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After a Bad Weekend for Trump, Judge Orders President to Release Tax Returns
On Monday, a federal judge rejected Donald Trump’s legal arguments that getting 57 percent of white America to vote for a grown-ass man who still uses magic markers makes him immune to criminal investigations, ordering the baboon-brained president to turn over his tax returns to New York prosecutors. The federal court ruling ended a weekend…
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SNL Does Kamala, Mayor Pete Starts to Holla and Booker Says ‘Can I Hold a Dollar?’: 2020 Presidential Black Power Rankings, Week 12
This is by far one of the strangest weeks in the history of The Root Presidential Black Power Rankings. We had a mutiny within our committee, we had a special guest analyst who is just brilliant, and we had half a dozen major events occur this week that scrambled the rankings like an old-school Etch…
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Open Secret? This Time, Trump Publicly Seeks a Foreign Country’s Help in Digging Up Dirt on Biden
Despite being the subject of a House impeachment inquiry over reports he sought the help of a foreign power for personal gain (aiding his re-election hopes), Donald Trump on Thursday publicly asked a different foreign power—China—to do the exact same thing. Speaking to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House, Trump said China…
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#TrumpMeltdown: House GOP Worries About Lack of Controls as the Donald Becomes Increasingly Combative on Impeach Probe
As Democrats’ determination to continue its impeachment inquiry of Donald Trump becomes more evident each day, Trump has begun to look and sound increasingly unhinged, including a meltdown Wednesday that made for a trending hashtag on Twitter. The Trump White House’s lack of a “playbook” about how to respond to his impeachment woes has House…
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House Dems to Trump Lawyer Giuliani: Give It Up, Rudy!
Rudy Giuliani never seems to be one who’s at a loss for words, and now House Democrats are demanding he tell all by sharing key documents with lawmakers as part of its impeachment probe. On Monday, the House Intelligence Committee issued a subpoena to Giuliani as part of its impeachment inquiry into Giuliani’s client Donald…
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Oops! He Did It Again? Trump Reportedly Pressured a 2nd Country—Australia—to Help Him Out of a Jam
Donald Trump, at the urging of his top law enforcement official, Attorney General William Barr, pressured Australia’s prime minister to help him debunk the report on 2016 election shenanigans done by special counsel Robert Mueller. That’s according to the New York Times, which cites sources telling the news site that Trump made the ask during…
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Donald Trump Warns There Will Be a Civil War If He Is Impeached
Donald Trump is shook. You can tell the “president” is shook because every time he is, he starts flailing on Twitter, tweeting out whatever nonsense he can think of to put up a brave front—but his words usually belie that enormous front and reveal that deep down inside, he is afraid of whatever may be…
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Rep. Rashida Tlaib Stands by Sale of ‘Impeach the MF’ T-Shirts
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) is keeping the same energy she has always had. The Democratic congresswoman’s re-election campaign is selling t-shirts based on her most widely-known phrase: “Impeach the MF.” The new merch went on sale following the announcement of a formal impeachment inquiry into poor POTUS last week. Priced at $29 each, the tees…
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‘I Will Be the Hero’: Giuliani Goes Off on the ‘Morons’ Giving Him the Side-Eye for His Role in Trump’s Impeachment Woes
Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump’s ever-vociferous mouthpiece, is apparently feeling most unappreciated for all he did on behalf of his boss to put him in danger of being impeached dig up dirt on one of his rivals for the Oval Office, and says history will prove him right, damnit! “Anything I did should be praised,” Giuliani…
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Lawmakers Get a Look at Trump Whistleblower Complaint— Ahead of Testimony From Guy Who Didn’t Wanna Give It Up
Lawmakers on the House and Senate intelligence committee got a look Wednesday evening at the Trump whistleblower complaint that’s caused all this conversation about impeaching the current occupant of the Oval Office. Whether lawmakers will release the contents of the complaint to the public is still up for debate, but the reluctance of the Trump…