Trump attacks CNN one day after news of man arrested for terrorist plot against CNN
Trump’s reckless war against the media, and the reporters who dare to stand up to him, is having very dangerous consequences.
By Tommy Christopher - January 23, 2018
Trump’s reckless war against the media, and the reporters who dare to stand up to him, is having very dangerous consequences.
By Tommy Christopher - January 23, 2018
Kellyanne Conway was blindsided when Chris Cuomo reminded her the shutdown was a manufactured GOP crisis.
By Matthew Chapman - January 22, 2018
Kellyanne Conway’s epic meltdown has sent her into another media exile, perhaps permanently.
By Tommy Christopher - January 18, 2018
Trump had CNN’s Jim Acosta ejected from the Oval Office for asking him about racism which Acosta considers a point of pride.
By Matthew Chapman - January 17, 2018
There is nothing new about Donald Trump’s despicable and overt racism. But the willingness to dismiss, excuse, explain, or minimize it is rapidly disappearing in the wake of his most recent ugliness. In a meeting with congressional leaders Thursday, Trump described Haiti and African nations as “shithole countries” an atrocious comment that was confirmed […]
By Kaili Joy Gray - January 12, 2018
Donald Trumps complaint to lawmakers that Haiti and African countries are shitholes and his wish to limit immigration to mostly white places like Norway has set off a furious debate on racism in the media. And in their quest to defend Trump, his supporters are resorting only to more racism, as right-wing talk radio host […]
By Matthew Chapman - January 12, 2018
CNN anchor Anderson Cooper delivered an emotional takedown of Donald Trump on Thursday, ripping into him for referring to Haiti and several African nations as “shithole countries.” Cooper used the majority of his show Thursday evening to discuss Trump’s comments about immigrants from Haiti and Africa, which were first reported in the Washington Post. In an emotional […]
By Caroline Orr - January 11, 2018
Kellyanne Conway has long been obsessed with Hillary Clinton, but CNN’s Chris Cuomo may finally have sent Conway into a permanent spiral over the much more accomplished woman who beat Conway’s client by 3 million votes. During a scattershot interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo Wednesday night, Conway created another classic viral moment by bringing up […]
By Tommy Christopher - January 11, 2018
While some journalists have taken to deferring to Donald Trump and his administration, CNN’s Brianna Keilar showed how it’s done when she hammered a senior Trump press official who refused to answer her simple question. Trump’s lawyers are desperately trying to shield him from special counsel Robert Mueller’s questioning, despite the fact that Trump told reporters […]
By Tommy Christopher - January 09, 2018
Pushing back on the ugly and unprecedented attempt by the Republican Party and the conservative media to destroy public trust in the FBI and in law enforcement’s ability to prosecute public corruption — all in an effort to save Donald Trump’s presidency — Chris Cuomo called out of a former Trump campaign adviser on CNN […]
By Eric Boehlert - December 18, 2017
For the Trump administration, no news is good news, because almost any news is “fake news.” And the stubborn, panicked fear of journalists doing their jobs is pushing this White House to extremely undemocratic ends. During a contentious press briefing Monday, Sarah Huckabee Sanders grew visibly and vocally aggravated with CNN’s Jim Acosta, when he […]
By Alison R. Parker - December 12, 2017
In an epic and wide ranging interview on Wednesday night, CNN’s Anderson Cooper delivered a masterful takedown of Roy Moore’s spokeswoman Janet Porter, nailing her on everything from the GOP candidate’s past positions on homosexuality, Muslims, and President Obama’s birthplace, to the absurd conspiracy theories the campaign has peddled in the face of mounting sexual […]
By Caroline Orr - December 06, 2017
Desperate Republicans surrogates are doing their best to spin away the deeply damaging news from Monday that a former foreign policy adviser to the Donald Trump campaign has already pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI with regard to the Russia investigation. But some Trump defenders are going even further and aggressively crossing over from […]
By Eric Boehlert - October 31, 2017
The GOP plan to repeal Obamacare failed dozens of times before Donald Trump took office, and it has not fared any better with him in power. So instead, Trump has openly admitted that he is going to dismantle it “piece by piece” until it is destroyed — or until Democrats cave to his demands and […]
By Kaili Joy Gray - October 13, 2017
Donald Trump’s toxic and reckless attacks on the free press — as well as on the 3 million Americans in Puerto Rico trying to survive in the aftermath of the devastating hurricane — is seeping into the rest of his Republican Party. Pennsylvania Rep. Scott Perry appeared on CNN Thursday morning to echo Trump’s baseless […]
