Politics
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Paul Manafort Hid Foreign Income on Taxes, His Accountant Says
Paul Manafort’s accountant testified Friday that the ex-Trump campaign manager repeatedly denied having foreign bank accounts and stakes in foreign companies. CNN reports Manafort is standing trial as a result of being charged with 18 counts of tax and banking crimes. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges. Special counsel Robert Mueller’s prosecution of…
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Trump to Migrant Parents Whose Children Were Taken at the Border: Let the ACLU Find Your Family
Despite the fact that the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance policy” is the reason that migrant parents were forcibly separated from their children at the border, the Department of Justice doesn’t believe that they should be responsible for reuniting the families they tore apart. On Thursday, the Trump administration told a federal judge that the American…
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Trump Will Have to Speak With Special Counsel Mueller's Team In Person, Not Only Submit Written Answers
While special counsel Robert Mueller has no problem cutting the number of obstruction-related questions Donald Trump would be asked by his investigators, the president will still have to answer them in person and not simply in written form. CNN reports that Trump’s legal team has only agreed to submit written answers to Mueller and have…
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders Tweets That Dems Suffer From 'Trump Derangement Syndrome.' It Didn't End Well
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, aka Suckabee, aka Aunt Lydia, aka the Devil’s Mouthpiece, took to Twitter to shame people who don’t support the president because that’s how the Trump administration uses social media. On Wednesday around the time that Suckabee should have been basting herself in cod oil and closing the lid…
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Congressional Hopeful Calls Melania Trump a 'Hoebag,' Claims She Works By the Hour
Congressional candidate Mark Roberts is hot water after an offensive tweet in which he shamed sex workers and claimed that the first lady—she of the esteemed and highly forgotten, stupidly named Michelle Obama ripoff campaign “Be Best”—a “hoebag.” According to Oregon Live, Roberts, an Oregon 2nd District hopeful running as an Independent, was in a…
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On Conspiracy Theories and Election Hacking [Updated]
Editor’s Note (8/1/2018): The original story that appeared here has been updated after editorial review. The reasons are outlined in the updated piece. On Thursday morning, The Root published an article written by this writer asserting my opinion that the 2016 election was hacked by Russian actors and that there is evidence that votes were…
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Trump Doesn't Understand How Buying Groceries Works
Either President Trump is preparing us for the dystopian future after our world war with longtime enemy Canada, or he’s never purchased groceries in his life, or he’s just a lying-ass liar who will say anything to drive home his point to his mindless followers. During a rally in one of those places where corn…
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Paul Manafort Drops His Lawsuit Against Robert Mueller Just as His Own Criminal Trial Begins
The criminal trial for Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort began Tuesday morning in a federal court in Alexandria, Va. It is the first trial to come out of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference with the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Things moved very quickly on the first day of court. The…
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Change in the Company Line: Trump Echoes Giuliani's Claim That Collusion With Russia Is Not a Crime
The sun had barely risen on the East Coast, on Tuesday, before the president got his hands on his phone to tweet the same words that just came out of Rudy Giuliani’s mouth: “Collusion is not a crime, but that doesn’t matter because there was No Collusion …” See, on Monday, Giuliani was doing one…