVz2KjHJ — Jason Easley (@PoliticusJason) April 10, 2018 Rachel Maddow pointed out that Michael Cohen is involved with everything Trump. Rachel Maddow said,…
“This is a terrible moment to have this particular man making key decisions,” Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley said on Monday, after the FBI raided the offices of Trump’s personal lawyer.
Tucker Carlson never uttered the Michael Cohen, but he did give plenty of coverage to the possibility that pandas are sex-crazed killing machines. Video: Fox News talks about sex-crazed killer pandas instead of the FBI raid of #MichaelCohen https://t.co/MOldRDg3yM pic.twitter.com/GjszAGmrC5 — Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) April 10, 2018 Carlson said, “Are pandas in fact sex…
Birds On A Wire: Chuck Schumer Warns Donald Trump “Don’t.”
The US Attorney who approved the search warrant on Trump lawyer Michael Cohen is a Republican and a Trump appointee. Trump claimed that the FBI raid of his personal attorney Michael Cohen was a witch hunt: Well, I think it’s a disgrace what’s going on. We’ll see what happens. But I think it’s really a…
Comedian Bill Cosby paid a woman who accused him of sexual assault $3.38 million as part of a 2006 settlement of a civil lawsuit, prosecutors said on Monday in the opening of his retrial on criminal charges stemming from the same accusations.
Even without today’s unglued remarks from the President of the United States, the obstruction case was already pretty strong
As expected, Trump was watching TV as reports of an FBI raid at the home of his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, broke, and as he always does when something on television triggers him, he reacted by lashing out. CNN’s White House correspondent Jeff Zeleny told Wolf Blitzer that Trump learned about the raid after it…
The FBI and U.S. Attorney’s office on Monday also sought any emails between former White House communications director Hope Hicks and Cohen about a false and misleading account that Trump helped prepare with a group of Russians who had promised “dirt†on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
It is being reported that reality is sinking in at the White House after Mueller treated the Trump Organization like a crime family, and the president’s reaction was one of paralyzed fear. Video: CNN reports that Trump is moving closer to taking action against Mueller. pic.twitter.com/IMtxDbP7lf — Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) April 9, 2018 Jim…
“If Donald Trump is thinking of using the FBI raid to fire Special Counsel Mueller or otherwise interfere with the chain of command in the Russia probe, we Democrats have one simple message for him: don’t.”
Donald Trump is under fire from many different angles now – Russia, obstruction of justice, Stormy Daniels, etc. – that it’s hard to imagine him not being nailed for at least one of them.
Trump sounded like a crazy person, as he babbled conspiracies and compared Special Counsel Robert Mueller to James Comey when asked if he will fire Mueller. Video of Trump: Listening to Trump babble and spout conspiracies, it is clear that Robert Mueller has broken Donald Trump. https://t.co/RLKvhXmFKY #MichaelCohen pic.twitter.com/BSdEoNqDCR — Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) April…
In the wake of the news that President Trump’s personal attorney’s office and hotel room were raided by the FBI, one of the questions has been about the seizure of the communication between the President and his attorney Michael Cohen. Normally, this material would be off limits or at the very least exceptionally problematic given…
The lawyer for Stormy Daniels, the adult film star who says she had sex with U.S. President Donald Trump, on Monday asked a federal judge to set aside a motion by Trump’s lawyer to force her to use arbitration to settle a dispute over an agreement to keep quiet about the encounter.
The FBI didn’t just raid Michael Cohen’s offices. They also raided his hotel room, which is an indication that the FBI has probable cause that there was evidence of a crime in his hotel room. Vanity Fair reported, “The paparazzi lingering outside the Loews Regency on Park Avenue, hoping to get a photo of U.F.C….
