Julian Assange and Roger Stone Are Perfect Examples of How Trump Uses His Pardon Power
ulian Assange gestures to the media from a police vehicle on his arrival at Westminster Magistrates court on April 11, 2019 in London.Jack Taylor/Getty Images A lawyer for Julian Assange claims that former Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher told the WikiLeaks founder in 2017 that he would receive a pardon from President Donald Trump if he…
Trump’s Plan to Plant a Trillion Saplings Misses the Forest for the Trees
Misty Fjords National Monument in the Tongass National Forest, AlaskaYegoroV/Shutterstock Donald Trump, it turns out, is a fan of trees. A big fan. Such a fan, in fact, that at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, late last month, the president announced that the United States will join the One Trillion Tree Initiative, an…
Lev Parnas Wants to Be a Resistance Hero
Lev Parnas, center, and his attorney, Joseph Bondy, left, speak outside federal court in New York.Mariela Lombard/AP Last month, Lanny Davis placed a call to Joseph Bondy. Bondy’s legal client, Lev Parnas, had just appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show, and Davis was calling to dispute a claim that Parnas had made about him. But…
How Do You Get from the Trailer Park to a White House Job? Give Money to Trump’s Spiritual Adviser.
On a Friday morning in February, televangelist Paula White-Cain spent more than two hours preaching at the King Jesus church Supernatural Ministry School in Miami. With top billing on the event website as “Donald Trump’s spiritual adviser,” White stood in front of a stage with a light show befitting a Pink Floyd cover band. With…
Report: Barr Protected Turkish Bank From Prosecution to Appease Erdogan
Drew Angerer/Getty President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Friday to claim he has a “legal right” to interfere in Justice Department cases, but insisted that he has “so far chosen not to.” Anyone following Trump’s social media presence knows that not to be the case. He regularly tweets about business before the Justice Department…
Ukrainian President Asks Trump to “Please, Please Stop Saying That Ukraine Is a Corrupt Country”
President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks after a press conference in Kyiv in February 2020.STR/NurPhoto/Getty President Donald Trump famously had a request for the president of Ukraine when the two leaders spoke over the phone on July 25. That request to launch politicized investigations into Joe Biden and his son turned into a months-long congressional investigation, making…