US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited Nashville on Friday and was seemingly caught off guard by the tough questioning he received from WSMV News4 Nashville reporter Nancy Amons. After welcoming the Secretary of State to Nashville, Amons signaled to Pompeo that the interview would not be a cakewalk, saying, …
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President Donald Trump plans to visit El Paso, Texas on Wednesday at an event intended to honor the victims of this weekend’s mass shooting. But according to Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-Tex.), those victims don’t want the president there. During an interview on Tuesday night with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, Escobar said …
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A week ago, Rep. John Radcliffe (R-Texas) was a largely anonymous congressman serving on the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees. On Sunday night, President Trump announced he would be nominating him to oversee America’s intelligence community, a position for which Ratcliffe is woefully under-qualified. Why? Look no further than Ratcliffe’s …
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Only a handful of House Republicans commented on President Trump’s recent racist attacks against a group of congresswomen of color. On Tuesday, all 197 of them are going to have to weigh in. Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-NJ) has introduced a resolution to condemn Trump’s “racist comments toward Members of Congress,” …
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On Friday, former President Jimmy Carter said, “yes” when asked if he thinks that Donald Trump is an “illegitimate president.” During a panel on human rights at the Carter Center in Virginia, the former president criticized Trump on how he handled Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, saying, “The president …
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On Wednesday night, ABC released a clip of President Trump telling George Stephanopolous that he doesn’t feel he needs to contact the FBI if a foreign government offered him dirt on his 2020 opponent, and that he would be willing to court to any such offers. “If somebody called from …
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Kellyanne Conway should be fired for her repeated violations of federal law. That’s the recommendation of a new report to President Trump from the federal Office of Special Counsel that cites Conway’s disregard for the Hatch Act, which prohibits executive branch office holders from using their post to actively engage …
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Michael Wolff might be the most unreliable historian America has ever encountered, but at least he admits it. This is from the author’s note to Siege, the less-explosive sequel to his smash-hit “inside” account of the Trump presidency, Fire and Fury: Dealing with sources in the Trump White House has …
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On the Saturday before Memorial Day, American President Donald Trump, in one tweet, expressed “confidence” in the brutal dictator of North Korea and excused his recent aggressive behavior. At the same time, Trump ripped a lifelong public servant, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. Trump, in the original tweet, called Biden …
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Stephen Colbert poked fun at Donald Trump‘s attempts to lie his way past the natural passage of time on The Late Show Monday. With fellow septuagenarian Joe Biden entering the 2020 presidential race, a reporter recently asked Trump how old was too old to be president, prompting him to reply, …
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