Like a bad, politically-themed episode of VH1’s Where Are They Now?former special prosecutor Ken Starr is back on Fox News talking about impeachment. But this time, he’s against it? “For the sake of the country, fulminate, but don’t go forward with impeachment. It’s so bad for the country,” he told …
Read More »Trump Really Wasn't Happy That Fox News Hosted a Bernie Sanders Town Hall
On Monday night, Fox News hosted a town hall with Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. It may not have gone the way the network was expecting. Sanders was generally well received by the studio audience, which even cheered when host Bret Baier asked them if they supported Medicare-for-All, the all-inclusive …
Read More »Why Republicans Need to Be More Than 'Concerned' Over Trump's New Border Strategy
President Donald Trump is frustrated that migrants continue to exist. He’s taking it out on his own administration. On Sunday, the president jettisoned Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, who has been carrying out his historically aggressive approach to the border, because she refused to break the law. A few days …
Read More »Pro-Trump PAC Trolls Biden With Clinton's Anti-Trump Ad
Though Joe Biden is polling well against the still-growing field of Democratic primary contenders, a storm is brewing over the former vice president’s potential 2020 candidacy. Last week, former Nevada state assemblywoman Lucy Flores recalled in a piece for New York magazine an incident in which the infamously handsy Biden …
Read More »Actually, Trump Now Says, Mueller Acted Honorably
Special Counsel Robert Mueller‘s investigation into the Trump campaign’s relationship with Russia is over. The president is pleased. “No collusion, No Obstruction, Complete and Total EXONERATION,” Trump wrote after Attorney General William Barr’s summary of Mueller’s findings went public on Sunday afternoon. “KEEP AMERICA GREAT!” So enthused was Trump with …
Read More »Will Michael Cohen Deliver the Goods on Trump?
Do you believe Michael Cohen? Several outlets reported on Tuesday that Trump’s former lawyer and fixer is prepared to offer damning testimony concerning his former boss, including that he engaged in criminal conduct while in office. The revelations will come Wednesday, when Cohen is scheduled to testify publicly before the …
Read More »It's Official: Trump Will Declare a National Emergency to Build the Stupid Wall
It was probably inevitable. After nearly two months of negotiations that were never not doomed, President Trump is set to declare a national emergency so that he can build a southern border wall without congressional approval. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) relayed the news Thursday afternoon, telling colleagues on …
Read More »Roger Stone's D.C. Arraignment Was an Online Comments Section Brought to Life
WASHINGTON —Inside the Washington, D.C., federal courthouse Tuesday morning, the scene was somber and official. Roger Stone, the onetime adviser to President Donald Trump and master of the dark arts of politics dating back to Watergate, sat at the defense’s table inside Courtroom 3. Stone had come to D.C. for …
Read More »Can Nancy Pelosi Really Stop Trump From Delivering the State of the Union?
President Trump isn’t ready to let Nancy Pelosi prevent from delivering the State of the Union address at the Capitol next week. On Wednesday morning, the president sent a letter to the House speaker clarifying his intention to address the nation as planned. “I look forward to seeing you on …
Read More »Six Historians on Why Trump's Border Wall Won't Work
President Trump’s promise to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border was a defining and divisive talking point throughout the 2016 campaign, rallying his conservative base enough to help win him the election. In trying to fulfill one of his most popular campaign promises, President Trump has halted the U.S. …
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