Trump’s Impeachment Woes Grow In Latest Twitter Rant
Spencer Platt/Getty Somebody is thinking about impeachment this morning. President Donald Trump’s latest weekend tweetstorm took aim at Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), two of the top Democrats leading the chamber’s investigation into whether Trump’s request for Ukraine to investigate a political rival merits his…
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,…
Democrats: Rudy’s Stonewalling Is More Evidence of Misconduct
Rudy Giuliani at Fox Business Network studios on September 23, 2019.Roy Rochlin/Getty Images Democrats responded Tuesday evening to Rudy Giuliani’s refusal to comply with a subpoena he received as part of the House’s impeachment inquiry, reiterating their claim that such stonewalling is itself evidence of impeachable wrongdoing by President Donald Trump, the former New York…
Congress Prepares to Unload on Trump’s Disastrous Syria Policy
Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call/Getty When President Donald Trump announced his decision to permit a Turkish invasion of northeastern Syria last week, outraged lawmakers were on recess and left with little recourse to register their concerns about the fate of the Kurds outside of Twitter and the Sunday news shows. Now they are assembling back in Washington for…
Senate Republicans Say Russia Helped Trump—and Is Still Messing in US Elections
Photo by Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images The Republican-controlled Senate Intelligence Committee has found that the Kremlin directed a social media campaign in advance of the 2016 elections that “overtly and almost invariably” aimed to help Donald Trump—and that it is still at it. In a report released Tuesday, the committee endorsed an Intelligence Community assessment issued…
Trump Ally Sen. Ron Johnson Had a Meltdown on “Meet the Press”
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) talks with reporters in the Capitol on September 25.Caroline Brehman/Congressional Quarterly via ZUMA Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) gave a wild performance on “Meet the Press” Sunday, refusing to answer questions posed by host Chuck Todd, instead peddling unfounded conspiracy theories about the 2016 election. The bizarre interview is a demonstration of…