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Ron DeSantis has a Matt Gaetz problem
Facebook ShareTwitter SharePrint Article Florida’s Trump-loving governor Ron DeSantis has been suspiciously silent about his friend Matt Gaetz, another Trump sycophant. Maybe the governor is trying to pretend he doesn’t know the scandal-ridden Congressman from the Florida Panhandle. But we all know that won’t work. Just a few weeks ago Gaetz made headlines by promoting his friend Ron as a GOP candidate for president in 2024.
Nikki Haley just got destroyed
Facebook ShareTwitter SharePrint Article The Republican nightmare that Bernie Sanders would become chairman of the powerful Senate Budget Committee is about to become reality. The Senate Budget Committee is responsible for drafting Congress’ annual budget plan and monitoring action on the budget. It is responsible for spending, revenue, and debt legislation.
Bannon: If Trump Is Reelected, He Will Be in ‘Payback Mode’
FacebookTwitterSubscribeWhatsappPinterestStumbleuponPrintMailFlipboard In comments to POLITICO, published in Playbook on Thursday, Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon said that if President Trump is reelected in 2020, the country is going to get “pure Trump off the chain.” He also said that the president’s second term would be “four years of Donald Trump in payback mode,” indicating that the “payback” would be in response to what he perceives as mistreatment by Democrats.
How Democrats Can Beat Barr in Battle Over the Mueller Report
FacebookTwitterSubscribeWhatsappPinterestStumbleuponPrintMailFlipboard Attorney General William Barr is playing a political game, and he is losing, according to NBC News national affairs analyst John Heilemann. As Speaker Nancy Pelosi pointed out yesterday, when Barr testified before Congress, he went “off the rails.” Instead of speaking as an independent law enforcement officer, Barr spoke as if he was a member of Donald Trump’s 2020 reelection committee.
British Police Arrest Julian Assange After Ecuador Revokes Asylum
FacebookTwitterSubscribeWhatsappPinterestStumbleuponPrintMailFlipboard London’s Metropolitan Police arrested Julian Assange on Thursday after the WikiLeaks founder was evicted by Ecuador from their embassy in the British capital. The eviction and arrest came about after the South American country revoked Assange’s asylum status.
CNN Mocks ‘Vice President Sean Hannity’ and His Hold on the GOP
FacebookTwitterSubscribeWhatsappPinterestStumbleuponPrintMailFlipboard CNN’s New Day this morning took some well-deserved shots at President Donald Trump’s documented friendship with Fox News host Sean Hannity. POLITICO writers Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer were on the show discussing their new book, Hill to Die On, with co-anchors Alisyn Camerota and Jake Berman.
Trump Is Losing It As Democrats Write New Laws for Border
FacebookTwitterSubscribeWhatsappPinterestStumbleuponPrintMailFlipboard History will show that when it comes to the political battle over security at the U.S. border, Donald Trump is a loser. Nothing he does — no matter how horrible — has worked to achieve his stated goals. In fact, he has made the situation worse, as border crossings have increased during his presidency. And now Democrats are going on the attack. They know that they have a political winner.
Sanders Opens 2020 Fight As He Launches New Medicare-for-All Plan
FacebookTwitterSubscribeWhatsappPinterestStumbleuponPrintMailFlipboard Presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont is giving a new push to his 2020 campaign today by announcing a new version of his “Medicare for All” plan. “What our system does is get rid of insurance companies and drug companies making billions of dollars in profit every single year,” Sanders told CBS News in an interview Wednesday.
Trump’s Plan to Hide the Mueller Report Is a Failure -- and a Disaster
FacebookTwitterSubscribeWhatsappPinterestStumbleuponPrintMailFlipboard Last night we reported that “while Bill Barr may think his actions are protecting Donald Trump, they are only increasing the chances that Democrats will formally open an impeachment inquiry.” This is just the latest evidence that Trump’s plan to hide the Mueller report is going bad, and in fact is turning into a disaster.
Frightening New Evidence Proves Trump Has Dementia
FacebookTwitterSubscribeWhatsappPinterestStumbleuponPrintMailFlipboard President Donald Trump is undergoing significant cognitive decline and must be tested for dementia according to a new report in USA Today. Noted psychologist John Gartner wrote the report in which in which he breaks down the new evidence supporting his conclusion. It is based on the president’s increasingly bizarre and unhinged behavior.
