Tommy Christopher

Reporter nails Spicer for Trump saying he’d be “honored” to meet dictator Kim Jong Un

Even for Donald Trump, his latest statements about North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un were shocking. In recent interviews, Trump said he would be “honored” to meet with Kim “under the right circumstances,” and called Kim “a pretty smart cookie.” ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl pressed White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer […]

By Tommy Christopher - May 01, 2017

Panicked Trump flees interview when pressed on lie that President Obama wiretapped him

The White House has spent months trying to backstop Donald Trump’s baseless claim that President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower, including a ham-fisted plot to obstruct the House Intelligence Committee’s investigation that led the committee’s chairman to recuse himself. In an exclusive Oval Office interview with CBS News’ John Dickerson, Trump brought the issue up again, only to […]

By Tommy Christopher - May 01, 2017

MSNBC host blasts her own network for not asking Mike Pence a single question about Russia

Vice President Mike Pence has largely gotten an unearned pass from the media on the Trump/Russia probe, and pretty much every other issue, but recent revelations about his complicity and dishonesty in the Mike Flynn scandal could change that. This weekend, MSNBC’s Joy Reid criticized Meet the Press, on NBC, for failing to ask Pence […]

By Tommy Christopher - May 01, 2017

Rep. Cummings to press: ‘This is your moment … We cannot afford to lose this one’

Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, had strong words for the press in light of this week’s revelations about the Trump team’s ties to Russia. After a closed briefing from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, Cummings expressed confidence in former FBI Director Robert Mueller’s ability to lead the Russia investigation as […]

By Tommy Christopher - May 19, 2017

I watched 40 hours of GOP town halls, and here’s what I learned

Donald Trump and the Republicans have sparked a resistance that has changed American politics, led by everyday Americans speaking out at town hall meetings across the country. Shareblue readers have seen a good bit of that resistance covered here, but what we have published only scratches the surface of the long hours of town hall video […]

By Tommy Christopher - April 30, 2017

White House goes into hiding after selling out Americans’ internet privacy

At the relatively late hour of 7:30 pm Monday, the White House announced several bills that Donald Trump signed into law, away from the prying eyes of the press. Among them was a resolution repealing an Obama-era rule against the selling of Americans’ private information by internet service providers without their consent (via email from […]

By Tommy Christopher - April 04, 2017

Republicans were willing to impeach Obama for trivial reasons, or no reason at all

After months of impeachment-worthy scandals, just two Republicans in Congress have found the courage and patriotism to even consider the possibility of impeaching Donald Trump. Even the bombshell revelation that fired FBI Director James Comey composed memos detailing Trump’s attempts to quash the investigation of disgraced former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn has thus far […]

By Tommy Christopher - May 19, 2017

NBC’s Katy Tur smacks down GOP Rep who says Trump lies deserve “benefit of the doubt”

While many corporate media figures bear great responsibility for the ascension of Donald Trump, his nascent presidency has also caused some journalists to up their game. One of them has been NBC News’ Katy Tur, who doggedly covered Trump on the campaign trail, despite being directly targeted for harassment by Trump, and has been consistently […]

By Tommy Christopher - April 04, 2017

Spicer says Trump won’t repay Florida for his vacations: “At what point does he do enough?”

At the White House daily briefing, Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s dramatic opening act starred Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke accepting a check, from Donald Trump to the National Parks Service, for of $78,333.32 — which represents Trump’s government salary for the first quarter of his presidency. That meager donation from the self-described “billionaire” president raised a very […]

By Tommy Christopher - April 03, 2017

Sen. Warren destroys Treasury secretary’s fake populism: “Let me stop you right there”

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin faced intense grilling from Democrats over the White House’s abandonment of Donald Trump’s populist campaign rhetoric. In one particularly sharp exchange, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) hammered Mnuchin for claiming to support a particular regulation, while simultaneously opposing the exact thing that regulation is meant to do. At issue was the “21st […]

By Tommy Christopher - May 18, 2017

Trump has not received a daily intel briefing since the day after he briefed the Russians

As Shareblue has reported previously, Donald Trump has deviated significantly from the intelligence briefing practices of prior administrations. These sessions — which used to be labeled the “Presidential Daily Brief” or “PDB,” but which the current administration calls the “daily intelligence briefing” — are of debatable value to Trump, as it is not clear whether […]

