Politics
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Michelle Obama Gets Personal in New 'When We All Vote' Message
Election day is a little more than two months away, and—as you’re probably well aware—this one is kind of a big deal. This year’s midterms have taken on the kind of urgency we typically see in presidential elections. And why wouldn’t it? Americans have seen migrant children torn away from their families and thrown into…
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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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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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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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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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Educators Shouldn't Be Afraid to Teach the History of the N-Word
Omarosa Manigault Newman, the senior White House staffer turned author, said recently during her book tour that she had heard a tape of President Donald Trump using the n-word during his time on the reality show The Apprentice. Trump denied the existence of any such tape, tweeting, “I don’t have that word in my vocabulary…
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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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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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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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Omarosa’s Mixtape Tour: Report Says There’s Video Too
Apparently Omarosa Manigault Newman was able to move about the West Wing of the White House with an entire production studio in her purse, because a new report says that in addition to her alleged 200 audio recordings, she has video as well. A person who purportedly has “direct knowledge of the records” told the…