It’s apparently “intellectually casual Friday” at the White House, where President Trump, in a series of tweets, has delved deeper into the crazy to signal his support for protesters opposing state social-distancing orders aimed at stemming the spread of the coronavirus. At 11:21 Friday morning, our itchy president tweeted “Liberate …
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If you tuned into the Sunday news shows this morning for comfort that the government has the COVID-19 situation well in hand, you were sorely disappointed. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson admitted there is no plan for the passengers aboard the Grand Princess cruise ship plagued with the …
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It turns out Lucinda Williams was just getting started when the veteran singer-songwriter rolled out “Man Without a Soul,” the first missive from her upcoming album Good Souls Better Angels. That roiling, simmering track, the first new song she’d unveiled in four years, clearly took aim at the current White …
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President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, while also issuing a pardon to the notorious financier Michael Milken, the New York Times reports. Blagojevich earned his infamy back in 2008 when he was caught essentially trying to sell Barack Obama’s Senate seat after the latter …
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ABC News has reviewed a recording of what they say “appears” to be President Trump speaking about wanting former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch fired. On the tape, the voice that appears to be Trump can be heard saying of Yovanovitch, “Get rid of her! Get her out tomorrow. …
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Donald Trump was soundly defeated in the 2020 election and Joe Biden is president-elect. The weeks since the election have been a sickening roller coaster for our democracy. Despite losing by a landslide in both the popular vote and in the electoral college, Trump and his minions sought to undermine …
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Pete Buttigieg has returned to the scene of the crime, or at least the site of what some progressives see as his original sin. He is back at Stevens High School in Claremont, New Hampshire, on a desultory Saturday in January. The ancient gym walls were bathed in red, white, …
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House general counsel Douglas Letter on Monday told a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., that President Donald Trump is being investigated for lying to former special counsel Robert Mueller. Letter’s statement, first reported by CNN, came during arguments where Congress is seeking secret grand jury evidence from the Mueller …
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On Friday, Francis Rooney (R-Fla.) seemed to express openness when asked if he’d consider the impeachment of President Donald Trump. On Saturday, Rooney announced his retirement. During an interview on Friday, Rooney was pressed by CNN’s Poppy Harlow while discussing acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney’s Thursday admission …
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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin made a Sunday appearance on ABC’s This Week to talk about the developing situation in northern Syria. Host Jon Karl asked the secretary about reports of ISIS prisoners now set free, Kurdish citizens executed and thousands displaced because of what many say were caused by President …
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