By Tommy Christopher - May 18, 2017

GOP lawmaker: Trump repeal plan denies tax credits to people in pro-choice states

As if the list of reasons to hate Donald Trump’s health care repeal plan weren’t long enough already, one Republican congressman is pointing out a little-reported fact to add to the list. The original Republican repeal plan, which failed miserably in March, would have thrown 24 million people off their insurance. The new plan has […]

By Tommy Christopher - April 28, 2017

Trump snubbed Angela Merkel, but happily shakes hands with brutal dictator — twice

In March, Donald Trump snubbed one of our most important allies, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, refusing to shake her hand or even look her in the eye. That blatant disrespect stands in sharp contrast to how Trump handled his greeting of Egyptian military dictator Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, with plenty of direct eye contact and shaking hands with Sisi, not […]

By Tommy Christopher - April 03, 2017

Breaking: Weakest growth numbers in 3 years show Trump not as good at economy as Obama

Donald Trump wasted little time in trying to take credit for the record-breaking job growth and strong economy that President Barack Obama bequeathed to him on Inauguration Day, but Trump might not be so anxious to claim the weak numbers contained in the first economic report card of his presidency. Trump has already failed to best […]

By Tommy Christopher - April 28, 2017

Bush ethics lawyer accuses Trump’s health secretary Tom Price of “classic insider trading”

Democrats grilled Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) hard at his confirmation hearing for Secretary of Health and Human Services over a series of questionable stock trades in which he had taken legislative action, as a congressman, to benefit the companies in which he purchased stock. Price was confirmed by the Republican majority anyway, but fresh accusations could […]

By Tommy Christopher - April 03, 2017

Breaking: House intel Democrat tells Chris Matthews he has seen “evidence of collusion”

As the House Select Committee on Intelligence prepares to rev up its investigation into possible collusion between the Russians and Donald Trump’s campaign, Democrats on that committee have been revealing what little they can, and those revelations grow increasingly troubling. Just a few days ago, Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL) said there is “probable cause to […]

By Tommy Christopher - April 27, 2017

Martha Raddatz’s devastating grilling of Nikki Haley exposes Trump’s weakness on Russia, Syria

Despite Donald Trump’s implicit promise to roll back President Obama’s sanctions over Russia’s interference in our election, he has not had the political cover to make good on it. And Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley have managed to avoid imposing any additional penalties on Russia for its actions in Ukraine, […]

By Tommy Christopher - April 03, 2017

Yes, Trump can have the special counsel fired, but this is still a huge win

The latest political earthquake to rock Donald Trump’s young and chaotic presidency is the appointment of former FBI Director Robert Mueller as special counsel for the Russia investigation. It’s a move that has drawn near-universal, if at times qualified, praise. Democrats like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi have essentially called this a first […]

By Tommy Christopher - May 18, 2017

Former Bush Border Protection official says Trump’s wall “makes us less safe”

The Republican-controlled House of Representatives is prone to holding sham committee hearings in order to promote terrible Republican policies, but luckily, Democrats on these committees get to call witnesses, as well. At just such a hearing by the House Oversight Committee’s Subcommittee on National Security, in support of Donald Trump’s non-Mexico-funded border wall, Republicans stacked […]

By Tommy Christopher - April 27, 2017

Sean Spicer reveals White House strategy on Flynn: Blame Obama

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer has flailed recently in his attempts to explain the Trump administration’s colossal failure to vet former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn. But at his most recent daily press briefing, Spicer appeared to have settled on a new — yet familiar — strategy. Asked by Fox News Radio’s Jon Decker […]

By Tommy Christopher - April 27, 2017

Chris Wallace absolutely hammers Trump EPA chief on environment

Donald Trump signed an executive order gutting the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan, ostensibly to bring back coal jobs that are, in fact, never coming back. And when Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt made an appearance on Fox News Sunday to propagate Trump talking points on the subject, he ran into stiff resistance […]

By Tommy Christopher - April 02, 2017

Trump’s racist hotline accidentally proves “sanctuary cities” are right

During the final sprint to the 100-day mark of Donald Trump’s presidency, a federal court dealt him yet another blow when it blocked his executive order seeking to punish so-called “sanctuary cities” that do not comply with his administration’s strict deportation policies. Sanctuary city policies are aimed at enhancing public safety by allowing immigrant communities […]

