Trump Announces the US Will Withdraw from the Iran Nuclear Deal
Zach Gibson/ZUMA President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the United States will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal, bashing the historic agreement brokered by the Obama administration as a “horrible, one-sided” accord. The decision comes days ahead of the May 12 deadline Trump had set for renewing the accord—which its proponents consider to have been essential to…
John Oliver Explains What the Hell Has Happened to Rudy Giuliani
Last week, Rudy Giuliani shocked the country—and even Sean Hannity—with the revelation that President Donald Trump’s money paid for the $130,000 hush agreement involving adult film star Stormy Daniels. The subsequent clean up efforts by Trump’s newest lawyer appear to only have added to the confusion, and perhaps even the president’s mounting legal troubles. If the…
A New ‘Guardian’ Report Shows Just How Far Team Trump Would Go to Discredit the Iran Deal
Cheriss May/Sipa USA/AP According to a new report from the Guardian, Trump aides hired an Israeli private intelligence firm to coordinate a “dirty ops” campaign against former Obama staffers who helped negotiate the Iran nuclear deal. The alleged plan was to discredit the agreement, which the president has called the “worst deal ever,” by digging up dirt on…
Trump Promised His Appointees Wouldn’t Become Lobbyists. Guess How That Turned Out.
Getty This story was originally published by ProPublica. Lobbyists who joined the Trump administration and now want to return to their old trade have a problem: President Trump said they can’t. Days after taking office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order requiring every political appointee to sign a pledge as a condition of taking office.…
Arming Teachers Has Already Led to a Slew of Gun Accidents in Schools
Police respond to the Parkland school shooting on February 14.RMV/ZUMA In his speech to the National Rifle Association on Friday, President Donald Trump embraced the gun lobby’s solution to school shootings: arming the “good guys,” like teachers and school police officers, with guns. “They love their students,” he told the group at its annual convention in…
Parkland Survivor Calls Trump a “Professional Liar” After NRA Speech
Michael Candelori, Zuma A survivor of the Parkland school shooting ripped into President Donald Trump on Saturday for his speech to the National Rifle Association a day earlier, calling the president a “professional liar.” Speaking on Friday at the NRA’s annual convention for the third time, Trump reaffirmed his loyalty to the gun lobby. “Your…