Joe Biden is slamming Trump for a deadly “dereliction of duty,” following the release of taped conversations between the president and the journalist Bob Woodward in which Trump revealed he knew, in early February, that the coronavirus was airborne and much deadlier than the flu, and confessed on March 19th …
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Fox News is having a hard time covering the president’s ass following The Atlantic’s reporting that claims Trump harshly disparaged the military — mostly because their own reporter has confirmed much of what the report said. On Saturday morning, following a late Friday night tweet from the president calling on …
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WASHINGTON — Louis DeJoy, the logistics expert and Republican mega-donor who now serves as the Postmaster General, made his debut appearance before Congress on Friday. Senate Democrats grilled DeJoy on the recent delays in mail delivery and DeJoy’s plans to overhaul the Postal Service’s operations. While most Senate Republicans came …
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We have a tradition of addressing politicians by their honorifics after they have left office, and it has always made me a bit uneasy. Walking up to former officials and saying “Mr. Mayor” or “Congresswoman” or “Mr. President,” when they are now everyday citizens again, confers a certain unintended royalty …
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In 2019, White House aides reached out to the governor of South Dakota and asked about the process of adding additional presidents to Mount Rushmore, a Republican official familiar with the conversation told the New York Times. So, when the president arrived last month for his July fourth festivities, the …
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House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) did not shy away from previous comments he’d made while comparing President Trump to some of the most brutal totalitarian rulers the world has ever seen. During an appearance on CNN Sunday morning, host Dana Bash asked the congressman about a Friday interview with …
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Jeff Sessions represented white people in Alabama in the U.S. Senate for 20 years, from 1997 to 2017. But after a brief, controversial stint as U.S. attorney general, the 73-year-old found himself on the wrong side of President Trump, and on Tuesday he couldn’t even manage to win his party’s …
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It was two days before Donald Trump’s arrival, and in the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa some ground rules were being laid down. America, incredibly, was just waking up to the fact that a century ago Greenwood included Black Wall Street, the most prosperous black neighborhood in the entire country. Then, …
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Spike Lee appeared on The Daily Show Thursday night to discuss his new film Da 5 Bloods, a historical Vietnam War drama that’s streaming now on Netflix. Following the journey of four African-American veterans as they travel back to Vietnam to search for what their former squad leader left behind, the film …
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Instead of quelling some of the outrage expressed by demonstrators near the White House who were protesting the killing of George Floyd, President Trump instead went on a derisive and threatening rant that might only stoke further violence. On Saturday morning, Trump took to Twitter and praised the Secret Service …
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