GOP congressman says deputy AG tricked Trump into committing obstruction
Rep. Jim Jordan just laid out one of his most convoluted conspiracy theories to date.
By Caroline Orr - April 13, 2018Rep. Jim Jordan just laid out one of his most convoluted conspiracy theories to date.
By Caroline Orr - April 13, 2018No one is buying Laura Ingraham’s sorry excuse for an apology.
By Caroline Orr - March 29, 2018NBC’s Katy Tur hit the nail on the head in her assessment of Trump’s increasingly unhinged behavior.
By Tommy Christopher - March 04, 2018Some of Donald Trump’s claims over the past few days are so bizarre that they appear to go beyond simply lying, and raise questions about his mental faculties — a concern that numerous doctors and psychologists have raised. This week, Trump suggested the “Access Hollywood” tape of him boasting about assaulting women was fake — […]
By Matthew Chapman - November 29, 2017Republicans are going to have a hard time selling the unpopular tax plan if their media appearances are anything like Rep. Dave Brat’s cringeworthy appearance on MSNBC. Judging by his reaction, the Virginia Republican was expecting to be able to regurgitate inaccurate Republican talking points on the legislation. Instead, NBC’s Katy Tur challenged Brat — […]
By Oliver Willis - November 02, 2017Donald Trump has always cultivated a mythology of himself as a shrewd, brilliant negotiator who can cut a bargain. But since taking office, and especially since his repeated failure to wrangle a health care repeal bill out of Congress, Trump’s supposed ability to cut deals has been exposed as shallow and fake. Nevertheless, the notion […]
By Matthew Chapman - September 22, 2017One the most appalling features of the Graham-Cassidy Obamacare repeal bill that Senate Republicans are trying to ram through without debate is its impact on sick people. The bill would totally wipe out all Obamacare protections, and let insurers jack up prices based on pre-existing illness. According to the Center for American Progress, asthma would […]
By Matthew Chapman - September 20, 2017The Trump administration made yet another attempt to lie about the record of President Barack Obama, but it only took a few minutes for reporters to completely debunk it. During the daily White House press briefing, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders made the bold and false proclamation that Donald Trump has done “more for bipartisanship […]
By Oliver Willis - September 13, 2017MSNBC anchor Katy Tur posed the question many Americans have been asking about the GOP: “Whose side are they going to be on” if Donald Trump fires special counsel Robert Mueller? Trump already fired the FBI director in charge of investigating his ties to Russia. And he has repeatedly attempted to undermine Mueller’s legitimacy, threatened to fire him, and […]
By Leah McElrath - July 22, 2017The head of Donald Trump’s so-called “Election Integrity Commission,” designed to use the federal government to enforce voter suppression schemes across the country, denied Hillary Clinton’s popular vote victory against Trump in the 2016 presidential election. Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a strong advocate for voter suppression measures, told NBC’s Katy Tur that “we’ll […]
By Oliver Willis - July 19, 2017Members of Donald Trump’s commission on “voter integrity” don’t like being reminded that they’re investigating allegations of voter fraud even though election experts have spent years confirming the United States does not have a voter fraud problem. That could be one reason why secretaries of state across the country, including dozen of Republican office holders, […]
By Eric Boehlert - July 07, 2017In his latest press briefing, White House press secretary Sean Spicer claimed that Donald Trump was “joking” when he urged Russia to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails. Video of Trump’s comments from July 27, 2016, clearly shows that he was not joking. Trump said at the time, “I will tell you this, Russia: If you’re listening, […]
By Oliver Willis - June 26, 2017Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA) began fumbling as MSNBC’s Katy Tur quickly pointed out his weak attempt to use a false equivalence as she asked him about the ongoing FBI investigation of the Trump administration. Tur pointed to statements from Trump, his campaign underlings, and others who had accused Hillary Clinton of being under an FBI […]
By Oliver Willis - March 21, 2017While 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