Tommy Christopher

WH listens in on calls between reporters and officials in charge of WH-Russia probe

The Trump administration was already in a panic over the revelation that they colluded with the FBI to push back on reports of Trump campaign contacts with Russia, and that they enlisted Republicans from key committees to assist in that effort. The latest bombshell demonstrates the degree to which White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer […]

By Tommy Christopher - February 27, 2017

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau speaks out for refugees at Trump press conference

The meeting between Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Donald Trump was a study in stark contrasts and palpable discomfort, apparent right from the beginning. Prior to their workday, the two men sat together for a brief and noticeably forced photo op. The sound of the press pool’s cameras snapping photographs was the only thing […]

By Tommy Christopher - February 13, 2017

Paul Ryan straight-up lies to man whose life was saved by Obamacare

One of the most powerful moments of CNN’s town hall event with Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) was former Obamacare opponent Jeff Jeans’ moving tale of discovering he had treatable cancer, but could only receive treatment because of the Affordable Care Act. Jeans even took the moment to thank President Obama: TAPPER: He […]

By Tommy Christopher - January 13, 2017

Trump unveils his border wall executive order, mysteriously fails to bill Mexico

Donald Trump signed two immigration-related executive orders on Wednesday, and followed those signings with a speech at the Department of Homeland Security in which he announced the construction of his long-promised border wall, fearmongered about crime, and promised to crack down on “sanctuary cities.” TRUMP: The Secretary of Homeland Security, working with myself and my […]

By Tommy Christopher - January 25, 2017

GOP at odds over absurd White House demand to investigate Trump’s wiretapping lie about Obama

On the heels of Donald Trump’s completely fabricated allegation that President Obama ordered wiretaps on Trump Tower during the presidential campaign, the White House has doubled down by demanding a congressional investigation of that lie. The White House has also tellingly — for the second week in a row — made only one administration official, Deputy Press Secretary […]

By Tommy Christopher - March 06, 2017

Trump endangers national security at Mar-A-Lago

We have already reported on the way Donald Trump handled his first covert operation as commander-in-chief, approving an ill-fated raid on al Qaeda in Yemen over dinner at the White House, then spending the hours during the raid tweeting from the residence, rather than monitoring the action from the Situation Room. But Trump managed to demonstrate even […]

By Tommy Christopher - February 13, 2017

Trump team takes credit for a quarter million jobs created under Obama

January’s jobs report showed 227,000 jobs created, considerably more than the 180,000 that were expected. At the daily briefing, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer led off the press conference by trying to spin the report as a victory lap for Donald Trump: Spicer trying to take credit for Obama's jobs https://t.co/Rx0DM8busH pic.twitter.com/9nkzX2y5Ng — Tommy moderna-vaX-Topher (@tommyxtopher) February 3, […]

By Tommy Christopher - February 03, 2017

Nancy Pelosi says Trump’s “smear” of Obama is the “tool of an authoritarian”

Donald Trump ended a week that began well for him — then quickly deteriorated — by firing off a series of tweets that did not just allege, but clearly stated as fact, the lie that President Obama had wiretapped his campaign offices at Trump Tower during the presidential election: Terrible! Just found out that Obama […]

By Tommy Christopher - March 05, 2017

Trump nominee says humans contribute to climate change, and that we should contribute more to it

At the confirmation hearing for Secretary of the Interior-designate Ryan Zinke, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) asked if Zinke agrees with President-elect Donald Trump that climate change is a hoax. Much of the corporate media rewarded Zinke by only highlighting part of his testimony, and congratulating him for stating what is the most basic of facts. But […]

By Tommy Christopher - January 18, 2017

In despotic declaration, Trump senior advisor says Trump’s power “will not be questioned”

Donald Trump senior policy advisor Stephen Miller’s debut on the Sunday shows was rife with troubling foreshadowing, with his high-volume repetition of Trump talking points and botched invocation of Trump’s “voter fraud” lie. Miller also artlessly made it plain that the purpose of his visits was to shield Trump Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and Vice […]

By Tommy Christopher - February 12, 2017

Support for impeaching Trump already at Nixon-era levels

With scandals and disasters too numerous to mention, Donald Trump’s nascent presidency is the very definition of embattled. And according to a new poll from Public Policy Polling, the short two weeks of Trump’s reign have taken a drastic toll on his already-dismal popularity. He has a historically low Gallup approval rating for a president […]

By Tommy Christopher - February 03, 2017

It has now been a full week since Trump received an intelligence briefing

From the “Bowling Green Massacre” to “Atlanta” to the “Sweden Incident,” no terrorist attack is too fictional for Donald Trump and his administration to use in order to frighten Americans into supporting their the Muslim ban or “Deportation Force.” When it comes to actually doing the job of keeping Americans safe, though, Trump is very publicly leaving the […]

