Poor Brett Kavanaugh has been abused, maligned, mistreated — and the only way to rectify the wrongs that have been visited upon Trump’s Supreme Court nominee is to give him a lifetime appointment. That was the message Senate Republicans sent to their base on Thursday in a hastily arranged press …
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President Donald Trump appeared to mock Dr. Christine Blasey Ford at a Mississippi rally Tuesday, suggesting the testimony she gave regarding her sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was unreliable. Trump noted the various things about the night of the alleged incident that Ford couldn’t remember, such …
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A California woman named Christine Blasey Ford has come forward to describe an alleged sexual assault at the hands of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh when both were teenagers. Ford’s story appeared in a widely-read Washington Post article. The alleged assault had previously been the subject of an anonymous letter …
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While mainstream country music in the Trump era has begun to wade quietly into the realm of resistance politics — Little Big Town showing up at the March for Our Lives rally, Cam’s support for the Women’s March and artists departing en masse from their relationships with NRA Country — …
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For someone who talks a big game about respecting the military, President Trump spends a lot of time offending service members. His latest affront came after John McCain died Saturday. That night, the president reportedly nixed the released of a statement honoring McCain’s legacy, instead opting to fire off a …
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It’s easy to lose track of all the corruption embedded within the Trump presidency. Every week brings a handful of new scandals, any one of which would be the biggest controversy of any other administration. Many of these happenings represent legitimate grounds for impeachment, if not the criminality of the …
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If there’s one thing that binds the Trump universe together, it’s the oppressive stench of shady activity. This applies to those closest to the president, as well those orbiting him from a distance, like Rep. Chris Collins (R-NY), a back-bench lawmaker who in February 2016 became the first member of …
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Fresh off his trip to meet with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, President Trump is now set to sit down with his original authoritarian BFF, Vladimir Putin. Despite their flirtations, Trump has yet to travel for an official summit with the Russian president since taking office. This week, National Security …
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Donald Trump has exhibited authoritarian impulses since the early days of his campaign. But the president’s recent meeting with Kim Jong-un seems to have inspired him to throw around language and ideas that would turn America into a dictatorship.Trump gushed about the North Korean leader following their meeting in Singapore, …
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Two weeks after Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico, President Trump finally took leave of the golf course and visited the devastated U.S. territory. While hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans were suffering in darkness, Trump lobbed rolls of paper towels at people and bragged about the disaster relief effort. …
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