The GOP’s New Year’s Resolution: Make Russia Go Away
Ranking Member Adam Schiff, D-Calif., Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., and Rep. Mike Conaway, R-Texas, conduct a House Intelligence Committee hearing in Longworth Building on Russian interference with the 2016 election featuring testimony by FBI Director James Comey and Director of the National Security Agency Adm. Mike Rogers, March 20, 2017.Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP…
Republican Senators Target Christopher Steele—and the Reason Is Obvious
Christopher Steele.Victoria Jones/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Christopher Steele is not the issue. Yet the former British intelligence official who wrote a series of unconfirmed reports on Trump-Russia connections during the 2016 campaign seems to have become the main target of congressional Republicans. On Friday, two Republican senators—Charles Grassley…
Donald Trump Shut Down His Election Fraud Commission, But He Hasn’t Given up on Voter Suppression
Donald Trump speaks at the first meeting of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity in Washington DC, on July 19, 2017. Rex Features/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump abruptly shut down his commission on election integrity on Wednesday evening. That’s the good news for voting rights…
“I’m Just Really Passionate About Trying to Stop Fascism”
Courtesy of Molly Knight and Cadence13 Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The president ruined Molly Knight’s week and her podcast. Knight, a former writer for ESPN and author of The Best Team Money Can Buy, a book about the Los Angeles Dodgers, was in the middle of putting together a slice-of-life podcast when Donald…
Trump Just Dissolved His Own Voter Fraud Commission
Chris Kleponis/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump dissolved his controversial “election integrity” commission to the cheers of voting rights advocates who saw the commission as a threat to ballot access. It was created after Trump tweeted, with no evidence, that millions of illegal votes were cast in the 2016 election. …
Steve Bannon Called the Trump Tower Meeting “Treasonous”
Miguel Juarez Lugo/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. According to a forthcoming book by Michael Wolff, President Donald Trump’s ousted chief strategist, Steve Bannon, believes the infamous June 2016 meeting between members of Trump’s inner circle and a Russian lawyer supposedly offering damaging information on Hillary Clinton was “treasonous” and “unpatriotic.”…