Trump Wiped Out The Entire Obama Recovery In A Month
Donald Trump’s mishandling of the coronavirus response has resulted in him wiping all of the job gains in Obama’s recovery from the Great Recession.
Donald Trump’s mishandling of the coronavirus response has resulted in him wiping all of the job gains in Obama’s recovery from the Great Recession.
Citing words from an influential businessman, Trump suggested on Sunday afternoon that the poor response to coronavirus in the United States wasn’t his administration’s fault, but that of Congress’. “Great businessman & philanthropist Bernie Marcus, Co-Founder of Home Depot, said that Congress was too distracted by the (phony) Impeachment Witch Hunt when they should have…
Trump was asked if the country needed nationwide coronavirus testing before people go back to work, and Trump said that testing would be nice but isn’t needed.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) says President Donald Trump “is not looking at the facts” of the coronavirus pandemic after the president said he doesn’t believe New York needs 30,000 ventilators to treat infected patients. New York is the hardest-hit state of the coronavirus pandemic. At least 466 people have died in…
Writing in USA Today, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) took a stand for American workers affected by the coronavirus pandemic, saying that any bailout must put their needs first. “That means making sure that any federal bailout of giant corporations directly helps their employees, fuels a grassroots recovery and ensures that those big companies make serious, long-term…
The New York Times reports that President Donald Trump’s administration is asking state officials to delay the release of unemployment numbers in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, which sent a shockwave through the economy and forced many out of work after businesses shuttered. The Department of Labor asked state officials in an email to…
President Trump’s impeachment lawyer Alan Dershowitz knows Trump is corrupt, and in 2016 said that Trump would continue to be corrupt were he to win the election. He also warned that Trump would “embolden and strengthen some of the fascist elements in our society.”
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) tried to say that Trump is anti-corruption on Ukraine, so CNN’s Jake Tapper listed all of the criminally convicted Trump associates.
When asked about his approach to education in last Thursday’s Democratic primary debate, Pete Buttigieg’s response boiled down the difference between his approach and Donald Trump’s to its most  basic element. “Step one,†he said, would be to “appoint a secretary of education who actually believes in public education.†Buttigieg’s pithy statement put sharply into…
Trump holds the most powerful office in the world, and – with the help of a corrupt attorney general – he’s using it to boost his failing businesses.
Greenland on Friday dismissed the notion that it might be up for sale after reports that U.S. President Donald Trump had privately discussed with his advisers the idea of buying the world’s biggest island.
Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren is proposing creating a $7 billion fund to provide grants to help more minorities start their own business, she announced on Friday.
In Ireland, Trump claimed that the US now has the cleanest air and water in the world through his being in the White House.
Trump threatened to cut child support for his daughter Tiffany if she ever joined the military or the Peace Corps, which is proof of how the president really feels about the troops.
(Reuters) – U.S. companies in everything from computer chips to tractors have said President Donald Trump’s trade wars, including disputes with Beijing and global steel tariffs, have had an impact on them.
“We had been depending on the income from our livestock, but now all of our feed is gone, so that is going to be even more difficult. We haven’t been making any money from our grain farming because of trade issues and low prices.”
The federal government will soon begin selling off Paul Manafort’s assets which he accumulated after decades of shady and illegal lobbying work. After the process is completed it is expected that Bob Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election will have made a profit, bringing in more money than it has cost. This…
But worried and silenced by the nation’s hardened attitude toward migrants, frightened workers face greater risk of falling victim to forced labor, trafficking, wage theft and debt bondage, advocates and officials told the Thomson Reuters Foundation during several trips over a five-month period.
Economic growth is expected to take a hit in the current quarter because of the shutdown, a Reuters poll of economists showed on Friday, while a dearth of data is already impacting traders in U.S. fixed income and currency markets.
U.S. companies say the shutdown is hurting their businesses and can cause more damage if it persists.
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.
