Like so many in the wake of the 2016 election, journalist Ben Bradlee Jr. wanted to know what the hell just happened. So he spent the next 14 months of his life traveling back and forth to interview the people of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, which, he argues, proved to be …
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On Wednesday’s Late Show, a horrified Stephen Colbert attempted to process Stormy Daniels‘ detailed, meme-generatingdescription of President Trump’s genitals from her upcoming book, Full Disclosure. He failed. “Since I’ve started hosting this show, I’ve had to cover some rather unfortunate topics – for example, everything all the time,” the host …
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Minnesota’s lonely island of electoral blue in the midst of Donald Trump’s upper Midwest Republican bloodbath was on the minds of nearly everyone inside Duluth’s Amsoil Arena Wednesday night. Every speaker, including President Trump, referred to it, though perhaps no one quite as dramatically as state GOP chairwoman Jennifer Carnahan, …
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President Trump and conservative talk show hosts like Sean Hannity have criticized Robert Mueller‘s investigation as a “witch hunt” over the past 13 months. And as John Oliver argued on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, they’re working like lawyers in a high-profile trial, peddling conspiracy theories to sway the jury of …
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It wasn’t so long ago that all seemed strangely rosy between the United States and North Korea. After exchanging threats, President Trump and Kim Jong-un agreed to meet in Singapore to discuss a peace agreement. The former announced he would dismantle a nuclear test site, which Trump called a “very …
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Mike Myers played Dr. Harold Bornstein, President Trump‘s hirsute physician, in a hilarious sketch from Wednesday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! Bornstein first entered the public consciousness during the presidential election after signing off on a letter (allegedly Trump-dictated) proclaiming that the Republican candidate, if elected, “unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual …
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Update:New York prosecutors moved quickly on Thursday morning and cited Trump’s Fox & Friends comments about his relationship with attorney Michael Cohenas a reason to “expedite review” of material seized from the recent raid on Cohen’s offices, according to CNN’s Jim Sciutto. Original post below. *** President Trump called into …
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Stephen Colbert delivered a derisive recap ofDonald Trump‘s first State of the Union address during a live Late Show that aired after the president’s startling speech. “Going into this evening, the bar for success was pretty low,” Colbert prefaced, “He just had to stay on script no matter what, and …
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Just when it looked like the seven-year war in Syria might be nearing its end, Turkey has invaded the northwestern province of Afrin. The target of the invasion is the People’s Protection Units, or YPG, the Kurdish militia that, with American military backing, recently defeated ISIS in Raqqa. President Trump …
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