Tommy Christopher

I have two incredible autistic kids and I entrust their future to Hillary Clinton

My colleague Matthew Chapman’s excellent article, “As a man on the spectrum, Clinton’s support of autism rights means so much to me,” is a must-read, and I urge you to do so before continuing here. I wanted to share my point of view as a parent with two autistic kids, but as a man who […]

By Tommy Christopher - November 07, 2016

Stench of corruption grows around Trump and his top aides

On Friday morning, former high-level Chris Christie staffers Bridget Anne Kelly and Bill Baroni were convicted on all counts related to the Bridgegate scandal, and could face up to twenty years in prison. Witnesses in the trial directly implicated Christie in the scheme to punish a Democratic mayor by closing lanes to the George Washington Bridge. Meanwhile, new […]

By Tommy Christopher - November 06, 2016

Video surfaces of Donald Trump talking to racist gambler he denied knowing

In the late 80s, the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino was accused of catering to the demands of Robert LiButti by removing female and Black employees from his craps table, and in 1991, the casino was ordered to pay a $200,000 fine while LiButti was banned from all of Atlantic City’s casinos. At the time, Donald Trump […]

By Tommy Christopher - November 02, 2016

FLIPPED: Clinton’s harshest critics step up to defend her on bizarre Comey letter

The reaction to FBI Director James Comey’s decision to send a vague letter to Congress regarding the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server just eleven days before Election Day has been swift and negative. Surprisingly, some of the strongest condemnation is coming from Republicans and conservatives who are among Clinton’s most virulent critics. Former Bush Administration Deputy Attorney General […]

By Tommy Christopher - October 31, 2016

Flower-picking Daisy Girl is back in chilling new Clinton ad

Anyone who is old enough to remember, or has even a passing interest in politics, knows the “Daisy Girl” ad that shook the 1964 presidential campaign like an earthquake. Incumbent President Lyndon Johnson used this hard-hitting spot just once, but once was enough: That little girl is now grown-up Monique Corzilius Ruiz, and she’s the star […]

By Tommy Christopher - October 31, 2016

What is Hugh Hewitt doing with a mainstream media platform?

Rightwing radio host Hugh Hewitt was on MSNBC Thursday morning and offered a preposterous commentary on the risk of violence from disappointed Trump supporters. Host Craig Melvin mentioned a New York Times article about calls from Trump fans for “revolution” if Hillary Clinton wins the election. He followed that with clips of Trump supporters saying they […]

By Tommy Christopher - October 27, 2016

Donald Trump is intent on destroying the First Amendment

Hillary Clinton on Donald Trump: "I truly doubt that he has ever read the Constitution" https://t.co/6OZtrfIwim https://t.co/HvhlX627Gb — CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) October 26, 2016 We don’t know if Trump has actually read the U.S. Constitution, but we do know that he has made periodic attacks on the First Amendment. On October 23rd, he delivered another one, with […]

By Tommy Christopher - October 26, 2016

President Obama fights GOP lies on Obamacare

Health care is a personal issue for every American. For me, it has always been doubly so because I came to journalism after a career as a health insurance consultant. So I was thrilled with President Obama’s speech on the Affordable Care Act on Thursday, in which he acknowledged some of the flaws in the […]

By Tommy Christopher - October 24, 2016

Ultimate embarrassment: Trump loses his own Breitbart debate poll

Hillary Clinton’s sweep of the presidential debates has been confirmed by numerous scientific polls. In a delicious irony, after the third and final debate, even the unscientific Breitbart snap poll favored Clinton: #Trump will say the Breitbart poll is rigged. https://t.co/ZOXbEaDWue https://t.co/TugvjgbVq7 — EJ Dionne (@EJDionne) October 20, 2016 https://twitter.com/KarlFrisch/status/788966431396401152 SIREN: Trump losing Breitbart online debate poll. […]

By Tommy Christopher - October 20, 2016

President Obama scorches Republicans over years of “toxic” politics

President Obama is relishing his role as campaigner-in-chief, and at a Hillary Clinton rally in Miami on Thursday, he showed why he is so good at it. Many people have spent the last year trying to make the point that Donald Trump is the distillation of, not a departure from, Republican politics. But no one has […]

By Tommy Christopher - October 20, 2016

Trump says unthinkable things at final presidential debate

Debate moderator Chris Wallace asked Trump several times, in several different ways, and Trump treated the question the way he would a cliffhanger on his TV show: Trump's refusal to say he will accept the results of the election is, in the truest sense of an overused word, disqualifying. — John Heilemann (@jheil) October 20, 2016 […]

By Tommy Christopher - October 19, 2016

McCain tries to out-do Trump with radical pledge to obstruct Supreme Court

Even though John McCain has pulled his support for Donald Trump, what he is now promising to do if Hillary Clinton is elected is every bit as dangerous, undemocratic, and unconstitutional as anything Trump has proposed. But it is nothing new for the Republican Party. Congressional Republicans famously met in secret on the night of Barack […]

By Tommy Christopher - October 18, 2016

Ben Carson tries to silence female reporter over Trump questions

In an astonishing Morning Joe interview, the normally mild-mannered Dr. Ben Carson lost his cool with BBC journalist Katty Kay while trying to explain that the sexual assault accusations against Donald Trump just don’t matter right now. Earlier in the interview, Carson repeated the absurd talking point that Trump could not possibly have groped a […]

By Tommy Christopher - October 14, 2016

Senior Republican official won’t say grabbing women without consent is sexual assault

