While referring to New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a speech on Tuesday, President Trump flashed a distinctive hand gesture. Here’s a video, captured and shared on Twitter by Vox reporter Aaron Rupar. The gesture is traditionally the symbol for “OK,” but, mutated by a wildly successful 4chan hoax and …
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Twenty-eight years after tanks were last in Washington, D.C., they returned for President Donald Trump‘s ego parade, titled “A Salute to America.” Although, the tanks did not roll down the city’s streets as the president wanted. They instead flanked him as he gave a speech on the steps of the …
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On CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday, Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro went after President Donald Trump’s son for sharing and then deleting a racist tweet, calling Donald Trump Jr. a “coward.” Host Brianna Keilar asked Castro about a quote tweet …
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President Trump has long harped on the importance of the American automotive industry, but his policies haven’t always aligned with the interests of its biggest names. Last year, as Trump was in the midst of refashioning himself into a Tariff Man, Harley Davidson announced it was moving some of their …
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California is sinking. Literally. Right before our eyes, even as we struggle to see it. In parts of the state’s Central Valley, the 50-mile-wide and 400-mile-long agricultural engine of America immortalized by John Steinbeck and Joan Didion, the earth is receding back into itself at a rate of more than …
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On Wednesday morning, Robert Mueller spoke publicly for the first time since he was appointed to lead the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, and the relationship between the Trump campaign and the foreign adversary. Mueller took the opportunity to resign from the Justice Department, and also to …
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Another day, another Trump crony hitting the airwaves to confuse the electorate with falsehoods and/or out-and-out lies. On Sunday, it was Rep. Liz Cheney‘s (R-WY) turn to twist facts in defense of the president. Cheney, in an interview on ABC’s This Week, took a question from host Martha Raddatz about …
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From the depths of scandal, Michael Avenatti gave an interview to Vanity Fair. He cried four times and said: “Some would argue at this point that I flew too close to the sun. As I sit here today, yes, absolutely, I know I did. No question. Icarus.” Michael Avenatti isn’t …
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President Trump’s wheel of preoccupations spun back around to the border on Thursday, when he took to the White House Rose Garden to announce his administration’s new plan to overhaul federal immigration law. Trump called the proposal “a fair, modern and lawful system of immigration” that would be based primarily …
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The redacted version of the Mueller report released on Thursday was not flattering to President Trump. Though the special counsel determined that the “high standard” for criminal prosecution regarding conspiracy with Russia was not met, the report detailed a sophisticated, multi-pronged effort to attack the 2016 election in service of …
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