By Tommy Christopher - April 27, 2017

Top intel Dem hints at dragging Trump before House Intelligence Committee

The plot continues to thicken around the White House’s attempt to cover up their coordination with House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) to leak classified information, and otherwise obstruct that committee’s investigation of the Trump administration. On Friday, members of both the House and Senate Intelligence Committees were invited to the White House to review […]

By Tommy Christopher - April 02, 2017

Americans fight back against Trump’s racist hotline with space aliens

An extraordinarily racist policy Donald Trump proposed in his joint address to Congress, mostly overlooked by a corporate media anxious to praise him, has come to fruition, and Americans are responding in hilarious — and effective — fashion. Trump announced the creation of an anti-immigrant office, with the tortured acronym “Victims Of Immigration Crime Engagement” (VOICE), which ostensibly would aid victims of crimes committed […]

By Tommy Christopher - April 27, 2017

Senator Tammy Duckworth spits hot fire at Trump in Senate floor speech

While Republicans desperately try to eke out a win before Donald Trump’s first 100 days are up, Democrats started the week with a rousing call to resistance from Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL). In her first full speech on the Senate floor, Duckworth eloquently framed the stakes of the resistance in uniquely American terms. Duckworth has […]

By Tommy Christopher - April 26, 2017

Elizabeth Warren to the resistance: “Fight like a girl”

The world changed on November 8 for reasons that are still unfolding, and despite some early victories, the road to resistance can seem long and rocky. At a rally in Massachusetts, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) told a powerful story that provides hope along that road. That hope comes in the form of a little girl […]

By Tommy Christopher - April 01, 2017

Administration official forced to admit Trump’s latest executive order does exactly nothing

As the 100th day of Donald Trump’s presidency draws ever nearer, it is becoming clear that he will have no legislative accomplishments to point to at that milestone, and not much of anything else, beyond broken promises. But that has not stopped the Trump administration from mounting a public relations campaign which included a raft of […]

By Tommy Christopher - April 26, 2017

Tommy Christopher

Freelance Political Writer

Reporter nails Spicer for Trump saying he’d be “honored” to meet dictator Kim Jong Un

Panicked Trump flees interview when pressed on lie that President Obama wiretapped him

MSNBC host blasts her own network for not asking Mike Pence a single question about Russia

Rep. Cummings to press: ‘This is your moment … We cannot afford to lose this one’

I watched 40 hours of GOP town halls, and here’s what I learned

White House goes into hiding after selling out Americans’ internet privacy

Republicans were willing to impeach Obama for trivial reasons, or no reason at all

NBC’s Katy Tur smacks down GOP Rep who says Trump lies deserve “benefit of the doubt”

Spicer says Trump won’t repay Florida for his vacations: “At what point does he do enough?”

Sen. Warren destroys Treasury secretary’s fake populism: “Let me stop you right there”

Trump has not received a daily intel briefing since the day after he briefed the Russians

GOP lawmaker: Trump repeal plan denies tax credits to people in pro-choice states

Trump snubbed Angela Merkel, but happily shakes hands with brutal dictator — twice

Breaking: Weakest growth numbers in 3 years show Trump not as good at economy as Obama

Bush ethics lawyer accuses Trump’s health secretary Tom Price of “classic insider trading”

Breaking: House intel Democrat tells Chris Matthews he has seen “evidence of collusion”

Martha Raddatz’s devastating grilling of Nikki Haley exposes Trump’s weakness on Russia, Syria

Yes, Trump can have the special counsel fired, but this is still a huge win

Former Bush Border Protection official says Trump’s wall “makes us less safe”

Sean Spicer reveals White House strategy on Flynn: Blame Obama

Chris Wallace absolutely hammers Trump EPA chief on environment

Trump’s racist hotline accidentally proves “sanctuary cities” are right

Top intel Dem hints at dragging Trump before House Intelligence Committee

Americans fight back against Trump’s racist hotline with space aliens

Senator Tammy Duckworth spits hot fire at Trump in Senate floor speech

Elizabeth Warren to the resistance: “Fight like a girl”

Administration official forced to admit Trump’s latest executive order does exactly nothing