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 […]

The new version of the GOP tax scam to come out of conference contains many of the worst bits of both the House and Senate bills. It adds $1.5 trillion to the deficit, strips millions of health insurance, and raises taxes on working families to give special breaks to billionaires and corporations. But it also […]

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With just days left before Republicans try to force a vote on their tax scam bill, Donald Trump’s economic advisers are doing everything they can to accidentally help out the efforts to defeat it. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin was forced to admit Sunday morning that the plan would not deliver higher wages for many years, if […]

It’s certainly no secret that Donald Trump doesn’t think highly of the free press, with the exception of his favorite propaganda network, Fox News. Trump’s constant bleating about “fake news” has at times become a punchline. But as the editorial board at the Washington Post makes very clear, that kind of undermining attack on journalists […]

As Star Wars: The Last Jedi takes over the box office this weekend, Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz unwisely decided to mess with the film’s star over net neutrality. And he got the business end of Luke Skywalker’s lightsaber-sharp wit for his troubles. On Saturday, Last Jedi star Mark Hamill tweeted a clever, Star Wars-themed […]

Much of Donald Trump’s week was consumed with trying to pass his disastrous tax scam and escalating his offensive against Robert Mueller’s investigation, but he also managed to make time for racism. While delivering remarks at the FBI National Academy Graduation Ceremony in Quantico, Trump took a break from praising the agency — which he had just […]

The ink is barely dry on the Republican tax scam, and Donald Trump’s “commissars” are already failing miserably in their attempts to defend it. As Republicans prepare to force a vote on their historically unpopular and corrupt-to-the-bone tax plan this week, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin was sent out on a tour of Sunday morning news […]

Special counsel Robert Mueller is zeroing in ever closer on Donald Trump’s inner circle, and on Trump himself, in the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and the possible collusion of the Trump campaign. Trump and his team continue to desperately insist that they did nothing wrong, and that Trump is not even […]

Intelligence expert Malcolm Nance exposed a frightening dimension of Donald Trump’s destructive influence on our country by calling out the unprecedented way he has infected our government with Soviet-style political officers whose main function is to police loyalty to Donald Trump. On MSNBC’s “AMJoy,” Nance identified the problem, explaining that since taking office, Trump has been […]

Donald Trump’s White House is in a deepening panic over special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, which has just obtained tens of thousands of emails from the Trump transition team. And as rumors of a disastrous purge swirl, the White House deployed senior adviser Kellyanne Conway to attack the investigation with her favorite tool. But the […]

The governor of Puerto Rico may have expressed gratitude and measured praise toward the Trump administration before, but he has none left for the dangerous tax scam bill that Donald Trump and the Republican Party are attempting to ram through Congress. That’s because a new cruel provision added to the bill takes aim at Puerto […]

Mike Pence’s time as the head of Donald Trump’s presidential transition is coming under renewed scrutiny with the news that special counsel Robert Mueller has secured access to “thousands” of emails from the team. Axios reports that sources say “many tens of thousands” of Trump transition emails are now in Mueller’s custody, including some from […]

California Democratic Rep. Jackie Speier warned on Friday that Donald Trump may be plotting to fire special counsel Robert Mueller in the days leading up to Christmas, after Congress has gone home for the holidays. “The rumor on the Hill when I left yesterday was that the president was going to make a significant speech at the end of next […]

A Republican Senate candidate in Virginia said that his anti-gay commentary should be excused because he made them “on Christian radio.” E.W. Jackson, a pastor at The Called — Exodus Faith Ministries in Chesapeake, Virginia, is running for the Senate seat currently held by Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine. Jackson, who previously lost the 2013 election to be […]

The Trump administration is passing over black candidates for top staffing positions, while giving others jobs on the lower tier of a White House where only 2.4 percent of key positions are held by black people. Comparatively, 13.3 percent of the United States population is black, which makes White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ […]

