As President Donald Trump’s remaining days in office dwindle, get ready to hear a whole lot about the presidential pardon power. And while you’re at it, prepare yourself ahead of time for the outrage you’re going to feel when you fully digest the kicker: Between now and noon on January …
Read More »Trump to America: 'Right Now You Have It Made. You Are So Lucky I'm Your President'
Subtly was never something Trump seemed to take interest in and during his Friday rally in Michigan, the president took his abrasive act to farcical levels while trying to paint a bleak picture of American society with Joe Biden in the White House. After first whining about the media not …
Read More »As Trump Demonizes Vote-by-Mail, His Campaign Is Urging People to Vote By Mail
Donald Trump has made no secret of his disgust with voting by mail. He’s blasted the practice as creating “tremendous potential for voter fraud,” claimed it would spark “a free for all on cheating, forgery and the theft of ballots” and insisted it would create “the most CORRUPT ELECTION in …
Read More »Broken Promises: How Trump Betrayed the Autoworkers of Youngstown, Ohio
I rode through your beautiful roads coming up from the airport. And I was looking at some of those big, once-incredible, job-producing factories, and Melania said, “What happened?” I said, “Those jobs have left Ohio . . . but they’re all coming back.” Don’t move. Don’t sell your house. — President Donald Trump, Youngstown, …
Read More »The Sedition of Donald Trump
Before Donald Trump got himself infected with the coronavirus, he had firmly secured his place as the worst president in American history. Now, after mocking Joe Biden at their first debate for mask wearing, Trump has proved to be a reckless superspreader, risking the lives of donors at a New …
Read More »Trump, a Self-Proclaimed Billionaire, Paid Only $750 in Federal Income Taxes in 2016 and 2017, Report Says
The New York Times has obtained tax-return data for President Trump that shows he paid no income taxes in 11 of the 18 years the paper examined. The bombshell report also revealed that Trump paid only $750 in federal income taxes in 2016, the year he won the presidency. And …
Read More »Listen: Trump Admits on Tape He Deliberately Downplayed Covid-19
President Trump deliberately downplayed the severity of the coronavirus despite knowing in early February that the virus was “deadly.” according to a new book from Bob Woodward. “I wanted to always play it down,” he told Woodward on March 19th, according to audio obtained by CNN. “I still like playing …
Read More »Judge Orders Michael Cohen Released From Prison, Says Return Was 'Retaliation'
A federal judge ordered Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen to be released to home confinement after finding that the government had sent him back to prison in retaliation for Cohen’s plan to write a book about the president. Cohen had been held in solitary confinement in a New York federal …
Read More »Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer on How to Lead Through a Crisis (or Three)
Gretchen Whitmer was in a great mood the evening of March 10th. Joe Biden, whom she’d endorsed, was in the middle of sweeping all 83 counties in Michigan’s primary. A relatively low-profile state legislator before she beat her Republican rival by 10 points to become governor of Michigan in 2018, …
Read More »Biden Visits Protest Site While Trump Endorses Violent Pushback
The difference between the two presidential candidates played out in stark contrast on Sunday. While Joe Biden was using social media to share a message of understanding, acknowledging the country’s pain, President Trump used the same medium to endorse a call for violence in response to the protests raging across …
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