Donald Trump’s eldest child Ivanka will be moving into a taxpayer-financed office within the White House, while still effectively controlling her fashion company, all while shielded from government oversight into corruption and illegal activities. Ivanka Trump will have an office in the West Wing, next to Trump senior adviser Dina Powell on that building’s second […]

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 […]

Three years ago, well-known golf reporter and author James Dodson traveled to the Trump National Golf Club in Charlotte, North Carolina, at the invitation of Donald Trump’s public relations staff. Dodson inquired of both Donald Trump and his son Eric about the funding behind the club. Donald vaguely referred to having “access to $100 million” of unidentified […]

White House adviser Ivanka Trump is going on a listening tour to better understand the issues she has claimed are her specialty and particular passion: women’s issues and economic empowerment. But this is no ordinary listening tour. Trump isn’t setting out to listen to everyday Americans whose lives are affected by government policies — like Hillary Clinton did when she […]

Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) took to the House floor to say that the recent airstrikes launched by Donald Trump in Syria would not distract him from pushing for an independent investigation of Trump’s ties to the Russian government and its attempts to influence the 2016 election. Speaking just hours after the strike had taken place, Beyer […]

Months after Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos posed with Special Olympics athletes at a Capitol Hill event, the Trump administration’s proposed budget slashes funding for the program that helps so many. In February, DeVos participated in the organization’s event, and according to Special Olympics, “heard first-hand from athletes and family members about the impact Special […]

Reporters love the idea of a president at war, and in the early coverage of the U.S. strike on Syria, we are already seeing it, as they praise Donald Trump and all but ignore necessary skepticism about the attack — like what it means, why it was done, and what comes next. Some storylines come almost […]

During the presidential campaign, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) said that America cannot operate with a president under FBI investigation, and that to do so would be “trauma” for America. Uttering those words exactly a week before the 2016 election, Rubio was referring to Hillary Clinton and the controversy over emails. He was more than willing to […]

Donald Trump is facing increasing criticism over his decision to unilaterally launch an airstrike on a Syrian air base, but Hillary Clinton focused her criticism elsewhere. At an Annie’s List luncheon in Texas, Clinton called Trump out for expressing concern over Syrian babies killed in the chemical attack, while simultaneously seeking to choke off refugees […]

Donald Trump and his administration have yet to acknowledge the sacrifice of Senior Chief Special Warfare Operator Kyle Milliken, a 38 year-old Navy SEAL who was killed in action Thursday while repelling an attack by al-Shabab fighters. Two other U.S. servicemembers were wounded in the attack. Chief Milliken is the first U.S. casualty in Somalia […]

Even as White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney baldly stated that he hoped people would lose their Social Security Disability benefits under Donald Trump’s proposed budget, he also described the proposal as “the definition of compassionate.” But responses from prominent Catholic religious leaders prove the mendacity of such a claim. NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social […]

After two years of Donald Trump normalizing hatred of Hispanics, first as a candidate and then as president, harassment and demonization of people for their Latin heritage has become commonplace, and even children are not immune. A team of fourth-graders called the Panther Bots stole the show in a robotics competition at Pleasant Run Elementary School in Indianapolis, winning […]

Donald Trump cited Syria’s use of chemical weapons against civilians — especially children — to defend his decision to launch airstrikes against the country without Congressional approval, and that argument is receiving broad support from his fellow Republicans. They cite the horrific photos and videos of suffering and dead children exposed to what appears to be sarin […]

Donald Trump’s administration unveiled a budget blueprint that makes cruel and dangerous cuts to discretionary federal spending, in favor of unnecessary and wasteful increases in defense and Homeland Security spending. Soon after, Trump once again jetted off to his Mar-a-Lago resort for the weekend, which reminded many of an explicit promise that Trump made during the […]

Donald Trump made a lot of noise about supposedly saving over a thousand jobs at HVAC manufacturing company Carrier’s facility in Indianapolis. He bragged that, before he was even officially sworn in, he had delivered for the working-class voters he courted during the campaign. But it was always hollow, as Carrier still planned to ship […]

Donald Trump’s decision to launch airstrikes on a Syrian airfield demands answers, as lawmakers in both parties criticize Trump for failing to seek authorization from Congress for the strike, as required by the Constitution. One particularly disturbing fact to emerge in the wake of the attack is that Trump not only failed to seek authorization, but […]

Shortly after House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) told reporters that it was “very possible” Donald Trump had been directly swept up in intelligence community surveillance, members of the Senate Intelligence Committee emerged from their own classified briefing with FBI Director James Comey looking visibly shaken. Now, Nunes has ratcheted up the intrigue, with an […]

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 […]

Donald Trump’s proposed budget is a cruel attack on the nation’s most vulnerable citizens in order to give tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans. In addition to gutting funds for Medicaid, which would essentially cut health care for millions of low-income families, the budget is also intended to cut the Social Security Disability Insurance program. […]

Donald Trump’s weekend jaunts — his latest visit will be his fifth such trip since taking the oath of office — to his Florida property, Mar-a-Lago, are taxing resources for the county of Palm Beach. So one official there is proposing a tax on Trump in order to pay the bills. Palm Beach County Commissioner Dave […]

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 […]

The health care repeal bill that the House of Representatives passed Thursday on a strictly partisan vote contains a provision that will make life worse for military veterans. Paralyzed Veterans of America warned Republicans about the provision, but Republicans ignored the warning, passed the bill, and then went to celebrate with Donald Trump in the Rose Garden of […]

John Dean, who was central to the Watergate scandal that took down former President Richard Nixon, has described Donald Trump’s behavior as surpassing Nixon’s “for direct and personal involvement in the early White House cover-up.” In other words, only four months into his presidency, Trump is worse than Nixon, according to someone who would certainly know. […]

During a joint appearance and photo op following his White House meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Donald Trump pointedly avoided eye contact with her, and even refused to shake hands with the influential female leader. Trump mumbled his response to the press about the details of his talks with Merkel, and repeatedly looked away […]

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 […]

Donald Trump set the tone for his administration by attacking a reporter during his first press conference as president-elect, and White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer has embodied Trump’s bullying of the free press so effectively that he has become a hit Saturday Night Live character. Spicer’s first appearance in the briefing room literally consisted of […]

During the House’s hearing Tuesday on the Russia investigation task force, former CIA Director John Brennan confirmed what a growing number of scandalous revelations have been indicating all along: that there was contact between Russia and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign during the 2016 election. During questioning by Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), who has served as acting chair […]

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 […]

In the face of public pressure over his unethical secret meeting with the White House, and an Ethics Committee investigation into his possible exposure of classified information, House Intelligence Chair Devin Nunes (R-CA) has reluctantly agreed to recuse himself from the investigation into Russia’s efforts to swing the presidential election for Donald Trump. This is a […]