Wisconsin Gov. Evers launches reelection bid amid GOP attacks
The Democrat said he is running to fight anti-democratic legislation brought by Republicans in the state Legislature.
By Emily Singer - June 07, 2021The Democrat said he is running to fight anti-democratic legislation brought by Republicans in the state Legislature.
By Emily Singer - June 07, 2021Reince Priebus had the shortest term of any White House chief of staff.
By Josh Israel - February 19, 2021The Trump campaign is pledging to overturn Biden’s presidential victory with recounts in Wisconsin and Georgia.
By Emily Singer - November 11, 2020Trump still lost, though.
By Emily Singer - November 09, 2020Clinton conceded the day after the 2016 election.
By Josh Israel - November 09, 2020Stephen Miller married Katie Waldman, Mike Pence’s press secretary, at Trump’s Washington, D.C., hotel.
By Associated Press - February 17, 2020No one in Trumpworld came out of the Mueller investigation looking good, but these seven people are especially tarnished.
By Lisa Needham - April 19, 2019Even Vice President Pence’s chief of staff, Nick Ayers, would rather flee DC than work directly for Trump.
By Dan Desai Martin - December 10, 2018Trump is in a panic about special counsel Robert Mueller, and he’s badgering current and former staff about it.
By Matthew Chapman - March 07, 2018The Internet has exploded in response to the insane remarks by Donald Trump’s new White House communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, which were full of extremely graphic and vulgar language directed at other members of the Trump administration. Reeling from the embarrassment and desperate to do damage control, the White House sent press secretary Sarah Huckabee […]
By Matthew Chapman - July 27, 2017Moments after the failure of the Republican plan to repeal Obamacare on Friday, Donald Trump took to the television cameras for a repetitive and vindictive rant about the defeat. In a predictable move, Trump laid the blame for the bill’s failure squarely at the feet of the Democrats, specifically House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) […]
By Tommy Christopher - March 27, 2017Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) is in a heap of trouble following the defeat of the Republican plan to repeal Obamacare. And although Donald Trump initially blamed this humiliation on Democrats, his subsequent actions have seemed belie that, in a notably pointed way. Trump tweeted a message directing his followers to a Fox News […]
By Tommy Christopher - March 26, 2017Donald Trump’s Chief of Staff Reince Priebus declared that the Trump administration is currently in the process of “looking at” ways to limit speech in America. Appearing on ABC’s This Week, Priebus said that Trump is looking at ways to change libel laws, which would make it easier for Trump to sue news outlets that […]
By Oliver Willis - April 30, 2017Reince 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, […]
By Melissa McEwan - January 15, 2017Following the resignation of National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, who was caught in a lie regarding his contact with a Russian ambassador, Trump, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, and Press Secretary Sean Spicer have all offered varied and at times contradictory statements regarding Flynn — particularly, what exactly occurred regarding Russia during the 2016 campaign, who […]
By Alison R. Parker - February 19, 2017White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer took what several White House reporters who have covered both parties described as unprecedented action by banning several major outlets from a press briefing. The briefing was designed to push back on reporting indicating that the Trump administration has been colluding with the FBI to squash stories on contacts […]
By Oliver Willis - February 24, 2017Donald Trump’s White House is desperately trying to spin its way out of a bombshell CNN report which revealed that the administration tried to lean on the FBI to refute a story about Team Trump’s contacts with Russia, but succeeded only in deepening the scandal. The timeline for this current scandal is important, because it reveals […]
By Tommy Christopher - February 24, 2017White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus met with the FBI and attempted to get top officials at the agency — Director James Comey and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe — to refute media reports about contacts between the Donald Trump campaign team and Russian intelligence officials. The Associated Press described Priebus’ actions as “unusual contact with […]
By Oliver Willis - February 24, 2017During an interview on ABC’s This Week, Rep. Adam Schiff explained why the Obama administration is being circumspect in its public response to Russian interference in the U.S. election, and then made clear the steep cost of Donald Trump’s reckless refusal to condemn the interference: .@RepAdamSchiff: For Trump “to continue to give the Russians deniability […]
By Melissa McEwan - December 18, 2016In a radio interview with Hugh Hewitt, incoming White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus continued President-elect Donald Trump’s pattern of chilling and intimidating the press by expressing amenability to a range of dangerous ideas — including hinting that the White House daily briefings might not even be necessary in its current form and the possibility […]
By Tommy Christopher - December 15, 2016During an interview with Martha Raddatz on ABC’s This Week, Reince Priebus was asked about the alignment of Donald Trump’s views with the man he has selected as his national security advisor, former Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, who has called Islam “a cancer.” “Is he in line with how President-elect Trump views Islam?” Raddatz asked. […]
By Melissa McEwan - November 20, 2016