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The Dam Is Breaking As Republicans Flee Trump and McConnell On Russia Sanctions
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) only needs a few more Republican votes to get one step closer to denying Trump and McConnell an easing of sanctions on Russia.
Daily Archives: Tue, Jan 15th, 2019
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Rachel Maddow Makes A Devastating Case That Trump Is A Russian Agent
Rachel Maddow laid out how Trump is pursuing all of Putin’s dream goals, like destroying NATO, while giving the Russians more leverage over the presidency.
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John Brennan Unloads: Trump Is Unfit And Incompetent To Protect National Security
Former CIA Director John Brennan spelled it out by saying that Trump unfit for office and too incompetent to protect national security.
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Adam Schiff Terrifies Trump By Going After His Darkest Russian Secrets
The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) will be investigating the dark Trump secrets that answer why the president is carrying out pro-Russia policies.
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Says Trump Engaged In Conspiracy To Defraud America
House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) said that Mueller’s latest court filing shows that the Trump campaign was engaged in a conspiracy to defraud the American people.
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Mueller wants more time with cooperating witness Gates
(Reuters) – U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Tuesday asked a federal judge for more time before sentencing former Trump campaign aide Rick Gates because of his ongoing cooperation, suggesting the probe into Russian interference may still have a ways to go. The latest request for more time before sentencing came in a joint filing…
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Nearly 4 in 10 have firsthand experience with U.S. shutdown: poll
By Chris Kahn NEW YORK (Reuters) – Nearly four in 10 adults in the United States say they are either personally affected by the partial U.S. government shutdown or they know someone who is, according to a Reuters/Ipsos public opinion poll released on Tuesday. The Jan. 8-14 poll showed that the shutdown, now the longest…
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Senior U.S. Democrat seeks to delay lifting of sanctions on Russian firms
The second-ranking Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives said on Tuesday he would ask the Treasury Department to delay the lifting of sanctions on companies tied to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska until Feb. 28 to give Congress time to review the decision.
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U.S. Supreme Court rejects challenge to Obama-era consumer protection bureau
At issue was whether the CFPB’s sole director possesses too much power in violation of the authority the U.S. Constitution gives a president to appoint and remove certain federal officials. A ruling in favor of the bank could have allowed a president to fire the agency’s director for any reason.
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Shutdown bites economy as Democrats reject Trump invitation
The U.S. economy is taking a larger-than-expected hit from the partial government shutdown, White House estimates showed on Tuesday, as congressional Democrats rejected President Donald Trump’s invitation to discuss the issue.
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Democrats Outsmart Trump With Invitation To Meet With Shutdown Federal Workers
Four Democratic Senators turned up the shutdown pressure on Trump by inviting him to meet with workers who are either currently laid off or working without pay.
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Sarah Sanders Tantrums After Democrats Boycott Lunch With Trump
After Trump claimed that Democrats are breaking and calling him on the shutdown, Sarah Sanders admitted that no Democrats are attending Trump’s lunch.
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Mueller Is Investigating Devin Nunes Meeting At Trump Hotel
Former House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Devin Nunes was desperate to get rid of Mueller because the Special Counsel is investigating him.
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Official: If Shutdown Continues, We Won’t Have Any Air Traffic Controllers Left
According to the Associated Press, roughly 10,000 air traffic controllers who work for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have been deemed essential and are expected to work without pay during the government shutdown. And according to on official with the air traffic controllers union, many of them are already having financial problems. If the shutdown…
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House Committee Chair Opens Probe of Trump’s Family Separation Crimes
Jerry Nadler, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has taken the first steps for his powerful committee to fully investigate crimes committed by Donald Trump and members of his administration connected with the kidnapping of children from their parents at the Mexican border. Trump, along with then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen…
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Burgers by candlelight: Trump lays out McDonald’s and Wendy’s for college football champs
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump laid out a White House feast fit for a government shutdown on Monday: silver platters heaped high with McDonald’s quarter pounders and the red-and-white burger wrappers of Wendy’s. White House chefs normally would serve much fancier fare underneath the stern gaze of the portrait of Abraham Lincoln in…
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Trump Crime Family Moves to Get Racketeering Lawsuit Dismissed
Before conman Donald Trump sold America on him becoming president, he was conning working-class people who invested hundreds of thousands of dollars with him, and lost all their money. And his three oldest children were helping him do it. At least that is what a lawsuit filed last fall charged. Yesterday lawyers for Donald Trump,…
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Trump Doesn’t See That Democrats Can’t Give Him What He Wants
As Donald Trump continues his unhinged Twitter rants, and continues to blame Democrats for the shutdown he caused, one simple fact seems to have escaped him: Democrats can’t give him what he wants. Because the shutdown is extremely unpopular with the general public, and even more unpopular with Democratic voters, it would be almost impossible…
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Former Prosecutor Says Trump’s Obstruction Proves Collusion
According to former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti, the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation of President Donald Trump’s ties to Russia adds another important dimension to the special counsel’s investigation of Trump’s obstruction of justice. Federal law enforcement officers began investigating the president after he fired FBI director James Comey. Mariotti, writing in POLITICO, said that any actions…
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After Controversial Comments, King Kicked Off Committees By McCarthy
Republican leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives on Monday took steps to kick racist Iowa GOP Rep. Steve King off of all House committees on which he has been serving. King will lose his committee assignments following a media firestorm caused by his most recent outlandish racist remarks. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.)…
