Trump Scoffs at “Phony Emoluments Clause” While Complaining About G-7 Scandal
Yuri Gripas/Zuma While defending his now-reversed decision to hold the G-7 Summit at his Doral resort, President Donald Trump scoffed at the section of the Constitution that prevents federal officeholders from receiving gifts from foreign governments. “You people with this phony emoluments clause,” he said, during an interview at the White House Monday, before continuing…
Read Nancy Pelosi’s “Fact Sheet” About Trump’s Ukraine Call
Caroline Brehman/Zuma House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) released a “fact sheet” Monday detailing President Donald Trump’s “shakedown” of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, as well as a “pressure campaign” to get Zelensky to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and a subsequent “cover up,” the Washington Post reports. “President Trump has betrayed his oath of office,…
Trump: “I’m the one who did the capturing”
Noted without comment because—well, because why bother? Looking for news you can trust? Subscribe to our free newsletters. MORE HARD-HITTING JOURNALISM In 2014, before Donald Trump announced his run for president, we knew we had to do something different to address the fundamental challenge facing journalism: how hard-hitting reporting that can hold the powerful accountable…
Quote of the Day: White House Disowns the President
From Glenn Kessler, trying to figure out what President Trump meant when he said that Saudi Arabia would pay for 100 percent of our new troop deployment there: White House officials would not explain what Trump meant. Nor would Defense officials or State officials. The Saudis declined comment too. So what’s up? The answer is…
“He Was on the Ropes”: Richard Nixon’s Saturday Night Massacre Was 46 Years Ago
Richard Nixon makes victory speech at a rally shortly after being elected to serve a second term by a landslide in the November 7th Presidential electionBettmann/Getty With acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney’s disastrous press conference continuing to make waves and impeachment looming for President Donald Trump, it’s worth looking back at one…
Tulsi Gabbard Just Released a Bonkers Response Video About Hillary Clinton
Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard released a video Sunday blasting Hillary Clinton, claiming that Clinton and the “war machine” are trying to “destroy” and “discredit” her because she dared defy them by supporting Bernie Sanders in 2016. “They will not intimidate us. They will not silence us,” Gabbard says before making a plea to viewers…