For Once, Devin Nunes Could Face a Bumpy Election Season
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.)Tom Williams/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) represents one of the safest Republican congressional districts in California: In seven of his eight elections, he has captured more than two-thirds of the vote without breaking a sweat. Yet for the first time since he…
The House Intelligence Committee Just Voted to Release the Democrats’ Response to the Nunes Memo
Rep. Adam Schiff, D=Calif, addresses reporters.Alex Edelman/Zuma Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The House Intelligence Committee voted unanimously Monday to release a 10-page memo prepared by Democrats to rebut what they say are inaccuracies in an infamous memo written by aides to committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), which alleges FBI misconduct at the heart…
Trump’s Speech Bragging About Tax Cuts Smacks Into a Nosediving Stock Market
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump’s frequent boasting of a booming stock market collided with reality on Monday, when the Dow plunged more than 1,500 points in afternoon trading. The massive drop continues steep losses seen last week. News networks, many of which had been airing a Trump speech live…
11 Historical Moments That Gave Us President Trump
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by TomDispatch. The present arrives out of a past that we are too quick to forget, misremember, or enshroud in myth. Yet like it or not, the present is the product of past choices. Different decisions back then might have yielded…
The Nunes Memo Proves One Thing, And It’s The Opposite Of What It Tries To Prove
Mother Jones; J. Scott Applewhite/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After days of much frothing, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) and his fellow Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee—with an assist from President Donald Trump—finally on Friday released the memo: a document cooked up by the panel’s Republican staff that claims the infamous…
While You Are Tweeting About the Nunes Memo, Russia Is Plotting Its Midterms Attack
Alexei Druzhinin/Planet Pix/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It is working—the Trump-GOP campaign to distract attention from the Russia scandal. And this is placing the nation—literally and seriously—at risk. For the past week or so, the big kerfuffle dominating the news related to Russia has been over the memo—a classified memorandum…