Three Women Accused a Tennessee Legislator of Sexual Assault. He Was Still Reelected in a Landslide.
Mother Jones illustration; Mark Humphrey/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Earlier this year, a mere five months after the #MeToo reckoning first began, a local Tennessee television station dropped what should have been a bombshell investigation: Three women were accusing state Rep. David Byrd of sexually assaulting them when they were minors in the 1980s, using his…
Trump Defends Himself by Citing Rod Blagojevich, the Impeached and Imprisoned Illinois Governor
Jacquelyn Martin/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Former Illinois Governor Rod Blogojevich is currently serving a 14-year federal prison sentence for corruption and bribery, but that didn’t stop President Donald Trump from pointing to the disgraced Democrat’s plight as an example of overreach by federal prosecutors. Trump tweeted Sunday afternoon…
Investigation Details How Gov.-Elect Brian Kemp’s Staff Smeared Georgia Democrats Days Before His Election
John Bazemore/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Georgia’s Gov.-elect Brian Kemp survived a bruising race against Stacey Abrams in November, narrowly avoiding becoming the first Republican to lose a statewide election in more than a decade. But it turns out he won after throwing a big sucker punch, according to…
Rudy Giuliani: 20 People Knew About Trump’s Hush Money Payments
Rudy GiulianiAndrew Harnik/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Rudy Giuliani says there’s a perfectly good reason to explain Trump’s hush money payments to women ahead of the 2016 election, and it wasn’t about his campaign for president. “I can produce an enormous number of witnesses,” claimed the former New York…
Trump Hails a Soldier the Army Just Charged with Murder as a “Military Hero”
Matthew Golsteyn admitted to the killing in a 2016 interview with Fox News.Screenshot: Fox News Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Early on Sunday morning, President Trump sent a tweet promising to examine the case of a Afghanistan war veteran who earlier in the week was charged with murder by Army…
Stephen Miller Doubles Down on Trump’s Promise to Shutdown the Government
White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller briefing reporters on a bill to cut legal immigration by half.Ron Sachs/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Top White House aide Stephen Miller made a combative Face the Nation appearance on Sunday, doubling down on President Donald Trump’s promise to shut down the government if Democrats…