On Friday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren made it abundantly clear what she thinks should happen now that the redacted version of the Mueller report has been released—”impeachment proceedings against the President of the United States” should begin. The 2020 Democratic presidential candidate first took to Twitter to make her thoughts known: …
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One of the juiciest details in the redacted Mueller report reveals President Trump’s profane reaction to learning that he would be investigated by a special counsel over his connections to Russia. According to notes taken by Jody Hunt, who served as chief of staff to then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the …
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WASHINGTON — President Trump’s response to the initial findings of Special Counsel Robert Mueller‘s final report has been misleading, claiming a full exoneration while Mueller offers no such thing. But more than that, Trump has used Attorney General William Barr’s brief summary of Mueller’s report to launch an all-out attack …
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Just 41 percent of registered voters say they will “definitely” or “probably” vote for President Donald Trump in 2020, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released on Sunday. Forty-eight percent of those polled say they will “definitely” or “probably” vote for the Democratic nominee. Overall Trump’s approval …
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NATIONAL HARBOR, MARYLAND — “America is founded on a simple idea, and that idea… [dramatic pause] is freedom.” So declared Vice President Mike Pence in a booming staccato during his Friday morning CPAC address. “Freedom works,” Pence assured the room of conservative conference-goers. “We have the courage to stand for …
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President Trump is his most unvarnished self before a large crowd, unencumbered by the need to pay respect to reality or behave as an elder statesman. On Monday night, Trump spoke to 6,500 supporters in El Paso, Texas, in what was the first of what will be many such rallies …
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President Trump usually insults people of color in one of two ways, and I’m never sure which I prefer. He either ignores us, or he scapegoats us. In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, Trump and his speechwriters managed to do both successfully. The president omitted any mention …
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President Trump could have had his wall. In early 2018, Democrats offered to appropriate funding for a border wall — not just some funding, the full $25 billion — if the president would agree to provide a pathway to citizenship for immigrants living in the United States as part of …
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During last Friday’s March For Life rally in Washington, D.C., a confrontation was captured on video between a rowdy group of students from Kentucky’s Covington Catholic High School and a Native-American protester named Nathan Phillips. The enduring image of the fracas will be that of a student named Nick Sandmann, …
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As the longest government shutdown in history drags on, most Americans appear to blame President Donald Trump and the Republican party for the government being dormant. But the numbers also tell a story of a deepened partisan divide that has likely hardened due to the media attention on what has …
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