While some Republicans have denounced Donald Trump in the wake of his repugnant comments about groping women, others, like RNC Communications Director Sean Spicer, have refused to back down. Senator Jeff Sessions told The Weekly Standard that he wasn’t sure the conduct Trump described constituted sexual assault, and when asked the same question, Spicer responded in similar fashion: https://twitter.com/senatorshoshana/status/785478719062376452 According to […]

By Tommy Christopher - October 10, 2016

MSNBC reporter accuses Bill Clinton of using anniversary wish to “shift the narrative”

Supporters and observers of the Clintons are accustomed to the corporate media assuming the worst about them. In an especially egregious instance, a touching anniversary tweet from Bill Clinton was twisted into a contrived political move. 41 years ago I married my best friend and the finest changemaker I’ve ever known. And yes, I’m still […]

By Tommy Christopher - October 11, 2016

Trump campaign manager’s defense: We’ve been alone and he didn’t grope me

After a debate in which Trump continued to cast his repugnant remarks about sexually assaulting women as “locker-room talk,” his campaign manager took the defense strategy in a bewildering direction by explaining to all three cable news networks that Trump has not sexually assaulted her in seven weeks on the job, even though they have occasionally been […]

By Tommy Christopher - October 10, 2016

Chris Christie is in a world of trouble

New Jersey Governor and Donald Trump surrogate Chris Christie has not been on the campaign trail much since the “Bridgegate” trial began, and a new development in that story could make Christie’s position even more precarious. NBC4 is reporting Thursday that a judge has found probable cause to advance a criminal complaint against Christie over his involvement […]

By Tommy Christopher - October 13, 2016

Morning Joe meltdown: “Hillary Clinton could get hit by a bus”

Politically, it has been a good early October for Hillary Clinton, and an equally disastrous one for Donald Trump. Monday saw the release of a poll that showed Clinton with an 11-point lead in a 4-way race. All of this has been too much for MSNBC’s Morning Joe hosts, who spent Monday morning insisting that Trump had […]

By Tommy Christopher - October 11, 2016

Father defends 15-year-old daughter from Fox News smear

A young woman named Brennan Leach stole the show at Hillary Clinton’s town hall event in Haverford, PA, with a question about Donald Trump’s habit of body-shaming. Fifteen year-old Brennan asked Clinton how she plans to undo some of the damage that Trump has done with his relentless denigration and objectification of women. She got a huge […]

By Tommy Christopher - October 07, 2016

Unearthed Trump recording: “I moved on her like a bi*ch … and she was married”

One of Hillary Clinton’s most devastating political ads of this election features video of a succession of young women looking into mirrors over audio of Donald Trump insulting women. Two audio recordings have now surfaced that further reveal Trump’s degrading attitude toward women. In newly-surfaced audio that was leaked from a 2009 Miss USA event, Trump […]

By Tommy Christopher - October 07, 2016

Mounting evidence that Trump engaged in illegal tax scams

The political world is still digesting the bombshell New York Times report that showed Donald Trump declaring a $915,729,293 loss in 1995, which enabled him to avoid paying federal taxes for up to 18 years. Trump campaign surrogates have fanned out to spin his epic loss as a sign of his supposed “brilliance.” Meanwhile, in the real world, a […]

By Tommy Christopher - October 05, 2016

Donald Trump has not held a press conference during the general election

Donald Trump has not held a press conference since July 27th. That was the press conference at which he infamously urged Russia to target Americans for cyber-espionage. Since then, Trump has only held a single press “event” about his role in the racist “birther” movement. That event was billed as a press conference, but Trump only […]

By Tommy Christopher - October 05, 2016

Trump finagled a free $1.5 million wedding ring — did he pay taxes on it?

The revelation that Donald Trump posted a $916 million loss in 1995 continues to drive political news, with Trump surrogates spinning the fact that he may have paid no income taxes for the subsequent 18 years as a sign of his supposed “genius.” Trump himself has spoken frequently of his fondness for “other people’s money,” and it turns out […]

By Tommy Christopher - October 03, 2016

Meet the working people who paid the price for Trump’s gigantic tax deduction

With scant weeks remaining before Election Day, the bombshell NYT report that Donald Trump declared a $916 million loss in 1995 and may have paid no federal taxes in the ensuing years has rocked the political world. This is a story of ruined lives and wrecked companies left behind by Trump’s business failures. We wanted to know more about the […]

By Tommy Christopher - October 03, 2016

If Trump has a secret plan to instantly defeat ISIS, he is costing lives by concealing it

Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway told Morning Joe that she has personally seen Trump’s “secret plan” to defeat ISIS, and that Trump will happily explain the specifics if asked to, but not so much that he’ll give away all his secrets to ISIS in the process. He certainly has a plan, I’ve heard it. That […]

By Tommy Christopher - September 28, 2016

Sen. Cory Booker calls out Republicans for blocking Black judicial nominees

During Tuesday’s Senate session, Sen. Cory Booker took to the floor to fight for the nominations of Judge Julien Neals to the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, and of Judge Edward L. Stanton III to the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, both of whom were […]

By Tommy Christopher - September 20, 2016

Republicans are willing to shut down the government to deny Flint funding

The people of Flint, Michigan made a fine political backdrop for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump when he needed to convince white voters that he’s not an uncaring bigot, but when it comes to actually helping the folks who have been suffering through a GOP-caused water crisis, the party’s lawmakers are prepared to let the […]

By Tommy Christopher - September 27, 2016

Skittles are literally more dangerous than refugees

It’s Tuesday, which can only mean that there’s yet another Donald Trump controversy that would end any other politician’s career, but which the national political media will move on from in three, two… On Monday night, Donald Trump, Jr. tweeted out a meme that compared our alleged “Syrian Refugee Problem” with a bowl of Skittles: […]