Bombshell Report Links Trump Hotel Project to Iran Terrorist Group
FacebookTwitterSubscribeWhatsappPinterestStumbleuponPrintMailFlipboard The Trump administration has just announced plans to designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guard (IRG) as a terrorist group. What the announcement failed to mention was that this newly-designated terrorist group was involved in the financing for a Trump Hotel project in the country of Azerbaijan.
Panel Shocked That Hardliner Miller Is Now In Charge of Immigrant Policy
FacebookTwitterSubscribeWhatsappPinterestStumbleuponPrintMailFlipboard Donald Trump seems to have a very unusual relationship with White House Adviser Stephen Miller, who has been accused of white supremacism. In fact, the president is now relying on the 33 year-old immigration hardliner more and more every day. Miller was reportedly behind the recent purge of the Department of Homeland Security, including the firing of DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.
Mnuchin May Go To Jail If He Refuses to Turn Over Trump’s Taxes
FacebookTwitterSubscribeWhatsappPinterestStumbleuponPrintMailFlipboard Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has found himself in the hot seat, and if he doesn’t handle things properly he may also find himself in jail. Last week House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.) sent a letter to the IRS requesting six years of Trump’s personal and business returns. He asked the IRS to provide the documents by Wednesday.
‘It’s a Mess’ -- GOP Senators Panic Over Trump’s DHS Purge
FacebookTwitterSubscribeWhatsappPinterestStumbleuponPrintMailFlipboard Donald Trump has spent the last few days engaged in one of his favorite activities: firing people. And the net result is that he has decimated the Department of Homeland Security. The president seems to be in a controlled rage, having now let go DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) director Lee Cissna, Undersecretary for Management Claire Grady, and General Counsel John Mitnick.
House Republican Asks Mueller to Testify Before Congress ‘Without Delay’
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New York Lawmakers Have Their Own Plan to See Trump's Tax Returns
FacebookTwitterSubscribeWhatsappPinterestStumbleuponPrintMailFlipboard Last week House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass) sent a letter to the IRS Commissioner demanding six years of Donald Trump’s tax returns. This started a huge legal and political fight in Washington, with both sides prematurely claiming victory. Neal and other House Democrats have said the federal law is clear, and the tax returns must be turned over.
Special Counsel Is Now Investigating Trump's Saudi Nuclear Deal
FacebookTwitterSubscribeWhatsappPinterestStumbleuponPrintMailFlipboard The Office of the Special Counsel (OSC) has opened an investigation into the Trump administration’s decision to pursue a nuclear agreement with the government of Saudi Arabia, The Daily Beast reported on Monday.
'Just Win, Baby'
FacebookTwitterSubscribeWhatsappPinterestStumbleuponPrintMailFlipboard Since becoming Speaker of the House in January, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has had to balance the goals of far-left progressives in her party with moderate Democrats who won districts in 2018 that Donald Trump had carried in 2016. And, in ways that have surprised a lot of skeptics, she has done an excellent job of uniting the various Democratic factions, a job which some people have likened to herding cats.
Being Trump’s DHS Secretary Is ‘More Like an Acid Bath Than a Job’
FacebookTwitterSubscribeWhatsappPinterestStumbleuponPrintMailFlipboard A panel of experts on CNN’s New Day on Monday was unanimous. They all said that President Donald Trump will have a very hard time finding a new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) chief who will also be able to win confirmation in the Senate.
Democrats Will Vote to Save the Internet -- and Keep the House in 2020
FacebookTwitterSubscribeWhatsappPinterestStumbleuponPrintMailFlipboard Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has guaranteed victory for her party in the 2020 elections. One of the ways she will make good on her promise is by making sure the House passes popular bills which will be rejected by the White House and the GOP-controlled Senate. One such bill — to put back in place Obama-era net neutrality rules — will come up for a vote tomorrow.
How Barr Is Protecting Trump By Illegally Making Up His Own Rules
FacebookTwitterSubscribeWhatsappPinterestStumbleuponPrintMailFlipboard On Sunday, CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin published an editorial in The New Yorker, and in it he severely rebuked Attorney General William Barr. According to Toobin, Barr is continuing to obstruct justice by helping Donald Trump conceal special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia report from Congress and from the American people. And he is doing it illegally, by making up rules that don’t exist.