Sinclair Broadcast Group aired an ad criticizing its own conservative bias and propaganda in four of the local stations it owns, but also paired it with short segments defending the company before and after the ad. The critical 30-second message was commissioned by Allied Progress, a liberal consumer watchdog group. The group claims it paid a…
The FBI is not playing with President Trump. On Monday, the FBI raided the office of Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen. They took with them records related to several topics, including payments to a porn actress, according to the New York Times. This search was not related to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s work,…
Sarah Huckabee Sanders tried to justify Trump’s claim that he is tough on Russia, but the list that she read off was pathetic. Video: Sarah Huckabee Sanders read off a list that was both false and pathetic while trying to defend Trump's "toughness" on Russia. https://t.co/03DRlLCXup pic.twitter.com/OcJ9FXonZB — PoliticusUSA (@politicususa) April 9, 2018 Transcript of…
Five Republican senators on Monday called on President Donald Trump to temporarily halt the use of biofuels policy waivers for small oil refineries, after reports the Environmental Protection Agency had issued a recent wave of such exemptions.
The 43-year-old stay-at-home mother, who suffers from diabetes, anxiety and depression, is one of more than 400,000 low-income Kentucky residents who obtained Medicaid coverage under President Barack Obama’s 2010 Affordable Care Act. Barr’s vote last year to repeal Obamacare scared Anderson.
The U.S. budget deficit will balloon over the next few years mainly because of deep tax cuts approved in December by Republicans in the U.S. Congress and President Donald Trump, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said on Monday.
Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) gave birth to her second daughter, and in the process made history by becoming the first US Senator to give birth while in office. In a statement provided to PoliticusUSA, Sen. Duckworth said, “Bryan, Abigail and I couldn’t be happier to welcome little Maile Pearl as the newest addition to our…
Trump told farmers that China was not being nice and that the Chinese were going to hurt them due to his trade war, but they shouldn’t worry, because Trump will make it up to them later. Video: Trump could only spout gibberish as he told farmers that his trade war is definitely going to hurt…
Patrick Goldsmith, friend of the 67-year-old art dealer named Todd Brassner who died in the Saturday fire at Trump Tower, is alleging that the president once referred to Brassner as a “crazy Jew.” The incident allegedly happened in 1996 when Goldsmith was exiting Trump Tower after visiting his friend, who resided in the building. Apparently…
Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg told Congress in written testimony released on Monday that the social media network did not do enough to prevent misuse and apologized.
A new Reuters/Ipsos poll shows that voters over age 60 are flocking to the Democrats for the midterm elections as Trump and the Republican Party are on the verge of losing their base of support. Here is the infographic on voters over age 60 via Reuters: The overall Republican advantage with has vanished. Republicans have…
If you care about the environment, education, gun control or any progressive values, Rick Scott has been a disaster as governor of Florida. Â And now this right-wing former CEO accused of Medicare fraud wants to go to Washington in the U.S. Senate so he can promote even more of Donald Trump’s disastrous agenda. #Florida Gov…
Finally some Republican members of Congress are starting to be honest and openly criticize President Trump for his aberrant behavior, misguided policies, and inflammatory tweets.  This growing group is called “the GOP’s retirement caucus†and they have become some of the president’s harshest critics. Congressional Republicans are retiring in record numbers, many because they believe…
A federal judge on Monday denied President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort’s latest request to loosen the terms of his bail conditions, saying some of the assets he offered to post as collateral are too tied up and cannot be used to meet a $10 million bond obligation.
Older, white, educated voters helped Donald Trump win the White House in 2016. Now, they are trending toward Democrats in such numbers that their ballots could tip the scales in tight congressional races from New Jersey to California, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll and a data analysis of competitive districts shows.
The homes of eight people suspected of founding a far-right terrorist group were searched in the raids, the federal prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
Facebook Inc Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg will hold meetings with some U.S. lawmakers on Monday, a day before he is due to appear at Congressional hearings over a political consultancy’s use of customer data, two congressional aides said on Sunday.
South Carolina started the Civil War by firing shots on federal troops at Fort Sumter in on April 12, 1861. And now some state representatives may want to lead The Palmetto State down the path of secession again.  This time it’s not about slavery, but about gun laws. South Carolina state Rep. Mike Pitts and…
