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Trump’s short attention span puts the country at risk.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 09, 2018
Donald Trump was silent Friday as the Dow Jones plummeted 666 points the market’s largest drop since 2008.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 02, 2018
Trump spent his speech attacking immigrants and blaming them for violence. He didn’t have one word to say about the far more deadly threat from domestic terrorists.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 30, 2018
The RNC called on Democrats to return donations from donor Harvey Weinstein. Will Republicans hold themselves to the same standard?
By Dan Desai Martin - January 26, 2018
Eleven nations are set to sign a historic trade deal without the United States, exposing Trump’s continued lack of global stature and influence.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 23, 2018
During the campaign, Trump promised to surround himself with “the best people.” It hasn’t quite worked out that way.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 22, 2018
Even Americans who were willing to give Trump a chance have made up their minds and they don’t approve.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 19, 2018
A new report shows companies and foreign governments are “effectively paying tribute” to Donald Trump in highly suspicious financial transactions at Trump properties.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 18, 2018
In the final weeks of the 2016 campaign, Fox News decided not to run a blockbuster story about Trump’s affair with adult film actress Stephanie Clifford, also known as Stormy Daniels.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 16, 2018
California Republicans face a tidal wave of Democrats signing up to run for their seats. And Southern California is square in the middle of Democratic efforts to retake the House of Representatives.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 16, 2018
Even before providing the critical vote to pass an unpopular tax bill, Steve Knight faced unhappy constituents in an endangered congressional district.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 16, 2018
Rep. Duncan Hunter, Republican from southern California, is embroiled in an ongoing criminal investigation into possible illegal campaign spending. While there are strict laws forbidding the use of campaign funds to personally enrich a candidate or his family, Hunter has several questionable expenditures over the past several years. “Hunter has denied intentional wrongdoing but has […]
By Dan Desai Martin - January 12, 2018
Not long after getting booed at the NCAA college championship football game in Atlanta, a new poll shows Donald Trump’s approval rating plummeting in Georgia. While Trump won Georgia by five points in 2016, the latest poll numbers from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution shows his approval rating upside down, with only 37 percent of Georgians approving […]
By Dan Desai Martin - January 12, 2018
Following in the dubious footsteps of Sean Spicer, Sarah Sanders continues to lie to Americans (and the world) from her perch as White House press secretary. Sanders was asked about a haphazard series of tweets Donald Trump wrote about FISA, the act that lays out how and when the government can conduct surveillance, balancing the […]
By Dan Desai Martin - January 12, 2018
While Republicans remain cowardly silent about the racism running amok at the White House, California’s Sen. Dianne Feinstein is having none of it. “President Trumps vile comments about Africa and Haiti are despicable and beneath the dignity of the presidency. They unquestionably diminish our countrys standing in the world,” Feinstein said in a statement. Feinstein […]
By Dan Desai Martin - January 12, 2018
“The judgment of history will not be kind to those who know better but will not speak out,” Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-PA) said of White House staffers who refuse to speak out about Donald Trump’s fitness for office. In an exclusive interview with Shareblue Media, Boyle spoke frankly about his concerns regarding Trump’s fitness for […]
By Dan Desai Martin - January 12, 2018
Republican leadership can’t even feign a furrowed brow over Donald Trump’s racist remarks that Haiti and several African nations are “shithole countries.” Trump made the comments at the White House while discussing a legislative package on DREAMers and immigration issues with senators and staff. The comments were first reported by the Washington Post, and the […]
By Dan Desai Martin - January 12, 2018
The California Board of Equalization (BOE), the state’s tax collection agency, was in such a state of disarray that state lawmakers chose to strip it of most of its responsibility. Despite that stunning fact, Diane Harkey, the chairwoman of the BOE, is likely to run for retiring Rep. Darrell Issa’s congressional seat. Breitbart reports (so it […]
