Politics
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Book: Trump Bragged That He 'Saved' Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince After Jamal Khashoggi’s Brutal Murder
Jamal Khashoggi was a Washington Post columnist who’d been critical of the Saudi kingdom and more specifically Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. On October 2, 2018, Khashoggi, who was living in a self-imposed exile, traveled to the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, to obtain documents for his upcoming marriage. Khashoggi never left the…
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Trump: This Is All Bob Woodward’s Fault
On Wednesday, excerpts from Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward’s new book, Rage, began popping up online. From those snippets, we learned that President Trump not only knew that the coronavirus was deadly but he was literally told this pandemic would be the worst moment of his presidency by one of his advisers. The president…
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Puck From The Real World and the Rest of Trump’s Possible Supreme Court Picks Should He Get Reelected
We already know that Trump doesn’t know how any of this works. He literally doesn’t understand the workings of the government and claims that he doesn’t have to because he understands his voters, and he might be right. Trump knows that in order to move the needle he’s got to keep presenting what another four…
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Bob Woodward’s New Book Claims Trump Knew COVID-19 Was Deadly and Lied About It
World-renowned journalist Bob Woodward has the distinction of being one of the only journalists (along with Carl Bernstein) who brought down a presidency, so I don’t know why presidents keep talking to him. That would be like Al Capone sitting down with Eliot Ness or the one white Atlanta Housewife sitting down with NeNe Leakes…
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Some Norwegian Man Has Nominated Trump for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, and It Totally Makes Sense
2020 has been a dumpster fire of a year. If 2020 were an actress it would be Lisa Raye in that stripper movie. If 2020 were a rapper it would be Magoo or Kreayshawn. If 2020 were an outfit it would be the president of the United States in a kitten heel. So nothing surprises…
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Anita Hill Will Be Voting for Joe Biden in 2020, Opens the Door to Working With Him on Gender Issues
Exhibiting the kind of grace and foresight characteristic to Black women, Anita Hill says she will be casting her vote for Joe Biden in November and would like to work with his administration on issues of gender-based violence and discrimination. As you’ll remember, Hill was relentlessly and often-derisively questioned during the confirmation hearing for Supreme…
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Trump Hired a Fake Barack Obama So He Could Belittle Him, and Other Revelations in Michael Cohen's New Book
It’s pretty well-known that Donald Trump is deeply obsessed with Barack Obama, probably because he is the first Black president and a person who is objectively intelligent and generally well-loved—two things that will never describe the current president. Now Trump’s former right-hand guy and clean-up lawyer Michael Cohen has revealed how deep this fixation runs,…