Here are things Roger Stone denied in his interview with George Stephanopoulos on This Week on Sunday: That he ever communicated with Julian Assange, despite multiple emails and video of public remarks by Stone himself that claim otherwise That he knew anything about Hillary Clinton campaign chair John Podesta’s emails …
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WASHINGTON—Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney and “pit bull” for President Donald Trump, pleaded guilty on Thursday to lying to Congress about a potential real-estate development in Moscow that he tried to broker for the Trump Organization. In a 10-page “criminal information” filing, Special Counsel Robert Mueller describes how Cohen …
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Special Counsel Robert Mueller has reportedly offered conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi a plea bargain in connection with his investigation into the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election. Corsi, a vocal birther during the Obama years and an early proponent of the QAnon conspiracy theory, proclaimed his innocence on …
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Who knew Cindy Hyde-Smith was such a comedian? The Republican senator from Mississippi, appointed in March to replace the ancient and ailing Thad Cochran, has been on quite a roll in the run-up to next Tuesday’s runoff election against Mike Espy, who was the state’s first black congressman since Reconstruction …
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It’s been a while since Trump has railed against the Mueller investigation like we saw Thursday morning. “The inner workings of the Mueller investigation are a total mess,” the president tweeted 15 minutes after touting how “smoothly” the White House is running. “They have found no collusion and have gone …
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In a blow to the Trump administration’s fossil fuel agenda, a federal judge in Montana has blocked completion of the Keystone XL pipeline, ruling that the administration was “arbitrary and capricious” in ignoring climate impacts cited by the Obama State Department when ithalted the pipeline in 2015. The pipeline — …
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President Trump wants Tuesday’s midterm elections to be about immigration. The idea of criminal brown people invading the United States is abstract enough for him to propagandize the issue to no end. An issue like health care is not, but that hasn’t stopped the president from claiming the GOP will …
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Donald Trump’s presidential ambitions may have cost his hotel empire oodles of money, he may have lost some of his best friends, and he may ultimately be forced to pay tens of millions in back taxes, but, hey, at least he’ll have a lifetime supply of Altoids when this is …
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It didn’t take long for Kavanaugh apologists to put on their tin foil hats as part of their feverish effort to exonerate Trump’s latest Supreme Court nominee. On Thursday afternoon, the Washington Post published an opinion piece wondering if Kavanaugh’s accuser,Christine Blasey Ford, is so “mixed up” that she confused …
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Even before the Trump administration took the dramatic and punitive step of separating migrant children from their parents in April, some 10,000 undocumented kids were already languishing in federal custody for an average of eight months. They’re housed in shelters scattered around the country, operated by dozens of private companies …
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