SInce the release of Attorney General William Barr’s summary of the Mueller report, President Donald Trump has been telling anyone and everyone who would listen that he has been completely cleared of any wrongdoing. Trump claimed the report was a “complete and total exoneration” of him and has stated several …
Read More »Release the Report
For the sake of American democracy, and the public’s faith in our justice system, the full, final report produced by Special Counsel Robert Mueller must be made public. Immediately. Sunday’s slender, four-page memo to Congress by Attorney General William Barr was wildly inadequate. Claiming that the special counsel had not …
Read More »Trump Wants More War Money Than Last Year and Democrats Don't Seem to Mind
The military is once again poised receive a huge budgetary bump from President Trump, and the Democrats don’t seem interested in doing much about it. Last week, reports emerged that Trump, while touting overall spending cuts “higher than any administration in history,” was planning to ask for a $750 billion …
Read More »Will Trump Really Use Service Members' Pensions to Fund the Wall?
Remember way back in February when President Trump declared a national emergency in order to fund the construction of a wall along the southern border? That’s still a thing, and with the senate getting ready to vote on a resolution to “terminate” the action, the White House is scrambling to …
Read More »Trump Had Yet Another Secret Meeting With Putin
It’s been a rough month for anyone still pretending that President Trump’s relationship with Russia is on the level. The Financial Times reported on Tuesday that when Trump spoke with Vladimir Putin during the G-20 summit in November, no U.S. official was on hand to take notes. The only other …
Read More »Still No Wall and Trump Takes the Fall
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) wins this round. After a week of sending letters back and forth debating whether the State of the Union address will be delivered as planned while the government remains shut down,the president tweeted on Wednesday that he will respect Pelosi’s “prerogative” to decline to open …
Read More »Conan O'Brien Remembers When Trump Stormed Off His Show
Conan O’Brien recently spoke with us about his Catholic upbringing, writing for The Simpsons and his 25 years in late night while spreading the word about Conan, the new half-hour version of his TBS talk show. During that conversation, O’Brien also answered a question about Donald Trump, who was a …
Read More »Trump's Shutdown Is Officially Hurting the Troops
There’s no end in sight for the longest government shutdown in American history. President Trump and congressional Democrats have dug in to the point that some senior Republicans close to the White House have said the only way it’s ending is through some sort of external disaster, like TSA employees …
Read More »Trump's New Attorney General Pick Is a Big Fan of Executive Privilege
A month to the day after firing Jeff Sessions, President Trump has announced his pick for U.S. attorney general. “I am pleased to announce that I will be nominating The Honorable William P. Barr for the position of Attorney General of the United States,” he tweeted Friday morning. “As the …
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