Nancy Pelosi Drives Trump Crazy By Winning Profile in Courage Award
FacebookTwitterSubscribeWhatsappPinterestStumbleuponPrintMailFlipboard Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi continues to be a thorn in the side of Donald Trump. She is frustrating him in Washington, and now it has just been announced that she will receive one of the most prestigious honors in politics — the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award. This is sure to drive the president nuts.
DOJ Wants Two Years To Identify Children Trump Kidnapped
FacebookTwitterSubscribeWhatsappPinterestStumbleuponPrintMailFlipboard Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) is asking for two years to identify several thousand migrant children who were stolen from their parents at the Mexican border under Trump’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy. The Associated Press reported that the Trump administration has set forth their proposed timeline in a new court filing.
Why Trump’s Risky Economy Could Crash At Any Time
FacebookTwitterSubscribeWhatsappPinterestStumbleuponPrintMailFlipboard A special report from the Washington Post has revealed that in order to stimulate economic growth, Donald Trump made risky changes in financial rules that could backfire at any time. Trump took the steps so he would look good and receive high approval ratings due to a booming economy.
SNL Hilariously Takes On Biden's Personal Space Issues
FacebookTwitterSubscribeWhatsappPinterestStumbleuponPrintMailFlipboard NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” hilariously took on the personal boundary questions of former Vice President Joe Biden’s expected presidential campaign. The cold opening showed multiple cringe-worthy examples of the behavior that has raised questions about Biden’s potential 2020 bid.
How Democrats Will Kill Trump in 2020 Using Digital Media
FacebookTwitterSubscribeWhatsappPinterestStumbleuponPrintMailFlipboard Democrats lost the presidency to Donald Trump in 2016, partly because the Clinton campaign couldn’t compete in the arena of digital media. But that was then. Now, it’s a whole new world, and Democratic 2020 candidates have all made using the internet effectively one of their top priorities. And because of this, having a very competitive Democratic primary will actually help the ultimate nominee destroy Trump in November.
Will Too Many Candidates Spoil the Democrats' Chances in 2020?
FacebookTwitterSubscribeWhatsappPinterestStumbleuponPrintMailFlipboard It seems like every Democrat in the country is running for president in 2020. There could be as many as 20 candidates who lose the nomination next year. But who will win? With so many candidates running, how worried should Democrats be about a fiasco like a deadlocked nomination battle leading to a loss in November? Nate Silver argues that a very large candidate field is dangerous for the party.
Pretty Soon, House Democrats Could Start Arresting Trump’s People
FacebookTwitterSubscribeWhatsappPinterestStumbleuponPrintMailFlipboard Many people within the Trump administration could soon be found in “Contempt of Congress” and thus find themselves subject to arrest. House Democrats have been busy since taking control in January. They’ve already issued several subpoenas, and they’ve written a lot of letters which could soon turn into even more subpoenas if they don’t get the information they want.
Trump Humiliated at Sparsely Attended California Fundraiser
FacebookTwitterSubscribeWhatsappPinterestStumbleuponPrintMailFlipboard Yesterday Donald Trump made a rare visit to the Golden State to try to garner support for his controversial border wall with Mexico. While there Trump took time out to attend a fundraiser at a Beverly Hills home, and it was a total bust. In fact, so few people wanted to meet the president that he was humiliated and completely embarrassed.
Why Donald Trump Is Terrified of Running Against Joe Biden
FacebookTwitterSubscribeWhatsappPinterestStumbleuponPrintMailFlipboard Even though Joe Biden is being attacked from within his own party for excessive public displays of affection, Donald Trump still fears the popular former vice president more than any other Democrat. White House aides have said that the president worries Biden would win his home state of Pennsylvania if the two run against each other, as well as other northern “rust belt” states that Trump won in 2016.
New Cohen Memo Is ‘Smoking Gun’ -- Says Trump Encouraged Him to Lie
FacebookTwitterSubscribeWhatsappPinterestStumbleuponPrintMailFlipboard Attorneys for Michael Cohen have given documents to Congress which accuse Donald Trump and his team of lawyers of directing Cohen to lie to Congress about when negotiations ended for a major real estate deal in Moscow. The new information, reported today in Buzzfeed News, adds another layer to the Cohen controversy and makes it more likely that Trump may be charged with committing a crime.
