Trump Ordered Mattis to “Screw Amazon” Out of Pentagon Contract, Book Alleges
This is not a real thing Trump said. But it doesn’t seem like something he wouldn’t say, does it?Shutterstock On Friday, the Pentagon awarded a massive cloud computing contract to Microsoft. People had been expecting the contract to go to Amazon and the switcheroo led many to assume President Trump intervened, given his regular complaining…
Trump’s Impeachment Woes Grow In Latest Twitter Rant
Spencer Platt/Getty Somebody is thinking about impeachment this morning. President Donald Trump’s latest weekend tweetstorm took aim at Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), two of the top Democrats leading the chamber’s investigation into whether Trump’s request for Ukraine to investigate a political rival merits his…
Trump’s Crowdstrike Conspiracy Isn’t Striking with the Crowd
Keith Srakocic/AP President Trump made an appearance at a pro-fracking conference in Pittsburgh yesterday, and I went downtown to keep an eye on the protests and demonstrations. One thing that I’ve been reporting on a bit lately is the crazy Crowdstrike conspiracy theory that President Trump apparently believes. To recap: When the White House released…
Did Trump Use Trade Talks to Push for Biden Investigation? The White House Won’t Say
Ron Sachs/Zuma While the House of Representatives continues its impeachment inquiry over Donald Trump’s attempts to pressure Ukraine to investigate the Biden family, the White House is refusing to say whether the president used sensitive negotiations with China to push for a similar investigation of the Bidens by that country. As the Ukraine scandal ramped up several…
What’s the Plural of Quid Pro Quo?
If you’re keeping count, which you should be (or leaning on us to count for you), there are now three quid pro quos in President Donald Trump’s orbit of impeachable corruption, or one giant quid pro quo with three distinct parts. We’ve named and itemized them, but is the plural quid pro quos or quids…
Giuliani’s Pet Goon Links Donald Trump to His Campaign Finance Case
Lev Parnas, pictured, and Igor Fruman are charged with conspiracy to make illegal contributions to political committees supporting President Donald Trump and other Republicans. Mark Lennihan/AP An attorney for Lev Parnas, a client of Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani under indictment for allegedly making illegal political contributions, made an unusual claim in court on…