Trump Tweets Another Lie About One of His Favorite Enemies
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Before most of you were even awake, President Donald Trump tweeted another lie to his 72.5 million followers. His anger this morning was directed at the Justice Department for dropping its criminal investigation on Friday into former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe. IG report on Andrew McCabe: Misled Investigators over roll in news…
Want to Save the Planet? Easy! Just “Be More Like Donald”
Jacquelyn Martin/AP President Trump is reading a book, and he would very much like you to know about it. It’s a book about himself, called Donald J. Trump: An Environmental Hero, self-published in 2016 by his former environmental consultant, Edward Russo. Beginning in 2002, Russo consulted on the Trump Organization’s golf courses on matters like…
Trump Isn’t Waging a War on Poverty. He’s Waging a War on Poor People.
Mother Jones illustration; Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Mr. Smith, a 45-year-old man living in Washington, DC, scrapes together what passes for a living selling a local newspaper as a street vendor, for which he earns $20 a day—on a good day. Each month, he receives $194 from the the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as SNAP…
As the Democrats Await Results From New Hampshire, Trump Has Taken to Twitter
Mother Jones illustration As results from the New Hampshire Democratic primary rolled in Tuesday night, President Donald Trump—who, despite doing very bad things earlier in the day, strode to an easy victory in the state’s Republican Primary—took to Twitter with a string of unhinged remarks about Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, John Podesta, and Elizabeth Warren.…
Prosecutors Want to Put Roger Stone in Prison for Up to 9 Years
Roger Stone, leaves the E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse on November 15, 2019.Win McNamee/Getty Image The Justice Department released its sentencing memo for Roger Stone on Monday and it’s not looking great for the longtime Trump consigliere: Department prosecutors asked a federal judge for a sentence of up to nine years in prison. Stone was convicted in…
Trump Ousts Gordon Sondland, the EU Ambassador Who Testified There Was a Quid Pro Quo
Andrew Harnik/AP On Friday, the White House dismissed yet another impeachment witness, Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, as President Donald Trump continued his apparent retaliation campaign to oust members of his administration who testified against him. SONDLAND out as well: “I was advised today that the President intends to recall me effective immediately…