Howard Stern is one of our greatest living interviewers, offering the profession a rare blend of candor and irreverence. But he apparently never considered himself a real “journalist” — or, at least, not until Donald Trump‘s presidential run led to people digging up the GOP leader’s often salacious and disturbing …
Read More »Another Ukraine Whistleblower Has Come Forward
On Sunday morning, attorney Mark S. Zaid announced on Twitter that another whistleblower has come forward regarding Trump’s interactions with Ukraine. Zaid also said he is representing both, along with attorney and former CIA official Andrew P. Bakaj. According to a separate tweet from Bakaj, the new whistleblower has also …
Read More »John Oliver: 'Of Course' President Trump Wants to Buy Greenland
John Oliver isn’t surprised that President Trump wants to buy Greenland. On Sunday, Trump confirmed reports that he tasked administration officials with inquiring about purchasing the autonomous Danish country, and on Last Week Tonight, Oliver picked a hilarious way to frame that news: “Of course he fucking did. Of coursehe …
Read More »This Is How Trump Relies on Undocumented Labor for His Resorts
On Friday, the Washington Post published a report about how President Donald Trump relies on anitinerant construction crew that includes undocumented immigrants to work on many of his resort properties. The Post spoke with two former employees of the construction crew that operates under Trump’s company, Mobile Payroll Construction LLC, …
Read More »What Is Nikki Haley's Angle?
President Trump on Friday morning gloated that the Baltimore home of House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) had been burglarized. Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor who in December stepped down as Trump’s U.N. ambassador, did not approve. “This is so unnecessary,” she tweeted, along with a rolling-eyes …
Read More »Master of Horror Stephen King Says Trump is 'Scarier' Than His Novels
Author Stephen King knows a thing or two about horrifying, terrifying, chilling, and even creepy subject matter. So, for him to say that something or someone is scarier than his work should make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. In a new video from NowThis News …
Read More »Please Stop Thinking This Will Be a Fair Election
“President Trump: 30 Hours,” the ABC News 20/20 special featuring a heavily promoted White House interview by This Week anchor George Stephanopoulos, finally aired in full Sunday night. It was alternately an absurd and harmful exercise. There are lists of five to 10 takeaways from the exchange on various news …
Read More »Amazon Is Selling the Mueller Report Online
Late last month, less than 72 hours after special counsel Robert Mueller submitted his report on Russia’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, two listings popped up on Amazon that appeared to make the report available for the general public. There was only one problem: the full report …
Read More »Republicans Are Claiming Victory Over the Mueller Report. Should Democrats Be Worried?
On Sunday, Attorney General William Barr released a four-page letter summarizing Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on his investigation into the Trump campaign’s relationship with Russia. While Barr writes that Mueller found no evidence of collusion, the document’s language is ambiguous and offers little clarity on what exactly the special …
Read More »Paul Manafort Sentenced to Nearly 4 Years in Prison
WASHINGTON — Paul Manafort, the disgraced Republican operative and former Trump campaign chairman, arrived in a courtroom in northern Virginia on Thursday in a wheelchair and wearing a green jumpsuit and staring down the possibility of spending the rest of his life behind bars. In the end, he got off …
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