By Tommy Christopher - February 20, 2017

Flynn and Obamacare controversies send panicked Republicans into hiding

Republican guests typically dominate the airwaves on the Sunday political shows, including last week, where Vice President Mike Pence was joined by elected Republicans like Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE) on the Sunday circuit. But that dynamic changed sharply this week, with the White House offering only relatively low-wattage senior […]

By Tommy Christopher - February 12, 2017

Justice Dept. will investigate FBI conduct during election at request of Democrats and Republicans

Those concerned with the undue influence of FBI Director James Comey’s multiple intrusions into the 2016 presidential election will be glad to hear that DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz will be conducting a review of those intrusions, as well as other allegations of improper conduct by the FBI. That review will be bolstered by the fact […]

By Tommy Christopher - January 12, 2017

BREAKING: House Intel Committee will investigate Trump camp’s Russia ties

Concern is mounting that newly-inaugurated President Donald Trump could interfere with, or escape accountability from, investigations into the Russian cyberattacks that influenced his electoral victory. But in an encouraging sign, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) and Ranking Member Adam Schiff (D-CA) issued a joint statement promising a full investigation, no […]

By Tommy Christopher - January 25, 2017

Gaffe: Christie reveals real reason GOP won’t agree to independent Russia probe

In addition to the revelation that Donald Trump’s administration colluded with the FBI to quash a New York Times story about Trump campaign contacts with Russia, it was revealed this week that Republican lawmakers on intelligence committees also participated in that effort. With these revelations has come increased pressure for an independent investigation by a […]

By Tommy Christopher - February 26, 2017

Trump’s lawyer makes devastating case against Trump’s conflicts of interest

A significant portion of the press conference that President-elect Donald Trump finally held (after a 6-month drought) was eaten up by Trump attorney Sheri Dillon’s explanation of Trump’s plan to address conflicts of interest arising from his business holdings. And since that press conference, ethics experts on all sides have denounced the plan as essentially […]

By Tommy Christopher - January 12, 2017

‘Girl Scout’ feud: Trump skips correspondents’ dinner over “tension”

Donald Trump’s war with the free press hit a fever pitch this week following the revelation that his White House colluded with the FBI to quash a story about investigations of the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russia. On Friday, Trump’s press shop canceled an on-camera briefing and banned outlets that have done Russia reporting from the […]

By Tommy Christopher - February 26, 2017

Trump rages against the Today show over a basic fact-checking segment

Americans are learning that they never have to wait long to find out what is newly enraging President-elect Donald Trump. And Wednesday morning, two days before his inauguration, was no exception. Trump lashed out at NBC News so bitterly that you could practically hear his feet stamping through his Twitter feed: Totally biased @NBCNews went […]

By Tommy Christopher - January 18, 2017

Elizabeth Warren grills Ben Carson on whether Housing Dept. funds could enrich Trump

On the heels of President-elect Donald Trump’s utterly meaningless plan to “resolve” conflict of interest concerns, Housing and Urban Development Secretary-designate Ben Carson’s testimony at his confirmation hearing is all the more concerning. On Thursday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) asked Carson if he could assure Americans that “not a single taxpayer dollar that you give […]

By Tommy Christopher - January 12, 2017

Trump National Security Advisor exposes Republicans’ “Radical Islam” lie

According to many Republicans, the phrase “Radical Islamic Terrorism” possesses such power that without its utterance at every opportunity, the United States would be doomed to failure in the fight against terrorism. That notion was at the center of years-long criticism of President Obama and Hillary Clinton, and a central pillar of Donald Trump’s tough-guy posture during […]

By Tommy Christopher - February 25, 2017

Russia-owned cable channel RT America ominously takes over C-SPAN feed for ten minutes

At around 2:30 pm Thursday, viewers of the C-SPAN online feed were surprised to see the RT America feed suddenly take over, and broadcast for about ten minutes. Footage of the takeover was posted to Twitter in fairly short order: Here's the moment Russia Today took over the C-SPAN1 feed. Unclear what happened. RT aired […]

By Tommy Christopher - January 12, 2017

Trump rips off taxpayers to give “free global infomercial for Mar-a-Lago”

The story of Donald Trump’s invitation for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan to stay at his Mar-a-Lago resort is a sharply-drawn microcosm of the Trump administration as a whole. Back in January, Trump and his lawyer promised that any payments by foreign governments for lodging at Trump’s properties would be given to the United States Treasury, in […]

By Tommy Christopher - February 10, 2017

Kellyanne Conway made up a terrorist attack, Chris Matthews didn’t bat an eye

White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway lies with such frequency that she has even coined the brand new term “alternative facts” for brazen untruths. And now she may have outdone herself, and even her liar-in-chief boss, during an appearance on MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews when she accused the media of failing to cover a terrorist attack — […]

