Michael Cohen is in big trouble. The former personal attorney for Donald Trump may be the only person in America whose high-profile legal issues are more severe than those of his former client (or those of his former client’s former campaign manager, who was jailed on Friday). Since the April …
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President’s Trump’s crusade to alienate the United States from the rest of the world continued on Thursday, when Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced the imposition of a 25 percent tariff on steel imports and a 10 percent tariff on aluminum imports from Canada, Mexico and the European Union. The tariffs …
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President Trump has been criticized for lacking even a shred of cohesion in his decision making, but there has been one unifying theme over his first 15 months in office: torching the legacy of Barack Obama. The latest of his predecessor’s accomplishments set for incineration is the Iran deal, which …
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As cameras rolled during a Wednesday meeting at the White House, Donald Trumpbroke with Republican and NRA orthodoxy numerous times, seeming to not even know the far-reaching implications of what he was saying. Trump endorsed a bipartisan background check bill, raising the age limit for purchasing certain firearms from 18 …
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In the wake of yet another mass shooting in America, the predictable responses are already pouring in. The do-nothing crowd of NRA-funded Republican politicians are mechanically offering their utterly meaningless “thoughts and prayers” and blaming everything and anything other than guns. Meanwhile, the gun control crowd (of which I’m a …
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If one could adjectivize the president, there has never been anything Trumpier than Donald Trump‘s posture on nuclear weapons. It’s an issue where he embraces contradictory thoughts in the same breath with routine. In candidate Trump’s debate with Hillary Clinton on September 26, 2016, he said, “I would certainly not …
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The Internet is exploding today with cries of #ReleaseTheMemo, with the GOP throwing a big fat j’accuse at the Democrats. Republicans are pounding the table over what by now is about the millionth news story to be called “worse than Watergate” since the Russia scandal first broke. “People will go …
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Once again President Trump seems to have sucked all the air out of Washington when he reportedly called many nations comprised largely of black and brown people “shithole countries.” But even before this latest racist distraction, the immigration debate had already become a shit show. Fresh off holiday recess, lawmakers …
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