First Daughter Ivanka Trump will likely soon be investigated for failing to recuse herself from “personally and substantially†being involved in a Trump administration program that benefits her husband, Jared Kushner. The investigation is the result of conflict of interest allegations brought by the watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics (CREW). CREW asked the…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Acting U.S. Attorney General Matthew Whitaker was aware of fraud allegations against an invention promotion company where he was an advisor and was slow to respond to government investigators probing it, documents released on Friday show. World Patent Marketing was a fraud, one angry person wrote in September 2016. “What you don’t…
During this election cycle political commentators have spent much time analyzing different voting groups. Will young voters and minorities turn out for Democrats? Will angry white male voters carry Trump’s GOP to victory? Will women voters be the force behind a dominant Blue Wave? With all of this political discussion, however, there has been one…
It is very clear that all Republicans, but especially President Donald Trump, are growing increasingly desperate as the midterm elections grow near. While they had initially planned to base their November campaigns on the great economy and the wonderful benefits of their tax plan, they have discovered that those ideas aren’t working. Most American voters…
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration will send messages to more than 200 million U.S. cellphones on Wednesday testing a previously unused presidential alert system that aims to warn the public in the event of a national emergency. The test message was originally scheduled for September but was pushed back to Wednesday…
By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) – For President Donald Trump, the New York attorney general‘s office has been a nemesis for years, one whose sting has grown more potent during his rocky tenure in office. Letitia James, who emerged Thursday as the Democratic nominee for New York’s top prosecutor, is expected to create more…
Despite pleas from the president’s attorneys, the Attorney General of New York has pledged to continue with a lawsuit against the president for misusing charitable funds donated to the Trump Foundation. According to her,Trump used the Foundation as a personal piggybank and a source of money to illegally fund his businesses and also his political…
By Liz Hampton HOUSTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Commerce Department recently granted a tariff exemption to oil major Chevron for its imports of 4.5-inch Japanese steel tubes for oil exploration. But the department rejected a similar request from Borusan Mannesmann Pipe to exclude 4.5-inch steel pipes imported from Turkey for casing used to line new…
Mattress Firm Inc, the largest U.S. mattress retailer, is considering a potential bankruptcy filing as it seeks ways to get out of costly store leases and shut some of its 3,000 locations that are losing money, people familiar with the matter said.
New York and five other states on Wednesday filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration from making cooperation with federal immigration authorities a condition for receiving millions of dollars in federal funding for law enforcement.
History is repeating itself in the DNC lawsuit filed yesterday, and to figure out what is going to happen we can look at the O.J. Simpson murder case and the Watergate break-in case for clues. In August of 1974, on the day that Richard Nixon resigned from the presidency, the Republican National Committee wrote a…
A federal jury in Houston found former U.S. Republican Congressman Steve Stockman guilty of fraud on Thursday, including siphoning off more than $1 million in campaign funds for his own use, court records showed.
It’s hard to keep track of all the women who have current lawsuits against the president.  Summer Zervos, Karen McDougal, Stormy Daniels — and now we can add Jessica Denson to the list. On March 26th Denson became the fourth woman to sue Trump during his presidency, and the third to try to void a…
Lawrence O’Donnell rubbed salt in the wound that will drive Trump crazy by celebrating the fact that more people watched Stormy Daniels on 60 Minutes than watched Donald Trump. Video: Lawrence O'Donnell is loving every second of Stormy Daniels drawing more 60 Minutes viewers than Trump. #StormyDanielsDay #TheLastWord https://t.co/x8v8VEqUvC pic.twitter.com/H6tUGuqr2U — Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah)…
he White House is investigating whether two loans totaling more than $500 million to the family real estate business of U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner violated any criminal laws or regulations, according to the U.S. Office of Government Ethics.
The fundraising committee for House Democratic candidates set a fundraising record for February. Roll Call reported, “The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee raised nearly $10.6 million in February…The DCCC raised $3.38 million from online donations in February, with an average online gift of $18. So far this cycle, the group has raised more than $50 million…
The House passed the STOP School Violence Act by a vote of 407-10, but the act is limited to providing grants for additional school security and does nothing to prevent potential shooters from getting weapons of mass killing. ABC News reported, “The bill authorizes $50 million per year for grants administered by the Department of…
So we know this is just the beginning of Mueller’s investigation, and already he has indicted 13 Russians for meddling with the U.S. election.
Here are five thought-provoking things about the indictments and the alleged crimes surrounding them:
“Remember @equifax breach? Data stolen from millions of consumers? The former consumer watchdog @RichCordray opened a probe. It has withered under the current @CFPBDirector chief.”
Rep. Trent Franks got the $5 million with which to try buy a Margaret Atwoodian Handmaid’s tale womb by deregulating the oil industry in which he’s heavily invested.
