Lock him up! Special Counsel Robert Mueller is recommending that President Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, face prison time for lying about his interactions with then-Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak at the tail end of the Obama administration. Flynn has already pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about …
Read More »New Mueller Documents Are Coming, and Trump Is Already Panicking
President Trump awoke Friday morning once again displeased with the state of Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation into his campaign’s relationship with Russia. In what may have been his most full-throated condemnation of the probe and those involved yet, the president structured his early-morning tirade around the absurd question of whether …
Read More »Jamil Smith: Family Separation Never Really Ended
There are many Bryan Stevenson quotes to live by, but there is one that I keep at my desk. The civil rights attorney who founded the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, published a book in 2014 called Just Mercy. In the introduction, Stevenson notes that his work with the …
Read More »Jerome Corsi Doesn't Understand Why Mueller Isn't Accepting His 'Divine Intervention' Defense
Jerome Corsi thinks he’s taking the high road. The conspiracy theorist staring down a perjury indictment said on Monday that he’drather “sit in prison and rot” than take the plea deal offered to him by Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his “thugs.” Mueller’s office reportedly has proof that Corsi lied …
Read More »Trump Pushes Out Jeff Sessions as Attorney General, Jeopardizing Mueller Investigation
WASHINGTON — Less than 24 hours after Democrats regained control of the House of Representatives, Attorney General Jeff Sessions became the first casualty of President Trump’s post-election cabinet purge.Sessions announced his decision to quiton Wednesday. “At your request, I am submitting my resignation,” he wrote. Trump said in a tweet …
Read More »Kanye West Just Delivered the Craziest Oval Office Performance of All Time
Kanye West visited President Trump in the Oval Office on Thursday. It was something. Sitting across the Resolute Desk from Trump and surrounded by a gaggle of reporters, the rapper and self-proclaimed “Free Thinker” delivered a 10-minute soliloquy about a perplexing array of issues. He pitched the president on a …
Read More »Donald Trump Praises Kanye West Again: 'He Is Willing to Tell the Truth'
Donald Trump praised Kanye West again on Twitter after the rapper reiterated his support for the president during his interview Thursday on Jimmy Kimmel Live. “Thank you to Kanye West and the fact that he is willing to tell the TRUTH,” Trump tweeted Friday afternoon. “One new and great FACT …
Read More »Watch Trump-Inspired 'Schoolhouse Rock!' on 'Colbert'
Following President Trump‘s attempt to clarify remarks from his controversial press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin by using the now-infamous “double negative” excuse, The Late Show With Stephen Colbert revived animated educational show Schoolhouse Rock! to offer a true definition of that grammatical concept. “Double negative, what’s your function?/ …
Read More »Trump Says the U.S. Will Now Detain Migrant Families Together
After maintaining that immigrant family separation was the result of a Democratic law that could only be changed through congressional action, President Trump abruptly reversed course Wednesday by signing an executive order aimed at keeping families together as they are detained at the U.S.-Mexican border. “We’re going to have strong, …
Read More »George and Simona Papadopoulos: Life After a Russia Investigation Guilty Plea
Over a recent lunch in Chicago, George Papadopoulos searches for words strong enough to describe the importance of his wife, Simona Mangiante Papadopoulos. “She really has saved my life,” says George, the Trump campaign foreign-policy adviser who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI last year. “After the arrest – …
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