Tag: Donald Trump

Ex-Giuliani Associate Reveals When Trump Set Sights on Hunter Biden

Parnas, who had been tasked with helping Giuliani connect with Ukrainian officials in his effort to “find dirt on the Bidens” ahead of the 2020 election, has been unearthing the inner workings of his former associates since the scheme blew up. On Tuesday, Parnas revealed that Giuliani had basically insisted on bribes while meeting with […]

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Ex-Giuliani Associate: Trump Attacked Hunter Even Earlier Than We Knew

Parnas, who had been tasked with helping Giuliani connect with Ukrainian officials in his effort to “find dirt on the Bidens” ahead of the 2020 election, has been unearthing the inner workings of his former associates since the scheme blew up. On Tuesday, Parnas revealed that Giuliani had basically insisted on bribes while meeting with […]

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Giuliani Makes Hilarious Attempt to Defend Against Arizona Indictment

All in all, the indictment charges 18 individuals, some of whose names have been redacted, with orchestrating a scheme to use fake electors to flip Arizona’s 2020 election results over to Trump. It also names Trump as an unindicted co-conspirator. All of the indicted individuals are facing the same slew of charges, which includes counts […]

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Giuliani: Why’d Arizona Indict Me? I Did Far Worse Elsewhere

All in all, the indictment charges 18 individuals, some of whose names have been redacted, with orchestrating a scheme to use fake electors to flip Arizona’s 2020 election results over to Trump. It also names Trump as an unindicted co-conspirator. All of the indicted individuals are facing the same slew of charges, which includes counts […]

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Samuel Alito’s Resentment Goes Full Tilt on a Black Day for the Court

He also cites “record levels of depression and mental illness, dispirited young people, soaring suicide rates, increasing numbers of angry and alienated young males, an increase in senseless violence, and a deadly drug epidemic.” Again, all true. But the society for which he pines didn’t even measure many of these things and locked mentally ill […]

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Sam Alito Thinks We’re All Stupid

ADF is not hiding its strategy. Alito, on the other hand, keeps to the stealthy shadows, attempting to advance arguments that promote fetal personhood while simultaneously insisting that this unprecedented expansion of personhood rights won’t come at the expense of women’s lives and autonomy. It’s a deception of the highest order and onlookers might be […]

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Inside the Nasty Shadow War Between The New York Times and Team Biden

An excellent new Politico report by Eli Stokols has exposed deep tensions between The New York Times and the White House. President Biden’s team believes The Times isn’t adequately capturing the threat Donald Trump poses to democracy, while The Times responds that Team Biden is out to micromanage the paper of record’s coverage. We think […]

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Why Team Biden Is So Angry at The New York Times’s Coverage Of Trump

An excellent new Politico report by Eli Stokols has exposed deep tensions between The New York Times and the White House. President Biden’s team believes The Times isn’t adequately capturing the threat Donald Trump poses to democracy, while The Times responds that Team Biden is out to micromanage the paper of record’s coverage. We think […]

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Why Team Biden Is So Angry at The New York Times’ Coverage of Trump

An excellent new Politico report by Eli Stokols has exposed deep tensions between The New York Times and the White House. President Biden’s team believes the Times isn’t adequately capturing the threat Donald Trump poses to democracy, while the Times responds that Team Biden is out to micromanage the paper of record’s coverage. We think […]

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Even More People Were in on Trump’s Hush-Money Scheme Than We Knew

All in all, the indictment charges 18 individuals, some of whose names have been redacted, with orchestrating a scheme to use fake electors to flip Arizona’s 2020 election results over to Trump. It also names Trump as an unindicted co-conspirator. All of the indicted individuals are facing the same slew of charges, which includes counts […]

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Key Hush-Money Trial Witness Throws Trump Under Bus As Hard as He Can

