It’s hard to believe anyone in the media still thinks President Trump is capable of treating national tragedies with the gravity they require, but then again, a lot of very true things about the past three four years are hard to believe. Trump has been commended for occasionally taking on …
Read More »Trump Ousts Intel Director After Congress Was Warned of Russia 2020 Election Interference
After President Trump got word that an intelligence official warned lawmakers that Russia is interfering in the 2020 election to help him get re-elected, Trump berated and removed the acting director of national intelligence, Joseph Maguire. On February 13, according to reports in both the New York Times and Washington …
Read More »No Imminent Threat from Iran: Official Justification for Killing Soleimani Doesn't Back Trump Claims
The U.S. military’s official justification of the assassination of Qasem Soleimani contradicts president Trump’s claims that the Iranian general posed an “imminent” threat to American lives. At the time of the attack in early January, Trump insisted the killing of Soleimani had thwarted “imminent and sinister attacks on American diplomats …
Read More »Turns Out the Attack on Soleimani May Have Been Retaliatory. Trump Approved It 7 Months Ago
The always-changing justification for the timing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani’s assassination has taken another turn. According to a new report from NBC News, President Donald Trump gave the go-ahead to take out Soleimani seven months ago. The directive came with one stipulation: Trump would have to give the final …
Read More »The Tulsa Massacre Warns Us Not to Trust History to Judge Trump on Impeachment
White racists have long used bombing as a tactic, but they also dropped explosives onto black people from the air. You may have learned this recently from a popular television show. I doubt sincerely that you learned it in a high school history class. The kerosene bombing of “Negro Wall …
Read More »Stephen Miller Says 'Donald Trump Is the Anti-Racist President'
While defending himself and President Donald Trump against accusations that they are both white supremacists, Senior White House Adviser Stephen Miller said, “Donald Trump is the anti-racist president.” Miller, a guest on Fox Business on Friday night, blamed the Democratic party for his tarnished reputation, saying they “traffic in lies, …
Read More »Internal Emails Reveal How Stephen Miller Leads an Extremist Network to Push Trump's Anti-Immigrant Agenda
For nearly three years, Stephen Miller has used his White House seat to orchestrate the most extreme anti-immigrant agenda in almost a century. But he hasn’t done it alone. A loose network of lawyers and advisers embedded throughout the Trump administration has worked closely with Miller to carry out the …
Read More »Everything You Need to Know About the Trump Impeachment Hearings
After a month of closed-door depositions, the impeachment inquiry against President Trump moved into its public phase last Wednesday, when George Kent, the assistant deputy secretary of state, and Bill Taylor, the top U.S. ambassador in Ukraine, testified before the House Intelligence Committee. Marie Yovanovich, the former U.S. ambassador to …
Read More »'It's Very Intimidating': Veteran U.S. Diplomat Reacts to Trump Attacking Her During Her Impeachment Testimony
WASHINGTON — What could be more Trumpian than the lawless president attacking a witness on Twitter as she testified before Congress about how she felt threatened by earlier comments of the president’s? That’s what happened Friday morning during Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch’s long-awaited appearance at the House Intelligence Committee’s second public …
Read More »How Progressive Activists Turned the Table on Republicans to Help Save Obamacare
You’ve just suffered a major defeat, and now you’re surrounded. The enemy is gearing up for a charge. Your leaders are readying the surrender flags. Things are looking grim. So what do you do? Well, we decided to write a Google Doc. In December 2016, our Google Doc in was …
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