Donald Trump and his band of lackeys aren’t exactly known for their fidelity to the law — particularly the Hatch Act, which prohibits elected officials from leveraging their position for political purposes. The most notable of many examples of the Trump administration using taxpayer money for politicking came last August, …
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Liz Cheney wants to know what Trump knew about the attack on the Capitol and when did he know it. The Wyoming congresswoman, one of only two Republicans on the House select committee that began its query of the January 6th insurrection on Tuesday, said in her opening remarks that …
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Republican lawmakers friendly to Donald Trump want Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) removed from her leadership post. “It’s at a boiling point,” oneRepublican lawmaker told The Hill. “This isn’t about Liz Cheney wanting to impeach Donald Trump; this isn’t about Donald Trump at all. It’s about Liz Cheney being completely out …
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UPDATE: John Sullivan was arrested and charged on January 14th, according to the Department of Justice, with “one count of knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, one count of violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, and one count of interfering with …
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Even for a loyalist like Attorney General William Barr, there was only so far he would go to support Trump’s assault on the rule of law and reality. On Monday evening, as Trump’s doomed attempts to steal the 2020 election fizzle out, the president announced Barr would step down from …
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For those who are nervous because they think there’s too much uncertainty about who is going to be president once Donald Trump’s term in office ends on January 20th at noon, I can’t say this plainly enough: Joe Biden will become the 46th President of the United States of America. …
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Precisely one week before Thanksgiving, Orlando Hall became the eighth person incarcerated in federal prisons to be executed this year after Attorney General William Barr lifted a 17-year ban on the federal government’s implementation of the death penalty. When Hall, 49, was killed by lethal injection, he became the first …
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As the president continues to lie about the 2020 election being stolen from him, his aides are already discussing a Trump 2024 presidential run. During a Thursday report on CNN, White House Correspondent Jim Acosta said aides to the Trump campaign have already raised the topic of a “resurrection run …
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The president addressed a mostly maskless crowd in the White House early Wednesday morning where he spewed lies and disinformation about the results of the presidential election and announced his intent to invalidate millions of legally-cast votes. Trump falsely claimed that the Democrats and media were conspiring to defraud the …
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When it comes to cannabis, it’s hard to say just what a Trump presidency has meant to the industry. It’s not as clear-cut as his record on, say, immigration, LGBTQ rights, the environment, or public health. But one thing is certain: As president, he’s made it pretty damn hard for …
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