By Tommy Christopher - February 03, 2017

ALARMING: Russian government media offers praise for Trump during White House briefing

President Donald Trump has faced a snowballing crisis of legitimacy that involves, among other things, his professed affinity for the Russian government that coincidentally aided his electoral victory, and which multiple agencies are investigating for possible collusion with Trump associates. Against that already-surreal backdrop, Tuesday’s White House briefing provided a stunning reminder of the baffling […]

By Tommy Christopher - January 24, 2017

UPDATED: Milo defender Donald Trump was proudly announced to join the pedophilia advocate at CPAC

The keynote speaker at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is Breitbart writer Milo Yiannopoulos, a man with a long track record of hateful statements and behavior, and one who has openly advocated for sexual relationships between older men and boys of 13: Here is a longer cut where Milo Yiannopoulos says that he "is advocating" for […]

By Tommy Christopher - February 20, 2017

Caught in a national security lie, Michael Flynn is on the chopping block

As the Washington Post reports, National Security Advisor Michael Flynn himself seems to realize he has been caught (emphasis mine): National security adviser Michael Flynn privately discussed U.S. sanctions against Russia with that country’s ambassador to the United States during the month before President Trump took office, contrary to public assertions by Trump officials, current and […]

By Tommy Christopher - February 10, 2017

As Trump kills jobs, Democrats deliver plan to create millions of them

One of unpopularly-elected President Donald Trump’s core appeals to his voters was his promise of “jobs, jobs, jobs,” yet since his narrow and ill-gotten victory, all Trump has done has been to take credit for jobs that were already set before his win, to actually reward a company that shipped 1,300 American jobs to Mexico, […]

By Tommy Christopher - January 24, 2017

West Virginia Republican senator says Medicaid expansion “better be” in Obamacare replacement

The fight among Republicans to “repeal and replace” Obamacare is heating up. On one side are people like Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), for whom the secret Republican plan does not go quite far enough in how many people it would throw off of their health coverage. But CNN viewers got a glimpse of another Republican view when Senator […]

By Tommy Christopher - March 03, 2017

Appeals court unanimously denies reinstatement of Muslim ban, and Trump is not taking it well

The petulant, all-caps tweet from Donald Trump said it all, even if you had not yet heard the news: SEE YOU IN COURT, THE SECURITY OF OUR NATION IS AT STAKE! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 9, 2017 That tweet was in response to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling denying the Trump […]

By Tommy Christopher - February 09, 2017

Tommy Christopher

Freelance Political Writer

WH listens in on calls between reporters and officials in charge of WH-Russia probe

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau speaks out for refugees at Trump press conference

Paul Ryan straight-up lies to man whose life was saved by Obamacare

Trump unveils his border wall executive order, mysteriously fails to bill Mexico

GOP at odds over absurd White House demand to investigate Trump’s wiretapping lie about Obama

Trump endangers national security at Mar-A-Lago

Trump team takes credit for a quarter million jobs created under Obama

Nancy Pelosi says Trump’s “smear” of Obama is the “tool of an authoritarian”

Trump nominee says humans contribute to climate change, and that we should contribute more to it

In despotic declaration, Trump senior advisor says Trump’s power “will not be questioned”

Support for impeaching Trump already at Nixon-era levels

It has now been a full week since Trump received an intelligence briefing

Flynn and Obamacare controversies send panicked Republicans into hiding

Justice Dept. will investigate FBI conduct during election at request of Democrats and Republicans

BREAKING: House Intel Committee will investigate Trump camp’s Russia ties

Gaffe: Christie reveals real reason GOP won’t agree to independent Russia probe

Trump’s lawyer makes devastating case against Trump’s conflicts of interest

‘Girl Scout’ feud: Trump skips correspondents’ dinner over “tension”

Trump rages against the Today show over a basic fact-checking segment

Elizabeth Warren grills Ben Carson on whether Housing Dept. funds could enrich Trump

Trump National Security Advisor exposes Republicans’ “Radical Islam” lie

Russia-owned cable channel RT America ominously takes over C-SPAN feed for ten minutes

Trump rips off taxpayers to give “free global infomercial for Mar-a-Lago”

Kellyanne Conway made up a terrorist attack, Chris Matthews didn’t bat an eye

ALARMING: Russian government media offers praise for Trump during White House briefing

UPDATED: Milo defender Donald Trump was proudly announced to join the pedophilia advocate at CPAC

Caught in a national security lie, Michael Flynn is on the chopping block

As Trump kills jobs, Democrats deliver plan to create millions of them

West Virginia Republican senator says Medicaid expansion “better be” in Obamacare replacement

Appeals court unanimously denies reinstatement of Muslim ban, and Trump is not taking it well