Nothing Donald Trump has done in his 17 months as president has elicited as much disgust as his policy of dividing migrant families at the border. The separation of over 2,300 migrant children from their parents has led in recent weeks to real-life backlash against Trump administration officials. Department of …
Read More »Stormy Daniels Day Was a Portrait of America in the Year 2018
It makes sense that we’d be forced to think about Donald Trump at a place that sells high-end dildos. It’s late afternoon, May 23rd, hereafter Stormy Daniels Day in West Hollywood, California. We’re in front of Chi Chi LaRue’s, a store that sells porn DVDs – quaint but still necessary …
Read More »Rudy Giuliani Is Terrified That Trump Will Lie to Mueller
Perhaps frustrated by the media’s tepid response to his ho-hum Wednesday night appearance on The Ingraham Angle, former New York City mayor and current Trump law person Rudy Giuliani dialed it up for his Friday morning sit-down with CNN’s Chris Cuomo. The wild interview – which last nearly 45 minutes …
Read More »James Comey's Infomercial
Most of us have failed to deliver a good comeback right when we needed it. Few of us ever get the chance to deliver that belated coup de grace in the form of a book, as James Comey has. Kicking off his publicity tour Sunday night in advance of Tuesday’s …
Read More »How a New Anti-Trump Art Installation Made Its Way to a Trump Hotel
On Friday night, President Trump sat behind bars inside a room in the Trump International Hotel in Manhattan. He was caged and handcuffed but blustery and defiant, sitting in a grease-stained pile of empty McDonald’s containers as a few rats – real, sourced from Brooklyn – nibbled on his shoes. …
Read More »How the Fortunes of Five L.A. Immigrants Have Changed Since Trump Took Office
For a few hours almost every month, the West Hall of the Los Angeles Convention Center is transformed into a courtroom. A giant American flag hangs above the stage at the center of the hall. “All rise,” says a clerk, and between 3,000 and 5,000 applicants for citizenship rise from …
Read More »Treason: Yet Another Word Trump Doesn't Understand
In our divided political climate, there’s one thing everyone can agree on: that despite his own insistence that he “knows words” and has “the best words,” President Donald Trump says a lot of idiotic things. Yesterday, Trump added to his best-hits catalog of stupid, claiming that the Democrats were treasonous …
Read More »Taibbi's TL:DR Guide to Michael Wolff's 'Fire and Fury'
A quick note about Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury,which upon a second pass still has, to put it mildly, some serious issues: As any art historian can pick out a forgery, veteran journalists reading this book will quickly spot an oversold narrative and perhaps unprecedented sourcing issues. The tortured “Author’s …
Read More »Michael Flynn Pleads Guilty: What You Need to Know
This past Valentine’s Day, President Trump asked then FBI Director James Comey to stick around following a meeting with a group of national security officials in the Oval Office. It was a dramatic moment. After the others filed out, Trump made an insistent plea to Comey – who, it turns …
Read More »Taibbi: New Drone Strikes Underscore How Much Power We Give Trump
While all of us were preparing for Thanksgiving dinner, the United States was busy preparing an attack on the Yemeni province of Badhya. Residents later reported that the region spent much of the day under attack from Saudi jets and American drones, which hovered overhead and intermittently fired missiles from …
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