After receiving criticism, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) announced through her campaign that she will be returning funds donated to her by Central Park Five prosecutor Linda Fairstein. Fairstein has been criticized harshly as recent events, including Ava DuVernay’s When They See Us, which dramatized the lives of the men accused …
Read More »'Time' Person of the Year Greta Thunberg Trolls Trump after He Attacks Her on Twitter
Donald Trump is obsessed with beingTime’sPerson of the Year. As early as 2013, he was retweeting supporters saying that he should be given the honor. And for years before he he was named Person of the Year in 2016, Trump displayed a Photoshopped Timecover in his golf clubs depicting himself …
Read More »The First Round of Impeachment Hearings Are Over. Now What?
After a month of closed-door depositions, Democrats in the House of Representatives last Thursday wrapped up two furious weeks of public impeachment inquiry hearings, featuring 12 witnesses who delivered a wealth of revelations. Yes, there was a quid pro quo with Ukraine. Yes, President Trump was involved. Yes, it’s all …
Read More »Oh, Nothing, Just Trump Fantasizing About Executing 'Spies' Behind the Whistle-blower Complaint
President Trump is not happy about the contents of the whistle-blower complaint released to the public Thursday morning. He’s so mad, in fact, that he fantasized about a few rather extreme punishments for the people responsible. The report includes several damning revelations, including details of how Trump pressured Ukraine to …
Read More »Report: Trump Administration Rejects 99% of Student Debt Forgiveness Applicants
In 2007, the U.S. government made a bold promise: Graduates who chose to dedicate a decade of their lives to public service rather than chase more lucrative job opportunities would, at the end of those ten years, have the remainder of their student debt wiped away. But in 2018, when …
Read More »Trump Used Asian Accent to Mock US Allies at Fundraiser
At the controversial Hamptons fundraiser hosted at the home of SoulCycle and Equinox majority owner Stephen Ross this week, President Donald Trump stirred up even more controversy by mimicking an Asian accent and mocking South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe, the New York Post reported. …
Read More »Trump Is Awfully Sensitive About His Confusing Immigration Deal With Mexico
President Trump’s big immigration deal with Mexico hasn’t exactly gone over the way he expected when he announced it on Friday. The New York Times reported on Saturday that the particulars of the deal were agreed upon months ago, not in response to Trump’s recent threats to hike up tariffs …
Read More »Bypassing Congress, Trump Sells Weapons to Saudi Arabia, Orders Troops to Middle East
As tensions with Iran have escalated, President Trump wanted to sell weapons to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan. But, he knew Congress won’t approve his decision, so on Friday the president announced he was going to declare a national emergency, allowing him to sell the foreign governments …
Read More »Trump Took Another Terrifying Step Toward Authoritarianism at His Rally in Pennsylvania
President Donald Trump traveled to Pennsylvania on Monday to stand in front of Air Force One and speak to a fired-up crowd of supporters. Some of his time onstage was spent hammering 2020 election talking points, like immigration (“We don’t want people coming up here! Our country is full!”); the …
Read More »Trump's 2020 Platform: A Magical Healthcare Plan That Doesn't Exist
Days before the 2018 midterm elections, President Trump promised that he was preparing to pass a big tax cut for the middle class. Republican lawmakers were “studying very deeply, round the clock” to work out the details of the package, he said, and a vote would be imminent. No one …
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