Justin Clark, a senior political adviser and senior counsel to Trump’s reelection campaign, was caught discussing 2020 voter suppression efforts while at a Wisconsin chapter meeting of the Republican National Lawyers Association, according to the AP, though Clark denies it and says he was discussing “false accusations” that the GOP …
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Trump’s campaign merchandising is living up to the image of Trump that motivates those who greet the president with a huge baby Trump protest balloon when he travels the country and overseas. Now the campaign is selling t-shirts that reads “Bull-Schiff,” aimed at House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.). …
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In the face of daunting new poll results on Monday morning, President Donald Trump took to his favorite venting outlet and blasted off a Twitter thread that included a juvenile nickname for Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and accusations of an ongoing “witch hunt.” Trump wrote, in part, that during a …
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Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) endorsed Sen. Elizabeth Warren for president on Wednesday, netting the front-running senator from Massachusetts another prominent backer in her race to secure the Democratic nomination. Pressley made the announcement in a YouTube video. “For Elizabeth and for me power belongs in the hands of the people,” …
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In this week’s episode of our Useful Idiots podcast, Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper talk with guest John Kiriakou on his experience in the CIA and being charged with breaking the Espionage Act for speaking out about the torture program in 2012. Kiriakou also gives his opinion on the Trump-Ukraine whistleblower. …
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While civilians tried to stop a U.S. military convoy from leaving the Syrian town of Qamishli on Monday — standing in the streets, pelting the armored vehicles with vegetables as they passed — Iraq, where those troops were headed, is not welcoming them with open arms. En route to Afghanistan …
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One of the ways politicians can shape media narratives in their favor is to feed anonymous quotes to reporters. Another, as we learned on Sunday, is to correct them on Twitter from a secret account with a debonair French alias. As was revealed by Slate’s Ashley Feinberg, Mitt Romney has …
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President Donald Trump’s eldest son was up to his usual antics on Twitter on Friday night. Donald Trump Jr. loves to revel in right-wing memes, perhaps in a desperate attempt to finally win daddy’s love, and so he shared a video compilation of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) …
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Donald Trump has insisted, repeatedly, that there was no quid pro quo in his administration’s negotiations with the Ukranians and his pressing Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky for the “favor.” But there’s a quid pro quo hiding in plain sight in the cache of text messages released Thursday night by the …
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Bernie Sanders is recovering well from a procedure to place stents in a blocked artery, according to a statement put out by the candidate’s wife, Jane Sanders, on Thursday. “Bernie is up and about,” Jane Sanders reported, adding that the 78-year-old Bernie has been “cracking jokes with the nurses and …
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