Fresh off a Texas rally appearance during which he wailed that the “2020 election was rigged,” former President Trump said explicitly on Sunday that he wanted former Vice President Mike Pence to “overturn” President Biden’s win. “Unfortunately, he didn’t exercise that power, he could have overturned the Election!” Trump concluded …
Read More »With Criminal Contempt Looming, Meadows Says He'll 'Honor' Trump's Executive Privilege Claim
Donald Trump‘s former White House chief of staff has, once again, decided not to testify before the House committee investigating Jan. 6. But while he won’t speak to the panel, he will go on Fox News and speak to Sean Hannity about a potential criminal contempt referral. “They’ve been pretty …
Read More »Trump Is Workshopping His Mitch McConnell Insults in Real Time
Donald Trump — the disgraced former president and frustrated insult comic — is using what remains of his political platform and media clout to workshop a nasty new nickname for Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate minority leader. Last week Trump trotted out “Old Crow Mitch McConnell.” A little low energy? …
Read More »Two Trump-Appointed Judges Uphold Block of Biden's Vaccine Mandate for Companies
Three judges all appointed by conservative presidents — two Trump nominees and a Reagan nominee — rejected the Biden administration’s attempt to lift a stay on its vaccine mandate for private employers, saying it was “staggeringly overbroad.” It’s a decision that emphasizes the massive effect Trump had on the appeals …
Read More »Charlottesville Lawsuit Aims to Bleed Tiki Torch-Wielding White Nationalists Dry
On August 12th, 2017, Marcus Martin and his then-fiancée Marissa Blair were in downtown Charlottesville with Blair’s friend and co-worker Heather Heyer. They had spent the day at the edge of the skirmishes erupting around the Unite the Right rally before finding themselves in the middle of a throng of …
Read More »Please Let Me Tweet, Trump Begs Judge in New Court Filing
Donald Trump still isn’t over losing his Twitter account in the wake of the attack on the Capitol on January 6th. The former president filed a request for a preliminary injunction against the social media company late Friday, asking a judge to reinstate his account temporarily while he sues the …
Read More »Trump-Appointed Watchdog Finds His Admin. Cheated Puerto Rico on Hurricane Relief, Tried To Hide It
An investigation into the Trump administration’s delay in sending nearly $20 billion in hurricane relief to Puerto Rico showed officials in the White House purposely blocked funds from reaching the devastated U.S. territory and obstructed the investigation itself. According to the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Inspector …
Read More »Donald Trump Resigns From SAG-AFTRA Ahead of Vote to Expel
Former reality show star/president Donald Trump resigned from SAG-AFTRA Thursday ahead of a vote about whether to expel him from the actors union for his role in the U.S. Capitol insurrection. In January, the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists announced it would hold a hearing about …
Read More »Trump Pardoned a Bunch of People Who Are Almost as Corrupt as He Is
Donald Trump is going out like he came in: corrupt as hell. The departing president left the White House for Mar-a-Lago at 8 a.m. Wednesday morning, slinking out after a disastrous and deadly four years. One of his last acts on the job was granting a flurry of pardons and …
Read More »How GOP Women Triumphed With Trumpism
One week before the 2020 election, Donald Trump beamed out at a Lansing, Michigan crowd and delivered his closing pitch to the women he imagined might be watching him. “I’m also getting your husbands — they want to get back to work, right? They want to get back to work. …
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