Politics
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Felix Sater Claims Trump Organization Pursued Deal With Sanctioned Bank During 2016 Election
Longtime Donald Trump associate Felix Sater told Chris Hayes on his MSNBC show Friday that he was trying to secure a real estate deal during the 2016 campaign to build “Trump Tower Moscow” with funding from VTB Bank, which is currently under U.S. sanctions. “I had a local developer there [in Russia], and I had…
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Mad Petty: Trump Fires FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, Screwing Him Out of His Pension Days Before He Could Retire
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe only needed to make it until Sunday to reach his 50th birthday and a chance for an early retirement and his pension. But President Donald Trump, who has proved to be the pettiest of bitches, commanded his personal top cop, Jeff “King Keebler” Sessions, to fire McCabe. Sessions waited…
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Watch: Hillary Clinton Shuts Down the Possibility of a Possible Ivanka Trump Presidency
Since Hillary Clinton has nothing left to lose, she is giving it to the American public straight, no chaser. Clinton isn’t running for president anymore; in fact. she’s probably just going to continue speaking out against President Donald Trump, whether he’s in office or not. Clinton’s plans, once Trump leaves office, are to sit outside…
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It’s Official: The White House Is a Flaming-Hot Dumpster Fire That Shows No Signs of Cooling Down
The White House has been trash since the pristine Obamas left it to a KFC-eating mass of bagged afterbirth. Since he took office, the White House has been reshuffling the staff like it was dealt a hand with no spades. To date, the Trump administration has lost over a dozen notable members. Earlier this week,…
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Why Don’t Some Lawmakers in Tennessee Want to Denounce White Nationalism and Neo-Nazis?
If you live in Tennessee, you should be paying attention to what some of the lawmakers in your state are doing. Even if you don’t live in Tennessee, this is an important story to pay attention to. On Wednesday, legislators declined to pass a resolution that would denounce white nationalism and neo-Nazis in that state.…
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Doug Jones and the Democratic Party Just Screwed Black Voters … Again
There is a saying that “no good deed goes unpunished.” My grandmother, a slight woman whose values still trickle down through four generations, and who radiated love and wisdom as if she were our family’s own self-contained solar system, once showed me the scars on her legs from being bitten by a police dog and…
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Top Cop Jeff Sessions Speaks to Chiefs of Police and Collectively They Form the Broviet Union
The Trump administration is continuing its tradition of speaking to crowds that are largely favorable to its policies. On Thursday, Attorney General Jeff “King Keebler” Sessions spoke at the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference in Nashville, Tenn. What is the International Association of Chiefs of Police? Who knows, but it looks like a…
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These Are the Women of Color Who Fought Both Sexism and the Racism of White Feminists
For Women’s History Month, Jezebel and The Root are partnering for JezeRoot, a series that focuses on women of color, domestic workers and sex workers. In December of last year, Gloria Steinem, a woman whose name and face has come to symbolize the feminist movement of the ’60s and ’70s, spoke before the Massachusetts Women’s…
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Watch: Trump’s Recent Speech Proves He Doesn’t Care About Black People
President Donald Trump made a very startling appearance in Moon Township, Pa., last week in support of Republican state Rep. Rick Saccone, who was running for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. (With only a handful of absentee ballots remaining to be counted, Saccone appears to have lost to Democratic candidate Conor Lamb.)…