All in all, the indictment charges 18 individuals, some of whose names have been redacted, with orchestrating a scheme to use fake electors to flip Arizona’s 2020 election results over to Trump. It also names Trump as an unindicted co-conspirator. All of the indicted individuals are facing the same slew of charges, which includes counts […]

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Key Witness Says Trump Knew About Every Single Hush Money Payment

All in all, the indictment charges 18 individuals, some of whose names have been redacted, with orchestrating a scheme to use fake electors to flip Arizona’s 2020 election results over to Trump. It also names Trump as an unindicted co-conspirator. All of the indicted individuals are facing the same slew of charges, which includes counts […]

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13 Ignorant Donald Trump Quotes That Prove He’s the Villain, Not the Victim

Photo: Shay Horse (Getty Images) On August 11, 2017, Neo Nazis, the Alt-Right, and white supremacists came together for the “Unite The Right” rally as they marched through the University of Virginia campus with torches in Charlottesville, Va. James Fields rammed his car into a crowd of anti-racist protesters, killing Heather Heyer and injuring several […]

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The Supreme Court Might Put Trump Above the Law

But he also expressed concern about malicious prosecutions. “You know how easy it is in many cases for a prosecutor to get an indictment,” Roberts remarked to Dreeben, tacitly accepting Trump’s assertion that baseless prosecutions would inevitably occur without immunity. And at one point he seemed to assume that some form of presidential immunity existed […]

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Key Hush-Money Trial Witness Admits He Broke Law to Help Trump

All in all, the indictment charges 18 individuals, some of whose names have been redacted, with orchestrating a scheme to use fake electors to flip Arizona’s 2020 election results over to Trump. It also names Trump as an unindicted co-conspirator. All of the indicted individuals are facing the same slew of charges, which includes counts […]

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Trump’s Bad Day in Court Gets Even Worse with E. Jean Carroll Loss

All in all, the indictment charges 18 individuals, some of whose names have been redacted, with orchestrating a scheme to use fake electors to flip Arizona’s 2020 election results over to Trump. It also names Trump as an unindicted co-conspirator. All of the indicted individuals are facing the same slew of charges, which includes counts […]

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From ‘Yeezus’ to ‘Yeezy Porn’: Kanye West’s New Venture Is Far From Holy, But How Did He Get Here?

In case you’ve been living under a rock and missed the latest Kanye West development, the controversial rapper recently announced his plans to open up his own porn website and studio soon. Kanye West Needs To Stop Bullying Black Women Off English The shocking news, as previously covered by The Root, was apparently a long […]

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Can Anything Stop Rudy Giuliani from Pushing Election Fraud Lie?

All in all, the indictment charges 18 individuals, some of whose names have been redacted, with orchestrating a scheme to use fake electors to flip Arizona’s 2020 election results over to Trump. It also names Trump as an unindicted co-conspirator. All of the indicted individuals are facing the same slew of charges, which includes counts […]

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Not Even an Indictment Can Shut Rudy Giuliani Up

All in all, the indictment charges 18 individuals, some of whose names have been redacted, with orchestrating a scheme to use fake electors to flip Arizona’s 2020 election results over to Trump. It also names Trump as an unindicted co-conspirator. All of the indicted individuals are facing the same slew of charges, which includes counts […]

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The Jaw-Dropping Things Trump Lawyer Says Should Qualify for Immunity

Idaho already has a near-total abortion ban, but the Alliance Defending Freedom, the far-right Christian legal advocacy group arguing the lawsuit on behalf of the state, is utilizing the case to advance the idea of fetal personhood. This stipulation would effectively require doctors to treat fetuses—no matter how underdeveloped—with the same medical care as the […]

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Trump Lawyer Makes Disturbing Immunity Claim Before Supreme Court

Idaho already has a near-total abortion ban, but the Alliance Defending Freedom, the far-right Christian legal advocacy group arguing the lawsuit on behalf of the state, is utilizing the case to advance the idea of fetal personhood. This stipulation would effectively require doctors to treat fetuses—no matter how underdeveloped—with the same medical care as the […]

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Stephen A. Smith Calls Himself Apologizing To Black Folks For His Trump Comment but Made Things Worse

  Stephen A. Smith just gave a master class on how to make a situation worse with an “apology.” My Hip-Hop Story: Michael Jai White Prefers What The Genre Used To Stand For Off English Last week, the “First Take” analyst appeared on conservative firebrand Sean Hannity’s Fox News show and defended Donald Trump’s absurd […]

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Hold Up…Did Stephen A. Smith Actually Apologize to Black Folks or Nah?