Donald Trump’s plunging approval rating has officially made him the most unpopular first-year president in the history of presidential polling, according to the latest figures from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The new poll shows Trump’s approval rating sitting at a historically low 32 percent, while his disapproval rating has soared to 67 percent. […]

If living well is the best revenge against those who wish you ill, then Olympic gold medalist Lindsey Vonn just provided a masterclass in doing so. After Vonn said she was proud to be heading to the Olympics to “represent the people of the United States, not the president,” Trump’s base immediately went into characteristically […]

Americans overwhelmingly believe that Donald Trump is actively trying to obstruct or impede the ongoing investigation into his campaign’s connections to Russian operatives during the presidential election. A new poll from AP/NORC found that 63 percent of Americans believe that Trump has engaged in such behavior. Overwhelming percentages of Democrats and independents support the conclusion, […]

There’s not much to like about the GOP tax scheme. The bill, drafted hurriedly and under the cover of darkness, is wildly unpopular among the American people and economists alike, with little to offer other than corporate giveaways and tax cuts for the rich. But that didn’t stop Republicans like Rep. Tom Cole from voting […]

Under the leadership installed by the Trump administration, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded a no-bid, six-figure contract to a company led by a Republican political operative who is conducting a conspiracy-fueled investigation designed to root out Trump enemies within the EPA. The New York Times reports that Definers Public Affairs was awarded a […]

Donald Trump has a far-right agenda in public policy — and he wants to force scientific agencies to reflect his own biases in their work. As the Washington Post reports, his administration is taking the unbelievably Orwellian step of banning researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from using several specific terms, thereby all […]

To Sean Hannity and his panel, the news that an FBI agent assigned to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation had sent anti-Trump text messages was “bigger than Watergate.” “Watergate on steroids, human growth hormone overdoses,” Hannity intoned on his show Thursday night. Hannity has been leading the attacks against Mueller for some time, and his […]

Among the biggest losers in the Alabama Senate race were the alt-right Trump loyalists at Breitbart, who stuck with GOP nominee Roy Moore even after the allegations that he stalked and molested teenage girls surfaced. But to hear it from Breitbart now, it had no choice in the matter, for one key reason: if Moore […]

Not only did Donald Trump not tweet out messages of condolences for families who lost loved ones five years ago on Thursday at the Sand Hook gun massacre in Connecticut, and not only did White House press secretary Sarah Sanders on that day insist there’s simply nothing that can be done to battle American epidemic […]

A Republican congressman has revealed that Donald Trump confessed that he plans to push cuts to Social Security and Medicare “on the first day of his second term.” The revelation came after the unnamed congressman met with several reporters on Capitol Hill, discussing the underlying plans behind Trump’s long-term thinking, Business Insider reports. Trump “told a Republican […]

Donald Trump’s handpicked Federal Communications Commission chairman, Ajit Pai, oversaw a dangerous vote on Thursday that stripped away consumer protections for internet users. But the battle to save the internet from corporate control is likely to soldier on for a long time. In the immediate aftermath of the vote, 10 states and counting have announced they […]

Republicans have conveniently chosen the evening on which the most anticipated movie of 2017 is being released, “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” to dump hundreds of pages of finalized tax legislation affecting the entire global economy. Ironically, Republicans openly noted their disdain for the movie-going public in the context of the tax bill. Iowa Sen. […]

It is always about Donald Trump. Even when it is supposed to be about the Marines serving their country, Trump still makes it about himself. That narcissistic approach to the entire world flared up again Friday when Trump met with a group of Marines and subjected them to a 12-minute rant about himself. Trump was […]

Donald Trump’s allies on Capitol Hill are feeling the heat of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, and they are ramping up dangerously phrased rhetoric pushing for his removal. In the wake of criminal indictments and guilty please stemming from Mueller’s probe of Trump’s interactions with Russia and attempts to obstruct related investigations, Rep. Matt Gaetz […]