When Norah O’Donnell asked Bill O’Reilly about sexual harassment Monday on CBS This Morning, the former Fox host sneered aggressively, “I’m not that interested in this!â€
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating three donations from Americans with ties to Russia to Trump political funds that total $2 million.
The July jobs report is in line with the monthly average, a little higher than the same time last year, and reveals Trump is failing to amp up jobs but is maintaining the trend of the past seven years.
The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday approved a $68 billion increase in military spending next year with legislation that also provides money to start construction of President Donald Trump’s Mexican border wall.
Until last week, MSNBC had never beaten Fox News in primetime for an entire week in the history of cable news.
The economy did add 222,000 jobs in June of 2017, but that is 77,000 fewer Jobs than Obama added in June of 2016. NBC News’s Mark Murray tweeted the jobs table: The jobs numbers have been pretty consistent since 2012/2013 pic.twitter.com/3DBaBo0haM — Mark Murray (@mmurraypolitics) July 7, 2017 Murray is correct. Job growth has been…
Who will this reporter write about now that The Falafel King has been fired? There’s Tucker Carlson, Jesse Watters, and F&F. I’ll be fine.
President Obama’s top liaison to federal departments and agencies Chris Lu responded to President Trump’s request for input from the public on what agencies to cut by proposing eliminating the White House.
A Russian oligarch’s company actively lobbied against provisions which mandated that Keystone XL’s steel be made in the U.S. so Trump elimination the provisions.
Buried in the Republican Obamacare replacement bill is a gutting federal funding for childhood vaccinations that would be an unprecedented and dangerous attack on America’s kids to pay for tax cuts for the rich.
Donald Trump’s failure to draw a big audience for his joint address to Congress suggest that America is already tired of the President Trump show and is considering a 2020 cancelation.
Trump will not, of course, begin by bringing his own jobs back to the US. Those will remain profitably outsourced to China and Mexico
Mitch McConnell’s refusal to provide a time frame or specifics on Obamacare replacement suggests that Republicans may deliver on those death panels that they spent years warning the American people about.
MENA is “the new ethnic group created by the Obama administration to cobble together Americans with origins in the Middle East and North Africa.”
If only this were a movie and not a metastasizing reality threatening the deepest values of our democracy, the welfare of every citizen, and our standing in a globalized world.
Trump promised his base he wouldn’t even think about or entertain any proposal to touch Medicare; now he vows “modernization” with a Paul Ryan coupon.
Donald Trump’s message that everything in the U.S. is crap and we are all drowning in economic hardship that only Trump can fix got slapped down today as the U.S. economy “roars backâ€.
CNN twisted a Bill Clinton quote about the health care system and turned into an attack on Obamacare to help Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Rudy Giuliani went on ABC’s This Week and added to the woes of the Trump campaign with a series of gibberish filled lies that were intended to make Trump look smart by stiffing the American people of out paying his fair share of income taxes for decades, but instead showed why Trump is unelectable.
Germany’s economy ministry believes a Donald Trump presidency would severely damage the U.S. economy, according to an internal memorandum reported by Der Spiegel magazine on Saturday.
Donald Trump gave a speech to outline his economic vision that was completely divorced from facts and reality that offered an empty fairy tale of Trump fixing an economy that isn’t broken with tax cuts for the wealthy.
Donald Trump has his own email problem. Court records reveal that Trump has a history of destroying email evidence in cases where he is being sued.
House Republicans have followed orders given to them by the Koch brothers and advanced a bill that would keep Koch political contributions a secret.
Bernie Sanders and his supporters have struck a blow against Citizens United by setting a new record for individual donations through January in a presidential campaign.
The Fox News debate continued a downward trend in Republican viewership, as the latest GOP debate was the second lowest rated of the entire year.
The fate of the Democratic debate in New Hampshire depends on the participation of Sen. Bernie Sanders, and right now, his campaign is acting like a frontrunner who is trying to dodge a debate.
Donald Trump refused to budge on his debate boycott during an interview on MSNBC. With Trump, Republican debate viewership has dropped by nearly 60%. Without him, Fox News could set a new low in 2016 debate ratings.
An old Republican lie about Obamacare and taxes is making the rounds again, so as a public service, here is a handy antidote
The joie de vivre of the wonderfully joyful city of Paris has been quashed by AK-47 armed, suicide-belted extremists bent on wantonly taking as many random lives as possible before welcoming their own demise.