In Major Speech, Elizabeth Warren Calls For an End to the Filibuster
FacebookTwitterSubscribeWhatsappPinterestStumbleuponPrintMailFlipboard In a major policy speech, Senator Elizabeth Warren is calling to end the Senate filibuster. She is the first major presidential candidate to endorse ending the Senate’s historic rule which requires 60 votes to pass legislation.
Trump Is Already Planning Revenge on His Enemies In Juicy ‘Tell-All’ Book
FacebookTwitterSubscribeWhatsappPinterestStumbleuponPrintMailFlipboard Donald Trump has been the subject of many “tell-all” books during his tumultuous career, including several written about his own chaotic White House. And according to a new report in The Daily Beast, for some time he has been planning to write one of his own. Of course Donald Trump thinks his book will be the best one of all, with the juiciest details and the biggest sales ever.
Cain Pick For Federal Reserve Causes Consternation -- and Tears
FacebookTwitterSubscribeWhatsappPinterestStumbleuponPrintMailFlipboard Reports surfaced yesterday that Donald Trump is planning to nominate to the Federal Reserve Board the controversial (and disgraced) former presidential candidate Herman Cain. This weird and unsettling move led to the Washington Post economics expert to writing a brutal takedown of the former pizza chain mogul and his very unusual views of monetary policy.
Scarborough Scorches Trump For Being Russian Stooge
FacebookTwitterSubscribeWhatsappPinterestStumbleuponPrintMailFlipboard MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough opened his show today with a blistering attack on Donald Trump and how his 2016 campaign was manipulated by Vladimir Putin and Russian intelligence agents. Speaking with a great deal of anger and passion, the Morning Joe co-host pointed out how Attorney General William Barr had let down the American people by issuing a misleading “non-summary” summary of Bob Mueller’s report.
Fox News Analyst: Trump Has No Defense Against Tax Return Request
FacebookTwitterSubscribeWhatsappPinterestStumbleuponPrintMailFlipboard An angry and defensive Judge Andrew Napolitano (Chief Legal Analyst for Fox News) made an appearance on television this morning strongly criticizing Congressional Democrats for requesting President Donald Trump’s tax returns. But he also said that Trump’s claims that his returns are under audit by the IRS are no defense against complying with the request, made under the authority of a little-used law passed in 1924.
McCaskill Begs Abrams to Run for the Senate and 'Take Down McConnell'
FacebookTwitterSubscribeWhatsappPinterestStumbleuponPrintMailFlipboard During a TV appearance when the discussion was all about whether or not Stacey Abrams would run for president in 2020, a former U.S. senator practically begged her to run for a Senate seat in Georgia instead. The former senator, Claire McCaskill of Missouri, made a strong pitch directly to Abrams, saying that if she were to run for senate seat in Georgia she could help end Mitch McConnell’s tenure as majority leader.
Attacks From Every Direction Will Soon Bring Down the Trump Presidency
FacebookTwitterSubscribeWhatsappPinterestStumbleuponPrintMailFlipboard Thanks to his Attorney General and a complicit media, last week Donald Trump thought he was winning. It appeared that he was getting away with falsely claiming he had been exonerated by Bob Mueller. Then he started seeking revenge against everyone, and vowed to investigate Democrats, the FBI and anyone else he could think of. But that was last week, and this week has told a different story.
Why Jared Kushner Poses a Threat to America’s National Security
FacebookTwitterSubscribeWhatsappPinterestStumbleuponPrintMailFlipboard It’s no surprise that Jared Kushner is the senior White House official described in documents from the House Oversight Committee that details testimony of Tricia Newbold who identified serious lapses in the current White House security clearance process. The son-in-law and top aide to President Donald Trump has come under scrutiny for a long time for failing to pass the initial security clearance review.
Trump’s Reelection Chances Just Went Down the Tubes
FacebookTwitterSubscribeWhatsappPinterestStumbleuponPrintMailFlipboard Yesterday may have been Trump’s worst day ever. But before things hit the fan yesterday, he had been flying high. Attorney General Barr’s bogus summary of the Mueller report created a false impression among the American electorate that the report had cleared Trump of all wrongdoing.
