Politics
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Receipts! Fire and Fury Author Recorded Conversations Inside the White House for Months
Previously on White House Apprentice, Donald Trump and his attorneys tried to stop Steve Bannon from saying bad things about the president and his family. At the same time, they tried to stop author Michael Wolff from publishing a book full of bad things that Bannon, among others, has said about the president and his…
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Now, This Is Creepy: New Book Claims That Donald Trump’s Circle Sees Ivanka as His Wife and Hope Hicks as His Daughter
Look, I know that we’ve all cringed over the inappropriate relationship that President Donald Trump has with his daughter Ivanka. There was that one time when 16-year-old Ivanka was co-hosting the 1997 Miss Teen USA pageant, and Trump asked the then-Miss Universe: “Don’t you think my daughter’s hot? She’s hot, right?” Then there was the…
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Trump Urged Lawyer to Persuade Jeff Sessions Not to Recuse Himself in Russia Probe: Report
Why was it so important to President Donald Trump to have Attorney General Jeff Sessions oversee the Russia investigation? It couldn’t possibly be because the president of the United States and the overlord of Russia are secretly play cousins who spend the night over each other’s house and make forts out of bedsheets in the…
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Stop Dissing Me: Trump Lawyer Sends Cease and Desist Letter to Steve Bannon
Previously on White House Apprentice, Steve Bannon—who got kicked out of the house in August—was going around trash-talking Donald Trump, his administration, his family and the way he runs 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Trump came out on Wednesday denouncing Bannon and saying that he had “lost his mind” in an attempt to discredit his former chief…
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The Trump Administration Is Quietly Winning 1 Fight That Shows How White Supremacy Works
While we were wringing our hands about the travel ban or the nonsensical plans to staff a Game of Thrones-style wall so the Night’s Watch can keep out the Mexican wildlings, the Trump administration has quietly been instituting a scheme that will affect every aspect of U.S. law. His legislative failures may be notable, but…
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Trump Dissolves His Controversial Voter-Fraud Commission
On Wednesday, Donald Trump signed an executive order that effectively dissolved the controversial commission on voter fraud he created in May 2017, citing states’ refusal to provide the commission with “basic information.” The White House said in a statement: “Despite substantial evidence of voter fraud, many states have refused to provide the Presidential Advisory Commission…
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Paul Manafort Has Gone Full Denzel in Training Day: He’s Putting Cases on Everybody
Former Donald Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has gone full Denzel Washington in Training Day, and he’s putting cases on all you bitches. Below is a clip of Manafort before he filed lawsuits against special counsel Robert Mueller, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and the Department of Justice: According to CNBC, Mueller is alleging that the…
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‘Alt-Right’ Altercation: Trump Says Steve Bannon Has ‘Lost His Mind’
You know how, when you break up with someone, you start thinking about the little things about them that always irritated you but you never said anything? Then, in conversations with other people, you bring those things up and spill all kinds of tea because, since y’all aren’t cool anymore, you may as well? That…
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In Nod to Shirley Chisholm, Cincinnati Councilwoman Brings Her Own Seat to the Table at Swearing-In Ceremony
Shirley Chisholm, the trailblazing New York congresswoman who was the first black woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and the first black candidate on a major party’s presidential ticket, once said, “If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.” The phrase served as a mantra and rallying…