Mueller Says Trump Gave a “Boost” to Wikileaks’ “Illegal Activity”
A slide Democrats displayed during the hearing. Robert Mueller on Wednesday condemned President Donald Trump’s repeated praise of WikiLeaks during the 2016 presidential election. According to the former special counsel, Trump’s public embrace of the organization—even as it was regularly releasing Hillary Clinton campaign emails hacked by the Russian government—was tantamount to promoting “illegal activity.”…
Mueller Says Trump’s Witch Hunt Allegations Are False
Olivier Douliery/CNP/ZUMA President Donald Trump has a favorite phrase to describe former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into his 2016 campaign’s contacts with Russia: “Witch hunt.” On Wednesday morning, for example, Trump called it “The Greatest Witch Hunt in U.S. history, by far.” Mueller, it turns out, strongly disagrees. Near the beginning of Wednesday’s House…
A New Study Found that 15,000 People Died Because Their State Didn’t Expand Medicaid
Wutzkohphoto/Shutterstock Approximately 15,600 people died between 2014 and 2017 as a result of their states refusing to expand Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act, according to a new working paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research. The ACA promised to expand Medicaid coverage to individuals whose income was at or below 138 percent of…
House Intelligence Chairman Blasts Trump’s “Disloyalty to Country”
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) offered a striking review of President Donald Trump at the hearing with Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Wednesday, accusing him of “something worse” than criminality: “Disloyalty to country.” “Your investigation determined that the Trump campaign—including Trump himself—knew that a foreign power was intervening in our election and welcomed…
Kamala Harris Is Working In a Great American Tradition
Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images via ZUMA Jim Geraghty thinks that Kamala Harris is vulnerable: The soft underbelly of the Harris campaign is her flip-flops and the general sense that she’ll say whatever she needs to say to please the audience in front of her. She hit Joe Biden for opposing a federal mandate for bussing but…
Mueller Reminds the Public: Trump Betrayed the United States
Former special counsel Robert Mueller testifies to the House Judiciary Committee.J. Scott Applewhite/AP There’s an old saying in newsrooms: News is stuff that people have forgotten. Robert Mueller’s dramatic appearance before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday morning was a striking reminder of this adage. The former special counsel did not drop any new revelations…