Donald Trump
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Coretta Scott King Wrote a Letter Blasting Jeff Sessions in 1986. So Where Is It?
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) is currently undergoing a weird process of schmoozefest and hard-hitting interrogation as President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general. This isn’t the first time Sessions has faced a committee while seeking approval to fill a high-ranking position. In 1986 Sessions was up for federal judge, and Coretta Scott King wrote a…
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US Ethics Office Warns Trump Nominee Confirmations Are Moving Too Fast
The Office of Government Ethics on Saturday warned that confirmation hearings for President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees are moving too fast. In a letter to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) that was released Saturday, OGE Director Walter Shaub wrote that “the announced hearing schedule for several nominees who have not completed…
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Mexico’s Former President to Trump: ‘I’m Not Paying for That F–king Wall’
Businessman Vicente Fox Quesada, former president of Mexico, took to Twitter to tell President-elect Donald Trump to f—k his couch and his wall. Trump spent the last year and a half saying that he was going to build a wall—a yuge wall—and Mexico was going to pay for it. Well, there’s a little caveat. Now…
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Trump Wants Taxpayers, Not Mexico, to Pay for Border Wall
President-elect Donald Trump promised his voters a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, and now his transition team and congressional Republicans are trying to figure out if there is any way to slide the wall building into existing legislation without passing a new bill. Two congressional officials and a senior transition-team official with knowledge of the…
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Everything Makes Sense If You Accept That White People Just Want Everyone And Everything Dead
Although the best and most memorable part of The Usual Suspects occurs in the last five minutes, when Agent Kujan puts the pieces on the bulletin board together and slowly realizes that Verbal Kint is in fact Keyser Soze, my favorite part comes a half hour or so before that scene. Dean Keaton and the…
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Talladega College Marching Band Must Walk Away From Habanero Hitler’s Inauguration
In the wake of harsh criticism from alumni and across social media, Talladega College President Billy C. Hawkins was at one point “still weighing his options” with respect to accepting the invitation for the school’s marching band to take part in President-Elect Donald Trump’s inaugural parade. It appears that the weight crashed on the racist…
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Pro-Marijuana Group Will Hand Out Free Joints in DC for Trump’s Inauguration
People attending Donald Trump’s inauguration in Washington, D.C., will have the opportunity to experience it on a higher level; a pro-marijuana group plans to hand out free joints the day the president-elect is sworn in. DCMJ is an organization that worked to pass Initiative 71, which made it legal to carry up to 2 ounces…
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Jeff Sessions Is Dangerous and Should Not Be Confirmed as Trump’s Attorney General [Retracted]
RETRACTED (6/12/18): This story has been removed because we have discovered it was in breach of our editorial standards. If you’d like to know more, you can read an editor’s note here. A cached version of the story is available here for transparency.
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Will Megyn Kelly Be Less Racist Now That She’s on NBC?
If one were in need of confirmation that you, too, can get away with Bill O’Reilly’s type of racism so long as you’re a pretty, blond white woman, look no further than the news that Megyn Kelly is leaving Fox News for NBC. According to reports, Kelly will host her own daytime talk show and…
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Bill and Hillary Clinton Will Attend Donald Trump’s Inauguration
Bill and Hillary Clinton will be in attendance at Donald Trump’s inauguration Jan. 20, their aides confirmed Tuesday. Former presidents and their spouses are given prominent seats to witness the inauguration, but as the Los Angeles Times notes, never before has a former first lady lost the election, and Hillary Clinton’s attendance at the ceremony…