Donald Trump
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Sign of the Times: Rep. John Lewis Admits He's Less Hopeful in 2019 Than He Was on Bloody Sunday
If there’s anyone who can serve as a barometer on how messed up things have gotten in this country, it would be U.S. House Rep. John Lewis. And according to the Civil Rights trailblazer known for getting into good trouble, the U.S. is now in “deep trouble.” In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Lewis…
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Former Trump Chief of Staff Joins Board Overseeing 'Prison-like' Facility for Migrant Children
Former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly has joined the board of Caliburn International, owners of Comprehensive Health Services Inc., which operated a Florida facility for children described as “prison-like” by congressional Democrats. Kelly, who left the White House in January, was already on the board before his stint serving under Trump. He stepped…
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Trump Just Got Off Russia Punishment and You Won't Believe Who He Called When He Got His Phone Back
Well that didn’t take long, at all. It’s been less than a month since Special Counsel Robert Mueller released the Russia report, and President Trump is already on the phone with his Russian Bae, Vladmir Putin. According to CNN, Trump and his Russian Bae spoke Friday morning for “over an hour,” and the phone call…
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Trump Sock Puppets Diamond and Silk Come for Steve Cohen: 'He's Racially Insensitive'
While the rest of the world was thoroughly amused at Rep. Steve Cohen’s decision to mock Attorney General William Barr’s no call, no show at the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday, Fox News hand puppets Diamond and Silk—professionally known as Shuck and Jive—took umbrage at Cohen’s methods in doing so. Outside of blatantly calling Barr…
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California Senate to Trump: Either Release Your Taxes or You Won't be on the 2020 Ballot
Unfortunately, it’s come to this. The president of the United States, or as he’s called in Russia, “Putin’s bitch,” refuses to show us those tax returns, claiming that he would if he could (he can) but he can’t because he’s being audited (he can still release his tax returns) because he has something to hide.…
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The Radicalization of White America: How Donald Trump Weaponized Whiteness
On September 30, 2011, an unmanned American drone fired 40 missiles into the home of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen living in Yemen. The prominent Muslim cleric was placed on the U.S. government’s kill list because he reportedly inspired numerous terrorists, including Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army officer who was convicted of killing 13 and…
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You Paid for Bottle Service for MAGAholics and You Didn’t Even Know It
Remember back when America was trying to figure out how Donald Trump the business man and Donald Trump the president were going to coexist, considering Trump could, say, host events at, say, a property he owns, like Mar-a-Lago, and, I’m just spitballing here, because he’s the president, the charges would be footed by the American…