Evangelical Christians love President Trump. They voted for him in 2016 by a staggering margin — 80% to 16% — and a Pew Research poll released in March found that 69% of white evangelicals approve of the job Trump is doing as president. The fact that Trump is a lewd, …
Read More »Pelosi Video Shows Nothing at Facebook and Twitter Has Changed Since 2016
Facebook and Twitter have trumpeted major initiatives designed to prevent a repeat of the 2016 election: “massive investments to help protect the integrity of elections” and the implementation of “proactive detection and enforcement efforts.” This week was evidence of how little has changed about the way Facebook and Twitter actually …
Read More »Trump Goes After 'Loser' GOP Congressman Who Said He 'Engaged in Impeachable Conduct'
Less than 24 hours after Michigan Republican Congressman Justin Amash took to Twitter to explain why he concluded that “President Trump has engaged in impeachable conduct,” Trump responded by calling the representative a “loser.” Trump’s Sunday morning tweets surprised no one. He called Amash “a total lightweight” and claimed the …
Read More »Howard Stern: Donald Trump 'Did Not Want to be President'
Howard Stern offered his take on Donald Trump‘s psyche and said “deep down he did not want to be president” during an interview with The New York Times. Trump was a frequent guest on The Howard Stern Show from the early Nineties through 2015, when he announced his presidential campaign. …
Read More »Trump Unleashes Tweetstorm Defending White Nationalists Booted From Facebook
President Donald Trump unleashed a torrent of tweets and retweets on Friday night and Saturday morning covering topics like the right-wing personalities who were booted off Facebook this past week and, of course, North Korea, which launched a short-range projectile off its coast Saturday morning, according to South Korean officials. …
Read More »29 Things Trump Couldn't Recall While Answering Mueller's Questions
President Trump was never interviewed by the Special Counsel’s Office. His legal team, fearing their client might trip and fall into a “perjury trap,” negotiated for the president to provide written answers to a set of questions. We learned today, as the first portions of the Mueller report became publicly …
Read More »Watch Alec Baldwin Discuss the Future of His Trump Character on 'Fallon'
Alec Baldwin isn’t sure whether he’ll continue to play Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live when the current season ends. The actor appeared on The Tonight Show and told Jimmy Fallon that he’s open to returning next season. “I really don’t know,” Baldwin said in response to his future impersonation …
Read More »Taibbi: On Russiagate and Our Refusal to Face Why Trump Won
Last weekend, I published a book chapter criticizing the Russiagate narrative, claiming it was a years-long press error on the scale of the WMD affair heading into the Iraq war. Obviously (and I said this in detail), the WMD fiasco had a far greater real-world impact, with hundreds of thousands …
Read More »If Trump Isn't 'Worth' Impeachment, Who Is?
Nancy Pelosi must be sick of talking about it. Alas, if she were only blessed with a president whose actions wouldn’t provoke the question! However, the Speaker of the House has been stuck with possibly the worst commander-in-chief in American history: a man whose campaign and associates are under constant …
Read More »This Is How Easy It Is to Influence Trump
President Trump is not a hard man to influence. Extreme, unrelenting flattery is pretty much all it takes to get his ear (see: Fox News). A Mar-a-Lago membership also does wonders. Trump’s for-profit club in Palm Beach, Florida, has been a hotbed of bizarre conflict of interest scandals since the …
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