Did Trump Use Trade Talks to Push for Biden Investigation? The White House Won’t Say
Ron Sachs/Zuma While the House of Representatives continues its impeachment inquiry over Donald Trump’s attempts to pressure Ukraine to investigate the Biden family, the White House is refusing to say whether the president used sensitive negotiations with China to push for a similar investigation of the Bidens by that country. As the Ukraine scandal ramped up several…
Ukraine Knew All About Trump Extortion
Yuri Gripas/Zuma Everyone already knows about this, but since I was out of pocket yesterday I’m going to mention it just for the sake of keeping a complete impeachment record. The Trumpsters claim that Ukraine never had any idea why their military aid package was being held up, but Ken Vogel reports that, as usual,…
Kamala Harris Says She’ll Prosecute Oil Companies and Utilities for Role in Climate Crisis
Brian Cahn/ZUMA California Senator and 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful Kamala Harris believes the next commander in chief should hold fossil fuel companies accountable for misleading the public about climate change—and she wants to use the full force of the federal government to do so. In an exclusive interview with Mother Jones last week in Dubuque,…
AOC Asked Mark Zuckerberg About Facebook’s Fact Checking Process. He Didn’t Give Her the Whole Truth.
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images During his congressional testimony on Wednesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg tried to side-step responsibility for partnering with the conservative media site, the Daily Caller, giving an at-beast misleading answer to a pretty direct question from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). Ocasio-Cortez asked Zuckerberg why Facebook partnered with “the Daily Caller, a publication well-documented with ties to white supremacists,…
What’s the Plural of Quid Pro Quo?
If you’re keeping count, which you should be (or leaning on us to count for you), there are now three quid pro quos in President Donald Trump’s orbit of impeachable corruption, or one giant quid pro quo with three distinct parts. We’ve named and itemized them, but is the plural quid pro quos or quids…
Giuliani’s Pet Goon Links Donald Trump to His Campaign Finance Case
Lev Parnas, pictured, and Igor Fruman are charged with conspiracy to make illegal contributions to political committees supporting President Donald Trump and other Republicans. Mark Lennihan/AP An attorney for Lev Parnas, a client of Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani under indictment for allegedly making illegal political contributions, made an unusual claim in court on…