House Committee Votes to Authorize Subpoena for Full Mueller Report
FacebookTwitterSubscribeWhatsappPinterestStumbleuponPrintMailFlipboard The House Judiciary Committee just completed a vote that authorized its chairman to use a subpoena to force the Justice Department to give Congress a full copy of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report and all of his underlying evidence.
Trump Seeks Dershowitz Help with Kushner's Middle East Peace Plan
FacebookTwitterSubscribeWhatsappPinterestStumbleuponPrintMailFlipboard In 2017 Donald Trump put his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, in charge of creating a plan to bring peace to the Middle East. It didn’t seem to matter to the president that the greatest diplomats in history couldn’t accomplish this objective, and Jared had absolutely no experience in international diplomacy.
Mika Attacks Senile Trump Who Doesn't Know Where His Father Was Born
FacebookTwitterSubscribeWhatsappPinterestStumbleuponPrintMailFlipboard Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski couldn’t believe Donald Trump’s false claims made yesterday — and many times before — that his father Fred was born in Germany. In fact Fred Trump was born in the Bronx, in New York City, in 1905. During today’s show Brzezinski played a series of video clips showing the numerous times that the president misrepresented the birthplace of his father.
Trump Accuses Democratic Socialists of Attacks on Biden
FacebookTwitterSubscribeWhatsappPinterestStumbleuponPrintMailFlipboard President Donald Trump said in a speech to a Republican group that former Vice President Joe Biden is “being taken care of pretty well by the socialists.” He was implying that recent criticisms against Biden, a potential 2020 presidential candidate, is the product of attacks coming from the left wing (i.e. Bernie Sanders wing) of the Democratic Party.
Nearly 60 Percent of Voters Don’t Trust Trump on Healthcare
FacebookTwitterSubscribeWhatsappPinterestStumbleuponPrintMailFlipboard A large majority of American voters say they don’t trust Donald Trump on health care, according to the new Politico/Morning Consult poll released Wednesday. The poll discovered that 59 percent of voters said they don’t have “much trust” or “any trust at all” in the president on health care. The new poll also discovered that more voters support the Affordable Care Act (the ACA, or Obamacare) than do not support it.
In Historic Election, Chicago’s New Mayor is Black, Female and Gay
FacebookTwitterSubscribeWhatsappPinterestStumbleuponPrintMailFlipboard Lori Lightfoot, a former federal prosecutor, was elected as Chicago’s first black female mayor last night, in an historic first. She will also become the city’s first openly gay mayor. She won a commanding victory after a long and grueling campaign that saw her defeat more than a dozen challengers as she won her first elected office.
Morning Joe Plays Brutal Video of Trump's Empty Healthcare Promises
FacebookTwitterSubscribeWhatsappPinterestStumbleuponPrintMailFlipboard MSNBC’s Morning Joe program today played a brutal video montage of Donald Trump making promises about health care that have turned out to be completely false. It points out that none of Trump’s promises can be believed, especially on healthcare. The video starts back in 2015, shortly after Trump announced he was running for president in 2016.
Trump Says the GOP Will Pass a ‘Great’ Healthcare Law After 2020
FacebookTwitterSubscribeWhatsappPinterestStumbleuponPrintMailFlipboard According to The Washington Post this morning, Donald Trump will not attempt to get Congress to pass legislation on healthcare — including changes to the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare) — until after the 2020 elections. The clearly-delusional president said that he believes that in 2020 he will be reelected, and Republicans will control both the House and the Senate.
While Threats Rise, Trump Shuts Down Domestic Terrorism Unit
FacebookTwitterSubscribeWhatsappPinterestStumbleuponPrintMailFlipboard The biggest and most dangerous group of terrorists in America is now being ignored by the Trump administration. According to a new report this morning in The Daily Beast, Trump has completely shut down a domestic terrorism group within The Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Pete Buttigieg is the #1 Social Media Star Among 2020 Contenders
FacebookTwitterSubscribeWhatsappPinterestStumbleuponPrintMailFlipboard Pete Buttigieg is an unusual presidential candidate with an unusual name. And according to a new report, he has been generating more social media interest than any other actual or potential 2020 Democratic candidate.
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