Fired FBI director James Comey’s memoir that details his private meetings with U.S. President Donald Trump sold some 600,000 copies in all formats in its first week, its publisher said on Tuesday, the latest in a series of best-selling political books.
The new policy would be based on proposed legislation spearheaded by the chairman of the House of Representatives Science Committee, Lamar Smith, a Republican who rejects mainstream climate change science.
Rachel Maddow drilled it when she highlighted the fatal flaw of Trump doing no vetting which has led to his presidency of failure.
Sen. Sherrod Brown is organizing Americans to stop Trump’s VA nominee Ronny Jackson, and the White House plan to privatize veterans’ health care.
Breaking news: Trump lied again. And there’s tape. “The first time I met Donald Trump it was in Moscow on November 8th, 2013. I taped a sit-down interview with Trump the next day on November 9th,” the host said. “That was also the date for the Miss Universe broadcast.â€
A little bit or a lot of drinking on the job is not a problem to Trump who has urged his VA secretary nominee Ronny Jackson to keep fighting for confirmation. The AP reported, “A White House official says President Donald Trump is urging his nominee for Veterans Affairs secretary, Dr. Ronny Jackson, to keep…
Democrats are slamming Republican legislators trying to enact a measure that would greatly diminish the number of hours of required debate time for President Trump’s nominees to be confirmed. Currently, Trump’s picks are debated for up to 30 hours on the Senate floor after they clinch the necessary support to move forward in the process….
The JCT estimated that in 2018, more than half of the pass-through benefit will go to taxpayers making $500,000 or more, with $17.8 billion going to those reporting more than $1 million in income, and another $3.6 million going to taxpayers earning $500,000 to $1 million.
Sen. Jon Tester said during an interview that Trump’s pick to be VA Secretary was drunk on the job according to information that his office has received.
Bloomberg reported Tuesday that Attorney General Jeff Sessions will not be recusing himself from the probe into Michael Cohen, President Trump’s longtime personal lawyer. This means Sessions will have the right to access briefings on the investigation’s status and to have a say on decisions made by prosecutors, such as whether they should issue certain…
Trump is standing by his scandal-plagued EPA Administrator, Scott Pruitt, but Republican Senators are getting worried that he will hurt them in November.
With Arizona Sen. John McCain battling brain cancer, Republican congressmen tried earlier this month to concoct a way to keep his seat under their party’s control, should McCain decide to leave. It didn’t work though — Democrats put a stop to the GOP’s plan. The Republican effort consisted of attaching an emergency clause to a…
Most Americans think that the Trump/Republican tax bill passed last December was a bad idea, and a new report from the Joint Committee on Taxation shows why. The report was released on Monday and it should come as no surprise that the Joint Committee found that most of the law’s tax breaks go to the…
Trump said that Ronny Jackson isn’t qualified to run the VA, but he claimed that no one is qualified, and then he suggested that Jackson should withdraw his name from consideration. Video: Trump says Jackson shouldn’t do it: Trump throws his VA Secretary nominee under the bus in the weakest most passive-aggressive way possible. pic.twitter.com/1pOFD8Peor…
Trump tried to hold the hand of his wife as they welcomed French President Macron and his wife to the White House, but the First Lady wanted no party of PDA with her adulterous husband.
Facebook Inc on Tuesday released a rule book for the types of posts it allows on its social network, giving far more detail than ever before on what is permitted on subjects ranging from drug use and sex work to bullying, hate speech and inciting violence.
The reason President Trump’s nominations get held up is that he apparently does zero vetting.
The Senate Veterans Affairs Committee has delayed confirmation of Trump’s nomination of his presidential physician, Ronny Jackson, to head the VA because of “new information” it had received.
At a joint photo-op with French president Macron, Donald Trump lost his temper in front of the world and threatened a new war in the Middle East if Iran restarts their nuclear program.
Right on cue, the Republican Party in the state of Missouri is falling apart just in time to help Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill in her bid to win re-election in this fall’s midterm elections. Many people remember how McCaskill won her senate seat six years ago when her opponent Todd Akin went off the deep…
Back in February we reported that “Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), the ranking member on the Senate Budget Committee, exploded with rage after Trump released a budget that slashes trillions of dollars from Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security disability after he gave a massive tax cut to the wealthy and corporations.” This one statement explains the…
The recently-released memos from former FBI Director James Comey revealed that Michael Flynn was under FISA surveillance while he was working for Donald Trump. They discuss at length the pressure Trump put on Comey to drop the FBI investigation into Flynn.  One aspect of these memos (and Trump’s subsequent bizarre behavior) has not been widely reported…
