emails
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Lock Her Up! Lock Her Up!: ‘Crooked’ Ivanka Trump Used Personal Email for White House Business
Either God has a sense of humor or God hates us all but the fact remains that President Trump’s favorite daughter not named Tiffany was out here being reckless with her private email, using it for White House business, which, if we all remember, is exactly what has been the thorn in Trump’s side about…
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Exclusive: A Leaked Email Exchange Between Aaron Schlossberg and His PR Firm, You Can’t Say That MFer LLC
Editor’s note: This is satire. What is satire, you ask? According to Dictionary.com, satire is the use of humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. Keep that in mind. Thanks. Recently, Aaron Schlossberg went full racist tirade on…
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The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: No Free Lunch
This is a terrible time for our country. Our president has the IQ of a third-place Wheel of Fortune contestant. Hurricanes are making it rain across the United States like they’re Floyd Mayweather in a strip club. Kim Jong Un is strapping nuclear warheads on the backs of bottle rockets. Jason Whitlock has a brand-new…
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Someone Trolled Me With Racist Emails for a Week, and It Brought Me So Much Joy!
A few weeks ago, we began the inaugural Wypipo World Tournament that pitted the worst wypipo in the world against one another. When this idea first emerged, there was a very intense meeting that ended—as most meetings at The Root do—with, “OK, Mike, you piss wypipo off all the time. You do it.” I didn’t…
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Trump’s Russia Lawyer Is Out Here Cussing People Out: ‘Watch Your Back, Bitch’
President Donald Trump’s attorney on Russian matters might have been the sixth member of N.W.A that no one knew about until now. That’s because Marc Kasowitz is as reckless with his curses as the late, great Eazy-E once was. According to several emails published by ProPublica Thursday, Kasowitz didn’t take too kindly to an email…
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Four Emails White People Send To Black People When Black People Write Or Talk About Racism
A word. In the fifth graf of “Racism Is Really Bad”, you cite a story about a time your great uncle applied for a home loan, and wasn’t able to receive it because, according to you, the bank didn’t loan money to black people. As you stated, the bank manager even personally came out of…
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Report: Russia Was in Contact With Trump Officials During Election
During the presidential debates, Hillary Clinton often accused Donald Trump of being a puppet for Russian President Vladimir Putin, a claim Trump strongly denied. U.S. officials had been adamant during the election that Russia was responsible for hacking Democratic Party emails, accusations Moscow denied. Now Reuters is reporting that the Russian government was in contact…
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FBI Says There’s Nothing in Clinton’s Emails, but That Doesn’t Stop Trump
Remember those new emails found by the FBI while it was investigating someone not named Hillary Clinton? Remember how the FBI director broke a respected long-standing agreement between the federal agency and the Department of Justice not to leak information regarding an ongoing investigation? Now it turns out that emails found on a computer used…
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So Basically FBI Director James Comey Just Trolled The Entire Country? (Fuck This Election, Man)
I’m trying (and failing) to think of a good and succinct analogy for what the FBI has done this month. Which is, of course, announce two weeks before the election that they were reopening their investigation into a non-issue (Clinton’s emails — a clear and blatant political McGuffin). Which, of course, could potentially have a…