Trump’s Not Richard Nixon. He’s Andrew Johnson.
For more than a century the official narrative of the first presidential impeachment has been butchered and distorted, reduced to a historical curiosity, a showdown between two irresponsible factions in which voices of reason ultimately triumphed. You were likely taught (if you were taught at all) that the 1868 fight to remove Andrew Johnson from…
Trump’s Tweet About Civil War Was Just What the Far Right Oath Keepers Wanted to Hear
Trump gives a speech in front of a portrait of Abraham Lincoln.Andrew Harnik/AP In yet another presidential first, this week Donald Trump warned of an impending civil war in the United States—via Twitter, of course. On Sunday night, Trump paraphrased Robert Jeffress, a baptist-preacher-turned-Fox-News-pundit, tweeting: “If the Democrats are successful in removing the President from office (which…
Australia to Trump: Sure, We’ll Help You Pursue Your Political Vendetta
President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison take the stage as they mark the opening of an Australian-owned Pratt Industries plant, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2019, in Wapakoneta, Ohio.John Minchillo/AP Australia rarely makes the US news unless there’s a killer shark attack or a killer leadership coup. But like so many others in the…
Prosecutor in Trump-Ukraine Scandal Refused to Cooperate With US Congress
Democrats want to know if Donald Trump pressured Petro Poroshenko during the 72nd session of the United Nations.Mikhail PalinchakTASS via Getty In May 2018, the New York Times broke a significant story about Ukraine that did not receive great attention at the time: The nation’s chief prosecutor had halted cooperation with special counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia investigation…
Donald Trump Suggests Adam Schiff Should Be Arrested for “Treason”
Tom Williams/ZUMA President Donald Trump on Monday suggested that the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), should be arrested for “treason.” The incendiary comment came amidst a flood of irate tweets by Trump Monday morning and as the president escalates his war with Schiff, who over the weekend signaled that testimony from…
The Washington Post Published a Bombshell Report About Trump and Russia
Susan Walsh/AP On Friday night, the Washington Post published an absolute bombshell report about President Donald Trump: President Trump told two senior Russian officials in a 2017 Oval Office meeting that he was unconcerned about Moscow’s interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election because the United States did the same in other countries, an assertion…