Michael Cohen appeared before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday for the first time since agreeing to cooperate with prosecutors in both the Southern District of New York and the Special Counsel’s Office investigation. In his opening statement, Cohen revealed stunning new details suggesting President Trump had prior knowledge of …
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When Judge Amy Berman Jackson imposed a gag order on Roger Stone, she warned Trump’s irrepressible former adviser that she would not tolerate another word out of him about his upcoming trial, on charges of lying to Congress and attempting to suborn perjury from a fellow witness. Stone appeared in …
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Earlier on Friday, President Trump tweeted out a meme that juxtaposes his recent State of the Union address with sad-looking reaction shots of lawmakers including Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Kamala Harris, over a soundtrack of R.E.M.‘s 1993 hit “Everybody Hurts.” The use of R.E.M.’s music was presumably very much …
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President Trump shut down the government for a record 35 days because he refused to sign a spending bill with less than $5.7 billion appropriated for his proposed Mexican border wall. On Wednesday, CNN reported that the president will begrudgingly sign a bipartisan bill that will prevent the government from …
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In politics today, nothing unites Americans like our thirst for political conflict. Conservatives love to “own the libs.” Liberals love to trigger tough-talking conservatives, exposing them as “snowflakes.” Donald Trump is the presidential embodiment of this toxic political culture, and his State of the Union address Tuesday night was finely …
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The legal saga of Paul Manafort took yet another twist on Tuesday. Lawyers for Trump’s disgraced former campaign chairman, who was convicted of tax and bank fraud last year, submitted a filing in Washington, D.C., federal court responding to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s assertion that Manafort had lied to Mueller’s …
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Snoop Dogg has a message to furloughed government workers: Don’t vote for Donald Trump in 2020. “Ain’t no fucking way in the world y’all can vote for Donald Trump when he come back up again. If y’all do vote for him, y’all some stupid motherfuckers,” the rapper said into the …
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Barack Obama has had it with President Donald Trump and the Republican party. The former president let loose during campaign stops Friday in Milwaukee and Detroit, where he encouraged Democrats to get out and vote in the midterms andwarned that the“character of our country is on the ballot” in the …
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On Monday, a federal judge dismissed Stormy Daniels’ defamation lawsuit against Donald Trump, saying that inflammatory statements he’d made about her in the past — specifically, calling her claims of being threatened on his behalf “a total con job” — were protected by the First Amendment and “normal” political hyperbole. …
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Editor’s Note: The New York Times has amended a clarification to their earlier story, stating that their “article and headline created an unfair impression about who was responsible for the purchase in question.” They added: “While Nikki R. Haley is the current ambassador to the United Nations, the decision on …
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