By Oliver Willis - October 12, 2017
Crossing a dangerous new line in his endless war on the media, Donald Trump on Thursday morning demanded that members of Congress investigate journalists who produce reports that Trump doesn’t like. He seemed especially upset by reporting on the Russia interference scandal. At Thursday’s White House briefing, press secretary Sarah Sanders reiterated the attack theme: […]
By Eric Boehlert - October 05, 2017
This is why Republicans don’t want to talk about gun violence in the wake of horrific cases of gun violence — their arguments don’t hold up. Kellyanne Conway learned that Thursday morning with an appearance on CNN’s “New Day.” She became one of the first White House officials this week who was willing to have […]
By Eric Boehlert - October 05, 2017
Holding a campaign rally after less than eight months of occupying the presidency could seem bewildering, but not when the person at the podium is Donald Trump. Despite finagling his way into the highest office in the land, Trump has never been able — or willing — to let go of the adulation and unconditional […]
By Alison R. Parker - August 23, 2017
On Tuesday, Donald Trump finally let loose all the ugliness and hatred he had obviously been keeping bottled up since the start of the white supremacist riots in Charlottesville, Virginia. Despite the statement he was forced to read from a teleprompter only the day before, Trump revealed his true feelings and loyalty in a shocking […]
By Kaili Joy Gray - August 15, 2017
The White House can’t keep its story straight on why Donald Trump Jr. held a secret meeting with a Kremlin-linked attorney to get dirt on Hillary Clinton. In just a few days, the story has evolved dramatically, with Trump Jr. offering several versions of the meeting, and various members of the administration also pushing differing […]
By Kaili Joy Gray - July 11, 2017
Donald Trump will meet with Vladimir Putin Friday, and neither he nor anyone in his administration will say if Trump will address Russia’s interference in the 2016 U.S. election. Since Trump has largely avoided the media, his joint appearance with the president of Poland offered the rare opportunity for American journalists to ask him important […]
By Katie Paris - July 06, 2017
Donald Trump declared the media the enemy months ago. It was a dangerous, dictatorial assertion that drew wide criticism from across the political spectrum. His threats to a free press have only intensified since, and the White House press team has followed suit. Month ago, the White House banned from a press briefing major news […]
By Katie Paris - June 20, 2017
CNN reporter Jim Acosta had harsh words for the Trump administration’s decision to hold yet another off-camera press briefing. It has been a week since the White House press operation, led by press secretary Sean Spicer, has spoken on air about the multiple controversies, scandals, and legislative issues swirling around the Trump presidency. The White […]
By Oliver Willis - June 19, 2017
Senator Kamala Harris is a former prosecutor and she knows how to question a witness. For the second time in a row, however, her persistence was met with outright resistance from her male Republican colleagues. When they didn’t like her questioning of James Comey, they interrupted her. When they didn’t like her questioning of Jeff […]
By Katie Paris - June 13, 2017
Despite Donald Trump’s oft-repeated campaign promise that he would repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, possibly on “day one” of his presidency, the law is still on the books, and the efforts to dismantle it have gone nowhere. To give Trump something substantive to point to as an accomplishment — so to speak — […]
By Alison R. Parker - May 03, 2017
At what the corporate media generously described as a “press conference,” President-elect Donald Trump — who spent only 34-and-a-half minutes answering a handful of questions — again displayed the remarkable hostility he uses to intimidate the press when he shut down CNN reporter Jim Acosta’s attempt to get a question in: ACOSTA: Since you’re attacking us? […]
By Tommy Christopher - January 11, 2017
President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign of lies and deflections to protect Russia from blame for the cyberattacks that the FBI and CIA say were intended to help Trump win the election has become more and more desperate by the day. While Trump himself phoned the New York Times ahead of his security briefing on Russian interference, […]
By Tommy Christopher - January 06, 2017
https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/783760761151774724 From CNN: Donald Trump’s tame appearance in a 2000 Playboy video came to light late last week after he attacked a former beauty queen for her alleged “sex tape” past. CNN’s KFILE has now uncovered two more Playboy videos in which Trump makes an appearance, including one in which he is depicted photographing fully […]
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