By Dan Desai Martin - January 10, 2018
Women make up more than half of Virginia’s population, and for the first time in the state’s history, they will soon make up the majority of newly-elected Gov. Ralph Northam’s Cabinet. Of the 15 Cabinet positions, Northam has nominated eight women to fill them. The positions must be approved by the state legislature, but the […]
By Dan Desai Martin - January 09, 2018
Republicans gave high-priced lobbyists more access to their tax scam bill than they deigned to give duly elected Democratic senators. In fact, Senate Democrats received more information about the final details of the bill from those lobbyists than from their Republican colleagues. But just how much sway did unelected lobbyists have over Republican lawmakers? Quite […]
By Dan Desai Martin - December 02, 2017
At the beginning of the holiday season, Republicans showed Americans where their priorities lie: Giving aid and comfort to mega-rich donors and leaving sick children out in the cold. Republicans, who control the House, Senate, and the White House, have refused to reauthorize the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). This program, which provides health care […]
By Dan Desai Martin - December 02, 2017
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson seems to have a zealous desire to shrink the size of the State Department. Typical of the Trump administration, this means firing or pushing out talented and experienced women, Latinos, and African-Americans. Before even taking the helm, Tillerson was determined to slash the State Department’s budget by almost one third. […]
By Dan Desai Martin - November 25, 2017
Donald Trump continues to pretend that laws somehow don’t apply to him. And in the latest example, his misogyny also comes into play. Richard Cordray recently announced his intention to step down from his position as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency set up after the 2008 Wall Street crash with the […]
By Dan Desai Martin - November 25, 2017
Donald Trump’s poll numbers regularly set records for both low approval ratings and high disapproval marks. There is no getting around the fact that Trump is the most disliked president in modern American history. Unless, of course, one were to just ignore the evidence. Which is exactly the tactic used by this White House. In […]
By Dan Desai Martin - November 18, 2017
The right wing is going to extraordinary lengths to protect Donald Trump by trying to erase or alter history. During a panel discussion on the Fox Business Network, host Maria Bartiromo offered her own startling and patently untrue claim in defense of Trump. “There are no allegations against the President,” Bartiromo insisted. Just to be clear: allegations […]
By Dan Desai Martin - November 18, 2017
Many Republicans’ reactions to Donald Trump’s tweets about accusations of sexual harassment against Minnesota Democratic Sen. Al Franken paint an accurate and deservedly unflattering picture. After accusations against Franken surfaced, Trump took to his favorite medium to call Franken names and attempt to fan the flames of discord. “The Al Frankenstien [sic] picture is really bad, […]
By Dan Desai Martin - November 18, 2017
Donald Trump is so beholden to Russian propaganda that he went so far as to disparage U.S. intelligence agencies on Veterans Day while traveling overseas. When confronted by reporters about Russian interference in the 2016 election, Trump had a choice: He could side with U.S. intelligence agencies who overwhelmingly declared that Russia did, in fact, attack […]
By Dan Desai Martin - November 11, 2017
After the shocking news of allegations that Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore molested a 14-year-old girl and pursued other teenagers when he was in his mid-30s, much of the country reacted with horror and disgust. Some Alabama Republicans, on the other hand, had a starkly different reaction, seemingly eager to embrace a grown man accused of […]
By Dan Desai Martin - November 11, 2017
Donald Trump has a long and disappointing history of attacking veterans, and he continued that behavior on his first Veterans Day in office. On his way to Vietnam for an economic conference, aboard Air Force One, reporters asked Trump about his campaign’s collusion with Russia, which has already led to the arrest of three high-ranking […]
By Dan Desai Martin - November 11, 2017
Taking a deep breath of clean air is apparently bad for your health, according to one of Donald Trump’s newest “environmental” advisers. Robert Phalen, an air pollution researcher at the University of California, Irvine, is one of 17 new White House appointees to the Environmental Protection Agency’s Scientific Advisory Board, wants to make sure that the […]
By Dan Desai Martin - November 04, 2017