Senators Will Get to Ignore Trump’s Tweets for Six Hours a Day
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) checks his phone.Alex Wong/Getty The Associated Press reports that the US Senate is about to launch a weeks-long experiment in which its members will be forced to put away their smartphones and maintain “silence, on pain of imprisonment.” This mandatory unplugging, based on a 19th-century senatorial tradition, is meant to improve…
“Not a Crime”: Republican Senators Try Out Their Impeachment Defenses
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts swears in senators for President Trump’s impeachment trial.Senate Television/AP President Donald Trump’s senatorial allies-slash-jurors hit the Sunday news shows to try out their best defenses of him ahead of his impeachment trial, which begins on Tuesday. On ABC’s This Week, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) disputed the fact that the…
The Three Biggest Lies Trump and His Deputies Have Been Telling Us About Iran
Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Ever since the US drone strike that killed Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, a top Iranian general, the Trump administration hasn’t been able to provide consistent, or even coherent, answers about the assassination. Why did President Donald Trump decide to kill Soleimani? Was there really an “imminent” threat from Iran? Will this lead to…
Congress’s Nonpartisan Watchdog Finds That Trump’s Ukraine Policy Broke the Law
Mark Wilson/Getty The Trump administration broke the law by improperly withholding security assistance from Ukraine, according to a legal decision published Thursday by the Government Accountability Office, an independent congressional watchdog. While the White House Office of Management and Budget had told the GAO that it wanted to ensure the funding would not be spent…
Dan Crenshaw Called for Civility on SNL. Maybe That Was the Joke.
Illustration by Lincoln AgnewDan Crenshaw started off as a joke. On the last episode of Saturday Night Live before the 2018 election, Pete Davidson was rifling through headshots of candidates when he got to the 35-year-old retired Navy SEAL from the Houston area. “You may be surprised to hear he’s a congressional candidate from Texas…
Emails Reveal “Clear Direction From POTUS” on Ukraine Scandal
President Donald Trump speaks as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky looks on during a meeting in New York on September 25, 2019.Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Newly revealed communications between White House staffers and officials at the Pentagon are shedding additional light on the Ukraine scandal—even as the Senate prepares for President Donald Trump’s trial following…