By Jonathan Allen (Reuters) – Both advocates and opponents of legalized marijuana reacted with caution on Saturday to signs from the White House that growers in U.S. states where the drug is permitted would be shielded from federal prosecution, saying it was too early to know the final impact. U.S. Senator Cory Gardner of Colorado…
A senior conservative ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel questioned whether sanctions against Russia were working, aligning himself with much of the Social Democrat rank-and-file in calling for Germany to keep up a dialogue with Russia.
President Donald Trump likes to brag whenever his approval rating is rising in any poll. But the latest Gallup poll shows his approval rating is going in the opposite direction. Already historically low, the latest results from Gallup show Trump’s approval dropping to 38%, the lowest point of his presidency. The president’s unfavorable rating is at…
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan is deserting the sinking ship known as the Republican Party. Most people haven’t figured out (yet) that the misguided Republican tax plan that he got passed last December will also probably sink the entire country. In fact, MSNBC had a special report called “Every criticism of the Republican tax…
Trump’s Syria strike is going over so badly politically that he is not even getting full support from Fox News. Video: Trump's Syria strike is such a political flop that even Fox News is backing away. https://t.co/tTlWO93upv pic.twitter.com/q9jbqO3k2I — Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) April 14, 2018 Fox and Friends Saturday had Charles Hurt from The…
Dropping bombs in the Middle East, as we’ve learned in the past, makes for good television, but it hardly ever leads to a long-term solution.Â
Trump made it clear with his Saturday morning tweets that he is trying to hide behind the military to distract from the Russia investigation. Trump tweeted: A perfectly executed strike last night. Thank you to France and the United Kingdom for their wisdom and the power of their fine Military. Could not have had a…
Trump received guidance on the Syrian airstrike from the lawyers defending him in the Russia investigation, according to a new report.
At the end of the day, Trump may think his Syria distraction was a “Mission Accomplished,” but it won’t help him run from his potentially criminal conduct.Â
The U.S. special counsel in the Russia probe has evidence that President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen traveled to Prague in 2016, refuting Cohen’s claim that he never visited the Czech capital and bolstering an intelligence dossier that first described the trip.
The United Nations Security Council will meet at 11 a.m. (1500 GMT) on Saturday at Russia’s request after U.S., British and French forces conducted air strikes on Syria involving more than 100 missiles.
In an odd reminder of George W.Bush’s failed “Mission accomplished” claim, President Trump claimed “Mission accomplished” Saturday morning after strikes on Syria.
The United States, France and Britain will brief NATO envoys on Saturday about their coordinated air strikes on Syrian government targets overnight, an alliance official said.
Newt Gingrich, who attacked the FBI’s recent raid of Trump attorney Michael Cohen, is now being attacked himself for his ridiculous and unpatriotic comments. In a television interview on Fox News Gingrich directly compared the United States’ top law enforcement agency to both Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin (who killed 20 million people) and the Nazis’ secret…
Don’t let the distractions of Syria and Comey’s book fool you.  For Trump there is no “deep state†but only deep trouble. The president is facing big legal trouble coming from prosecutors and he has equally serious political trouble coming from public opinion, as shown in a new poll from ABC and the Washington Post….
