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In an op-ed for The Atlantic today, Ronald Brownstein writes that when it comes to President Trump’s so-far effective messaging on the economy, Democrats should highlight his lies about healthcare if they want to tip the presidential election in their favor this fall. During his State of the Union speech this Tuesday night, Trump bragged […]

Amid the ripping paper and misbegotten medals, Trump’s State of the Union address promised nationalism with a distinctly Christian bent. Trump wants to steal $5 billion from public schools (which he decried as “failing government schools”) to give to private, i.e., Christian, schools. Trump wants to roll back reproductive rights and ban abortion. But more […]

“From where I come, when you get 6,000 more votes that’s generally regarded to be the winner.” Touting his 6,000-vote lead over Pete Buttigieg with 97% of Iowa Democratic caucus precincts reporting, Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday declared victory in the first-in-the-nation presidential contest and slammed the state Democratic Party’s handling of the process as […]

Conservative Washington Post columnist Max Boot looked at the principled speech Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) made this week and contrasted it with the pathetic undoing of his colleague Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL). Writing Thursday, Boot explained that the history of the collapse of the Republican Party can be perfectly captured in the way both senators […]

Can we rebuild the United States after President Trump is gone? And how would we do it? It’s a good question, and it’s looking more important as new evidence of his criminality emerges on what feels like a near-daily basis. You would be forgiven if watching the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump last week […]

During a segment on CNN this Thursday, the panel discussed President Trump’s earlier “unscripted, vindictive, at times profane, angry, rambling response to his impeachment acquittal.” During the conversation, host Brianna Keilar turned to CNN reporter John Harwood and asked his thoughts on Trump’s speech. “Look, this was a very disturbing tableau for the country,” Harwood […]

A group of psychiatrists urged Congress in a letter Wednesday to invalidate President Donald Trump’s acquittal in the Senate until his mental competency to stand trial is evaluated.The letter was sent by the World Mental Health Coalition, a group of psychiatrists who hosted a panel on Trump’s mental health at Yale last year and produced the […]

Some may be surprised to learn that Wendsler Nosie Sr., former chairman of the San Carlos Apaches and a non-Christian, was at the center of an event that may someday be seen as a quiet turning point in the history of the struggle against the Christian Right. The Battle for the Bible: Christian Nationalism and […]

The day after his acquittal in the Senate, President Trump went on TV and lashed out at his political enemies on live TV in a speech that CNN’s Brianna Keilar described as “unscripted, vindictive, at times profane, angry, rambling response to his impeachment acquittal.” Keiler turned to CNN contributor Gloria Borger and asked her thoughts […]

President Donald Trump on Thursday held an hour-long address to the American people in which he attacked his political opponents and shouted expletives while Republican lawmakers cheered him on. The president’s angry tirade included attacks on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), and also featured some bizarre […]

President Donald Trump released an attack ad video on Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) after he spoke out that he took an oath before God and intended to keep it. He was the only one. What followed was a kind of political crucifixion by Republicans and Fox News. Instead of celebrating the president’s State of the […]

President Donald Trump spoke for nearly an hour about a rambling set of issues like baseball and wrestling. He turned to attack his foes, blast Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) and apologized to the state of Utah on behalf of Romney. He even began throwing out curse words. But the only apology he issued was to […]

Tom Perez, the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, has called on the Iowa Democratic Party to perform a recanvass of the results. The New York Times Thursday reported the results were “riddled with inconsistencies and other flaws,” but assured the “mistakes do not appear intentional.” Enough is enough. In light of the problems that […]

President Donald Trump claimed “total acquittal” in his impeachment trial, saying the phrase was the most beautiful word he’d ever heard. The president gloated about skating past impeachment and removal in the Republican-dominated Senate, and claimed that his impeachment trial ended with an exoneration. “They brought me to the final stages of impeachment,” Trump told […]

CNN commentator Rick Santorum doesn’t always agree with President Donald Trump when he’s on television, but he was caught in the celebration audience for the president’s post-impeachment event. It wasn’t in the press area. For many employees of news stations or newspapers, even donating to a candidate is unacceptable, but Santorum pretends to stand in […]

In a post-acquittal speech Thursday, Trump went off on a rant about several things, including calling the impeachment “evil, corrupt, witch hunt, leakers, liars, disgrace, disaster, dirty cops, bad people.” Then he proclaimed it was all bullsh*t, to uncomfortable laughter from the crowd. Trump went on to claim that if former FBI Director James Comey […]

Trump has overlearned one life lesson: Impulse trumps deliberation. There have been gaps in its success but overall, it has worked beautifully. His impulsivity now reliably outwits any wit. He just learned that lesson again with his impeachment acquittal, another spin and win for the great Trump impulse machine. He’s on a roll, so what […]

With the impeachment and trial of Donald Trump about to end in the President’s arranged acquittal by his own party, Bill Moyers called up Steven Harper for a critique of the final showdown in the Senate. Harper graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Northwestern University and magna cum laude from Harvard Law School (where one of […]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speculated that President Donald Trump seemed “sedated” during his State of the Union address on Tuesday. Pelosi said that his address seemed more like a speech about his personal “state of mind” rather than a “state of the union” “I say to my members all the time there’s no such […]

“The View” erupted in a clash after Meghan McCain dismissed Sen. Mitt Romney’s vote to convict President Donald Trump in the impeachment trial. The Utah Republican was the only senator to cross party lines and vote to remove the president, and all the panelists but McCain agreed that took political courage. “Yeah, I’m conflicted on […]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Thursday whacked President Donald Trump after he questioned her religious faith at the National Prayer Breakfast. During a press conference, Pelosi was asked what she made of Trump attacking her because she regularly says that she prays for him. “I don’t know if the president understands… prayer or the […]

Even as the Republican Senate majority finally was acquitting Donald Trump of impeachment charges, one could sense the country bracing for the retaliating boomerang to come. Trump is never gracious, even in would-be victory, and is sure to be boastful about beating the “witch hunt” of impeachment. The next step, naturally, will be vindication and […]

Writing for the Washington Post on Thursday, columnist Greg Sargent broke down President Donald Trump’s viral video attacking Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) — and how it reveals the simple message at the core of Trump’s propaganda to keep the GOP in line. “If you want to see how Trump’s propagandists will continue enforcing the cult of […]

Donald Trump Jr. took aim at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the wake of President Trump’s speech at the National Prayer Breakfast this Thursday morning, but immediately got fact checked for his lack of familiarity with the Bible. While speaking at the event, Trump took a veiled swipe at Pelosi who was sitting just a […]

President Donald Trump tapped Jared Kushner as his “lead point of contact” for nervous NATO allies, but a new book claims the president’s son-in-law did not seem to know what the treaty organization actually did. The Guardian obtained a copy of the forthcoming book “Sinking in the Swamp,” which describes Kushner’s apparent ignorance of the […]