Trump Lawyer “Prays” for Shutdown of Mueller Probe
Alex Wong/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Saturday morning, President Donald Trump’s lawyer John Dowd told the Daily Beast he hoped Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, would end Bob Mueller’s investigation into Donald Trump’s ties to Russia’s alleged interference with the 2016 presidential election. “I pray that Acting…
Donald Trump Just Lashed Out at Andrew McCabe Again on Twitter. This Time, James Comey Responded.
Carolyn Kaster/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump is still gloating about Andrew McCabe’s firing. On Saturday afternoon, the president tweeted that while he did not collude with Russia during the 2016 presidential election, high-ranking officials at the FBI, the Department of Justice, and State Department were involved in…
Donald Trump’s Rivals Lash Out Over “Cowardly” Firing of Deputy FBI Chief
Chris Kleponis/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Democrats are laying into Donald Trump after he had Attorney General Jeff Sessions fire deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe late Friday night, only days before McCabe was set to retire with full benefits. While Trump considered it a victory, leaders on the other…
This Farmer Turned Congresswoman Sees a Way out of America’s Health Crisis
Courtesy Chellie Pingree Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Many members of the US House of Representatives run businesses in their home districts. Few of those enterprises can offer you a half-dozen oysters and a glass of wine, or send you home with an array of locally grown vegetables. But then…
The Immigration Debate Is Way Off the Rails
Keith Bishop/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This article first appeared on TomDispatch.com. The immigration debate seems to have gone crazy. President Obama’s widely popular Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which offered some 750,000 young immigrants brought to the United States as children a temporary reprieve from…
Here Is Andrew McCabe’s Full Statement. Everyone Should Read It.
Jeff Malet/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump fired former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe today. Technically, of course, it was Jeff Sessions who did the firing, but I don’t think anyone believes that it was anybody but Trump who was really at the controls. After all, it’s Trump…