Politics
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Wait, Did Stormy Daniels’ Lawyer Just Hint That a $1.6 Million Abortion Payout May Have Been for Trump and Not That GOP Donor?
Attorney Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for porn actress Stormy Daniels, is having quite a day. That’s because President Donald Trump already handed him a gift with his phone call Thursday to Fox & Friends when he noted that his personal lawyer Michael Cohen was working on his behalf when he paid Daniels $130,000. Now Avenatti…
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Mike Pompeo Confirmed as Secretary of State
Central Intelligence Agency Director Mike Pompeo was confirmed by the Senate on Thursday as the 70th secretary of state of the United States. He was Donald Trump’s No. 1 pick to replace Rex Tillerson as the nation’s top diplomat. The New York Times describes Pompeo as “an outspoken foreign policy hawk,” and reports that he…
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Trump Just Admitted That Michael Cohen Acted on His Behalf When He Paid Off Porn Actress, and Why This Matters
President Donald Trump needs a teleprompter around him at all times, including when he takes the presidential golf cart to his local KFC, because whenever he goes off script, he not only puts his orange-hued foot in his mouth but also risks incriminating himself. This happened Thursday morning during an interview on Fox & Friends,…
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Trump’s VA Pick Withdraws Nomination Amid New Allegations He Drunkenly Crashed Government Car
Amid new allegations that Dr. Ronny L. Jackson, President Donald Trump’s embattled pick to run the Department of Veterans Affairs, drunkenly crashed a government-issued vehicle and kept haphazard prescription records, Jackson has withdrawn his name from consideration for the post. “The allegations against me are completely false and fabricated,” Jackson, the White House physician, said…
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Candace Owens, Who Thinks Racism Is All in the Past, Got Paid After Suing Over Racist Attacks
Candace Owens, Kanye West’s new bestie, claims that racism is no longer an issue. Was that before or after her family won a lawsuit for $37,500 from the Stamford, Conn., Board of Education as a result of racism? Perhaps the board should ask for a refund. In 2016, Owens wrote an open letter to the…
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A Conspiracy Theory as to Why HUD Wants to Raise Rent on Low-Income Housing
The more conspiracy sober-minded among us saw this coming a mile away—even if we had on Ben Carson’s thick glasses. This is only a theory, mind you, but let’s take a walk down the rabbit hole, shall we? Let’s suppose that when Carson, a black man who spent his career as a neurosurgeon, was named…
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Auntie Maxine Waters Issues Proposal to Trump: Quit so I Can Stop Calling for Your Impeachment
Rep. Maxine Waters of California, aka Auntie Maxine, knows what we know: Donald Trump never wanted to be president, and more important, he’s horrible at it. So on Tuesday, during a gala for the Time 100 in New York, Waters’ advice for Trump was this: “Please resign. So that I won’t have to keep up…
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How Melania Trump’s Hand Has Become the Most Defiant Member of the Trump Administration
Make no mistake about it: Melania Trump is a deplorable. For whatever reason, she married the man who is single-handedly trying to destroy the rights of every nonwhite person in this country, so she’s complicit in all of the divisive hatred spewed from her husband’s prolapsed-anus mouth. Melania Trump’s hand, however, is Huey Newton. Melania…
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Why Isn’t Jeff Sessions Recusing Himself From the Michael Cohen Investigation?
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions was quick to recuse himself from the Russia investigation. It is a decision that caused him to lose favor with Donald Trump, who famously said that he never would have appointed Sessions as attorney general if he had known the recusal was going to happen. Since then, Sessions has been…
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Watch: Trump Embarrasses French President by Awkwardly Wiping Dandruff off His Collar
President Donald Trump welcomed French President Emmanuel Macron to the White House Tuesday, but the president of women who wear cowboy boots with their swimsuits doesn’t seem to understand that other world leaders are not auditioning for The Apprentice and therefore aren’t looking for jobs, and they aren’t his minions or his offspring, so they…