This is day two of protests outside of the White House after President Trump returned from what was dubbed his “Treason Summit” with President Putin.
Representative Martha Roby, an Alabama Republican who spurned Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential race, appeared headed for victory on Tuesday in a runoff election against a former Democrat-turned-Trump supporter.
President Donald Trump and Republican U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday discussed another possible round of deficit-financed tax cuts, highlighting an initiative seen by some tax experts as an election-year effort with little chance of becoming law.
Rachel Maddow summed up the mood in the country after Trump’s summit by showing what Congress could be doing but isn’t, and then how the heat is being turned up on the GOP by the American people.
By John Whitesides and Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump faced outrage on Tuesday for his failure to hold Russia accountable for meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, and some U.S. lawmakers threatened action in Congress to punish Moscow and show support for U.S. intelligence agencies. At a joint news conference with…
Former New York State Senate majority leader Dean Skelos was found guilty of soliciting bribes and other federal corruption charges by a jury on Tuesday, nearly a year after an appeals court threw out an earlier conviction.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said that he thinks that there will be bipartisan support for the translator for Trump’s secret meeting with Putin to brief Congress on what was said next week.
Even though the White House tried to chain Trump to prepared remarks after the summit disaster, Trump took a Sharpie and wrote in giant black letters, NO COLLUSION.”
The U.S. government paid more than $77,000 to President Trump’s Scottish golf resort ahead of his stay there last weekend, according to federal spending records, indicating that Trump’s official visit to Europe likely generated revenue for his business empire.
More than half of Americans disapprove of the way U.S. President Donald Trump is handling relations with Russia, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted after his controversial summit and joint news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
A U.S. grand jury on Tuesday indicted a Russian woman on charges of acting as an agent of the Russian government, the Justice Department said.
A federal judge in Virginia on Tuesday denied a motion by former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort to move a trial set to start next week from the Washington suburb of Alexandria to the city of Roanoke, Virginia.
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is open to the possibility of the first talks since 2015 between the defense chiefs of the United States and Russia, a move that would deepen communication between Washington and Moscow, U.S. officials said.
Senate Democrats are demanding a public hearing, testimony from Trump’s national security team, and all notes from Trump’s private meeting with Putin. If Mitch McConnell says no, he will have fallen into Sen. Chuck Schumer’s Russia trap.
MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace quickly debunked the lie that is the backbone of misspoke at the Putin press conference lie.
The source who said Butina worked for Torshin said that she was a Trump supporter who bragged at parties in Washington that she could use her political connections to help get people jobs in the Trump administration after the election.
When it became clear that President Donald Trump was seriously considering nominating Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court, the conservative judge’s former law clerks swung into action as among his most energetic public cheerleaders.
Katy Tur unloaded on Trump for his laughable claim that he misspoke at his press conference with Putin.
Trump tried to say that he supported the intelligence agencies, and as he was lying, the lights went out at the White House.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) did nothing to dispell the idea that he is a Russia co-conspirator by not even mentioning Trump’s name during his first post-summit comments.
House Republicans spent the day after Treason Trump Helsinki debacle whining at Facebook, Google and Twitter about conservative content being discriminated against content for political reasons.
A U.S. Treasury Department decision to safeguard the identities of so-called “dark money” donors to politically active nonprofit groups spawned warnings on Tuesday that the policy could inadvertently aid foreign actors, including Russia.
“President Trump, I just saw your press conference with President Putin and it was embarrassing. I mean, you stood there like a little wet noodle, like a little fanboy.” Former Republican Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger said U.S. President Donald Trump had behaved like a “little wet noodle” at a news conference in Helsinki on…
Speaking in Johannesburg on Tuesday, Former President Barack Obama spoke to 15,000 people in celebration of the 100 year anniversary since Nelson Mandela’s birth. Obama spoke with sadness about how some among us are still blaming those who are different from us for our troubles and warned of the dangers of “strongman politics” which are…
Russia’s political and media establishment heralded talks between the Russian and U.S. leaders in Helsinki as a victory for Vladimir Putin in breaking down Western resolve to treat Russia as a pariah.
Former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt bluntly said that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is up to his eyeballs in the Russia scandal and needs to be removed from power.
Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) on Tuesday said he is willing to consider additional sanctions on Russia.
Yes, that’s all of the commitment we have from the Republican Speaker of the House, even after his party’s president announced in front of the entire world, while standing next to President Putin, that he backed Russia over his own country.
There have been a lot of dark days for the U.S. since Trump took office. Monday was a particularly troubling one, and history will not soon forget it.
The U.S. Treasury said on Monday that it will no longer require certain tax-exempt organizations including politically active nonprofit groups, such as the National Rifle Association and Planned Parenthood, to identify their financial donors to U.S. tax authorities.
Former personal attorney for President Donald J. Trump Michael Cohen made a rare appearance on Twitter on Monday. In an intriguing post he offered what was certainly an indirect criticism of his former boss’s performance at the Helsinki press conference Trump held with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Michael Cohen trolls Trump over Russia summit https://t.co/H2QMrOXhSm…
Retiring Republican Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona is working on a resolution to counter President Donald Trump’s outrageous and treasonous comments from the joint press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday. “I think we should pass a resolution on the heels of all this,” Flake told reporters in the Capitol. Flake said he…
Friday’s very detailed indictment of twelve Russian government military officers sent notice to the world that Robert Mueller and his team know everything about what went on between Donald Trump and the Russians who supported him. But the big news wasn’t just the fact that Russians were indicted, it was that Mueller has hard evidence…
A new article in POLITICO asks: Is this the year Arizona finally turns blue? Based on polling data, it appears that the answer is finally “yes.â€Â A new POLITICO/AARP poll shows Democrats ahead by 7 percentage points in generic ballots in both the governor’s and Senate races. “In Arizona, a new POLITICO/AARP poll shows Democrats…
