Новости за 07.01.2020

Former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s willingness to testify before the Senate under a subpoena could be “good news for the Democrats and bad news for the president,” according to Fox News’ own Judge Andrew Napolitano. “If he does testify, he opens up the floodgates to a real trial, meaning, as Senator [Chuck] Schumer [D-N.Y.] […]

Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) told CNN’s Jim Sciutto on Tuesday that we shouldn’t get too worked up about President Donald Trump’s threat to commit war crimes because the military will simply disobey him if he gave them unlawful orders. During the interview, Sciutto asked Bacon if he believed it would be appropriate to attack Iran’s […]

In a piece for The Guardian this Tuesday, Michael Sainato points out that around 25% of the US population is delaying medical care because of the rising prices. He then told the story of 53-year-old Susan Finley, who lost her job at Walmart because she took one day off too many after she contracted pneumonia. With no […]

“This is Mike Pompeo backpedalling on what Donald Trump was originally saying”: France 24’s International Affairs Editor Philip Turle analyses Mike Pompeo’s remarks on US-Iran relations in a press conference earlier today. Watch:

“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin called out Meghan McCain for justifying Sen. Lindsey Graham’s shifting political ethics. The South Carolina Republican claimed in 1999 that witnesses must testify at the Senate impeachment trial for Bill Clinton, but he’s taking the opposite position for the pending trial of President Donald Trump. “It’s political,” McCain said. “He’s […]

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is unable to defend his and the Trump administration’s claim that the assassination of a top Iranian general was necessary due to an “imminent” threat of attack. Pompeo stumbled during a Tuesday morning press conference when asked by a reporter to be “specific” about what the threat was and […]

We continue our discussion of data harvesting, targeted advertising and voter manipulation — practices used by firms like Cambridge Analytica. The secretive data firm collapsed in May 2018 after The Observer newspaper revealed the company had harvested some 87 million Facebook profiles without the users’ knowledge or consent to sway voters to support Trump during […]

President Donald Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner apparently had a meeting on Monday with Saudi Arabia’s vice minister of defense even though the White House never made any announcement of the meeting. Writing on Twitter, Saudi defense official Khalid bin Salman revealed that he met with Trump and Kushner “to deliver a message from the […]

New details are emerging about how the shadowy data firm Cambridge Analytica worked to manipulate voters across the globe, from the 2016 election in the United States to the Brexit campaign in Britain and elections in over 60 other countries, including Malaysia, Kenya and Brazil. A new trove of internal Cambridge Analytica documents and emails […]

During a press conference with reporters this Tuesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo answered numerous questions from reporters regarding the recent targeted killing of an Iranian general, as well as the contradictory messages coming from the White House regarding President Trump’s comments where he threatened to attack Iran’s “cultural sites.” As the press conference wrapped […]

The millions who turned out across Iran to mourn General Qasem Suleimani have testified to the apparent across-the-board popularity of a figure hailed as a “living martyr” for the Islamic republic. Rising above divisions in Iran, funeral processions for the Revolutionary Guard commander assassinated in a US drone strike last week in Baghdad drew massive […]

On Tuesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a press conference, taking questions from reporters about everything from the intelligence that prompted the Qassim Suleimani strike to his decision not to run for Senate. As he spoke, commenters on social media refused to buy his answers, sharply criticizing him: A reporter just asked Pompeo if […]

Although former National Security Adviser John Bolton did not testify during House Democrats’ recent impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, he said in an official statement on Monday that he is “prepared to testify” during Trump’s Senate trial if subpoenaed. But Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, in response, is saying that he will not vote […]

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarty (R-CA) on Tuesday suggested that President Donald Trump would not have ordered a drone strike on a top Iranian general if House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) had not pursued impeachment. During an appearance on Fox & Friends, host Pete Hegseth noted that Democrats have accused the president of […]

At his press conference on Tuesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave a testy answer to a reporter who had questioned President Donald Trump’s threat to target Iranian cultural sites — a blatant war crime — and the contradictions from administration officials denying he would do any such thing. MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell noted that Defense […]

Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley is under fire for attacking Democrats with lies in an attempt to defend President Donald Trump – a strategy some say she is employing to get Trump to see her as a replacement for Vice President Mike Pence on the 2020 ticket. Monday night Haley went on Fox News to deliver […]

President Donald Trump’s decision to assassinate Iranian general Qassim Suleimani reportedly came after his own administration had determined that his “maximum pressure” campaign of economic sanctions against the country had failed to curtail the country’s military operations. The Daily Beast reports that the Trump White House “hoped it could gain enough leverage with sanctions to […]

Federal prosecutors are prepared to release some of the evidence seized by FBI agents during the investigation of Roger Stone. A group of media outlets had sued for the release of materials placed under seal after investigators executed search and seizure warrants as part of the Russia probe, and prosecutors told a judge Monday they’re […]

A letter sent to Brigadier Gen. William Seely III this Monday had an earth-shaking announcement: The US was planning to withdraw all troops from Iraq — just two days after the Iraqi Parliament had unanimously passed a non-binding resolution calling for U.S. troops to leave in the wake of the targeted killing of a top-level Iranian general […]

Niccolò Machiavelli wrote in 1517 that it’s “a very wise thing to simulate madness.” In other words, behaving like an unpredictable, bug-eyed maniac might scare enemies enough to force them to back down. Whether intentional or a simulation, plenty of despots and strongmen since then have engaged in this “madman theory,” too often with terrifying […]

On Fox News Tuesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), usually a staunch ally of President Donald Trump, harshly criticized the strike that killed Iranian military leader Qassim Suleimani, warning that it will endanger American national security and bring the United States closer to war with Iran. “If you’re asking yourself, will there be attacks on America, […]

President Donald Trump enters 2020 as the most unpopular president to seek reelection since former President Gerald Ford. According to a new analysis of opinion polls by FiveThirtyEight elections analyst Nathaniel Rakich, Trump enters 2020 with an approval rating of just 42.6 percent, which is the lowest approval rating for an incumbent entering an election […]

On Tuesday, The Daily Beast reported that a staffer at the Department of Defense initially told lawmakers on the House Armed Services Committee that the letter regarding a U.S. exit from Iraq was “active disinformation” that had almost certainly been faked. The letter, which had been sent to the Iraqi defense ministry by Marine two-star […]

An Indian court Tuesday ordered the execution on January 22 of four men convicted of the infamous 2012 gang rape and murder of a Delhi university student. Six people were originally charged with taking part in the brutal attack aboard a city bus, but one was released after a brief detention as a juvenile, while […]

U.S. forces throughout the Middle East have been placed on high alert for possible drone strikes from Iran — which has recently begun moving its own military equipment. Tensions have escalated between the two countries after President Donald Trump ordered an airstrike that killed Iranian general Qassim Suleimani, and troops and air-defense missile batteries have […]