Politics
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Hillary Clinton’s Camp Responds to Donna Brazile’s Claims: ‘We Don’t Recognize the Campaign She Portrays’
Donna Brazile has caused a media storm with excerpts from her new book, Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White Hous e. First, in an excerpt published on Politico on Thursday, the longtime Democratic strategist and former Democratic National Committee chairperson revealed the nature of an…
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The Curious Case of Donna Brazile and Liberal Refusal to Admit So-Called Democracy Is Rigged
Donna Brazile, a veteran Democratic strategist and former interim chair of the Democratic National Committee, has come under intense fire in the wake of her explosive claims that former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton—and her deep pockets—unethically influenced the 2016 primary election against Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). According to an excerpt from Brazile’s forthcoming…
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Trump’s Energy Secretary Believes Fossil Fuels Can Help Prevent Sexual Assault
If you needed any further proof that the Trump administration is the political embodiment of the Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels classic Dumb and Dumber, here it is: Energy Secretary Rick Perry said Thursday that fossil fuels can help prevent sexual assault by keeping the lights on. No, this is not a joke. No, you…
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Hillary Clinton Rigged the Race Against Bernie Sanders and Donna Brazile Has Proof
When Hillary Clinton took the stage as the party’s nominee at the Democratic National Convention, it was already a foregone conclusion. She had long tied up the nomination process by securing the number of delegates needed for a victory. But in an explosive new article, former interim Democratic National Committee Chair Donna Brazile says that…
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Trump Thinks the US Justice System Is a Laughingstock
Donald Trump thinks our justice system is as joke. As he called for there to be swift action against terror suspects after Tuesday’s attack in New York City, he called our country’s justice system a “laughingstock” for the way it punishes terrorists. Trump—who put Jeff Sessions in place as the head of the entire U.S.…
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Paul Manafort: The Adviser to Sellouts for Russia
. One of the worst things you can call a black person is a sellout. The phrasing doesn’t require context; nor does the person hurling the insult need to explain his or her intent. It’s pretty basic: If you’re willing to throw your people under the bus in order to promote your selfish ambitions and…
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Trump’s Latest Tweets Are Dog Whistles to White Supremacists
The first time I heard the term “alt-right” was long before Donald Trump decided to trade in his career as a reality-show host in exchange for a chance to be president of the United States. In early 2014 I interviewed a white supremacist named Kyle Hunt, founder of the White Man’s March—a predecessor of what…
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Va. Governor’s Race: Conservatives Shed White Tears After Political Ad Calls Out Ed Gillespie’s Racist Ads
Racist campaign commercials are so pervasive that they hardly get heavy news coverage anymore. Everyone harks back to the classic Willie Horton ad from the 1988 presidential campaign, as if that were the last time a conservative politician’s racial demagoguery blatantly hit the airwaves for 30 seconds. You don’t have to go back 30 years…
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Some Republicans Say Donald Trump Might Not Seek Re-Election, and I Don’t Know if We Should Cry or Praise-Dance
In the past few days, two top Republican officials have insinuated that America might not get a sequel to this dumpster fire of a presidency that some news organizations refer to as “the Trump administration.” On Sunday night on MSNBC, the humanlike ball of poodle hair Kentuckians somehow elected to the Senate, Sen. Rand Paul…