Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Vindman, who gave key impeachment testimony has been removed from his job and escorted from the White House, his lawyer said on Friday. “Today, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman was escorted out of the White House where he has dutifully served his country and his President. He does so …
Read More »Trump Goes Back on Threat to Hit Iranian Cultural Sites
After twice threatening to target Iranian cultural sites, which would constitute a war crime, President Donald Trump reversed his position. On Tuesday, the president said that if Iran were to retaliate for the US drone strike that killed military and intelligence official Qasem Soleimani last week, the United States would …
Read More »Watch Kimmel Roast Trump's Turkey Pardon, Prep for Politically Contentious Thanksgiving Meals
Jimmy Kimmel rolled his eyes at President Donald Trump‘s annual turkey pardon and helped people prep for Thanksgiving dinner with that uncle on Jimmy Kimmel Live Tuesday. During his monologue, Kimmel noted how “magnanimous” Trump was at the turkey pardon and the intensity with which he went about the White …
Read More »Vindman: Trump's Ukraine Phone Call 'Undermine[d] Our National Security'
President Trump has repeatedly pointed to his July 25th call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as proof his relations with the nation were on the level. Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a National Security Council expert on European affairs who listening in on the call, remembers it a little differently. While …
Read More »Elizabeth Warren's New Facebook Ad Brutally Owns Mark Zuckerberg
After rampant fake news on Facebook dominated much the narrative about the 2016 election, CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Congress that the company “made mistakes” regarding its handling of the issue. But a recent change to the company’s policy that now allows falsehoods in political ads—a reversal of its prior stance—and …
Read More »Trump Administration Blocks Gordon Sondland From Testifying in Impeachment Inquiry
The Trump administration on Tuesday stopped U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland from testifying before a House panel, blocking a planned deposition from Sondland that was to have been part of Democrats’ impeachment inquiry into President Trump. Last week, Kurt Volker, the former special envoy to Ukraine, turned …
Read More »Has 'Trump Fatigue' Defanged Bill Maher?
Bill Maher, back on HBO Friday night after a month-long hiatus, seems like he hasn’t recovered from the constant negative drum beat from the man who currently sits in the White House, President Donald Trump. During his New Rules segment, the usually cutting comedian was simplistic and dull. His advice …
Read More »Trump Can't Stop Calling People of Color Who Criticize Him Racist
President Trump has been calling a lot of people racist lately. Most of these people, as it so happens, are people of color. This is not a coincidence. Trump’s latest target is Reverend Al Sharpton, who is in Baltimore on Monday following the president’s tweets that the congressional district of …
Read More »Russian State TV Laughs at Trump's Fourth of July Parade
A Russian state TV news program laughed at President Donald Trump’s Fourth of July parade this week. According to the Washington Post, the hosts of Rossiya 1’s 60 Minutes program ridiculed everything about Trump’s “A Salute to America” military extravaganza. One of the hosts, Yevgeny Popov, chided the president, saying …
Read More »Ivanka Trump Cashed $4 Million From Her Father's D.C. Hotel in 2018
In 2018, a deputy White House press secretary claimed Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump were “sacrificing in their service” in the White House. But one of the things the couple is not sacrificing is tons of income to the tune of tens of millions of dollars a year. According to …
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