Under William Barr, the Department of Justice – which exists to protect the rule of law in the U.S. – has become a complete joke.
The fact that his own staff members can’t share difficult news with him is a reality that should be troubling to Americans of all political persuasions.
Buttigieg said he will restore the DOJ to its pre-Trump state as an entity that defends the rule of law, not acts as an extension of the Oval Office.
Trump has shown that this decades-old guideline barring criminal presidents from being indicted most definitely needs to be revised.
As his presidency crumbles under the weight of scandal and incompetence, Trump is marching the United States toward another unnecessary war.
Booker says the short-term politics pale in comparison to what history will say if leaders do nothing as Trump pushes this country toward authoritarianism.Â
Malcolm Nance warned that election interference in 2020 to benefit Trump will be much more widespread than the Russian attack in 2016.
Schiff said Barr’s approval of Trump’s tax return cover-up is the latest example of how far the DOJ has fallen under this attorney general.
Donald Trump – a man who campaigned against needless military conflict in the Middle East – appears hungry for a war with Iran.
If you’re wondering why the Senate majority leader has sold his soul to protect this corrupt and unfit president, look no further.
Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters said she believes Donald Trump should be impeached because he is unworthy to be president of the United States.
For further evidence that Trump was completely off his rocker in Iowa, even Fox Business Channel had to cut away from his speech.
Trump lacks the skills and intellect to accomplish anything substantive on the world stage, so he tries to fill this intellectual void with hot air and political theater.
Polling seems to back up one of Biden’s strongest arguments for primary voters: that he is the candidate best positioned to defeat Trump.
The DOJ announced that it would ignore subpoenas for documents related to a controversial move to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
Former White House Communications Director Hope Hicks, once a close aide to President Donald Trump, has agreed to turn over documents related to his 2016 election campaign to congressional investigators, a top Democratic lawmaker said on Tuesday.
Republican and Democratic U.S. senators said on Wednesday they would introduce 22 separate joint resolutions seeking to block President Donald Trump’s plan to sidestep congressional review and complete more than $8 billion in military sales to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan.
Other world leaders want nothing to do with Trump’s constant effort to use the presidency to enrich himself, his family and his businesses.
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews obliterated Donald Trump on Tuesday for forcing world leaders to “kiss the butt of his family members.”
The White House has told Hope Hicks, a former close aide to President Donald Trump, not to turn over documents to the House Judiciary Committee related to her time in the administration, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Barr is free to take a job with Fox News, but his conduct and rhetoric show that he has no business being the attorney general.
Trump issued another vague statement after a deadly mass shooting in Virginia Beach – but he forgot to mention the fact that a shooting took place.
The controversy surrounding the USS John S. McCain shows that Donald Trump is seen by his own military and staff as a petty child.
Because one disastrous trade war with China isn’t enough, Donald Trump is reportedly planning to wage another one against Mexico.
Trump attacks his opponents using language and criticism that would apply to his own shortcomings as a president and a human being.
Politically appointed U.S. environmental officials last year overruled concerns of career scientists about air pollution in a Wisconsin county where U.S. President Donald Trump has pushed for a factory to be built by Foxconn Technology Co, newly released internal emails show.
President Trump is funneling $62 million of taxpayer funded farm aid to a foreign, Brazilian owned meatpacking company, which is owned by two billionaire majority GOP donor brothers who just so happen to be under investigation by the Department of Justice after the brothers admitted to bribing politicians to obtain benefits for their businesses.
Three out of four chairmen and ranking Republicans wouldn’t even respond when asked how they reviewed the report.
Two dozen U.S. states and municipalities sued the Trump administration on Tuesday to stop it from enforcing a rule that would make it easier for doctors and nurses to avoid performing abortions on religious or moral grounds. A lawsuit led by New York Attorney General Letitia James said the expanded “conscience” protections could undermine the…
As the U.S. government prepares to defend the 2020 presidential election from cyber threats, the federal agency charged with helping administer elections, the Election Assistance Commission, says it is “strained to the breaking point,†according to Chairwoman Christy McCormick.
