Politics
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Flint Still Doesn’t Have Clean Drinking Water but Trump Is Tweeting About White South African Farmers
As it stands Flint, Mich., still doesn’t have clean drinking water and Puerto Rico is still recovering from Hurricane Maria’s aftermath. But President Trump, in a late-night tweetstorm, decided to run down the rabbit hole that seems to be the latest white nationalist conspiracy theory, specifically, that white South African farmers are being murdered for…
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Trump’s Fox News Interview Sounds a Lot Like a Criminal Trying to Convince His Cellmate He’s Innocent
On the heels of Trump’s former campaign manager and personal lawyer heading to the pokey, the president of people who stuff chew in their jaws and spit the brown residue into water bottles, made an appearance on his personal YouTube channel Fox News in which he proudly claimed that he’d give himself an A-plus for…
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Senate Candidate Beto O’Rourke Defends NFL Players Right to Kneel: ‘I Can Think of Nothing More American’
During a campaign appearance last week, Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke, who’s battling incumbent Sen. Ted Cruz, a.k.a. grownup Eddie Munster, for the U.S. Senate, answered a question about NFL players kneeling during the national anthem and if it was disrespectful. “My short answer is no, I don’t think it’s disrespectful,” O’Rourke said in a video…
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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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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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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…