Instead of acknowledging that as an austerity-minded Republican his only priority and primary goal for serving in the House cutting infrastructure spending, Ryan warned that Congress is in no way going to “rush to judgment and try doubling the size of government programs” just because some people died in an accident he said was caused by “human error.”
In the first 24 hours of his presidential campaign, Sen. Bernie Sanders has raised more money than Republican candidates Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, and Ted Cruz did during their first day in the race.
President Obama used facts and math to reveal the true agenda behind the Republican plan to cut taxes for the wealthy during an event in Charlotte, NC.
In the coming hours and days, there will be a lot of claims made about President Obama’s budget, but here are the facts.
Of all the reasons to not build the Keystone pipeline, one that is often overlooked, and ignored by the corporate media, is the real and present danger of a break in TransCanada’s rupture-prone pipeline the company claims is safe and environmentally friendly.
The following is a summation of President Obama’s tax code proposals as well as a PDF fact sheet, both as provided by the White House.
President Obama dropped a Saturday night bomb on Republicans by announcing a new tax plan that would provide tax breaks for the middle class while forcing the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share.
The problem with Halloween isn’t kids walking around in scary costumes and falling prey to Satanic influences; Jesus has identified a far more dangerous group – the rich
Sen. Mitch McConnell’s teetering Senate campaign took another punch in the gut as Hillary Clinton rolled into Kentucky and lowered the boom on the incumbent Republican while delivering a strong endorsement for Alison Lundergan Grimes.
Republicans are saying Obama is underestimating threat of Ebola, which might explain why they’re refusing to fund a cure and provide healthcare
The American people will have to decide if they are more tired of war or of the terrorists of ISIL
Despite the oil industry driving climate change over the past fifty years, it expects taxpayers to build natural and artificial barriers to protect its infrastructure sitting on the waterfront from climate change.
Democrats are wooing single women — a rising power of a voting bloc, while Republicans spit in their face.
The contrast is stunning. While President Obama spent the day outlining his vision of a better nation for working families, Republicans were dreaming up ways to harm America’s workers. At the White House Summit on Working Families, President Obama called family the bedrock of our lives, and he discussed the decisions that people shouldn’t have…
Gohmert asks, “So, you do not believe somebody would go to Hell if they do not believe Jesus is the way, the truth, the life?”
According to Santorum, his next film, Hoovey, will show Hollywood who the salt and light is in that town
Americans are just not that into the Kochs or their “give us all of your money because freedom!” message. It turns out that Americans are not as stupid as the Koch brothers think they are.
On Real Time, Bill Maher tore apart CNN for their continuing and ghoulish coverage of Malaysia Flight 370.
President Obama got the ultimate political win today, as the CBO’s updated ACA projections delivered a drubbing to years worth of Republican Obamacare lies.
The war on women is not only costing the Republican Party elections, but their candidates’ sexist remarks are allowing Democrats to raise big money.
Rep. Sander Levin (D-MI) busted Republicans on Tuesday for trying to protect the secrecy of the Koch Brothers and Karl Rove.
The real issue is not just whether Christie had a hand in closing lanes on the GWB, but his character, or lack thereof, that drives his sense of entitlement, bullying, and willingness to use any means to impose his will.
Things just keeping getting worse and worse for New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. The Department of Housing and Urban Development is investigating Christie’s use of Sandy relief funds to see if there was any improper use of Sand relief funds.
Republicans can talk about things that never happened as though they did, but Democrats cannot talk about things that DID actually happen
President Obama is wiping the floor with House Republicans. In Missouri he said, ‘They want to threaten default just to make sure that tens of millions of Americans continue not to have health care.’
Gov. Rick Scott thinks that Florida voters will be fooled by $80 million in television advertising into electing him for a second term as the state’s governor.
Republicans are livid at Gov. Chris Christie for holding a special election instead of appointing a Republican to fill Lautenberg’s Senate seat. GOPers say Christie’s 2016 chances are dead.
NBA player Jason Collins says he’s gay; the religious right says he is immoral and aberrant and so are we for supporting him
After the brutal slayings of 20 precious Sandy Hook children, the son of Pastor Rick Warren shoots himself with an unregistered gun purchased on the Internet, and still the NRA doesn’t care.
Seventeen Senate Democrats ignored the facts about Keystone XL, and joined with Republicans to pass a measure urging the construction of the pipeline.
Sen. Bernie Sanders released a report today directly taking on 31 banks and corporations who have dodged $128 billion in taxes.