The U.S. Treasury will not introduce a redesigned $20 bill picturing escaped slave and abolitionist Harriet Tubman next year as planned, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Wednesday.
President Trump is costing the U.S. taxpayer $102 million plus for his golf outings, and because he refused to divest himself of his business interests like all other presidents have done, he is making money off of his outrageous expenditures.
The Trump White House is claiming that this refusal to deal and negotiate with Democrats does not extend to the must-pass debt ceiling and funding bills.
Afterward, at a press conference with Senate Democratic Leader Schumer, Pelosi told reporters Trump may have lacked the confidence to work with Democrats on infrastructure. She said she prays for Trump.
Schumer said watching what happened at the meeting between the president and Democratic lawmakers “would make your jaw drop.” He said that when Trump was asked how he would pay for an infrastructure plan, “he had to run away.”
The president is stonewalling multiple congressional investigations by ignoring subpoenas, refusing to allow current and former advisers to testify, and not handing over documents, steps that have aggravated a confrontation with Congress.
During an interview with Chris Matthews, Sen. Brown said the big elitist and con man in American politics is Donald Trump.
Trump’s favorability rating is worse than Biden’s by double digits with just 38 percent saying they hold a favorable opinion of the incumbent president.
Robert Mueller seems to have succumbed to his party’s attacks on truth, which is truly unfortunate for this nation and a black mark on the Republican’s resume.
Mueller’s team has expressed reticence to him testifying publicly because they do not want him to appear “political.”
As Trump congratulated himself for auto jobs — in March, hyperventilating over Ford investing money in Flat Rock, Michigan, claiming that companies were “pouring back into the United States” because “they want to be where the action is” — the number 2 automaker Ford was actually restructuring and planning to cut 10% of its global salaried workforce.
U.S. farmers, who helped carry Trump to his surprise 2016 election win, have been among the hardest hit as China has imposed tariffs on imports of U.S. agricultural products including soybeans, pork and grain sorghum in response to U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods.
Now, increasing frustrations over the prolonged dispute are prompting some rural residents in Iowa, home of the first presidential nominating contest in February, to consider candidates other than President Donald Trump in the 2020 election.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Friday that he would not meet a congressional demand for six years of President Donald Trump’s tax returns, all but guaranteeing a federal court battle with Congress over the records.
It would be a lie to tell you that I don’t think this president deserves to be impeached, or that I don’t agree that the rule of law is imperiled if he is not impeached by the House and convicted by the Senate. Intellectually, impeachment is the only answer to the immoral, unlawful attacks on democracy that are Donald Trump’s presidency.
If this part of the Keystone State is slipping away from Trump, it’s a bad sign for the president who needs to hold Pennsylvania in his column in 2020.
Former vice president Joe Biden is crushing Donald Trump in a head-to-head matchup, and he has a sizable lead in the Democratic primary race.
President Donald Trump said on Thursday he hoped the United States was not heading to war with Iran as he met with Switzerland President Ueli Maurer, whose nation has served as a diplomatic conduit between the two countries.
Trump the Taxer: Not only are Trump’s tariffs one of the largest tax hikes in decades, but they also amount to more than the tax increases from the first three years of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act.
U.S. retail sales unexpectedly fell in April as households cut back on purchases of motor vehicles and a range of other goods, pointing to a slowdown in economic growth after a temporary boost from exports and inventories in the first quarter.
Five presidents have been elected without having won the national popular vote. Two of those instances happened since 2000.
The more this president fights the release of his tax returns and other financial documents, the more obvious it is that he is hiding something.
Even though the Trump campaign is still under investigation for working with Russia in 2016, they seem eager to seek foreign help again in 2020.
Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) said that Democrats should consider using the doctrine of inherent contempt to arrest and jail Trump administration officials.
Trump supporters are more interested in fighting culture wars with a racist bully than electing a president who will fight for them.
