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  • Trump's Whole Team Is Trash: Top Adviser Hosted White Nationalist at Birthday Party

    Stop me if you didn’t see this coming, but one of the president’s top advisers hosted the publisher of a website that posts white nationalist commentary. If you’re wondering why I didn’t just call it a white nationalist website, it’s because it isn’t fully a white nationalist website; it’s white nationalist-adjacent. If white nationalism is…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 22, 2018
  • Michael Cohen's Lawyer, Lanny Davis, Is a Hero, But He Also Wants America to Run Him His Money

    Michael Cohen’s lawyer, Lanny Davis, is a hero. Since Tuesday, when Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to eight criminal counts that included tax fraud, false statements to a bank and campaign finance violations that included two hush-money payments to two women for Trump, Davis has been making the news rounds. For all the tea that Cohen…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 22, 2018
  • Trump's Former Lawyer and Fixer Michael Cohen Pleads Guilty to 8 Felony Charges, Including Hush Money Payment to Porn Star

    President Trump’s former personal lawyer and longtime fixer, Michael Cohen, has pleaded guilty to eight charges, including campaign finance violations; he also added that a hush money payment made to former Playboy model and porn performer Stormy Daniels was at the then president-elect’s insistence. According to the Associated Press, Cohen, 51, pleaded guilty to several…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 21, 2018
  • Trump's Former Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort Found Guilty on 8 Charges

    On Tuesday, the jury found Trump’s former campaign chair Paul Manafort guilty on 8 of the 18 charges, including five counts of tax fraud. The jury was unable to reach a consensus on 10 other charges forcing Judge T.S. Ellis to declare a mistrial on those 10 counts. According to the Associated Press, Manafort was…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 21, 2018
  • It's About to Go Down! Trump's Personal Fixer Michael Cohen Reaches Tentative Plea Deal: Report

    The walls are closing in on the deplorable administration as President Donald Trump’s personal fixer and lawyer, Michael Cohen, has reportedly entered into a plea agreement with Manhattan federal prosecutors Tuesday. According to the New York Post, terms of the plea require Cohen to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller into his investigation of Russia…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 21, 2018
  • Ex-New York Giants Wide Receiver Victor Cruz Retires From NFL, Will Join ESPN as Analyst

    Former New York Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz has done his last salsa in the opponent’s end zone, as the 31-year-old announced his retirement Tuesday adding that he will be joining ESPN as an NFL analyst. “As I officially close one chapter of my life and begin another, I could not be more thrilled to…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 21, 2018
  • Trump Just Gave the Most Racist Compliment to a Hispanic-American Border Patrol Agent 

    President Trump doesn’t see anyone nonwhite as American. Full stop. Because of this, Trump unintentionally gave the most racist compliment in the history of America. I say unintentionally because I truly believe that Trump thinks this is a compliment. In Trump’s mind—which is filled with the passcodes to Russian porn websites, his Door Dash order…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 21, 2018
  • White-on-White Crime: Trump Calls Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Team 'Thugs' and a 'National Disgrace'

    It’s Monday so you know what that means: President Mein Heir von Oppressor is at it again. The president of people who use the bathroom and don’t wash their hands was on Twitter tweeting up a hailstorm of attacks against special counsel Robert Muller and his Russia probe. He called Mueller “disgraced and discredited” and…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 20, 2018
  • The White House Fired a Speechwriter After Learning He Attended a White Nationalist Event and I'm Confused

    I’m not sure what universe I’m living in anymore, but I thought that the White House and Donald Trump’s whole thing is that they act as white nationalists parading as the GOP, which is kind of like a version of “white nationalists light.” In fact, the GOP has for a long time been the vegan…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 20, 2018
  • After 'Truth Isn't Truth' Statement, Rudy Giuliani Is Proving to Be Trump's Favorite Crash Test Dummy

    President Donald Trump is an idiot. He also suffers from a severe case of word vomit that tends to play out both in real life and on Twitter. It’s almost impossible for the president of the United States not to make an ass of himself. It’s also proving impossible for anyone on the president’s staff…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 20, 2018
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