It’s an open secret: New York governor Andrew Cuomo is on the shortest of short lists of likely 2020 presidential candidates. He’s acting like it, too. The Empire State’s political favorite son has positioned himself as a leading anti-Trump voice, the tip of the Democratic spear. The president this week …
Read More »These Family Reunification Videos Show the Horror of Trump's Border Policy
As pundits and politicians race to label Donald Trump’s Monday morning press conference with Vladimir Putin as the most disgraceful moment of the Trump presidency, close to 3,000 migrant children still remain separated from the parents. The Department of Health and Human Services has made paltry efforts to reunify families …
Read More »Trump Caps NATO Trip With Wild, Impromptu Press Conference
Until Thursday morning, President Trump’s meetings with NATO leaders went about as expected, meaning that he spent most of his time in Belgium attacking allies – particularly Germany – for not paying their “fair share” of defense spending.“I expected bad, and I kept telling people to expect bad, but it …
Read More »The Latest on the Fight Inside the Capitol to Protect Robert Mueller
Last weekend, President Trump fired off a series of angry tweets labeling the ongoing independent investigation into his campaign’s ties to Russia as a “Witch Hunt” while shifting the blame onto his former political opponent, Hillary Clinton. Those tweets have reverberated through the Capitol in the days since. “I thought …
Read More »How Trump Is Trying to Effectively Ban Abortion
Today, President Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services is expected to announce a rule that will prohibit Title X recipients from providing abortion services entirely. The devil will be in the details about how far this rule will reach, as some reports indicate it will also prohibit Title X …
Read More »It's Time for 'Experts' to Start Treating West Virginians Like Human Beings
If West Virginians were actually the mindless, toothless, hate-seething dipshits depicted in the endless succession of “This Is Trump County” exposés, the right-wing Republicans who tend to turn out for primary elections should logically be extra-mindless and dipshitty. That wasn’t the case on Tuesday, and now the former coal baron, …
Read More »Is the Pee Tape Real? Comey's Book Brings Us One Step Closer to an Answer
President Trumpreportedly considered asking the FBI to investigate the “golden shower” allegations – rumors that Trump had allegedly paid Russian prostitutes to pee on a bed once used by President Barack Obama and the First Lady – early in 2017, according to early reporting onA Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and …
Read More »Scott Pruitt Knows Exactly What He's Doing
Leave it to Chris Christie, the disgraced former New Jersey governor and ex-Donald Trump lapdog, to lower the boom on EPA administrator Scott Pruitt. Last weekend, after news broke that Pruitt had scored a sweetheart deal for a condo from a lobbyist pal in D.C., Christie predicted that it was …
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