Trump can’t win if 2020 is a referendum on his disastrous presidency and morally bankrupt character, so he is ready to rely on more foreign meddling.
Trump’s latest meltdown, which filled his Twitter feed with dozens of more retweets, makes it pretty clear: Trump isn’t just unstable. He’s terrified.Â
House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) subpoenaed Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig for six years of Trump’s tax returns.
For the president, the 2020 campaign isn’t just about winning a second term in the White House. It’s about avoiding time in the big house.
The New York State Senate is going to pass a bill that would allow Congress to see Donald Trump’s state tax returns as part of their investigations.
President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday rejected a subpoena from a Democratic-led congressional committee seeking documents from former White House counsel Don McGahn relating to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia inquiry.
The White House has decided to tell former White House counsel Don McGahn not to comply with a congressional subpoena for documents relating to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, ABC News reported on Tuesday, citing an interview with White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders.
Once Robert Mueller is on the record explaining that there was clear evidence that Trump obstructed justice, it will be a game-changer.
Given the frequency with which Trump is ignoring Congress, the point of no return may be approaching more quickly than some Democrats think.
Cohen told journalists he hoped that once he completes his prison sentence that “the country will be in a place without xenophobia, injustice and lies at the head of our country. There still remains much to be told. And I look forward to the day that I can share the truth.”
U.S. Attorney General William Barr is headed for a showdown on Monday with Democrats in Congress, as lawmakers prepared to begin contempt proceedings against the top U.S. law enforcement officer if he fails to hand over the full, unredacted Mueller report.
A second congressional subpoena deadline for U.S. Attorney General William Barr to provide lawmakers with an unredacted copy of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation report expired at 9 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT) on Monday.
Because Trump and his supporters live in an alternative reality, they will be in for a rude awakening in 2020 if and when he loses.
A 1924 law allows House Democrats to bypass the subpoena process and directly sue the Treasury Department for Trump’s tax returns.
President Trump failed to bring up Russian President Vladimir Putin’s meddling in our elections when they spoke for an hour today, and also failed to tell Putin not to meddle in the upcoming election.
Trump is so scared that former vice president Joe Biden will be his eventual opponent that his staff is struggling to keep him focused.
President Donald Trump has the right to instruct advisers not to testify before congressional oversight probes related to the Russia investigation, the White House said in a letter that blasts Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report as defective.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s pick to fill a seat on the Federal Reserve, economic commentator Stephen Moore, withdrew from consideration on Thursday after weeks of criticism about his shifting views on interest-rate policy and sexist comments about women.
U.S. House Democrats threatened on Thursday to hold Attorney General William Barr in “contempt of Congress” for not complying with a subpoena to hand over an unredacted version of the Mueller report. What does that mean?
When Attorney General William Barr refused to appear at a hearing in the U.S. Congress on Thursday, one Democrat decided it was thigh time to act against what he saw as fowl behavior.
The U.S. State Department allowed at least seven foreign governments to rent luxury condominiums in New York’s Trump World Tower in 2017 without approval from Congress, according to documents and people familiar with the leases, a potential violation of the U.S. Constitution’s emoluments clause.
Attorney General William Barr will face pointed questions on Wednesday about his handling of the special counsel’s report on Russia’s role in the 2016 election when he testifies before Congress amid accusations he misrepresented the document’s findings.
There is no other way to put this: William Barr lied under oath when he said he didn’t know how Mueller felt about his handling of the Russia report.
At the end of the day, it’s clear that Trump doesn’t give a damn about undocumented immigrants other than how much he can exploit them to his benefit.
They cited, among many ethical and legal issues, Barr’s decision not to recuse himself, whether his non-summary summary was misleading, whether his conduct with respect to the report complied with DOJ practices, and whether he has demonstrated sufficient impartiality to continue overseeing the 14 criminal matters referred to other components of the DOJ and FBI.
