Новости за 03.02.2020

President Donald Trump attacked the impeachment process as closing statements began in his Senate trial. The president apparently watched the start of closing statements by House managers, who argued that evidence showed Trump should be impeached, and complained the constitutional process was unfair. “I hope Republicans & the American people realize that the totally partisan […]

A company based in Hawaii has taken a mysterious interest in Maine politics. The Daily Beast reports that a company that was founded this past November called the Society of Young Women Scientist and Engineers LLC has funneled $150,000 to the 1820 PAC, a super PAC that is helping Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) battle through […]

If Trump were to wake up tomorrow and try to pressure another foreign government to investigate, say, Bernie Sanders, what would the consequences be? Thanks to Senate Republicans, there would be no consequences, according to political scientist and Washington Post columnist Brian Klaas. “From the start, it was obvious that Senate Republicans would not risk […]

The Philadelphia police announced on Monday that charges of physical assault against Philadelphia Flyers mascot Gritty will not be pursued. Gritty was accused of punching a 13-year-old boy during a photo shoot at the team’s arena last fall.“We are pleased that the Philadelphia Police Department concluded there was no merit to the alleged claim. The […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Chiefs fought for Kansas City’s right to party, and last night, the city did just that.In a stunning comeback, the Chiefs triumphed over the San Francisco 49ers, 31-20, to win Super Bowl LIV — the team’s first victory in the big game in 50 years.As the clock hit zero, cheers […]

The Iowa caucus is the first test for US Democratic presidential candidates. The results are hard to predict for two reasons: voters’ indecision, and a caucus system that means they may have to go with their second choice. The Midwestern state of Iowa is home to some 3 million people, yet it has outsized importance […]

The hype surrounding the Jan. 20 Second Amendment rally in Richmond, Va. built it up as the potential spark for a second Civil War, with scary “antifas” preparing to bus in and attack “patriots,” and boogaloo-obsessed white supremacists looking for an opportunity to set off a race war. Instead, a quiet dialogue between militia leaders […]

Rep. Val Demmings argued that impeachment evidence would have been enough to convict President Donald Trump of extortion in a court of law. The Florida Democrat leveled the accusation during her portion of the House managers’ closing argument in the Senate impeachment trial, where Republicans are poised to acquit the president despite evidence of a […]

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) offered a new excuse for his apparently certain vote to acquit President Donald Trump in the impeachment trial. The Florida Republican has already said he would not vote to remove the president because he feared it would “inflict extraordinary and potentially irreparable damage to our already divided nation,” and Rubio trotted […]

Good old Lamar! That would be Sen. Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee — known for that exclamation point after his name, his plaid shirts and his quixotic presidential campaigns. Well, Lamar! threw his reputation and legacy into the fetid compost heap of Donald Trump’s presidency last Friday. Alexander is retiring after this term, so I […]

A man who voted for President Donald Trump in 2016 now says he would never back the president a second time after his own wife got deported to Mexico. In an interview with The Nation, Georgia resident Jason Rochester said that he voted for Trump in 2016 thinking that he’d only deport undocumented immigrants who […]

When President Obama mistakenly said he had visited “57 states,” Republicans wouldn’t let him hear the end of it. As recently as 2018, President Trump brought it up, complaining that the flub had “very little mention in Fake News Media.” “Can you imagine if I said that?” Trump asked. As Aaron Blake points out in […]

Chris Matthews was roundly derided by progressives Monday morning after the MSNBC host delivered a two-minute diatribe against 2020 Democratic presidential primary frontrunner Sen. Bernie Sanders, claiming that the Vermont senator would lose to President Donald Trump in a general election matchup. “The Bernie surge has Chris Matthews on the verge of tears,” tweeted Sanders supporter Samuel […]

Right Wing Watch has published a blockbuster expose of a white nationalist who managed to score a gig at the Leadership Institute, a right-wing organization whose alumni include Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Vice President Mike Pence, and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH). The white nationalist in question, reports Right Wing Watch, is a man […]

The failure to call witnesses in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial revealed the moral corruption that defines the present-day Republican Party, according to conservative Max Boot. The former Republican said in a new Washington Post column that he could never rejoin the party he left after Trump’s election, and the impeachment debacle gave him another […]

President Donald Trump is being roundly mocked for his now-deleted tweet praising the wrong Kansas City for winning the Super Bowl. But Matt Schlapp — the pro-Trump lobbyist who heads the American Conservative Union and the annual Conservative Political Action Conference — took to Twitter to point out that all the “East Coast establishment” folks […]

President Donald Trump is being roundly mocked for his now-deleted tweet praising the wrong Kansas City for winning the Super Bowl. But Matt Schlapp — the pro-Trump lobbyist who heads the American Conservative Union and the annual Conservative Political Action Conference — took to Twitter to point out that all the “East Coast establishment” folks […]

Progressive critics and members of the informed public said President Donald Trump doesn’t know what he’s talking about when it comes to political labels after he accused 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders of being a “communist” on Sunday night. “I think he’s a communist. I mean, you know, look, I think of communism […]

After voting to exclude witnesses and new evidence in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump, the Senate will begin again on Monday as Democrats and Republicans enter the closing argument phase of the trial As USA Today reports, “House impeachment managers and President Donald Trump’s legal team will make their closing arguments Monday as senators […]

In a column for Bloomberg, political analyst Jonathan Bernstein stated there are other options for Senate Republicans to rein in Donald Trump short of impeachment, but they will likely do nothing and the president will be even more uncontrollable going forward. With the GOP-controlled Senate likely to acquit the president this week along party lines, […]

The Trump administration is blocking documents that contain emails regarding President Trump’s infamous phone call with Ukraine’s president where the decision was made to withhold military aid to the country. If Trump is as innocent as he he claims, why block the emails? That’s a question EJ Montini asked in a op-ed for AZ Central […]

“Fox & Friends” Monday morning defended President Donald Trump’s false claim that the Kansas City Chiefs were from the state of Kansas. The NFL team who won Sunday night’s Super Bowl are from the state of Missouri. Trump quickly deleted a tweet Sunday night praising the team for “a great game, and a fantastic comeback.” […]

There was a time when President Donald Trump actually delighted in the prospect of working with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) — possibly because he believed she wouldn’t be a threat to him. In late 2018, when Pelosi faced an internecine challenge to retaking the gavel, Trump told reporters Democrats should stop fighting and pick […]

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has warned about the dangers of not rallying around whoever wins the Democratic Party nomination for the presidency. In an interview with Time, the New York congresswoman discouraged anyone from staying home this November if their favorite candidate for the Democratic nomination doesn’t come out on top in the primary. “Bernie […]

No matter what else happened at the halftime show for Super Bowl LIV, that wagging tongue was destined to get everyone talking. Said appendage belongs to pop star Shakira, thus ensuring it immediately went viral for the right and wrong reasons, depending on one’s willingness to get what they were seeing. But the diva left […]