  Stephen A. Smith just gave a master class on how to make a situation worse with an “apology.” Stephen A. Smith Waited Until His Mother’s Passing To Write His New Memoir Off English Last week, the “First Take” analyst appeared on conservative firebrand Sean Hannity’s Fox News show and defended Donald Trump’s absurd claim […]

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Bill Barr Might Be Wishing He Hadn’t Endorsed Trump After All

Idaho already has a near-total abortion ban, but the Alliance Defending Freedom, the far-right Christian legal advocacy group arguing the lawsuit on behalf of the state, is utilizing the case to advance the idea of fetal personhood. This stipulation would effectively require doctors to treat fetuses—no matter how underdeveloped—with the same medical care as the […]

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Trump Brutally Mocks Latest “Gutless” Republican to Endorse Him

Idaho already has a near-total abortion ban, but the Alliance Defending Freedom, the far-right Christian legal advocacy group arguing the lawsuit on behalf of the state, is utilizing the case to advance the idea of fetal personhood. This stipulation would effectively require doctors to treat fetuses—no matter how underdeveloped—with the same medical care as the […]

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Alina Habba Proves Once Again She May Be Trump’s Most Idiotic Lawyer

Idaho already has a near-total abortion ban, but the Alliance Defending Freedom, the far-right Christian legal advocacy group arguing the lawsuit on behalf of the state, is utilizing the case to advance the idea of fetal personhood. This stipulation would effectively require doctors to treat fetuses—no matter how underdeveloped—with the same medical care as the […]

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Why Would Alina Habba Admit This About Trump’s Hush-Money Case?

Idaho already has a near-total abortion ban, but the Alliance Defending Freedom, the far-right Christian legal advocacy group arguing the lawsuit on behalf of the state, is utilizing the case to advance the idea of fetal personhood. This stipulation would effectively require doctors to treat fetuses—no matter how underdeveloped—with the same medical care as the […]

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25 Great Pop Culture Stories You Won’t See Anywhere Else

Oh pop culture: our shining light in bleak times, the butter to our daily bread, the ultimate distraction as the world literally burns all around us. Because of this central role in the fabric of our rapidly collapsing society, it’s covered by just about everyon and, naturally, this makes most of it shitty, regurgitated, celebrity […]

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Biden Just Saved the 40-Hour Work Week

The value of a 40-hour week had been recognized as far back as 1869, when President Ulysses S. Grant (another Republican!) mandated an eight-hour workday for all federal employees. Henry Ford, in 1926, having discovered that you got more work out of somebody when you treated him like a human being, gave factory workers two […]

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How Paul Manafort Turned Trump Against Ukraine

He was also, as federal investigators later discovered, one of Manafort’s closest associates during the 2016 campaign—one who Manafort not only passed internal campaign documents to, but one with whom Manafort went to incredible lengths to conceal conversations. As that aforementioned GOP-led report detailed, Manafort and Kilimnik used “sophisticated communications security practices,” including “encryption, burner […]

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MAGA Rage at Mike Johnson Suddenly Takes a Dark and Dangerous Turn

Now that the House has passed military aid to Ukraine, MAGA personalities like Donald Trump Jr. and Tucker Carlson have joined Marjorie Taylor Greene in attacking House Speaker Mike Johnson as a traitor to the cause. Yet this isn’t just typical right wing ranting. It reveals very specific expectations of what Donald Trump would do […]

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