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Federal prosecutors on Tuesday opposed a bid by President Donald Trump’s longtime adviser Roger Stone to obtain unredacted portions of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election to help his defense against criminal charges brought by Mueller. “The government does not intend…
It took a Canadian to point out how our mainstream media is failing us.
Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star Daniel Dale observed how our media fails to even mention Trump’s lies.
A majority of the Democratic candidates have already signed onto an Indivisible pledge to wholeheartedly endorse the eventual nominee.
Biden won the official endorsement of the International Association of Fire Fighters on Monday, a union organization that represents over 300,000 workers.
Not only do those around Trump not respect him and his ability to lead the country, but they often refuse to follow his dangerous whims.
The “president” has now made 10,000 false or misleading claims while in office. What a lot of winning. Trump now lies so much in a day that he has lied more in a single month than he did in the first five months of his presidency.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Democratic chairman of a congressional committee has put off holding a former White House security clearance chief in contempt until after the panel interviews him about decisions made on some of President Donald Trump’s advisers. The House Oversight and Government Reform committee voted last week to subpoena Carl Kline over whistleblower…
In an unprecedented step, the Trump administration has filed a lawsuit to try to block one congressional subpoena; some Trump advisers have been told to ignore other subpoenas; and a request for Trump’s tax returns has not been fulfilled.
If Trump continues to refuse to comply with lawful investigations, it will put America in a far more dangerous position than Watergate ever did.
By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House will let a congressional committee interview a former staffer about security clearances, according to media reports, after a top U.S. House Republican sought to defuse tensions between House Democrats and the Trump administration. Republican Representative Jim Jordan, a leader of the right-wing House Freedom Caucus better…
“The United States will now lock arms with Iran, North Korea and Syria as non-signatories to this historic treaty whose sole purpose is to protect innocent people from deadly weapons,” said Oxfam America President Abby Maxman.
This won’t stop until Donald Trump is finally held accountable for his own behavior for once in his life. It won’t stop until he is dragged from the White House like the inhumane, unworthy, and illegitimate president he is.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said the United States did not pay any money to North Korea as it sought the release of Otto Warmbier, a day after a report said Trump had approved a $2 million bill from Pyongyang for the American student’s care. “No money was paid to North…
By Jan Wolfe and Richard Cowan (Reuters) – The “i word” – impeachment – is swirling around the U.S. Congress since the release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s redacted Russia report, which painted a picture of lies, threats and confusion in Donald Trump’s White House. Some Democrats say trying to remove Trump from office would…
By Ann Saphir and Trevor Hunnicutt SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stephen Moore, the economic commentator that U.S. President Donald Trump has said he will nominate to the Federal Reserve Board, is drawing new fire from top Democrats for his comments denigrating, among other targets, women and the Midwest. But Republicans, whose 53 to 47…
The more this president acts out, the less cautious Democrats in Congress have to be about moving toward impeachment.
Donald Trump’s behavior in the early going suggests that he sees former vice president Joe Biden as the greatest threat to his presidency.
House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Elijah Cummings blasted Attorney General William Barr for, “a massive, unprecedented, and growing pattern of obstruction.”
a GCHQ spokesman said: “The allegations that GCHQ was asked to conduct ‘wire tapping’ against the then President Elect are’ nonsense. They are utterly ridiculous and should be ignored.”
“If the partisan Dems ever tried to Impeach, I would first head to the U.S. Supreme Court,” Trump wrote on Twitter.
The U.S. Constitution lays the ‘sole power’ of impeachment before the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Democrats need to do is acknowledge that none of this is oversight as usual. The information laid out in Mueller’s report is extraordinarily damning.
Trump’s desperation became even more obvious as the White House is planning to block Don McGahn’s expected testimony before the House Judiciary Committee.
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Internal Revenue Service on Tuesday failed to meet a congressional deadline for turning over President Donald Trump’s tax returns to lawmakers, setting the stage for a court battle between Congress and the administration. The outcome, which was widely expected, could prompt House Ways and Means Committee Chairman…
