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President-elect Joe Biden has selected Dr. David Kessler, former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) chief, to spearhead the United States‘ vaccination effort as the incoming administration readies its plans to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic from day one.
The mob that descended on D.C. on Jan. 6 was filled with pro-Trump white supremacists, many of whom were on the FBI terrorist watchlist.
Over the entirety of his business career, Donald Trump has been involved in over 3,500 lawsuits. He has quite a bit of experience with lawyers both good and bad.
During the Mueller Report, Trump had Ty Cobb, John Dowd and Jay Sekulow in his corner. In his first impeachment trial, Trump again had Sekulow representing him along with Pat Cipollone and Alan Dershowitz. Cipollone and Sekulow say they won’t return for a second trial.
The increasingly unhinged president has banned his remaining staff members from even mentioning Richard Nixon in his presence.
Donald Trump will soon be out of the White House. He will, however, loom over the party for years to come. With Joe Biden in control, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy are trying to keep their houses in order.
If Republicans really want to demonstrate that they care about unity, they would immediately get behind Joe Biden's economic rescue package.
Back in the early 1990’s Donald Trump was a bit of a pop-culture phenomenon. The vast majority of his business’ were failing, but he was able to convince the public that he was some kind of financial genius.
Few are more clued into the thinking in DC than Jake Sherman. So it was quite notable that he recently told Mediate that Mitch McConnell and his allies in the senate are “seriously considering impeachment.”
The Democratic Senate wins in Georgia have allowed President-Elect Biden to introduce a huge $1.7 trillion pandemic relief package.
Rep. Peter Meijer (R-MI) defended his vote to impeach Trump but said that he is buying body armor to protect himself from death threats.
Items that could belong to the American people are being carried out of the White House by Trump's staff.
After the House impeached Trump for a second time over 20,000 phone calls were placed to the Senate demanding Trump's conviction.
Donald Trump Jr. is about to join his sister Ivanka in being interviewed about how millions of taxpayer dollars were funneled to Trump businesses.
The Koch network, the darling of the corporate donor class, has announced that lawmakers’ actions before and after last week’s attack on the Capitol will “weigh heavily” on who will receive future support in the next election cycle.
Unemployment claims have spiked again.
The Department of Labor (DOL) reports that unemployment claims in the first full week of January spiked to a seasonally adjusted 965,000, Additionally, non-adjusted claims rose to 1.2 million and the number receiving Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) rose to 284,500.
Donald Trump had high hopes this election season. He, of course, believed deep down he would defeat Joe Biden. And even if he didn’t, he would assemble a crack team of lawyers who could help him win.
House Republicans have been fighting with Capitol Police, and ignoring the security screenings, so Pelosi announced she will fine the Republicans if they don't follow the rules.
This fall, Republicans elected two QAnon believers to Congress. They have both made absolute spectacles of themselves. Colorado‘s Lauren Boebert revealed the location of Nancy Pelosi during the Capitol insurrection. She also made a scene at a Capitol metal detector last night.
The attack on the US Capitol last week was a first in multiple ways. Of course, the attack was unprecedented. But the assault on Democracy also represented the first time where almost all Republicans were willing to admit that Donald Trump did something bad.
Trump released a new video where he condemned all of his supporters for following his instructions and attacking the Capitol.