Donald Trump, Who Only Hires the Best People, Says His Former Secretary of State Is as “Dumb as a Rock”
Cheriss May/Zumapress Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Friday to lambast Rex Tillerson, his own pick as his administration’s first Secretary of State, in unusually harsh terms, calling him as “dumb” and “lazy as hell.” Mike Pompeo is doing a great job, I am…
Documents Point to Illegal Campaign Coordination Between Trump and the NRA
NRA annual convention in Dallas, May 2018Sue Ogrocki/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The National Rifle Association spent $30 million to help elect Donald Trump—more than any other independent conservative group. Most of that sum went toward television advertising, but a political message loses its power if it fails to…
Rudy Giuliani Turns Typo Into Baseless, Anti-Twitter Conspiracy Theory
SMG/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It was business as usual for Rudy Giuliani, who on Friday took to Twitter to bash special counsel Robert Mueller and the ongoing Russia investigation. As with previous such attacks, the latest diatribe from the president’s lawyer featured multiple typos and odd spacings. But…
Trump Tries to Throw Gasoline on France’s Fuel Riots
Nicolas LiponnNurPhoto via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A series of violent protests that have rattled France in recent weeks have caught the eye of Donald Trump. Earlier today, @realdonaldtrump retweeted a post from Charlie Kirk, the founder of conservative nonprofit Turning Point USA, which attributed the “riots in…
The Mueller Investigation Grows More Ominous for Trump and His Inner Circle
Special Counsel Robert Mueller departs a closed-door meeting with US senators about Russia and the Trump campaign, June 2017J. Scott Applewhite/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. “The time that he can get away with lying to the American people all the time and evading accountability is coming to an end.”…
The Trump Administration’s Climate Report Left Out Reproductive Rights. Here’s What It Missed.
Angel Valentin/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The big question of climate change is no longer why it’s happening (humans have a wild fossil-fuel-burning habit) nor when it’s going to happen (it is happening). These…