Ron Turk is the current Associate Deputy Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF), and is believed by some to be a likely selection by Donald Trump to head the agency. Turk was a key figure in the agency when it engaged in questionable operations that entrapped vulnerable people, endangered children, and […]

President Obama released a statement marking the seventh anniversary of the passage of the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. The former president also used his statement to sharply rebuke the ongoing Republican activity designed to repeal the law, engineered by Donald Trump and Paul Ryan. Obama makes clear that “any changes” should “make […]

Donald Trump continues to this day to defend his selection of disgraced former general Michael Flynn as national security adviser, while still blaming his predecessor for his extremely poor decision. On Monday morning, Trump tweeted that Flynn had been vetted by the Obama administration, suggesting that Flynn’s access to highly classified information under Trump was somehow President […]

Even after FBI Director James Comey testified that his agency and the Department of Justice “looked carefully” at Donald Trump’s lie — that President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower — and found no evidence to support it, the White House still refuses to withdraw the claim, and most Republicans still won’t call on Trump to apologize. Prior […]

Donald Trump continues to defend his hiring of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, despite the mounting pile of evidence that he and his team knew Flynn posed a threat to America’s national security. Among the Trump administration’s many defenses of the decision to hire Flynn, despite the knowledge that he was a foreign agent […]

Notorious B.I.G. said it best: “Mo’ money, mo’ problems.” Former President Barack Obama recently accepted a $400,000 speaking fee to appear at a fall conference, sponsored by investment firm Cantor Fitzgerald, on the topic of health care. And immediately, a bipartisan Greek chorus began to sling arrows and chant their disapproval and distaste. Aaron Blake […]

Ahead of upcoming Senate testimony from former acting Attorney General Sally Yates and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, the Associated Press has released a stunning report on concerns raised by the Obama administration about Donald Trump’s transition team, led by Mike Pence. One of the recurring themes […]

In his latest act attempting to purge the legacy of President Barack Obama from the White House and America, Donald Trump has fired chief White House usher Angella Reid, the first woman and second African-American to hold the position. The Washington Post reports, “When the White House residence staff arrived at work Friday morning, they […]

Donald Trump’s performance at a joint press conference demonstrated his obvious lack of preparation to deal with the Syrian regime’s chemical weapons attack on its own citizens. After immediately jumping to falsely blame President Obama for the attack, Trump fended off questions about any possible action he might take against Syria, despite his insistence that […]

Senators Richard Burr (R-NC) and Mark Warner (D-VA), who lead the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee, previously issued a statement slapping down Trump’s lie about Obama wiretapping Trump Tower, noting, “Based on the information available to us, we see no indications that Trump Tower was the subject of surveillance by any element of the United States government either […]

President Barack Obama publicly applauded late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel for his heartbreaking plea to preserve and defend health care in America. In a monologue on his show and a video that has gone viral online, Kimmel told audiences about the ordeal his family recently endured when his newborn son Billy underwent open […]

Donald Trump is never more at home when he is lying, with the possible exception of when he is being an overt racist. He recently combined both of those pastimes during a “CEO Town Hall on Unleashing American Business” in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. Along with his usual boasts about the […]

Donald Trump is continuing his pattern of lashing out at the successful Obama administration as his presidency treads water and is engulfed in sordid scandals. In his latest spiteful act, Trump is ending the “Let Girls Learn” program begun in 2015 by former First Lady Michelle Obama and President Barack Obama. The program was designed to […]

Donald Trump was quick to retweet a Drudge report headline trumpeting February jobs numbers that were, in Drudge’s words, “great again,” but were actually a continuation of the record-setting trend set by President Barack Obama: https://twitter.com/DRUDGE_REPORT/status/840195842183127040 It is definitely too early to tell what effect, if any, Trump’s election has had on employment. But during […]

Nothing about the Republican effort to repeal Obamacare indicates that they have any idea what Americans want from their health care system, or that Americans really do want to keep the health care reform act that has extended care to millions. And Rep. Steve King (R-IA) made that ignorance crystal clear — on live television. King got a measure […]

Former Obama UN Ambassador and National Security Advisor Susan Rice appeared on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports and calmly and carefully debunked the recent conservative attack on her, which alleged that she misused her position to target Donald Trump officials for “unmasking” by security agencies during the election. Rice told Mitchell that the claim coming from […]

The Dow Jones Industrial Average has risen 14,300 points since 2009, while the S&P 500 index has increased by 249 percent. When President Obama was sworn into office in January of 2009, the global economy was in absolute chaos. But by the end of his presidency, the picture looked quite different: Longest streak of total […]

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 […]

President Obama’s full letter to the American people: It’s a long-standing tradition for the sitting president of the United States to leave a parting letter in the Oval Office for the American elected to take his or her place. It’s a letter meant to share what we know, what we’ve learned, and what small wisdom […]

Dana Boente was just named by the Department of Justice (DOJ) as the acting assistant Attorney General for the national security division, which will give him oversight of the FBI’s investigation into coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia. But in January, as he was leaving office, President Barack Obama issued an executive order that […]

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 […]

President Barack Obama marked the upcoming 100th day of Donald Trump’s presidency by noting his failure to repeal Obamacare, and how much more popular the law is than Trump. An attendee at a private speech given by Obama in Manhattan paraphrased his remarks to CNN: “The Affordable Care Act has never been more popular — and […]

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 […]

At the end of his last (scheduled) press conference today, President Obama handed the final question to the LA Times’ Christi Parsons, who has been covering Obama since he was a state senator in Illinois. She asked him about his daughters, and how they had responded to the election. The President started his response by […]

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 […]

Reince Priebus, who will serve as Donald Trump’s chief of staff, is, like many of his fellow Republicans, outraged that Democrats would, based on a consensus view of the intelligence community that Russia intervened in the presidential election on Trump’s behalf, question the legitimacy of his presidency. Brushing aside the breathtaking hypocrisy that his party, […]

Donald Trump delivered a lie-riddled and bigoted address before a joint session of Congress last week, but still managed to impress the corporate media by exceeding basement-low expectations. Trump could not fool the American people, though, at least not for long: On the day of the speech, Trump’s approval rating sat at 43 percent in […]

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 […]

On Thursday afternoon, in what was billed as a brief, informal ceremony to honor Vice President Joe Biden, President Barack Obama once again showed the kindness and warmth that have remained hallmarks of his character throughout his time in office. During extended remarks, in which he made sure to include humorous references to their “bromance,” […]

President Obama is making fine use of his final days in office. He has issued a permanent ban on offshore oil and gas drilling in much of the Arctic and Atlantic Seaboard; signed landmark mental health care legislation; issued a ban on withholding federal funds from family planning clinics; and designated two national monuments protecting […]